hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? the kid who would be king which is an update. we have a private war, a drama in the life of marie colvin. jellyfish, a low—budget but ambitious british picture. the kid who would be king, a retelling of the legend of king arthur? this is the legend of king arthur? this is the new film byjoe cornish. louis ashbourne serkis plays this kid called alex. he and his equally bullied friends stumble upon a sword in the stone and the political and they take it back home and they realise that what they have stumbled upon is the sort in the stone. now arises a curse and an order to

ove i’co m e arises a curse and an order to overcome this curse, they have to come together, including the kids who once bullied them, in order to ove i’co m e who once bullied them, in order to overcome this resurrected evil. he was a spectacular clip. everyone has disappeared! what are you doing? alex, run! they are just made of bones, we can kill them. what are we going to do? can anybody drive? we lost one. it's catching up. on the left, on the left! get the last

one and everything will go back to normal. hold on! how did you learn how to drive? myocardial. the king arthur story is you've never seen before. the nice thing about this is, there is the kind of stuff you would expect from a harry potter movie but this is much closer to the spread of a children's film foundation. it is aimed at a younger audience and it struggled to find an audience and it struggled to find an audience in america and i think that's because its sensibilities to british. basically, it is a story about a group of desperate kids who have to put aside their differences in order to take control of the future. i like the fact thatjoe cornish really does believe that the future belongs to the younger generation seems to have great faith in the youngsters in his films and what i really liked about this was, it was quirky and odd and it wasn't

ashamed to be what it was, it really good, romping its heart completely in the right place, aimed at a younger audience with spectacle to spare and! younger audience with spectacle to spare and i suspect it will do a lot better here than in america because i suspect in america, they didn't get thejokes i suspect in america, they didn't get the jokes with tone of edge. i was really charmed by it. i thought it had a magical spell to it. i threw it was charming and i enjoyed it. a private war, the story of marie: they must work a respondent, who i knew a little bit. the film is based on a vanity fair article from 2012. she went to the most dangerous places on earth and pay the highest price for it. this story is rosamund pike who does a blend job of sinking her teeth into the real. i have heard people say it is a convincing portrait. there are two problems. the first one is, there have been some good documentaries about marie colvin under the wire which has

recently played under the bbc which gets to the heart of it. the second thing is that it is as good as the story. the script is written by the person who wrote grace of monaco and is an awful knot of a fairly clunky exposition. there is also the central idea that marie colvin never wa nted central idea that marie colvin never wanted to be the centre of the story. what she was interested in was getting to witness the truth and getting it out there. that said, with those reservations, i think rosamond is amazing and in the current climate, every film celebrates news journalists going and getting the proper story when others are trying to underwrite news journalism, it has a validity. others are trying to underwrite news journalism, it has a validitylj interviewed journalism, it has a validity.” interviewed the director and he said ina interviewed the director and he said in a sense it was reported of an obsessive. it is not a biopic. he busy comes from documentary background. i think this is less

strong than some of his documentaries but i do think there are things good about it, not least rosamund pike cosmic performance. jellyfish? this is a very low budget picture set in a market. this is about a teenager who has to work in an arcade to bring in money for her younger siblings and her mother who is basically incapable of looking after the family. the mother is also incapable of going and signing on to the family is in great financial dire straits. she is carrying the burden of caring for her family. she is starting her problems at school but there is a drama teacher who sees in her something and he thinks she should challenge on this pent—up emotion that she has into stand—up comedy. here is a clip. stand—up. i comedy. here is a clip. stand—up. lam comedy. here is a clip. stand—up. i am standing up. stand—up, as in comedy. two minutes, fio swear stand—up, as in comedy. two minutes,

no swear words. jokes? i wanted to figure out what comedy is. but, sir. no but. and? here. write these names down. richard pryor, george carbon. chris rock. frankie boyle. these guys. all guys? joan rivers, victoria wood, katherine ryan. what i like about this is the subject matter is bleak, a teenager with the great burden of caring responsibility who is put in a position newbury should be she is to have and they'd buy a live hill. he

really invest in her character and the varsity of sets the grimness of the varsity of sets the grimness of the subject matter. you really do believe in her situation and you see the dynamic of this young woman carrying the weight of a family and carrying the weight of a family and carrying the weight of responsibility and somehow, this idea of turning into a stand—up act offers a note of redemption. i think it's a very first feature from james gardner. it reminded me of a film called pincushion which again was very low—budget but had an honesty to it and i think we should expect to it and i think we should expect to see very good things and the casting director in the future. what is best out the moment?” casting director in the future. what is best out the moment? i love the barryjenkins film, a wonderful adaptation of james baldwin's barryjenkins film, a wonderful adaptation ofjames baldwin's book. it had lyrical beauty to it and i will want people to go and see it, i

think it is quite hard to find an audience for something so low—key. if you loved moonlight, you will like this? i think it is actually better than the light, utterly wonderful. best dvd? first man which is about the moon landing but isn't about the moon landing, it is about coming to terms with grief and it's using a spectacular backdrop to tell the story. i thought this was a really great film but i was delighted to hear that you have seen leave no trace which is my favourite film of last year. would you think? i thought it was stunning and i didn't know it was your favourite film. i stumbled across it, i had never heard about it. it was beautiful portrait of a father daughter relationship and a guy who's good ptsd who just want to be alone from the rest of the world. they're living in the pacific northwest and they are found and brought back into society and they have to learn to reintegrate. what i loved about it is, it's been

com pletely loved about it is, it's been completely overlooked in the awards which is a real shame because i thought best film, best script, best actor, best actress but it does that show don't tell. there is no point in it when the cast sits around and says, this is what the scene means. it doesn't do that at all, it's all to do with looks. you knew nothing about it? absolutely nothing. which is sometimes the best way to see a movie. you have no expectations, new word—of—mouth. you see it and you loved or hated. i'm thrilled that you like it. completely unbiased recommendation, i didn't tell you to see it and you loved it. it was your film of the year last year, it is my film of the year last year, it is my film theatre show. it is out on dvd now, leave no trace, it should be at the oscars but it isn't. it is beautifully simple and quiet. good to see you, as usual. that is it for this week, thank you very much for

watching. from both of us, goodbye. what a day some of us have had today, it's been absolutely beautiful out there. it certainly has felt like spring and those temperatures got up to 17 degrees. many of us, around the mid teens. tomorrow will be mild but they will bea tomorrow will be mild but they will be a little more cloud in the sky compared to what we have had today. clear skies across europe and much of englund and wales. more cloud across scotland and northern ireland this will trip in as we go through the course of tonight and tomorrow suffer many of us, the skies will be hazy but the high pressure is right across europe. it is mild in so many

areas and you can see these green colours, indicating a pretty mild evening out there. temperatures at 7pm still into double figures. the rain is starting to push into the western isles of scotland and that is because we are on the edge of the high—pressure so the weather fronts tend to skirt around it and that's exactly what is happening here. that is why all of that rain in the cloud is why all of that rain in the cloud is towards the north—west. much of the country is dry but they will be mark around these western coasts because these weather fronts are sneaking in. when i mention the edge of high—pressure, is a chilly centred there across the mediterranean and italy. within that area of high—pressure is a lot of mild air. it is the low pressure thatis mild air. it is the low pressure that is helping to scoop up some of that is helping to scoop up some of that warmth, pushing it in our direction but with the weather fronts close by, that does mean that some western areas of the uk are in

for more cloud. more of us tomorrow will get the cloudier skies. not quite the stunning weather that we had today. here is saturday, you can see the clouds drifting in across the south. for many western parts of the south. for many western parts of the uk, many parts having spots of drizzle. i suspect eastern counties of england and scotland should have another beautiful day with clear precise. on sunday, again another weather front sneaking in, precise. on sunday, again another weatherfront sneaking in, bringing some cloud and spots of rain. southern areas stay quite sunny and once again, it will be mild, around 15 or 16 degrees. we will keep those temperatures by through the course of the coming week as well. the weekend is looking great and the next week, once again, temperatures like spring. donald trump defies his critics, taking the drastic step of calling a national emergency to build a border wall with mexico. trying to make good on a campaign promise he says the us faces

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