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? a very exciting week, we have ready player one, steven spielberg adventure, stop motion from wes anderson in isle of dogs, not that one! and journeyman, a paddy considine drama that really packs a punch. steven spielberg, what did you make of it? the setup is that real life in the future is squalid and people spend their time in second life as avatars in this great big computer game called the oasis, where they can get possessions and accrue things. but if they get killed in the game they will lose everything. easter eggs in the game are hidden within it by its designer who is a benevolent figure who has now passed on. our hero, his avatar, in the game, is looking for the keys that will give him the domain of the game.

however, ben mendelsohn‘s slimy businessman is also trying to get those keys so you have the interplay between the avatar world, the unreal world, and the real world. it works surprisingly well. here's a clip. wade owen watts, born august 12 2027. i know where you are, you were seen entering the trailer, three days ago and you haven't left since. what are you doing? with all going on in this world do you think anyone gives a damn about some explosion in some ghetto trash warren in columbus? don't do this, i'm running in there. not for long. pick up, pick up, alice!

it looks expensive, i will say that much. it is a steven spielberg film! realworld, unrealworld, one of the things i liked about it is the interplay between the two worlds. the other thing is that the virtual world is packed with pop culture references from the 70s and 80s, early on someone produces the spaceship from silent running. i was won over, then that is the delorean from the film back to the future. you think this could become just about spotting the references but it is a real popcorn sugar rush thrill ride. you can tell spielberg loves the avatar world he has created. and you get emotionally engaged with the characters. it would be easy this to become just a technical exercise, when you spot the references and look at the visuals but you care about the story, the story makes

sense and believe me if the story is set in a computer game and makes sense to me, it will make sense to anyone! i went in, with trepidation and i watched everything with a huge smile, i laughed, i was excited, swept along by the action. i loved the constant pop culture references, some i got, some i didn't, it didn't make a difference. i thought, it is a really great popcorn candyfloss film making by a master who understands how to do this and who obviously has created many of the pop culture references to which this film refers. self—referential but in a way that didn't distance me from it, i would not have anticipated that. that is our easter viewing sorted! a shame because i was going to go home and say i want to see isle of dogs. i am a dog lover, very excited. i'm also a dog owner

and a cat owner. it's stop motion from wes anderson set in japan in the future. all the dogs have been taken to nagasaki city and sent to this trash island on the pretext of protecting humans from an outbreak of dog flu. all these dogs are dumped on this island and a young boy separated from his dog which has been sent to the island flies there to try to find him. when he gets there he finds a pack, they describe themselves as scary indestructible alpha dogs, their battle cry is let's have a vote. they help him find his lost dog. read this as a parable about outsiders and closed borders, or a story about leadership and pack action. you can see it as a lovely film about a boy and a lost dog. there is... is it fun, serious? both those things. really good fun, often very funny and because it is wes anderson, quirky and offbeat. some things in it are quite grisly.

there's a sort of live sushi sequence, our young hero gets a propeller pop stuck in his head at one point and one dog is told to stop licking his wounds, literally, and you even get an organ transplant, so it's not entirely cute and cuddly. it is scratchy. notjust the dogs, it's the animation. it has this lovely tactile quality and a very good voice cast, bryan cra nston, scarlett joha nsson. the visuals are breathtaking. as i watched i thought, i must see this again because you miss so much on a first viewing. every time you look at a frame it is full of delights, you want to watch it again. some things about it are beautiful, some are harsh, you have to see both of them. you have to see that and ready player one. i'm so excited about paddy considine. i feel physically winded from watching that film but in a good way. this isjourneyman, starring

paddy considine, he has a title to defend and he's also a husband and father. in a boxing match he is punched heavily and severely injured. he has a life changing injury and suddenly finds himself having to rebuild his character because the injury has changed who he is and what he knows and what he does. and also what he can remember about his life. this is a clip. that'sjackie. he's in your corner. who's that. that is ritchie, your trainer. and my dad? yes, you know him. that's matt. matt. that's me. yeah.

my friends? yes. who are they? that is a good question. that is one of the most poignant parts, because those friends... they don't know how to deal with it. what i love about this is, paddy considine is a personalfilm maker making films that come from the heart. the title isjourneyman which means one thing that it is the story of a man going on a journey. i thinkjodie whittaker, who plays his wife, is brilliant. you feel her presence even when she isn't there. the narrative is straightforward but you believe every minute of it, he's struggling to remember something. you can see him struggling, what he is doing through his physicalisation he is externalising something which is interior which is very hard to do, there's one scene

when he's on the phone to jodie whittaker. his wife. i was in pieces. in floods of tears. i am so glad you liked it. i thought it was terrific. you completely believe in the characters. i don't know anything about boxing. i have never been to a boxing match. i couldn't watch one, i can't watch something where you think somebody might get hurt and by definition this is what happens. although is evident that paddy considine has great affection for boxing. i think it's really interesting. three really interesting films, go and see any or all of them, it will be a packed weekend. i'm going to be busy. what is the best of the bunch. have you seen this film by lynne ramsey? promise me that you will see it. let me sell it to you like this.

it is tough, joaquin phoenix plays a hit man character going to get a lost teenager and it has violence and brutality but it is done poetically. done in a way which is moving, often funny and touching. and very poetic. not the film it sounds like when you describe the plot, i promise. in the same way that journeyman is not a story about boxing, it's not really about boxing. you will love it. dvd of the week? ingrid goes west, this young woman who can't distinguish between social media and reality. it reminds me of the brilliant film the king of comedy. it is kind of like a stalker story, on the one hand dark and sinister, on the other hand comic and it walks that tightrope very well.

didn't get a big audience in cinemas but deserves one on dvd, i thought it was terrific. thumbs up across the board. so much great stuff to watch. i'd be really interested to know what you think of ready player one and the isle of dogs. i will see them both. thank you, mark. just a reminder, you can find all the film reviews from across the bbc online. this is the address. all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer of course. particularly, this easter long weekend, enjoy your cinemagoing because there are some real treats to watch. a busy weekend ahead. bye bye. hello there. our easter sunday wasn't too bad. a lot of cloud. it

felt quite cool. the best of me sunshine in parts of scotland. it looks like things are changing across the south of the country, windy weather pushing in across england and wales, courtesy of this low pressure. it will bring problematic whether for easter monday. people hitting the roads and travelling back from their holiday, there will be some in the forecast which will cause some problems. as we start easter monday, most of the snow over the high ground and wales in troop central parts and northern england, into northern ireland. the snow continues to fall. we could see it to lower levels in northern ireland, central, southern scotland, and into the north pennines. up to 15 centimetres in places. out on a strong east south—east wind, there will be drifting with the snow. a vicious combination. a couple of centimetres in places. there will be this issue of snow and sleet. turning back to raina further south

as milder and starts to push in. a better afternoon, temperatures 10— 13 celsius. far north of scotland it will stay dry, cold, with wintry showers before this band of sleet and snow reaches their later on in the day. it will be introducing jack ma the air, like a surgical or that area of low pressure moves northwards. the orange colours move up northwards. the orange colours move up from northwards. the orange colours move upfrom spain northwards. the orange colours move up from spain and france. from tuesdayit up from spain and france. from tuesday it will feel very mild, very springlike, spells of sunshine across england and wales. you could see a scattering of heavy, thundery showers. maybe longer spells of reigned for northern ireland. the vandals are continuing to affect the northern half of scotland, accumulating over the hills. low pressure still with us as we head on

into wednesday, bringing unsettled conditions. bands of showers or rain across this area of low pressure. wintry over the playground of scotla nd wintry over the playground of scotland as it will continue to turn cool scotland as it will continue to turn cool. —— higher ground. maybe thundery showers. top temperatures, 13-14 thundery showers. top temperatures, 13— 1a celsius. it is set to turn a milder after this stubby outbreak during easter monday. he changed to the weather forecast and head online to see further warnings —— keep tuned. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. the headlines: k—pop diplomacy. north korea's leader kim jong—un attends a concert by south korean pop stars — another sign of the countries‘ improving relations. people return to the philippine city of marawi, a year after much of it was destroyed in battles between the army and islamic state—allied fighters. i'm kasia madera in london.

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