since we spoke earlier not a remake. since we spoke earlier someone not a remake. since we spoke earlier someone tweeted as to point out that mash was perhaps the great show of the tv. david lynch has responded to a nostalgia wave. will you watch it? idid and a nostalgia wave. will you watch it? i did and i will and a nostalgia wave. will you watch it? i did and i willand i hope it is slightly less complicated than the la st slightly less complicated than the last one. would watching 1's help you with the return? you should probably watch the first if you will wa nt probably watch the first if you will want to watch the second. i don't agree with the idea of mash being brilliant, it was a routine sitcom. that is it tonight. think very much for coming in. a treat to see you

both. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. mark, what do we have this week? it's the definition of a mixed bag. we have king arthur, guy ritchie's take on the legend. we have a drama set in tehran, called inversion. and colossal, anne hathaway meets godzilla. well, we start with king arthur. we saw in the brief clip there one david beckham. we better start and just say is he an eric cantona? he isn't.

this is guy ritchie taking on the legend, if you are old enough to remember 1980s novelty records, king arthur is not all right. charlie is the young hero whose wicked unclejude law has seized power, leaving him to grow up ducking and diving and he is keeping a low profile until david beckham no less tells him to and i quote, he says, "put ten fingers around the blunt end of that sword and give ita tug." he does, blimey, wouldn't you know it, it comes out. next thing he is having to be answerable because it turns out he might be the rightful heir, here is a clip. you've got the wrong man, sire. i was born in a brothel on a bridge in londinium. the sword can only be drawn by uther pendragon or his direct heir. you felt it, didn't you?

the power. it's what pulled you out. you just don't know how to control it. so what happens now? you know what happens now. you're quickly becoming a legend. there's a surprise from guy ritchie that the baddy is well—spoken and posh and jude law. here is the weird thing. arthurian legend is rich and magical, i have rarely seen a film lacking in magic. stuff happens, big snakes, swords, huge cgi and you think this is dull. there are times it looks like outtakes from a ramstein video. it's just reminding me of other franchises i would be rather be watching. iquite like... i think he did a terrificjob with sherlock holmes, he took a small element of the text about fighting and turned it into something that made

the movie action—packed. the problem with this is itjust looks like a bunch of cgi effects thrown together around the ropiest of scripts with the broadest of performances, the whole film, nudging and winking at the audience all the way through. i really ended up thinking, where is john boorman when you need him? it's so heavy on its feet. it's the fault of the script and the execution of the story. it's a thudding sword and sorcery film which i spent large portions thinking, why am i not excited by this, and not laughing at thejokes? why am i not thrilled by the set pieces and why are there so many mythical beasts that look like someone knocked them up on a home computer?

it's really not good. there is nothing more to say. there isn't! we will move along. actually a change of gear. total change. inversion, a story about everyday life in tehran about the issues facing a young woman. absolutely. this has a fantastic performance, a young woman in polluted tehran. her mother is suffering respiratory failure. you have to move with her out of the city, what have you to lose? however, she has a full life. she works in a shop she runs. and employs a number of women. she has ambitions of a life for herself. the film is about the way in which a character is caught between what society decides and family demands of them and what they want for themselves. it's a very, very low—key film. to the point that i read reviews that said it's a film that never catches fire, it never takes off. i disagree. i was really moved by it. the reason i was is because i believed in these characters. it's a sort of neo—realist, handheld style, long lens so we see her through traffic and the constant hubbub of society. there is no music other than the sound of phones ringing. you really believe in her life

and you come to absolutely side with her and her dreams of independence and ifound it very, very moving. some people have said too low—key for them. i just found it convincing. i thought it was a film about people i believed in and cared about with a fantastic central performance and very well moderated. a country we still know relativelily little about, did we learn more? it's producing extraordinary cinema. and more and more we are seeing that this demonstration that films made with some limited resources to some extent can be much greater canvases than a film like king arthur, in which there is endless cgi and nothing going on. we have done that! in that case, shall we move to... colossal. it's anne hathaway, a lot of people love her, and a monster, godzilla—like creature and they're linked. this has been described as rachel

getting married versus godzilla. anne hathaway has fallen into alcoholism and her life has fallen apart. her boyfriend kicks her out, she goes back to her home town and takes up in her parents' empty house and meets up with jason sudeikis who runs the local bar. that means more drinking. one morning she turns on the television and realises a monster has attacked seoul. she thinks there is a connection between that and her. meanwhile, her life continues normally. here is a clip. when they started downsizing i was the first to go. oh, you jerk, you already knew. yes, i'm sorry. ah, what?

why didn't you tell me? why are you letting me like... my past. i didn't want you to think i was creepy, like i'm some sort of stalker. well, it's too late for that. yeah. so have you been following me all these years? of course i have. somebody actually made it out of here and did something special for once. hell, look what had to happen for things to get interesting around here. giants attacking south korea. no, i mean you. and that relationship is important. yeah, that's a lovely indication of the way in which the movie is juggling two different things. this us indie picture rom—com that's shaping up. on the other hand this monster movie playing out far away. yet, she comes to believe somehow she is controlling the monster or there is a link between them. the film becomes a metaphor for the way in which addiction and self—destruction causes harm that we are totally oblivious to. it's a really, really strange concept that works surprisingly well. i came out and somebody said that

fell apart, didn't it? i said, yes, but isn't it fascinating how long it didn't fall apart? for how long it managed to keep this idea that a story about somebody‘s small scale personal problems may be playing out in some horrible grand style somewhere far, and it becomes a film about addiction and about alcoholism and about abusive relationships, about spectatorship and the way in which we watch things on rolling news. this is a great bit. this is where they realise something is up. she's dancing in the park and there is the monster doing exactly the same. expect all the way through the film is holding this idea that maybe this isjust a paranoid delusion. what a strange idea. i think what the writer and director manages to do is, he wrote this originally as a low budget spanish language film

to which anne hathaway became attached and it opened it up to a wider audience. the problem — people got baffled and walked out. however, if you want something that's strange and adventurous and isn't not scared to fail this is really interesting. it's far from perfect, there are places it starts to fall apart, but for a good two thirds it is smart, intelligent, funny, and somehow that thing about massive monsters and tiny small scale problems, there is a connection and the metaphor works surprisingly well. on the positive side anne hathaway fans may like monster fans and monster fans may fall in love with anne hathaway. to be honest, i am not sure it's going to change attitudes. it's an adventurous and hard to market film but i liked it. 0k. let's move on. yeah. the levelling. this is... wonderful. somerset levels after the floods and an emotional story. it is, it's about family secrets, fantastic performances. brilliantly directed

by hope dickson leach. it's her first feature film. it is weirdly something like ten years ago she was named as a rising star by screen international, like a decade ago. i think she's really made good on the promise of short films. it's a rich emotionally powerful film, superb sound design. great score. and again very, very low—key but very powerful. i really liked it. david troughton to plays her father. he does and between them they investigate family secrets that have been buried but refuse to stay buried. best dvd. mulholland drive. yeah, it's coming to blu—ray overseen by david lynch. i flagged this up as you probably know, twin peaks is coming back. i always found david lynch a fascinating director. this was voted, there was a bbc poll of something like best films of the 20th century.

this came out on top. it started life as a tv pilot and didn't start as a film. it is a david lynch classic. it's lovely to have it in a beautiful transfer and to revisit it. i don't think it's lynch's best film but all of lynch's back catalogue is best having in the best possible format. we have had a mixed bag. we have, yes. the only thing i take away is see whatever you want, but king arthur... we are there. we got the message. did i make that clear? always good to see you. and you. thanks, mark. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching, goodbye. good evening. well, the weather has

been warming up today for many of us, and that theme continues through much of the week ahead. a lot of dry weather on the cards. there will be a little bit of rain moving in from the north—west as we had through the early hours of monday so for northern ireland a few showers during the early hours. elsewhere, clear and dry during the early hours. elsewhere, clearand dry and during the early hours. elsewhere, clear and dry and it should be frost free, with temperatures at least in the towns and cities holding up in double figures. a little bit cooler than in the countryside, one or two misty patches will clear away quickly. england and wales stick with the sunshine for much of the day. dry and pretty warm. further towards the north—west, for northern ireland and scotland, patchy rain moving west to east through the day. temperatures 18 under the cloud with the showers in the north. further south, 2a or 25 celsius. a few heavy burst of rain later on monday in scotla nd burst of rain later on monday in scotland and then that clears away and during tuesday another largely dry day. a bit more cloud, a few

spots of light rain for the west of scotla nd spots of light rain for the west of scotland in the western parts of wales. further east is your best bet of catching sunshine, and temperatures by tuesday at around 23 degrees. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines — on the first leg of his first foreign trip in saudi arabia, president trump calls on muslim nations to take the lead in fighting terror. drive out the extremists. drive them out. drive them out of your holy land. president trump now heads for israel and the palestinian territories where he'll meet both prime minister netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. north korea confirms it successfully tested a ballistic missile. south korea's new government says the test dashes its hopes for peace. and how the extraordinary true story

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