not pay. you invoice is fair, do not pay. you have to go through the process of saying, you know, i do not agree with this. a lot of people do not like the confrontation. and also, they are scared. great if it works so they are scared. great if it works so very quickly. i hope it does work. who will write the speech and what will be xp? meghan markle will speak ata will be xp? meghan markle will speak at a royal wedding and she will change the script and do what she wa nts change the script and do what she wants and there may even be some jokes and i say more power to her. what a laugh. i think sometimes weddings can be a little bit dull, can't they? it will be fun. weddings can be a little bit dull, can't they? it will be funlj weddings can be a little bit dull, can't they? it will be fun. i think the trucks will get out, i think we will hear about those. and the point is her dad is very private sweating she may step up as head of the family and speak. all represents the family. and also, why not? absolutely. cannot wait. a nice

change for the royal family. absolutely. cannot wait. a nice change for the royalfamily. but absolutely. cannot wait. a nice change for the royal family. but the papers. thanks to nigel and penny. next, the film review. have a lovely night. cheerio. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode as ever. 50 mark, what do we have this week? interesting week. we've got downsizing. the new movie from alexander payne. earlyman, the latest offering from aardman animations, always a treat. and last flag flying, the not—quite sequel to the last detail. it looks intriguing, yourfirst

choice, that's what i would say. intriguing is exactly the word. this is something a bit different. the best way to describe it is it takes riffs from the incredible shrinking man and innerspace and combines it with a bit of inconvenient truth and the american satire spanglish. really... 0k. the story is the earth's resources have been depleted and process has been discovered to shrink people down to five inches. you can save the planet, you become and use less resources. you produce less stuff to dispose of. everyone has agreed it is a good idea. but the reason people are doing it is because the lifestyle you get offered if you agree to become small is more extravagant than you can get in the big world. here's a clip. so the decision... downsizing takes pressure off, especially money pressure. it must be a good to know you are making a difference.

all that crap about saving the planet? yes. downsizing is about saving yourself. we live like kings. i'm still in the same house i grew up in, audrey is dying to move, but we are strapped. a lot of small communities are cropping up. don't mess around. you get the best houses, best appliances, best doctors, the great restaurants. the kids love cheesecake factory. we've got three of them. can you back up a little? they might be too much garlic in the sauce. it is an interesting set—up and it looks like the beginning of a great movie. then matt damon's character decides he is going to downsize and when he does, he discovers he's isolated, alone and discontent like he was in the bigger world, but only smaller. then the film loses its direction. for a start, once you get into the small community

there's very little of interacting with the large one. most movies dealing with the miniaturisation have them interacting. here you can forget that you are in the small world, which is the point. more troublesome is the fact it has a number of threads it is trying to deal with, the eco—crisis, the personal crisis, the commentary on consumerism, staff about general middle—aged malaise, and somehow those elements don't only not come together, they start completely fracturing. the film is not short. it is two and a quarter hours long and it could have done with some downsizing in its running time, frankly. after the initial set—up and promise, after what looked like being a good use of a science fiction premise, it falls apart. it's a shame because there are lots of interesting ideas and it's always good to see a director aiming big even if it does not come together. but i have to say there was a good

half of it i find frustrating. having given you all these ideas, it then does not know what to do with them. it does not know whether it wants to be funny, satirical, sombre about the fate of the planet or whether it wants to concentrate on a marriage falling apart. it ends up not satisfying any of them. unfortunately, it is terribly unsatisfying, despite the fact it starts so well. very disappointing. i was a big fan of sideways. me, too. and i am a very big fan of wallace and gromit. and no disappointment for earlyman. a stone age clan is driven out of its valley by the arrival of lord knuth who says the stone age is over and long live the age of bronze. what then happens is the young hero, dug, agrees to have a football match for ownership of the valley.

it turns out that way back in his heritage, football is deep in his genes. however, all his tribesmen can't play football, so they have to recruit a young woman to teach them to get the match ready. firstly, the visuals are incredible. they use some computer graphics to get a sense of stadium size, but all the primary animation has that aardman feel, it is physical, and i can see you looking at these images. it is fantastic. it is wonderful. and it is properly funny. it has great slapstick jokes that referred to harold lloyd and buster keaton. there is a homage at the very beginning, but it is also not about straightforward end of the pier, innuendo humour. i started laughing right from the very beginning. i never lost it, i laughed

all the way through. in the screening there was only me and one other person. i became embarrassed by how much i was laughing. were they enjoying it too? they were enjoying it but not as much as i was. you see so many comedies with insufficient laughter. all the way through this i chuckled and i was delighted by the visuals. the story was charming. and i can go on my own, i don't need to find a child? everybody understands it. they make genuine family films for people of all ages. i would happily go back and see it again, not least because they were so many fleeting sight gags that i did not catch the first time round. i want to see it again. i love nick park, he does a greatjob. a genius. your third choice? last flag flying. it is adapted from a novel and the last detail was adapted into a film and this is the novel sequel to his novel. it is an adaptation of a novel

that is not a sequel. we are going to test people on that. the story is three former marines are reunited decades later when one of their sons dies in iraq and they go on a road trip together. one of them has taken holy orders. they go on a road trip together and they bicker and the bond and they talk about the past and the present. here is a clip. what if i don't like it? we get stuck with a contract for two years? two years. what if you fall down? have you thought of that? with your legs that is a possibility. you cannot get up and nobody can see you? but with your mobile phone you can get it out and if you could see the numbers, your glasses, i can't see, help me, i cannot get up.

911 calls do not count against minutes either. come on! if i say yes, will you shut the hell up? the joy of it is the performances. laurence fishburne is really good. steve ca rrell is the person facing up to grief. i think he does that really brilliantly. if you go there looking for a film that is as cutting edge as the last detail, you will be disappointed. if you see it as a film in its own right and you are able to enjoy the ensemble performances, it is a film about their relationship, it is melancholic, it is sad and nostalgic. it is often laughed out loud funny. it will not change the world. rather than saying it is the sequel, it is more of a footnote, but a rather charming footnote, largely because the three central performances carry it through.

you were enjoying that clip. yes. it is a film that stands on its own. oddly enough, the problem becomes if you try and put it next to others and it is a different kettle of fish. it is a not sequel to the movie. is that clear? i think so. and the best dvd? coco came out last week and i love three billboards. it is great that pixar animation is finally back at the top of its game. deals with some really complicated subjects. life, death, grief, loss, memory, but it does it in a way that children and adults alike can watch it. it looks beautiful. if you see it and you love it, get the book of life on dvd. it is a film that prefigures many

themes and is also a very good movie. and dvd. ifelt ignorant when i read lots about this because of your forthcoming recommendation, and it sounds fascinating. ifelt bad i did not know very much about it. in between is a story about three women living in tel aviv, each fighting their own personal battle for freedom against political, religious and social repression. it is beautifully observed, fantastic performances, really, really well written. it deals with difficult subject matter, often very light—hearted and funny. it has a beautifully enigmatic ending and the best way of describing it is you have seen the graduate? yes! at the end is that incredible sense of ambiguity, i think it has that. it is really well worth seeing. it didn't get a huge theatrical release, but i have yet to meet

anyone who has seen it who has not loved it. no greater recommendation than that. thank you very much, mark. an interesting week. we are now creeping up towards awards season as well. right in the middle of it. lots to talk about in the coming weeks. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week. enjoy your cinema going. see you next time. goodbye. hello there, it is very mild outside at the moment with many places the

temperatures about 10 degrees, the cloud has been thinning somewhat, still some pockets of light rain or drizzle and we have these showers across the far north of scotland, it is very windy actually, the severe gales should blow themselves away later in the night and we also see more cloud coming in from the west later on, it will lower and thicken to we will have the more mist and fog in wales and the south—west, some more rain pushing into other northern areas and those to bridges probably northern areas and those to bridges pro ba bly lowest northern areas and those to bridges probably lowest in eastern scotland and eastern parts of england but a mild night, a mild start of the day on sunday, cloudy, read across central southern scotland, not as windy in northern salt and, funny, improving in northern ireland, clarke england and wales, drizzle over the hills, gusty winds in northern england and even under the cloud i2, 13 degrees, northern england and even under the cloud 12, 13 degrees, some sunshine east of the hills and milder than that but colder air in northern scotla nd that but colder air in northern scotland and it will push its way southwards on monday, it comes in behind the rain which on monday is moving down across england and wales. the highest temperatures across southern england and eventually sunshine to wales and

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