at will come back to the papers at 11:30, so much more to talk about! more news coming up at the top of the hour, for now, it is 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. so, mark, what do we have this week? we have blade runner 2049, the eagerly awaited sequel to blade runner. the glass castle, starring brie larson. 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 forever, 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. about 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 clearly taken the spirit of the original. i have seen it twice now. the first time, i was just 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 idea "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 you 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 larson and woody harrelson. based on a memoir by jeannette walls. it opens on a successful gossip columnist, played by brie larson, 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 movie flips backwards and forwards between the present—day story and the past. i have to say it's not an entirely happy marriage. it's directed by destin daniel cretton, who worked with brie larson brilliantly on the independent hit short term 12,

which really announced brie larson 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—dippy 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 a 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 couple of bruises, a few scratches. couple of cracked ribs, i got lucky. the pilot... he didn't file a flight plan? no. but 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, a half—eaten sandwich and some cookies. what kind of cookies? what? joke. did it grip you, did it grab 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 generic 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. based on a book by chris martin. 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 think they will never get 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 1980s. 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 tricks, some 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. watching this now, 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 terrific job of taking this character and giving her a whole new screen life. when you think of how dreary and boring batman v superman was, how much of a plod it felt, 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! we'll do it this weekend, marvellous. a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online, and you can find all the previous episodes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week,

thank you very much for watching and goodbye from us. hello. as is often the way of it at this time of year, the day was a mixed bag of weather across the british isles. at best, a bit like this, but there were not enough scenes like this to rescue the day which was, for the most part, really rather cloudy. some of you saw quite a bit of rain as this weather front slumped into the heart of the british isles. that will peter away overnight, spotty showers behind it, not a particularly cold night, a new weather front close by to the south—west. i am hopeful about sunday, if only because i think more people will get to see more sunshine. it may not seem that way first thing, northern ireland rather overcast, bits and pieces of rain, the north—westerly breeze dragging cloud and rain down towards the north—west of england,

into the north of wales. generally speaking, further south and east, dry weather to start the day, all the while this weather front is there or thereabouts across the far southwest, so pretty leaden skies, bits and pieces of rain for a good part of the morning and perhaps more patchy into the afternoon. do you see what i mean about the chance of brightness? late on, the cloud and rain will fill in through the top end of northern ireland and into the western side of scotland. at its best, not a bad feel to the day, 17—18 perhaps. in the evening, cloud and rain fills in more extensively across northern and western parts of scotland, but it is a day for world cup qualifiers, wet in lithuania for england, slovenia versus scotland — well, you will not care whether it rains or shines

so long as the result is right. come monday, not a great deal of change, hints of brightness, signs of things to come however in this northwestern quarter, where more meaningful rain associated with a more active weather front will eventually slumped down and across all parts of the british isles, urged along by a rather noticeable westerly to north—westerly breeze. so yes, a spell of rain for many of us, but as it clears through, we move into something brighter, but just feeling perhaps that little bit fresher. bye— bye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: 1! people are injured in an accident outside london's natural history museum, after a car struck pedestrians. police say a man has been arrested following the incident, which they are treating as a road traffic accident. the prime minister says her thoughts are with the injured. tens of thousands take to the streets across spain,

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