sorry! —— homage. marsh to his wife. sorry! -- homage. it is lovely! if i was younger, i would. i think it is great! it is lovely! if i was younger, i would. ithink it is great! penny would. ithink it is great! penny would make that to you. my immediate thought was you rip up a whole lot of stuff and tack it on and... it is a bit like of stuff and tack it on and... it is a bitlikea of stuff and tack it on and... it is a bit like a curtain. but unlike its! also, you slash up to him around the top and do a bit of cutting and... you make it sound very simple, this is haute couture! it is like a housecoat, you just wrap it around, curtains are very nice. i do like it. the thing i like is the upsidedown yellow legs.|j have no idea. growing up in a family of hose re— manufacturers, it reminds me of the model averagely that were used to have in the factory that you could put a pair of

stockings on or of python and they would, you check they fit —— hosiery. why do they have an average lake? one leg sticking up off the leg desk. did i have a foot? is there such a thing as an average leg? by parents may still have that tucked away at home. painted yellow. that is all from us. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you and goodbye. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news.

to take us through this week's releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? we have red sparrow, the new film starring jennifer lawrence. we have a fantastic woman, which is chile's oscar entry for the foreign language film academy award. and game night. is it a game or is it real? red sparrow. yes, so red sparrow is very interesting. it's based on a book by a former cia operative, jason matthews. jennifer lawrence is a russian ballerina who is violently recruited to become a sparrow — an undercover intelligence agent. she is taught how to seduce her prey. she is sent to budapest on the trail of an american, played by joel edgerton, whom she meets, and we know she has to win his confidence. but it seems fairly early on that they both understand what the other is. here is a clip. dominika.

you know my name? you told me. you stole my id from the pool. that would be illegal. were you just looking for me? i'd know where to find you if i was. i'm curious, did you want me to know you were following me or are you just real clumsy? in you. don't you?— my mother is ill. if i work for the government, my uncle helped me get the job. with me there.

so it is an odd movie. on the one hand, it looks like a mainstream glossy thriller. it is directed by francis lawrence, who did some of the hunger games movies and it has english and american actors speaking in russian accents like that. i wasn't sure about that accent, i've got to say! but the other side is that it is nastier than you would expect. it was precut from an 18 to get a 15 certificate, and in the very first assignment she has, there is a graphic sexual assault when she is sent to the training camp, in which she is led by charlotte rampling. it is really quite tough and distressing and oddly explicit, and then the violence, the outbreaks of violence during the movie are wince—inducing fare. i imagine that some people who are jennifer lawrence fans from the hunger games might find it hard to take. there is an argument for saying actually, it's not glamorising it, it's saying this is really rough and nasty stuff. then you think, well, actually jennifer lawrence's fans have already come through mother!, the darren aronofsky film. she is having a run of peculiar films. absolutely, and she made that

strange science fiction movie which again divided audiences. i like the fact she makes bold and often strange choices. i like the fact she doesn't play it safe. she is the centre of the movie. it is very changeable tonally, so sometimes it is almost high camp, sometimes it is people chewing the scenery, and doing the stuff that you would expect and sometimes it is really, you know, nasty — and i mean properly nasty, gritty — and i know some people have found that intolerable. i think it is interesting. i think it is nothing like as mainstream as i expected it to be, and that is for the better, but it is not for everyone. no, and i cannot handle violence at all, as you know. you are not going to embrace it. i'm afraid i'm out. it is not going to happen. however... let me suggest you see a fantastic woman, chile's entry for the foreign language film oscar. so the story is daniela vega, who is brilliant as marina. she is a waitress and aspiring singer who finds herself shut out of her own life when her older partner dies and herfamily — the family of her partner — suddenly descend and say "you can't come to the funeral,

you can't come to the wake, you cannot stay in the apartment you have been living with orlando in, and you need to give back the car". the reason they find her threatening, not just because she is the other woman with whom orlando ran off, but she is a transgender woman. and they consequently think that she is a threat to what they call their normal lives. throughout the film, she says "my name is marina", but they refuse to call her that. one of the sons calls her maurice. at one point, the wife calls her daniel. the whole movie is about her defining her own character, finding her own space. and what is really interesting is that her name is echoed in these visual motifs throughout the film. it opens with a waterfall, a seascape on the wall of the bedroom. the film itself goes from being classical romance to a social realist drama to a weird lynchian thriller and at one point, it turns into a musical replete with levitation sequences. i thought it was wonderful. i thought daniela vega was wonderful, mesmerising in the role. you completely understand

and care about her character and the situation she is in, and i thought it was a really good piece of work. and i loved it so much, i saw it and i went straight back and watched it again a second time because i thought there was so much in it. i think you will really like it. there is a recommendation! fantastic. i look forward to that. game night. yes. i have read quite a lot about this film and i still don't understand what it is about. ok, so it is — basically, here is the best way of describing it. game night — so therefore it lifts its rifts from the game, the david fincher movie, and date night. hence game night. there are two characters who are obsessed with games. they agree to take part in a murder mystery but when it starts off, maybe it is not a game, maybe it is real. maybe this loaded gun is not a prop. maybe it's real. that is the thrill. it is a kind of an idea we have seen done before. if you think about films like after hours or into the night, a normal couple gets sucked into strange underworld crime. however, it begins with them just having game night with their friends.

here is a clip. come on, max! and go, go, go! oh, easy — the famous actor we met at the airport about eight years ago. who? only actor we have met at an airport who's famous. bobby flay? he was in front of us at the sbarro? we wondered why he wasn't in the first class lounge. oh, yes, yes... who was that? god damn it! max, there's is a whole room of people to help you out. use us. good point. he was the incredible hulk! eric bana. other one. um, mark ruffalo? other one. lou ferrigno! holy... primal fear! richard gere never played the incredible hulk! time! ed norton. 0h! primal fear! that is why those games are so annoying. but you laughed all the way through that. i have this rule that a comedy can only count as a comedy if it makes you laugh more than six times. you laughed more than six times in that clip. here's the thing with game night.

i looked at the trailer and thought it is going to be that movie we have seen umpteen versions of but i got away with it because the cast gave it their best, the gags are funny. i do think that gag about richard gere, that is good, and that standard of gag is kept up all the way through. even through the set pieces and the very sort of contrived set—ups. they bump into people they think are playing being criminals but they are real criminals, or are they? that goes on all the way through the film, but i kept laughing. it kept me laughing, and nobody was more surprised than i was that that was the case. 0k. i am still not 100% sure. but anyway, ok. a fantastic woman is one you will love. i look forward to that and i am sure about the shape of water. i love it. i think it's wonderful. yes, i like it. do you feel as strongly as i do? i loved it in a curious way, but i enjoyed every moment. it is great that it has been multiply nominated. it looks wonderful, brilliant score, fantastic performances, and i have seen it three times

and i will watch it again, because it is a lovely fairytale that you can keep revisiting. it is splash meets the creature from the black lagoon, and that's an ideal film for me. yes, it is best out. and should i say see it on a big screen? because visually, it is so impressive. yes. when it comes out on dvd, i will tell you the opposite. i will lie. you will have it in the best dvd category. yeah. so best dvd for this week is florida project. it is a shame it wasn't more represented at the awards. i mean, everything is coming up. willem dafoe is the only one who has been represented. i think it is great. it is a humanist, wonderful, modern version of our gang brilliantly directed from the director of tangerine. such a shame it has fallen into one supporting actor nod. but that tells you what you need to know about awards — they are nonsense. well, thanks! thanks for that thought! but it is beautifully made and it is starring some people — some of the people in it have not had formal acting training, alongside people like willem dafoe. and that's what — the real genius of it is you get someone who is a seasoned professional against a first—timer

and suddenly, it works. there is no sense of having an imbalance between the performances because actually, it is because the director does a brilliantjob of putting everyone right in the space, and, you know, the whole film takes place just beyond the boundaries of disney world, so it is like you have been cast out of the magic kingdom into this netherworld. it has a sort of fairytale feel. into people in real american poverty, alongside disney world. living in a hotel designed as a resort hotel, but has become a hotel for people who are in poverty, who are essentially homeless, yet there is such vibrancy, such life, the characters are wonderful. i thought it was a terrific film. i thought it was going to be an awards contender, it will sweep the board, get everything, and thatjust shows... to be fair, you did say that — i wasn't going to remind you. i am the first to admit i can't predict awards. but there we go, it should have been nominated for more. should have been a contender.

thank you very much, mark. more next week. before we go, there are all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online — you know the address, i am sure. all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well. that is it for this week. enjoy your cinema going. see you next time. goodbye. earnit earn it toweather has been a rollercoaster of emotion. the good news is it is coming to an end. slowly, so slowly, perhaps, we will see this cold snap relinquishing its grip from across the british isles. but in the short term, and as we speak, there is another belkov whether drifting out of the midlands towards the north of england and

getting across the border —— belt of. that could be another 1—3 centimetres of snow. they had a bit wintry showers across northern and easily parts of scotland. less cold in the far south. whatever you start your journey is, if in the far south. whatever you start yourjourney is, if you have a untreated surfaces under your wheels oi’ untreated surfaces under your wheels orfeet untreated surfaces under your wheels or feet watch out for ice. a loss of ice warnings around. as we get going, no doubt about it, watery rather than wintry showers. longer spells of rain across southern parts of the british isles. it will become increasingly confined to the northern parts. the temperatures are just beginning. this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: president trump ups the ante on trade tariffs, with a threat to hike taxes on european car imports. a big step for football — video assistant referees are set to be used at this year's world cup in russia. the philippines government

warned her not to investigate alleged police killings — the un investigator tells us she won't be intimidated. the threats have also been very sexist, misogynist, sexualised. but one thing is the shawl: there will not silence me. —— one thing is for