korea, pyeongchang, winter olympics. there was bitter disappointment for great britain's women curlers. they had a match against sweden to try and get into the final but they failed so it is just a possible bronze medalfor them now. we will look ahead to all of the weekend's football, including the league cup final at wembley between arsenal and manchester city on sunday, all coming up in six nations sportsday at 6:30pm on bbc news with meat olly foster but now it is time for 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. what have you been watching? interesting week, we have finding your feet, which i think is a british drama comedy. we have i time

you with an astonishing performance by margot robbie who also produces. —— —ite tonia. and the river, a new film by ba nya rd. —— —ite tonia. and the river, a new film by banyard. finding your feet, even the poster looks like it quintessential british gathering —— dark river. the poster doesn't do a daughter favours, it's aimed at the same audience that did best exotic marigold hotel, a huge hit. the story begins with imelda staunton as lady sandra abbott on the eve of her retirement. she has her refinement planned out, she leads a very posh life and discovers suddenly that her husband has been having an affair. here is a clip. what the hell's going on?

we were just... it's not what it looks like, sandra. sandra. sandra! sandra, wait. get off me. how long's it's been going on? let's not do this here. how long, mike? since we all went to sorrento. oh, bloody hell. that's nearly five years ago! i've had enough of all this hide and seek, mike. how could you do this to me? you're supposed to be my friend. we even took you to the palace. i didn't mean for this to happen, sandra. oh, really? you knew precisely what you are doing! now, please calm down, sandra. rememberwhere you are. i know exactly where i am, in my own bloody home! i have spent my entire married life putting you and your careerfirst, and what got me through was knowing that when you retired we would share our golden years together. but instead, you've traded me in for a newer model. and let me tell you, mike. she's had more than one previous owner. and all her bodywork is mainly filler! you laughed at least twice. exactly, because it's funny. she walks out and goes to stay with her sister

with whom she is like chalk and cheese and her sister basically tells her, this life you have been leading is an artificial life and you have to learn to enjoy things more, she goes swimming in the hampstead pond and ghost dance lessons where she meets characters likejoanna lessons where she meets characters like joanna lumley and lessons where she meets characters likejoanna lumley and a character called charlie named timothy spall. ends, finding your feet. yuna from the outset that that character is going to soften and discover more to life than material possessions and the dream of her husband's retirement. you know from the outset when she meets timothy spall and she finds him abrasive and difficult she will warm to him and you know from the outset amongst the comedy there will be tragedy and tears amongst laughs. the question is how well this all plays out. i have to say rather better—than—expected. it was charming and funny, not least because it's a great cast. they are throwing themselves into it and having a very good time. it is well directed by richard flanagan. no cliche goes unturned. it owes a certain structural debt to nativity,

the debbie is it film, and in fact, funnily enough, it would've made more sense to release this in the run—up to christmas because there is slight christmas theme to it so it is odd coming out now. despite your reservations about the poster which i understand i thought it was funny and charming and unlike the performances and my heart went with it enough that when my head kept going hang on, my heart wentjust let it be and i did and i enjoyed it. all right. 0k. let it be and i did and i enjoyed it. all right. ok. you have seen i tonia as well. margot robbie stars and also produces. she was implicated in an attack and her career fell apart. it's been nominated for awards. the film takes the structure of telling contradictory stories. based on the totally true and utterly contradictory testimonies of its central characters and during the narrative we see each of the central characters talking to the audience either through fake interviews or breaking the fourth wall, turning to the audience and going, this didn't

happen. but essentially it is a story of somebody who has come through and abusive background. she was beaten by her husband. she was also attacked by her mother although the mother who is an award winner allison janney, says for heaven's sake, show me a family that don't have their ups and downs. it manages to balance, in my opinion, the serious subject matter of domestic abuse, which it is about, with also being filmed playing with post modern conventions in a way that reminded me of the film 24—hour party people in which characters will turn up and this didn't happen. it's a film about a story being told from lots of different perspectives with a brilliant central performance. i found it hugely watchable, i'm not going to lie, and the story is fascinating. it was that thing of turning to the camera and being very jokey that thing of turning to the camera and being veryjokey about something precisely at the moment when they are talking about domestic abuse and he has just punched are talking about domestic abuse and he hasjust punched her. she marries the first man who comes along and he beats her up for years. u nfortu nately beats her up for years. unfortunately that is not a subject

for comedy. her mother says to her at one point, you think you deserve to be beaten and she said i would never be with a man who beat me and she says you beat up dad and she says that's different. there is a scene when tonya harding had a shotgun and she says this never happened. the triumph is it deals with the serious issues were also being entertaining and funny and sharp. essentially it gives you a kaleidoscopic portrait and says, you decide. everyone watching it would come out with the same opinion that she is a survivor. whatever else you think she is a survivor. absolutely and allison janney think she is a survivor. absolutely and allisonjanney is a genius, that is the other thing you would come out saying. she eats that role for brea kfast. out saying. she eats that role for breakfast. she is just out saying. she eats that role for breakfast. she isjust fantastic. the shape of water. wonderful. breakfast. she isjust fantastic. the shape of water. wonderful! river. —— dark river. easily confused. it deals with abuse and if different way. ruth wilson plays a

character who returns to the tenant farm on which she grew up, she's been away 15 years and her abusive father has died and she comes back to the farm which she feels she has a right to take on the tenancy. her brother, however, is there disagrees. here is a clip. i'm here now. what good is that? really, i mean it's too late now, isn't it? he's gone. i've been driving all night... where's she gone? i've got to get my head down. i can't do this now. she broke her leg. she needs culling. well, i'm not giving it mine. well, you'd better get up there, hadn't you? i haven't seen you for 15 years. i'll wait with her.

now, iam now, i am a huge fan of clio barnard, it takes its title from a ted hughes poem and has a surface similarity to the levelling, and yet it is absolutely barnard's film. it's about the way that trauma affects people's memories, about the way trauma affects people's perceptions and it's about people living with the ghost of an abusive past. it's very powerful not least because the performances are very good which is something you expect from clio barnard and also because it isa from clio barnard and also because it is a film located very much in the landscape, like the levelling centres like it has the feeling of buried family secrets coming up from the ground. it is very atmospheric. although the subject matter is very dark, the tone is totally an exploitative, it feels like a film which wants to understand the psychology of its characters, it is

a very sympathetic film and takes this complicated situation apart. i saw it twice, first on a small screen a second time projected and i have to say it is a film you have to see in the cinema because so much of it is to do with the immersive atmosphere of it. this is not a film you want to wait until it comes out on dvd, you want to see it in the cinema, it is a cinematic experience and she is a really brilliant film—maker and i thought it was a very powerful piece dealing with difficult subject matter but dealing with it very intelligently.” difficult subject matter but dealing with it very intelligently. i can't wait and with it very intelligently. i can't waitandi with it very intelligently. i can't wait and i love the levelling and god's own country. there is a whole theme going on. the message seems to be not to be a farmer can because it will be really tough. the shape of water. this is my favourite film in the cinema at the moment. i love this film, guillermo del toro's best film since pans labyrinth, and i think pans labyrinth is the best film of the 21st century so far. the shape of water is on one level the creature of the black lagoon meets splash, which sounds like it should

work, and yet it does. there is something magical about it. super performance by sally hawkins, doug jones brilliant as the creature, and the thing guillermo del toro always does is he has this great love of what other people think of as monsters. the real monster in this film is in the amphibious man, it's a very human character, set against the backdrop of cold war paranoia and the space race, there are moments when it bursts into song and there is a song and dance routines suddenly in the middle of this. i just loved it, it made me laugh, it made me cry, i thought it was beautiful. i think guillermo del toro is a modern—day orson welles andi toro is a modern—day orson welles and i love this film to pieces. and to look at as well it is stunning. you should see it on a big screen because it is such a treat visually. how amazing that you could take a story that is apparently so bizarre and strange, and yet give it such mainstream appeal. it is a film that will work for pretty much everyone because it's a fairy tale but also

grounded ina because it's a fairy tale but also grounded in a strange reality. sally hawkins's performance is wonderful. terratec. curious but fabulous. —— terrific. i will accept that. terratec. curious but fabulous. —— terrific. iwill accept that. i liked your choice of dvd. the party. the party from hell, it has a political backdrop, a group of people together where this political thing is happening and they have secrets that suddenly get revealed. what i love about it, it is a sally potter film, black and white, stripped to the bone, it is 71 minutes long, there isn't an ounce of fat on it but it is sharp, the dialogue is very acerbic. timothy spall who is in finding your feet and terrific in all most everything. it has a real brittle humour to it. i thought at the beginning i would find it a bit insular and claustrophobic because it's pretty much in one location. but it really made me laugh. i thought it found its darkly comic tone. yes, it is a good watch. it is like a play for

today. and so brief, literally, 5—star running time. today. and so brief, literally, 5-star running time. thank you, mark. it is a cracking week. a reminder that before you go you will find the film news and reviews on the bbc online and all of our previous programmes are on the iplayer of course. it's a great week. enjoy your cinema going. bye bayer. hello. things are about to turn even colder, and through the beginning of next week we could see snow. we have had sparkling sunshine today, this was sent in by one of our weather watchers in denbighshire and there is more sunshine to come through the weekend. but a word of caution, the winds will be strengthening and exposure to the win despite the sunshine is going to feel bitterly cold. through the early part of next week, yes, some of us could see some

significant snow. back to the here and now and its high—pressure. we are keeping things settled over the weekend, centred over scandinavia, cold air all the way through the arctic and it is a cold wind. it will be a cold night ahead. we will keep a bit more cloud across some eastern parts of scotland, down through north—eastern england and east anglia, more carbon we saw last night, not as cold but temperature still close to freezing and some cloud filtering across to northern parts of wales but where we have clear skies is where we see the lowest temperatures down to —20 —3 quite widely under clear skies. it isa quite widely under clear skies. it is a cold frosty start to the day tomorrow, a good deal of sunshine across the country, some exceptions —— down to —2 4—3. elsewhere, despite the sunshine, to bridges won't get much higher than six or seven celsius. some will struggle to get about three or four. those temperatures rapidly dipping through tomorrow evening under clear skies, once again the east or north—easterly winds will push more cloud into eastern parts of

scotland, north—eastern parts of england, perhaps bringing wintry flurries here, elsewhere, a dry night and flurries here, elsewhere, a dry nightand a flurries here, elsewhere, a dry night and a cold night with temperatures down to —2, minus three celsius easily. we do it all again on sunday. bright frosty start, plenty of sunshine, more in the way of sunshine across northern ireland and the far south—west of england through sunday but again more cloud pushing into eastern scotland, north—eastern parts of england and maybe a few wintry flurries. temperatures on sunday, 4—6dc but add on the strength of the wind and it will feel closer to freezing. some parts of east anglia in the exposure to the wind will feel like _3’ exposure to the wind will feel like —3, so bitterly cold day on sunday. it turns even colder, this how it looks in the early part of next week, keeping that flow from arctic, the east and north—easterly winds, and in this set of as the winds, the north sea some wintry showers will develop and push on to eastern coasts, some of the wintry showers slowly pushing westwards, so it is cold and with a chance of snow. bye bayer.

killed in a hit and run. casper and corey platt—may were struck by a car yesterday afternoon. their aunt says they will be so missed. they were the most loving boys. they did nothing wrong. they were loved by so many people. two people have been arrested and are being held by the police for questioning. also tonight: a review finds notjust girls but also vulnerable women are being sexually abused by grooming gangs in the north—east of england. were you the mastermind that cheated the olympics? yes. the man who revealed russian doping, now in fearfor the man who revealed russian doping, now in fear for his life, says russia should not be allowed at the closing of the winter olympics. the errors in prescribing medicines in england causing around 700 deaths a year.