tv The Film Review BBC News November 19, 2017 11:45pm-12:01am GMT
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at 6096 at 1.096 off, but at 6096 off, but when you marketed at 60% off, but when you look into it, it was only that higher price for 15 minutes on the previous friday. so it's basically a call on all of us to wise up and not necessarily get carried away with when we're told to shop and work out when‘s best to buy what you need. because this is which, the consumer group, who have looked at prices around black friday 2016 and monitored the prices up to black friday. do we need to be a little bit less gullible? i think we do, but there are some savvy shoppers out there. but yes, you're right, we all look at something and go — great, 40% off. but sometimes there's a little in the small print that will say — from this period to this period, at some point, it was this period, at some point, it was this price, so there's always been theissue this price, so there's always been the issue that the price had gone up and then they discounted it, so were you getting a good deal? just be careful what you wish for because it's not always correct. in two words, are you looking for anything on black friday? possibility! not saying what? possibility a phone! 0k, phone forjacqui. where will
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your bargain be? new tv to watch bbc favourites. you love it. lots of browny points. that's it for the papers. thanks to jacqui and henry. all the front pages are online on the bbc news website. you can read a detailed review of the papers all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co. uk slash papers. you can see us bbc.co. uk slash papers. you can see us each day there with each night there shortly after we've finished and giving henry a very large drink. thank you, that's it from us for tonight. coming up next, it's the film review. it is good to see you. to ta ke
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to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. we have film stars don't die in liverpool. a marvellous performance by annette bening. justice league. batman and wonder woman are back. and mudbound, a powerful drama set in 1960s mississippi. yeah, it is an interesting week. i'm dying to know what you think of ourfirst film. set in the ‘70s. yes. based on the memoir by peter turner. late 70s, early 80s. bening is superb as gloria grahame. jamie bell's character, a twentysomething actor becomes infatuated in the late ‘70s. he discovers they are sharing digs in this house in primrose hill
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and he is bewitched by her presence, as we all are. here is a clip. hey. you're the next—door guy, right? which makes you the girl next door. hey, have you seen the movie saturday night fever? yeah, actually, three times. so, you like disco dancing? oh, god. i like drunk dancing. so, if i make you a drink, do you want to be my partner for my dance class? if you fetch me a drink, i will clean your bathroom. i already love it. you can see there is real chemistry between them. the film divides its time between the story of the rise and fall of their relationship. and a few years later on, when she falls ill and calls on him
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to bring him back to liverpool, she feels she can get better in liverpool, it was directed with warmth and passion. paul mcguigan made a film called gangster number one at the turn of the century which was exciting. i love the slipping back and forth through time. the performances were wonderful. bening is transfixing. you believe in her as someone with a real film star past. the voice that she has adopted, the rest a touch of marilyn monroe. referred to as the other blonde. she was a movie star and had a movie star presence. what the film does is it makes them feel like they are genuinely in love with each other, despite a very big age gap. interestingly enough, what the film does is invert
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the usual age and gender relationship. it does not make a big deal out of it. there is a time when she says i want to playjuliet and he says do you mean the maid? she says to you see me as an old woman? and the lovely thing is he doesn't and editors the film and even the wii. i feel like her performance is brilliant. and there is a joke about that. i feel like the performance is brilliant. it is oscar time. a lot of it is to do with the attention to detail. it is really well done. if you have a period setting and people get things wrong, it takes you out. it is charming and sweet and i was moved by it. it is touching. a love story beautifully told. it reminded me of the film making of terence davies, and i don't say that lightly. i do not say that likely because i love him. yes. praise indeed. i think you will like it. it has everything. justice league. i know someone who wants to see this. it is big in our house.
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superman is dead and everyone is in mourning. batman needs a new team. they need to fight the villainous steppenwolf. aquaman, the flash, cyborg. this had a troubled history. personal tragedy meant the director had to step down and joss whedon stepped in. i think they did two months of free shoots. halfway through the reducers decided they had to make it less dark and more funny because wonder woman was doing well and dark ones were not doing well. it is a total mess. this makes batman and robin look positively shakespearean. before the screening started, i read on the internet it was two hours and 15 minutes. someone said that is a mistake. it felt like four hours. it felt like a directors cut without beautiful scenery. it has too many characters, and nothing for them to do. there is no reason to care about these indestructible people
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who can do anything. it is a complete hodgepodge. amazingly, for a film with so much stuff in it, it is stunningly dull. it is really, really turgid and boring. at no point does the film making lift itself. you want to be engaged and absorbed in the fantasy and i spent the whole time thinking "are we there?" it started and then it stopped and i left. you have to wait until the end credits. there was one character i was thrilled was not in the film and at the end they were. that is two hours of your life you will never get back. would you say the same for mudbound? i liked it. a very powerful drama set in 1960s mississippi. based on the novel by hillaryjordan. it follows two families whose lives and fortunes intertwine. one is jason mitchell.
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he goes off to fight in world war two. he returns to mississippi after the war to discover that nothing has changed. here is a clip. you used the back door. son, we don't want no trouble here. go on. you know what, you are right. when we were overseas, they did not make it used the back door. general patton put us on the frontline. yes, sir. do you know what we did? he kicked the hell out of hitler. you are all safe and sound because of that. what i like about this, you can tell from the scene, the tension in that scene is really, really well done. the film covers events and actions which are really horrible and really tough.
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but it has a genuine poetry to it. we hear the voices of several different characters telling their story. the movie is keen to tell the story from different angles. beautifully shot by rachel morrison. she does a greatjob with the cinematography. you can feel the land and the environment and the mud of the title. the entire ensemble, not a foot is put wrong. the film manages to bring you into the world and intertwine personal and political stories about racial and economic tension, but always making it feel like it is a personal story. and it is very difficult to do that without... you know, without feeling like you are doing it. with this, you really are involved in the lives of the characters and you feel the personal and political completely intertwined. as i said, it has a poetry to it. yeah, the people who say it is remarkable but actually too bleak, is that fair? i don't agree. there is genuine poetry.
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notjust in the lyricism of the visuals but in the way that the form is constructed. at home obviously i know a lot of people will sit with the netflix release. but i think you need to see it on the big screen if you can because it has real cinematic scope. and i don't think it is too bleak. it has heart and tenderness. it has a poetic quality which is key to the films. interesting. see it on the big screen. if you can. and next is florida project. you will love it. have you seen this yet? i have been away. i am a bit behind, it is fair to say. a great story about a family living on the poverty line in these motels beyond the walls of disneyland. it is like east of eden. it has naturalistic performances. the whole world is seen through the view of a six—year—old. the film manages to capture that child's prospective. yes, it is poverty in themed hotel which is now a motel for those on minimum wage.
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——a themed. and yet, it is summer break. these young kids are running around and to them, it is like wonderland. the film mixes economics with a child's eyes. some people did not get it at all and i am surprised. i think it is one of the best films this year and many people feel the same way. yes. if people want to stay at home they can watch this. one of the big hits of the summer. the big sick. it is a really lovely film. it is stirring and written by kumail nanjiani. it is inspired by a real—life story of him being unable to commit to his girlfriend until a mystery illness landed her in a medically—induced coma. it doesn't sell my perfect subject matter is a comedy. it is really funny and deals with subjects like commitment
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and racism and racial prejudice and arranged marriages. to do it all through these characters as well, who you get to like in love, i mean, it is genuinely laugh out loud funny. it is a movie where the comedy is born from the fact you recognise the characters and you are not living in a completely unbelievable environment. you believe in the situation they are in. i laughed all the way through but was also moved by the melancholic edge to it. it is all given another layer by the fact there is a certain amount of political licence to say it is based on a true story. —— poetic. he is telling his own story and doing it really well that is an interesting week. a really interesting week. and going now with your review ofjustice league. i have a domestic battle on my hands now withjustice league, though. see you next week to be lovely to see you. apart from that. a reminder that you will find more film reviews on the website.
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all previous programmes are on the iplayer. that is it for both of us this week. thank you forjoining us. goodbye. your latest live update. earlier this evening, places were freezing. the temperature heading up, already double figures across parts of south—west england. mild air moving in across the uk but with plenty of clout, outbreaks of rain. heaviest in the hills of north—west england and the west of scotland. notjust rain but snowed in the north of scotla nd rain but snowed in the north of scotland and could be slushy on the higher levels. the temperatures, as monday begins, the past three mondays have been below freezing and frosty start but not so tomorrow. across england, wales, northern ireland and even into southern scotland, double—figure temperatures. western scotland still
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on the chilly side. still some patchy rain for some of us, even into the afternoon. a few brighter brea ks to into the afternoon. a few brighter breaks to the east of high ground but don't expect much in the way of sunshine. do expect an much, much milderfeel sunshine. do expect an much, much milder feel to sunshine. do expect an much, much milderfeel to the sunshine. do expect an much, much milder feel to the weather, even across parts of scotland on tuesday but on tuesday, heavy rain in northern scotland. frankly as northern ireland and spread south—east through england and wales. notice these temperatures. that said, it will be colder again by the end of the week. i'm babita sharma in london. the headlines. robert mugabe, defies pressure and refuses to quit as the president of zimbabwe. but mr mugabe has been sacked by his party — and he now faces impeachment. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, also in the programme. the international hunt for an argentine submarine, missing with more than 60 crew, and we look at singapore's display of impressionist art — asian style. live from our studios in london and
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