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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  August 19, 2018 11:45pm-12:00am BST

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let's turn to we have a minute left. let's turn to somejokes and we have a minute left. let's turn to some jokes and the daily express. these are, it is the bestjoke award from edinburgh. the festivalfringe, specifically. pick us something that made you smile. i thought these were rubbish. i will read some of them out of. had a job drilling holes for water. it was well boring. perhaps it is too late at night or i have not had enough to drink, but i don't think it is very funny or i have no sense of humour. this is the one that won the. the cream of edinburgh. working at thejobcentre has to be a tense job, knowing that if you get fired you still have to come in the next day. so if you are going to edinburgh this year, that is what you have got to look forward to. i've got ajob is what you have got to look forward to. i've got a job collecting the jumpers left in the parks, it is not easy, they keep moving the goalposts. i think that was quite good. what do colourblind people do
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when they are told to eat their greens? told to eat cabbage. justin moorhouse offered this: trump said he would build a wall, but he hasn't even picked up a brick. he isjust another middle—aged man sailing on a diy project. jumpers for goalposts, that worked for me. on that hell areas note, —— hell areas note, time has beaten us. i don't know what to say. we have not got any time anyway! 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 is 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 on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, ruth lea and ben chu. coming up next, it is the film review. hello, and a warm welcome
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to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. hi, jason — what have you been watching? hi,jane. well, this week, an uptight ewan mcgregor gets a surprise visit from some familiar furry flying friends. he's with hayley atwell. more to come in disney's christopher robin. there's a love letter from one film—maker to another, as mark cousins addresses his hero orson welles in a documentary called the eyes of orson welles, which is inspired by finding a treasure trove of orson welles' never—before—seen sketches and drawings. and the boss is back, just in time for the football — denzel washington pops up with the equalizer 2.
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he is on a vengeful mission, and you don't want to get in his way. i wouldn't argue with him! starting with christopher robin... only a pg, and i am fascinated about whether this is really children's film, for summer? what is this? ijust came from a screening where there were children there with their merchandise, thinking, "great, i am going see a winnie—the—pooh movie — how cute." they're not. ah, they're not. what they will see is very cute. he is famously a bear of little brain, but this is a movie of very big heart. it starts with ewan mcgregor as an adult christopher robin, though i stress not the real christopher robin, referring to a film earlier this year called goodbye, christopher robin, about the rather miserable life that the real christopher robin had. this christopher robin is miserable, working in post—war london for a luggage firm. he has too much work on his plate, can't spend enough time with his wife, hayley atwell, and his child madeline — played by a brilliantly—named child british actress, bronte carmichael — very posh. she's very good, though, as well.
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he's very stressed out and can't work out what is happening at work, and he gets a visit from a childhood friend, which might make him lighten up for the weekend... 0h. what to do, what to do, what to do... what to do indeed. pooh? christopher robin. no! no, no, no... you can't be here. mm. this can't be happening. the stress. it's not stress. god, i'm stressed. it's pooh. i'm so exhausted. madelaine warned me! i like to be warmed. warmed and cosy. i've cracked! i've totally cracked. i don't see any cracks.
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a few wrinkles...maybe. is that pooh with an american accent? am i mishearing that? he always has an american accent, pooh, because he's voiced by the famous actor, jim cummings, who always does pooh and tigger as well, you remember tigger — "the wonderful thing about tiggers, their bottoms are made out of springs..."? and he does the song, don't worry. thank goodness. and also eeyore has an american accent, and if you remember that film with mark wahlberg, ted, with the swearing, smoking bear, this is kind of the pg version of that. the characters are there, but as you see they're sort of furry characters, and it's about handing things on to the next generation. and here we see madeline having a tea party on the train with the characters, as they try to come to london to try to make her father have a nice time, to remember the childish things he'd put away when he was so very young. it's that kind of lesson. we get that in disney movies, in films like elf, where the father has to remember what it was like to be young.
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but we want this to be as good as paddington, that's the trouble, which is brilliant. yes, there's a sort of influx of furriness going on on the streets of london right now. this isn't paddington. a lot of nods to paddington, and even a part for some of the people who were in paddington — some voices cast, the voice of peter capaldi as rabbit here. it's very strange. i actually thought it was rather sweet, and it kind of worked, but it is a very odd concoction, and i also have no idea whom it's for, because it isn't really for kids — it is for grown—up kids who can't put away childish things, which actually strikes me very much as disney's core audience right now because they are the ones doing superheroes and star wars. it's for that age group as well, trying to remember what it was like to be young. ok, so it sounds like a curious mixture. curiouser and curiouser. said alice. and you're bringing a documentary as your second choice? yes, mixing things up. this one is certainly for film fans. citizen kane was voted the number one film six decades in a row, the best film ever made.
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orson welles is often cited as the best film—maker ever. certainly in terms of images. well, mark cousins, a well—known film historian, who worked at the bbc, he discovered a treasure trove of orson welles' sketches and he got them out and realised what we see in the sketches often translated into his films, such as touch of evil, which we are seeing here, which starred a great orson welles performance. a beautiful love letter to cinema. it is also very pretentious, which is what you want from mark cousins — i wouldn't want it any other way! very esoteric, but you also learn a whole lot about what cinema can do, how it connects to the world, the shapes and motifs it can trigger. a real cineast‘s trove, as opening up that trove must have been for mark cousins, and finding clues to orson welles, what he calls his visual thinking. we often say that the eyes are the keys to the soul, but here they're sort of saying the paintings are the keys to orson welles' visual soul. he famously never finished films, orson welles, always arguing
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with the studios about money. what would he have made now of the internet and the free technology we have? he might have ended up finishing films. it is fascinating and absolutely beautiful and i loved every second, but again it is not for everyone. all right. is this for everyone, the equalizer 2? do you remember the first one? it is well documented i'm not good with violence so thinking this is not really my territory! denzel, however, is an expert. i love denzel washington... well, i love him, but... i'd pay to see him read out the phone book, to be honest with you. yes. the first one, i remember very little about it except that he worked in the american equivalent of bm). so he now has a job driving the american equivalent of uber, in boston, ferrying people around, but he also kind of rights wrongs — he is indeed the equalizer. but he perceives the moral rectitude of what he's doing. here he is, taking some revenge and wrath out on some arrogant bankers who have mistreated one of his clients... how you doing?
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i'm the, ah, lyft driver that you called to take home your girlfriend. not a girlfriend, man. 0h. credit card wasn't valid. come in. there you go. mm. pay yourself whatever, and give yourself a nice tip. thank you. you're not going to ask me if she got home ok? this is the point where usually i'd give you a chance to do the right thing — but not tonight. tonight i'm going to need your cameras, cellphones, anything you might have used to record what you did to her. you knocked on the wrong door tonight, pops. come here. ok, so that's the general gist?
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he does that a lot? a lot, and he's very good at it. he is 63, denzel washington, and i don't know why he does it. the central plot is to do with his cia... of course he is a former cia assassin working as a taxi driver. he comes out of retirement to help her and track down why she has been killed, and it goes right to the top, one of those conspiracies, except it doesn't and ends up in a hurricane — there she is, melissa leo, she gets killed, and of course, who killed her? it ends up on the coast, for no reason at all. that said, it has denzel washington been really cool all the way through, so i sort of like that, a film about denzel washington. not his best, but still denzel. best out, you have chosen a film which, jason, made me feel about 95! laughter. me too, i have to say. this has been out a week and it came out on tuesday, unusually, because it is an unusual film. a little indie british comedy
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from the makers of the inbetweeners. the director, iain morris, and joe thomas is the star. and i think you could call it in—tense. see what i did there? reminded me why i would never want to camp at a festival. much as i love music, there is a line. yes, it's very messy, very funny, though, if you are of the right age group, which sometimes, guilty, iam. i was not, but all of the 19—year—old men i went to the screening with were loving it. that is enough. and very nicely acted — choosing the positives. and dvd... if you're not going out to a tent or a festival, dvd, emily blunt, in a quiet place. post—apocalyptic film where if you make a sound the aliens who have invaded will come for you, so you have to be quiet and not say a word and get through it. her and her family sort of get through it. will they, won't they? she is also pregnant, giving birth,
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not something you want to do when there are aliens around . everybody i know who has seen it said it was absolutely gripping. again i'm a bit of a kick—in. yes, you can just about survive it — just don't scream. you have been warned! thank you very much. lovely to see you, jason, and that is it for this week. whatever you choose to watch, whatever you are brave enough for, have a good week. enjoy your cinema going. goodbye. hello there, good morning. most places will have a dry day on monday. there will be a little sunshine around as well. at the air has been moistening up and you can see the extent of the cloud. a few spots of drizzle here and there around some western hills and coast. some of the best of the brakes further east and more especially across central parts of scotland.
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showers further north. here the air is fresher and otherwise a cloud cover, a top temperature of 25 celsius in the south—east. a bit of sunshine here and there perhaps as we head into the evening, turning the cloud once again overnight, the odd pocket of light rain and drizzle but on the whole it will be dry. coolest of all the northernmost parts of scotland, but a warm night further south with all that cloud. some changes on tuesday. we start to see a band of rain arriving in the far north—west of the uk during the second half of the day. elsewhere it is likely to be dry, a bit more sunshine, and that will lift the temperatures more widely across england and wales and south—east scotland. will i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: a small break in the weather has allowed rescuers in the indian state of kerala more access to those affected by the worst flooding for a hundred years. going to. even the boat i was
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rescued in almost curbside. —— i thought i was going to die. even the boat i was rescued in almost capsized. afg hanistan‘s president declares a three month ceasefire — but only if the taliban agree to respect it too. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: terrifying scenes as more earthquakes strike lombok island, just a fortnight after major tremors there left hundreds dead.
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