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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  February 8, 2019 5:45pm-6:00pm GMT

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something for everyone. we have the lego movie 2. i know you are a huge fan. we have it beale street could talk. and alita: battle angel, a dystopian future. is there any other kind? the question is, are you a huge lego movie fan?” kind? the question is, are you a huge lego movie fan? i am. i loved the first one and the batman one. along comes lego movie to take get back on track. i fell in love again and laughed all the way through. did you see the first one? it entirely plays out in the imagination of a young barry who has a huge lego land that his father owns. this begins at the end of that film. his sister is allowed to come in and play and causes chaos. suddenly this wonderful world is created. a huge
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fabulous place has turned into an apocalyptic dystopia. meanwhile, people from the other system has come to kidnap batman to be involved ina weird come to kidnap batman to be involved in a weird wedding ritual. but emmet still thinks everything can be awesome. i know you are following this. here is a clip. this is my vision of the future. ta—da! a house? come on! let me give you the tour. very first one on the cul—de—sac. this is the living room where you can live it up. tv room. dining room. plant room. kitty cat room. and out back, a double—decker porch swing so we can always hang together. what do you think? it is going to attract aliens and gets destroyed. ijust thought we could rebuild the future, make everything awesome again. emmet, you've got to stop pretending everything is awesome, it isn't. every morning, you walk through town singing that terrible, annoying manufactured song. that song really seems to upset you. no, it doesn't! on the one hand, it has got a lot
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from the first film, really good jokes and it is visually interesting, excitement and action, but what is really clever is it is basically a film that plays out in the imagination of two separate characters of the young boy and his younger sister. therefore, there is this collision of two worlds and the best thing about it is if you are managing a complex surrealist film—maker making a film playing out in two separate imaginations, it would be impossible. you watch it in the lego movie and you just accept it. it isjoined by the lego movie and you just accept it. it is joined by the the lego movie and you just accept it. it isjoined by the dimension of reality, the house that they let in, andi reality, the house that they let in, and i thought it was really clever, really smart. i laughed all the way through. there are call—backs to the first movie. there are lots of in
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jokes. it is designed in such a way that a younger audience will laugh at that slapstick and the fact that they like their characters. an older audience will be impressed by the fa ct audience will be impressed by the fact that they can do this, two languages in one brain, it is similarto languages in one brain, it is similar to lego movie two. if beale street could turn next. terrific. this is adapted by dominic from a novel. i think regina king is in for a dumb of an award. it is a story about oppression, racial tension, but it is a love story. someone is
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imprisoned, the other is pregnant. it is how this relationship plays out against this backdrop of oppression. he can take a story by focusing on the specifics, the life of somebody growing up in poverty like in moonlight, and somehow making that story universal. in the case of this, he gets all the period details right, there details of the character struggles right but it becomes completely universal. did you love moonlight?” becomes completely universal. did you love moonlight? i thought it was terrific. for a sound that adventurous and getting the oscar success adventurous and getting the oscar success that it did, but when it was first made, it was a strange arthouse movie that everybody thought it only had a niche audience. a brilliant use of music and cinematography. he has a way of slowing time down. i thought it was
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wonderful. i think barryjenkins is a wonderful director. now alita: battle angel. this caught the attention of james cameron. battle angel. this caught the attention ofjames cameron. it is a dystopian future. a brief hunter warrior finds the head dystopian future. a brief hunter warriorfinds the head of dystopian future. a brief hunter warrior finds the head of a female cyborg and takes it back to his laboratory and rebuilds her giving her a new body. he gives her the name which has a lot of meaning to him. she remembers her past and it looks like she was some type of battle angel. she finds this futuristic battle ready body that she wants the character to give to her to make her whole. here is a clip. this body... it has the power i need. i feel a connection to it i can't explain. this could be who i am. you have been given a chance to start over, a clean slate, how many of us get that?
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why did an enemy warship respond to me? because i knew that ship! i have been on others like it, haven't i? haven't i? whatever you were, it is not who you are now. i'm a warrior, aren't i? her eyes are extraordinary, aren't they? it is remarkable. it is like a above movie. you have rosa salazar and motion capture, you can combine and motion capture, you can combine a physical performance with visual effects. that character exists anything which is known as uncanny valley which is is it animation, is it live action? it is really well
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done i think. i think rosa salazar brings a lot to the role. the film itself is somewhat all over the shop. cameron is perhaps not the greatest screenwriter in the world. this has spectacle to spare, often the story gets kind of lost. it is in the same area as films like robocop and blade runner. they are ideas we have seen elsewhere. they come from a similar melting pot. i went into it with fairly low expectations and although i think it is narratively challenged, i thought it held together largely because of rosa salazar's performance. you were intrigued by the central character. there is something fascinating about it. it is real but unreal at the same time and i thought that worked rather well. narratively challenged,
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does that mean not a great story? yes, kinda. best out? it is burning. it isa yes, kinda. best out? it is burning. it is a weird murder mystery. it may bea it is a weird murder mystery. it may be a love story, it may be a murder mystery, it may be a social satire. it is such a bewildering mesmerising movie. ijust it is such a bewildering mesmerising movie. i just loved it it is such a bewildering mesmerising movie. ijust loved it and i don't pretend to understand it. best dvd? this is the latest version of a star is born. bradley cooper directing and starring. lady gaga as their rising star. i absolutely loved it. the songs are really good and it works in the music world and i thought it was terrific. i thought he directed it really well. there is live sequences, that really is a live sequences, that really is a live rock band. with proper mistakes and a live sound to it. i thought it was really good. do you think it was
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properly recognised ? was really good. do you think it was properly recognised? it didn't do that well in the oscars. when it first came out, people said it would clearly win best picture. now everybody thinks roma well. awards are massively unpredictable. i thought it was really great. and i like the other versions, but i did think this was... i went into it thinking," please don't be bad." it wasn't, it was really good. we can't let you go without a word about albert finney. he sadly died at the age of 82. one of the great stars of stage and screen. he was the face of british cinema. oscar nominated for a huge variety of roles. also great performances in films like tim burton's big fish. i think you got a
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golden globe nomination. and deb after fellowship which is a high honour. it is important to remember not just this extraordinary honour. it is important to remember notjust this extraordinary body of work in front of the camera, but his well behind the camera. i remember interviewing mike lee. he said albert finney was the magician behind it, he made the film happen. he was an impressive actor on screen. thank you very much. that is all for this week. from both of us, goodbye. hello, the weather is anything but narratively challenged because the story is very much about a storm eric and the consequences of its wet
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and windy weather it has applied to all parts of the british isles. these are some of the gusts that we have experienced a day. they are not the highest values by any means at all. headline writers will be pointing out that in scotland at the summit, 100 mph within the past couple of hours. the weather is associated in the southern parts with the weather front, making progress towards a south—eastern quarter now. winds will be a feature to hurry you home within the next hour or two. following on behind the rain, streaks of blustery showers coming in on that wind that is still gusting around 40, 50, 60 coming in on that wind that is still gusting around 40,50, 60 mph. further north and closer to the centre of the storm, rain fall rather than anything else. through
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the course of the night, that will push cloud and rain further south. the wind still ever present. be aware. into the first part of saturday, that wind could be very strong. if you are on the move, there will be disruption. please be aware of that. saturday sees the low pressure centre. this is still storm eric moving up towards the northern isles. particularly across the northern half of britain where we will see the bulk of the showers. it is raining rather than showers that will affect your date in the centre of the storm. elsewhere, it is not a brighter. it is gusty, bear that in mind when you are travelling especially on exposed roots. it won't be a cold day because the wind at this stage is westerly. there will be a change. we bring rain into
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the southern half of britain into saturday night in the first part of sunday. the first part of sunday, that makes progress further south on what will be a chilly day. between the two, there is a lot of drier weather. cooler because the wind is more north and north westerly, a chilly direction. look how the temperatures begin to dip. watch out for the strength of the wind in the short term. confidentiality agreements are under scrutiny, as topshop owner sir philip green, ends his legal battle, against the daily telegraph. the billionaire, has condemned the allegations and denies unlawful sexual and racist behaviour. some of his alleged victims, still can't speak out. they really genuinely think, he thought he could come get in this lawsuit with the telegraph and win and again kind of, buy and push his way through, silencing people. the daily telegraph says it's about to publish new allegations against sir philip.
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also on the programme.... the family of the footballer, emiliano sala, say they can now mourn, after his body was recovered from the english channel. after the death of four children in a house fire in stafford, two people are arrested, on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence. three more cases of equine flu are discovered,
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