social media. completely premature panic. i don't think that happened this time. i think it was over too quickly. it was a uber driver. you know more than us. i watch the news! iamjust know more than us. i watch the news! i am just reading that the horse is a muslim, that must have led to panic —— the boss of the venue is a muslim. he spoke to us. he was very helpful. thank you very much to both of you. we will try and work out the story on the front page of the sun. i was pregnant women, i will say that. don't forget all the front pages are online on the bbc news website where you can read a detailed review of the papers. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and you can see us there too — with each night's edition of the papers being posted

on the page shortly after we've finished. thank you yasmin and ruth. next it's 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? well, we have the death of stalin, the new film by armando ianucci. we have a really lovely musical drama called secret superstar. and in my project to get you to like horrorfilms, happy death day! ten out of ten for persistence!

i'm nothing if not persistent! the death of stalin, there couldn't be a more starry cast for sure. an extraordinary cast. this is armando iannucci's latest project, we know him from the thick of it and veep. now taking his political scalpel to russia. 1953, stalin collapses in the kremlin and is found in what is referred to as "a pool of indignity." immediately, his cronies gather round, played by simon russell beale, steve buscemi, paul whitehouse. take a look at a clip. the head is the heaviest part. all right, ready? three, two... one? lift? jesus. god! whoa! to me. this way. yeah, all right. are you wearing pyjamas? can we just stop twittering

like fishwives at the market and concentrate on... whoa, whoa! open the door! back up, back up, back. no, that way! get back to the kitchen now! move! now, now! he's heavier than i thought he'd be. he thinks stalin's too heavy. no, it's a compliment — gold is heavy. well, you'd know, you've looted enough of it, you flimsy little pirate! get back in the dining room! stop using his feet! now, we're both chuckling along. because it is very funny, and there is a great sense of farce about it, adapted from a series of french graphic novels, but it manages that extraordinary trick of being on the one hand funny but also horrifying. the dialogue is ripe with laugh out loud one—liners — "soviet planes don't crash!" "what plane crash? " "only comrades and old friends can shout at each other like this." but in the background is the spectre of torture and murder and worse, and i think that what iannucci manages to do is keep that darkness omnipresent.

so all the time this is playing out with a brilliant cast, really funny, nobody doing a cod russian accent, as you heard, everybody doing sort of a melange of accents. but you do get a sense that it is all unfolding against a background of genuine terror. at the beginning, paddy considine is broadcasting an orchestra recital, stalin rings up and says, "it sounds lovely, i want a recording," and they have to keep the orchestra behind to do it again, because they were not recording it. it gives you this sense that nobody can put a foot wrong because something terrible will happen. so everyone is terrified of saying the wrong thing, everyone except forjason isaacs, playing the red army hero zukhov, speaking in this broad yorkshire accent, very brash character, taking no—nonsense from anybody. on the one hand, it is historically interesting, it is also very funny, but a very dark, and i think it needs to be, because if it wasn't,

you would feel very uneasy about dealing with this particular part of history. i am curious about that, such a dark period, executions, famine, and yet i only saw the trailer at the cinema earlier this week and the trailer, to me, made it look quite a silly film. i thought, how can you make such a silly film about a dark period of history? i am wondering if the trailer is not representative of what you get. you have hit the nail on the head, the trailer is slightly misleading, and i understand why, you want to say this is a broad comedy, and there are a lot of laughs in the trailer. the film itself is a lot darker, a lot more horror underpinning it. there is a character played by michael palin who spends his entire time tying himself up in knots to make sure that he is following the right line, "what would stalin have wanted, what would the party have wanted?" it reminded me of his character in terry gilliam's brazil, which was also funny and horrifying at the same time, and i thought

these two things were tonally rather similar. the tag line is, "a comedy of terrors", and the terror is not in the trailer, but it is in the film. ok, armando iannucci can do no wrong in my book. and he hasn't done any here. your second choice of the week. so secret superstar, which i loved. laughter and tears, hindi treat, which combines the teen fantasy of hannah montana with a strong social—realist message dealing with domestic abuse, divorce law, gender—selective pregnancy termination and more. a young girl dreams of taking part in a talent competition, but her father is abusive, he beats her mother, so her mother gets a laptop and says, "why don't you put your songs on youtube?" she has to hide behind a burkha to cover her face. next thing, she becomes an internet sensation, this secret superstar, but she still has to deal with the stuff that is going on at home, the mistreatment of her mother, she wants her parents to get divorced, and it manages brilliantly, on the one hand, fantastic

tunes and performances. aamir khan was wonderful, this slimy talent showjudge who, during the course of the movie, discovers there is more to life than self—serving success. i laughed, i cried, i absolutely loved it, i thought it was a really wonderfully well told story, a real girl—power story, absolutely about the relationship between mother and daughter, about triumphing over, you know, insurmountable odds. it has you punching the air at all the right moments, laugh out loud moments of comedy in it and the tunes were... i just loved it, it's called secret superstar, and i thought it was a real treat. good recommendation! your third choice... happy death day. it has done very well at the us box office. it has, it is a satirical horror movie, a college student wakes up in the dorm, she doesn't know how she got there. it's her birthday, people are organising secret parties, and things could not get worse until somebody wearing a baby mask chases her with a knife,

and she wakes up in the same dormitory and has to live the same day over and over. it's groundhog slay! look, i know this isn't going to make any sense, but i've already lived through this day. twice. tree, i... no, no, believe me, i know it sounds totally crazy, but this is happening to me, i swear to god. tree, i'm sure it feels like you're... ok, ok, you made me a cupcake — for my birthday, right? you're about to give it to me, and then later on tonight there's a surprise party. who told you? was it becky? no, nobody told me, that's what i mean, don't you see? i know what is going to happen before it happens! lori... lori, somebody's going to kill me tonight. because it's self—aware, people say, it's groundhog day meets scream, but you can look further back, as far back as happy birthday to me, even as far back

as the twilight zone. it's a simple idea, and an idea we have seen before, more than once, but it plays it well. it's got a tongue—in—cheek tone, not scary, i mean, there are chiller moments in it, as someone who see many slasher movies, i wasn't scared, but it dealt with the ideas well. it's made with real enthusiasm and real wit, and it's not surprising that it has proved a crowd pleaser. it's a proper popcorn movie, a friday night entertainment. i know you're not a horror movie fan, but i think you would enjoy it, you would appreciate the way it is put together, the fact that it's tongue in cheek but well done. give it a go! when you do your christmas review of the year, i want you to add up how many times you have said, "i think you will enjoy this horror film, jane!" it's not really horror, it's a satirical slasher. i hear you. so, best out? still blade runner.

two and three quarters hours, have you seen it yet? no, because it's nearly three hours! two and three—quarters, crucially not the same. you love blade runner, right? i will try and see it. it's wonderful, visually astonishing, denis villeneuve has done a terrificjob, it takes its time because it needs to, because it is dealing with big, serious issues. if you're a science—fiction fan, and i know you are not a huge fan, it is a world—building film, big ideas, not afraid of those ideas, and, frankly, when was the last time you saw a sequel to a really good film that didn't make you think, "i wish they hadn't done it"? that's true. they understand the film, the original writer for blade runner, hampton fancher, adapted from philip k dick's do androids dream of electric sheep?, he was the key writer, and you can tell it's about something. i think you'll love it, i genuinely think you'll like it. it is at least on my list, to be fair. dvd, for anyone who wants to say in?

gifted, a sweet film about a single parent raising a gifted young child, he wants her to have an ordinary life, but her pushy grandmother has got other ideas. it owes certain debt to a film byjodie foster called little man tate, which i liked. i went into this thinking that this was cheese on toast, but i really liked it, really well played, just the right amount of sentimentality, and there was something a little bit more astringent in there as well, terrific performances, and it's a real heart—warmer. mostly, when people say that movies are heart—warming, they don't mean that, theyjust mean they are cheesy, but this won me over, and no one was more surprised than i, i thought i would hate it, but i really liked it. plenty to go and see this week, mark, thank you. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous

programmes on the iplayer. that's it for this week, though. goodbye. the somewhat horror show that has been the weather in the last week now changing into a much quieter sequel for the week ahead, still going to be changeable, still being driven by low pressure bringing france are a but lighter winds. i think oakley and improvement over almost all of us. chilly outside at the moment to the north and east, clear skies and light winds. further west already more cloud coming in and outbreaks of rain, the breeze picking up and it's this weather front courtesy of the low pressure

which will set the tone. bit of early brightness in the east, make the most of it if you get it because the most of it if you get it because the cloud and rain will come piling in pretty quickly but that said it brightens quickly behind the front, not a bad day to come here, much better afternoon for scotland and northern england, wales and the midlands two. look at the difference in temperatures, after a chilly sunday and much milder monday. welcome to newsday. the headlines. shinzo abe declares victory in his country's snap election and pledges to reverse the country's pacifist constitution. the us secretary of state rex tillerson says all foreign fighters battling islamic state in iraq should not leave the country. the world health organisation

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