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, bonnie and anne. the film review is next. goodbye. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? very interesting week, we have beast, a psychological thriller set on jersey. we have avengers: infinity war, the latest in the mcu series. and the wound, a coming—of—age movie with a difference. i love the sound of beast, i love a psychological thriller. it is set onjersey, it has a central performance byjessie buckley, who plays this

young woman called moll, living under the thumb of her domineering mother, played by geraldine james, with a hint of anxiety, as if she is partly frightened of her daughter. anyway, our heroine meets this young man, played by johnny flynn, called pascal, a wild character, a vagabond, and immediately the family take against him. plus, the rest of the community are very suspicious of him, but she falls in love with him, and he sparks in a rebellious spirit that has hitherto been kept under wraps. here is a clip. i'm sorry, sir, butjeans aren't allowed in the clubhouse. it's the club dress code. but they're blackjeans! i'm sorry. maybe the burger, then.

yeah. hubbub. i'd like to make a toast. to my family. for everything you've done for me. i forgive you. thud. get out! what i really like about this film, you can see from this the palpable tension, and, secondly, there has been a string of murders on the island, and the finger of suspicion points towards pascal, obviously johnny flynn's character, who moll believes is innocent, because she is in love, because he is manipulative, or is it because she has dark secrets in our past? the best way of describing this is that it is kind

of like a twisted fairy tale, the title itself alludes to beauty and the beast, and there is an echo of la bete from 1975, which was banned for ages in this country. and there is a little touch of regarde la mer, see the sea, about bright coastal settings with a murderous underbelly, all those things mixed together, and the best thing is you are kept guessing all the way through as to the characters' motives. which one of them is the monster? the title of beast is not specifically applied to any of them. and it really manages that knife—edge balance, a really difficult trick to pull off, sometimes you can do it in the first act, but this manages all the way through, the central performances are brilliant. the chemistry is good. really, people talk about chemistry

on screen, there is real electricity in this pairing. it is really well written, a debut feature for michael pearce, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and it has a timeless fairy—tale quality. you kind of know the story, a princess rescued by a prince, or is he the beast leading her into the woods? it works really well, thejersey interiors are very good, the interiors largely from surrey, but it works well, you get a sense of two worlds colliding. terrific, really good, exciting film, beast, well worth seeing. 0k, avengers: infinity war, i am told there are no fewer than 22 superheroes in this movie! a few too many? everything about the movie is vast, i should say that people have been saying don't give away plot spoilers, we won't. the setup is that thanos is gathering the infinity stones together to wipe out half the universe, a group of superheroes must get together to stop him, that is all you need to say

about the plot. everything is huge, from the canvas to the amount of characters, to what is at stake, the entire future of the universe, to the running time of the movie itself, not a short film! and the amount of money it will doubtless take at the box office. here is the thing. if you are a fan of this particular cinematic universe, if you are invested in these characters and followed them through the series so far, you will really like this. things will surprise you, make you gasp, make you cheer. in the screening i was in, there were all those reactions. however, if you are not particularly invested — and hands up, i have seen all the films but they are not great personally resonant — you may end up thinking this is long, episodic. it does balance light and dark, there is tragedy and comedy, although occasionally it felt like channel hopping. there is one section, then another, and they don't intertwine. the film—makers have done a good job ofjuggling disparate elements.

the overriding problem for me is one of consequence, which is that i struggled to invest in the most dramatically dangerous moments. i know other people who have watched the movie who did not have that same feeling. i think it comes down to whether or not you are a fan. i'm guessing you're probably not a huge devotee of this series. no — but i do like superhero movies. the film makes very few concessions to people who are not right in the middle of it. if you can't make this movie for the fans, which can you? i thought it was impressive, although i remained unengaged, but i know enough people who are invested in those characters who absolutely loved it and thought it took real risks. we have got to move on to the wound, what is it? a south african drama, a young man is sent by his father to take part in a ritual, which takes place in a remote

mountain, you have to live in a hut and learn to be a man, an initiation ritual. his father is sending him because he thinks his son is soft, and also because he is starting to have anxieties about his sexuality. here is a clip. so the rest of the film takes place in this encampment where the ritual takes place, and it becomes a film about manhood and initiation and coming of age, what it means to be a man, sexuality, love, what is demanded of you by your elders and society, about honesty and frankness. some people have made the comparison to brokeback mountain, which i understand, although i think it is likely off the money. the thing ifound interesting was that it evokes the world with which i was completely unfamiliar, and it tells a story which feels universal, and that is a really clever thing to do — a story which is very specific about its setting and its circumstances, and yet it allows every viewer, i think, to recognise universal truths in what is happening. as i said, it is a coming—of—age movie, which is one of the most

popular of cinematic genres, yet it is taking real risks, doing things that are daring, doing them well, with great honesty, and ifound it very moving, very moving, and it balances realism on the one hand with a timeless quality on the other, almost magical quality, very good. and best out? the old dark house, a reissue of an old film from the 1930s, which was believed lost, it has been restored, and it is really worth seeing, not least because james whale is an extraordinary director. i remember people talking about this as a masterpiece, but it is not in circulation anymore. the thing that it does is it is travellers, they wind up at an old dark house, they shouldn't go in, but they do, the floorboards creak,

there are monsters on the loose. what it does is establishes and satirises a number of horror film conventions, and it is a remarkable thing to see it back in cinemas in a spanking new print, so well worth checking out, the old dark house, from the 1930s. and your best dvd? hostiles, i really like hostiles, not seen by enough people in the cinemas, a story about an army captain who has to take his arch enemy back to a tribal homeland, brilliant performances, but it has a terrific soundtrack by max richter, which uses an instrument of which there was only one when they made it in the world, and it produces the most unearthly sounds, extraordinary thing, and it is one of those movies... you can watch it with your ears, it is called hostiles, it was not seen enough in cinemas, but i think it is a really impressive piece of work. watch it with your ears, i like that! a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though,

thanks for watching, goodbye. hello again. we did have a number of showers today across the north—west of the country but the shower clouds will tend to melt away. clearing skies. a decent night across the northern half of the uk to catch some glimpses of what looks to be a full moon to me. turning chilly. temperatures already down to about three degrees in rural scotland and by the end of the night we will be looking at patches of frosty in the colder spots. further south, we will keep the clouds, so that. temperatures from getting too low across east anglia and central and southern england. this cloud will be with us to start the day. could be thick enough for the occasional spot

of light rain, i suspect, for the general rain works in later in the day in the south—east with strengthening winds. it will start to feel chilly, just eight degrees in norwich. sunny spells across the north—west of the uk and a few slow—moving showers in northern ireland. as we go through sunday evening that rain becomes heavier and more extensive across south—east england and east anglia. it is all tied in with an area of low pressure pushing across france, which will bring us some pretty grim weather across eastern england for monday. so what is on the weather menu? monday look something like this. heavy rain on the way, strong winds, gales across eastern coasts. a cold day as well. that wet weather will be worse from the word go and will continue to push further westwards. on the western edge of this we could well see a bit of sleet or perhaps a little bit of wet snow mixed in with this. over the grounds that might be something you notice but for the vast majority of us it is just cold rain that will be falling and strong winds with that rain will make it

feel cold. it is going to be cold in any case, temperatures struggling, high temperatures of five degrees in birmingham. that is more like going straight back into the heart of winter rather than the latter stages of april. tuesday, the dregs of this weather system are still with us, bringing cloud and damp weather to eastern coastal areas. another weather front moves in off the atla ntic to weather front moves in off the atlantic to threaten rain in northern ireland as we go through the afternoon. in between these two systems they should be some sunshine and low temperatures, which will still be disappointing for this time of year. 9— i2 still be disappointing for this time of year. 9— 12 degrees. at least we are not looking at seven degrees or five degrees like we will be on monday. things will improve further as we get rid of this cold and cloudy weather that we will have to start the week, replacing it with sunny skies later in the week as pressure builds. temperatures in london going up quite nicely. i teens by the end of the weekend into next weekend as well. so all is not lost, it will just next weekend as well. so all is not lost, it willjust be a grim start to the working week. that's your weather. this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: preparations for donald trump's meeting with kim jong—un

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