this is bbc news, i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 9pm. new zealand's prime minister vows to reform the country's gun laws after 49 people are killed in a mass shooting at at two mosques in christchurch. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. there have been attempts to change 50 mark, what do we have this week? oui’ interesting. there have been attempts to change our laws in 2005, 2012 and after an we have ben is back, which is the story of addiction and recovery. inquiry into thousand 17. now is the time for change. bangladesh, india, and indonesia we have the prodigy, which is a very nuts all say some of their citizens and bolts horror movie. were killed in the shooting and fisherman's friends, the kind of a true story and others are unaccounted for. of the cornish singing sensations. everybodyjust ran towards the back doors save themselves. i said to her on the phone, your husband has been kind of true story. shot outside the mosque. we will get to that in a minute. let's start with ben is back. don't come through here but go julia roberts. this is a teenage drug addict to the hospital and wait for him. who shows up unexpectedly at the family home at christmas eve. what could go wrong? crucially he's a recovering addict. do you remember when that film papy

beautiful boy came out? that was the story of a parent and child torn apart by addiction. based on memories by david chef and his son. this is the story similar directed by peter hedges and shocked by his son lucas. julia roberts plays his mother and she loves in them back in the house just for the christmas period, on the condition that he does everything that she says, that she takes the drug test she gives him and that he does not refresh right under any circumstances. here is a clip. these will both complement your complexion, that you get from your mother — you're welcome. coat, please. 0k, nice. i'm good. come on. pockets. this is humiliating.

no. this is love. all right. you're free to go. you didn't check my shoes. that's not funny. it was a joke, mom. ben, it's not funny. mom, it was a joke. excuse me. can i get a key to this door, please. unlock the door, ben, right now. i like that the scene is all 0k and he says is that as a joke. and then it is not a joke, she didn't check your sins. the film manages a balance between she loves him, but he has told never to trust an addict, he is a recovering addict. it is all to do with the balance of how much she trusts him and how much he has to offer tough love. he says it stimulating and she says it is tough love. later on the family dog was missing and she has to go off

on a road trip with him, into his world. and she sees for the first time the environment in which he was moving when he was taking drugs. that is a contrived. no question about it. julia roberts‘s performance is good enough that you buy it. you think, i know this is a device, but i'm so convinced by her from performance that i would let me tell him get away with it. i don't think it is doing anything shocking. there are comparisons definitely to beautiful boy, a slightly more beautified portrait of all of this. i do thinkjulia roberts, when she is great, she is really great. and it is a gritty role for her, isn't it? people think of romcoms and so on. yes, but think about erin brockovich which is probably the role for which she is most well—known and most well respected. when she is good, she is really, really great. i think this is a fine role for her, in a solid film. solid. all right. onto the prodigy. you've already told us that

a nuts and bolts horror. it's a story about a mother who comes to believe that her young child is possessed of the reincarnated spirit of a serial killer. one dies at the same time as the other was born. it is hugely derivative. there is stuff from the omen and good night, mummy, village of the damned and there is even a moment in which the kid actually says "mother, what is wrong with me"? a line from the exorcist. i let it get away with it because it knows that that is what it is doing. there is a large number of movies about bad seeds, kids being scared of kids and how much it is to do with the projection of the children. you look at a movie like babadook, and very good movie but a similar idea. i think it did not do it quite well. it hasn't got very good reviews. it seems to go from a, b, c, d in perfectly functional fashion. there were a couple of moments where it gave me a little bit of a chill, a shiver.

in a world where most of these horror movies arejust going quiet, quiet, boom, ithought there was something else. not much else, that doesn't make it many things and there are many laugh out loud moments in it. i thought it was creepy and fun. i've seen a lot worse. how many shivers the need to give it a good horrorfilm? three, minimum. that is not many! what is the scariest film you have ever seen? the correct answer to that is the exorcist. that is the correct answer. that is shivers all the way through. nonstop. no shivers i suspect in fisherman's friends? except for the weather. this is a fancifully sentimental version of the true story of fisherman's friends, a singing group from cornwall who achieved extraordinary success. this is aimimg, i think, for the tone of local hero. it ends up being close to swimming with man sent his neck, his boss sees this group of fishermen singing and says ok,

you have to sign them up. he says it as a joke. but daniel macey‘s character takes it seriously. the next thing is exactly what he is trying to do. here's a clip. i manage bands and i'm interested in representing you. you'd better come and talk to the boys. for your information, my son is the roger daughtry of the group. well, i'll bear that in mind. you'll never guess what. my boy has just been talent spotted. by who? youradmirer. apparently he's some kind of big shot in the music industry. watching you sing was one of those rare moments in the music business when you realise you are witnessing something truly original. the bottom line is — you've got a unique sound. and we believe we can help you get it released by a major label. laughter

it's a nice scene, isn't it? yes, it feels like one of those very british sort of film. it has a very tourist—eye view of cornwall. the story is that daniel's character goes and falls in with it. why wouldn't he? it's an exciting place, a place like no other and other and proud and beautiful and wonderful. what you see in the film is definitely a touristy view of it. if you wanted to tell tear it apart, you could because it is creaky and sentimental. i wonder why anybody would want to? it is charming. i like the music. daniel mays goes an awfully long way to making it all hang together. i think he has such a great screen presence, he has worked with mike leigh, he can do very serious, tough gritty comedy. he manages this light comedy with a really lovely light touch. i smile and laugh pretty much all the way through. i know all the things that are wrong with it, i know the things that don't make sense.

honestly, i don't care. i like it, it was charming. charming, ok. what is best out at the moment? there is this film called the kindergarten teacher which stars maggie gyllenhaal. it's about a candidate teacher who becomes advanced that a five—year—old in her class is the new mozart. she's the only person that sees his talent. everybody else is neglecting the fact that he is a genius. she starts to inveigled her way into his life. the film is really about how much of this is to do with her own disappointment at her lot. she is somebody who wanted to be an academic, a poet, it didn't work out. it walk a really thin line between being on the one hand this strange, sentimental story, on the other hand being something that comes very close to being a psychological chiller. i thought it was brilliantly done. maggie gyllenhaal is terrific in it. my only reservation is it is quite close to the original film. but the originalfilm is really good as well. i thought it was interesting

and i thought maggie perfectly pitched her character between somebody who wants to see the creative best in this child, but all the time the implication is you are projecting onto him. and without giving too much away, is the five—year—old the next mozart? i couldn't possibly tell you that. you have to see the film. it sounds good. i like the premise. if like, without giving anything away, what is at the end of citizen kane! best dvd at the moment? peterloo — i like this film. i thought it it was a hard sell in cinema. i think is mike leigh's recreating leading up to the massacre. huge ensemble cast. one of my mates was in it. i think one of everybody‘s mates was in it. what this film does is, as it builds up towards this terrible event, it really does show you from every side, everybody gets to have their say.

perhaps to a fault. when you finally get to that climactic sequence, it's horrifying and you've invested in all the characters. i think it is very powerful and it demonstrates that mike leigh really can orchestrate a great big period drama. it is a very powerful film. he does have a very unique style of film making. yes, no one else makes it sounds like mike leigh. no one else has a process like his, and no one else‘s films look like his. heaven knows there are enough directors around who would love to make films like mike leigh. lots of improvisation? that is his hallmark. it begins with work shopping. by the time you get to the set is not improvised. then it has been written at a script, but the script is device from improvised action with a unique technique that i meet mike leigh and his past properly understand. right. much like yourself.

thank you very much. on the you understand what they're talking about. we all understand. that is it for this week. thank you so much for watching. goodbye from both of us. good evening. bear with the weather over the next few days, because eventually things will to learn —— turn dryer, brighter and more settled. but we aren't quite there yet, we still have a stormy weekend to get out of the way. if very windy day out there today, this picture was taken by one of our weather watchers in cambridgeshire. staying pretty windy through tonight and into saturday. an area of low pressure heading in from the atlantic, bringing these weather fronts, that low pressure will be deepening with these windy conditions over the next 2a hours. raining throughout the course of tonight, northern ireland will have snow over the higher ground, more mountains with snow over the northern pen ines. a chilly night

with temperatures in the single figures, much milder across the southern half of england and wales. here is that deepening area of low pressure as it moves its weight eastwards a cross pressure as it moves its weight eastwards across northern areas. much of the south of that low pressure is where we see the strong winds. quite an active cold front. a real contrast and temperatures towards the northwest and southeast. very mild and windy conditions for the bulk of england and wales, colder air moving into scotland and northern ireland. when that cold air in place, we will see a lot of hills no continuing through the day. 10— 10-15 10—15 cm of snow. these are some of the wind gusts, likely to see 40—50 it kph -- the wind gusts, likely to see 40—50 it kph —— mph. there will be causing some disruption. temperatures will be in the double figures towards the southeast, but 5 degrees in belfast,

chilly weather for northern ireland and scotland. eventually through saturday night, we lose that rain pushing off towards the east, moving into the north north sea. windy over the weekend with further snow showers over scotland, dryer towards the south and southeast. wherever you are with that chilly north breeze, it will feel quite cool out there. temperatures only around 7-10dc, there. temperatures only around 7—iodc, colder than that when you add wind chill. at least a bit of sunshine between those showers on sunday. eventually things change as we head through into next week, with high pressure building, it will be much drier and much less ability to make a wendy compared to the last week. eventually those temperatures will warm up over the course of next week.