would not because the sri lankans would not bowl at them. they came out to bat and were not wearing gas masks. that is when the indian board said if for the 7000 people in the stance did not have a problem and the england tea m not have a problem and the england team did not have it, why did the english team make a farce? —— stands. last year in november they had to stop two tests. in defence of those who exercise in terrible weather when we should not, it is much harder if you are running because you are breathing more deeply. i cannot imagine what it is like for the pollution to be so bad you are, and i quote, vomiting continuously. i do like the word skulduggery. it is not quite a body

line my favourite bit of australian sledging is when someone was swatting flies and they said hey, leave those flies alone. ending on an anecdote. thank you for coming in. coming up now, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. hello, mark. what have you been watching? very interesting, we have the disaster artist, which is the story of the making of the best worst movie ever. happy end, the new film by michael haneke. and wonder, a very touching drama starring jacob tremblay.

the disaster artist. yes. even watching the trailer as many times as i have now, even the trailer, you're sitting there like this. have you seen the room? this is part of my question, you need to explain all this. basically it's the dramatised retelling of the making of the room which tommy wiseau made in 2003. it's a film that was so bad that it spawned a whole cult following, people go along to join in the screenings, much in sort of rocky horror show style. tommy wiseau basically wrote, directed and starred in it and financed it. now we have james franco who plays tommy in the film directing and producing this film based on a book by greg sesestro, who was a co—star in the room, who is now played by james franco's brother, dave. we're keeping up. you're keeping up so far? we're keeping up. 0k. so essentially greg is a model and one actor and we first meet him in a theatre studies thing, he's doing a terrible version of waiting for godot, and then suddenly tommy comes up and takes one word from a streetcar named desire,

"stella ! " and does this writhing piece. greg is completely entranced. he said, "this is amazing. you've got so much talent, you're so uninhibited, how do you do it?" and tommy says, "well, ijust believe in myself." and together they go to los angeles and they decide they'll make it and become stars, but hollywood rejects them and so tommy, who appears to have a, no fixed age, b, no fixed accent and c, untold wealth, no one knows where he comes from, writes his own movie. here's a clip. the room. nobody writes it yet. so today you will be the first one. i can't believe it, man, you did this. and of course you play mark. you want me to play mark? it's a big role. second lead. yeah, it's a huge role. are you sure? if you don't want to do it, fine i'm having johnny depp available. no, no, iwant it, iwant the role, i'll take it. it's like you say, hollywood rejects us, then we do it on our own.

and you have the money to make this? i have, it's no problem. you're really going to make this thing? no, greg, we are going to make it. mark has just laughed about 20 times during that clip. i've seen that film twice and both times... but here's the key to it, firstly the fact that tommy's such a strange character, he says he's from new orleans and his accent sounds like he's from outer space. but what i like about it, there's a film made by tim burton caled ed wood about edward d woodjr, who made plan 9 from outer space, which was previously thought of as the worst film ever made. and the reason that film worked was you didn'tjust think ed was a terrible filmmaker, you thought he was a visionary, you believed in the film even though it was terrible. now, in the case of this, tommy appears to actually believe that the film he's making is a tennessee williams level drama and he really thinks that he's making some incredible piece of art, and the reason the disaster artist works is yes, the filmmaking is terrible, yes, the endless takes of the same lines and the awful

script and the bad acting and the awful direction that's in the room, yes, all those things are there but it only works because you also believe that beyond it there is something of pathos, there is something of tragedy, there is something of the dream about tommy that makes him acceptable. we see him behaving appallingly on set. the film doesn't shy away from the fact that on set he did behave, you know, really, really badly. do you need to have seen the room to get the joke? i don't think so because i think... i mean, for a start, you see the room, it makes no sense anyway and when you see the individual scenes that they're recreating, i mean, it makes sense because you understand that basically tommy... at one point seth rogen, who is playing the script supervisor, says it's not to do with whether he's made a movie, has he even seen a movie? he genuinely has no idea how to do this. i thought it was really funny. i thought it was dark when it needed to be dark. i thought it had a strange sort of dreaming charm about it that in the end it's a story

of triumph over adversity, by making something that's so catastrophically terrible that it ends up getting celebrated. and it made me laugh twice all the way through. 0k. well, i'm intrigued. you done that for me, i'm definitely intrigued. happy end, is that an ironic title? it's a michael haneke film. it's the closest he'll get to making a farce. this is a michael haneke film about a bourgeois family who behind the facade, there are foul lurking secrets and the cast includes isabelle huppert, jean—louis trintignant and tobyjones, our very own tobyjones. as with all haneke's work, it's engrossing, it's creepy, it's unsettling but there's also a very strange sense of deja vu. there's a thing early on with video phone footage that reminds me of benny's video, a very early film of haneke's. there's some other stuff which has got surveillance type footage, which makes you think of cache, of hidden. there's also a strange kind of left turn referral back to amour and the weird thing about all those films i've just cited, when we first saw them they were startling, they were original, they were surprisingly, this isn't. it's well—made. .. haneke knows how to get brilliant

performances out of actors, he knows how to make something feel creepy and strange without quite telling you what it is. but it did feel like we were retreading old ground. i think he's a great filmmaker but this is that weird thing, but to me this felt like... and i never thought i'd use it, and of incidental haneke film. itjust felt like, "0k, there we go, that's the new haneke film." that's it, that's it. and we'll move on. and it lacked that element... i remember when i saw amour, just thinking, "i can't believe he just made that movie because it's just so breathtaking and this isn't. " wonder, what did you make of this? i've read such divided things about this. have you? i haven't read other reviews so i'll tell you up front, i liked it. it's adapted from rj palacio's novel by stephen stephen chbosky, who's best known for perks of being a wallflower. story is jacob tremblay is a young kid, augie, who is really interested in science,

really interested in space, and has spent most of his childhood being homeschooled because he's had a series of facial operations as a result of a rare genetic condition. now, as he becomes a fifth grader, he's going to school for the first time so it's a thing about going to school, which is difficult enough, also made more difficult by the fact augie understands that he is different to the people with whom he's going to have to interact, and it's about, at the beginning, thatjourney. here's a clip. now, i gotta stop here because past this point is a no dads zone and you don't want to walk up with your parents because it's not cool. but you're cool. i know i am but technically most dads aren't, so... neither are these helmets. hey, two rules — first, only raise your hand once in class no matter how many answers you know, except for science. crush them all. check. second, you're going to feel like you're all alone, augie, but you're not.

check. shall we lose this? come on. costumes are for halloween, prepare for blast—off. i love you. i love you too. have fun. bye. so owen wilson, julia roberts and of course, jacob tremblay. you can see from that, lots of laughs in that clip and it's also something that tugs at the heart strings. it's also more complicated than it looks like. at the beginning you think you're going to see from his point of view but actually what happens is the narrative fractures and you see the story from lots of different characters' point of view. from the point of view of his sister, who feels that she's been neglected because all her parents' attention have gone

to her brother. you see the sister's friend, who is no longer a friend, and you find out her back story. even boys in the film are given context for their bullying. so i thought for a start it's a much more complex narrative than people have perhaps given it credit for, it has perhaps a kaleidoscopic structure. the other thing is the film made me laugh and the film made me cry, and those are difficult things to do. people take them very much for granted and think it's very easy to do. it's not easy and it works because the performances are good, the script is well honed, and it felt like to me a film that was made with heart, with care, by people who were telling this story and they really cared about the way the story was... yes, there is sentimentality in it but i think it is sentimentality that it turns. i mean, i cried a lot, i laughed a lot, i was really engaged with the story and i went in slightly suspicious because i'd seen the trailer, which was a little bit... you didn't know quite which way it was going to go but i thought it was a pretty terrific piece of work. and jacob tremblay, he's a really, really talented young actor

and i thought that the director handled it with exactly the right degree of schmaltz and seriousness. i laughed, i cried, it worked. 0k. best out this week? battle of the sexes, this came out last week and this is the fictionalised or the dramatised story of the tennis match between billiejean king and bobby riggs. it became called the battle of the sexes. there was a documentary about this almost exactly the same name in 2013. again, going in to see the drama, the documentary was so great, will they be able to capture that spirit? and they do, they really, really do. emma stone is great as billiejean king. steve ca rell absolutely inhabits this clown, you know, male chauvinist soon roll of bobby riggs. the texture of the film is great, feels like a film that was made in the 19705. it's got an important lgbt story at the centre of it, it's got political relevance, it's very, very personal. again, it's funny. it is a comedic drama and it's all true. the weird thing is you're looking at it and you think, they must be making this stuff up and then you see the documentary and it's absolutely true. yes, fantastic. quick thought about dvds for anyone who wants to stay in?

my feral heart came out last week, we weren't on last week, but this is a really, really great indie pic. one of my favourites of the year, directed by jane gull. steven brandon is a young man trying to find his place in the world. it's a film that did brilliantly with the ourscreen programme in which people put on screenings in their own cinemas. it really found its audience. it was a film with a very, very low—budget. again made with an enormous amount of heart and it is terrific. it's called my feral heart and i defy anyone not to be won over by it. excellent. i am looking forward to that one. thank you very much, mark. thank you. a really interesting week. thank you. just a reminder, of course you can find all film news and reviews from across the bbc online. there's the address: and all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well of course. and that is it for this week. enjoy your cinemas going. bye— bye. hello once again. i am not sure the next minute will make you laugh and

make you cry, but it is a fairly quiet start to the week. but the week itself a bit of a rollercoaster of emotion. so let's start quietly. meston fog across the south—east. they're that in mind, some of that will take time before it pops away. a quiet start, maybe not as bright asiam a quiet start, maybe not as bright as i am showing here. there will be some low cloud around so leaden skies for some. and freshening wind through the evening and overnight through the evening and overnight through the evening and overnight through the northern parts of scotland, taking us to a fairly quiet day on tuesday. eventually cloud, wind and rain across the north and north—western parts of scotland. thanks to an area of high pressure it is a fairly quiet start to the week. a big area of low pressure starts showing it and across northern and western parts for the middle part of the week. we all get to see that on thursday, and thatis all get to see that on thursday, and that is the thing which transits asked from the mild start to the week to something a good deal colder to close it out. i told you, it was

a real rollercoaster. see you later. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: on the eve of the biggest—ever us—south korean air drills, washington says the potential for war with north korea is increasing by the day. it's crazy to send spouses and children to south korea given the provocation of north korea. so i wa nt provocation of north korea. so i want them to stop sending dependents. i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme: cambodia's prime minister leads prayers for peace and unity at a lavish ceremony days after dissolving the country's main opposition party. all these people have been brought to this, the most symbolically important site in cambodia, to impress on the population that the country is united