good at good a‘it wa’itching photo. he is very good at watching football and we do bring her down to watch him play as well. so she is quite the fan at six months, it is worrying. i'm looking for substitutes now but we qualify any soon? now, i think i'll pass. greenisland football club are top of the league, not only delivering on the league, not only delivering on the pitch but off of it, too. at alanjones the pitch but off of it, too. at alan jones reporting and the pitch but off of it, too. at alanjones reporting and do was not you, it was very cute. it's 200 years since the publication of the novel persuasion by one of england's greatest writers, jane austen. now, her work has inspired a group of women from pakistan to put together a series of short stories called "austen—istan". our correspondent shabnam mahmood reports. a traditional english tea at the dorchester hotel in london organised by women from the jane austen society of pakistan, which has over 1,000 members. they feel the themes of jane austen are very relevant to pakistani women today. a lot of times, it is still considered a man's world. austen wrote a great deal

about reality and financial reality. if you look at life in pakistan today, it's very, very similar. you know, women have very limited financial emancipation, and because of that reason, people feel like they can control the women in their families. so inspired by stories from 19th—century england, they have decided to write their own novel. the ladies are in london to launch their book called austenistan. it's a collection of short stories inspired by the english writer, but based on their experiences of pakistani life. this woman read a passage from own story. her younger sister hadn't taken her looks, and so, as a girl, all the mother's hopes had ridden on her. anyone who has read jane austen and lives in pakistan knows the weddings and the marriage market, this obsession with who a girl is going to marry,

is she going to marry a class above? the literary group, which was set up two years ago, regularly meet in cities across pakistan — sometimes wearing clothes from jane austen's time. through their activities and the sale of the book, the women hope to raise money for children's education in pakistan. they very cleverly take themes and characters from jane austen's work and then are showing how they are just so relevant today in a culture which, of course, is 200 years different, but in many ways has similarities. it is unlikely jane austen could have predicted her books would still be making an impact such a long way from home more than 200 years after her death. shabnam mahmood, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review with ben brown and mark kermode. 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 retelling of a classic tale. and overlord, a war movie/horror movie. so wildlife, this is based on a richard ford novel. does it do itjustice? i haven't read the novel, have you read it? i did a while ago, it is quite short, but very good. it's always a plus.

so it is set in 1960 montana, and ed 0xenbould is this young kid who's awkward and 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, they have 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 and he won't take it. he announces what he will do is become one of the people fighting the wildfires that are up in the mountains, that are threatening montana, which his wife thinks is a crazy idea. here's 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 wildfires. 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 yourself 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. 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, jerry, why don't you act like a grown man. and it looks like a great performance from carey mulligan. and also from jake gyllenhaal. that line when she says, "why don't you behave like a grown man?" she's 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 get 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—makers because it's so awe—inspiring. you have the mountains, the fire, these raining things, but it is the domestic detail that makes you believe in them. there is a lot in ed 0xenbould's face, you see a lot of paul dano, that look of slightly bewildered, slightly on the back 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 fact it's a movie that is brave enough not to actually have to overstep the bounds. it understands it's a small drama about a family 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 his voice. so this is the umpteenth retelling of the grinch. many people have an affection, or some not, for thejim carey version. there is the tv special with the voice of boris karloff. it's very shiny, very bouncy, it's peppy, and i think it will act as a moderate diversion. it doesn't 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's just, it's just fun. it's 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's fine, but it, i mean the thing i said, it's not so much bah humbug as bah ho—humbug. it's all right. it might divert attention for a while, but you would have to be undemanding. there's nothing that makes you think you are looking at it afresh. overlord, this is a sort of horror set in the second world war. starts off as a war movie, you would think it was a war movie. we have paratroopers, they're landing in occupied france. they 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's 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 flamethrowe rs, and they're still moving the bodies. cocoon things. did you get eyes on the tower compound? she doesn't have a body, and she's still talking. did you get eyes on the tower compound? it's below the ground, but there's more than that down there. 0k. what the hell is that?

in that scene, you see between the two, it's as if one is in a war movie and one is in a horror movie. it's very full on. if, like me, you are a horrorfan, 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 completely straight. so if you didn't know beforehand, you could watch the first half an hour thinking this is literally just a war movie. when it starts to turn, it has all the more impact. people have said it's like from dusk till dawn, that was a much more broken back structure. it's not for everybody, it's very full on. jj abrams 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 of pearl harbor when there is that scene where the camera falls from the plane. it's a movie that starts with everything turned up to ii and then goes up from there. subtlety and nuance is not necessarily on the menu. the screening room i saw it in was fantastically loud. i like that it goes from one genre to another. if like me, you grew up with the stuart gordon movies, which i imagine you didn't... of course not. i liked pearl harbor, by the way. it's 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. i haven't, i've let you down. sorry, sir. it's really great. i don't want you feel this

is an obligation, you will thank me. it's really good. it's based on the tv series from the 1980s, brilliant cast. every single cast member does a greatjob. it's really gripping and really 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 ex—military chap facing a crisis of faith, and his paths cross with those of an ecoterrorist. it's all the schrader themes of angst and guilt and the desire for redemption, but it's 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's good to see schrader back on home ground. this is what he does well. he wrote taxi driver, he does this really well. it's 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. good evening. the next few hours will still give some very wet and windy weather across the uk. an amber warning out across the southwest of wales but many parts of the uk will see a bout of heavy rain

and gales, already grating across northern ireland for much of the day. the rain is moving east towards so day. the rain is moving east towards so the more persistent ramp but lots of showers waiting to follow. it does gradually dried up from the west as we go through overnight but still not really cold. that's a strong south westerly wind blowing it with more showers and the rain slowed to clear across northeast: and southeast england. it will be a few hours before we see it clear it away but improving in that it is brighter than that there will be a lot of showers around in western and southern areas. they went down today but gusting and some blustery thunder and hail. that will tip of the thing up —— things although temperatures above par. very similar they also that with further heavy showers and some sunshine between. this is bbc world news today.

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