the film review on bbc news. to take us the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases and maybe some singing, here is mark kermode. i can't wait to discuss this one with you. mamma mia. and the receptionist. where do you stand on the first mamma mia? i watched the first one and not this is a very good, this isn't very good and then i liked it. they couldn't repeat the phenomena, ididn't they couldn't repeat the phenomena, i didn't think. it questioned my ideas of good and bad and whether or not there was any role for critics in the world. now we have a sequel

hybrid. yes, structurally, it is godfather to. ——2. history hybrid. yes, structurally, it is godfatherto. ——2. history is repeating itself. i see where it's going! here's a clip. # look into his angel eyes, one look and you're hypnotised. # 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.# i don't think it's camp enough! i don't think it's camp enough! 0k, here's what i feel.

firstly, julie walters, in terms of physical comedy... on a technical level, 0k, so i think this is slicker than the original. it is you anyway this is directed by ol parker — the original was phyllida lloyd. this has sort of 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 construction of a film, it's really good. we have all the old cast back again and some new cast members playing the old cast in their younger incarnations. they're a very, very likeable cast. i mean, lilyjames 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 10—15 minutes in, the sequence where they did i kissed the teacher, i started having just a little cry. just a little quiet cry. and then when pierce brosnan took a very gentle run at a song... because, pierce, god bless him... bless him, he can't sing, can he? we are allowed to say that. you can't sing, you can't dance, but you can still have the time of your life!

so then — so here's the big question, what's the greatest abba song ever recorded 7 dancing queen! no, wrong. no? i'm right! no, you're not. the greatest abba song ever recorded is my love, my life from arrival. oh, that's beautiful, but that's a heartbreaker. and the drama moves towards it. and i promise you when my love, my life happens, and i won't spoil the moment it happened, i was in floods of tears. knowing the song, i can imagine. i was sobbing, i was... i was actually having to stop myself from making a noise in the screening because i thought all these other people would think, "what on earth is he doing?" i laughed, i smiled, i enjoyed it, 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 ‘the rock'johnson in it might‘ve, but other than that, it could not possibly have been improved. i thought it was absolutely fabulous. i cannot wait to go and see it again. it topped the original. it sent me out with a... there's the thing, you see — 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 ijust felt myself

going with it. and, i mean, were i a braver man, i would've been dancing in the aisles. it was — 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 touchdowns. you will love it. well, i can tell that i will. and 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 just said to me that we can't talk about this film for the whole programme, which is very disappointing, because we could. i actually feel that we can! no, we could, but we have to move on to very, very, very different matters.

0k, hotel artemis, which is this future noir dystopian thriller. jodie foster runs this hotel — this is ten years in the future, los angeles, there are riots — and she runs this hotel that basically takes in outlaws and bandits and she patches them up after they've got wounded. and the cast includesjeff goldblum, zachary quinto, sterling k brown and, of course, jodie foster. i thought it was kind of disposable fun. i'm saying that after mamma mia that this is the disposable fun thing. it's quite slickly done. it has a cartoonish feel to it. it's written and directed by drew pearce. there are some quite stylishly mounted sort of violent set pieces which are all, as i said, done in a very cartoonish way. it doesn't have much emotional clout, except for the fact at the centre of it you do have jodie foster playing this character who has a darkness in her past, which she manages to convey. there's also a brilliant comic turn by dave bautista, who makes the most of a recurring joke. you know, he's a man mountain of a guy but he's a medical orderly, and he keeps showing everyone his badge to demonstrate that he is actually a medical orderly and they must take him seriously. it's kind of ok, it's not great — it's not mamma mia! here we go again, let's be honest, but it's kind of 0k! and a totally different turn for the third film, which i haven't seen but by everything i've read is really emotional

in a very different way. it is, it's very tough. it's 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's so nice, thank you. see, i told you! bye! bye — bye. i'll be back! come again soon. thank you so much, bye—bye. bye! bye — bye! so you can see from that, it's a resolutely unglamorous and actually very grim film. the writer was inspired to write it after a true story of somebody that she knew who was working somewhere and, you know, had her dreams crushed and ended up committing suicide. what i like about this film is that it feels very real. it is very gritty. it's done with a lot of heart and a lot of integrity. the way the film got made was that the script was written and the script then won a prize

and they needed funding so they went to crowd funding. so it's very hard to get a film made. when you think about things like hope dickson leach taking ten years to get the levelling made. yes, terrific. and this is how it works. my feeling about this film is it's tough. there's no question about it, it's a tough watch, it is a bleak story, although there's hope. there's 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's a feature that makes me want to see more from this writer—director because i think it's done, as i said, with integrity and heart. it's a very, very small budget film. you'll have to seek it out. i mean, you know, mamma mia will be on every single screen, hotel artemis will be one of those. you will have to seek out the receptionist, but it is worth it. i would say again, it is a tough watch. it is a bleak film but it does have hope, and it does have heart. and, more importantly, it does have integrity. all good qualities. and best out — leave no trace... last time i'm going to say this, leave no trace is so far the best film i've seen this year.

i absolutely love it. directed by debra granik, who made winter's bone, which was so great. it's the story of a father and daughter living off the grid in the forest outside portland. they get found by the authorities. and 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 characters have one of those conversations that you know was written by the scriptwriter to tell you what's going on. it's all to do with the gestures 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. i couldn't face going to sit in a cinema. that doesn't make you a bad person! i know that may be a controversial statement, but... the summer blockbuster was was built on air—conditioned cinemas. but i'm very excited to see it as soon as we get some rain, right? yes. and a dvd? filmworker. this is a dvd about leon vitali, who was a very, very promising actor. worked with stanley kubrick, realised that, to him, stanley kubrick was a genius, and decided to dedicate his whole life to working for stanley kubrick

in every possible way. it's a really interesting film because it's about what does it mean if you decide that somebody else is a great artist and you are going to basically sacrifice everything that you have to facilitate their art? and i think he's a kind of an unsung hero. i thought it was a really interesting documentary. i'm not the world's biggest kubrick fan. i think kubrick was great at times. i could live without eyes wide shut. but i really do think this — it's a portrait of somebody who is in love with the movies and in love with the moviemaker and decides to dedicate themself to making that art happen, and it's very inspiring. mmm, fascinating. did he ever see his children? that's what you wonder. it's an extraordinary story. it is, it really is. thank you very much. go and see mamma mia! that's the weekend sorted, isn't it? just a reminder before you go, you can find all the film news and reviews on the bbc online, bbc.co.uk/markkermode. 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! have a good week! well, there's not much change on the

weather front. you know well, there's not much change on the weatherfront. you know what well, there's not much change on the weather front. you know what i'm going to tell you. it's hot and sunny and that is how it is going to stay over the next few days. now, sonny is probably a little bit stretching it as far as the weather goes for the next sort of 2a hours, because it is going to be on the cloudy and human side for some of us. cloudy and human side for some of us. i think the overall message is for the heat that we have right now to become more intense, particularly across some southern to become more intense, particularly across some southern parts of the uk. so this is what we have right now, lots of cloud across the country, streaming in off the atlantic. this is humid air as well. temperatures and early on sunday morning no lower than 18 in london. now, that's muggy. 15 in belfast,

evenin now, that's muggy. 15 in belfast, even in aberdeen and the lowlands of scotland, around the midteens. so it sta rts scotland, around the midteens. so it starts fairly cloudy and murky and there will probably be light rain around here and there. the clouds will break up across eastern counties, central areas and the south. if you want the sunshine and the heat, this is good news for you tomorrow. it looks like it is going tomorrow. it looks like it is going to bea tomorrow. it looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. if you don't like 28 celsius i guess that is dreadful. mid—20s across the midlands and into yorkshire, the mid—20s as well. 2a for belfast. 24th aberdeen. a different story for our friends 24th aberdeen. a different story for ourfriends in the 24th aberdeen. a different story for our friends in the western isles. cloud and outbreaks of rain, around 16 degrees. only light rain, coming and going. that is how we are going to end the weekend. so that will be a warm note with some sunshine and a little bit of rain in north—western scotland. the week ahead, the weather fronts will be trying to push in off the atlantic. really, as far as much of the country is concerned, far as much of the country is concerned , warmer far as much of the country is

concerned, warmer winds from the south, and we could see temperatures of around 33 celsius as early as monday in the south—east and east anglia and widely into the high 20s in northern inland as well. scotland and northern ireland will be under those weather fronts. possibly some showers for you here. hit and miss, really. you can see that heat in central and southern parts of the country and across the continent there. if you are heading to europe this week it is going to be scorching where hot. look at this. tell me, how often does that happen? monday to friday, 31 degrees. it just goes on and on. for many other parts of the country i am pleased to say it will be a bit more co mforta ble, say it will be a bit more comfortable, perhaps 25. a pleasant summer comfortable, perhaps 25. a pleasant summer ‘s day in cardiff. —— ourtop —— our top stories. the survivors of the boat sinking in the us that claimed 17 lives say the captain told passengers not to use lifejackets. a0 degrees and rising,

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