coming up next on bbc news, it is the film review. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's top cinema releases is anna smith! nice to see you, anna, chair — president, in fact, of the critics‘ circle, among other things. good to see you. what have you been watching? right. well, this week's an interesting week. we are starting off with cold war. this takes place primarily in poland and paris and a very interesting story of a troubled relationship between a musician and a singer. then we're off to sanjose in the current day for searching, which is a missing person thriller and it's told entirely on computer screens, so that's an interesting one to discuss. and then finally, we have yardie, which is idris elba's

long—awaited directorial debut. yes. yes, much excitement about that one. let's start with cold war which looks just beautiful. tell us more. yeah, absolutely. i mean, this is kind of the art house choice of the week, if you want to go and see a wonderful, quality film. i mean, i always look forward to the work of pawel pawlikowski. he's a tremendous director. i thought last resort was wonderful. my summer of love, that's probably where most of us met emily blunt. yes, a fantastic film! fantastic film. and he's recently worked on ida, which — this has a similarflavour to that because it is, once again, shot in black and white. it's the story of a relationship between a musician and younger muse, if you like, who catches his eye when they're doing auditions for a folk troupe that's sort of touring europe and the eastern bloc in the late ‘40s, early ‘50s. now, they're separated and they come back together over the years, and this film kind of follows the progress of their tumultuous relationship, really, and drops in and out

of the relationship. there are moments when there is a lot of action in this film. most of the time, it is actually quite bleak, but we've chosen a clip that gives you a lively sense of zula, played byjoanna kulig, her personality. let's have a look. rock around the clock by bill haley and the comets plays a few too many martinis! she's very good at playing drunk. i must say, she's really good at that! and the main actress trained, i think, as a musician, a singer, you know, music was very much her background, and i'm assuming this is one of the reasons she was chosen for that part. absolutely. i mean, she was actually... she ended up on a polish tv competition, and that's how she gained her fame, so this sort of echoes that because she's part of this kind of, sort of rather grim x factor in poland, in postwar poland. but as you see the action moves to paris and that's where it kind of gets both more interesting and it lost me a little bit as well, because i don't know about you but i always need to feel invested in a central romance. yes, yes. i need to believe that this couple are meant to be together. absolutely.

i need to buy the relationship. i mean, she's stunningly beautiful. i mean, many people watching the film will be falling in love with her, but it's very much from the male point of view and from the male character's point of view, so i think maybe that's one of the reasons why i wasn't won over. and also, these are very selfish people. they don't really help each other in their relationships. they make self—serving choice. they make quite mysterious choices. but, as you can see, it is absolutely beautifully shot. and a deliberate policy to be black and white? i mean, i know it runs from the late ‘aos to early ‘60s, doesn't it? very deliberate. i think it was a stylish choice that makes sense. i walked out of the screening of this one and suddenly the world, looked strange being in colour. it was just so evocative. 0k, interesting. now, i am very interested in the next one, which is an interesting idea. does it work? tell us about that. so searching is shown entirely on computer screens, whether it's laptops, desktop computers, phones, facetime. this has happened before in the horror movie genre, but you'll be glad to know this is not a horror movie. you know me well! this is a more of a thriller. it's about a missing child.

so, as you can see, it starts off giving you this rather lovely up—style montage of this asian american family in sanjose, who sadly, the mother passes away, and the daughter then subsequently grows up, is a teenager and she goes missing. and the father is given the task — he's played byjohn cho — of looking online and trying to find out — look at her search history, trying to find out what might be going on, whether she has run away, is something mysterious happening, was she hanging out with some unsavoury characters online? basically, every parent's worst nightmare are going through his head. and then you have an fbi agent coming in, trying to help him track her down. but i thought it was remarkably effective. you actually sort of forget after a while that you are watching one computer screen in the main. it's like sort of over — looking over someone‘s shoulder at a really interesting — they have something really interesting on their computer. but does that last for the duration of a while feature film? whole feature film.

that's what interesting, isn't it? it does! it does. i've actually seen it twice now and it got me both times, not just because the first time around, you're paying detective and you're the story and it's a really tight thriller. and also, it's not a very violent thriller, which is great. it shows that, you know, you can do a thrilled without being violent. but also, there are little things that look like jokes — it is quite funny — but they're actually great big clues, so keep your eyes peeled. ok. now, we must talk about idris elba. i mean, people are very excited that this wonderful actor is turning to directing. how's he done? that's right. well, i would love to say it's fantastic. it's a bit of a so—so one from me. but he'as certainly not done too badly. i think it's a solid debut. yardie the book was a cult hit in the ‘90s that people were selling out of record shops and the back of vans. it's a story of 1970s jamaica and then moving into 1980s hackney. aml ameen is terrific in the lead role and we'll in a clip that his character, d, comes over to deal drugs in the uk but finds himself falling back into kind of a family life with his ex—girlfriend and child. let's have a look. ah. that good.

i never tink i would feel the sun on me face again, you know. d, the first time i come this cold—ass place, me think me just shrivel up and die. go on, take you and bonny back home. yeah, man, i mek enough money i could buy a house for the tree of you. d. 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. shh! siren wails 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! so decent performances, nice sense of time and place. i found some of the dialogue just a little bit too straightforward and it's a film that very much relies on drama rather than any kind of real clever touches or comedy.

i think it's worth seeing. it's wonderful that he's done this and it's a milieu that we don't see much on film, but there's a bit of a way to go in terms of then directing. 0k, and very much recreating the hackney that he grew up in as well, so it's nice on a human level recreating his life story. yes, and i'm sure it will go down a storm in hackney, definitely, yeah. idris elba's directorial debut. everyone very, very interested in that. now, best out. now, i won't lie — i've not had a chance to see this. i've seen the trailer quite a few times. oh my goodness. even the trailer, i was sort of slightly cringing, even watching that, even though kate mckinnon is really talented! are you going to disabuse me? well, i would agree with you because i saw the trailer and thought "i'm not looking forward this screening! i don't think this is gonna be very good!" surprise — it's one of the few ones that's actually way better than the trailer. kate mckinnon is terrific, we know from ghostbusters. she's so talented. i mean, she's brilliant. i love those sort of surreal asides that she does and slightly filthy humour, but really human humour.

the idea is mila kunis finds out her ex—boyfriend was a spy. they have to go on the run. hence the spy who dumped me, we should say — that is the title, yes, yes. and so, they go on the run and they end up having to do various missions. the action, disposable. but what i liked about this is it's a biddy comedy with two women that you really believe are friends. and their dialogue drives the film. their characters drive the film. their relationship drives the film. so, on that level, it's a lot of fun and much better than you might think. that's going on the poster! "much better than you might think!" i suppose that's one of the fun things about it, isn't it? you know, how often do we have two women as very much the central characters in this style of film? and a female director, susanna fogel, as well, and i'm looking forward to seeing what she does next. yeah, absolutely. yeah. and a quick thought about dvd for anyone who would like to stay in over the weekend? well, tully is a film i really enjoyed. it will keep you guessing. it stars charlize theron and it's a jason reitman and diablo cody film. now, they together on juno and young adult, so two... yes, juno — one of my favourite films! amazing films, there you do.

terrific! sojuno was the pregnancy one, this is the motherhood one. so charlize theron is on her third child, she's losing her grip, she needs a night nanny. so the night nanny comes in, she's called tully, played by mackenzie davis, and is everything she used to be — everything that marlo used to be, the lead character. so it's about a charismatic nanny who comes in, but what is she up to? is there a the hand that rocks the cradle element? it keeps you guessing, as i say, but it's got that razor—sharp humour the really, really dark asides that jason reitman and diablo cody do so well together. yes, they're both very talented, aren't they? and as is charlize theron, so that's a winner. that's your dvd for the week if you fancy staying in. anna, thanks very much. nice to see you! anna smith being with us this week. enjoy your cinemagoing, whatever you decide to see. it's quite an interesting week, isn't it? plenty to go and watch over the next seven days. see you next time. bye— bye. hello. sunday's ended with some rain

in parts of northern ireland and western scotland, that's the weather front that will change the weather for all of us this week as it turns cooler. some sunshine in ten today with temperatures into the mid—20s in the warm spots in the uk, and while many of us did see some sunshine occasionally, wasn't quite blue sky at port talbot. let's look and things through the rest of the night, we have this area of cloud and some rain, this is the weather front taking cooler weather southwards, such a slow process. you might see the rain pepping up in parts of southern and south—east scotla nd parts of southern and south—east scotland into monday morning. now, east of that, some clear spells in east of that, some clear spells in east and south—east england, something thing of figure temperatures, patchy mist and thought perhaps. north of that, patchy skies for north and north—west scotland, mid single figures as the cold and windy air moves in but tomorrow, sunny spells and lighter winds compared to today and lighter winds compared to today

and warm sunshine occasionally for eastern and south—east england. for the south—west, west midlands, northern england, southern and eastern scotland, there's this weather front and any rain along it into the afternoon will be increasingly light and patchy and showery in nature, there will be drier areas, not a washout. one sunny spells in east and south—east england ahead of the weather front. much cooler in north—east england and eastern scotland compared with the weekend as temperatures are down by as much as 10 degrees, still some patchy rain. cooler air but when you got sunshine and the winds are fairly light. this weather front will be in to england and wales through the night and into tuesday, high pressure building in behind. underneath that ridge of high pressure behind the weather front you see the blues moving in here, allowing the cooler air to cover more of scotland and all of northern ireland as tuesday begins, single figures but chilly with sunny spells following. for much of england and wales under the influence of the weather front, cloud around wales under the influence of the weatherfront, cloud around but hardly any rain left with this.

temperatures are coming down but still ahead of the front in the far south—east, sunny spells and that will allow the temperatures to go back about 20 on tuesday, while most are mid—to—high teens. weather developments later this week after a couple of quiet days midweek, we're seeing low pressure developing, growing confidence that will be the case, but where it will exactly sit and where the rain will be around the area of low pressure still open to question. i'll keep you updated on that. more as ever where you are and where you're going available on the website and the app. more every half an hour. welcome to newsday, on the bbc. i'm rico hizon, in singapore, the headlines: two journalists investigating reports of attrocities in myanmar will find out within the next few hours whether they've been convicted of breaching the country's official secrets law. the un warns migrants crossing the mediterranean sea to europe face an ever more deadlyjourney.

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