gewing fihe money tendencies. who's getting the money to build these? all that kind of stuff! we a re to build these? all that kind of stuff! we are going to go on and on and on, not enough time! thank you, bonnie and anne. next on bbc news, 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. 50, mark, what do we have this week? we have black panther, which opens on tuesday. we have pad man, based on a true, inspiring story. and 50 shades freed, it all comes to an end. black panther, why isn't it

opening until tuesday? i presume it is because it will give it a long opening weekend. it has been eagerly awaited. at the beginning of the film, it is a technologically advanced society and they must keep their secrets away from the rest of the world in case it falls into the wrong hands. inevitably, to some extent it does. the movie pays great attention to character and detail. here is a clip. remote system activated. wait, which side of the road is it? just drive. let's go! look at your suit.

you have been taking bullets. run around the track. where did he go?! show off. that is the most generic stuff. there's much more interesting stuff in the film. its strengths are threefold. it looks great. the world of wakanda pro is superbly realised. you really feel that you're in that world and it is well evoked. the second thing, it sounds great, everything from the sharp dialogue to the superb music keeps the action moving along. it really involves you in the characters.

it is well played. it is a really good cast. but the most important thing is, you believe in the world of the film. you believe in the characters and you know and understand the characters' motivation. i am not a huge comic book fan. the thing about this is, it works on its own terms as a stand—alone piece. there has been a lot written about the importance of this movie at this moment. but it will only work if the film itself works as a rip—roaring piece of entertainment, and it does. it is important, but i can look at that and say, as well documented on this programme, action films are not my thing, but they are the thing of my other half.

our debate will be, is it two hours of my life i will never get back and she will say, no, we have to go and see it. you get the spectacle, all the stuff you want and it does look and sound wonderful. but you know the characters, you like them and understand them. this is a world where there are no gender imbalances you often get. men and women are on an equal playing field. when they have the big fight sequences, even i understood who everyone was, who they were fighting, why they were fighting and what they were trying to do with their time. as a piece of drama, it is well laid out. i really enjoyed it. i might have a hope. i am normally nudging going, what? who is this person? why are they doing that? if i can understand it, anyone can understand it!

you give me hope. pad man. sounds unusual? it is a man in india who invented a low—cost machine for making sanitary pads. he's credited with breaking the taboo around menstruation. the hears a newlywed young man who doesn't understand why his new bride spends five days every month out of the house. then he is appalled why the women around him suffer every month. he designs a machine to make low—cost sanitary pads, which will not only protect the health of the women but provide employment. but he does so in a culture in which there is a lot of shame around this subject. the director of the film said he wanted to make the story as accessible as possible. he does, it has slapstick comedy, music sequences, laughs, romance and tension. it is a joyful and uplifting film. it is telling the story, which has its roots in a real—life story. it is a fictionalised version of a real—life story, but it does stick close to the truth. it is charmingly done and playing

to the widest possible audience, and succeeding in taking that story and making it completely accessible, and it is charming and uplifting. another hit. fantastic, wonderful story. based on a true story, which is more than can be said for 50 shades freed. we do have twilight to thank for this. the story is, having tamed christian grey, anastasia must see if she can find independence and happiness within their marriage. here is a clip. you do want to have kids someday, right? someday, sure. you don't really sound sure.

you know what i am sure about? that's great steak. christian... do you not want to have kids? of course. one day, just not now. i'm not ready to share you with anyone. he doesn't want children. i can tell her that now. there is a narrative arc... it is easy to sneer at the fifty shades movies because they are not very good. the first one, they tried to do something interesting, but it was too restricted. the second one stuck to the ear—scraping dialogue of the source. it is badly written, the actors are doing their best with pretty intolerable dialogue. james foley is directing on autopilot. he has been given this as a safe pair of hands.

it ends up looking like a promo simply for a glamorous lifestyle for fast cars and designer apartments. although there is some kinky fetishism, it is very peripheral. what the film is interested in, is look at that private jet. it is a film about possessions and about those kind of aspirations. in the end it ends up looking like a commercial or pop promo. it makes you look back to the days of nine and a half weeks and think wow, what a ground—breaking, citizen kane—like movie that was. i don't know why people get angry because it is playing to a certain audience who are devoted to it. it will pack the audiences out on the first weekend. i am clearly not the target audience. as a cinema goer, the first one was the only one that was vaguely interesting and the next two arejust dull.

fantastically unremarkable. you cannot criticise the cast. if anybody gave you that dialogue to read, laurence olivier would struggle to deliver some of those lines, which are on the level of, is everything all right? can i get you a latte? laughter. i think i will sleep black panther. have you seen phantom thread again, the last time we met you had seen it four times. no, i have not seen it again. i lovejohnny greenwood's score. he's been oscar—nominated. people say they don't like the central character. you are not meant to like him, he is meant to be difficult. lesley manville steals the show. i think it is paul thomas anderson's best film since punch drunk love and they make a cracked romance double bill. i would watch phantom thread again but alongside punch drunk love. there is something about it.

there was a debate whether the costumes he designs are deliberately not very good. everybody says he is a fabulous dress designer but the first thing he designs has somebody dressed up like the queen of hearts. but that is kind of the point, i like it. it's certainly a talking point. the dvd, loving vincent. it reminds me of our conversation last week when i said can you watch blade runner on a dvd, it is the same about loving vincent. it is an extraordinary achievement in technical terms. and oil painted animated movie, as far as i know the world's first. the narrative is a bit flimsy, it is about going back to find out what happened in vincent van gogh's life. i have seen it on the big screen and the small screen

and it has the same... it is hypnotising, like watching paintings you know moving around. slightly odd, but stunning. if you have it on dvd, you can go back and watch it again and marvelling at the hours of work that must have gone into creating it. six years of painting to create the film. astonishing. thank you. an interesting week. a quick reminder, you can find all the film news and reviews across the bbc on the website. all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well. that's it for this week,

enjoy your cinema going. goodbye. saturday was disappointing across the board. the weekend looks better. brighter with more sunshine. feeling more cold. a wild night tonight. low pressure from the west. gale force winds. snow. significant snow already falling in the southern uplands. pretty intense accumulations will continue. gale force winds right across the board. 40- 50

force winds right across the board. 40— 50 miles per hour. 60— 70 in the strongest points across northern wales, north—west england, and eastern england. a cold night. icy in the north. sunday morning, losing the gales from the east of the country. blustery. coming in from the north—west. feeling colder. wildly in single figures. snow showers in western scotland, northern ireland, west england. a few showers from time to time. the blue is with us on monday with wind from the atlantic. showers. monday, not looking bad. good spells of sunshine. some wintry showers,

mainly in the north and west. feeling cold. temperatures, 5—8. this weather front in the west will make inroads on monday night. initially of rain. after it bumps into the cold air, snow. certainly in central and southern scotland and the pennines. as the rain band pleasing enter the north sea, skies brightening up. cold air, sunshine and wintry showers. temperature—wise, 5—8. and other system moving in from the west on wednesday. it could bring disruptive snow. heavy snow in central and southern scotland in the final of england. further south, largely southern scotland in the final of england. furthersouth, largely of rain. -- england. furthersouth, largely of rain. —— far north of. keep tuned to the weather forecast. this is bbc world news.

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