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come 4m fihe fore required. it has come to the fore again with the metoo, timesup, and equal pay revelations which affected the bbc. because we have a voice in parliament now, it is significantly easier to have that voice. we can only hope so. we are at the crest of the wave. in the last six months we have seen a great shift of awareness. a couple of weeks ago, when roseanne was cancelled, whether oi’ when roseanne was cancelled, whether or not commercial organisations want to be seen doing the right thing, which is good for how they are perceived, social media is such a force, and social media is democratic and diverse, of course... and sometimes misogynistic. at least the voices are being heard. when we saw something like roseanne, with someone saw something like roseanne, with someone speaking in a backwoods way, it was trampled, and the commercial organisation responded. —— backwards. that is the first time i
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have seen a big bucks person wanting to be seen doing the right thing. i hope we have that shift in the public consciousness. the metro. the nadal victory. the french... no wonder he looks emotional. yes. a wonderful thing. a triumph of age and nostalgia and experience and sentiment. we all love a comeback kid. it gives us we all love a comeback kid. it gives us all a little hope if we try hard. tony? there was a worrying injury scare in the closing stage of the far north. that is all i have got. did caroline give that you? thank goodness she is here. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online 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
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on bbc iplayer. thank you, tony grew and caroline frost. goodbye. coming up next, the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is back with us. good to see you. what have you been watching, mark? a very mixed bag. we have jurassic world: fallen kingdom — the dinosaurs are back again. mcqueen, a documentary about the british designer, and the boy downstairs, a rom—com with a difference. and i was horrified to read
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that the firstjurassic film was 25 years ago! a really long time ago. it was a really long time ago. ok, so, jurassic world: fallen kingdom, three years after the last film, jurassic world... yes, yes. keep up with it. so bryce dallas howard and chris pratt agree to re—team for a rescue mission. this time, they have to save the dinosaurs. that's the twist. the other way around. the dinosaurs are left on the island at the end of the last film. but the island is volcanic, the volcano is going to explode. they need to go and save the dinosaurs, otherwise they will go extinct for the second time. however, inevitably — this being jurassic park, jurassic world — the mission is not what they signed up for. here's a clip. do you remember the first time you saw a dinosaur? the first time you see them, it's like...a miracle. you read about them in books, you see the bones in museums, but you don't really believe it. they're like myths, and then
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you see...the first one alive. this is not your fault. but it is. no. this one's on me. i showed them the way. there is a question in that clip about, "do you remember the first time you saw a dinosaur?" do you remember the first time you sawjurassic park? yeah, i remember going to the cinema. and do you remember being really overwhelmed by it? oh, it was terrific. everyone was talking about it. it was a huge thing. and moments of real terror. the moments when the velociraptors are chasing them into the kitchen, and the kids hiding in the sink, so really... the problem now is that it does feel like we have seen most of this before several times. on the plus side, this is directed byja bayona, who made a monster calls, who made the orphanage, who made the impossible, who i think is a director who really
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can do special effects, but also make movies with heart. and there are moments in this film in which you see the film that you think he probably wanted to make. there's one particularly gripping scene in a child's bedroom which recalls an iconic scene from nosferatu. and you get a little bit of that, the thing that you got in the firstjurassic park — "this is scary, this is creepy, this is actually. yes. the rest of it feels a lot more mechanical. again, for something which started out as a film about fairground rides involving dinosaurs, it's perhaps unsurprising that it feels mechanical. they've swapped the central roles with the chris pratt and the bryce dallas howard characters. that's kind of an interesting reversal. and the characters are much more human this time. in the last movie, i did say that the dinosaurs seemed much more convincing than their human counterparts. this time, bryce dallas howard has got rid of the high heels, she's now got sensible shoes on, and you do feel there
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is human interest. but the best i can say is it's fine, and there are moments in it that i think, "oh, yeah, ok, that's the movie i would like to have seen." but it's very much a mechanical blockbuster roller—coaster ride. i think it's better than jurassic world, which i felt was rather soulless. it is better than that. but if you think back to the first time you sawjurassic park — that visceral thrill. there are moments injurassic park that are every bit as good as jaws, and we're not in that league any more. yes. plus, it's not the end. there's more to come. oh, i can't wait for the next one... she lied! mcqueen, however, a fascinating troubled man. does it make a good film, though? it does. and i should say at the beginning, i know nothing about fashion. i mean, literally nothing, which is why i dress like an old ted. and i didn't know this story. because i, you know, live in a bubble. if it's not in a movie, i don't know about it. it's the story about lee alexander mcqueen, who was this east end boy who grew up to be a ground—breaking designer. worked for givenchy. he had his own label, caused a real stir. and this draws on taped interviews
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from throughout his life. he says that he was no good at school but he was always drawing clothes when he was in chemistry lessons. and from a very early age, he started apprenticing, and people immediately started to see that he had real, naturaltalent, real, naturalflair. an extraordinary amount of talent. and what this shows you is, yes, some of the early shows are shocking. and i'm pretty certain i would have been one of the naysayers saying, "oh, this is outrageous," because i don't really understand the fashion world. but what i loved this documentary — the best documentaries take you into a subject about which you know nothing. this talks about the way in which the darkness in his life is reflected in his work. it's got really, really candid interviews with those that were close to him. it looks at every side of his character. and it does... by the end of it, i thought, "ok, i can see this. i can see why some of these creations were really astonishing, i can see the sculptural quality of those." and also the shows — as pieces of theatre — looked quite breathtaking. oh, so dramatic! yes! i was won over, and as i said, i went in from a position of complete ignorance. what i know about fashion would not fill the back of a postage stamp, and ifound this really, really emotionally engaging. and, therefore, if you love
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fashion, then there's even more in it for you. yes, absolutely! absolutely! fascinating, albeit with a desperate ending that we are, sadly, all aware of. but interesting documentary. and a newcomer, i think, for number three. so the boy downstairs, which is the first feature for writer—director sophie brooks. stars zosia mamet, who is in hbo's girls. and she plays somebody who lives in new york, she's gone away to london for a year. she's come back, she's moved into an apartment and she discovers that the boyfriend that she left, that she broke up with, is now living in the same apartment block. he is the boy downstairs, which is kind of difficult because, you know, should they be friends, should they talk to each other? and the film is about that awkwardness that they have now, and also flashing back to their past relationship. here's a clip. so how are you? oh, i'm good. thanks. yeah. i hear you've been making music and that it's going really well. stilla struggle, but, yeah, i mean, it's going pretty well.
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i'm on the road. wait, you're touring? oh, no, sorry. i meant the figurative road. i see how that would be misleading. i'm working in commercials. that's great. yeah. ben, that's great. thanks. yeah. i'm really happy for you. i love it when zosia mamet says, "you're touring?" "just on the road to —" and that's...the whole film has that kind of tone to it. and what i really like is, the writer—director is obviously a fan of nora ephron. she captures the awkward intimacies and sort of alienations of relationships, but the thing this really reminded me of... there was a movie many years ago by nicole holofcener called walking and talking. it was the first film which i ever saw catherine keener. and it had that same sort of loose limbed intimacy. it's a way of making something that looks very casual, that looks like these characters have just turned up and they‘ re just having these conversations. that takes real precision to do.
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and although, it was weird. after the screening, a couple of people who i had seen it with, found the characters really annoying. i said, "but that's not the point. you understand their lives and you believe in their relationship." i thought it was funny, i thought it was charming, it was moving. i thought it was really well put together. it moved me to tears at one point. i was really surprised by how much it charmed me, but it did very much. and i love nora ephron, and that awkwardness that we saw there is such a human reaction, isn't it? "i don't know what to do here!" it's that lovely thing about not quite being able to say the thing they want to say. not being able to address the fact that they've been in a relationship before. i thought it is great. i think you'll really like it. if you can seek it out, it is worth seeing. and you still think the best one this week is the breadwinner. yeah. it's terrific, isn't it? it's so great. it actually seems to have done pretty well at the box office. i think it's outperformed expectations, which is great, because it's a hard sell, you know, a story about a young girl in afghanistan, the taliban.
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it's not an easy sell. but i think the animation is beautiful. i think nora twomey‘s done such a good job with this. it's adapted from a book, and i think it's done a brilliant job of putting that on the screen. and the best thing about it is it talks about a really difficult subject matter, but it does it in a way that i think younger audiences could watch and appreciate. oh, i think you could almost use this as a history lesson in schools. "this was life under the taliban and how difficult it was." we think of it is difficult for women, but it shows that it's also difficult for an awful lot of men. and this is one of the great things about animation. i mean, animation is such an extraordinary, vast giant, but you can do things in animated movies that perhaps you couldn't do in a live action film — tell a story in a way that makes it sort of comprehensible to a really, really wide audience. you can see from the clips we're looking at now, i mean, the animation is absolutely beautiful. i love this film. it's such a treat and, you know, i'd advise everybody to seek it out. i thought it was such a wonderful piece of work. it is. it's terrific. and beautiful to look at, despite very difficult subject matter. despite some very dark subject matter, absolutely. yes.
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and a quick thought about dvds for anybody staying in this weekend. so i talked about this when it came out in the cinema. the new version ofjourney‘s end, which is a brilliant adaptation of the play — and also the subsequent novel, taking on elements from that as well. i thought it really captures the camaraderie of the trenches. it's a brilliant performance by paul betta ny, who i've always been a huge fan of. but, you know, when you have a text that you know as well asjourney‘s end — and everybody‘s seenjourney‘s end — and you think, "what can you possibly bring to this that's new?" and then you watched an adaptation like this and you go, "0h, 0k. that." itjust made it come alive, it made it contemporary, it made it, you know... it's a very dark story, but i think it's told with real compassion. i really loved it. but does it work on a small screen? because this can be our hesitation with big, big scenes like that. you sort of feel a bit bad, actually — guilt — watching it on a small screen. i'm going to say yes, because an awful lot of it takes place in a small, enclosed space. yeah, i'll be honest with you. i think it would work watching it on an iphone, because i think the performances are that good. although actually, the cinematography is very good. butjust not enough
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people have seen it. it needs to be seen. 0k, fair point! and, therefore, available on dvd, and entirely valid. entirely valid. thank you very much. really interesting week, actually. thank you very much. thanks, mark. see you again next week. a reminder that you can find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online at the website, bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer, as well, of course. that's it for this week. see you next time. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. hello there. a lovely warm sunny day for many. showers and thunderstorms pretty intense across parts of northern england southeast scotland. they will mostly fade away overnight and will be addressed at the monday was in good spells sunshine around but possibly some heavy thunderstorms developing. sunshine for england and wales away from the
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east coast. it will feel a touch fresher work on the east coast of scotland. a touch fresher down the spine of england. some local torrential rain. warm in the sunshine with temperatures of 2a degrees. northerly breeze noticeable across the east side of the country. he could feel a touch fresher across the board, with a little more cloud. iis at the board, with a little more cloud. i is at best around 18— 20 celsius. wednesday is fine, but after wednesday, this is where we see a change. but there we have not seen for a while. atlantic moves moving in. —— atlantic lows moving in. it will turn a little fresher. good night. hello, and a very good morning from singapore.
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i'm babita sharma. it's 7am on monday the 11th ofjune. we're counting down to what's billed as a truly historic summit. and i'm rico hizon. all eyes are on this tiny city—state, where president trump and kim jong—un are set to meet face to face an event that could change the world. welcome to our special coverage here on newsday. the key players are now in place. donald trump touched down in singapore on airforce 0ne. kim jong—un arrived before him. north korea says the summit will discuss de—nuclearisation and a permanent and durable peace. with the world's media watching their every move, the question is can the two sides find enough common ground

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