now it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's releases is mark kermode. good to see you again. what have you been watching? we have first man, a film about the moon landing. mandy, a hallucinogenic horror thriller, with nick cage, which i'm not going to get you to try and watch that. wow. and bad times at the el royale, a kind of mystery retro thriller. first man, one of the big films of the week. i really liked it. it's the la la land director and his leading man ryan gosling, telling the story of neil armstrong's moon landing.

it is a picture of space exploration and it's not the kind of elegant dance of the stanley kubrick 2001. this is a nuts and bolts and rivots affair in which we are made very aware of the fact these are people trying to do things in flying tin cans, that danger and death lurks at every corner. here's a clip in which we see our hero attempting to try out a prototype lunar module. here we go. 1,000 feet. switching to lunar mode. landing approach. you're too low, climb. slow your rates. do you read? neil?

panting. i've just winced all the way through that. on a very big screen that would look terrific. the whole film tries to put you in the position of the pilots and astronauts seeing this stuff rushing by from inside the tin can orfrom that module, on the one hand it is a very practically involving film about the nature of space. 0bviously

obviously it owes a debt to the right stuff. test pilots. however, in the same way thatjaws isn't a film about sharks, this isn't really a film about moon landing. this is a film about grief and loneliness. neil armstrong is almost pathologically introverted and unable to express his emotions. the way the film tells the story is he is basically living in the shadow of loss, he has lost his young daughter. when the time comes to speak to his sons, he has to be forced by his wife, brilliantly played by claire foy. it's almost as if what he's doing is he's looking toward outer space to look toward inner space. he is trying to find redemption. at the very beginning, we see him almost slipping a test plane out of the earth's atmosphere, and the suggestion is he's a danger to himself because he is haunted by grief. the film takes this very practical space travel story, but turn it into a kind of metaphysicaljourney. a story you think you know. absolutely. everyone has an archetypal memories of the images that came back from the moon.

i thought it was really beautifully done. i think his performance is terrific. we need claire foy there to lead us into the emotion otherwise it would become alienating. it is shot interestingly, they used 16mm for the intimate stuff, 35mm for the nasa industrial stuff, and then horizontal65 imax for the moon sequences. the film evolve as the story evolves. the score uses a theremin, an electronic instrument that was used in the 1950s science—fiction films. it is this lonely sound. loneliness is the key to it. if you expect an action movie you're not going to get that. although you will get the feeling of being inside is spacious —— inside the spaceship and encountering that danger. there is a lot of silence. i'm looking forward to it massively. unlike your second choice. if you're not recommending it to me, in your little way that you try to convince me to see horror films, then i'm quite worried.

i've been told the images in this are not pleasant. people might want to be aware of that. it is a hallucinogenic horror movie, starring nicolas cage. nicolas cage at his most nicolas cage. he is a logger living with his partner who draws graphic novel style sci—fi inflected images, they are abducted by a manson —esque cult and this sparks a trail of increasingly surreal vengeance. the best way of describing it is, there was a fellow in some years ago which was a really strange horror movie that almost played out like a dreamy nightmare. this is very much like that. it is a blood—soaked fable, there is violence, chainsaw battles. i know that won't work for you! you are not selling it. but there is a certain section of the horror audience who will love that. what's most impressive is that doesn't deliver the sucker punch, what makes it powerful is the feeling of trippy, a week,

asleep, nightmarish atmosphere. —— awake, asleep. very strange arty visuals. if you're somebody who's interested in horror, i think it has a lot to offer. if you're not, and i do know that you're not, i wouldn't advise it as a first dip in the water. we've laid the groundwork there. not good for me, but for anyone who likes horror. the third film, i have seen the trail several times and i cannot make head or tail of it. i have no idea what is going on. it looks completely bonkers. bad times at the el royale, i saw the trailer and i thought it didn't represent the film at all. it is by drew goddard to give us cabin in the woods, it is another tale of a mysterious building which doesn't quite turn out what it seems to be. a bistate hotel that straddles the state line between california and nevada. in this that motley crew turn up, one of them is the vacuum salesman, another is a priest played byjeff bridges. here is a clip.

i am very sorry to keep you waiting. damn, boy, where you been? been waiting in this lobby so long i could use a shave. what's wrong with you? i am very sorry. what are you doing here, father? do i know you, son? no, but i mean, this is not a place for a priest, father. you shouldn't be here. we might need to work on your sales pitch, son. the el royale — no place for a priest. there are other hotels, father. maybe closer to tahoe, i could help you find one. i'm sure you would be happier there. miles, is it? if this is not a place for priests, miles, then this is exactly where the lord wants me. from the trailer it looks like a zany interlocking story thing, certainly in terms

of its structure. the chapters overlap, we see the same event from different perspectives and time periods. i thought it was actually rather deeper and darker than that. the reason it worked, it has some great performances. cynthia is terrific as someone who is there as a singer who may have secret dreams. jeff bridges‘s character, we know he's not quite what he seems to be. we see how these stories interweave. as all of these forces draw together. i thought it was actually much more involving and engaging than i had imagined from the trailer which looked flippant and debate throw away. —— and a bit throwaway. it looked stylish but i didn't know what else. but empty. some of the reviews have said exactly that. but i didn't find it was. i thought the performances were really good. i love the way the naughty threads of the narrative continue to run fit to right up until the last ten or 15 minutes. it was moving in ways

i didn't expect it to. perhaps it's a little long, but i was really, really engaged in it. i went in thinking, 0k, this is going to be a couple of smart alec cinematic troops. i thought it was much more than that. i know it hasn't had a great response from the critics but i think it is pretty decent. long but not in a bad way. a star is born is your best out. i can't disagree with you. you just liked it more than me. you liked it up until a point and you lost patience. i just thought it tailed off. i've now seen it twice and i thought after the first read really picked up speed even more and the thing that i genuinely can't believe, i think bradley cooper is terrific, the thing i can't believe it you didn't cry. i'm just grateful you're still talking to me because you looked so appalled. it is so moving!

did you also cry four times the second time you saw it? no, i cried twice. it is a narrative that works for me. somebody said, how does it end? i said, it's a star is born, that's how it ends. we'll leave that because i wanted about your dvd choice. it sounds terrific. it is an interesting feature. it is a portrait of trauma as seen through the eyes of the child. the reason i want to flag it on dvd, this is a classic example of a movie which got very good reviews and a very limited release. if you didn't see it in cinemas, most people didn't. it is really well worth catching up with. check it out. it's a very, very touching piece of work. summer 1993, thank you. i'll let you go and watch

a star is born for the third time. happily! a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. thank you for being with us. enjoy your cinema going, whatever you are up your cinema going, whatever you are up to. thanks for watching. goodbye. the latest live update from bbc weather. totting up the rain total in wales, over 100 weather. totting up the rain total in wales, over100 mm weather. totting up the rain total in wales, over 100 mm of rain. wind gusting over 80 miles an hour in snowdonia, storm kallum has left its mark across many western parts of uk. edging northwards but still has this trailing weather front that is with us on through the night, ander saturday as well which eventually in south wales will deliver even more rain and maybe the wettest spots getting on towards 200 mm of rain. it remains to be seen. in contrast

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