i went to one in tooting. favourite. i went to one in tooting. letchworth garden city. very nice, very nice indeed. heated, as well. that is it for the papers to night. you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, 7 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 and goodbye. coming up next, 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

releases is mark kermode. hello, mark. hey. what have you been watching? a very interesting week. we have crazy rich asians, which, as you know, is proving a huge international hit. we have the rider, a very melancholic and very touching tale of rodeo. and lucky, featuring harry dean stanton in one of his last roles. yeah, this is quite a week. what did you think of crazy rich asians? 50, adapted from the novel from kevin kwan, which i confess i haven't read. no, likewise. so constance wu is rachel chu. she's a chinese—american economics professor at nyu who is dating a guy called nick who she doesn't know is filthy rich until the moment he says, "look, you know, there's a wedding in singapore. i'm gonna be there. you should come with, you should meet the family." they get on the aeroplane, they turn left. she says, "we go that way." he says "no, no, no." suddenly, they are in super first class and people are offering champagne. and she goes, "how — what is all this about?" he says, "well, my family

are comfortable." she then arrives and she meets the family and she is pitted against a series of ex— and wannabe girlfriends, a grandmother who is kind of in charge of everything, and michelle yeoh's eleanor, the mother, who has no intention of letting her son marry whomever he wants. here's a clip. it'sjust great seeing you guys all like this. when i was growing up, it wasjust me and my mum. but we didn't really have a big family like this. that's a beautiful ring, auntie eleanor. nick's father had it made when he proposed to me. how did you guys meet? actually, they met at cambridge, both studying law together. oh, i didn't know you were a lawyer! i withdrew from university when we got married. 0h! i chose to help my husband run a business and to raise a family. for me, it was a privilege. but for you, you may think it's old—fashioned. but all of this doesn't just happen. it's because we know to put family first. it's, it's. ..

i don't think i'm going to mess with her! but isn't that great? it is a really terrifically steely performance. what i liked about the film, i mean, there has been a lot of talk about how culturally important it is, that we haven't seen a major hollywood studio produce a movie with this kind of cast since thejoy luck club, which is, you know, two decades ago... oh, yes, long time ago! ..and that means immediately the film comes with a lot of cultural baggage and a lot of roles that it has to fill. but the main question is, does it work, is it funny, is it engaging? and looking at some of the trailers, i was worried. i thought "this is gonna be like sex in the city with all the wealth and consumerism." i actually found myself rather enchanted by this. firstly, there's a very a likeable cast. i mean, when they need to be funny, awkwafina is very, very funny. michelle yeoh is very not—funny, which i think works really well. the second thing is that although certain bits of the construction of the drama are a bit creaky — i mean, if you know rom—coms, it does take all the familiar rom—com traits, it's not sort of breaking new ground in terms

of its narrative, but it's being played with — it's breathing enough new life into those old riffs to make them work. and also the narrative was going off into areas, into darker areas than i expected. because, on the one hand, there is all of this wealth and stuff going on but the whole attitude is, this is not a great thing, these people are scary people and, you know, there are battles that have to be fought. and also, as the characters reveal their back stories, there were surprises. there were genuinely things, i thought "oh, i really didn't think the movie was going in that direction." so i confess i went in with my slightly sniffy critic's hat on thinking, "yeah, 0k, impress me. make me laugh" and it did. and not only did it make me laugh, towards the end, it made me cry. and, as you know... 0h! that's the perfect film! you laugh and you cry. i laughed and i cried. it is mark kermode‘s perfect film! no—one was more surprised than me, so, you know, go along and... i'm really looking forward to it. i'm really looking forward to it, very much. as, in fact, i am the rider. a very, very different film. very different.

so, this is chloe zhao, who made songs my brothers taught me. it is a film about rodeos and the people that work on rodeos and it is using non—professional actors playing very, very close to home. the central character, brady, who we first meet when he is recovering from a fall, a terrible fall, which has left him with a metal plate in his head, and he has been told he cannot ride any more, he cannot go back to the rodeo. his sister and his father play versions of themselves, so their interaction is very sort of realistic. on the one hand, it is a film about pursuing your dreams and what it means to follow your dreams and what it means when those dreams throw you. and it has a touch of the melancholia of that film lean on pete, which i liked very much... i liked that, yes. ..but also a tougher edge, a harder edge — a little bit of the perhaps of the florida project in terms of the kind of realism. you know, it is about what dreams mean and it's about the kind of the down—to—earth reality of the situation, but it's done with real compassion, real conviction, you absolutely believe in these characters, not least because, as i said, they are playing so close to home. and it achieves a kind of poetry.

it's very, very moving. it's slow, you know — which i think it needs to be, it takes its time to tell its story — but i thought it was really beautifully done. slow is not always bad. it can be hugely enjoyable. no, absolutely! now, lucky. yeah. the final — i mean, one of the last films made by the great harry dean sta nton. again, it's a melancholy film about an old—timer on his last hurrah. he's called lucky. we see him, he gets up and does his exercise, he has a cigarette — he smokes constantly — he goes to the diner where he does the crossword, he goes to the bar where he hangs out with his kind of misfit group of buddies. at the diner, he meets up with another ex—veteran — another veteran, pardon me — with whom he starts having a conversation which appears to be about nothing but is actually about everything. here's a clip. marines, huh? yessir.

you? navy. 0h! 0k, ok, you guys are great. you always give us a lift to the fight. i read somewhere that the marines didn't have the mental capacity to understand the inner workings of a ship. world war ii, huh? pacific. yeah, same here. did you ever get around the philippines? yeah, i spent a couple of years in that slice of heaven. yeah, me too, but i never got off the boat. consider yourself lucky. now, that scene is kind of reminiscent of a similar scene from the straight story, the david lynch film, and it's no surprise that david lynch himself plays one of the characters in the film — he plays howard, who lucky meets in a bar, who is very distressed because his tortoise, who he's had for ages, has run away.

and there is a long philosophical discussion about his friendship with this tortoise and what it means that the tortoise has left. and he gets — he says to people, "you don't understand. a tortoise is really, really important. " and what the film is about is, on the one hand, it's about facing the inevitability of death and it's also about the fact that, even if life itself appears to be meaningless, we should approach it with a smile. it's quietly philosophical. it's often quite funny. it's very touching. it has an odd theatrical quality to it, particularly in the bar scenes. there are some sequences in which you think, "are they acting stiffly on purpose, or is that part of a device?" it reminded me also of some of the films ofjim jarmusch, you know, that observational, you'll look at something with a slightly off—kilter eye. and, as i said, it's very charming, very touching, very gentle. there is a darkness behind it because he has these dreams of the void but it's

a film which wins you over because it is such strange company to be in, but actually generous and benevolent. and as i said, in the end the message is keep smiling, because it is all you can do, which i think is a good message. i love it. from everything you have said, i absolutely love it. good! and your film of the week, i also loved, even though i spent 1.5 hours just feeling very angry. it was beautifully made. the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel about a teenager in the ‘90s sent to a christian gay conversion therapy centre where, you know, all this stuff — we will tell you all this stuff and somehow it will change your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that thing about there are times when it does make you angry.

but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming it i think before trump was elected. the election happened mid—shoot. it would have been an interesting wrap party that night. yeah, you have to see that to get that, but it is extraordinary. it feels contemporary, doesn't it, even though it's set in ‘93. it does. and dvd? so, very quickly, this is zama, which is the superb film by lucrecia martel, who made the headless woman. it is an 18th—century story about the titular character who is in a south american colony longing for reassignment to buenos aires. it is a film which on the one hand has a very down—to—earth political story, on the other hand, it has a dreamlike quality to it. it's very, very poetic. it's also — you know, the best movies are movies which tell their story through images, rather than characters sitting down and explaining

to you what is going on. you could watch zama and take away seven different stories. what i really like about it was, like the best cinema, it is a visual storytelling. it is a film which is a film, not just an argument. i really liked it. really, really liked it. it is called zama and it is on dvd. excellent, and i love it when you bring something that i know nothing about and then i can think about it for the weekend. thank you very much. you're welcome. good to see you, mark. thank you. and a quick reminder before you go that you can find all of the film news and reviews from across the bbc online, there's the address. all our previous film review programmes are on the iplayer as well of course. really cracking week, i think, and enjoy your cinema—going, whatever you choose to see. thanks for being with us, bye—bye. hello. there is some strong wind in

the forecast of the coming days and it is mainly down to this area of cloud. it is the remnants of what was couric hain hell in, no longer a hurricane in but embedded in all of this is some tropical energy that will strengthen wind, bring rain and also raise temperatures. overnight we also raise temperatures. overnight we have got light and patchy rain across western parts of scotland, oui’ across western parts of scotland, our band of cloud has been across the midlands and northern parts of wales, sinking southwards into southern england and southern wales. here, a murky, misty and muggy night. cooler further north and here, a murky, misty and muggy night. coolerfurther north and in between our two bands of cloud with clear spells and patchy mist. over the next few days this area of low pressure trax northwards across the western side of the uk, notice how those isobars squeezed together. strong wind and rain at times but it will develop a feed of warm air stretching up into southern parts of scotla nd stretching up into southern parts of scotland and northern ireland over the next few days. here is how money shapes up. further outbreaks of rain western scotland, heavier and more

persistent as it moves eastwards, affecting parts of northern ireland, it seemed the wind strength in. apart from england and wales, aside from the odd shower, spells of sunshine, a fairly warm day for many, to choose between 19 and 23 celsius. —— temperatures. overnight into monday and tuesday, our area of low pressure, strong and gusty wind, gales along the irish sea and western coast, heavy rain for parts of northern ireland pushing into scotla nd of northern ireland pushing into scotland and some parts of northern england and north wales. gusty start to tuesday, this is an idea of the wind gust early on tuesday, slowly starting to ease through the day but still it is a windy day with wind gust of a0 or 50 mph. fairly heavy rain across parts of scotland, more showers across northern england and into the south—west england, further south and east, mainly dry, or warm day at 2a or 25 celsius, a bit cooler to the far north of scotland.

tuesday into wednesday, an area of low pressure to the north of scotla nd low pressure to the north of scotland and on its southern flank here is where we will have strong wind at the click of the central belt into northern england, we could see wind gust of 60 mph, locally 70 mph. strong wind on thursday and heavy rain around although still driest and warmest across east and south—east england. for the week ahead, let's sum it up. gales at times, also rain mainly in the north and west but the south and east we will see it later in the wiest, at the south and the east will be warmest and christ on which of the week. —— bryce. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: deadly tyhoon mangkhut batters china's most populous province of guangdong, after wreaking havoc in the philippines and hong kong. from bitter enemies to political allies. malaysia's anwar ibrahim tells me why he is building bridges with prime minister mahathir mohamad. we decided, look, the conditions

have changed, and we have to work together. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: in britain, salisbury is in lockdown after two people were taken ill in the area recently hit by novichok poisonings. my body is a canvas. we will hear from a south korean artist who uses her own face to express her talent.