-- sdip, five minutes. i remember it. -- sdp. we are online. that's it for the papers tonight. 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, kate and yasmin. coming up next, it's the film review. we've just got time to bring you an update on the situation in new york city, where there has been a fire tonight on the 50th floor of trump tower. these are some of the pictures from the scene. the us president is in washington and has congratulated the firefighters. the new york fire department say they have been no injuries. and a p pa re ntly have been no injuries. and apparently the fire is now out. now on bbc news, 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 james king. good to see you, james. what have you been watching? well, this week, wejourney into the dark recesses of martin freeman's mind in ghost stories. then we travel to 1920s new york in todd haynes‘ family drama wonderstruck. and, finally, we go to jennifer garner's sofa in the much talked about teen movie love, simon. and, look, we've barely begun and i already have a bone to pick with you. because i thought, right, so the good dr kermode is away for a couple of weeks. he is, yes. i thought i'll have a respite from him haranguing me about horror films, and what have you brought me? well, i tell you what, it is a peach of a weekend for horror movie fans because we're going to talk about ghost stories

in a second. there's also this film, which we haven't got time to talk about, called a quiet place, starring emily blunt, which is.. which is way too scary for me — oh, my goodness. very scary, worth your money. so if you like your horror movies, your scary movies, this is a great weekend for you. let's focus on ghost stories, this is british horror written and directed by andy nyman and jeremy dyson. so andy regularly works with derren brown, jeremy part of the league of gentlemen team. and the movie stars andy nyman, he's a psychic investigator, a debunker, a cynic, a sceptic who believes that there's logical explanations for all supposedly supernatural goings—on, but then he gets handed three cases and he just cannot crack these cases, and they start to make him question his own beliefs. one of them features the great paul whitehouse as a night security guard. if you're afraid of the dark, you might want to look away now. here he is. 0k! right, listen, you've got two minutes to get out of this building before i come for you. if that's you...

right. come here... laughs. how are you feeling? i saw the trailer in the cinema about a week ago and even the trailer freaked me out! i thought, i can't go and see this, sorry! but if you love this kind of thing, is it worth seeing? well, absolutely, because it's clearly made by people who do love this kind of thing, and who know their horror movies, there are nods in this to hammer horror, there's very strong nods to an old horror movie called dead of night, an ealing horror movie from 1945, which really influenced the guys when they were making it. so they know their history of horror, they know how to twist the knife, they know how to make you jump out of your seat

and they have fun doing it. it's hokum, really, and theatrical, it's actually based on a stage play. but fun, yes, but also very scary. what i really liked about it is that, obviously, it's probably made on a limited budget, but the locations are just fantastic in this. they have this... very bleak british...from the look of what i've seen, yeah. yeah, absolutely. they have this sort of delicious drabness about them, like a crumbling seaside town, you know, out of season, and that really adds to the atmosphere as well. with those great performances, martin freeman, i mentioned earlier, alex lawther has a good role as a troubled teenager, and paul whitehouse. i mean, if you expect paul whitehouse to be funny in this, well, there's a couple of laughs, but, ultimately, i think it's a really moving performance from him. he's very good at dramatic acting. fascinating, but you don't get the laughs, i don't think! now, you bring us as well this week

a todd haynes feature. a big fan of todd haynes. me too! and this is interesting because i think a year ago, when we saw this on paper, this movie, would have said, well, this is probably going to be an awards contender, and actually, here we are in april and it's being released with very little fanfare and didn't feature in any awards. it's one of those things that couldn've been great and i don't think it quite achieves that. so, as you said, todd haynes directed it, brian selznick wrote it, he made hugo with martin scorsese. so good, quality names. a couple of storylines going on — there's a storyline set in 1977 about a young boy, a deaf boy who runs away to new york to find his father. and then there's a separate story, they ultimately cross over, but there's a separate story set in 1927 new york about a young girl, we can see her here, who falls in love with the city and falls in love with the natural history museum. and i suppose, interestingly, that element is shot in black and white, it's shot a bit like a silent movie from the era, so that's quite a nice artistic touch and it is quite good at that sense of wonder you have as a child

when you go to the big city for the first time and you have that sort of awestruck feeling. it captures that. but i do think it is pretty clunky in terms of the way it tells its story, there's a lot of coincidence, there's a lot of — too much willing suspension of disbelief for the audience, and just too many unanswered questions, really. so it's one of those movies that could've been great, and 12 months ago, i was expecting this to be an academy award winner. now, i think it's going to be quickly forgotten. 0k, love, simon — is that going to be quickly forgotten? i hope not. it's groundbreaking in many ways, this film, isn't it? yeah, yeah, this is really interesting because it's a teen movie, it's a high school movie, stars a guy called nick robinson — not that nick robinson, although he would be great — bbc political editor. this is a young actor, an american actor who was injurassic world a couple of years ago. so it's, yeah, teen movie, high school movie, a lot of familiar teen movie traits in it, the kind of — the sassy teachers and the wacky friends and the eccentric family, but the big twist is, i suppose,

is that he's coming out. so he's learning to deal with his sexuality and tell his friends and tell his family. here's a clip. 0k, great. i'mjust like you. for the most part, my life is totally normal. my dad was the annoyingly handsome quarterback who married the hot valedictorian. and, no, they didn't peak in high school. i have a sister i actually like, not that i'd ever tell her that. and last year, in 200 episodes of chop to go, she decided she wanted to be a chef. and then there's my friends — two of them i've known since pretty much the beginning of time, or at least kindergarten. and one of them, ijust met a few months ago, but it feels like i've known her forever. we do everything friends do — we drink too much ice coffee, watch had '905 movies and hang out at waffle house dreaming of college and gorging on carbs. so, like i said...|'m just like you. i have a totally perfectly normal life. except i have one huge—ass secret. and that kind of says it all because it looks like classic

hollywood, nicely made, everyone's nice looking, everyone's got big houses, it all looks like a nice, easy watch. and i think, are we right in saying this the first time a big, major film studio has made a film with a gay kid right at heart of it? this is the first time! absolutely, yeah, absolutely, yeah, a big studio picture. and it is desperately trying to be as mainstream and as "normal" as possible, and that's a bold thing. that's something i really liked about it. i would say the downside to that is it's occasionally just too normal! a little bit more edge wouldn't have gone amiss. occasionally, it's a little predictable. i mean, i love high school movies and teen movies, so you know the traits and they're all in there, and they feel, at this stage, a little overfamiliar. but i think what gets it by is the charm — it's an incredibly charming movie. the lead character, the music's really good as well, a guy called jack antonov who's a big sort of writer—producer, works with taylor swift a lot. so there's a lot going for it that

kind of papers over the cracks. it is a little predictable, it is a little too mainstream for me, but there is that charm there and, ultimately, like you said, we can't deny this is breaking new ground. and interesting, in america, some celebrities have started buying out screenings of this and giving away free tickets because there is, with the whole film, this desire for it to be seen by as many people as possible, and being released here over the easter holidays to a big, mainstream teen audience, you know, they're really going for it with this. and in the states, it's worked, it's a big hit. well, there's a lot of positives to take from that. yeah, absolutely. and best out this week, you've chosen wes anderson. yeah, which you've seen, right? isle of dogs. dog owner, dog lover...went in very excited. yes...oh, dear. here we go! no, no, mixed feelings. i mean, visually amazing. wes anderson is so creative. visually, it was extraordinary, but i thought where it worked best was the interplay between the whole dogs and humans thing — that was great.

that the story, ultimately, was a bit feeble, i thought, sadly. sometimes, his stories generally, i think, get a little overcomplicated, and i would say it's similar with this one. i love that stop—motion animation in it, though. it's very clever. it's very — it's sort of this — because it's set injapan, isn't it, so it's this weird mix of, like, japanese anime and the clangers. it's quite an unusual thing to watch. but i think it really works. i loved its eccentricity, i loved its humour — very deadpan, dark humour. clearly, if you don't like wes anderson movies, because it's more of the same, this isn't the one that's going to win you over. he makes very arch films and this is definitely very arch. but i think, for me, because of that bond between humans and dogs that it's all about, it does have a bit more of a heart than some of his other films, which is why i really liked it. quirky! quirky is perhaps the word for that one. file under quirky. a quick thought about dvd, for someone who wants to stay in?

well, the lastjedi — so this is episode viii of star wars, came out at christmas at the cinema, and a lot of people saying it's the greatest one ever. i think it's too early to say that, but it's clearly a very good star wars movie. for me it really gets an..:‘ that'sjégst 359} .- f .-. f ”f ”f” it for this week. plenty to reflect on. enjoy your cinema—going this weekend. see you next week. bye— bye. here is your latest live update from

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