by ryan reynolds meets a hit man played by samuel ljackson and it's love at first sight. well, not really. let's start with final portrait. i'm a massive stanley tucci fan as an actor. i know he's directed a few films before. i must confess i don't think i've seen any of them looking at the list. how does this work—out? there was a one called big night where he played a restaurant owner with his brother played by tony shalhoub. stanley tucci doesn't pop up in this film, although tony shalhoub, who played his brother, does, again playing a brother interestingly, of alberto giacometti, playing diego giacometti. this is a story that i didn't know and a story that stanley tucci, strolling along in paris 25 years ago in one of the bouquinistes along the seine, and picked up this memoir of this american writer called james lord, who'd sat for giacometti in his final days in paris. this is what the story is based on. james lord himself, it's his memoir, and played by actor armie hammer, who is the very patient subject of giacometti, who, if you know his work, and there is an exhibition currently at the tate, i do urge you to see that, it does feature a lot of the work.

he got very famous for the whittled—down sculptures, trying to get to the essence of humanity in an absurd world. stanley tucci being the impish character actor that he is doesn't really concentrate on the dark heart of the work, more the struggle of the artist and the pain that it is to sit for that artist because he can't make up his mind when his work is finished, if ever. so here is armie hammer playing james lord trying to work out how long he should book his vacation for. the end of the week. yeah. 0h, isee. i could change it again. i would like to know, you know, how many days do you need? oh, i don't know, i think it would be great to work for another week. a week? a week, yes, i think a week would be good. a week is fine. i canjust move my flight next wednesday. would that...

wednesday. yes, when state is fine. let's say wednesday. 0k, good. but then... what? there's no question of the portrait ever being finished so... no, of course. that's the great geoffrey rush, of course. it is. sometimes i love geoffrey rush, and sometimes he can be what we call a ham. he can dominate a film, totally on balances it, and i do worry about him. here we see him, he is quite reined in there, but there is a lot of smoking and dishevelled mud and staring at your pictures, almost like the travis bickle of the art world, challenging his portraits, like you talking to me. but we also get a lot of the kind of scrape of the art, the stuff, the very great atelier where giacometti work is beautifully captured by danny cohen, who is the same cameraman that they had in the king's speech, which captured rush in a different form there.

this bit is very well done. but the film takes a lot of life from the sort of cafe paris kind of stuff, distorted stuff that stanley tucci relishes in. the cafe scenes where they kind of drink wine and eggs, hard—boiled eggs, and they kind of meat prostitutes and kind of swirl around. it's that part, that romantic image of the artist that you want from a film about an artist in paris. so we get that struggle but you also get the flamboyance and the indulgence and romanticism with which stanley tucci treats it. it is very much a stanley tucci film, although you would have thought stanley tucci would have said i want to play that part, he's very much there. it's a character actor's directing because he's very indulgent towards the acting and let's all the kind of funny bits stay in there. it's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly done and it's very enjoyable. it is enjoyable, as it? the way you described the cafe scenes, i love all of that, visually it's fantastic, isn't it? but it can be a cliche. yes, absolutely. it sort of almost goes there and yet it deals with a new subject, very fresh, and armie hammer is very good, he is stoically funny, putting up with all of this.

he's the sort of our eyes, almost the audience shrugging, god, i've got to put up with this annoying prostitute coming in and taking giacometti's attention away from me and got to put up with geoffrey rush‘s never being able to be on time, orfinish this portrait. it's very much l‘artiste au travail. that's exactly what it is and i think stanley tucci has done it very beautifully. the artist at work. all right, well, and inconvenient sequel couldn't be more different. i got nervous because you used the word flip chart in your introduction there. people watching might think that is not necessarily what i go to the cinema for. i think i've been a bit old—fashioned, i think it's powerpoint presentation. yes, it probably is. that's what it is these days. in the first one it was. an inconvenient truth was a huge success. it won and oscar. it did, but it also changed our perception of al gore who was this sort of dull politician at the time but then became this sort of evangelist for climate change. what it did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proof that climate change was happening. it seemed unnecessary to do so now. but unfortunately, obviously, al gore seems to feel the need to do so.

his life has changed again. he narrowly missed out on being president, al gore, and now he's become this travelling salesman for climate change. going around teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a powerpoint around the world, but also we get a film in which extreme weather features. it is very cinematic extreme weather, isn't it, unfortunately. but there is also the fact that some people still don't believe this stuff is happening so he still needs to go and convince people. now, i need no convincing fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind turbines and solar panels are. but it's very difficult to get the world to turn around. so it's a look at this thing. unfortunately, jane, and i say this with heavy heart, it's really boring. 0h, 0k. oh, no. just watching the clips we are playing here i wasjust thinking this looks like a busman‘s holiday for a journalist. it looks like possibly a very interesting documentary. and i'm thinking, are people going to pay whatever they paid now to go and see it at the cinema? i mean, if they did, it's supposed to be a cure for non—believers in climate change. i think it's more a cure for insomnia. spectacular as glaciers are, they are moving at a faster pace

than this film goes at. the cause itself needed a much betterfilm, and much more inspiring film than it gets in this, which actually looks like propaganda for the people who believe in climate change. it's an easy stick to beat people who want to deny it, and say look how boring that film is. it is a real shame, i think, because it's a vitally important subject treated with a deathly dull kind of scenario. hit man's bodyguard. was that boring? i wouldn't call it boring, hit man's bodyguard. many things. boring it isn't. although it is very interesting, because it's supposed to be this light—hearted summer caper in which the light—hearted ryan reynolds, who we've seen recently in deadpool, as a kind of foul—mouthed superhero and samuel ljackson, famous for his expletives, snakes on a plane, comes to mind and also the works of tarantino, which comes to mind very much here. and it's almost like they couldn't getjohn travolta so they got ryan reynolds to team up as two hit men in the car.

so what you get us, you definitely get a first here in hitman‘s bodyguard in that there is a sort of gunfight and car battle on the streets of coventry, which has probably never happened in cinema history. that could be a first. so, congratulations to the hitman‘s bodyguard for that. they go on the run. ryan reynolds is supposed to be escorting samuel ljackson to the hague where he is going to give witness at the trial of a belarussian warlord played by gary oldman doing russian accent very, very russian. but they argue, they banter, they get lost, and of course, because they feel the film is rather flagging they must get a laugh by having our two stowaways hide with some nuns on the run. 0k. traditional folk music. bellissima, sorelle! go with god.

ok, now, you just told me that was the best bit. well, it's one of the things we can show. there is no swearing or violence. what it is is it's very flippant and bantery, and that's all fine, and then there is nonstop violence. and some of it you want to treat in a cartoonish way but in tom and jerry they get squashed, they fall apart, it's funny. but in this the violence felt very real, it hurts, and yet no one is getting hurt in it. i feel inconsequential violence becomes very dull. it is almost soul destroying while you watch so much of it in this film. i felt bad about this film. it's not the language, i didn't mind that, some of it is colourful and swearing can be fun. it isn't in this. even when they have a fight in the hardware store and a canal

in amsterdam it never reaches... the fighting isn't funny and it ceases to be so. so when you say, is it boring? yes, ifound it dull in that respect. it wasn't inventive fighting like you get injohn woo martial arts movies. that was missing here. i thought it was rather plodding and it was reduced to just ryan reynolds looking askance at samuel ljackson and saying, oh god, are you going to swear again in a minute? he does. 0k. what's your best out, jason? my best out, if you haven't been on holiday this year, can't afford to, or you have stayed in the uk and it has been a bit wet, how about a summer holiday with the odyssey, which is a bio pic with the french diver and all—around french personjacques cousteau, who discovered the undersea world and the fishes and brought them vividly to life. you forget now, we have whole channels dedicated to fishy stuff, but you forget no one before he brought them to life had seen seals and turtles and the dolphins. yes, he was remarkable in what he did. he won the oscar for documentary for science. so this is about him.

he is married to simone, who is played by audrey tautou. and his son pierre niney. it's a very french film. look at those beanie hats. you don't get better than that. you will recognise them, perhaps, from the life aquatic, the steve zissou character played by bill murray. and, of course, this one is also about ecology and other sort of clips of the antarctic that we saw in the al gore movie. it strikes me the antarctic would be a much safer place without all these film crews swarming all over it, but that's another matter. it's the odyssey and it's the most beautiful film of the summer. all right, fantastic, well, that in itself is wonderful. the dvd, goodness, a blast from the you have brought us. i know, i don't want to make anyone feel old or young because it's a film about being young. 50 years old, it is, this year, and it's out on dvd, the graduate, starring dustin hoffman and it looks like a cougar there. it is a cougar because anne bancroft is the original cougar in this film, the older woman, mrs robinson preying on the younger victim, ben braddock, played by dustin hoffman in mike nichols's epic film. it's one of the coolest films of the 60s, still looks very

cool and fresh today, revived for this master, and it's still got that wonderful music, "hello darkness, my old friend," by simon and garfunkel. to quote paul simon, "it's still pretty crazy after all these years," the graduate. that's a great one to sit on the sofa over the summer and watch that. thank you very much. my highlight this week may be your russian accent but we can discuss that more later. thank you very much. spasibo. lovely to see you, jason solomons, thank you very much. that is just about it for this week. enjoy your cinema going. thanks for watching. see you next time. bye— bye. sadly, ijust have the weather for you. you should do things indoors. mild and murky. damp in places. went for northern ireland. —— wet. scotla nd for northern ireland. —— wet. scotland and the east of england, dry and sunny, at least at this stage on monday. we will move that

belt of whether towards the north and east, robbing the east of the pennines of sunshine through the morning. scotland stands out with decent and sunny weather and a passing shower. the south, having had a murky started the day, some sunshine coming through. it will break up the cloud. 21 is possible, possibly 24. not too sure about the rain on the west of the pennines. it could go to the east, perhaps north and east. it is all over northern ireland for much of the day. it becomes a play in the south—west of scotla nd becomes a play in the south—west of scotland through the day. it is slow progress of. if you have it, you might keep it in scotland. it doesn't get to the north until tuesday lunchtime. by that stage, it will have gone away from northern ireland. again, here, cloud in england and wales on tuesday. as we

get going, some will go away. it will be a warm one. 23— 25. —— one. somewhere in their we will possibly see a27. these fronts have brought the prospect of indoor weather across some parts. south—westerlies bringing tropical air with a potential to boost the temperatures at last until we sweep that cold front across the british isles. wednesday, the last of the 20 days. iam wednesday, the last of the 20 days. i am trying to avoid the prospect of telling you there is yet more wet weather in northern britain on wednesday. thursday, the weather front returns. it is never away from the north of scotland. elsewhere, thursday and friday, a mix of sunny spells and showers. and that is your

weather. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: thousands of troops are beginning a huge military exercise on the korean peninsula. we will report from the demilitarized zone on international efforts to maintain the peace. nearly 600 dead and several millions affected by flooding, as south asia experiences its worst rains for decades. we hearfrom villagers in nepal. the property, her life's store, rice, whatever she has has been swept away and she has had to live with her children without food for more than five days now. hello, i'm tom donkin in london. also, in our programme: police are investigating whether the imam of a mosque masterminded the barcelona terror attack