it was a dangerous game and it was a dangerous war. if you lost a close friend, yes, there was a little bit of... but let's go out to the local pub, but you had to accept it. geoffrey eventually suffered an emotional and physical breakdown and left active service in 1943. but his memoirs ensure that we never forget that short period in our history. we were young fighter pilots doing a job, defending our country against the king's enemies. geoffrey wellum — who has died at the age of 96. now it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.

to take us through this week's cinema releases — maybe some singing — here's mark kermode. you cannot fail to notice that out this week is mamma mia! here we go again. i know you are a abba huge fan. i cannot wait to discuss this with you! also out this week, hotel artemis — a future noir thriller with jodie foster. and the receptionist — a low—budget but brave film from jenny lu. here we go again! so, first question — where do you stand on the first mamma mia? yeah, you see, massive abba fan of more than a0 years standing. yeah. really didn't think the first one was very good. 0k, see, the thing is — i watched the first one and i thought, this isn't very good, this isn't very good, oh, good heavens i'm completely going with it! i'm in tears.

i was completely sold. where their tears? oh, yes, there were tears! and so ten years later, i thought, they can't possibly repeat this phenomenon, cos it really questioned my entire ideas of good and bad and whether not there was any role for critics in the world! so now, a decade after the original and we have a prequel—sequel hybrid. yes, structurally it's godfather ii! back in 1979, lillyjames graduates from oxford and she goes off on the holiday which is the beginning of all the trouble. in the present day, her daughter amanda seyfried is opening the new hotel bella donna and she is calling around some old friends because history is repeating itself. see what i did there?! i can see where it's going! here's a clip. # look into his angel eyes... # one look and you're hypnotized... # he'll take your heart and you must pay the price... # look into his angel eyes... # you'll think you're in paradise... # and one day you'll find out he wears a disguise... # don't look too deep

into those angel eyes. # oh, no, no, no, no. i don't think it is camp enough! 0k, here's what i feel. firstly, julie walters, in terms of physical comedy... yeah... on a technical level, i think this is slicker than the original. this has slightly smoother camera moves, there are slightly better choreographed dance sequences because it's happening in split time and temporal structures, we get these scenes which mirror each other so, from the point of view of the construction of a film it is really good. we have all the old cast back again and some new cast members playing the younger incarnations as well. they are a very likeable cast. lily james could charm the birds out of the trees. none of that would matter if the thing didn't have any emotional punch. and it did. about ten minutes in,

the sequence where they do i kissed a teacher, i started having just a little quiet cry. and then when pierce brosnan took a very gentle run at the song... god bless him... he can't sing, can he? are we allowed to say that? you can't sing, you can't dance, but you can still have the time of your life! so here is the big question, what is the greatest abba song ever recorded? dancing queen! no. it is my love, my life. it's beautiful, but that is a heartbreaker. and the drama moves towards its. and i promise you when that song happens... i won't spoil the moment... i was in floods of tears. ican imagine. i was sobbing, i was... i was having to stop myself from making a noise in the screening because these other people — what on earth is he doing? i laughed, i smiled, i enjoyed it so much, i loved it to pieces! and the thing you always think about a film is — is there any way in which this film could have been better? well, i suppose having dwayne at the rockjohnson in it might have, but other than that, no.

it could not have been improved. i thought it was absolutely fabulous. i cannot wait to go and see it again. it topped the original... so, you're saying that a sequel is better than the original. how often does that happen? i'm saying that in the case of both the sequel and the original i lost all sense of critical faculty and i felt myself going with it. were i a braver man, i would have been dancing in the aisles. and particularly, as things are at the moment, it's the film that you really need. and i promise you — if you can get through my love, my life without floods of tears, then you're dead to me. it's kind of that and mary poppins at the moment. those are the two touchstones. you will love it. well, i can tell that i will. i didn't like the first one because i felt there were too many people in it who couldn't sing and that really annoyed me. this is better. well, there are still some people who can't sing. but it's fine, because when they do the songs that matter, they can sing.

someone said to me that we can't talk about this film for the whole programme, which is very disappointing. but i actually feel that we can! no, we could. we have to move on to very different matters. hotel artemis is a future noir dystopian thriller. jodie foster runs this hotel ten years into the future, los angeles. there are riots and she runs this hotel, which takes in outlaws and bandits, and she patches them up after they have got wounded. the cast includesjeff goldblum, zachary quinto, sterling k brown and, of curse, jodie foster. i thought it was kind of disposable fun — i'm saying that after mamma mia!! it is quite slickly done. cartoonish feel. written and directed by drew pearce. there is some quite stylishly—mounted violent set pieces which are always done in a very cartoonish way. at the centre of it you do have jodie foster playing this character who has darkness in her past which she manages to convey. there is also a brilliant comic turn by dave batista, this mound

mounted another guy. but he is a medical orderly and he keeps showing everyone his badge to demonstrate that he is a medical orderly! it is kind of ok, it is not great, it is not mamma mia! here we go again, let's be honest... but it's kind of ok! and a totally different turn for the third film, which i haven't seen but by everything i have read is really emotional in a different way. it is, it is very tough. it is a drama written and directed byjenny lu — it's a taiwanese graduate who can't find work, ends up taking a job in an illegal massage parlour, here's a clip. she is so nice, thank you. see, i told you! bye. bye—bye, i'll be back! thank you so much, bye—bye. so, you can see from that it is resolutely unglamorous and grim film. the writer—director was inspired to write it after a true story of somebody that she knew who was working somewhere and had her dreams curhsed and ended up committing suicide.

what i like about this film is that it feels very real, it is very gritty, it is done with a lot of heart and integrity. the way the film got made was that the script was written and the script then won a prize and they needed funding and went to crowdfunding and it is very hard to get a film made. you think about things like hope dickson leach taking ten years to get a film made. my feeling about this is that it is tough, there is no question about it, it is a tough watch, it it is a bleak story although there is hope. there is also a real sense of companionship, you hear these women's voices and you get to know them and i think that comes across well. but i think, more importantly, it is a feature that makes me want to see more from this writer—director because i think it is done with integrity and hard, it is a very, very small budget film. you will have to seek it out. mamma mia! will be on every single screen, as well hotel artemis, this one, you will have to seek it out. but it is worth it, it is a tough watch, a bleakfilm but it does have hope and heart and more importantly it does have integrity.

all good qualities. and best out, leave no trace... this is by so far the best film i have seen this year, i absolutely love it. directed by the team who made winter's bolan. ——directed by the team who made winter's bone. it is the story of a father and daughter living off the grid in the forest outside portland and they get found by the authorities. it does not put a foot wrong. there's just nothing that this film gets wrong. there's never a moment when the characters stand and explain themselves to each other. there's never a moment when the characters have one of those conversations that you know was written by the script writer to tell you what's going on. it's all to do with the gesture and the emotion. again, you'll love it, trust me. it's all to do with the gesture and the emotion. again, you'll love it, trust me. i do trust you. forgive me, i'm a bad person. the only reason i haven't seen it is because the weather has been so utterly beautiful.

that doesn't make you a bad person! i couldn't face sitting in a cinema. air—conditioned cinema! summer blockbuster was built on air—conditioned cinemas. but i am very excited to see it, as soon as we get some rain! and a dvd? yeah, film worker. this is a dvd about someone who was a very promising actor, worked with stanley kubrick, realised that to him he was a genius and wanted to dedicate his whole life to working for stanley kubrick in every possible way. it is all about — what does it mean if you decide that somebody else is a great artist and you are basically going to sacrifice everything that you have to facilitate their art? i think he is a good unsung hero. i thought it was a really interesting documentary. i am not the world's biggest stanley kubrick fan. i thought he was great at times, i could live with eyes wide shut. but i really think this is a portrait of somebody who is in love with the movies and is n love with a movie—maker and decides to dedicate himself to making that art happen — and it is very inspiring. fascinating — did he ever see his children? that is what you wonder, it is an extraordinary story. it really is. go and see mamma mia!! thank you very much. that is the weekend sorted out, isn't it? and just a reminder before we go,

you can find all the film news and reviews on the bbc online. and all our previous programmes are on the iplayer, of course. enjoy your weekend of cinema going! i've still got angel eyes going round and round in my head! yeah. have a good week! good evening. a plot twist and our weather story. some rain at long last. most of us, not quite all, have seen a little bit of rain today. that is how it looks across manchester a little bit earlier on for one of our weather watchers. grey and gloomy skies overhead. the view from space shows this strike of languages working its way southward and eastward top at the same time this girl of cloutier has brought rain across the far southeast corner. whether from rain across the far southeast corner. whetherfrom moving its way through. in this clear area we have started to break out some really heavy downpours. as we have gone on through the best part of this evening. some of these will continue to work through as we go through

what is left of the evening into the first part of the night. then as most of the showers... misty for scotla nd most of the showers... misty for scotland and northern ireland where we have the rain today and those temperatures are not shopping very far. to morning —— tomorrow morning areas of cloud floating around but for the most part we're back to square for the most part we're back to square one. for the most part we're back to square one. more dry weather, some spousal sunshine. a couple of the sessions through the southwest and perhaps in spots just to the south of the ma, could be some showers breaking up, maybe one or two across south wales as well. much of the midlands into northern england fine with sunny spells, temperatures well into the 20s. small chance for shower across northern england. figure cloud and some splashes of rain. it would be clear but for eastern scotland things should brighten him as the day wears on. this is our forecast for the golf. a pretty cloudy start for the day. i'm hopeful that that cloud will break. we will see blue skies coming through, eventually some sunshine and those temperatures getting up into the 20s. what about sunday's

forecast. largely dry for some. eastern scotland doing quite nicely for sunshine. northern ireland, weston scotland, a little bit of rain at times. a slightly cooler feel, but look out to the south and those temperatures once again i heading upwards. that is a trend that will only continue. this weather front is still wriggling around into next week across northwestern areas, still the potential for some cloud, rain and cooler conditions here. elsewhere tapping into this very warm and humid air, in fact increasingly hot airas we go humid air, in fact increasingly hot air as we go through the first part of the week, 33 degrees is achieved, 32 in london for example on monday. basically in the south we stick with that hot and dry theme throughout the week. we may approach the mid—30s celsius by the end of the week. always a little cooler and cloutier for some spots in the northwest. the rain came down today, but now the temperatures will head upwards again. is the

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