yeah, well, this is a monster movie mashup of every monster movie you've ever seen before. think king kong gorilla, thinkjumanji because it's got the rock in it, or dwaynejohnson as we must now call him. it's got alligators that are genetically mutated into something enormous. this is a monster movie, yes, but it's also a disaster movie because it's got all the world exploding and things going wrong. it's about a space experiment that's gone terribly wrong, as they tend to do, so don't do any experiments in space. don't try this at home. yes, genetically modified pathogens fall 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 serviceman dwayne johnson is now working as a primatologist. is he now? yes, he is. well, let's. .. it all goes wrong and he has to end up running around with a scientist played by naomie harris, who gets her moneypenny on and starts bantering with him like she's in a bond movie. how the hell do we get off this roof?

maybe we don't have to get off the roof at all. what? we definitely do. come on, come on. david, there's no tail on this helicopter. that's right, we don't need one. well, 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 that 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's bad luck, that one. this is what happens when you get an oscar nomination. you suddenly get to run around with the rock. clearly, because naomie harris, last seen in moonstruck, of course. moonlight, even. that would be perfect for her as well. that would be. is itfun? it's deliriously fun.

it could be awful, you never know with the rock. it could be an awful film or a great film. the thing is he's become the biggest movie star in the world right now and he hauls this movie single—handedly, like hercules would, with a blockbuster on his back all the way over the line. it's deliriously silly. he can play charades with the gorilla here. i think it is three words, book, warfilm, 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, kind of takes out chicago. it has stupid lines like, "we've gotta 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 the 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 id run wild, it's about metaphor, it's about consumerism and greed, scientific experiments gone wrong, which one is trump,

which one putin there? i don't know. it takes 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'll 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'll just 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. the bad result of date movies, this is about a custody battle, a bitter divorce gone wrong. it's a french movie called custody, starring an actor called denis menochet, who you may remember was the father in the opening scene of quentin tarantino's inglorious bastards, where he was the father protecting his family in one of the best scenes tarantino's ever done. he protected his family there under the threat from the ss officer. here he's the father again

but providing the threat himself. he plays a father called antoine 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's a very strange award from the court that he's managed to charmingly flirt his way to and here we see the son 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 done in a very

french, realistic way. i thought it was very, very tense. i don't really know when you would go to see this at the cinema. as i say, not a date movie, but very, very well performed by all, particularly the kid, who is outstanding in this. 0k, a tough watch but domestic violence an important topic, but it depends what you... as we see the effect of violence, the dread of that and that's what makes it all the more powerful. more powerful, yes, yes. 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's 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 kind of blown up here. we're in 2048 here, 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 is just like earth but a lot colder. a bit like aberdeen. i'm saying nothing, jason solomons. they have to genetically modify people. again, we've seen this kind of 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 prime candidates to take the ice bucket challenge with their wife at midnight. go on. rick, i don't want to put my hands in there. go on, i want to show you something. geez!

so cold! 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 says he doesn'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. a theme of inter—species romances going on. i think it's an interesting movie, i think it's an interesting idea. you have a sci—fi that doesn't become a sci—fi,

there are no ships leaving earth. it's all here, it's set in gran canaria, a sort of moon—like rock in the atlantic ocean, of course. there's an interesting experiment and it's a netflix movie, so it's got sort of a spanish actor and a german actor and a mexican actor. it's got taylor schilling playing the wife, who's a big netflix star from orange is the new black, 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 doesn't really work. it's not fun in the way that rampage is. no, it doesn't have a sense of its own absurdity. you have to bring all that yourself. right. there's plenty of room for laughing at it, itjust does not want you to. not in the right way. in terms of best out, let's talk about a film that we didn't get a chance to talk about on the film review a couple

of weeks ago, and you've chosen something really interesting. yes, this is i think one of the best films of the year. i'm very surprised it did not win the prize at cannes last year with the announcement of that coming out this week as well. it's called 120 bpm in english. or 120 battements par minute in french. and it's about the havoc wrought by the aids virus in the ‘90s paris and an activist group called act up, 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. and 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's not a criticism, but it's an observation. that is how real it felt. the director, robin campillo, was part of act up at the time. and what really is great about the film, are the very details of how it works, in the meetings they all clicked their fingers rather than protest.

it's 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 it 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 ofjeff bauman, 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 by jake gyllenhaal in a performance everyone was oscar tipping and for some reason he did not get that oscar 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. an 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. to the to the degrees, or the 29th of august 2018, guess what? somewhere in the south—east this week there is the potential to see 25 degrees. —— 25 degrees. widespread temperatures across the uk expected wednesday into thursday, something to look forward to. on monday morning, a relatively quiet start, this area of low pressure slowly starting to show a ten by the end of the day but ahead of it, a little bit of showery rain for scotland. hopefully with some brightness he and there, the best of the sunshine likely across the extreme south. highs of 13 to 15 degrees. turning increasingly windy,

gail is likely with the arrival of this area of low pressure. bringing some rain, some of it heavy to northern ireland, scotland and north—west england. some heavy rain for time but the weather front really will weaken substantially as it pushes its way south and east, behind it a little bit of pressure with a few scattered showers and highs likely of 1a to 15 degrees. easton, south—east england, we could see 1819 and that will feel quite pleasant. as we move into wednesday, we need to look across the continent with this high pressure building and thatis with this high pressure building and that is going to be the driving force of the story. it will deflect whether funds from the atlantic up into the north—west at the same time around at high in a clockwise direction, the wind will start to come in warmer and south—easterly and that is why those temperatures are going to start to climb above the seasonal average for this time

of year. get out and enjoy it if you can. we will season show ran to northern ireland and western scotla nd northern ireland and western scotland for a time, not quite as warm here, 16 or 17 degrees. the south—east, a high likely of 23. lots of sunshine around on thursday, just a little cloud at generally speaking, thursday looks likely to be the best days a week if it is warm and sunshine you are after and thatis warm and sunshine you are after and that is when we could see 25 degrees, 77 fahrenheit, and yes, it is only the of april. take care. —— the middle. this is newsday. i'm in singapore. the headlines. more fallout after the air strikes on syria as the us threatens new sanctions against russia over its support for president assad. one week on from the alleged chemical attack that prompted the military action, we hearfrom a child caught up in it. translation: we went back down to

the basement. we saw how they were bringing the martyrs. instead of breathing and, we were breathing the smell of blood. —— breathing air. and hello from me. i'm karin giannone in london. also in the programmel hundreds of firefighters in australia battle a huge bushfire capturing the sound of the stars. nasa's new mission to help look for planets close to us.