h “a fi think of has sn’f m—ruwwr do think of neighbourhood watch is being a fairly sort of middle—class suburban activity but it's also quite successful. if there is an active neighbourhood watch in an air, crime is lower. it says it reduces crime bar to 26% but i'm six —— sceptical because if they are all middle—class suburbanites, they are living in middle—class suburban area so living in middle—class suburban area so maybe the crime rates would be lower a nyway. so maybe the crime rates would be lower anyway. i'm not convinced. well, each of us can perhaps agree a matter different reasons, perhaps. but also there's nothing wrong with being a twitching busybodies. that does actually stop crime because if you do keep a look out for suspicious activity, that is the first step to stopping it. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days

a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, john and rachel. next, it's the film review. hello. welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what have you got for us this week? well, we're definitely in awards season, so we have a couple of big awards contenders. firstly, green book,

which is the story of an unlikely friendship. can you ever forgive me?, memoirs of a literary forger. and burning, a breath—taking film from south korea. where do you want to start then? let's start with green book. so, oscar contender, which is up for a number of awards, including best picture, best actor for viggo mortenson, best supporting actor for mahershala ali, who i think is pretty much tipped to win. peter farrelly with his brother used to make comedies like dumb and dumber, and this is a drama with some comedic elements in it. it's based on a real life friendship. tony, who needs work, an old school racist, he goes for a job interview and he finds that the job is to be a chauffeur and minder for an african american pianist. but he needs the work. they are going to go down to the segregated south. and they're chalk and cheese. one of them is educated

and a brilliant musician, and the other is vulgar and comes from the streets. and yet inevitably, during theirjourney together, they find that they have things in common, not least when tony is trying to write letters home to his wife and dr don starts telling him how you actually should write a letter. here's a clip. dear dolores, d—e—a—r. this is an animal. "as i'm writing this letter, i'm eating potato chips and i'm starting to get thirsty." you do know this is pathetic, right? tell me what you're trying to say. i don't know. you know, i miss her. then say that. but do it in a manner that no one else has ever done it before. something like, uh... put this down. " falling in love with you was the easiest thing i've ever done." "nothing matters to me but you and every day i'm alive,

i'm aware of this. i loved you the day i met you. i love you today and i will love you the rest of my life." aw. yeah, so look, you can see from that, it's a good—hearted film. it's been a controversialfilm. it is nominated at the oscars, so whenever there is an oscar contender, there is controversy. on the one hand, the family have said this isn't true, they were not friends, it was an employer and employee relationship. there have been complaints that this is a story about racism but seen through the eyes of a white character and he saves the day. there have also been comparisons with driving miss daisy, which won the oscar for best picture. that was soft soap, but that was saved by the performances. in this case, it is the performances that save it. i understand the criticism that it's a soft film, especially if you compare it to if beale street could talk, which is a brilliant film, this is just trivia. but the performances are really winning, so much so that when you are watching the film

you think, i am going to park all the things i think that is wrong with it because i like the characters. i think mahershala ali has a good chance of winning. i think viggo mortensen does a good job with his role. you'd be hard pressed not to be charmed by it because its heart is in the right place. yes, it makes a lot of mistakes, it's not ground—breaking, and it is fantastically soft soaped and fanciful, but remember it is awards season... how much of the aspects of the chemistry between the two leads applies to your next pick of the releases? forgive me. that's a very good question. melissa mccarthy and richard e grant have been nominated as well. he'll probably lose out out to mahershali ali, but who knows? this is based on a true story, the story of lee israel, an author who couldn't get published, so she started forging

letters from famous literary figures, noel coward and dorothy parker. she found out she got quite good at it. she describes herself in the film by saying "i'm a better dorothy parker than dorothy parker." richard e grant is jack hock, the character she fakes the letters for. a lot of people say the character he plays in this is like withnail and i, but it's not because that character was needy. in this, he puts up a lot of front because he's got a lot of anxieties. she is fantastic. a couple of reviews have said it is a revelation. it's not a revelation, she was in dramatic theatre for a number of years. if you look at thing like st vincent, she's always had a dramatic underpinning. this was co—writen by nicole holofcener, who was initially going to direct it. this was brought to the screen in a very likeable form. i like the chemistry between them. nora ephron's name comes up a lot in the dialogue in a funny way. and as a huge fan of her,

i liked this in much the same way. it is about the characters. it is about somebody who finds her own voice by pretending to be the voices of other people and i think it works really well. i really liked it and i do think richard e grant is fantastic, and i think it's a long overdue nomination for him. the next release, burning, which is not about chemistry and it is entirely different. so this is based on a short story by haruki murakami, which i have to say i haven't read. a shy young man, his mother has left home and his father is in trouble with the law and he has to turn to the family farm. one day he sees a girl who's outside a stall trying to get punters to come in and he doesn't recognise her. what he doesn't realise is she knew him as a child from the village where they both grew up. here's a clip. hard to work out from that what that film is really about. fine. hard to work out from that what that

film is really about. fine. exactly. i've seen the whole film and it's still quite hard. ok, so he's smitten but he's mystified. she tells him about things that happened to them as children, but he doesn't remember any of them. then she asks him to look after her cat, which he can neverfind. then she turns up with a sort of playboy boyfriend, who is this sort of gatsby type figure, and he likes to make barns disappear by burning them down, and the next thing is she disappears. the rest of the film is him trying to figure out whether she has disappeared, is he somehow involved in the disappearance, has she actually disappeared? is he involved ? do we get any answers? maybe it's a murder mystery, maybe it's a film about rich and poor and town and country and reality and invention and memory, and what you actually remember and what you think you remember. the film closes on you like this and it becomes so mesmerising. i mean i was completely gripped

by it and afterwards, i spoke to a couple of people and said, was that a clue? was that her makeup box in the thing? did you see the cat? what i loved about it if it is one of those films that gets right under your skin. it is absolutely breathtaking. is it a murder mystery, is it a love story, is it a paranoid thriller? is it all in his mind? you've gone through the whole of the film and at no point does the film decide to sit down and say well, here's what's going on. that happened and that happened. it's really brilliantly mystifying, in a way which is completely mesmerising. ijust wanted to go straight back in and watch it again. i think i will watch it again. even on second viewing, it will keep the secrets. you've got to be up for the uncertainty of it. yes, but how wonderful, how wonderful. i loved it. how wonderful to see a film that it's so hard to describe... i have no idea what you're talking about.

go and see it to have a proper discussion with you about it. destroyer. i like this. we have another oscars in which the whole of the best director list has not one single female director in a year in which there are so many great movies directed by women. this film has been sadly overlooked and it needs to find an audience. it's a really, really good, twisted cop thriller. and, just two sentences on best dvd. disobedience, starring rachel weisz and rachel mcadams, an adaption of naomi alderman's novel, and directed by sebastian lelio. again, it's a story about life, love, religion, betrayal, the universe, and everything. wow, that'll do me. ok, well, that's a good collection for this week. thanks so much, mark. thank you. and that is all we have time for. thank you for watching. goodbye. hello, if you'd had yourfill of

winter weather, temperatures are on the up in the week ahead, so winter will be on the back foot. there will be melting. this will be disappearing but there will still be another dollop of snow over the next few hours into monday in the hills of northern scotland, where it is already snowing above 150 metres. could amass a further 5—10 centimetres, even some lower than that. icy in places, because this is where we have the coldest air as monday begins. elsewhere it is nowhere near as cold as it has been a recent mornings. rain is moving east across the rest of the uk. it has already cleared northern ireland and it will be across eastern and southern england as monday begins. it is connected to this area of low pressure, quite windy with the wet weather moving through. as low pressure pulls away from scotland it is still quite windy here for the first part of monday before those winds ease. we have this rain, sleet

and snow slowly fizzling out. it will take much of the day before we shift this rain from kent. lots of cloud behind the weather system, still towards east anglia and southern england. elsewhere we get to see sunshine, plenty of that in northern ireland. good sunny spells away from the far south—east and northern scotland, where even hear it brightens up a bit. as the temperatures, more of us are getting back into double figures. the winds are reason, and under clear skies there will be another widespread frost going into tuesday morning. the last one of those for a while. we will see cloud or fog hanging around parts of southern england. that could be quite dense in places. it may stop the temperatures from going down too far here. away from any going down too far here. away from a ny early going down too far here. away from any early fog on tuesday, it is a bright and frosty start to the day. and atlantic weather system is moving in, that is this cloud and outbreaks of rain, rather patchy in nature, slowly spreading north—east on tuesday with the south—westerly winds freshening again. the further north—east you are, the drier and brighter you will stay. another push of milder coming in with this next weather system. fronts moving

through on tuesday night into wednesday, though this one may linger close to the south—east on wednesday into early thursday. the focus of some outbreaks of rain. the rest of the sightseeing sunny spells, might catch a few showers. quite blustery at times. i think your eyes will be drawn to the temperatures most of all, at or above normal for the time of year. that is the major change in the week ahead compare to what we have had. yes, it will be wetter times, but there will also be decent sunshine occasionally. it will often be windy, but at least an hour, mild south—westerly winds. a big change in how the weatherfield this week. —— weather feels. the headlines: the wreckage of the plane carrying premier league footballer emiliano sala is found by search teams. warnings of unprecedented flooding for northern australia, where more than a metre of rain has fallen in just one week. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: the car maker nissan reverses its plan to build its latest model in england. it'll keep production

injapan instead. and we're hoping we're not being a little rash — but with the lunar new year just around the corner, we'll have the latest predictions on what the year of the pig may hold in 2019.