planet, which i think is perhaps somewhat overstretched, but i think it works really well as a film. that said, all star wars films have a divisive element. and nothing is going to satisfy everybody. i have never been a hard—core star wars fan, but i did enjoy this very much. i thought as a piece of masterful storytelling in which it obeys the rules of the characters, the characters make sense. it may be fantastical and inventive but the characters make sense, and that, for me, is the key. and does it look fantastic? oh, yes, it looks fantastic. in a way we sort of take that for granted. it looks really great, but it also feels really solid. it feels like a proper, you know, well—made, stand—alone film. that's excellent. the unseen. look, it's nearly christmas — have you brought me another horrorfilm, is this what you're doing here? this is a psychological chiller. not really horror. what is the distinction? stick with me. this is written and directed by gary sinyor.

this was 12 years in development, it is a story about a young couple who suffer a terrible loss of a child and after that, their relationship is in crisis. the woman, gemma, played byjasmine hyde is having panic attacks, and with those panic attacks come strange fits of blindness. meanwhile, her partner is haunted by the voice of the child. here's a clip. ihear him. where? in this room. ihear him. when? at night. sometimes during the day. you don't believe me.

what does he say? he says he loves me... now, you were asking what the difference is between a horrorfilm and a chiller. i think it is a tenuous distinction, however, it is to do with an uncanniness, sense of creepiness. in its early stages, this film is actually very, very well played by the central actors. and it has a real atmosphere of unease, of the uncanny, which is very hard to achieve. i have to say in its later stages it kind of loses some of that, the more the plot starts to explain itself, the more mechanical it becomes and the less it became interesting. but for its first movement, it does establish that sense of the cold hand on the back of the neck. the genuinely uncanny sense that you're not quite sure what's going on.

you believe in the characters, you believe in the situation. and you share their distress. but you also have that sense of eeriness, that sense of unease. it's a very flawed film, and i think overall, as i said, there are missteps in the later acts that let it down. but at the beginning it has an atmosphere which i think validates it, and it is really nice to see something like that going up against a behemoth like star wars: the lastjedi. and it's not a horrorfilm. 0k! i may be just saying that, but it's not a horror film! best out, however, iwholeheartedly, i mean... the rerelease of a classic. i think this is one of the greatest movies ever made, a matter of life and death. you love it too, right? yes, yes, yes. when was the last time you saw it on a big screen? when i was at university, 300 years ago. i love that image of up in heaven, looking down. very clever, very clever.

you need to see it on the big screen, so much of why it's brilliant is the way it looks. the idea of having the other world as being black—and—white, and the technicolor, so gorgeous, the performances are brilliant. and every time you see it, itjust gets better and better and better. and incidentally, that is a film which you can view as a fantasy or you can view as a psychological, you know, psychological romance. i would say it's not a million miles away from... i'm trying! i love your attempt, mark. it is fantastic, it is wonderful, worth seeing on a big screen, you make a good point, i haven't seen it on a for aeons. on the smaller screen, dvds... dunkirk. which i, kind of having seen it on the big screen... want to see it on the big screen. i can't quite envisage watching it on a small one. i've seen dunkirk three times. i have seen it twice on a big imax screen and once on a television screen, although the television screens are now much bigger.

when you see it on a small screen, you start to notice things about the cleverness of the structure, the fact that it has these three interweaving time periods. one week, one day, one hour. the fact that it interweaves them so well, sometimes on the big screen you're just so overwhelmed by the spectacle of it, you don't realise just how smart the construction of the film is. watching it on a smaller screen you really admire the narrative... it is a simple narrative but it is told in a way which is really complex and really crystalline. and actually i saw things in it on the small screen that i hadn't seen on the big screen. yes, the big—screen experience is still the primary one but it does work on the small screen, for different reasons. mark, good to see you as ever. interesting week. thank you very much. quick reminder before we go you can find more film news and reviews online bbc. co. uk/markkermode. and all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer, of course. that is it for this week, though, enjoy your cinema going. bye bye. good evening. it's been a misty,

murky, grey day out there. across many parts of the country. this was the view in cumbria. we had similar views across many parts. tomorrow should promise a bit more in the way of sunshine. we've still got some cloud and drizzle towards the south which should clear away over the next few hours. clearer skies and light winds, so quite a chilly night. the dicey to stretch during the early hours of monday morning. —— the odd icy stretch. a bit below freezing in the rural more spots. high pressure dominating the weather through the day, moving in from the south—west. any mist and fog patches could be fairly slow to clear, particularly for parts of the north west of england. further south we've got left mist and fog but there

could be the odd icy stretch. milder in the south—west of england and wales but colder conditions to start your day for the south—east of england for east anglia to. chilly to start the day across northern england with perhaps a bit of frost and fog for the manchester region. northern ireland and scotland starting the day on a dry night and there will be a bit of sunshine from there will be a bit of sunshine from the word go. through the course of the word go. through the course of the day the right conditions with a bit of rain for the far north of scotland. elsewhere things are looking dry and any of that mist and fog should lift and clear. cloudy skies moving in from the west turn milder. further east across the country still chilly. on monday night, some really dense fog forming. misty and murky and in some places very foggy to start tuesday morning. that fog may cause a bit of disruption, particularly where we've

got the temperatures near or below freezing. freezing fog patches on tuesday likely to cause disruption to travel on the roads and in the skies. watch out for that potential for some dense fog. for many, the mist and fog will be slow to clear. further north and west its low cloud and drizzle with summerhill fog around. a grey day wherever you are on tuesday. 11 or 12 degrees in scotla nd on tuesday. 11 or 12 degrees in scotland and northern ireland. keep your ice on the forecast as we head towards the festive period. at the moment things are looking relatively mild and rather unsettled. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7. a british woman, rebecca dykes, has been killed in beirut, the foreign office says. she worked for the department for international development. police investigate what they call a

harrowing car crash in birmingham. plans are revealed to lower the age at which young people are automatically a row —— involved in pension schemes. information from the cia helped russian security services stop a terror attack on a cathedral in st petersburg, the kremlin says. also in the next hour. prince harry takes on a new role as a journalist — interviewing the former us president barack obama.