will thank you for watching and we will see you soon. 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? yeah, most expensive european film of all time. actually, 20 years ago, there was a film called the fifth element that luc besson, the same director, had made and was doing very well. at that point, that was the most expensive european film of all time. now it's valerian, with a budget of $200 million, which could not buy neymar, but it's still a lot of money. it's set in the 28th century. it's about a couple of intergalactic secret agents who are investigating strange goings—on at the alpha space station. cara delevingne and dane dehaan star. ok, 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. i think we kind of saw it towards the end of that clip. it looks quite gaudy and camp and quite, dare i say it, silly at times. you're 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, really 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's 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 isn't really 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. it couldn't be anything more different for our second film, england is mine. this is a biopic of morrissey‘s early teenage years in manchester in the late ‘70s, really 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. i think he plays an raf pilot. tom hardy's colleague in that movie. very good in dunkirk and very good in this as a young morrissey. the downside is, the first half of the film, morrissey is so painfully shy as a teenager that he is virtually mute.

and so you have a film where you really don't know what's 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, so his family and female friends. do you need to be a fan of the smiths to enjoy it or could this be any almost coming—of—age film? that's certainly what it's trying to be. there are adrian mole—esque elements to it of the nerdy, shy teenager, but also about if you follow your dreams, 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's 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 trailer for the emoji film made my eyes hurt. do you think morrissey has ever used an emoji? signed off a text with a smiley face? i doubt it, somehow. yeah, the emoji movie. in terms of plot, it's 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. so it's about this emoji living in a phone, in this emoji city that's 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. it's actually a ‘meh' face. do you know what a ‘meh' face is? yeah, 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... oh, 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. 0h, 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! yeah, 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's not funny, because you are not laughing, you are looking at the downside, which is that it feels very corporate. even though it's supposedly about an emoji who wants to be an individual, a bit different, actually, what it's 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. yeah. 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's 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's 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 the writers are just celebrating how good romantic comedies can be. perhaps why it's doing well! if you want to sit on the sofa instead, what's 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. that actually things are about to kick off, and literally in this film, because it is about a meeting in the ‘70s in this disused warehouse in boston, that goes wrong.

it's 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's notjust a shoot ‘em up, though. there are great actors in this. great actors — brie larson, cillian murphy. the sleeziest gun runner you've seen — amazing. 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 in the ‘70s. 0k, james, thanks very much. see you next week as well. thank you very much indeed. that's about it for this week. enjoy your cinema going if you can. quite a varied bunch. see you next time. bye bye. whatever you have in mind this particular weekend, you are going to have to keep a close eye on the weather front, because there is quite a mix on offer. i don'tjust mean for

farmers and growers. if you are out and about, there is a bit of a mix on offer. sunny spells, yes, but showers or longer spells of rain. as has been the weekjust past, a bit disappointing for this time of year. starting off on a cold note, double—figure temperatures will just about do it for most of us. heavy showers and thunderstorms from the word go across wales, then eventually into the midlands and pushing on further eastwards into east anglia and the south—east. rather bypassing the south—west, leading a rather charmed life, further north, more heavy showers come the middle part of the afternoon, coming into the fyfe area and the eastern borders. some getting into the north—east of england. showers, too, across the eastern side of northern ireland. having had those thunderstorms first up, i think much of the rest of england and wales settles down into a mixture of sunny spells, variable cloud and some showers. not with the intensity that we may have seen for a time.

notjust as i have already described, but they could get down towards the london area and affect the world championships until quite late on, when things begin to calm down generally because of this ridge of high—pressure moving in from the atlantic. underneath those clearing skies and that ridge of high pressure. not so much in towns and cities, but in the countryside. sunday starting on a chilly note. could be a touch of frost there in the sheltered glens of scotland. that means underneath those clear skies, a glorious start to the new day on sunday, with the notable exception is northern ireland. cloud, wind and rain pushing in from the atlantic. eventually it skips across into central and western parts of scotland. it may turn up eventually across cumbria and into western wales. generally speaking, the further south and east you are, the drier and brighter your weather will be. those are the sort of conditions that we'll see arsenal take on chelsea at wembley on sunday afternoon.

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