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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  February 16, 2019 11:45pm-12:01am GMT

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is : vhur is willing to go hammond is willing to go there and hold his nose and makes deals. just finishing on the sunday times, there isa finishing on the sunday times, there is a photo of meghan markle there, the quote from her saying oh my god, a p pa re ntly the quote from her saying oh my god, apparently about male pay at universities. interesting that she is speaking out, showing what she really thinks about things. she is quite outspoken, she thinks that academia is dominated by white men, and that the syllabus is not broad enough, does not take in enough people of colour, and also, i think she was also quite surprised to see that many of these universities do not have many women in professor oriol and other lecture roles. i think this is really interesting that she has got a view on this and she is obviously willing to be outspoken, but good gracious me, what kind of social media reaction is there going to be to this? —— professorial. she is someone with a background who
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is university educated, have a career before this, different to the normal royal family. 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 to henry and anne. next here on the news channel is the film review with ben brown and mark kermode, but from us, it's goodnight. hello there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. mark, what delights do you have? a mixed bag. we have the kid who would be king, which is an arthurian update.
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we have a private war, a drama about a real—life story. and jellyfish, a low—budget but ambitious picture. so the kid who would be king, a kind of retelling of the legend of king arthur? yes, this is byjoe cornish, who made attack the block a while ago. louis ashbourne serkis plays this bullied kid named alex, and he and his other equally bullied friend stumble upon a sword in stone and they pull it out and they take it back home and they realise that what they have stumbled on is the sword in the stone, the great arthurian story, and now rises a curse with morgana coming to threaten them. and to overcome it, they have to band together, much as arthur did, they have to pull together all of these rivals — including the kids who once bullied them — so that they can overcome this evil. here is a spectacular clip. everyone's vanished.
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it's like merlin said. everyone's disappeared! alex, what are you doing? alex! run! alex! they are just made of bones. we can kill them! there are two more! we can't outrun them. what are we going to do? hey, can anybody drive? we lost one! it is catching up, on the left, on the left! get the last one! and everything will go back to normal! hold on! where did you learn how to drive? mario kart.
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the king arthur story as you have never seen it all before. exactly, the nice thing is there with spectacle, the kind of thing you expect from a harry potter movie but at heart, this is closer to the spirit of a children's film foundation movie. it is aimed at a younger audience and it struggled to find an audience in america and i think it is because its sensibility is too british, but basically, it is a group of disparate kids who have to put aside their differences in order to take control of the future. and i really like the fact that joe cornish, as he did in attack the block, really does believe that the future belongs to the younger generation and he 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, which is a really sort of good, you know, romping movie
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with its heart completely in the right place and for a younger audience with spectacle to spare, and i suspect it will do a lot better here than it did in america because i suspect in america, theyjust didn't quite get the jokes, didn't get the tone of it, but i was really charmed by it, you know, i thought it was — it had a magical spell to it. i thought it was really charming, i really enjoyed it. all right, good. a private war — the story of marie colvin, a famous war correspondent who i actually knew a little bit. i will be interested to know what you think about it. the film is based on a vanity fair article from 2012. she went to the most dangerous places on earth and she paid a huge price. it stars rosamund pike, who i think does a really good job of sinking her teeth into the role. i know people who knew her and say it is a convincing portrait. i think there are two problems. the first is there has been some very good documentaries about colvin — under the wire i think recently played on the bbc, which really, i think, gets to the heart of it. the second thing is it's the script isn't as good as the story is. funnily enough, it is written by the person who wrote grace of monaco, the same writer,
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and there is an awful lot of clunky exposition. and also the central idea that i think marie colvin, she never wanted to be the centre of a story. what she was interested in is getting to witness the news and getting it out there. that said, with those reservations, i think rosamund pike is terrific and, in the current climate, any film that celebrates news journalists going in and getting a proper story at the time when despots are trying to destroy journalism, i think that is admirable. i interviewed matthew heineman, the director, and he was saying in a sense, it was a portrait of obsession. and she was an obsessive. yes, and he says it is not a biopic, it is a psychological picture, as he comes from a documentary background, he made cartel land, which i think was extraordinary. this is less strong than some of his other work, but i think this is good — not least because of rosamund's performance. jellyfish. this is a low—budget picture set in margate.
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liv hill is a young teenager. she 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, as it turns out, incapable of going and signing on so the family is in great financial straits and she is carrying the burden of caring for her family. there is a drama teacher at school who sees in her something and he think she should channel all of this pent—up emotion that she has into stand—up comedy. here is a clip. stand up. i am standing up. your act, stand—up, as in comedy? ten minutes, no swear words. jokes? i want you to go figure out what comedy is. but sir... no buts. here. pen. here.
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write these names down. bill hicks. richard pryor. george carlin. chris rock. frankie boyle. these guys are... all guys. joan rivers, victoria wood, katherine ryan. now, what i like about this is the subject matter is bleak. it is about a teenager holding a great burden of responsibility who is put in positions that no—one should be put in, but she is tough and as i said, played by liv hill. i think you really invest in her character, and the vivacity of her performance kind of offsets the gruesomeness of the subject matter. and i think you really do believe in her situation, by the situation with her and her mum and i think you really see the dynamic of this, you know, this young woman carrying the weight of a family, carrying the weight of the responsibility and somehow,
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this idea of turning it into a stand—up act offers a possible motive redemption. i think it is a very interesting first feature from james gardner. it reminds me a little bit of a film i spoke about a few months ago called pin cushion which was again, you know, very low—budget, it had a kind of a real honesty to it, and i think that we should expect to see very good things from the cast and director of this film and the future. all right, thank you. best out at the moment? i love if beale street could talk. i think it is a wonderful adaptation of james baldwin's book. i think it had a real lyrical beauty to it and i think — i really want people to go and see it. again, i think it is quite hard to find an audience for something so low—key. and if you loved moonlight, you would love this? yes, i think this is better than moonlight. it is absolutely wonderful. best dvd? first man. it is about the moon
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landing, but kind of isn't. it is about coming to terms with grief and it is, you know, it is using a spectacular backdrop to tell a story. i thought this was a really, really great film but i was delighted to hear that you have, since i last saw saw you, seen leave no trace, which was my favourite film of last year. what did you think? i thought it was stunning and actually, i didn't know it was a favourite of yours from last year and i stumbled on it and i'd never heard of it and it is stunning. it is a beautiful portrait of a father—daughter relationship and a guy who has ptsd who just wants to be alone from the rest of the world. yeah, and they are living off the grid in the pacific northwest and they are found and they are brought back into society and they have to sort of learn to reintegrate and what i loved about it, made by debra granik who made winter's bone and has been overlooked in the awards — because i think best film, best script, best actor, best actress — but the thing i loved most was it does that show, don't tell. there is no point in it where the cast sits around and says "this is what this thing means.
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you mean this to me and i mean this to you." it doesn't do that. it is all to do with looks. so you knew nothing about it? absolutely nothing. 0k. which is sometimes the best way to see a movie — you have not read reviews, no expectations, no word of mouth, you see it and you love it or you hate it. i'm thrilled that you love it. a completely unbiased recommendation — i did not tell you to see it. you saw it by accident and you love it. your film of last year, my film of this year. i have onlyjust caught up with it. it is out on dvd now, leave no trace — the film that should be at the oscars, but isn't. it is beautifully simple and quiet, yes. mark, thank you so much. that is it for this week. thank you very much for watching. from both of us, goodnight. hello. after reaching 17 celsius on
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friday, the uk's top temperatures for saturday iii, but we could add a few more degrees to that during sunday, helped by a bit of sunshine. parts of east of england seeing the high temperatures and we will all see a bit of sunday sunshine either side of an area of cloud, the chance of rain spreading east across the uk. this weather system will bring that cloud further east. but it is going to weaken as it does so, so if you are holding out for a bit of wet weather across eastern areas, you could well be disappointed. this is how we are starting today, nowhere particularly cold. while many of us will get under way with sunshine, an area of cloud and rain is affecting some of us in the west. fairly narrow as it moves into south—west england, wales, knocking on the door of north—west england. the bulk of it has gone through northern ireland, the odd shower following
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behind, some heavier burst to be had through west in the northern areas of scotland. note the wind speeds, it will be a windy day and the wind strengthening a bit further, gusts around western scotland around 50 mph or so. it is another mild day. so we will follow this area of cloud and again the chance of rain further east. it will clear for northern ireland, much of scotland, wales, western england, the sunshine coming back and pushing into eastern scotland, flew into eastern parts of england eventually, but you can barely pick out any rain which is left, and for most it will stay dry. these are the wind speeds again, blustery day. a mild direction, temperatures may be a little bit higher than they were on saturday, helped by some sunshine. eastern parts of england could see 16 for the top temperature. we will hold onto some cloud through parts of east anglia south—east england on sunday night into monday morning. that could bring a bit of patchy rain, it stays blustery especially to the north—west —— north—west. showers a little bit further south,
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no frost is monday begins. so monday sunny spells, showers most frequent in the north—west, showers merging to give longer spells of wet weather, especially in western scotland. hail or thunder possible out of these. cloudy out of the south—east and the chance of seeing a shower and temperatures briefly taking a step backwards. but after we get through a few weather systems as we go deeper into the week, it could well become very mild again later in the week. that is your latest forecast. this is bbc news. i'm tanya beckett. our top stories: the battle to claim the last piece of territory held by the so—called islamic state stalls due to the presence of trapped civilians. the us says it's about more than just taking back land. the united states will continue to work with all our allies to hunt down the remnants of isis were ever and when ever they rear their ugly
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