yes, i heard a male and then a female state about how you don't need to say anything, you just need to wear something that looks attractive and just stand there. and it was very interesting hearing it from a woman, which i think as a female is kind of relatable. ok, so thought—provoking and relatable. thank you so much. and now it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week? we have blade runner 2049, the eagerly awaited sequel to blade runner. the glass castle, starring brie larsen. and the mountain between us with idris elba and kate winslet. now, blade runner 2049,

the replicants are back. people are saying this is as much a classic as the original. how do you see it? i went in in a state of extreme trepidation because i love blade runner, the final cut, the proper version. i went into this very worried about it. it's set 30 years after the first film. in the first film harrison ford was a blade runner, hunting down and retiring replicants. now, ryan gosling as k is carrying on that profession. early on in the film one of his targets says, he can only do it because he has never seen a miracle, a phrase he doesn't understand, but he comes to during the course of the movie. as he does so, he starts to wonder about his profession, hisjob, his past and his identity. inevitably, his assignment leads him on to the trail of harrison ford's deckard. here's a clip. what are you doing here? i heard the piano.

don't lie. it's rude. you're a cop. i'm not here to take you in. oh, yeah? then what? ijust have some questions. a lot of praise for harrison ford's performance. i think harrison ford is great, but the key performance is denis villeneuve, the director, who has done a brilliantjob of following on the themes of the original blade runner. ridley scott's blade runner had visual awe, and thanks to some fantastic cinematography from roger deakins, this takes your breath away visually. it's spectacular, depicting a world that appears to go on for ever, completely immersive, you can totally believe in it. it also has a groaning, roaring soundtrack that dances around memories of the original

vangelis score. most importantly, it has the confidence to take its time telling the story. the original story, although it was science fiction, it was about what it meant to be human and what memories do in the formation of our personality. how do we define our identity? big science—fiction ideas. blade runner 2049 says these are the ideas that matter and we will run with them. 30 minutes into the film, when i realised it really did have the confidence to take its time and pace itself, i heaved a sigh of relief because i was so glad that denis villeneuve had taken the spirit of the original. i have seen it twice now. the first time i was knocked out by the way it looks and sounds, the way it was as a cinema experience. the second time around, what was fascinating was the way it became a melancholy experience. it's a film steeped in sadness, the "tears in rain", the key element of the original blade runner. if you're a fan, a genre movie fan,

and blade runner is important to you, as it is to me and a lot of people, we really wanted the sequel to be good, but everyone was scared because where do we take the story and how will you not trip up. that sense of palpable relief and ecstatic excitement, that not only has denis villeneuve understood, loved and paid homage to the original, he has also moved it on and made a modern science—fiction classic. it looks back to metropolis, taking its place in the pantheon alongside films like 2001, and i don't say this lightly, it's a film that blade runner deserved to have come after it. i just thought it was wonderful. we have clearly seen the original, we are of that age. do you have to have seen the original to enjoy this? my own feeling would be, if you haven't seen the original, go and see it because it's a really important film. but i think you do have to see the original. heaven knows it's available

in enough different versions. seven versions, i've read. you have to see ridley scott's final cut version that sorts out all the little problems. because then the experience of seeing 2049 will be so much richer because you will understand the resonance of things that happen in the latter third of the film. and who wouldn't want to see blade runner again? exactly. the glass castle, brie larsen and woody harrelson. based on a memoir by jeannette walls. she is a successful gossip columnist, brie larsen, engaged to a financial adviser. going home in a taxi, she sees her parents, woody harrelson and naomi watts, crawling around in dumpsters looking for trash. it flashes back to her itinerant upbringing. her mother was an artist more interested in paintings than cooking food for the kids. herfather was a rebel, believing in building the glass castle, but also a belligerent bully and drunk. the film flips backwards and forwards between the present—day story and the past. it's not an entirely happy marriage.

it's directed by destin daniel cretton, who worked with brie larsen on the independent hit short term 12, which announced brie larsen to the world. she is very good, but not in the most important part of the film. the most important part of the film is the story of the character when she is much younger, growing up with these parents who are totally reckless in their parenting and have this hippy ideal of how you should raise kids, but the kids are in danger, bullied, and deprived in some ways. i kept wanting the film to come together more than it does, but it has very solid performances. it's directed with heart, but it's not quite dramatically pulling itself together for me. the mountain between us, kate winslet and idris elba. a survival story and love story. two for the price of one. a snowstorm, they both need to get somewhere so they charter a small plane that goes into the side of the mountain.

they are stranded there, no record of theirflights, no food or phone signal. apparently they have nothing in common. here's a clip. are you 0k? a few bruises and scratches. couple of cracked ribs, i got lucky. you didn't file a flight plan? no. there was radio contact. how long has it been? 36 hours. we've got plenty of water, as long as we can melt the snow. four packets of almonds, a couple of candy bars, half eaten sandwich and some cookies. what kind of cookies? what? joke. did it grip you?

the problem, will they survive, will they run out of food or will a relationship develop? the plane crash reminded me of the film alive, as did the setup, but it turns into alive actually. it's a strange hybrid. it has two very solid performances from idris elba and kate winslet, but it never convinces me of their circumstances. i never felt they were genuinely endangered. it walked a very strange path between being one kind of movie and another kind of movie. directed by hany abu—assad, a terrific director. some individual scenes work well, but it is at its strongest when it deals with the idea of what will people do when they are in isolation, trying to survive, when they aren't sure they will be going back to the real world. it works less well when it's dealing with other things and trying to be something that is closer to a disaster movie, survival movie and romance movie. one of those three elements will not

necessarily gel with the rest. it's not bad, but it's just not convincing. alive actually, i'm sure movie producers are thinking of that concept and drawing up a script as we speak. maybe that was it. what is best out at the moment? they have rereleased the coen brothers' film blood simple from the early 19805. the coen brothers did a director's cut that was shorter than the original, which i am all in favour of. it's been reissued in a 4k transfer, and it's every bit as thrilling as it was when it first came out. it's a neo—noir, double—crossing, dirty thriller, and genuine horror. i first saw it in a double bill with one of sam raimi's evil dead films. the coens and raimi were good friends. the coen brothers went on to make fargo and no country for old men. you remember how thrilling, dark and strange this was when it first came out. and knowing what the coen brothers went on to do, it's interesting to see the seeds of those ideas

in blood simple. it's well worth seeing in the cinema. and on dvd? wonder woman. for me, it's that rarest of things, a modern superhero movie that i really had fun with and enjoyed. i think pattyjenkins did a terrificjob of taking this character and giving her a whole new screen life. when you think of how dreary and boring batman versus superman was, this feels lively and vibrant and different. it feels like it's taking an idea and running with it in a way that opens it up to a whole new audience. i remember sitting in the cinema when i first saw this and you could feel people enjoying the movie. there was none of that ponderous chin stroking. the movie wasjumping off the screen and i think it's really good, wonder woman. i missed it at the cinema so i'm looking forward to it.

you have to see it on a big television screen. i will come round your place! a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online. that's it for this week, thank you very much for watching and goodbye from us. yesterday we had a great sunset and this evening especially across england and wales, another cracker, so we england and wales, another cracker, so we will start with a weather watch picture taken a ago, this was in devon. it is so colourful because the sun was setting beneath this high cloud that has been spilling down into england and wales and further north the cloud is thicker and more extensive, coming around these whether —— whether

we are seeing the wind picking up as well, it will be much milder than it was last night. it leads into what looks like a fairly cloudy weekend, and there will be rain around, that is more likely on saturday, it should be brighter on sunday. maybe more sunshine, but i cloudy start to the weekend. especially across southern parts of the uk. beginning to brighten up a touch across mid and north wales, into the midlands, parts of northern england, already a few showers on the scene, and it is wetter further north for northern ireland and scotland. some of the showers could be heavy in northern scotland. through the day, the showers in scotland and northern ireland become lighter, it should be turning brighter with sunshine across sheltered eastern scotland as

the showery band works its way south, we still have the rain through the english channel and the far south—west of england, but it gets milder. decent temperatures on saturday but blustering winds, they eased down overnight, taking the rain cleared of the south west of england, but around the high—pressure we still have a good deal of cloud on sunday. still a few nuisance showers, notably across western scotland, some getting as far as the midlands, but for eastern parts of england and scotland they should be largely dry, with a bit more sunshine, temperatures similar to saturday. looking into next week, everything coming from the atlantic, but moving in more quickly, the front dual weakening as they go across the uk, so the winds will be weakening. the wettest weather will

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