and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. the ftse 100 closed for a the ftse100 closed for a record high for the second time in a month. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review with jane hill and mark kermode. 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? so we have kenneth branagh‘s take on murder on the orient expression. killing a sacred deer from yorgos lanthimos. and the bad mums are back in bad mom's christmas.

it is that time of year. it is. let's start with murder on the orient expression. had just a bit of publicity, people probably know it is out. you would be hard—pressed to avoid it. it has been on the big screen and small screen before, there was an early 70s version, so this is the new version directed by kenneth branagh who stars as hercule poirot with the most unbelievable twin layers moustache. the moustache should get a billing of its own. he is travelling from istanbul to calais, on the train. he has to get somewhere but once he gets on, something is going to happen, there is a virtual cluedo board of famous people. so we have derekjacobi, willem dafoe, damejudi dench, michelle pfeiffer and johnny depp as a gangster. something is going to happen.

here is a clip. well, hello. eyes linger any longer, i'll have to charge rent. i'll pay. have another drink. are you insulted? disappointed. some men have a good look. all they have to do is keep their mouths shut and they can take home any prize they want. still, the mouth opens. he sniffs. mm... i don't know why i am laughing.

i don't think i am meant to. you are. there is lot of scenery chewing. there are scenes of hercule poirot, eating chocolate cake, enjoying it and so have the cast. they are sinking their teeth into the scenery. a murder is committed. everyone is a suspect. everyone has secrets and everyone has to be interrogated. what i like about this, and i did like it, is firstly it is old fashioned entertainment. i remember seeing the 7a version and with this, i knew the story, i know some people won't — if you don't you are in for a treat because it is a real swiss watch kind of constructed mechanism. but the whole thing takes place on the train, and it is shot in 65mm. the camera sashays up and down the train, outside and inside. you get this wonderful overhead shot, there is a sequence in which we discover the victim's body. it is like they have gone to every possible end to make the most visually of this confined space. some of the exterior shots look

like the polar express. what i liked about it was the cast, they all get what kind of movie they are in. they are playing ripe characters, it is thumbnail sketches. branagh is enjoying himself enormously. he likes the character of hercule poirot. hercule poirot is a perfectionist, he is a bit obsessive, he keeps trying to straighten people's ties, he says i see the world as it should be and i can't relax if something is out of kilter. you have to go into this thinking it is an agatha christie, there is... does it need to be remade? it looks beautiful but i don't know... does that matter? i thought it was big screen entertainment, like a variety show, the train becomes a stage, we have famous stars come on, do their bit — i really enjoyed it. i went in feeling trepidatious, smiled all the way through

and despite the fact i know the plot, i thought its revelations were handled well. i know some critics have been sniffy about it. it's a solid piece of old fashioned entertain. it looked good. it looks really good, that is not a little thing. 0k. the killing of a sacred deer. i mean, i have seen the trailer so many times and i am terrified by that. that really look good but terrifying. yorgos lanthimos, he has worked in black comedy before, this is something more disturbing, colin farrell is a heart surgeon, he has a perfect life. he has a glamorous house and two lovely children. he has a strange relationship with a teenager called martin who turns up at work. at first he seems to be innocent but then he starts to look like a young norman bates. there is a hint of we need

to talk about kevin, the story is becoming a weirdly surreal revenge drama. you start laughing, or you would, then it starts moving into the territory of the shining. there are cameras creeping through corridors, we look to some extent towards a film like haneke‘s funny games which is painful to watch. the thing i like about it, and yorgos lanthimos would like, i spent the film not knowing where it was going. yes, it is a horror movie on one level, on one level it is saw for the upmarket, art house crowd. on another level it's a strange distance black comedy. you never quite relax into it. i felt very uneasy and i have thought a lot about it since i saw it. is there going to be a recommendation for bad mom's christmas? three women decide to rebel against the tyranny of being

a super mum with the help of swearing and alcohol. along comes christmas, this time they rebel against the tyranny of the most stressful time of the year. here is a clip. i'm just like a giant stress ball from november to new year's. ijust want to enjoy christmas again. yeah... well, then let's do it. what? guys, what is wrong with us? have we learnt nothing? we are mothers, and if things are not going our way, then what do we do? we hide in the bathroom. no. we don't, we don't do that. we stand up and we fight back. yes. so, if we want to do christmas our way this year, then we're going to do christmas our way. i laughed during that clip. when i saw the first one, i went along, low expectations and i enjoyed it. in the case of this same thing,

i went along thinking i enjoyed the first one and it was nothing like as funny, it is not because this time the bad mums are having to deal with their own bad mums so it is like three separate stories. that said, i counted how many times i laughed and i laughed seven times. i have a six laugh rule. if you laugh six times it is officially a comedy, and yes, it is all over the place, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't have anything like the simplicity of the first one, but i kind of laughed. i liked the characters, it is very very much a retread of the only thing, once again the solution involves alcohol and swearing but i would be lying if i said i didn't laugh. that is christmas! best out is a rerelease? so very, the remake of wages of fear — it did really badly a0 years ago and nobody got to see it. now it is back and it is one

of the most brutal, gruelling, visceral american action movies of the 70s. it is an extraordinary piece of work, you need to see it on the big screen. it is coming out on blu—ray on monday. if you get a chance to see this film projected. score by georges auric, it is a brilliant cinema experience. a brilliant cinema experience. i was about to say i am going to borrow your blu—ray, you are saying watch it on the big screen? you need to see it on a big screen, this is a film they worked out, two—years in the making, and then it came out and it came out the same time as star wars, they didn't want a gruelling visceral thriller, that, you know, a story that starts at a point of no hope and goes downhill from there. 0k. dvd for anyone who wants to stay in? it comes at night, it is a chiller. it is a story in a nearfuture in which a virus has attacked mankind. ourfamily are hiding in a cabin the woods.

it comes at night, but actually the danger is from within. it is about people turning on each other, distrusting each other, paranoia, it has a lot to say about the modern political landscape and it is not a film that relies on gory shock, it has an atmosphere of creeping dread. i have brought a dvd for you, you are going to like horror films in the very near future. you have said woods, cabins and paranoia, you do that deliberately. in a subtle way. that subtle paranoia i love. thank you. it is my early christmas present. it is a delight. thank you. try harder next week. you can find all our previous

programmes on the iplayer as well. i've got a fun week ahead! thanks for watching, enjoy your cinema going. goodbye. it's not an atmosphere of creeping dread but there is a lot going on in our atmosphere this weekend. we start with some wetter weather arriving now, and we will see a turning colder over the weekend with a mixture of sunshine and showers. that follows the rain we have got developing at the moment that will be around for the early part of the weekend. it is two areas of cloud, one from the south from the northwest, combining, thickening with rain developing widely. there it is later this evening. turning quite heavy at times across in wales, clearer skies and showers coming back into scotland and northern ireland where it turns a

little bit cooler. pretty mild underneath that cloud and rain, maybe some hill fog around as well. quite a wet start on saturday morning, this rain moving east, it will still be raining across lincolnshire, east anglia, the south—east in the morning, that rain has a bit of a bite to it for while. then we get the cloud breaking up further westward showers already arriving around some of these irish sea coasts running into the northwest of england. a decent dave eastern scotland, sunshine, but lots of showers in the west and increasingly across northern ireland where it will feel quite cold. cold enough perhaps for some wintry nest in those showers in the highlands. rain in those showers in the highlands. ra i n clears in those showers in the highlands. rain clears away from east anglia and the south—east, it does finally fade. cloud lingers. showers pushing their way east, but sunshine as well, the bulk of the showers naturally north—westerly wind up towards western scotland and northern ireland. temperatures 9 degrees if you are lucky, 1a if you are lucky in the south, but it will be turning colder through the

evening. for bonfires and fireworks, we have showers toward the west, clearer skies for many eastern areas ona clearer skies for many eastern areas on a chilly start to sunday morning. some showers mainly running across northern ireland, wales and the south—west, some clipping the north sea coasts for the showers become fewer during the day we get more sunshine around but it does not do wonders for the temperature. eight to 10 degrees typically. it will feel chilly. with the showers fading and skies clearing, frosty weather in the morning. a cold start to the new week. high pressure responsible for removing those showers, but into that this weather system arrives slowly on monday, pushing east on tuesday. from monday we will see some quite heavy rain developing and northern ireland and western scotland. further south and east across england and wales after that cold start it may well be a dry day with sunny skies of the south—east and averagesjust with sunny skies of the south—east and averages just about into double figures. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa barak. the headlines at nine. labour's kelvin hopkins

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