on some international. and in use on some big names returning to the manchester united squad with arsenal and tottenham getting the day's premier league action underway in the north london derby. now, 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 film stars don't die in liverpool with annette bening. batman and wonder woman aback. and mudbound. interesting this week. the

first film is set in the 1970s. based on the memoir by peter turner. late 1970s, early 1980s. annette is great. jamie bell, struggling actor, becomes infatuated with her. they are sharing digs in primrose hill. he is bewitched. hey. you are the next—door guy, right? which makes you the girl next door. she laughs. hey, have you seen the movie saturday night fever? yes, i have seen it. actually, i have saw it three times. oh, you like disco dancing?

oh, god, like drunk dancing. so if i make you a drink, you will come into my room and hustle with me? i need a partner for my dance class. i mean, if you fix me a drink, i will come in and clean your bathroom. huh. i already love it. real chemistry between them. the film divides its time between the story of the rise and fall of their relationship and they few years later on when she falls ill and calls upon him to bring her back to liverpool because she thinks she will get better in liverpool. warmth, wit, real compassion by paul mcguigan. i love the way they start is the slipping back and forth in time. the performances were really wonderful. and it is transfixing, you believe

in heras and it is transfixing, you believe in her as someone with a real movie star passed. the voice she has a —— adopted as marilyn monroe. she is referred to as the other blonde, marilyn monroe. watch the film does is make them feel like equals. genuinely in love with each other. despite the very big age gap. interestingly, the film inverts the usual age — gender relationship. it does not make a big deal of it. a moment early on, she says she wants to playjuliet. he says, do not you mean the major? she says, do you see mean the major? she says, do you see me as an old woman? i think and that's's performance is brilliant. it is oscar time. it is really, really good but a lot of it is to do with the direction, attention to period detail. if you have a period

setting and people gets things wrong, it takes you out of it. i thought it was charming, sweet, i was moved by it, it was touching, a beautiful love story. there were times it's reminded me of the film—making of terence davies because i love terence davies and do not say that likely. i think you will like film stars don't die in liverpool. i am a fan of her. batman and wonder woman need to assemble a new team. this had a troubled production history, justice wonder woman was doing well, the

darker ones weren't doing so well, making batman and robin look shakespearean. the film was two hours and 50 minutes long, someone said it was a mistake, it is two hours, it felt like 12. it felt like the director's cut of heaven's gate without the scenery. there is too much and too little for them to do, no reason to care about anyone. everyone appears to be indestructible and able to fly or fall with style, as they say in toy story, and it is a hodgepodge. with so much stuff in it, it is stunningly dull. really, really turgid, boring, and at no point does the film—making lift itself. you wa nt to the film—making lift itself. you want to be engaged, absorbed in the fa ntasy. want to be engaged, absorbed in the fantasy. i spent the whole of it thinking, how we nearly there yet?

started, went on, it stopped. the other thing, you have to wait to the end credits, one of those movies one character i was thrilled was not in the film, and at the end of the end credits, they were. two hours of your life you are never getting back. but what about mudbound? a novel by hillaryjordan, it is from. two families, their lives and fortu nes two families, their lives and fortunes intertwine. the main character goes off to fight in world war ii. heroic service, returns to mississippi to discover that nothing is changed. you use the back door. come on, son. son, we don't want no trouble here. go on. you know what, you are absolutely right. when we was overseas, they didn't make us use the back door.

general patton put us on the front line. yes, sir. you know what we get? you know what we did? we kicked the hell out of hitler and them gerries. while y'all at home, safe and sound. what i like about this, the tension in that scene is really well done. the film covers some events and actions which are horrible, tough, but it has a genuine poetry to it. we hear the voices of several different characters telling their story. the film is keen to look at a story. the film is keen to look at a story from different angles, beautifully shot by morrison. wonderfuljob with the photography. you feel the land, environment, you feel the mud of the mudbound title. not a foot foot wrong. the film

manages to bring you into the world, intertwine personal and political stories about racial and economic tension. was making it feel as if it isa tension. was making it feel as if it is a personal story. it is difficult to do that without feeling like you are doing it. with this, you are involved in the lives of the characters, you see the personal and political intertwine. the people who say it is remarkable but actually to leak? is that unfair? i do not agree. there is genuine poetry in it. not just the agree. there is genuine poetry in it. notjust the lyricism of the visuals, but the way the film is constructed. i know a lot of people will end up seeing it at home because of the netflix release. it is not too bleak. it has heart, tenderness, a poetic quality which is key to the film. make sure you

see it on the big screen? if you can. have you seen this? the florida project. a family living on the poverty line, motels beyond the walls of disney world. naturalistic performances, the world is seen through the view of a six—year—old. it manages to capture that child's eye perspective. yes, poverty, they live in a theme hotel, now a motel for people on minimum wage, struggling to make the rent. yet, it is summer break and these young kids are running around, it is a wonderland to them. the film reality of the economics but they are looking at it with children's eyes. some people have not got it and i am

surprised. it is one of the best i have seen this year and many people feel the same way. staying at home, one of the big hits of the summer?‘ lovely film. the sick a mystery illness lands the girlfriend in a medically induced coma. it does not sound like subject matter for comedy, but it manages to do with racial prejudice, arranged marriage and so on. you get to love the characters. it is laugh out loud funny. the comedy is born from the fa ct funny. the comedy is born from the fact that you recognise the characters, they are not living in the sun completely unbelievable environment, you believe in the situation they are in. it is well played. i laughed all the way through but i was moved by it, it

has a melancholic edge to it. just another layer with the fact that, with a certain amount of poetic license, it is based on a true story, and he is doing that really well. i am going home with your review ofjustice league. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. these days are getting shorter, perfect weather to snuggle up and watch a good movie. particularly

when you have had a cold start of the day. this was the story first thing, frosty, mist around, we closed the day after some glorious clear blue skies and lovely sunshine toa clear blue skies and lovely sunshine to a stunning sunset across parts of northamptonshire. amazing weather watcher pictures. and some nuisance showers. significant ones across the far north and west. clusters of thunder in there. some sleet and snow to high ground. the showers will continue through the night. pushing their light steadily across the far north of scotland. elsewhere, some clearer skies particularly in sheltered eastern areas. by the end of the night, slightly milder start to the day. more anyway of cloud, pushing in from the far south—west. bringing sunlight, patchy rain to centre where were starting to south—west england. eventually masking early morning sunshine in the south east. it could turn out a grey, drab,

disappointing afternoon for some of us. not too much rain, the odd spit here and there. in the car, quite cool especially if you do not get sunshine. io cool especially if you do not get sunshine. 10 degrees the high. sunshine northern england, ireland, south of scotland. keeping the risk ofa south of scotland. keeping the risk of a stronger breeze into the north and a few scattered showers, but generally not bad, cold with it, i've had and six at best. clear skies continue, right down through the spine of the country and further ease, cold, frosty, quite a cold start to sunday morning. with the exception again the south—west, the reason being that is where the milderair is reason being that is where the milder air is going to sit with us for much of the weekend. not making much of an impression other than across northern ireland, south—west england into sunday. quite a lot of car but not as cold. clear skies,

more breeze into the ease, but not a sad day for many of us on sunday. dry, sunny weather, 5—6 the further ease could be 9—12. how long will the mild weather set out to the west? well, you can find more details of that later on the news channel with nick miller. we have been, actually, offering some quite creative compromises. we haven't always got that back. criticism from ireland, which demands a written guarantee there won't be a physical border with northern ireland. it's 18 months since the referendum, it's ten years since people who wanted a referendum started agitating for one. sometimes it doesn't seem like they thought all this through. what chance now that the northern ireland border plus the other key issues will be resolved in time for trade talks to start next month? also tonight: a number of people are feared dead after a light aircraft and a helicopter collide in midair.

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