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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  November 11, 2018 11:45pm-12:01am GMT

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it was in the sections of society... it was in the 80s when the view was that it was disproportionately targeted towards ethnic minority kids walking the streets and there will be an issue with proving that it isn't the way. that is it, that is all we have time for. thank you very much. don't forget you can see all other pages online on bbc website. if you missed the programme any evening, you can watch it later on the bbc iplayer. it is the film review coming up next. thank you very much. good night. hello there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases is yes, you guessed it, mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week?
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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
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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 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?
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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,
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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 to not 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.
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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 19605 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. its very, very kind of — yeah, it's all right. it might divert attention for a while, but you would have to be undemanding.
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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.
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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. cocoon things in there. 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. i quite liked this. it's 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
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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 of the planes, as the planes are getting attacked. it reminded me of michael bay's 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.
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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 last week was to go and see widows. i haven't, i've 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,
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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, of course,
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on the bbc iplayer. that is it for this week. thank you so much for watching. good evening. it has been a fairly showery weekend across the uk and the showers continue at the moment. let's ta ke the showers continue at the moment. let's take a look at the radar chart where the rain is currently falling. lots of showers in and around the irish sea, some of those producing the odd rumble of thunder, drifting away into central and southern scotla nd away into central and southern scotland as well. a weather system across northern france through the shield of cloud across east anglia and the south—east and a few showers here. clear skies in between the showers. quite a fresh night, temperatures dropping well back into single figures. the touch of frost in the parts of northern scotland. most frost free to start the week. a
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fairly mild and weak but we start the week the way we finish the weekend, with sunshine and showers. low pressure still out to the west. this system across northern france close enough to produce that shield of cloud making any sunshine hazy first thing in east anglia and the south—east. and there will still be a few heavy showers underneath that. the bulk of showers across southern counties of england, the west of england and wales, drifting across southern scotland. some heavy with hailand southern scotland. some heavy with hail and thunder, the winds close to gale force around western coast. parts of northern ireland, northern scotla nd parts of northern ireland, northern scotland and eastern england in particular will see very few if any showers. some will stay dry all day long. temperatures above where they should be for the time of year, 12 to 14 should be for the time of year, 12 to iii degrees. showers continue northwards and eastwards as we go through the night at monday night into tuesday a little ridge of high pressure builds into our decaying low pressure system. that puts a cap on the atmosphere, stopping big shower clouds from forming. one or two in the west could drift eastwards as the westerly winds start to develop, but most will have
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a dry day on tuesday with a bit more sunshine around. it should feel reasonably pleasant. finishing the day with cloud and rain pushing into the north and west of scotland. that ta kes the north and west of scotland. that takes hold through wednesday. outbreaks of rain in northern areas, a strong breeze coming from the south—west, and that will bring even milder air. yellow colours on our temperature chart quite widely, a bit of hazy sunshine to the east of scotland, east of northern ireland, east of england, we could see highs of 16 or 17 degrees. that's above where we should be for the time of year, and we continue with that low of mild air in the south. weather fronts in the north and west, so the theme is four more in the way of dry weather, staying with milder weather, staying with milder weather, but as windfall lighter, mist and fog become more and more of an issue. we will of course keep you updated. goodbye for now. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: with the rise of fake news,
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a major new bbc series investigates how disinformation on social media poses a deadly global threat. the ron noticed parts of this country now have access to internet and whatsapp and a lot of these people are not digitally literate so they will believe whatever they see on whatsapp. as evidence suggests that people have less and less faith in news around the world, we look at the reasons. the bbc‘s beyond fake news project fights back. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme.
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