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we will be live at haringey borough, we will be live at haringey borough, we will build up to england's clash with the all blacks tomorrow and we will be speaking to european champion laura muir and boxer tony bellew as he prepares to challenge forfour bellew as he prepares to challenge for four world titles. a bellew as he prepares to challenge forfour world titles. a busy programme and that is saul on sportsday. now, it is time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? we have wildlife the directorial debut from paul dano. we have the grinch, another
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retelling of a classic tale. and overlord war movie/horror movie. so wildlife this is based on a richard ford novel. does it do it justice? i haven't read the novel, have you read it? i did a while ago, it is quite short, but very good. have you read it? i did a while ago, it is quite short, but very goodm is always a plus. so it is set in 1960 montana and ed oxenbould is this young kid who is awkward and ill at ease with the world and his pa rents a re ill at ease with the world and his parents are on the brink of a marital crisis, they have moved from town to town, they have ended up here, this is evidently moved many times, and jerry has got a good job but he loses it. when he is offered it back again his pride is too great he won't take it. he announces what he won't take it. he announces what he will do is become one of the people fighting the wild fires that are up in the mountains, that are
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threatening montana, which is his wife thinks is a crazy idea. here is a clip. i put my name on a list, i waited for my chance and now they finally have a place for me. you don't know anything about fires, you'll get burned up. i've been reading about them, i know enough. you've been reading about them? you've been studying up? don't turn my words on me, jean. dad, what's going on? your father's leaving us to go and fight those wild fires. what? dad, why? he won't take a job in a grocery store, but he'll go out with a bunch of deadbeats and risk getting killed. what does it pay? what? what does it pay? dollar an hour. oh my god. you don't have to do this. i know, but it won't be for long. not if you get yourselves killed. it's going to snow, the fire's going to go out... what if it doesn't? what if it never snows at all? joel, what do you think? is this a bad idea? don't ask him, he'll approve of anything. he's almost grown, he has a say in what happens in this family. what happens if your father gets burned up and you never see him again? don't say that, jean.
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you can't keep running, every time something doesn't go your way. all right. dad, please. you don't know what i'm doing. don't i? i'm a grown woman, gerry, why don't you act like a grown man. and it looks like a great performance from carey mulligan. and all from jake gyllenhaal. that line when she says why don't you brave like a grown man. she is a mother but she wants to be young, he is a father but he says he has this noise in his head he has to fete away from. at the centre is this child watching, often watching silently, seeing it play out. what i like most about this, is, you get tiny intimate domestic detail, against this kind of backdrop of the montana sky, which is so popular with film—makerers because it is so eau inspiring, you have the mountain, the fire, these raining things but but is the domestic detail that makes you believe in them. there is a lot of ed oxenbould, you see a lot of paul dano, that look of slightly bewildered, slightly on the back
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foot, slightly wrong footed. it's a very low— key foot, slightly wrong footed. it's a very low—key movie, it has a lovely score that is melancholy and breaks out the emotion in every scene but i really liked it because i like the fa ct really liked it because i like the fact it is a movie that is brave enough not to actually have to overstep the bounds, it understands it isa overstep the bounds, it understands it is a small drama about a family coming apart in this huge cinematic setting. i would coming apart in this huge cinematic setting. iwould be coming apart in this huge cinematic setting. i would be interested to know what you think having read the book, i haven't read it and the film impressed me very much. have a look at it and report back to me. ? you read the book, i'll watch the film. deal, done. right, rather different, is the grinch. features another british star benedict cumberbatch. a long way from sherlock. it features the voice on, so this is the umpteenth retelling of the grinch. many people have an affection or some not for the jim many people have an affection or some not for thejim carey version there is the tv special with the
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voice of ba ros there is the tv special with the voice of baros car love, it is very shiny, very bouncy, it is pepe and i think it will act as a mod rat diversion, it dent bring anything particularly new to the tale, there isn't anything about this, this is the version that brings out this element or this, it is just, the version that brings out this element or this, it isjust, it is just fun, it is remarkably unremarkable. weirdly enough it comes with a minions short, i knew that things weren't going that well for me when i didn't laugh at the minions short. i have been laughing at minions for years so i think it is fine, but it, i mean the thing i said, it is not so much bah humbug as barr hoe humbug. it is all right. it might divert aten sure for a while but you would have to be under manning. there is nothing that makes you think you are looking at it afresh. overlord, this is a sort of
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horror set in the second world war. sta rts horror set in the second world war. starts off as a war movie, you would think it was a war movie. we have paratrooper, they are landing in occupied france, that i have a mission to take down a transmitting tower in a church steeple, they land, they get broken up, there is a few of them get together and somebody says, look, this looks unusual, is it a dog, an animal, that doesn't look right? the next thing they know they have discovered in the bowels of the church something unnatural. here is a clip. what happened there? found him outside the church. grabbed me as soon as i hit the ground. outside the church? how did you get inside the church? dead bodies. slow down, slow down. doing experiments on them in there. they're doing experiments on the villagers. what? burning people with these flame throwers, and they're still moving the bodies. coocoon things. did you get eyes on the tower compound? she doesn't have a body and she's still talking. did you get eyes
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on the tower compound? it's below the ground but there's more than that down there. 0k. what the hell is that? what the hell is that? in that scene you see between the two, it is as if one is in a war movie and one is in aer ho or movie. —— in a horror movie, it is very full on, if like me you are a horror fan, lived through the video nasty era, i saw the stuart gordon films so for me there is a nostalgic charm, seeing a full blooded horror movie, what is interesting is that the cast play it com pletely interesting is that the cast play it completely straight. so, if you
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didn't know beforehand you could watch the first half an hour thinking this is literallyjust a war movie, when it starts to turn it has the all the more impact. it is like from dusk to dawn, that was much more broken back structure, it is not for everybody, it is very full on, jj abrahams is the producer behind it, i mean it starts with this really over the top sequence of the planes going over and coming out, and the planes are getting attacked. it reminded me pearl harbour when there is that scene who the camera falls from the plane. it isa the camera falls from the plane. it is a movie that starts with everything turned up to 11 and then goes up from there, subtly and nuanceis goes up from there, subtly and nuance is not net necessarily on the menu. the screening room i saw it in was fa ntastically menu. the screening room i saw it in was fantastically loud. i like it goes from one genre to another. if like me, you grew up with the stuart gordon movies, which i imagine you
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didn't... gordon movies, which i imagine you didn't. .. of course gordon movies, which i imagine you didn't... of course not. i liked pearl harbour by the way. it is terrible. i like terrible films. that one shot is really good. best out at the moment? yes, your homework was to go and see widows.|j haven't, i have let you down. sorry sir. it is great. idon't haven't, i have let you down. sorry sir. it is great. i don't want you feel this is an obligation, you will thank me. it is really good. it is based on the tv serieses from the 19805, based on the tv serieses from the 1980s, brilliant cast, every single cast member does a greatjob, it is is really gripping and really cinematic and very moving, it will bea cinematic and very moving, it will be a big awards contender, you will thank me. i always do. i will read the book. you will always thank me. best dvd. first reformed. this is a real return to form for paul schrader. he has made a few bad movies so this is ethan hawke as an
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ex military chap facing a crisis of faith and his paths cross with those ofan faith and his paths cross with those of an eco terrorist, it is all the schrader themes of angst and guilt and desire for redemption but it is really beautifully done, there are moments when it looks like a drier movie. ethan hawke is well cast. what i liked having been off the boilfor a while it is good what i liked having been off the boil for a while it is good to see schrader back on home ground. this is what he does well. he wrote taxi driver he does this really well. it is terrific. thank you very much indeed. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello, good evening to you, the
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weather has given us a pretty rough end to the working week in many place, we have some heavy rain and strong winds in western areas at the moment, so much so there is the potential #2306r travel disruption this evening, tune into your local radio station, they will give you the latest updates for where you are. you can see the latest updates for where you are. you can see where the latest updates for where you are. you can see where the rain is headed. still an amber warning for the far west of wales, particularly pembrokeshire where we have already had flooding issue, that rain is pushing through, we will get a spell of wet and wind economy weather, we see a fresh clutch of showers in the south—west. it won't be a cold night. accept to 11, if that is any consolation, as we go into tomorrow, some rain for a time in shetland, some rain for a time in shetland, some clinging to the south—east of england for a while and then a
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mixture of sunshine and shower, showers becoming more widespread through the day. 11 to 15 degree, a similar story for suspend armistice day of course, there will be sunshine, there will be be some heavy thousands of flames light up the tower of london 100 years after the end of world war one, as the nation prepares to pause and remember the fallen. the prime minister travels to france and belgium to mark the centenary of the armistice. at st symphorien cemetery in belgium, she lays wreaths at the graves of the first and the last british soldiers to die in the war. preparing the poppies — across the country people find their own ways to remember the fallen. clearly upsetting to see how many people who died. no—one is alive from world war i and they're not here to remind us about what happened. also on tonight's programme.
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