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it with this figure. the truth is it may be right, it may be wrong, and it said 2020. the pinch of salt, if i may say so. we have such poverty in our country. austerity. we'll talk about austerity later.|i in our country. austerity. we'll talk about austerity later. i can't wait, ruth! you are such a tease! she is the steel one, as you can see, the bank. ruth and yasmin, to say. 11:30pm is our next papers review, and we will pick up some of those stories. i hope you canjoin us. those stories. i hope you canjoin us. coming up next, it is the film review. state tuned. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.
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to take us through this week's cinema releases, welcome back, mark, from your holidays. what have you watched in the last few weeks? very interesting week. we have wind river, from the writer of sicario and hell or high water. we have insyriated, a very tough and tense drama, set in damascus. and it, stephen king's classic comes to the big screen. it may be a classic. we'll talk about that later. cos you're such a big horror fan(!) let's start with wind river. i watched the trailer for this in awe when i went to see detroit. even the trailer is visually stunning. but so stark. yeah, written and directed by taylor sheridan, saying it's the conclusion of a trilogy about the modern american frontier. hurricane jose hurricane jose hurricane it's set in wyoming on a native american reservation. there's the death of a young woman at the start, which brings together two characters.
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one isjeremy renner‘s hunter, tracker, who is dealing with his own issues of grief and guilt. the other is an fbi agent played by elizabeth olsen who is basically — she's in vegas beforehand — she arrives completely unprepared, a total outsider, not even the right clothes for the job. immediately everybody thinks, what's she doing here? here's a clip. i'mjane 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. so do you want to show me the body? i don't mean to be rude, i'm just freezing my ass off here. the quicker the better.
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that's going to get a lot worse if you go out there dressed like that. the body is five miles on a snowmobile. i'm afraid you'd be dead by the time we got there. i got the call and this is what i've got. at the beginning there's hostility towards her character. but she's very tenacious. in order to pursue the case she needs a tracker on board. this isjeremy renner‘s character. you saw from that clip how much of it's to do with the environment, to do with the landscape. you said watching a trailer made you feel... i was cold by the end of the trailer! it was extraordinary visually. i thought, whoa, this is going to be bleak. that chilliness goes all the way through the drama. and actually, though it is a murder mystery investigation with a sort of labyrinthine plot, it's really 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.
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it's all to do with placing and setting. that wyoming backdrop is really brutal. jeremy renner is well cast. he tends to underplay emotions. a lot is said by doing and saying very little. elizabeth olsen i think is terrific as the character who arrives from the outside and has to prove her way and prove that she's worthy of this case. and during the course of the film, you really come to see her character understand the bleakness of this landscape, the difficulties that 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. 0k. insyriated, your second choice. this is a drama, not a documentary. yes, absolutely a drama. set in damascus. there's an apartment block in which a family and others
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in the block are trapped inside by sniperfire and helicopters and gunfire outside. and what happens is that there is a character who is the matriarch, hiam abbass, who 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 their getaway at nighttime. but then what happens is tragedy strikes. there is an air of deception that surrounds the tragedy, because our central character doesn't tell what she knows. and somehow through this deception it's as if the outside conflict comes in. so what you then have is 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, very claustrophobic. filmed with very tight hand—held cameras following you around the apartment. you feel the space. at times, although it's a completely different setting, it did remind me
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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 also a ghost story. and in many ways this is a story about there being a ghost in this house. it's tough. there is a central sequence which is very, very hard to watch. though it was very well filmed, not exploitatively filmed. occasionally it drifts over into melodrama. it's a tough film in which you believe in the characters and in the battles between them and the stresses that 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're right to laugh. because you're back from your summer holidays, you thought, i know, i'll give jane one that she just 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 doorstopper novel, which has been done, there's a very famous tv
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version with tim curry as pennywise the dancing clown, the really demonic presence. 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 deepest fears. and somehow there's a central character, it of the title, who seems to be feeding upon theirfears. it starts with a sequence which has become iconic, in which young georgie meets pennywise. here's a clip. no! ah! hiya, georgie. what a nice boat. do you want it back? um... yes, please. you look like a nice boy. do you want a balloon, too, georgie? i'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers.
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oh, well, i'm pennywise, the dancing clown. now we aren't strangers, are we? how are you feeling? this has provoked so much 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 actually what it is is a coming—of—age drama about a group of kids called the losers, who gang together to try and find this mythical evil, to try and unravel this curse that's happening time and time again to the town. and the films that it refers to are poltergeist to some extent, the goonies, there's nods to et, there's a touch of stand by me in there. it's absolutely a film which works, because the director cares about the young characters. he cares about the misfits, the outsiders. you come to care about them too.
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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 bill ska rsgard's performance. incidentally, he does a very good job of filling tim curry‘s clown shoes. he does it brilliantly. but it's an adventure. i mean, it's a horror—inflected adventure, but it is an adventure. this is only 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 some extent to nightmare on elm street. at one point the kids go past a cinema showing that. there's a lot of freddy krueger in there. and 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 pennywise the clown, and you do get those moments, but i really liked it. what was best about it was how
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affectionate it is for the source material. i think fans will really go for it. let's talk about the wonderful bill nighy. yes, limehouse golem is terrific. it came out last week. it's a story set in 18805 london. there is a killer stalking the streets. bill nighy‘s detective is sent to investigate it. they know it's an unsolvable case and they want him to take the fall. the film is about theatre, the theatre of murder, the theatre of death and real life. so on the one hand, half of it takes place on stage, music hall, 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. music hall. yes, and funnily enough, people haven't quite appreciated enough what a good—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.
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danny mays was wonderful. i'm a big fan of his. i think you'll enjoy. it it is gory. it is gorier than it. there is gothic gore 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 or sequel. when it first came out, it was pretty much ignored. 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 become incredibly prescient. it's about a world taken over by reality television. people thinking that they can solve
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all of their problems by going in sitting in a tv studio in taking part in a game show. the songs are fabulous, the dance routines are fabulous. when it came out, i thought this is a mess but i'm enjoying it. this is a mess but it's nightmarishly prophetic, and i really like it. i could handle that one. lovely to see you back... just about. nice to see you. see you next week. just a reminder, you'll find all ourfilm news and reviews from across the bbc online. and you can find all the previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that is it for this week. whatever you're brave enough to go and see, i hope you enjoy it. soft drinks are available! thanks very much for watching. have a great week, bye—bye. hello once again, a low pressure
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system has kept the day very u nsettled system has kept the day very unsettled across all parts of the british isles but i am hopeful as we work—out way towards midnight that this ridge of high pressure will tend to kill off some of the showers, underneath clearing skies temperatures could get down to fall 5 degrees in the countryside. after a temporary dip, the cloud will lift the temperatures again. this set of weather fronts gradually pushed their rain across the whole of scotland, through northern ireland accompanied by blustery wind. the weather front makes steady process —— progress in full central and western parts of england, through wales, some sunny spells but quite a few showers on another blustery day. the rain eventually gets to east anglia and the south—east late in the afternoon. monday dominated by local pressure, another blustery
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day, a little quieter come tuesday. goodbye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. hurricane irma pounds cuba with winds of more than 150 miles per hour. the cu ban authorities the cuban authorities did try to move large numbers of people out of harm ‘s way but still, many have been left, particularly in the central province. we understand there are many thousands of people there are many thousands of people there without power at the moment. as the casualty toll mounts, it's confirmed five people have been killed in the british virgin islands — another person died in anguilla. as the storm approaches florida,
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