just wit fishmit notjust about saving people's backs when they are trying to lift a washing machine, you think this is good for the environment? yes, we have done our calculations and we estimate from the number of washing machines sold in the uk and the distance travelled, if we assume each washing machine would travel 31 miles from the manufacturer to the store, tv household, to the final user, we estimate that it will save us user, we estimate that it will save us about 114,000 tonnes of carbon and about 180,000 litres us about 114,000 tonnes of carbon and about 180 , 000 litres of us about 114,000 tonnes of carbon and about 180,000 litres of fueljust one transporting the washing machine. what stage is this out now? has this new invention then put into washing machine that we can buy now? what we have done, we used off the sheu what we have done, we used off the shelf washing machine and from the market, we replaced the counter weight, the concrete one, with the plastic hollow container filled with water. time now for the the film review. james king gives us his thoughts on valerian, england is mine, and the emoji movie.

hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is james king. hello again. hi. what a funny old week! it certainly is a funny week. we have valerian and the city of a thousand planets, a mega budget sci—fi from luc besson starring dane dehaan and cara delevingne. england is mine takes a look at the early years of manchester's answer to oscar wilde, smiths front man morrissey. and to quote the man himself, panic on the streets of london, panic on the streets of birmingham. yes, the emoji movie has been let loose onto an unsuspecting british public. be afraid! 0h, lord!

let's start with sci—fi. that is an odd week! it is august, people! i read that valerian is possibly the most expensive french film ever? most expensive european film of all time. actually, 20 years ago, there was a film called the fifth element which luc besson, the same director, had made which did well. at that point, that was the most expensive european film of all time. now it is valerian, with a budget of $200 million, which could not buy neymar, but it is still a lot of money. it is set in the 20th century. it is about a couple of intergalactic secret agents who are investigating strange goings—on at the alpha space station. cara delevingne and dane dehaan start. let's see. 0k. what's the shortest way there? north—north—east, 113 degrees. 60, 70, 80, 90.

that leads me straight into a wall. you said you wanted the shortest way. wow. would i be right in saying you can see the money? well, yeah! you can see the money. but watching it, ijust thought how much has changed in the 20 years since the fifth element. the sci—fi and space movies we have had from people like christopher nolan and jj abrahams with his star trek and star wars movies, and alfonso cuaron and actually, valerian looks expensive, but it looks like an expensive 90s movie. i don't think it looks as elegant and as chic and certainly not as

cerebral as the more recent science fiction films we have seen. it actually looks a bit gaudy. we saw it towards the end of that clip. it looks quite gaudy and camp and dare i say it, quite silly at times. you are allowed to say that! 20 years ago, there was a silliness about the fifth element, but perhaps we were more forgiving. but a lot has changed in that 20 years, so now i am not so sure that luc besson‘s style, and he does have a very distinctive style, feels so of the moment as it did then. and what do you make of cara delevingne? the big question. everyone wants to know that. well, she's clearly very comfortable in front of a screen. she is arguably the world's most famous model, so she looks completely at home. is she, on the evidence of this movie, the new meryl streep? i don't think so. however, she's very young and there is plenty of time for her to improve.

i think the leads are not the most charismatic. if you see the trailer, you will see rihanna in the trailer a lot. rihanna is not in the movie that much. that is a bit of a cheat on the part of the marketing. i would have liked to have seen her in it more and ethan hawke in it more. they are very much supporting characters. if itjust looked really good, cool, i would have forgiven it these problems. all right. we couldn't have anything more different for our second film, england is mine. this is a biopic of morrissey‘s early years in the run up to him meeting johnny marr and forming the smiths. the title is from a smiths song, still ill. it stars jack lowden, who is in dunkirk as well. you might have seen him in dunkirk. he plays an raf pilot. he is tom hardy's colleague in that movie. very good in dunkirk and very good in this as a young morrissey. the downside is that the first half of the film, morrissey is so painfully

shy as a teenager that he is virtually mute. so you have a film where you really don't know what is going on in his head because he is such an insular character. and the film really is about him coming out of his shell. most interestingly, the women in his life encouraging him to come out of his shell, his family and female friends. do you need to be a fan of the smiths to enjoy it or could this be a coming—of—age film? that is certainly what it's trying to be. there are adrian mole—esque elements of it with the nerdy, shy teenager, but also about if you follow your dreams, then they will come true, which perhaps isn't immediately what you think of when thinking of morrissey, but it is there in the movie. the second half is better. that is when he does come out of his shell and becomes more flamboyant. that's when he becomes more interesting. 0k. it's august, children

are not at school. you take them to the cinema a lot. even watching the trailerfor the emoji movie made my eyes hurt. do you think morrissey has ever used an emo" signed off a text with a smiley face? i doubt it, somehow. yeah. in terms of plot, the emoji movie is very convoluted. is there a plot? you can sum it up very simply. it is trying to be the lego movie, desperately, which was a couple of years ago and a huge success critically and commercially. it is about this emoji living in a phone in this emoji city which is very uniform and regimented, but he is different. he wants to prove he is different to everyone else and special and doesn't follow the herd. there is actually a ‘meh‘ face. do you know what a ‘meh‘ face is? indifferent, the feeling i had when coming out of valerian. so he is a meh face, but he wants to be more than that. in this clip, we have, i can't believe i am saying this, sir patrick stewart voicing a poop emoji... i can't believe it either! and james corden voicing a high five emoji. let's hear that...

you are smooth. just doing my duty. ha ha! what? what did i say? rocket, look at the party! woohoo! come on, tell me you aren'tjust a little bit tempted. steven, for the last time, i don't want to buy a time share. come on, man, it's high five! you know me, i'm a favourite. it's got to be some sort of mistake. i mean, look at me, i'm an attractive hand giving a high five. fist bump! come on in. hey, ladies. fist bump? he's a knucklehead, literally! look at him. i can look like that! 0w, cramp, huge mistake! ok, i get it. i get it! what age group do you think this is aimed at? young! i would say young and indiscriminating. maybe a first film when you haven't seen anything else. imean... if it were funny... we would forgive it a lot more and of course, the lego movie, mentioned earlier, was very funny. pixar make funny animations. the level of comedy

in animations is very high. but i have read a lot about the cynical nature of it and the product placement. because it is not funny, because you are not laughing, you are looking at the downside, which is that it feels very corporate. even though it is supposedly about an emoji who wants to be an individual, a bit different, actually, what it is selling you are very corporate and mainstream apps and games. so it does feel a bit like an advert as they run around this phone and run to different apps and games. trying to get them young! better children's films are available this summer... i would say so. best out at the moment, the big sick? yes. mentioned this last week. doing very well at the box office, so that is good to see. a romantic comedy about an interracial relationship. also... talking about the smiths... it is also literally about a girlfriend in a coma. the lead female character gets very ill, and it is written by kumail nanjiani and emily gordon. it is their story, the story

of how they got together. so even though it is dealing with big topics, it feels very personal and charming. they are happy to tip their hat to richard curtis and judd apatow, who produced the film. i like romantic comedies when they are done well. we are often a bit down on them as a genre, but when done well, they are incredibly charming. i am pleased that they are celebrating how good romantic comedies can be. perhaps why it's doing well! if you want to sit on the sofa instead, what is your recommendation? free fire, from ben wheatley, co—written with his regular partner. he works across different genres, comedy and crime and dystopian sci—fi, but actually in all of his movies, there is this great feeling that things are about to go pear shaped. things are about to kick off, literally in this film, because it is about a meeting in the 70s in this disused warehouse in boston that goes wrong. it is a meeting between gangsters

and arms dealers, and it is very tense and nerve—wracking and then the free fire of the title kicks in. it is notjust a shoot ‘em up, though. there are great actors in this. brie larson, cillian murphy. it harks back to gutsy 70s action films. martin scorsese actually is the executive producer of this film and it does have that gutsy, dirty feel about it that we had the 70s. james, thanks very much. see you next week! thank you very much indeed. that's it for this week. enjoy your cinema going if you can. as we said, quite a varied bunch. see you next time. bye bye. good evening. after an unsettled

week, we have made it to the weekend. if the weather going to change? not really. it eventually morph the same, more sunshine and showers. today, it was a story blue skies, some shower clouds the next. the radar and satellite picture, quite a few showers across scotland, showers further south as well. some of them heavy with some decent brea ks of them heavy with some decent breaks in the clouds, some decent sunny spells in between. as we go through this evening and tonight, many central and southern eastern areas will stay dry, showers to northern ireland, scotland, drifting down into wales and the south—west by the end of the night temperatures around nine to 15 celsius. we start of the weekend to saturday with a mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers and throughout the weekend, it is going to feel rather cool. some good spells of sunshine around on saturday, but the showers across wales, the midlands, southern england will really be quite heavy as they drift if eastwards with band

and held their own in. not as many showers further north but even across northern ireland and scotland, some of the showers could be on the heavy side. temperatures around 16 or 17 celsius for glasgow and dundee, mixture of sunshine and showers across northern england, drying upa showers across northern england, drying up a little bit across west wales and the south—west as we go on through tomorrow afternoon as this area showers continues to drift eastwards a cross area showers continues to drift eastwards across the midlands, east anglia and the saudis were there could be some hail and thunder. a lot of rain in a short space of time, temperature struggling, 19 or 20 celsius. the world championship athletics which continue in london, you cannot rule out the shower. a lot of dry weather, deeper on into the evening, it should turn largely dry because we have this bump in the isobars, ridge of high pressure, a dry saturday night. quite chilly one. many places starting sunday morning in single digits. after a fairly cool star, a fine day for

many parts of england, wales and eastern scotland but cloud will be thickening out west, rain into northern ireland and is spreading into other western areas as the day goes on. the temperatures, no great shakes for this time of next week, no major changes, showers, longest bells of rain. some sunny breaks in between. as we get deeper into next week, we hope, things may settle down in the south released. full details always available for the week ahead online. this is bbc world news today.

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