the headlines on bbc news: andy murray, one of britain's greatest ever sportsmen, says he's retiring from tennis because of injury. the row over universal credit: four working mothers win the right to a judicial review into the way they have been paid the benefit. the family of a nine—year—old girl who died from asthma can apply for a fresh inquest into her death — over new evidence linking it to air pollution. hello, there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases, we have, who else but mark kermode? what have you got for us this week, mark? very good week. we are in awards season now, obviously. so, we have colette, an outstanding

performance by keira knightley. we have stan and ollie, a film about laurel and hardy's 19505 tour of the uk. you've got to think about the opportunity... and the front runner, a political drama starring hugh jackman. all right, let's start off with colette and keira knightley, you thought she was pretty good in it? i thought she was really, really good. it's a story of the author and performer. we meet her at the very, very beginning. she describes herself as a young country girl and she falls in love with this very charismatic guy, who is a publishing entrepreneur, he calls himself willy, played by dominic west, that's a pen name under which he publishes books that are written by other people. he takes her to paris, introduces her to a new and exciting life and he is doing quite well. except his expenses are enormous, as indeed are his infidelities. and he's running short of money and he's got this stable of people writing for him, he is the public face, he describes the name willy as a brand name but he needs new writers, new inspiration and he suddenly realises

that the solution to his problems may be right in front of him. here's a clip. they never get a job on their own! i lend them my name, my reputation, i take all the risk and there's still no money! we need more output! you could get another writer. and to pay them with what? i'm not even making 1,000 this month, i've got 300 from the echo, 425 from the ladies' vamp novel, 250 from the music reviews, it doesn't even cover the outgoings. how can we spend much money? mortgage, matilde, restaurants! you always pick up the bill, willy, no matter how many people join us. it is expected of me. and the races? the casino? what do you want me to do? live like a monk or a peasant? no, i'm just saying we could economise. you! you could write! what? those stories you told me, last year. my school stories? yes, that could be willy's next novel. try it, anyway, try now, start immediately, aim for four hours at a time. the wolves are at the door! he howls. so, she starts to write under instruction from her husband to do claudene at school novel

and it becomes a huge hit and the publishers are thrilled and it turns out it's a huge hit with young women readers. so she's told to write another one. but the thing is, nobody knows she's writing them and thinks her husband and thinks her husband is writing it. so it then becomes a story of somebody attempting to find their own voice, attempting to find their own place in the world. i really like this. it's directed by wash westmoreland, who was the co—director of still alice, which was a film that starred julianne moore about a woman effected by early—onset alzheimer's, which was very much about somebody finding their own identity and then losing it. this is about somebody having their identity taken from them and trying to reclaim it. what i liked about it, it's playful, it has a certain amount of grit but it's also glamorously told. it's very, very handsomely filmed. and a raft of really good performances. at the centre of it, keira knightley and dominic west as this couple, one of whom has the real talent and the other of whom is main

and the other of whom is vein and full of himself and absolutely certain he understands how the world works. do you know what it reminds me of? the wife. with glenn close. it's the same story. it's very, very similar. and there's another film which came out not so long ago about mary shelley as well which had a similar theme. but the wife is a particularly interesting comparison because glenn close is so good in that. that is the story of a relationship in which there is the talent and the public face. this is about how much somebody can grasp their own future and it's also about all those things that are important nowadays about celebrity, the idea of celebrity culture creating this kind of claudine mystique in which suddenly everyone is wearing these clothes and they have these accoutrements that are branded and about how much you can own your public image. i thought it was a really good and not least because of the performances. all right, stan and ollie, laurel and hardy embarking on a tour of britain trying to reignite their careers.

so, are you a laureland hardy fan? not 100%. 0k. well, i think you can be a fan of stan and ollie without being a laurel and hardy fan. steve coogan and john c reilly. at the very beginning, we meet them originally at the height of their hollywood powers, when they are just making way out west. and they want more money. cut to 16 years later, they are financially strapped, they end up in the uk doing a tour which is nominally to launch a projected movie of a robin hood spoof. but, actually, the tour is really about them trying to find audiences who are still interested. and it's also about them trying to re—find each other because there's been a betrayal. one of them has made a film without the other one and this is still digging away. there a moment in the film in which it's described as two double acts for the price of one, because when they get to london, they are joined by their wives, played by nina arianda and shirley henderson as ida and lucille, who are every bit as chalk and cheese as stan and ollie. and between them they form this kind of love triangle. it's more like a square.

and it works really well, the performances are terrific. i mean, really great, they get the physicalityjust right, the voices are absolutely perfect. but what i really like about this is it's tender and melancholy. and it has a sort of bitter sweet heart. so there are lots of laughs and lots of moments in which things you recognise from the movies bleed into real—life. there's a scene in which they are pulling a trunk up a set of stairs at a railway station and they drop the trunk, which obviously is a call—back to music box. and they check into a hotel and stan starts falling over the suitcases. so, the intertwining of real life and fiction works really well. but the performances are just great. you really do believe that you are watching stan and ollie. 0k. and even if you don't like laurel and hardy... sounds good. i like steve coogan, so that's enough. the front runner, the scandal of gary hart. do you remember this? i do, i am old enough to remember. i'm old enough, but it didn't seem to me to make such a big impact. it's set at the end of the 805. gary hart looked, at one point, like he was going to be the next president. a very strong candidate. and he's played here by huthackman and we meet him, he is charismatic, on the way up and then a scandal

starts to break. somebody rings a newspaper, the miami herald and says he's having an affair. the miami herald aren't entirely sure whether they should follow this up but then he makes a casual comment to a journalist who asks about his private life and he said something along the lines of, "well, if you followed me around, you would find it was very boring". so, they do. and the next thing is, they discover that actually, maybe there is something going on and they here's a clip. i can assure you senator, this is relevant. yeah, it's just that we saw you leave and come back with this woman and we didn't see her. tom, you can't be serious, no—one is staying in my home, there's no need for that, all right? i am serious, sir. how long have you known this woman? what kind of question... what kind of question are these? is she a friend? i don't know why i would tell you that, tom. would you produce her to corroborate what you're saying? i don't have to produce anything, this has gone on long enough. senator, we know you've made calls to this woman from kansas. and new hampshire. i make calls every day, i don't know how i would remember. senator, i was at your announcement speech, you said...

you said we must hold ourselves accountable... i know what i said. to the highest possible standards of integrity and ethics. then why are we standing here? why are we standing in an alley on a saturday night? i mean, don't you think you owe it to us to be forthcoming? 0we you?! you're denying what we've seen with our own eyes?! the only thing i deny is that somehow you have the right to ask me these things. you're running for president! so, it's basically it's about that tipping point, at least the film posits this is a tipping point when the press suddenly becomes more interested in private life instead of policies. and the film seems to suggest that actually this is the moment in which the intrusion of privacy really starts and from then on there are moments in which he says, "we are going to be followed around everywhere and everything is going to be investigated", unlike in the case of previous presidents who, you know, had known indiscretions but nobody seems to care. likejfk. absolutely, who is very specifically invoked in the film. it is an interesting idea. i am interested in the idea

of private and public life. firstly, the story itself doesn't ever land a sucker punch. it sort of meanders from one sort of fairly low—key confrontation to another. the other thing is, we live in a world now in which, apparently, the pendulum has swung back the other way, in which it is possible to attain very high office, despite scandal swirling all over the place and peoplejust going, "0h, we actually don't care anymore". it's an odd time for this story to come out. i can't think who you're talking about. 0bviously, discretion is the better part... the fact of the matter is, it's almost as if the movie is saying this is the point where everything changed and i'm not entirely sure that that's true. interesting, we've got vice coming up as well. yes! another american... and it's a good film. absolutely. a betterfilm, i think. best out? the favourite. have you seen it yet? i have, i loved it. i think that's really surprised me, i loved the favourite the performances are really great, i am really surprised by how well it's done. because i remember when i first saw it, i've seen it a couple of times, now, i thought it's great, but it is edgy! i mean, you know, it's very

in your face, there's an awful... but i think it works really well. it's set in the court of queen anne and it's about a rivalry for her affections. it's really funny, but it's very assertive. i wondered what it was kind of about in the end. i mean, i enjoyed it a lot, i loved it, but i kind of wondered what was the point of it. it's an interpersonal... it's a story about international politics being defined by stuff that happens as bedroom farce. 0k. and it's great. the performances are really, really good. they are, they are. it's very, very watchable indeed. best dvd? cold war. i reviewed this when it came out in cinemas and i absolutely loved it. it is in many critics best of the year list. it's a story about a love affair that sort of sweeps across i think 15, 17 years. goes across political and personal boundaries and it's inspired by the director's parents, although not based on their lives, it has to be said. but it reminded me, and i say this with... i know how significant this is. it reminded me of things like casablanca. it's got that really sweeping,

epic quality to it, despite the fact it's actually a fairly short film, 90 something minutes long. and it's really powerful, fabulous performances, looks absolutely beautiful, and again, a story that manages to intertwine the personal and political. because, obviously, it's all about the iron curtain and separation of state and separation of people across geographical and political boundaries. i loved it, ijust loved it, i thought it was terrific. have you seen it? i haven't. you must, you will absolutely love it. send me the dvd. i will. that's it for now, goodbye. good evening. this was this afternoon for many but it actually could have been an image from many so could have been an image from many so far this year. it will be a mild and pleasant weekend for walking on

the beach but lots of cloud will continue for many. let's take a look at the story over the last few hours. that cloud has been quite a nuisance through today, the best of the breaks have been across parts of eastern england down into the midlands. this will act as our friend. temperatures won't fall very far at all over the next few hours. a weather front will move in from the north—west which will bring rain across scotland into the north of england as it pushes its way south and east. the overnight lows, five 01’ and east. the overnight lows, five or6 and east. the overnight lows, five or 6 degrees, relatively mild start to the weekend. quite a lot of cloud, the odd spot of rain from the weakening weather front as it continues to drift south. 0nce weakening weather front as it continues to drift south. once it does, the cloud will break and then with some brightness coming through, may be some sunny spells and more rain in the far north—west. it won't bea rain in the far north—west. it won't be a cold day by any means after the relatively mild start, temperatures are likely to peak at 9—11. as we

move out of saturday and into sunday, the winds will pick up. they will be more of a feature for the second half of the weekend, gale force gusts in the final, isobar is squeezing together and another weather front in the north—west, whether fronts bringing weather front in the north—west, whetherfronts bringing rain for scotla nd whetherfronts bringing rain for scotland and ireland and weakening as it moves south. more cloud on sunday. breezy for all. windy to the far north—west, gusts of wind is way in excess of 40, maybe 60 miles an hour on the exposed north—west coast and the rain will continue. 0ut hour on the exposed north—west coast and the rain will continue. out of sunday, temperatures, 9—11. we will start to see a change. it has been cold and quite bitter across europe lately and some of that cold air will start to push its way all the way down from the arctic across the uk, not quite as extreme as what we are seeing uk, not quite as extreme as what we are seeing across uk, not quite as extreme as what we are seeing across parts of central and eastern europe. nevertheless, a colder field to the story to close out the month of january —— colder field to the story to close out the month ofjanuary —— much colder feel. we start with sunshine

around but most are simply colder and cloudier at the end of the week which will make it feel quite grey and disappointing. the week ahead, colder and there will be a return to night—time frosts, worth bearing in mind. there is a risk of some of those showers eventually turning quite wintry. one of britain's greatest sportsmen, sir andy murray, says injury is forcing him to retire this year. handy, does that mean this must do like mac delhi —— andy, does this mean it might be your last wimbledon? the 31—year—old broke down as he described how he's struggled since a hip operation 12 months ago. even putting his shoes and socks on can cause severe pain. i'm not sure i'm able to... to play through the pain, you know, for another four or five months. murray is hoping to play wimbledon one more time, but fears next week's australian open could be his last tournament.

also tonight: another u—turn over universal credit as the government admits the new benefit needs to be more compassionate and fair. cost—cutting plans mean 1000 jobs — more than half of the workforce — could go at ford's plant in south wales. the nine—year—old who died after an asthma attack —