to earth in wyoming, and the everglades where one is swallowed by an alligator, and in the san diego zoo gorilla sanctuary where former special ops secret servicemen dwaynejohnson is now working as a primatologist. is he now? yes. it all goes wrong and he has to end up running around with a scientist played by naomi harris who gets her gets her moneypenny on and starts bantering with him like she's in a bond movie. how the hell do we get off of this roof? maybe we don't have to get off the roof. what? we definitely do. come on, come on. david, there is no tail on this helicopter. that's right, we don't need one. you do if you want to fly. we're not going to fly, we're going to crash. what?! we just need to get enough lift to stay on top of the building as it falls. you know, just like riding an avalanche.

no, i don't know. ok, i'm never getting in a plane with him, i've established that much. i wouldn't get in one with her either. she is bad luck, that one. this is what happens when you get an oscar nomination. you get to run around with the rock. clearly, because naomi harris, last seen in moonstruck. moonlight, even. that would be perfect for her as well. is itfun? it is deliriously fun. it could be awful, you never know with the rock. it could be a bad film or a great film. the thing is he's become the biggest movie star in the world right now and he pulled this movie single—handedly like hercules would with a blockbuster on his back all the way over the line. it is deliriously silly. he can play charades with the gorilla here. i think it is three words, book, war film, tv, and peace, clearly, he's got that softness to him.

i don't know what to make of this. it really, really works. the gorilla kind of eats the pathogen, goes outside becomes king kong, takes out chicago. it has stupid lines like "we've got to get to chicago before the alligator and the wolf level the city." but it works. oh, my god. it somehow works. mainly because of the rock's star power, mainly because of its preposterousness and maybe because like very good monster movies, all the way back to godzilla it somehow it is about man's folly. it's about american eid run wild, it's about metaphor, it's about consumerism and greed, scientific experiments gone wrong, which one is trump, which one is putin? i don't know. it'd take the rock to sort them out. and he does it brilliantly. this is what saturday night at the movies is all about. you go and see this, you come out thinking i'm so glad i spent my money on this. i'm so glad i'm with my mates or my dates. this is what it's all about and i guarantee you a strong hit rate if you recommend this to your friends. 0k. i'm not sure about it as a date film, but anyway. i willjust take your word for that, jason. having said that i'm not sure, striking though it looks, that the next film is a date film at all.

no. that looks like a very, very tough watch. it's the bad result of a date movie, this is about a custody battle, a bitter divorce gone wrong. it's a french movie called custody starring an actor who you may remember was the father in the opening scene of quentin tarantino's inglorious bustards, where he was the father protecting his family in one of the best scenes tarantino has ever done. he protected his family there under the threat from the ss officer. here he is the father again providing the threat himself. he plays a father called who's been awarded custody of his 12—year—old son played by that young actor. the son is petrified of his father. he can't seem to tell the courts why and they will not listen because the father has a right to see the kid and the mother has to share everything. it is a very strange award from the court that he's managed to charmingly flirt his way to and here we see the sun absolutely petrified. i've never really seen

a scene like this before as a father to a young child as well. this was awfully tense as well. the threat that he brings here, every time he pops up or every time he sends a text message, he can ruin the family atmosphere, just the threat of his father. while we never see what domestic terrorism or abuse, it's clearly got this terrible effect on the family, but it plays out like a thriller, almost like a sort of serial killer movie in a way. it reminded me slightly of fatal attraction, but in a very french, realistic way. i thought it was very, very tense. i don't know when you would go to see this at the cinema. not a date movie, but very, very well performed by all, in particular the kid who is outstanding in this. 0k, a tough watch but domestic violence an important topic, but it depends. as we see the effect of violence, the dread of that and that's what makes it all the more powerful. very, very different third choice. absolutely. it's a rich and diverse palette here.

this is a netflix film called the titan, also out on the big screen as well. it is out on netflix and probably playing somewhere in space as well because it's about a mission, secret mission run by tom wilkinson to populate saturn's moon. earth is... in 2048, there is no water left, there's too many people. we need to populate another planet and the only one we can do is saturn's moon titan which isjust like earth but a lot colder. a bit like aberdeen. i am saying nothing. they have to genetically modify people again. we see genetic modification. theme of the week. they genetically modify sam worthington, a group of top gun applicants who all undergo these experiments and they try to lower their body temperature so all they can do is feel really hot or really cold on earth, even when they turn the air conditioning up, which makes them a prime candidate to take the ice bucket challenge with their wife at midnight. go on.

i don't want to put my hands in there. go on, i want to show you something. geez! fine. now what? i don't feel any cold. i feel cold just watching that scene.

you don't want those clammy hands on you, do you? he said he didn't feel any cold, i didn't feel anything watching this movie at all. he gets colder and colder and eventually they sort of turn into fish, which there is a lot of that going on these days with the shape of water. isn't there? a theme of inter—species romances going on. i think it is an interesting movie, i think it's an interesting idea. you have a sci—fi that does not become a sci—fi, there are no ships leaving earth. it is all here, done in gran canary, a sort of moonlight rock in the atlantic ocean. there's an interesting experiment and it's a netflix movie, so it got sort of a spanish actor and a german actor and a mexican actor. it has taylor schilling playing the wife, who's a big netflix star, and sam worthington there and tom wilkinson is the general in charge of this experiment. you've got to have a brit. yes. a brit in charge. he looks really, sort of, distasteful in the script as if an

offence to a man who should be playing king lear by now. yes, frankly. it does not really work. it's not fun in the way that rampage is. no, it does not have a sense of its own absurdity. you have to bring that yourself. there is plenty of room for laughing at it, itjust does not want you to. not in the right way. in terms of best out, a film that we did not get a chance to talk about on the film review a couple of weeks ago, and you have chosen something really interesting. yes, this is i think one of the films of the year. i'm very surprised it did not win at cannes last year with the announcement of that coming out this week as well. it is called 120 bpm in english. and it's about the havoc wrought by the aids virus in the ‘90s paris and an activist group which is a real life story, and their bid to get recognised and get help for their dying community. it is a gay film about the gay community, it does feature some sort of fairly, not graphic, but i would say blunt gay relationships. gay sex.

as you would expect in a film about aids, but it was so extraordinarily realistic. i felt as if i was watching a documentary and that is not a criticism, but an observation. that is how real it felt. the director was part of the group at the time. and what's great about the film, the very details of how it works, in the meetings they all clicked their fingers rather than protest. it is about the urgency of a community facing death and not being heard, really. yes, it has gay sex but it has love in it too. it has outstanding club scenes as well when it's about this joy of life, fear of death and how to face itm and the relationships forged in that adversity and they are very real and very real memories for many people as well. i think it's a tremendously important film, not a self—important film, a joyous film and really one of the most important and interesting of the year. very important and the dvd briefly inspired by a real event that people, everyone will remember as

well, the boston marathon bombing. yes, in 2013. the real—life story of a man whose legs were blown off at the finish line, but who recognised one of the bombers and led police to solve that case. he's played brilliantly byjake gyllenhaal in a performance everyone was 0scar tipping and for some reason he did not get that nomination and the film fell by the wayside. it's much better than that, he's tremendous in it as he always is, very reliable and helps it all the way through. very interesting film of all victims. and interesting mixed bag. good to see you, thank you very much indeed for being with us. that is it for this week. enjoy your cinema going, whatever you decide to go see. bye— bye. good evening. they say familiarity breeds contempt. many of us have seen seems like these. underneath the grey and murky conditions it has been pretty cold. that was how it looks in edinburgh a little bit

earlier on today. but there are now finally at long last signs of a change. clouds breaking up in the south. parts of kent for example, got to see a burst of sunshine afternoon. the extensive cloud that lingered across the country during today, you can see there are some holes appearing in that cloud especially down towards the south as we went on through the afternoon. as we went on through the afternoon. as we head through the rest of this evening and tonight, clearer skies will continue to edge north, still a lot of cloud across parts of scotla nd lot of cloud across parts of scotland and northern england, misty and murky conditions here. we're in skies for south, there could be some mist and fog patches developing as well. temperatures are not falling too far, five, six, 7 degrees or something like that to take us into tomorrow morning. as far as the weekend goes, well, some prospects ofan weekend goes, well, some prospects of an improvement. it will warm up and we will see some spells of sunshine. increasingly breezy. there will still be outbreaks of rain at times, not completely plain sailing. saturday should certainly be part of then a lot of what we have had recently. there could be some low cloud, mist and fog around to start

up. we will see patchy clouds in the day but a decent chance wherever you are at seeing some spells of sunshine with a possible exception of outbreak of rain. showers getting in later in the day. temperatures in the sunshine are doing quite nicely. i6 the sunshine are doing quite nicely. 16 or maybe 17 or 18 degrees and a lot warmer than it has been for the north sea coast as well. the national is taking place tomorrow. it should be dry, a bit of sunshine peeking through the clouds. 1a degrees is the temperature. as we go into sunday, this area of low pressure tries to push its way in from the atlantic. that will strengthen the wind sold is going to be quite a breezy day on sunday. write a windy day across northern ireland particularly and we will see a fund done at frontal system bringing rain northwards and east is. -- bringing rain northwards and east is. —— northwards and eastwards. no way will it be raining all day long. there will still be spells of sunshine. for the northeast of scotla nd sunshine. for the northeast of scotland and eastern england as well. there are temperatures in these areas doing quite nicely at 12-17d. these areas doing quite nicely at 12—17d. then as we go into next

week, things arejust 12—17d. then as we go into next week, things are just going to keep on turning warmer, especially once we tap into the supply of very warm airfrom the near kontinen, let me show you what happens to the temperatures in our capital cities. well up into the 20s, particularly down into the soft but even further north close to 20 degrees and that warmth looks like it will last her out next week. this is bbc world news today. i'm kasia madera. 0ut top story... tensions over syria could lead to "full—blown military escalation" the united nations secretary general issues the dire warning — and says the cold war was back with a vengeance. the situation in the middle east is in chaos, to such an extent that it has become a threat to international peace and security. the us state department says it has proof that syria was behind the chemical attack in douma. russia insists it was staged by britain. donald trump describes james comey as an "untruthful slime ball",

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