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who is basically — she's in vegas beforehand — she arrives completely unprepared, a total outsider, not even the right clones for the job. immediately everybody thinks what's she doing here. here's a clip. i'm june banner. she doing here. here's a clip. i'm june banner. are you by yourself? yeah, just me. i'm the tribal police chief. that's cory lambert. he found the body. this is his father—in—law, dan. we got the same job hey. i'm sorry to meet under these circumstances. do you want to show me the body? i don't mean to be rude, i'm just freezing me the body? i don't mean to be rude, i'mjust freezing my me the body? i don't mean to be rude, i'm just freezing my as off here. the quicker the better. that's going to get a lot worse if you go out there dressed like that. the bodyis out there dressed like that. the body is five miles in snow mobile.|j
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got the call and this is what i've got. at the beginning there's hostility towards her character. she's tenacious. in order to pursue the case she needs a tracker on board. you saw from that clip how much of it is to do with the environment, to do with the landscape. you said watching a trailer made you feel —|j landscape. you said watching a trailer made you feel - i was cold by the end of the trailer! it was extraordinary. whoa, ithought, this is going to be bleak. that chilliness goes all the way through the drama. actually, though it is a murder mystery investigation with a sort of lib rainth plot, it's about this land, about people being forced to live in a land never meant for anyone to live in it, about the hardship, the difficulty of that life, about the community and what i like about the film is it's very sympathetic towards its characters. it's all to do with placing and setting. that wyoming back drop is brutal. jeremy rhoner is well cast. he tends to underplay emotions. a
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lot is done by saying and doing little. she comes along and has to prove her way and prove that she's worthy of this case. during the course of the film, you really come to see her character understand the bleakness of this landscape, the difficulties of the people who live here face. so i think it's a very, very solid, very gripping drama. bizarrely, when you consider that it is narratively a murder mystery thriller it's much more about environment. it's about place. it's about those people. it's about the plight of the indigenous people. your second choice now. this is a drama not a documentary. it's absolutely a drama. set in damascus. there's an apartment block where a family and others in the block are trapped inside by sniperfire family and others in the block are trapped inside by sniper fire and helicopters and gunfire outside. what happens is that there is a character who is the matriarch, who
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is brilliant, who is controlling looking after everybody in the apartment block. there is a young couple, who have a young baby, who are planning to leave. they're going to make the getaway at nighttime. but then what happens is tragedy strikes. there is an air of deception that surrounds the tragedy because the central character doesn't tell what she knows. somehow through this deception it's as if the outside conflict comes in. then you have a series of characters trapped within this really hellish environment in which there is a lie that they are dealing with. there is a knock at the door, it turns into something approaching a home invasion movie and it becomes very claustrophobic. filmed with very tight hand held cameras following you around the apartment. you feel the space. at times, although it's a com pletely the space. at times, although it's a completely different setting, it reminded me of under the shadow, another story about conflict outside and a mother and a daughter dealing with the — there's a shell that's come through the roof, but it's a ghost story. in many ways this is a story about there being a ghost in
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this house. it's tough. there is a central sequence which is very hard to watch. though it was very well filmed, not exploit tivoli filmed. occasionally it drifts into melodrama. it's a tough film in which you believe in the characters and in the battles between them and the stress that's they're under. you really do feel this oppressive environment that they're living under. all right. now, the third choice i don't know why i'm laughing. because you are right to laugh. because you're back from your summer laugh. because you're back from your summer holidays, you thought, i know i'll give jane one that she will not like at all because it's not my thing. i think you will do. this is it. i love your optimism! it's an adaptation of a stephen king door stopper novel, which has been done, there's a very famous tv version with tim curry as penny wise the dancing clown, so the story is basically, a group of kids living in a town, who are all haunted by visions that seem to tap into their
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deepest fears. somehow there's a central character, it, who seems to be feeding upon their fears. it sta rts be feeding upon their fears. it starts with a sequence which has become iconic in which young georgie meets penny wise. here's a clip. no! ah! hiya georgie. what a nice boat. do you want it back? erm. . . . .. yes please. you look like a nice boy. do you want a balloon too georgie? i'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers. 0h, not supposed to take stuff from strangers. oh, well i'm penny wise, the dancing clown. now we aren't strangers, are we? how are you feeling? this has provoked so much
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debate in the newsroom today. i am the only person surrounded in a sea of people who had no desire to go any further than that scene. here's the thing, yes, it's a horror story, there is a strong horror element, but it's a coming of age drama about a group of kids called the losers, who gang together to try and find this midgical evil to try and unravel the curse happening time and again to the town. the films that it refers to are poltergeist, the goonies, there's nods to et, there's a touch of stand by me in there. it isa a touch of stand by me in there. it is a film which works because the director cares about the young characters. he cares about the misfits, the outsiders. you come to ca re misfits, the outsiders. you come to care about them too. yes, it is, there are, moments of fear, moments of shock, jumps. anybody who finds clowns fundamentally creepy is going to be very impressed by the performance. he does a good job of filling tim curry‘s clown shoes. but
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it's an adventure. i mean it's a horror inflected adventure, but it is an adventure. this is the early yea rs of is an adventure. this is the early years of the novel. there's a section of the grown up years, this is chapter one. there's going to be a second one. there is. this owes a debt to nightmare on elm street. at one point the kids go past a cinema showing that. there's a score that goes from lush orchestral adventure music to nursery rime chimes, the strange, twisted... you're not buying this. it's a romp. it's really enjoyable. it's really good fun and it's scary when it needs to be. personally i would have liked it to be more scary. i still remember the first time i saw penny wise the clown, you get those moments, but i really liked it. what was best about it was how affectate it is for the source material. i think fans will really go for. it let's talk about the wonderful bill nighy. yes, lime house golem is trifric. it's set in
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18805 house golem is trifric. it's set in 1880s london. a killer is stalking the streets. his detective is sent to investigate it. they know it's an unsolvable case and they want him to ta ke unsolvable case and they want him to take the fall. the film is about theatre, the theatre of murder, the theatre, the theatre of murder, the theatre of death and real life. so on the one hand, half of it takes place on stage, musical, half of it ta kes pla ce place on stage, musical, half of it takes place in the morgue and out on these misty streets. a lot of hammer in the way in which it's lit, the way in which it's ghoulish. very visual. musical. yes, and funny enough people haven't quite appreciated enough what a good looking film it is. it's brilliantly written by jane goldman, looking film it is. it's brilliantly written byjane goldman, who looking film it is. it's brilliantly written by jane goldman, who adapted the novel. it's a complicated novel to put on screen. i really liked it. danny mayes was wonderful. i think you'll enjoy. it it is gorery. it is gorier than it. there is gothic gore
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in there. you see, there's a line between that and being scared out of your wits. actually, here's what you should do, see both of them and then tell me which you enjoyed the most. good plan mark, back—to—back, with a bottle of gin to get me through it! i shouldn't advocate that, this might be on in the morning. we'll edit that bit, right. let's talk about the dvd. yeah, actually blu—ray, shock treatment has come to blu—ray. shock treatment is the sequel to rocky horror. it was described as an equal, not prequel oi’ described as an equal, not prequel or sequel. it's a mess, described as an equal, not prequel orsequel. it's a mess, no described as an equal, not prequel or sequel. it's a mess, no question about it. the creator said it's a mess because it started as one thing and turned out as another. what's really interesting is it's becoming incredibly pressient. it's about a world ta ke n incredibly pressient. it's about a world ta ken over incredibly pressient. it's about a world taken over by reality television. it's about people thinking they can solve everyone by becoming part of a game show. the songs and dance routines are fabulous. when it came out, i thought this is a mess but i'm
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enjoying it. this is a mess but it's nightmarishly profetic and i really like it. lovely to see you back... just about. nice to see you. see you next week. you'll find all our film news and reviews from across the bbc online. find all the previous programmes on the bbci find all the previous programmes on the eeg player. that is it for this week. whatever you're brave enough to see, i hope you enjoy it. soft drinks are available! thanks very much for watching. have a great week, bye—bye. good evening. if you're off to the cinema this weekend, it might be a dash from the bus or from the car as you said in there, because there'll be showers around. much like today. fairly typical really, when you've got areas of low pressure like this around. and once this one departs there's another one waiting in the wings. this has produced longer
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spells of rain in the south. that is clearing. there's heavy bursts over the next hour or to across southern counties, south—east midlands and east anglia. then lots of showers, western scotland, northern ireland, north and west wales. wet night for some in north west england and the midlands. there could be huge puddles into the morning. central and eastern areas, the showers fade, clearer skies. winds fall lighter here. a cool and fresh start to the weekend. that theme continues throughout. yes, there will be further wet weather at times, mainly from the showers, particularly on saturday and the wind will steadily become more of a feature into the second half of the weekend. this is how saturday begins, already a bit breezy across devon and cornwall and south wales. that pushes the showers through quickly. you will get a downpour followed by sunshine and more rain later. across much of southern england, the south and east midlands, it's a fine start. get plans done early on. sunshine will be out. cool. but the breeze is fresh. it brings the showers through. particularly wet south of
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lancashire into north wales. east of the pennines showers in the forecast. a few for scotland and northern ireland to begin saturday. in fact compared to what we've seen today might be a better day. showers develop through the day. zipping across the skies quickly in the south thanks to the breeze. slow moving through the midlands and northern england. if you get caught under one it could be with you for a time. if you avoid them, sit in the sunshine, the sunshine still has strength, but overall temperatures disappointing for early september. it will be a cool night that follows with a ridge of high pressure, temporarily things drier, clearer, colder. chilly start to sunday. central and eastern areas should be fine and dry to begin. cloud and outbreaks of rain will spread east through the day. heaviest bursts in the new york, lightest in the south. —— in the north. lightest in the south. they could be severe gale —force south. they could be severe gale—force into monday morning rush hour. keep on checking the forecast this weekend, it could be a lively start to the week with a mixture of
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sunshine and showers across the board and again, another cool feeling day. that's how it's looking across the uk. this is the latest from hurricane irma. florida behind me, cuba to the south, it's heading in that direction. more coming up on the bbc news at six. hurricane irma continues its deadly rampage across the caribbean, and now there's another hurricane coming up behind it. in barbuda, where there's already overwhelming destruction, a mass evacuation is happening now to escape a second hit. everything just started to decay and just crumble. what have you eaten in the last few days? hardly anything, because there's nothing to eat. you can't cook. britain has begun sending aid to the british overseas territories in the region, devastated by the hurricane. irma's heading for florida, where those who can are leaving. others are hunkering down and hoping for the best. this storm is wider than our entire state and is expected to cause major and life—threatening impacts from coast—to—coast. we'll have the very latest
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from the affected region, and looking at whether worse is yet to come. also tonight:
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