hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. good to see you, jason. what have you been watching? this week, we'll go tomb raiding and cliffhanging with the new lara croft in tomb raider. we look at the meaning of art and find our inner ape in swedish satire the square. and we dip into biblical times for the real story of mary magdalene, as played by rooney mara, opposite joaquin phoenix as jesus. what a mixture! tomb raider is back. did they need to remake this? well, it wasn't very good the first time! often they do remakes of things that are really good and you think, ‘why have they ruined it'? but they may be trying to get this right, because angelina jolie's lara croft has dated terribly — the effects are bad and it was never quite right. tomb raider was sort of a teenage fever dream for many boys who used to play that as a game when it was early computer games,

and they've now changed the whole figure of lara croft for this new actress, who i happen to think is fantastic. she's beautiful, gorgeous, and she has got this strength to her and balletic grace, which she needs, because she has done a lot of running in this movie. she is slumming it in shoreditch when we start this, but then we find out she is the daughter of a billionaire, who is played in a flashback. she has to go and sign the papers which means that she will inherit his fortune. that was dad's? yes, miss croft. according to his will, i was supposed to give it to you. and, technically speaking, you are meant to sign the papers first. i could never understand your father's obsession

with those things. i can't believe how many of those were lying around the house. there's got to be some purpose to it. the first letter from my final destination. but he didn't leave a letter. well, they've got all the great british actors in there as well. they've lined them all up! they are only in it for a bit, i have to say — for the money, i think! she goes off on her quest — this is a quest movie. she goes hunting with clues that her father has left her. these riddles, which you might start off solving them

yourself in your head — but don't bother, because they don't make any sense, really! it's just another level of the game that she goes to. she goes to hong kong, and then she is pursued, which is all very good, then she has to go to a remote japanese island on a ship, and survive a storm, going down a waterfall and solving another puzzle. she does a lot ofjumping and then she does a lot of dangling. laughter. you know, it's a bit krypton factor! considering the indignities heaped upon her and ridiculous scenarios thrown at her, i was mesmerised by how brilliant she is at this. she brings a balletic strength to it. she's got great abs, fantastic skills with a bow and arrow, and she's far, far better than the film she is in. i wondered whether you were getting to that. she is great, but is it worth seeing apart from her?

it's very kinetic, the best i can say for it is it keeps hurling stuff at poor alicia vikander. but the climatic tomb raid is almost laughable — it looks like something that you get on the back of the cereal packet! it's like, is that what this has all been about?! maybe there will be more tomb raiders and maybe they will get them better! they will keep trying. i'm loving the sound of the next one, it sounds intriguing. it won the palm d'or at cannes, and has taken a year to get here, but it was nominated as best foreign—language film at the baftas. much of it was not in swedish. dominic west and elisabeth moss are in this. it features one of the great scenes of the year, which we are seeing here.

an american actor comes in as an artist. it is an art world satire. this is an art gallery benefit dinner. he comes in to do a performance piece, but takes it far too far. here he is kind of goading dominic west. it's about finding art in that era. it's a satire on the art world. art that can be dated, what's the point of art, is it ridiculous? this is about modern art. it's about the curator of this gallery that we're seeing here. he loses his mobile phone, and his life completely falls apart and unravels. it really is a sort of film predicated on that. is that in the category of first—world problems?! it is very much about white male privilege and what it is to be a man in the privileged world. like, here they are in their black ties, and he is an artist. this scene goes on for 11 minutes, and you can't stop watching. it's extraordinary, but you don't know how to react to it. it's all about, what would you do in that situation? it keeps throwing moral quandaries at you. it's very funny, but also very thought—provoking,

perhaps a bit too thought—provoking, like the monkey poking dominic west in the ear. you have been to see mary magdalene as well. it's easter coming up, time for a passion story. this is purported to tell for the first time the story of mary magdalene, who has been cast as a prostitute since pope gregory in 591 declared that she was a prostitute, which is apparently wrong — she wasn't. this film aims to correct that and show the jesus story through the eyes of the only female disciple, mary magdalene, played by rooney mara, who leaves her fishing village and follows the son of god. mary.

each of you stand at the threshold. do you fear that you will never reach the kingdom? whose kingdom? you know as well as i do, there's only one true kingdom. and that is god's. and god's kingdom has taken root. so we must prepare. we must wash away the stains of your corruption. and be born anew. like children. i have been hidden for too long. i'm not sure what to say about that! you can see why her father would be upset if she went to follow him, this kind of hairy bloke who's really boring!

whatever you think about the bible, there's no denying it's got some great lines in it. why this film hasn't got any of them is a mystery to me. it is extraordinarily dull. is it a long couple of hours? absolutely so dull you would not believe it! it even looks dull, it has got this tablecloth fashion with the stones everywhere in the desert. at one stage it was the greatest story ever told, when it was in hollywood, now it's just the most boring story ever told. it's extraordinary what it does, trying to rectify it and make it a story for a new age, kind of a story for everyone — it won't offend catholics, christians, jews, muslims or even atheists. is it trying to be too careful, is that part of the problem? it is trying to tiptoe over any heresy. people boycotted martin scorcese‘s film. any film that makes you pine for mel gibson has got it wrong!

it also makes you think of monty python all the time! there are scenes when people are going, ‘messiah, messiah‘. you know what, he's not the messiah! i do wish you'd say what you really think, jason! so that's a long two hours, and we'll leave it at that. i don't think this will make a lot of money at the box office, either. i think faith—based audiences will go and be completely mystified as to what this was about. it is a passion of the christ without any passion. what should we be going to see? you've got to see black panther. and you've got to see it now at the cinema. it is becoming a cultural event — people are seeing it four or five times, it has broken records at the box office, it is changing the way that audiences are going, black audiences are flocking to it, families are enjoying the representation. it is a great superhero movie, it's sexy, it's exciting, it's funny. people are hollering at it in the cinema.

if you haven't been to a marvel movie in the cinema, this is the one to go and see. and dvd of the week is also so lovely. i will admit, i cried at paddington 2! but it's a delight, it's an absolute sweet, delightful, charming, sometimes silly, butjust lovely, lovely, lovely. beautifully done... he is in his little outfits, wondering around. paddington didn't win best british film at the baftas, that went to three billboards. this is one of the best british films we've ever made. and how good is hugh grant?! he's fantastic! he is. and sally hawkins is great in it, the whole brown family, the whole look of it is perfect. it's a work of genius, paddington two. and when did you cry?! i cried at the end! i'm not going to give anything away for anyone who hasn't been to see it.

if you want a marmalade sandwich, you can't have one! it's very sweet, wonderful. a mixed week, but an interesting one. jason, good to see you, thank you. that's it for this week. enjoy your cinema—going and your dvd watching. it's terrific, honestly! thanks for being with us. goodbye. i have even been to see the film. you may well weep with the weather i'm about to deliver to you. just in time for the weekend. it will recall very much around that sort of thing. look at the sort of temperatures we have have today. we will come back to the three, five and seven later but look at these high temperatures. it hasn't been a picnic everywhere for the last couple of days. the

north eastern port of england opted to the east of scotland have been awful. west has been glorious. here in swansea has seen a lovely end to the day. forget all about this sort of thing, because all of us know and ice and disruption at the start. of us as ice and disruption at the start. of us as early as tonight. this band of snow comes over to light. it is a harem as you wake up on saturday. you have not seen a knife as cold as that for a while. why the change? —— you have not seen a night as cold as that for a while. there is high pressure over scandinavia which whips in over the north sea, picking up whips in over the north sea, picking up much as it does and what i am showing you now, i have taken off the cloud and this is where we think the cloud and this is where we think the bulk of the showers will fall on the bulk of the showers will fall on the day in saturday. a bitterly cold day. whether you see the showers or not, it will not be a warm day. five

oi’ not, it will not be a warm day. five or6 not, it will not be a warm day. five or 6 degrees in the south but even thatis or 6 degrees in the south but even that is a drop. at this stage there is already three amber warnings from the met office. starting saturday afternoon and they are for snow and ice. it is going to be a real problem. amber, we are not messing around, just one stage below the red which is life—threatening. these snow showers on into sunday morning just keep coming. it will be a cold night so there will be web services and lying snow and ice will be a problem. sunday is a different kettle of fish, it looks as if many of the showers begin to drift away towards the west. leaving dry conditions in its wake for sunday afternoon. but no warmer. it is a cold weekend right across the country. if that is too cold for you, hang in there because next week is less cold eventually. there is a

tri—star and then it turns left u nsettled tri—star and then it turns left unsettled but think snow, big eyes and you won't go far wrong. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 9pm... police launched a murder enquiry into the death of another russian exile in london, they say there is nothing to link this to the poisoning in salisbury. an 18—year—old is convicted of attempted murder following the tube bombing in west london. ahmed hassan was on the government's anti—radicalisation programme, prevent. on the face of it, he was engaged in the programme but coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive nature to what he was planning as nobody around jim knew what his plot was. is the beast back? — snow, high winds and sub—zero temperatures could mean disruption for travellers. also this hour — rescuers in miami say there are no more survivors

following yesterday's bridge collapse. at least six people died.