you know, a drunk who was told by his partner to get your life in gear, to becoming one of the most powerful men in america. rwhen christian bale received and there is definitely a kind here's a scene with sam rockwell, who is also oscar—nominated, as george w bush, attempting tirentist elmer i have been the chief of staff. the vice presidency is mostly a symbolicjob. right, right. i can see how that wouldn't be enticing to you. however, the vice presidency is also defined by the president

uh-huh. go on. i'm listening. i sense that you're a kinetic leader. e i am — people always said that. yeah, yeah. very different, very different from your father in that regard. now, maybe i can handle some overseeing bureaucracy, managing military, energy, foreign policy. that sounds good. it is an extraordinary performance and it's very convincing.

during that clip, you saw the thing about the analogy of the fly fishing, you know, the thing skipping across and you see a catch, and very much like the big short, which adam mckay made before, it has all these quite showy, dramatic devices to tell and to comment upon the story. so at various points, people break the fourth wall, they talk to the audience. there's one section in which dick cheney and his wife suddenly burst into shakespearean dialogue in a kind of inarticulate moment. there's another moment halfway through where the film appears to end as if it's an alternative hollywood ending. my problem is this. i liked the big short — with reservations. i thought the big short was very funny, it was kind of flippant, but i liked the flippancy of it. but i also thought that the big short did explain something that i didn't really understand before. it talked about the financial, you know, shenanigans. and went on and it did — it was almost like a card trick, somebody doing a card trick but showing you how they were doing it at the same time. in the case of this, by the film's own admission, dick cheney is very hard to get under his skin. and they say at the beginning, you know, "we've tried to tell

a true story as much as possible, with the secrecy." and i do feel with this that it ends up — firstly, it's as funny as the big short. it's more — it feels more polemical, particularly in the sort of last third, in which it feels like there's an awful lot of information that they're trying to cover. and, oddly enough, although i think individual performances are very i think i'm slightly $95“??? 5? eh} [easel : w” ,,,,,, eff” 53 lease? em it doesn't have that sucker punch, it doesn't have that clear line. there's no moment in it, as there was in the big short when you suddenly went, "0h! that's how it happened!" it's much more of a sort of meandering sort of womble through a story. good performance. christian bale never does anything other than look like he's100% immersed in a role. when was the last time he saw christian bale looking like he wasn't properly... you know, that's what he does. he's got a marlon brando—like devotion to the role. but i think the film itself is interesting but flawed.

0k. i can't wait to see it, actually. thank you. se this? lg. direetesj a clean licence and no—one would suspect you" a nd' so he sts rtsi doing these runs for this drug cartel. and the film has the same kind of swansong tone as that redford film, the old man and the gun, had. i think the old man and the gun is a betterfilm because it's kind of warmer towards its characters. there are some great performances — dianne wiest is brilliant as his long, er, ex — as his long—suffering ex—wife, bradley cooper is the da agent who's on his tail. the weird thing about the film is it makes a few jokes about the fact

that this old guy's attitudes are not very politically correct, his attitude towards race, his attitude towards sexuality and yet, the film's attitudes towards gender politics are very odd because there's a sequence in which he's with the drug boss and he's suddenly — these sort of bikini—clad women who are, like, young enough to be his granddaughter, and no—one never makes any comment on it at all. so it's an odd film. it's got a nice, musing tone. but it's not his best, but it's kind of a — i do think the old man and the gun is a betterfilm. you should see the old man and the gun. it's lovely. and clint eastwood is 88, is that right? he's iio, yeah. still going strong, which is great! love sonia, which sounds a pretty harrowing watch. this is a very, very difficult film. well made, i think. directed by tabrez noorani, who was producer on slumdog millionaire and lion. so it's inspired by a real—life story in which young women were found in a containerihat

the other daughter is completely distraughtra ndrshe fellews—hel sister to mumbai, where she finds herself inducted into this absolutely horrifying world of sex slavery and human trafficking. here's a clip. so you can see from that, what the film is trying to do is to tell a very, very difficult story, but tell it in a way which has got some kind of mainstream appeal, so there is some softening edges, there is the beginnings of a love story with somebody that she knows when she's back at home. there is a kind of fairly melodramatic arc of the story itself, which becomes like a, you know, like a mystery. but at the centre of it is the horrible truth of the subject matter — which i thought was portrayed in a way that was genuinely alarming. also, there are some celebrity cameos — demi moore turns up at the end of the film, and the film is clearly made from a passionate position of wanting to expose this. and it does. i didn't know much about it at all, other than the title, when i went in to see it,

and i did find it engrossing. sometimes, the balance between the subject matter and the way in which the need to keep the edges of the film so that it does have some kind of mainstream appeal, sometimes that marriage didn't work perfectly for me, but i think it's very powerful, and the subject matter, as i said, is really horrifying. but it's the third week in a row where you've given it a shout out! i know. well, i'm not doing it again next week. next week is another movie. but itjust — you know, ben, it is — it's really good. i wish i had! no, it's — i mean, it'sjust i think the performances are great. you know, i know you're not, but i was a fan of laurel and hardy and hardy, which i know you don't.

all right, all right. best dvd? the wife. so this is — glenn close has been oscar—nominated for her role as the wife of an author, played byjonathan pryce, who is on the verge of receiving a nobel prize. and yet, you know, is their relationship what it looks like from the outside? is his talent actually all it's cracked up to be, or is she, in fact, the power behind the throne? interestingly enough, i really liked this, and i said at the time when i first saw it i think glenn close is on oscar—nominatable form. so i think she has a chance of winning, and i think it would be deserved, because it's — there is a sequence in it in which the camera literallyjust looks at her face while she listens to a phone conversation of her husband discovering that he being awarded the nobel prize, and, you know, her face speaks a thousand words and she says nothing at all. i saw the film — and i read the book, actually. 0h, wonderful! i thought she was terrific but i find the central premise, which i won't divulge, very implausible. really? 0k. i bought into it, but then, you know, maybe i'm just more gullible. no, of course not! yes, he is.

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uk during the day, giving a covering places and as it continues to feed on south as we go deeper into tuesday, especially for england and wales, this looks like band of snow moving through with some centimetres places on what will be a cold day, quite windy the further south you are as well. through quite windy the further south you are as well. - through tuesday are as well. running through tuesday evening and again we will follow this of snow ever further still a . to play for snuthwe iii—555 eliffijtfig e? 7 e e! ! . e -7 7 7 the snuthwg 121—st eltffijtfig e? 7 e e! ! , e -7 7 7 the detail, but there is that in the detail, but there is that risk . disruption from the snow on risk of disruption from the snow on tuesday and as it stays cold in the week ahead, not every day will be wet, there will be sunshine too, but the risk of further snow later in the risk of further snow later in the week. this is bbc news — i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm.