when i have been to berlin i know when i have been to berlin i have been really impressed and amazed, it is all very humbling the way that germany has apologised and how aware they are. for me, this is quite a, it would be an impressive gesture from the uk and with brexit and all of the squabbles going on. but of course, it would also be very difficult for some veterans to turn up difficult for some veterans to turn up on that day. very quick look, let's go back to where we started, golf clubs are in a drive for a healthy new image... i can't even afford a set of golf club is. i have got five sets in my house, my husband plays —— golf clu bs. house, my husband plays —— golf clubs. are they saying they have to sort out their image, does it need a rebrand? we talk about the 19th hole, there's a certain amount of drinking going on, but actually most golfers do walk around for about four hours. it's quite healthy for

some of them and it frankly gets them out of the house. would you ta ke them out of the house. would you take up golf if it was rebranded, laura? no. very quickly, why not? i've played it in the past and i find it very boring. this is one of the proposals, making it a quick game. make it more quick, make it more family friendly. we will see, won't we? laura and eve, it's been a delight. it's been wonderful. 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's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, eve pollard and laura hughes. goodbye. hello, and welcome to

the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. it's almost becoming a habit! it is. what have you got for us this week? it is a very strange week. we have the little stranger, the new film by lenny abrahamson. we have a simple favor, which i know you are going to see it this weekend, so you're looking forward to the review. can't wait. and the house with a clock in its walls, which is a sort of family fantasy with a horror inflection. ok then. so first, the little stranger, is this about a haunted house, or haunted residents? the question about whether it is actually haunted is sort of central to it, so it's based on a novel by sarah waters, stars domhnall gleeson. he is this dr faraday who goes

to a house where he is called to attend to someone working there, who appears to be ill, but he thinks they are just freaked out. something has scared them. and it turns out that he went to this house when he was a child, where his mother worked there and he was completely overwhelmed by the house and he kind of fell in love with it. but now he goes back, and the house is crumbling, and the people inside the house appear to be coming apart. and everyone is sort of slightly brittle, slightly on edge and there is something creepy going on in the background. here's a clip. how did you find the patient, doctor? mrs ayres. mother, this is dr faraday. he thinks we're brutes. a little under the weather. i imagine she'll be quite well by tomorrow. you'll observe a change in betty yet. this house works on people. girls come here like specks of grit. ten years later, they leave as pearls. i expect dr faraday's thinking betty

won't stick it out for ten years. most girls would rather work in factories these days, and who can blame them? as it happens, i was thinking of my mother. she was a maid here before i was born. well, i do hope she enjoyed her time. right, roderick. so there is something wrong. there is talk about the house being haunted by, you know, by the little stranger. fantastic performance by ruth wilson there, who is somebody who seems to be trapped in the house. it's like the fall of the house of usher, everything is falling apart around her. the question is, is it a haunting or is it people imagining things, or is it them projecting their own fears and anxieties on to the house itself? if you have ever read the haunting of hill house, the shirley jackson novel, one of the greatest ghost

stories ever written, there's a lot of that in this. i think one of the problems is it has been marketed slightly as a horror film, as a chiller. it is not. it is absolutely not a horror film. it's a psychological drama, which happens to have a ghostly edge, and you can read pretty much the whole film in one of two different ways. i liked it. i liked the fact that it lets the pot simmer rather than boil. it's paced very moderately, it takes its time, it tells its story in an orderly fashion, but you get this growing sense of disorder. there's a couple of really terrific performances in it, i think particularly ruth wilson, who is absolutely great. my only worry is, i think some audiences might grow slightly impatient if they go, thinking it's going to be a ghost story, it's going to be a chiller, which is why when you say is it a ghost story, yes, but no. it's — you can read it in a number of different ways, but i thought it was rather well done, and rather impressive in a very low—key, very understated fashion. it's very spare, isn't it, the way it's — the script is quite stripped back.

it builds up tension. you get a sense something is wrong but you're not quite sure what, and as i said, the key to this is the haunting of hill house, which is the urtext from all modern ghost stories and it's written large on this. i'm really slightly anxious now about the second film, which is a simple favor. i've been co—opted by my 14—year—old daughter to go and see this film, so, tell me it's a good choice. so, it's directed by paul feig. andrea kendrick is this staid supermum, who she is somebody is at school being all perfect and over volunteering. her son makes friends with another child whose mother is blake lively‘s martini—swilling pr executive. they form an unlikely friendship. anna kendrick‘s character starts to see a possible new world opening up to her — and then herfriend disappears. somebody described this as gone girl'sjust wanna have fun. and it is definitely — it wasn't my line, it is a good line, but not mine —

it's the most crazy mishmash of genres. on the one hand, it's a ditsy romcom, then it's a twisted erotic a thriller, then it's an old—fashioned whodunnit. the book was described as being like in the mould of gone girl, and yet somebody else described the film as a post noir comedy. there are times watching it i literally thought, this is the most chaotic film i have ever seen. however, i liked it. and the reason i liked it was because you have two great performances, anna kendrick and blake lively, who somehow, even when the film is careering around like a boat tossed on a roaring ocean, they somehow keep their eye on the horizon, and as long as you stick with them, you go with it. one minute, it's funny, the next minute, it's weird, then it's twisted, then you are meant to take it seriously, then it is not. it really did seem sometimes like channel surfing, but all the way through it, you have these two central performances, they sink their teeth

into the material gleefully. it has a nice bite to it. i came out thinking, "that was all over the shop, but i liked it." i think i am going to need a lie down after it, but i will go and see it anyway. you'll enjoy it. as you come out, ask yourself, what that was all about? genre? what genre? the house with a clock in its walls. if the cast is anything to go by, it should be a treat. very good cast. jack black, cate blanchett, based on a very, very popular book from the 19705. an orphaned kid is sent to stay with his uncle, played by jack black, who is a warlock. he's somebody who conjures up spells cate blanchett is the next—door neighbour, mrs zimmerman, with whom he has a sparring, but ultimately loving relationship. here is a clip. that's a lot of clocks. what constitutes a lot is really a matter of personal taste. for me, it's a perfect amount of clocks. oh, sorry, there's a deranged cuckoo in there. your ratchet wheel's shot and the click spring's not far behind. hello.

you're lewis, i presume. how was your trip? this old hag is my next door neighbour, mrs florence zimmerman. i'm relieved to see you didn't inherent your uncle's freakishly oversized head. ha! says the woman who literally looks like a 0 tip. oh, look, the giant head is angry. my god, did that withered purple skeleton just speak? she thinks she's smarter than me because she has more college degrees. no, i think i'm smarter than you because i'm smarter than you. now,the relationship between those two is actually now, the relationship between those two is actually the most fun of the film. the rest of it, it's directed by eli roth, who is known as a hard—core horror director, and did things like hostel. this is a very strange choice for him. i have to say, i don't think it works. it's — although the source material predates harry potter and those novels, the film itself looks very much like — not even post harry potter, post percy jackson and the lightning thief. it has a lot of special effects,

but for a film about magic, it isn't very magical. the script doesn't hang together in any way, sense orform, so as the narrative is unfolding, what is the thing with the clock, the back story? so at no point does it do that thing that one of the movies really needs to do, which is to click, oh, i'm in a different area, i'm in a new realm, you know, magical possibilities. so it's a mess. one of the strange things is i like, you know, films for younger viewers that have got a bit of scares in them. i remember thinking that the harry potter movies were basically hammer movies for younger viewers, and i mean hammer in a good sense because i am a big fan of the hammer films. this felt all over the place. it is interesting because it has a lot of resources, it has this source material and a very good cast, and special effects, all available to the director, and yet it is a mess of a film that i think will disappoint more than it will enchant. some people will get some fun out of it because there

are some nice moments, particularly in the relationship between the two central adults, but beyond that, i don't see it having a huge shelf life. best out is wajib, a palestinian drama. yeah, i really liked this. this was the palestinian entry for the foreign language film oscar, although it wasn't nominated. it is a story of father and a son, who are estranged, travelling round nazareth in the run—up to christmas, but they are handing out wedding invitations, which they have to do by hand, that is the wajib, the duty of the title. and as they travel around, you discover their relationship, how they've fallen out. one has has stayed, one has gone away, one is young, one is old, there is resentment, and yet it's really funny, it's very subtle. it is kind of bitter in some places, it blends the personal and the political. it is very, very low—key, and i thought it was kind of wonderful. it did the thing i want a film to do, which is to intrigue me about the characters, and i thought it was really good. it's called wajib.

it's a very small release, but if you get a chance, do check it out, it's really good. and best dvd this week is the breadwinner, which is an animation. and a hand—drawn one at that? it is an animation directed by norah twomey. it is made by the people who made song of the sea, so it's not one of those 3—d digital animations. this has cut—outs and hand—drawns and different forms of animation. it is the story of a young girl living in taliban era kabul, whose father and brother are arrested, and leaving only women in the house. women are not allowed to go out of the house on their own, so she has to disguise herself as a boy to go out into the town, and suddenly she discovers this whole new world when she changes gender, and it's really brilliant. it deals with some dark subject matter, but in a way that is accessible. they have made it so it can be watched by viewers of all ages. there is tough stuff in it, though. i loved it, it is one of my favourite films of the year. i thought it was absolutely brilliant. mark, as ever, thank you very much, particularly for the reassurance over the choice of our film this weekend. do ask yourself, what was that all about? i expect to be bamboozled. a quick reminder before you go — you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online.

and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week. thanks for watching. bye. good evening. it has been a pretty u nsettled good evening. it has been a pretty unsettled old wheat, and we have had some sunshine and heavy showers around, and particularly some persistent rain in parts of southern england —— week. that's cleared away so england —— week. that's cleared away so drier conditions through the night. showers working into the north—west of scotland, maybe northern ireland and north—west england but most places dry and with the wind is falling lighter, a chilly night ahead. even in towns and cities, temperatures around

three orfour, a and cities, temperatures around three or four, a few degrees colder in the new rural areas. maybe a touch of frost first thing. plenty of sunshine to start for much of the day. the odd shower for the north—west of scotland but most places looking dry and clear. temperatures between 14—16 on monday, so a bit warmer out there than today. things warming up further later in the week. we keep the dry, clear conditions moving through monday evening and overnight into tuesday. a bit more rain and brisk winds in the north later in the week, but further south, staying dry and those temperatures could reach around 22 by thursday. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: iran's president blames the us and its gulf allies for a deadly attack on its elite military forces. washington tells him to "look in the mirror". the opposition candidate in maldives' presidential elections claims victory and calls for a peaceful transition of power. i'm babita sharma in london.

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