at the guardian. and here we look at the guardian. and here we have a picture of carnival —goers, very colourful in their plastic macs, but it is not the kind of whether you want for notting hill. it isa whether you want for notting hill. it is a wonderful picture, it really works to draw the eye to the front page, all the different coloured macs and beaming smiles. and the plunging temperatures have not done any damage to the notting hill carnival today. i love any damage to the notting hill carnivaltoday. i love the happiness on their faces, because most of the timel on their faces, because most of the time i am feeling so miserable in the country, and you see this happiness on a rainy day. it is lovely. if you have never been, it is certainly a treat to go. our floor manager, becky, took her one—year—old daughter today. could you protectors on so she wouldn't be deafened. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online 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 on bbc iplayer. thank you, rob merrick and yasmin alibhai—brown. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news, and the good news is mark kermode is back from his summer holidays. nice to see you. nice to see you, it feels like it's been ages. it does, it really does actually. what have you chosen this week? so the children act, which is a new film starring emma thompson, we have this week. also, very different, alpha, the new movie by albert hughes. and blackkklansman, the spike lee film. and the children act...

yes. i'm very interested to hear what you say because i've read the novel... 0k. and i like it. so, so? and, you know, adapted from the novel by ian mcewan... yes. ..in the screenplay. so emma thompson is a high court judge, whose work is engulfing her life. she is involved in matters of life and death, very, very complicated cases — one of which is about a boy who's i7 years old, who's refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds. but he is still technically a child, there is an argument about whether or not he's being forced into this position by his parents. she has also to deal with cases of conjoined twins and, you know, these are weighty philosophical issues. when she comes home, she brings the work home with her, and her husband, played by stanley tucci, is starting to feel shut out of their marriage. here's a clip. i'll make reservations for dinner, as i've had an awful day myself. and, um, we'll go drink some wine and... and i can get some opera tickets for saturday night. no, i'm due tojudge all weekend. you can't switch it?

mm—mm, two judgements for monday. hmm. what? 0h, nothing, it's just like last weekend and the 50 weekends before that. that's how it is. yes! yes. um, look, i don't know how to say this, um, but here it is. ithink... i think i want to have an affair. yeah. now, i... stanley tucci is terrific. yeah, he is. i'm a big fan of his. he is. the way he says "yes" is really, really well done. i have to say that the performances are terrific. i mean, emma thompson, i'm a huge fan of anyway,

and she's really great in this role. it's hard to think of many other people who could carry this role. what then happens is that as part of this case of having to rule about the 17—year—old boy who doesn't want the blood transfusion, she makes the strange decision to go to the hospital to see him, which is unusual. and that encounter with him sparks something with him, if you're aware of things like enduring love, you'll be aware of those ideas of a very short encounter coming to mean something much more. what the film is really about is about the way in which her marriage is sort of falling apart and somewhere else in her life, something else — and all these things are colliding. what i like about the film is that, you know, it's notjudgemental about the characters. i think it is a very good portrayal of people being shut out of their marriage by work. i also think that it deals, you know, in a very sort of sensible way with some very complex issues. however, i think the performances are better than the film itself. i think there are moments, there's one moment —

a lot of emma thompson's performance is very restrained, you know, she telegraphs a lot with very little, but there are also moments in which she has kind of like an emotional breakdown, which reminded me oddly enough of that brilliant scene in love actually, in which she goes off in the bedroom and cries. 0h, superb, yes. however, there are other things about the film which also reminded me of love actually, and not in a good way. there are certain moments in which the drama, i think, is melodramatic, cheesy, doesn't work, and isn't particularly sort of well structured. so i think what it is is really well played and i'd certainly recommend seeing it for those performances alone. i think there are some problems with the writing and the direction can feel a little bit staid. and i'm wondering how filmic it is, because as i was reading the novel, i thought "oh, you could see this, dare i say, as a television drama." you know, ifelt that, in a good way, as i was reading it, i felt... that is a really interesting point because there are definitely moments watching the film in which televisual is the sense that you get from it. i know actually, nowadays of course, television is as cinematic as cinema itself... that's true, yes... ..but there are moments in it which you think,

"this isn't coming to life as a film, but that's — that is balanced by the fact the performances are so good." yeah. i mean even from just watching that clip, i could tell you were enjoying it, and you can see how well those relationships... and i have not seen the pre—screening because i was told that would end in divorce because we both have to go and see it... 0k. so this is why i haven't seen it, so we're still going. it's definitely worth seeing, i just have reservations about the writing and directing, but no reservations at all about the performances. all right, 0k, well, it's on the list for the bank holiday weekend. alpha, your second choice. so this is an odd one. it's the new film by albert hughes, one half of the hughes brothers, who back in the ‘90s made dead presidents, which is one of the great overlooked movies of the ‘90s, a real masterpiece. set 20,000 years ago, a young man, played by kodi smit—mcphee, goes on a hunting trip. he hasn't yet learnt to kill, and he is lost and left for dead. he's attacked by a pack of wolves. he wounds one of the wolves and then befriends it, and then it becomes a story of a boy and his dog on a quest to get back home.

there are some remarkable things about it, certainly in terms of the visuals. there's very, very little dialogue, what dialogue there is is subtitled, but it's really a bit of visual storytelling, and visually, it is very arresting. there are moments in it in which it kind of — it wanders a little bit off the beaten track and it becomes slightly almost hallucinatory, which i rather like and i do think that albert hughes is a very talented director. however, it has to be said, this has been sitting around for, i think, it's about a year. it was originally meant to be released about a year ago. there was some controversy as well about animal rights on the set and so, it has had a sort of strange route to the screen. i think there are things in it that are — that are very impressive. and as i said, as its heart, it is the story of a boy and his dog on a quest, and that happens to be a story that i'm a sucker for. well, i am too, as you know... yeah. ..so i may well enjoy that one. and goodness, well, it's the new spike lee. the new spike lee, tell us all.

well, he's back in full force. this is based on the stranger—than—fiction story of ron stallworth. john david washington is stallworth, who in the 1970s becomes — he joins the formerly all—white colorado springs police force and he decides to infiltrate the ku klux klan, and he — initially he gets an advert from the press with the phone number, and he rings up and says "i'm a white supremacist and i want tojoin the klan", and they believe him, and he starts working his way right up the chain, right up to david duke, grand wizard. but when it comes to actual face—to—face meetings, of course, they have to get somebody else to play ron, so what they do is they pull in his partner, flip, played by adam driver, who isjewish, and they say "ok, well, i'll do the voice on the phone, you do it in person". but they have very different, initially very different, attitudes to the case. here's a clip. well, i'm not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple of sticks on fire. this is the job. what's your problem? that's my problem. for you, it's a crusade. for me, it's a job. it's not personal, nor should it be. why haven't you bought into this?

why should i? because you're jewish, brother. the so—called chosen people. you've been passing for a wasp. white anglo—saxon protestant, cherry pie, hot dog, white boy. that's what some light—skinned black folks do — they pass for white. i thought this was really good. firstly, it's a film of balancing acts. the central balancing act is between humour and horror, and it's no surprise to discover that it's produced byjordan peele, he made get out, which of course was a horror film that was submitted to one of the awards as a comedy, and thenjordan peele said, actually, "it's a documentary". and of course there is documentary in this, it takes an historical story and brings it right up to date with, you know, shocking footage of charlottesville, and it's very, very contemporary — i mean, the issue of neo—nazis and extreme right—wingers is still very, very contemporary. but this could be a deeply serious film throughout. that is what you would expect, given the subject. and what he manages to do — because they say at the beginning it's based on some for—real, for—real stuff, meaning

you could hardly believe that some of this happened and it does play fast and loose with the truth — it takes the story and fictionalises it. but what it does is, in much the same way as get out, it balances those two elements, and the balancing act, i to have to say, is brilliantly done. i mean, i think this is spike lee's best film since four little girls because it's very hard to get that balance right. there were moments in the screening that i saw in which people were belly laughing, and there were moments in which people were hiding their faces and recoiling because you are dealing with some really, really, you know, profoundly disturbing stuff. and it's an angry film, it's a film which, although it's set in the past, in the 1970s, feels urgently contemporary. i love the look of it, i love the fact that it actually looks like a film made in the 1970s. spike lee has cited things like serpico and french connection and dog day afternoon as kind of visual cues for it, and the performances are really great. adam driver, john david washington in the centre of it, john david washington is brilliant, i mean, carrying this drama. and again, he's also at the centre of balancing the humour

and the horror. i thought it was really remarkable and i think you'll like it. ok, i certainly did like what you've chosen as best 0ut. yeah, i'm sorry... oh, my goodness! i'm back, you see? you're back to mamma mia, you can't give it up. but i sobbed, i sobbed. i do, and my love, my life... oh, i know. i was gone. what makes it so brilliant is if it didn't have that emotional sucker punch, it wouldn't be half the film that it is. it's not just that you smile and all the rest of it, it's that when you weep, you weep buckets. i thought it was — i thought it was really good. it does what a film's meant to do — is it reaches in and it grabs you by the heartstrings. it was, dare i say, so much better than i expected. yeah. and that's a plaudit in itself. i know! no, absolutely, and believe me, i went in thinking "this can't, this isn't gonna work, i mean there's no way that the godfather 2 structure can work with mamma mia" and you come out saying, i just want to go see it again and again and again. you do. a very quick thought about dvd?

yeah, so in the fade, which is a hamburg—set revenge thriller. diane kruger won a best actress award at cannes a year ago now, or two years maybe, and i think it's really worth it for her performance. it's about her husband gets murdered, neo—nazis are implicated, the law fails her and she takes the law into their own hands. her performance is brilliant. the film, actually rather like children act, has some flaws, but she carries it shoulder high and it is worth seeing for her performance. all right. mark, lovely to have you back. thank you very much indeed. see you soon. thank you. and all our previous programs are on the iplayer, of course. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. .is . is some went today. but it is going to return over the weekend. —— summa went missing. here in south wales we had almost two inches of rain earlier in the day and for many of the country and anita cloud and rain it was only 13 degrees. worst

of the rain has moved, that weather front is heading out into the near continent. low pressure near to scotla nd continent. low pressure near to scotland and in the north and west we will continue to see outbreaks of rain coming lighter as the night goes on. there are showers as the low pressure feeds around the north—westerly wind especially across the northern half with clear skies to the south. even though it was cold for us today, those temperatures shouldn't fall too low. 0ver temperatures shouldn't fall too low. over the week ahead we will set not see a repeat of what we saw on sunday. much drier. not a great deal of rain because pressure is higher and it will be a bit warmer. 0f heatwaves by any means. monday is a better day, the rain in northern scotland, a few showers into northern ireland and western scotland. those fading away in the afternoon. we have that north—westerly breeze, many southern and eastern areas likely to be dry and eastern areas likely to be dry and there will be sunshine and we saw what that had when the sunshine

came out yesterday. about 19 is likely widely. much warmer than today across scotland and eastern england it could either low 20s in east anglia. cloud breaks up in the evening because we have got a ridge of high pressure coming in across the uk, clear skies overnight. coming into that very slowly we have got this weather front of the atla ntic got this weather front of the atlantic and that only really makes progress into the far north—west of scotla nd progress into the far north—west of scotland and northern ireland. away from here on tuesday it should be dry. sunny start, cloud will build, limit the amount of sunshine and wrecked up later on the big i think it will be warmer, pushing into northern scotland in two low 20s in the south—east we could see the bridges into the mid— 20s. it may be the warmest it gets all week. things a bit tricky —— tricky into the middle park of the week, rain into the uk and we could see things developing in france threatening to bring rain to the south—east. it could be that the worst of it is out

just across the water. largely dry on wednesday and high pressure returns and keeps it dry and bright with some sunshine on thursday. let's go welcome to newsday on the bbc. welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: a mass shooting in florida. four people are dead after a gunman opend fire during a video game tournament in jacksonville. we have one suspect in this case. he is deceased. he is a white male and we are still to confirm his identity. pope francis returns to rome after his visit to ireland. he says he'll pursue justice for victims of abuse committed by the catholic church. i'm lukwesa barak, in london. also in the programme: australia's new prime minister announces his first cabinet, but can he heal the deep divisions within his government? a mass grave in sri lanka's former war zone