tv The Film Review BBC News August 31, 2018 8:45pm-9:01pm BST
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this is a special, protected site for golden eagles and there are four nesting pairs which is why dave has brought us here. we have a scope, we have the binoculars, we have the long lens, so we willjust keep our fingers crossed because it's big country, so... there is a golden eagle up here now. oh, my word! going along the ridge. oh, wow. these top predators found only in the highlands and islands of scotland are critical to their environment. and conservation biologists are starting to use this genetic blueprint to help select the right birds to release elsewhere in the country. but while this landscape‘s most majestic residents have given up some very valuable secrets, they remain just as impressive as ever. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.
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to take us through this week's cinema releases is anna smith. it is nice to see you — president of the critics‘ circle. what have you been watching? we are starting with cold war, taking place in poland and paris and an interesting story of a troubled relationship between a musician and singer. then we are off to sanjose with searching, a missing person thriller told entirely on computer screens. and we have yardie, idris elba's long—awaited directorial debut. let's start with cold war. it looks beautiful. this is the arthouse choice of the week if you want to see a quality film. i look forward to the work
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of pawel pawlikowski. last resort was wonderful. my summer of love, where we first met emily blunt. this is shot in black and white and is the story of a relationship between a musician and younger muse who catches his eye when doing auditions for a folk troupe turing the eastern bloc in the late 40s, early 50s. they are separated and come back together over the years and the film follows the progress of their relationship and drops in and out of the tumultuous relationship. there are moments when there is a lot of action in the film. most of the time it is bleak but this clip gives you a lively sense of the personality of zula. music: rock around the clock by bill haley. a few too many martinis!
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she is good at playing drunk. the main actress trained as a musician and music was her background and i assume this is a reason she was chosen. she ended up on a polish tv competition which is how she gained her fame and this echoes that because she is part of this grim x factor in postwar poland. the action moves to paris and it gets more interesting and lost me a little bit, because i always need to feel invested in a central romance. i need to believe they belong together. she is stunningly beautiful and many people will be falling in love with her, but it is very much from the male character's point of view. maybe that is a reason i was not won over. these are selfish people, who do not help each other in relationships. they make self—serving and mysterious choices. but it is beautifully shot.
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and a deliberate policy to be black and white, it is running from the 40s to 60s. i walked out of the screening and suddenly the world looks strange in colour. it was evocative. i am interested in the next, an interesting idea. does it work? searching is shown entirely on computer screens — laptops, phones, facetime which has happened before in the horror movie genre but this is not a horror movie. this is a thriller about a missing child. it starts off giving you a lovely montage of an asian american family in sanjose, who sadly, the mother passes away, and the daughter grows up and goes missing as a teenager and the father is given the task of looking online, trying to find out... looking at her search history, what might be going on,
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whether she has run away, washing hanging out with unsavoury characters online? every parent's worst nightmare going through his head. an fbi agent helps to track her down. it was remarkably effective and you sort of forget you are watching one computer screen in the main. it is like looking over someone's shoulder at something interesting on the computer. does it last for the duration of the feature film? it does. i have seen it twice and it got me both times, first time you enjoy the story, it is a tight thriller. it is not a violent thriller which is great. there are things that look like jokes, but they are great big clues so keep your eyes peeled. we must talk about idris elba, people are excited he is turning to directing. i would love to say it is fantastic.
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it is a so—so one from me, but he has not done too badly, a solid debut. yardie the book was a cult hit in the 90s when people sold it from record shops and the back of vans. it is about 1970s jamaica and moving into 1980s hackney. aml ameen is terrific in the lead role. we will see in the clip that his character, d, comes to the uk to deal drugs but falls back into family life with his ex—girlfriend and child. ah. that good. i never tink i would feel the sun on mi face again, you know. d, the first time i come this cold place, mi think mi just shrivel up and die. go on, i'll take you back home. yeah, i mek enough money i could buy a house for the tree of you. d.
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any of them you like by the sea, any of them. d. come now. this place is not like home at all, but mi feel safe. here? here. i won't go back. not even for by the sea. not even for that. come, we're going home. but i want to stay! mummy has work, vanessa. she can stay with me. by the sea. he—he! decent performances and a nice sense of time and place. i found some of the dialogue a little bit too straightforward and the film relies on drama than clever touches all comedy. it is worth seeing and wonderful he has done this. and something we do not see much on film but a long way to go in terms of directing. very much recreating the hackney he grew up in. it is nice on a human level he recreated his life story. and it will go down a storm in hackney, definitely.
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idris elba's directorial debut. now, best out. i have not seen this. i have seen the trailer. even the trailer, i was slightly cringing. even though kate mckinnon is talented. i would agree because i saw the trailer and thought i was not looking forward to. it is of the few better than the trailer. kate mckinnon is brilliant, from ghostbusters. it is mila kunis who finds out her boyfriend was a spy. they go on the run and they have various missions. what i liked about this, they are two women you believe our friends. their characters and relationship
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drives the film and on that level a lot of fun and better than you think. that is going on the poster! i suppose that is a fun thing about it. how often do we have two women as the central characters in this style of film? and a female director in the form of suzanne vogel. and dvd? tully will keep you guessing. they worked together on juno, which is the pregnancy one and this is the motherhood one. charlize theron needs a night nanny. and the night nanny comes in and it is about a charismatic nanny that comes in, but what is she up to? is there an element of the hand that rocks the cradle?
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they are all talented. that is a winner. that is your dvd for the week if you fancy staying in. nice to see you. enjoy your cinema going whatever you decide to see. an interesting week and plenty to go and watch. see you next time. goodbye. pleasa ntly warm pleasantly warm in the sunshine today. we had a top temperature of 20 celsius over the weekend the sunshine for many of us it was going to be dry but it is going to be warmer as we head into september, some cloud cover coming in from western parts of the uk, lb and a
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little bit. allow the system here won't topple its way into the uk for the start of the weekend, fade away any rain as a peters out, another band of rain approaching the northwest later on in the weekend, but added that, we are drying up in the south and that will allow the temperatures to left. last night, go down to minus two celsius in scotla nd down to minus two celsius in scotland tonight, tonight will not be as cold. thick cloud across northern ireland now be pushing its way across scotland, and westernmost parts of england and wales and as you see, it is producing light rain and drizzle. so the skies will be to the midlands, integers of rural areas will be on 67 degrees. more details on the side of it will restart sunny across the southeast of england, to most of the midlands across east anglia in lincolnshire, pushing through wales and in northern england, most of the rain is over the irish sea, cumbria in
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scotland, you can see a bit of rain, very patchy and light, some sunshine here to brighten up in northern ireland as rain continues to peter out of the day. the sunnier skies across the midlands, some patchy weather bubbling up here, a touch higher than today, so 24—bit even 25 degrees across the southeast where we will have more cloud around 18 or i9. we will have more cloud around 18 or 19. and the second half of the weekend, some residual cloud of the areas that could give one or two showers, here is the main rain coming up to northern ireland and scotla nd coming up to northern ireland and scotland in the afternoon, i have the afternoon for the sunny spells and that continues to build through the day on sunday, we can see the red colours there and a hint of something warmer, mid—20s and the southeast and across the board, those temperatures higher than saturday. so not a bad start to
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september, on monday. someone in the southeast, but we have cloud, and patchy rain that is drifting southeastward, into the north, we have some brighter and fresher air, and some dry weather. hello, this is bbc world news today. i'm lukwesa burak. our top stories... a final farewell to ‘the queen of soul', at the funeral of the legendary soul singer, aretha franklin. # you make me feel like a natural woman. friends, family and many famous faces are attending the music—filled ceremony in the musician's home city of detroit. in washington, members of the us congress gather to commemorate the late senatorjohn mccain. also today. a bbc investigation uncovers evidence of the mass—detention of members of china's uighur community. a prominent leader of pro—russia separatists in eastern ukraine has been killed
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