lot of copies. it will get sell a lot of copies. it will get them lots of money. it's great. thank you both very much indeed. that is it for the papers this all. coming up next, it's the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases as ever is mark kermode. good to see you again, mark. nice to you see you. what has caught your eyes this week? so we have tully, which is a new film starring charlize theron. lean on pete, a very moving drama from director andrew haigh. and the new anime mary and the witch's flower. and tully i am so looking forward to because it is made by the people who made juno, which

isjust glorious! i loved juno so much! written by diablo cody, directed by jason reitman. of course, they also worked together also with charlize theron on young adult. so the story is charlize theron is marlo, she is a middle—aged woman who is struggling with kids and a newborn baby. she is exhausted, absolutely exhausted, and her smugly successful brother says to her, "look, why don't you let me pay for a night nanny?". she says "what's a night nanny?" he says "a nanny who comes at night so that you can get some sleep" and at first, she says "i don't want anything to do with this" but finally, she is so exhausted that she succumbs and she says "fine." enter tully, who is a strange mix of on the one hand part scary mary poppins, on the other hand, a sort of sprightly reminder of marlo's younger self and immediately, they bond. here's a clip. you seem like a great mum. scoffs. great mums organise class parties and casino night, they bake cupcakes that look like minions — all the things i'm

just too tired to do. honestly, even getting dressed just feels exhausting. i open my closet and ijust think "didn't ijust do this?" yeah, but that's the downside of living on a planet with a short solar day. although jupiter is even shorter. you're like a book of fun facts for unpopular fourth—graders. so there's this kind of you know a light humour between them and obviously they have some kind of a fundamental bond and what happens is that the story goes off perhaps in ways that you would not expect. the first thing to say is it is a really convincing portrayal of the exhaustion of her character. you know, she's pulled in so many different directions, she has to do so many different things. there's one point where she goes into school and she has a row with the headmistress, the headmistress says "i don't want you to leave this way." she says "i leave this way every day, you just never see it!" so i like that, i thought that was done really well,

and i thought charlize theron really gave you that sense of a character who is completely at their wits' end. um, then what happens is that through her relationship with tully, she starts to reconnect with, you know, the parts of her life that she thought she'd sort of forgotten about and bear in mind, diablo cody has worked in very realistic settings but she's also done things likejennifer's body, which is a fantastical story, and she is not cared to follow her central character off into flights of fancy that perhaps some audiences would not expect. i thought this was brave and adventurous in the risks that it took with its screenplay but the thing that worked best for it was that even when the narrative goes off in slightly strange ways — i know some people have found the third act, you know, perhaps they thought it came out of the blue — i did not actually, i thought it was, you know, consistent with the rest of the film — it has its feet so firmly on the ground that you do believe in the character. i mean, you absolutely believe this is somebody who is just, you know, called upon every minute of the day to do stuff that they are running out of energy for and you get a really good sense

of that, you know, the exhaustion, the depression, the anxiety and not so much falling asleep as just collapsing in a heap on the sofa and having dreams of drowning, dreams of mermaids — which also sort of tell you something about, you know, where this is going with its sort of flights of fancy. i thought it was an interesting film with a really terrific central performance and a screenplay which is willing to take risks that perhaps don't entirely work, but good, you know, good for taking them. 0k, sounds interesting. and i'm expecting excellent dialogue. i mean, she just... yeah, yeah. ..writes so beautifully. she does write very, very good dialogue, yeah. that's one thing you expect from diablo cody. in a way, you sort of see a diablo cody film and you just "ok, fine, i — think there will be a number of quotable zingers", but the nice thing about this is that there's more to it than that. 0k, really, really intriguing, as is lean on pete, actually. yeah, terrible title. i had to really look up to see what it was about! i know, i know. based on a by willy vlautin and directed by andrew haigh who made 45 years and weekend,

so it is a story of a teenager who is lonely, he's moved to portland, oregon with father, his single father, who's not a great father but, you know, he clearly loves him. he's looking for a family, he's looking love, he ends up finding work looking after a quarter horse. the quarter horse is called lean on pete. it's a horse who is towards the end of its racing life, he's looked after by steve buscemi, who is kind of gruff horse owner who, when it, when the horses are done with, he has told no sentimentality about sending them off to mexico, which becomes a kind of euphemism for what's really happening to them. i really liked this film. i thought first charlie plummer who is the young kid was — is absolutely brilliant. he has one of those faces that telegraphs his emotions. it's not to do with dialogue, it's to do with the way he looks. he has something of the young james dean about him. there's a sort of lilt to his voice. very, very expressive face. i love the fact that andrew haigh, you know, a british film maker, has gone to america and shot in some desert surroundings but has not been overwhelmed by the scenery.

there are moments in it when we are out in the desert but still at the centre of it is charlie. he is in every single frame pretty much of the movie. and the other thing is i like the fact that none of the characters in this film are two—dimensional. some of them, they seem harsh and difficult and violent, but everyone has got, you know, redeeming qualities. and they often play against type. i mean, chloe sevigny turns up at one point and she's a jockey who has fallen off the horse one time too many. and you think "oh, i can see the narrative is going to set her up as a surrogate maternal thing" but it absolutely does not. i think it's a really, really terrific movie. it is quite dark in places. it, you know, there are moments of tears in it. buti— i — i mean, you liked 45 years. i thought it was really, really great. i wish it was called something other than lean on pete. i wish it was called, you know, something like discovery! but lean on pete is the name that it has because of the novel, so... i think don't be put off by the title of the film, that is the takeaway from there.

and your third film, a beautiful animation for the bank holiday weekend. yeah, mary and the witch's flower, which is this lovely anime from studio ponoc. it's an adaptation of mary stewart's book from ‘71, i think it is, directed by hiromasa yonebayashi whose credits include arrietty and when marnie was there. the story is there is a young girl, she discovers these magical flowers in the woods and she discovers a broomstick which is in the middle of a tree. here's a clip. mary smith, the imposter witch. how dare you taint the noble establishment that is endor college? did you really think you could fool us? well, now, it seems that your friend has drifted here along with the mist. it was easy finding him, thanks to all your help. if you want to save him, you must bring me the witch's flower. and since it only blooms once every seven years, you'd better be quick.

but if you decide not to come, there's a rule, remember, that all trespassers will be transformed. i'll see you soon, imposter witch! i really like this. i — i love the way it looks, i love the complicity of the storytelling, the fact that it's, you know, it's dealing with some quite complicated issues of, you know, guilt and remorse and, you know, duty and that kind of thing, but it's doing so in a way which is really, really magically engaging. there are moments in it when you think "i am looking at a sort of wondrous spectacle." you see at the screen at the moment these kind of, you know, fantastic fiery displays. but it is really to do with little details — you believe in the characters, you believe in these situations,

even when they are utterly fantastical. there are two versions of it — there's the original language version, there's also a dubbed version which you are hearing a clip from there, the dub features people like jim broadbent. and it's — i thought it was really well done and i liked it very much and it is one of those things — you know, i am a big fan of animation and i think it is great that we have all these forms of animation, you know, coexisting side by side at the moment. and this is a really fine piece and i think anybody could enjoy it. it's a really, really good piece of work. mary and the witch's flower. 0k, and best out this week. i am officially in trouble because i am sorry, i still haven't seen beast. you have to see beast! i'm a bad person, i know. it is not a horrorfilm, you know, it is a psychological chiller. i know it's a psychological — and two cracking performers at the heart of it as well. yes, jessie buckley and johnny flynn, really really terrific. it was — i compared this, johnny flynn, his central performance, which i thought was really brilliant, talking about rachel weisz in my cousin rachel, she said that she had decided

to herself whether the character was guilty or not but she kept that to herself as a secret. i got the sense of that withjohnny flynn's performance. directed by michael pearce — a really fine piece of work, a really, really good brit pic, really well worth seeing. set on jersey. set onjersey, absolutely, and all the exteriors are shot onjersey, although the interiors are shot in surrey. well, the outside isjersey, that's what counts and i promise, i promise, i promise. it's been on my list for many weeks. and dvd, for anyone who wants to stay in? yeah, see you, 0k, jumanji, welcome to the jungle. this is out now because obviously there's no new releases on monday. dwayne the rockjohnson is currently charging around in cinemas doing very well. i really liked this. i was not a fan of the originaljumanji. i thought the originaljumanji — i never quite got it. i thought this was really, really good fun. it's got a well—written script, it's entertaining, it's popcorn entertainment, but it is good popcorn entertainment, smart characterisations, good jokes, good story and i have now seen it twice. and both times, i laughed pretty consistently. excellent, excellent. all right, mark, thank you very much. thank you.

a really good week. go see beast! i've got a busy bank holiday ahead! you have. there's an awful lot there. and a reminder before we go you can find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online. and all our previous programmes are on the iplayer of course. that's it for this week. 0h, we've all got a lot to do this weekend. enjoy the bank holiday. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. hello there. well, you don't need me to tell you what a glorious day it was for many of us, the start of the bank holiday weekend. it is set to get warmer. in fact, bank holiday monday could be a record rate. it is likely to be. glorious scenes up and down the country, but it wasn't like that everywhere. that was cornwall. lots of low cloud and some mist and fog rolling in off the irish sea coast, giving a disappointing cool day here. circular heading for the coast you could see another

disappointing day tomorrow in places. this weather front has also affected north—west scotland, and brought cloud to northern parts of northern ireland and in towards the central belt of scotland, so glasgow had a disappointing saturday as well. on the cool side. further cloud and outbreaks of rain here. the wind easing somewhat. more cloud into the irish sea, but elsewhere it will be clearing. sunday, it will be a glorious start for many. lots of sunshine around. more cloud for scotla nd sunshine around. more cloud for scotland and northern ireland. much like yesterday. there should be some good holes in the cloud. probably a better day to glasgow. still some rain and strong winds across the far north—west of scotland and on to the western isles. we import even warmer airfrom the near western isles. we import even warmer air from the near continent before bank holiday monday, so those temperatures will be on the rise further. england and wales have a glorious day again. await the irish sea coast we could see low cloud and miss. they few showers for the north and west of scotland. it could be

quite warm across southern scotland. temperatures into the low 20s. very warm for england and wales, highs of 27 degrees. it is going to be a record raking temperature if we get this. the previous record was 2a degrees, set in 1999 in hampshire. tuesday, subtle changes taking place thanks to this area of low pressure. they week—old front wishing into the west end producing more cloud. maybe some rain for northern ireland into western scotland. further south for wales in the south—west of england they will be more bands of cloud of anything. central, southern and eastern parts of the country, another fine day to come. the eastern side of england could be a very hot day. we could see 2728dc. further north and west we are looking at temperatures falling back to the seasonal mortgage of the mid teens celsius. we will see another weather system pushing on a wednesday which will bring cooler weather with outbreaks of rain to

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