let's look what the effect would be. let's look at the sunday express which looks at the commemorations for the armistice. we must neverforget, is the headline. a striking image on the headline. a striking image on the front page there.” the headline. a striking image on the front page there. i think it's good to be reminded what this weekend is all about, setting politics aside and remembering the awful events of the great war and the nation i suspect will not be thinking so much about bread is it but looking at the armistice, the services, the processions and taking a moment to pause and remember what those people did. and they came from around the world and they brought nations together. there were soldiers from every nation, europe as well is abroad. again, the multilateral as you are talking about, this is a war where people came together. and of course, there

will be many, many individual stories as well of heroism there. we must leave it there. thank you both a much indeed forjoining us this evening. that is it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages. it's all u seven days a week. if you missed the programme, you can watch it on the bbc i player. the film of you is next. from all last year, goodbye. —— the film review. hello there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news.

taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? we have wildlife, the feature 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. i am a big fan. does it do itjustice? i haven't read the novel, have you read it? i did a while ago, it's quite short, but very good. 0k, always a plus. so it is set in 1960 montana, and ed oxenbould is this young kid who's kind of awkward and ill at ease with the world, and his parents are on the brink of a marital crisis. they've moved from town to town,

they've ended up here, this is evidently moved many times, and jerry has got a good job but then he loses hisjob. when he is offered hisjob back again, his pride is too 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, 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 is 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? $1 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. 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 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's a father but he says he has got this noise in his head that he somehow has to get away from. at the centre is this child watching, often watching silently, just seeing it all 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, you have the fires, which are these kind of raging, elemental things, but it 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 foot, slightly wrong footed. it's a very low—key movie, it has a lovely score that is really melancholy and breaks out the emotion in every scene, but i really liked it because i like the fact that it's a movie that's brave enough not to actually have to overstep the bounds, it understands that 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 the book, and the film impressed me very much. if you get the chance, 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. featuring another british star, benedict cumberbatch. a long way from sherlock. it's an animation, so it features the voice of. so this is the umpteenth retelling of the grinch. many people have an affection, or some not, for thejim carey version, there is of course that 1960s tv special with the voice of boris karloff, which i think people go back to more and more. it is very shiny, very bouncy, it is 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 element, it's just, it's 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. and believe me, i have been laughing at minions for years, so i think it's fine, but it's — i mean the thing i said,

it's not so much bah humbug as bah ho—humbug. it s very, very kind of — yeah, 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. you're not. overlord, this is a sort of horror set in the second world war. it basically starts off as a war movie, you would think it was a war movie at the beginning. we have paratroopers, they are 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, what's this? this looks unusual, is it a dog, an animal? that doesn't look right." the next thing they know they have uncovered in the bowels of the church something altogether unnatural. here's a clip. what happened here? 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 on the tower compound? it's below the ground, but there's more than that down there. 0k. look. 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 a horror movie. it is very full on. if like me you are a horrorfan,

i lived through the video nasties era, i saw the stuart gordon films, so for me there's a real nostalgic charm in seeing a full blooded horror movie. what is interesting about it 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 literallyjust a war movie. and then when it starts to turn, it has all the more impact. some people have said it is like from dusk to dawn, that was much more kind of broken back structure. it's not for everybody, it's 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, as the planes are getting attacked. it reminded me of pearl harbour, when there's that scene who the camera falls from the plane. it is a movie that starts with everything turned up to ii

and then goes up from there. subtlety and nuance is not net necessarily on the menu. also, yhe screening room i saw it in, it was fantastically loud. i enjoyed it. i like the fact it goes from one genre to another. i like the fact it has a b movie sensibility. particularly if like me, you grew up with the stuart 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. i 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's really good. it's steve mcqueen. it is based on the tv series from the 1980s, brilliant cast, every single cast member does a greatjob, it is really gripping and really cinematic and very moving. it will be a big awards contender, you will thank me.

i always do. i'll read the book. you will always thank me. best dvd. first reformed. this is a real return to form for paul schrader. he's made quite a few bad movies, some great movies but quite a few bad movies recently, 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 desire for redemption, and the theological crisis, but it's really beautifully done. there are moments when it looks like a drier movie. ethan hawke is really, really well cast. what i liked about it, having been off the boil for 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 really terrific. mark, thank you very much indeed. thank you.

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 is it for this week. thank you so much for watching. goodbye. hello there. at least we saw a little sunshine between the downpours today that they have been rather reluctant to clear away from southern and eastern areas. it has been a really wet evening across parts of south—east england and east anglia. there are rumbles of thunder still around, also we have rain crossing the north of scotland the shetland isles enjoyed the northern lights. as that rain clears from the far north of scotland, it clears overnight —— turns chilly overnight. you can see the cluster showers

across the western side of the uk and southern parts by the time we get the morning and of course we have got lots of people out about because it is the centenary of the armistice day, and unfortunately, it coincides with the really heavy showers. this is how it is shaping up showers. this is how it is shaping up to the morning hours. very heavy showers work their way right across southern and central england and wales, out into the north sea. the northern scotland and northern ireland, faring little better, more sunshine but still showers. it is still relatively mild with a gusty wind neither is really heavy downpours. do take something waterproof with you. this is bbc news, i'm martin stanford. our top stories: a moment of rememberance as the leaders of france and germany mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. france's president macron and germany's chancellor merkel meet in compiegne at the spot where the armistice was signed a century ago. wildfires in california kill 11 people as firefighters battle

to bring them under control and over 250,000 residents are forced to leave their homes. soi so i was just coming so i wasjust coming up the so i was just coming up the street to see my neighbours, and i didn't realise my house's gone too! it's shocking!