tv The Film Review BBC News February 23, 2019 11:45pm-12:01am GMT
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this is bbc news. back to i'm duncan golestani. that she should be brought back to the uk and didn't help. yes, well i think what has been very interesting our top stories: is all of the different questions this has blown up and it is almost a opposition efforts to get aid into venezuela turn to chaos — kind of national debate with people troops fire tear gas on protesters and at least two are dead. divided, she left she was 15, she has this baby, it is really president maduro calls it difficult. thank you both very much indeed forjoining us this evening. an attempted invasion by the us. that's it for the papers tonight. next on bbc news — the film review. it is the opposition that managed to push all this through the border of through president maduro defences, it will be a real challenge to his authority. votes are being counted in nigeria after millions of people cast their ballots in the biggest election in african history. a court in chicago sets a million dollar bail bond for the singer, r kelly, who's been charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. and brexit turmoil threatens to divide uk politics even further — hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. so jason, what do we have this week?
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this week we are in the snows of colorado for the controversial cold pursuit, which sees liam neeson ploughing a rampage of revenge through the icy blasts. we on the streets of beirut — if you have tears to shed. prepare yourself for capernaum, about a boy and a baby on the mean streets. we are also looking at rbg, ruth bader ginsburg. liam neeson publicise it in the newspaper. he dropped it in the middle of a john pletts. no one was expecting it and he revealed he'd been on a rampage himself of revenge when someone close to him was raped and he looked for someone to take revenge on for a week. he was talking about revenge
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because he does nothing but star in these grim revenge dramas. it started with taken and now he's dealing with another one called cold pursuit. he's in a luxury ski resort. his son is mixed up with some drug dealers and is murdered and liam starts to take matters into his own hands. there are criminals with silly names. like speedo and the eskimo and viking. he goes to his brother—in—law who is also a little bit dodgy to find out more about the underworld. kyle. you got mixed up with some clown by the name of dante and they stole a kilo of coke from viking. who's viking? drug dealer. a big one. viking's a whole different breed. he likes hurting people. i'm gonna kill him. sure you are. what makes you think
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you can kill a man? i've killed three of his guys. what did you do with the bodies? wrapped them in chicken wire, threw them on the gorge. where'd you learn that? i read it in a crime novel. laughs. as you say, he does specialise in revenge movies. they must be popular for the producers to keep making them. yeah. and he is obviously the man that they pick. he's got this cheerlessness that has set in. they are politically incorrect most of the time. albanian gangsters all over the place. this one leaves a nasty taste in the mouth because of the publicity that it's garnered. it's a rather flippant movie about violence and revenge. he starts shooting people wearing that furry coat wherever he goes
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even to a denver nightclub. there's supposed to be humour in it, but because of that interview, i couldn't find anything to laugh at. i thought, this is really in poor taste. the film is going for a black humour in a matter of a coen brothers, or even three billboards is you remember last year's oscars. it doesn't have the wit or the politics of that. it has liam piling up bodies while this car crash of an interview sanders in the background. this is the sort of movie that thinks it's amusing, because there's so much body count to list the cast in order of disappearance. that's the level of humour. very briefly, you wonder whether that awful publicity, people might not go to see it? it could have the perverse effect. people might go and see it because they think it is funny.
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the tone of the movie takes is instantly intelligent examination of revenge. it's flippant. that's what's ugly. i think it is pretty awful. i really hope no one goes to see it. and that will serve him right. thank you. it means chaos. capernaum now. this film is actually oscar nominated for best foreign language film. if you have anything welling up inside, this film will tug at your heartstrings. it is directed by a lebanese film director and it's about a kid who is 12 years old and decides to sue his parents but then takes to the streets of beirut, runs away from them, and is given thejob of holding this baby for an ethiopian illegal immigrants. so he ends up baby—sitting this tiny
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baby and the pair of them go around the streets and they are amazing. i've never seen a spice of life realist drama like this in which a baby and a boy perform so brilliantly like this. if they gave oscars for best baby, this would win. as an extraordinary film. it really tugs at the heartstrings. it is a bit chaotic and a bit too much and took governors, the streets of beirut. by by the time you realise that things area bit by the time you realise that things are a bit wrong, you will be in floods of tears and you won't notice. oscar nominated for best foreign language film. will it win? no. it's up against roma. no chance. that is more than one word. on the basis of sex. this is the story of a supreme court judge, ruth bader ginsburg. she fought for women's are connected at equality. the last time i was doing this with you we revealed a documentary about her. it could when. this is a bio pic and it hones
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in on her early career. here, felicityjones who we know from the theory of everything playing ruth bader ginsburg and it has those compulsory scenes at harvard where she outsmart everyone. she's the only woman at harvard. we can see her as the only woman throughout she is married to this man called marty. he turns her to a new way of thinking about inequality in writing there runs she is fighting again so we can see her now taking this big court case all the way to the supreme court, the biggest case of her life and doing a mock trial at her home. it's about balancing home and work in front of the aclu. why shouldn't men be nurses and if women want to fight fires... what about pilots? yeah, again, if women choose to take on these roles...
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judges? why not? ceos, generals, what about garbage man? do you want to be a garbage man? and if men want to be teachers or raise children... oh come on. percentages aren't the point. wrong. people should be... wrong! ..able to pursue their passions. wrong, wrong! you're screwing it up, ruth. have you read the appendix attached to their brief? you're making the wrong case. these are laws written by men who think we are privileged to be excused from men's obligations, but it is not a privilege, it is a cage and these laws are the bars! so that's it? you're gonna take them all on at the same time? interesting, because the supreme court in america is very much in the news now. she's still there.
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the real ruth bader ginsburg. the ending of the film fades into the present and you see that's really important blow she is striking. the films tries to prepare racial inequality with sexual inequality coming up during the civil rights era. everyone is very good in this movie, the clothes and styling is good. something is missing. there is a lack of drama in the courtroom when it builds up to the big case but you can't deny the sort of good intentions of the film and it's a very inspirational in a way for young women watching to realise that this it took this woman to create the modern workplace. things aren't perfect yet, but this went some way to making that situation. if you had to choose which of the documentary and this drama which would you go for? i would go for the documentary but millions won't. so that's all right. left out at the moment? best out at the moment, a documentary about a soul singer. great documentary. if you don't know me by now. this is a great documentary
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about a wonderful soul music from the 70s and also about the dark tales of the music industry and a lot of sex appeal and this. lenny henry was inspired by this. teddy had all the knickers thrown at him. this is him in his vest. he is a super soul sensation. you are reminded of information. netflix for the best, the boy who harnessed the wind. an inspirational tale from africa about a young boy who invented electricity for his village in malawi in 2001 and brought the reins to malawi. it's an african fairy tale but has all the politics and corruption and the environmentalism you need in an african tail. i wish you the best. it is very
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earnest but it is very well done. by the end of it you're cheering with the wind itself to get those rain and water coming. really well performed. it's a wonderful title. the boy who harness the wins. thank you so much. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. halatau. at one of the weekend was a bit disappointing across the north and the west of the kadri veseli wea k and the west of the kadri veseli weak weather front had introduced more cloud and spots of light rain and drizzle. mister the saint central and eastern england. today i am hopeful we will see more widespread sunshine at leaving the north and west. another chilly start to the day. a touch of frost across parts of the south—east and the north—east of scotland. like saturday morning, we will have some patches of mist and fog. some of the
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fog could be quite dense, further north this time into parts of the midlands and into northern, north—eastern england. it could take quite a waelti clear across parts of east of the pennines. this may quite a while. if it does linger, maybe into east of scotland, it could stay quite chilly and grey throughout the day. elsewhere, we should see widespread sunshine developing, more across the north and the west. after that chilly start the temperatures will respond. looking at highs of around 15 celsius, perhaps 16. a couple of degrees down on what we saw on saturday and friday. as we had through sunday night it looks like we could see something a bit bolder move off the near continent, particularly the south—east quadrant of the country, with a blue hue showing it is not as cold further north and west. don't be surprised if you wait this see flight this across the south—east and into the midlands first thing on monday. a chilly start to the new working week. a little mist and fog around. it could be quite slow to clear.
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eventually it will. this weather front will bring thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain the far north of scotland, elsewhere, across the bulk of the uk, a glorious afternoon with widespread sunshine. temperatures 16 01’ widespread sunshine. temperatures 16 or 17 celsius. high pressure in the driving seat as we head into tuesday. this weak weather front bringing more cloud to the far north—west corner of the uk. a little bit of light rain for the north—west scotland. elsewhere, after a chilly start, maybe mist and fog, which again should quit through the morning. it is looking like being another glorious day with lots of sunshine and temperatures well above where they should be for the time of year. it will be warmer, 17— 18 celsius, perhaps in the south—east. further into the week, the temperatures fall away, closer to the seasonal norm. as we head into the weekend we will pick up atla ntic into the weekend we will pick up atlantic weather systems, so a bit more unsettled.
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