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let's take a look ahead to first let's take a look ahead to sports day at 630. coming up we will have the latest from a wet and windy afternoon at the golf 0pen championship as rory mcilroy uses the best of the conditions at royal birkdale to turn around his bad start. elsewhere chris froome closes in on start. elsewhere chris froome closes inona start. elsewhere chris froome closes in on a fourth title of the tour de france and we will look ahead to the evening action at the world para athletics champion chips in london and with the cricket world cup for women coming up, and with the cricket world cup for women coming up, we and with the cricket world cup for women coming up, we will find out how the english preparations are going. that is all coming up at 6:30 p:m.. now it is time for film review. hello and welcome to the film review and to take us through the cinema releases as ever, mark kermode what have you been watching. a bigwig. we
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have you been watching. a bigwig. we have dunkirk about which everyone is talking. we have city of ghosts, and very harrowing documentary. and we have and we have captain underpants which is very funny. everyone is talking about dunkirk. the scale and ambition of this is remarkable. talking about dunkirk. the scale and ambition of this is remarkablem is and also the ambition of the release. it is the story of dunkirk told by christopher nolan and it is the story of the evacuation told through three intertwining strands that loosely follow land sea and air. but, all of the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told over three different timescales, one of the stories last one way, one last one day and one last one hour and these strands... if you know anything about christopher nolan, you would know that he likes to play
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with time. the brilliant thing about this is that he does in a way that is very clear, you understand what is very clear, you understand what is happening even though it is a complex structure. it is short on large format film and you have seen from the images, they are astonishing, great big cameras, plaudits to the cinematographer, carrying around these bulky cameras and doing really extraordinary work with them. the film is available in numerous different formats and depending on where you go to see it, you can see it in digital, 70... the picture will be different and look different. the advice i would give is that make sure you see it in the cinema that you know does the best possible presentation and sound. sound is very important, it plays a huge part in this. it has an extraordinary score. christopher nolan talked about this being a movie about tension, it is not to do with explicitly what you see, it is about the build—up and the score is like a
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rising tide and it fills all the way through the film. i think the most impressive thing, you know i am huge fan of christopher nolan, the most impressive thing is that for a film on this scale, it is actually, the thing you take away from it, the smaller images, the image of a man walking hopelessly into the sea, the image of kenneth branagh's face looking over a lost horizon, those are very impressive pieces of work and it is great to see someone making a blockbuster movie that imagines that the audience are smart enough to keep up with this complex structure. christopher nolan's whole thing has been the audience are clever tha n thing has been the audience are clever than anyone imagines. that is really refreshing. look how well he does. why be michael bay when you can be christopher nolan?m does. why be michael bay when you can be christopher nolan? it is what eve ryo ne can be christopher nolan? it is what everyone will be watching. stories of the terror of dunkirk and stories of the terror of dunkirk and stories of heroism and there are stories as well in your next choice of some
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very brave individuals and i have to be honest, the more i read about this, another one i am not sure i quite had the stomach for but it is important work. it is a documentary and it is the harrowing account of isis brutality as seen through the eyes of a citizens journalist collective in syria. they formed at collective in syria. they formed at collective and they decided that what they would do was document what was going on, to let the world know and they did that at great personal cost. here is a clip. the thing that i think the film does really well is that pays greater tribute to the bravery of these people in doing this citizen journalism reporting and it contains horrifying images and there are several occasions while i was watching where i had to look away. the bravery of it is that the people who were doing this, they did not look away, they saw it as their responsibility to document this. as
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you quite rightly say, it is a documentary that takes an very, very difficult subject matter and i think is really important, but it is absolutely necessary to say that there are things in this documentary, quite rightly, are very harrowing, but it is a real tribute to the bravery, that they were trying to get the message out all the time, even though their own lives are under threat. many of them now live in germany. even there of course, there is the sense that they are never completely safe. we approach the summer holidays and we move to entirely different matters and perhaps very younger age group is there something for adults?|j and perhaps very younger age group is there something for adults? i am 54 is there something for adults? i am 5a and is there something for adults? i am 54and| is there something for adults? i am 5a and i love captain underpants. this is based on the much loved books. if you're familiar with the books. if you're familiar with the books and i am, i was worried that some on make a movie but now they have, too, but creating kids
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accidentally turn their headmaster into captain underpants with the help of hypnotising ring from the cereal packet. here is a clip. what's this? it is the paperwork to separate but two! it's really incredible. ican separate but two! it's really incredible. i can actually see the end of your friendship. george, do something. put the pen down or we will hypnotise you! what's happening? when i start my fingers you will obey our every command! you're now be amazing captain underpants! we've got to stop them. why? you laughed all the way through that. you're still laughing. i
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started laughing at the beginning of this movie and i did not stop. the more it went on, the funnier it became. i was sitting with critics who were enjoying it but they tend to be well—behaved but i was laughing like a hyena. it is really funny and how great that we have a family movie out that you can take young kids to see and you will enjoy it every bit as as them. captain underpants is a real standout delight. that is one day at least thatis delight. that is one day at least that is started. it is lovely, when there are not the best kids films around to see. it is very hard to find something that you think will work both for the young audience and also for all an older audience. i would quite happily go and see this again tomorrow. i laughed all the way through it and you know what a fani way through it and you know what a fan i am of the minions, this made me laugh more. funnier than the minions and that is really saying something. that is all we need to hear. what is best out? i have gone
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back to baby driver, it is still in cinemas and i love it. edgar wright has managed to cross a car chase movie with a romantic musical and make this film which is funny and sharp and smart and as a piece of cinema, i think it is really great andi cinema, i think it is really great and i want people to see it in the cinema. it will come out on home video, but it is one of those things, the bean to see at? i am going to see it. ok, you have to go. iam going going to see it. ok, you have to go. i am going to see this. you need to see it in a cinema. that sure summer homework. i did not do well on homework. i did not do well on homework last week. what is the dvd? asi homework last week. what is the dvd? as i said last week, you need to see the levelling. get out is out, it is a great horror thriller. jordan peel is one of the voices in captain
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underpants and he wrote and directed this movie. he comes from a comedy background. what this does is, it is kind of inspired by the books of our 11 who wrote the stepford wives and tells a about white middle—class liberal america and it is more of a psychological thriller than a horror movie although there are moments of horror in it. it is sharp and satirical and really well played and what i loved about it, it was one of those films, you could not quite see where it was going. it has great performances, it is very bright and ididn't performances, it is very bright and i didn't know much about it when i went in and i was really surprised andi went in and i was really surprised and i love the books anyway, it is not directly adapted from the books, but it is a really fine piece of work, but try not to read too much about it before you see the film. thank you very much. i have made a list of my homework. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
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and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode ——— including mark's top ten films of the year so far. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. i have got quite a mix of whether on the way this weekend. it has certainly been quite a mixed today in the south west, pouring with rain and winds up to gale—force, were in the east, there was decent weather. let us look at a selection of pictures. a nice one here of a woodpecker and we also have dark clouds in the vale of glamorgan and
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we have some fairweather clouds in the cambridgeshire area. a nice day in some of the east areas. this is the low pressure that brought the bad weather, it is still with us, here in the south west, the rain has been very heavy, the winds have been gusting up to 50 mph in places which isa gusting up to 50 mph in places which is a lot for this time of year. some problems there. it looks as though some of that heavy rain will still be around with a chorus of this evening. for some of the holiday—makers, it is far from ideal. it is a very distinct band of wind and rain that has been sitting here for quite some time, it is only slowly nudging towards the east through the course of the evening and that is only a snapshot around seven o'clock. decent in belfast, glasgow was not bad, it has been a fine day in parts of scotland as well and as i indicated earlier, some of the east areas enjoying fine weather and then the rain will reach you a little bit later on tonight,
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but as this weather front here, and it isa but as this weather front here, and it is a weather fund curling back into this area of low pressure, there's weather from starting to fall apart, not a lot of rain left, but what will happen tomorrow is that this low pressure, while it is not really moving an awful lot, from left to right, right to left, it is actually generating, it is creating its own showers within and it means that tomorrow, after a sunny start, there will be showers developing through the course of the afternoon and some of them will be heavy and thundery and some of us will com pletely thundery and some of us will completely miss them, quite a range of temperatures as well on tomorrow. as far as the golf is concerned, and mix of weather, quite close to the coast, so chances are we'll stay dry because the showers like to form mostly inland and then on sunday, it looks like the main bulk of the weather front is across the north, pretty u npleasa nt weather front is across the north, pretty unpleasant in the north—east for a time but for most of us, and mixture of sunny spells and showers.
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here's a quick reminder and summary of what is happening, an unsettled week and with frequent showers that there will be some turnaround as well, so summarising even that, we can say it is not all. goodbye. a bbc investigation reveals how children in their own homes are being groomed by abusers online. children as young as nine are being drawn into sexual conversations on the periscope app owned by twitter. the nspcc expresses its concern. well it is very disturbing isn't it? to see children as young as nine, so vulnerable, and being so clearly groomed for sexual purposes. we'll be looking at why such abuse isn't being stopped. also tonight: panic as an earthquake hits the holiday island of kos. two people have been killed. there's been a lot of talk in the media about holding trump accountable, i'm here to tell you it goes two ways we're going to hold the press accountable as well.
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