—— papers. thank you, caroline frost and tony drew. coming up next it's the film review. higuain will hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news, to take us the film review on bbc news, to take us through this week's cinema releases. could do see you again the topic what has caught your eye? we have a new film starring shelley is the rhondda. a very moving documentary from andrew haig. and mary and the witches flower. i am so looking forward to it because it is made by people who madejuno. i

loved juno so much! made by people who madejuno. i loved juno so much! of course, they what worked together with charlie sarong on the young adults. the story is, marlow is a middle—aged woman struggling with kids and a newborn baby. she's absolutely exhausted and her smugly, successful brother sister her, why do you let me pay for a night out. a night in any that you can get some sleep. first she says i do want anything to do with this person but finally she is so exhausted that she succumbs and this is fine, and to tully, a strange mix of part scary mary poppins, on the other hand a sprightly reminder of her younger self and immediately they bond. just

open the closet and think didn't i just do this to sack obviously they have some kind of fundamental bond. 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. no, not over your neck. the rope over your shoulder. good.

all right. come on. it's ok. hey, hey, hey. slow down. remember what i told you yesterday. pick them up before you take the rope off 'cause he'll run on you. good. let's go. see that body? this kid is a natural. yeah, he's a good kid. and he ain't afraid of a hard day's work like some of these other kids... come on, it's all right. just relax your arms. and walk him. i know, i know. you're just excited. you did real good. come on, pete. you got it. just happy. there you go, keep moving, keep moving. stay ahead of him. yeah, yeah. you singing a song? 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 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. suddenly, the broomstick whisks her off to this other land, this magical college, endor college, so you can see pre—echoes of harry potter in this. and she thinks she has arrived there completely, um, you know, wrongly. when she comes back to earth, however, the magical world follows her back to her home. 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. what are you doing, you freak? what? do you know how to use that? 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. it's so much better than we had any right to expect. laughs. excellent, excellent. all right, mark, thank you very much. thank you. a really good week. go see beast!

absolutely masses to see. i've got a busy bank holiday ahead! you have. very busy! 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. ido i do think you need me to tell you what a glorious day it was full half of the country today. sunshine up and down. whistle they to have richer, which is in greater london to speak glorious skies like this, unbroken sunshine up and down the uk but it was in the case everywhere. a nice dulcie was taken at the isle of lewis, this weather front which brought some low crowd and drizzle. cool temperatures as well, around nine celsius in inverness. this is the local weather front can responsible for that which is in plaguing the north—west of scotland for the last few days. as we had through, the rain will clear away but it will stay quite cloudy and

there could be the odd spot of light rain or drizzle. this on the irish ivo pinto the coast but elsewhere it isa dry ivo pinto the coast but elsewhere it is a dry and clear night. a few clear nights across england. the bank holiday starts on a fright —— fine and dry note, right across england and wales into parts of northern wales, but more clout across the north—west of scotland with outbreaks of rain feeding cool but widely, temperatures are going to reach the mid— 20s celsius with spot highs of 47 or 28 across the south—east. change afoot on tuesday, start seeing this weather system introducing weather front too. outbreaks of rain into northern ireland and scotland and maybe across western parts of scotland through wales. eastern side, another good—looking days, one or two showers or thunderstorms could rake out in the heat of the afternoon. highs into the upper 20s celsius. that is the last of the very high

temperatures, head into wednesday and this cooler air with another low pressure will make it right across the uk. and otherfine start across the uk. and otherfine start across the central, southern and eastern parts of the uk for wednesday morning but then this weather front will bring outbreaks of pretty heavy persistent rains from northern ireland to scotland and western parts of england and wales, two bridges on the low side, quite windy. it could make 1920 degrees across the south—east. that band of rain spreads right across the country on wednesday night, cool and fresh for those that and friday with sunshine and showers. into the mid— weekend, a very difficult weekend for this one, but more unsettled and feeling much cooler as well. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: the diplomatic push is on. britain's ambassador to the us says efforts are ramping up to change president trump's mind about the iran nuclear deal. if it were making progress, we

haven't got there yet, we have a few days left. pakistan's interior minister survives an assassination attempt. ahsan iqbal was shot in the arm at a political rally. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: the extraordinary comeback. malaysia's 92—year—old former prime minister returns to contest the country's general election. some of football's biggest names show their support for manchester united's sir alex ferguson, who's recovering