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to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? something for everyone. we have ‘the lego movie 2'. i know you are a huge fan. we have ‘if 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? iam. 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 boy 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 fabulous place has turned into an apocalyptic dystopia. meanwhile, people from the sister system has 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 at the future. 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 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 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 dimension of 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 jokes. but 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 fact that they can do this, two languages in one brain, it is similar to lego movie two. ‘if beale street could talk‘... terrific. this is adapted by...from a novel. it has been nominated by academy

awards. i think regina king is in for a tonne of an award. it is a story about oppression, racialtension, but it is a love story. someone is imprisoned, the other is pregnant. it is how this relationship plays out against this backdrop of oppression. the genius behind the deacon's wyrick. .. 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? i thought it was terrific. for a film that 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. also, a brilliant use of music and cinematography. he has a way of slowing time down. i thought it was wonderful. i think barryjenkins is a wonderful director. now ‘alita: battle angel'. this caught the attention of james cameron. it is a 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 has combat reflexes. 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? 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 cyborg movie.

you have rosa salazar 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 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, does that mean not a great story? yes, kinda. best out? it is burning. 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 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 rock band. raw action. with proper mistakes and a live sound to it. i thought it 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 will. 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 it got a golden globe nomination. and deb after fellowship which is a high honour. it is important to remember notjust this extraordinary body of work in front of the camera, but his role 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. good evening. we had snow to in the

last working week. we had stormed eric that has caused some disruption. many parts of the united kingdom have taken a rail buffeting from the start. this, the driving horse this deep area of low pressure, that is still bearing down upon us pressure, that is still bearing down upon us as we pressure, that is still bearing down upon us as we get there that evening and overnight. the winds continued to buffet over areas guessing at 60 kph. those wind speeds unfortunately are enough to bring down trees, roots, and we had some rain to go with it. the temperatures hold up because we had this cloud, wind, and rain, it is pretty blustery out

there, and it will continue to be blustery as we got to the start of the weekend. it takes a while for the weekend. it takes a while for the winds to obey. tomorrow, it looks like a dryer day. the first weather system in the south that has blown out of the way after midnight competent and low pressure will dry it for the showers and. through the day, it will tend to become fewer and farther between. later, that is one of the reasons for the showers, bahrain gathers towards the south. when speeds cites the diminished. today, there is my sunshine, the us showers or lower spells of rain. it should felt more pleasant if you wa nt to should felt more pleasant if you want to get out and about. really 5°99y want to get out and about. really soggy in the south. another one hopped on the hills, in the north, the incident introduced some cold air. by the south, it is all brain,

but it denotes a change and type it failed in are but there. behind that weather system, which we think at the moment is going to affect much of wales and said that weather system, which we think at the moment is going to affect much of wales in southern and central parts of england, as he sought the low around for that showers, longer spells of rain, snow over will. rain, snow over it for that showers, longer spells of rain, snow over it will be a cold night with frost sunday night and monday night. generally speaking, south—westerly winds, lots of cold, except at night. bye—bye. this is bbc world news today.

i'm lucy grey. our top stories... thailand in turmoil as the king denounces his sister's bid to run for prime minister in next month's election. officials in brazil say they've detected irregularities at a training centre for brazil's most popular football club, where a fire killed at least ten people. the amazon founder and world's richest man, jeff bezos, accuses an american tabloid magazine, of extortion and blackmail. idid take i did take a tip from the fishes. never bite unless the bait‘s good. and the acclaimed actor, albert finney, has died after a short illness. he was 82.