nhs achieves on the daily telegraph. nhs achieves on their plan for spas, facials and zomba classes at hospitals. would you like to go to a hospital for a facial? if you have had a hernia, you are not going to pop down to the gym and have a frenetic dance class. the nhs should be working as it does against great odds to save people's lives and not be distracted by this. when we hear every day there is a shortage of doctors and nurses, massive rows over scandalously underpaid medics, in my view, and now they are talking about opening, and this is very w1a, health campuses, that makes your blood boil. i would campuses, that makes your blood boil. iwould rather go campuses, that makes your blood boil. i would rather go to hospital. one of the many reasons that the nhs is underso one of the many reasons that the nhs

is under so much pressure to save lives is because we are such an obese country. one of the reasons for that is lifestyle. of course it would be great if people signed up for gym memberships of their own bat, but they are not. yes, don't sit there watching telly all the time. no, wait... doesn't work, does it? don't forget, all the papers on the bbc website, where you can read a detailed review of the paper ‘s seven days a week. each night's edition of the papers is posted on the page shortly after it finishes, and it is on iplayer. thank you for coming in. hope we didn't put you off. the film review is coming up next. hello there, and welcome to the film review on bbc news.

taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. what do we have this week? we have victoria and abdul in whichjudi dench returns to the role of queen victoria. we have the villainess, an insanely kinetic action movie. and mother, darren aronofsky‘s crowd—dividing epic. victoria and abdul, yet another film about victoria, and of coursejudi dench. yes. because she was in mrs brown, about victoria's friendship with john brown, her ghillie. this is about a later life friendship with abdul karim, which i have to say i didn't know about. the story is that he is brought over from india, first to perform an official ceremony. she is lonely at the beginning of the film. we see her being isolated, cut off from her surroundings.

and she immediately forms a bond, a friendship, with him. much to the outrage of firstly her son, bertie, played by eddie izzard, and all the attendant officials. here's a clip. but the piece de resistance is the peacock throne. an exact copy. now i really do feel like the empress of india. i thought she was supposed to be dying. it really is a remarkable addition to the house, your majesty. we have abdul to thank for the whole idea. to celebrate, a little surprise for your majesty. what is this? a mango, your majesty. one moment, your majesty. it's... off.

sir henry, this mango is off. it looks like a terrific performance as usual from judi dench. yes, and ali fazal is very good as abdul as well. it's a very likeable film not least because the performances are very likeable. from the outside it looks rather fluffy. it looks like a good—looking film that will appeal to the people that loved mrs brown, also people who went to see the best exotic marigold hotel, which was such a big hit. you scratch the surface however and it is a more serious film underneath about an indian muslim's very close friendship with the monarch who is head of the church of england, and what you find is that they have a huge amount in common. that they have enormous shared interests. and theirfriendship becomes something which, because everybody else around is so concerned by it, seems to threaten the stability. in fact it is actually giving her a great solace and comfort. i think the real scene stealer for me is adeel akhtar, who plays abdul‘s sidekick, unwitting sidekick. and he was so great in the big sick.

and here he plays a character, he is an incidental character, who doesn't really want to get involved in all this. at first this character is comic and has an element of pathos and then later on this character becomes the voice of subdued anger underneath the film. it is something which is enjoyable. it is fairly broadly played. it says at the beginning it is inspired by real events, mostly. although weirdly enough some of the things that you think must be dramatic do actually turn out to be true. but it's funny. it's very well played. the cast are enjoying themselves. i don't think it's earth—shattering by any means but it does have a serious story underneath it. 0k. and if you're looking for something rather different, totally different, it is the villainess, i suppose, about a trained assassin. yes, the villainess is an absolutely insane south korean action movie about a femme fatale who is forcefully recruited

at a young age to become a trained killer. in the opening scene there is a sequence in which she makes her way through a building full of baddies which makes the corridor sequence from oldboy look like some kind of low—key character study. there is a very similar narrative to nikita, the idea of somebody who was taken at a young age who is trained. in fact there is a scene in the villainess which very specifically seems to recall the bathroom scene from nikita. the film has an operatic narrative. it is something which is histrionic, it is overcooked. the plot is labyrinthine and occasionally you can't follow the plot. but you can always follow the fight sequences because they are choreographed so well. it is a film with real visual panache. i sat there in a screening room with people who were gasping. apparently when it played the festival circuit it was getting standing ovations and you can see why because it is choreographed with real visceral power. it's called the villainess. and it is quite something. did you gasp? everyone else was gasping. idid.

the opening sequence, it is turned up to ii and then some. bear in mind this is the week in which darren aronofsky‘s mother comes to cinemas. everybody will know that this has caused an awful lot of controversy. darren aronofsky, who made black swan, which i know you are a big fan of. yes, fantastic. it was a big hit. i have to say black swan was rather more accessible than this. this basically as an archetypal story. jennifer lawrence is the mother of the character. she is a woman living with her older husband, a poet, played byjavier bardem, in this remote house which she is doing up, which she is trying to turn into a paradise for both of them. he is blocked. he is a writer but he can't write. and then at the door turns up ed harris who then also brings with him his wife, played by michelle pfeiffer, who is garrulous and garish,

and immediately starts to invade their privacy. bardem's character is absolutely thrilled. jennifer lawrence's character is not pleased. here is a clip. why don't you want kids? excuse me? you are not going to be so young forever. have kids. then you'll be creating something together. that's what keeps a marriage going. this is alljust setting. oh, you do want them. a great director, a great cast, a stellar cast, i have to say. is it a great film? it is an extremely polarising film. what happens is it turns from a paranoid nightmare, something like rosemary's baby, into something closer to apocalypse now, a home invasion movie. it's very allegorical. on the one hand you can see this invasion as the invasion of mother earth, being despoiled by mankind treating it badly. you can see it as a story about the way in which older men prey on younger women. you can also see it as a biblical story which has a creator, which has an adam and eve, which has a cain and abel, and obviously if you think about the director, he made noah, he took the book of genesis and turned it into a story

with a bunch of fighting rock monsters. it is an extreme cinema experience. whilst i was watching it i found myself feeling profoundly claustrophobic. so much of the film is right on jennifer lawrence's face. you see everything from her point of view. it is subjective cinema. it becomes more and more insane, crazy, over the top, moves towards a third act... there have been talks about walk—outs. you can either be disgusted and walk out, or laugh at the film, or laugh with the film. it is a garish black comedy and everything is massively over cranked. whilst i was watching it i found it very oppressive. but with distance i started to see more and more things in it. i'm very impressed by it. it really does grab you. it never lets you go. i cannot say it is a pleasant viewing experience because it doesn't. it's incredibly intense.

darren panofsky has referred to exterminating angel as an influence but horror fans will see david lynch and david cronenberg. there is... it is a very full on experience that will leave you massively disorientated and you need to give yourself at least a week afterwards before deciding what to think about it. and i'm not kidding. it is a week it will take to settle down. i thought you were going to say to take a week off work. all right. let's talk about the best out at the moment. i really like it. as you probably know this has become a record—breaking horror success though it's more of a horror adventure than a horror. based on a novel by stephen king. there was a tv miniseries before. this works because of the affection for the losers, the central misfit kids, they take us on this journey. it is a film that references the goonies. references to poltergeist. people who are fans of stranger things will find an awful lot in it. when it needs to be scary it has some scares. it is much more

a coming—of—age adventure. which is true of much of stephen king's writing. and it has a terrific incarnation of pennywise the clown which i think gives tim currry‘s version of pennywise, which i thought was definitive, a run for its money. it is very good. it is very enjoyable. it is a real roller—coaster ride. and best dvd? a very impressive british film called chicken. it is directed byjoe stephenson. it is a story about a young man who is trying to find his place in a world which is often very hostile. there are certain elements of ken loach‘s kes there. it was one of those films i knew nothing about before i saw it and it really drew me in. as i said — a small film but with a big heart and lots of ambition. it is very touching and affecting and i really liked it. it's called chicken and it's well worth checking out. all right.

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night, with temperatures in the countryside a degree or so above freezing for a few spots. so a chilly start to sunday, with some —— monday, with some mist and fog. it should be improving. scattered showers, mostly the central and eastern parts. further west, you are more likely to stay dry. a fine day per northern ireland, 15 to 18 degrees the temperatures. a bit of rain moving south overnight into tuesday, but clear skies once again and a chilly start the tuesday morning. tuesday should be a fine day. fewer showers than we have seen recently, easing away from the east. either winds, more sunshine and it should be a little bit warmer as well. top temperatures by tuesday around 15 to 18 degrees. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: the un warns of a "horrible tragedy" for rohingya muslims, and says myanmar has one last chance to halt the offensive against them. the chances of a military operation

in myanmar is reaching its natural. as far as the burmese are concerned, these people are a historical problem that's now been fixed. could the us reverse its policy on climate change? secretary of state rex tillerson says it's "open" to staying in the paris agreement. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. the governing party in pakistan celebrates after the wife of the ousted prime minister, nawaz sharif, wins a by—election