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in singapore is a strong is that, this sort of thing proved to be a big issue for good morning. them and we get to an election? singapore it's 7am in singapore that's a lot of money to the rest of and midnight in london — where just a few moments ago us, but is £1.5 billion even that the world's first ultra low much money to google? their only emissions zone came into operation. drivers of polluting vehicles — interest is profit. what they make from motorbikes to lorries — against the rebel troops after it comes under attack. in london, also is concerning only what they earn secular their stock market is £45 in the programme. the finishing touches to the biggest election in billion. let's look at the guardian, india's history. there is a famous finally. he becomes the oldest boat saying here that the indian government is like a piece of race winner. he won with cambridge, flatbread, he needs to be flipped on the griddle or it will burst. will it flip the griddle or it will burst. will he's studying a masters degree. an thpthb the griddle or it will burst. will it flip this time? and extraordinary achievement for anyone, but particularly forjoe correctional who had that horrific crash in 2010 when he was cycling in america. he's had a terrible time, he suffered a terrible brain injury. he was cycling across the state and got hit from behind. it took them a huge amount of time to recover, he
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talked about it and made documentary about it, along with his now but separated wife, beverly turner. it's a wonderful thing to happen, it's a great hopeful story for any middle—age athlete. great hopeful story for any middle-age athlete. i'm just amused at the fact that someone in the cambridge rowing team clearly was aware that he had justjoined the university and thought, "we should get them on the team". to think they threw in the river to see if he could swim? i don't blame you, lisa. that's it for the papers tonight. a big thank you to my guests this evening, tony grew and caroline frost. next on bbc news it's the film review. night night.
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hello there. welcome to the film review. here on bbc news taking us through this week's cinema releases we have, yes, you have guessed it, mark kermode. three very different releases. we have pet sematary, which is a new reworking of the stephen king classic novel. we have shazam!, an upbeat, colourful anti—superhero movie. and happy as lazarro, a cannes prizewinner. now, pet sematary. what could possibly be scary about a pet cemetery? are you...? where do you stand on stephen king stories? have you read stephen king? yeah, yeah. and you have because you have done a phd in horrorfiction. i have, thank you for bringing that up. doctor kermode. doctor kermode, exactly. so pet sematary is... when stephen king first wrote it he thought it was too dark to publish and the novel itself
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is pretty dark. there was a version of the film made in 1989, now we have a remake of it. so, the story is that a family have been living in a town, move to rural maine where the forest is now in their new back door. it looks wonderful, it's going to be a new opportunity, the father will be able to spend more time with his kids, except that in the forest there are some strange things, like processions of children dressed up like extras from the wicker man, with a wheelbarrow and the dead pet in it going out to the pet sematary, misspelt on the title. and beyond the cemetery itself, beyond the dreadful is something even more suspicious. here is a clip. saw these in the trees up there. yeah, they're warnings. the local tribes carved them before they fled. fled? yeah, they knew the power of that place. they felt its pull. they came to believe it belonged to something else. the ground was bad,
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so they moved on. but there's something up there. something that brings things back. so what happened to your dog, judd? he came back. just like that man said he would, but he was changed. it was when he went after my mother that my daddy put him down. for the second time. sometimes dead is better. so that is the tag line for the film, sometimes dead is better. and there is no surprise in the fact that this is a burial ground, if you bury your pets they come back and at the stakes are going to be raised. what's interesting about this is this comes on the back of it, which obviously was made as a tv miniseries in 1990 and it became the biggest grossing horror movie of all time, unadjusted for inflation, the exorcist is still officially the champion.
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but it was a huge hit and we have it chapter two coming out in some months‘ time, so this is kinda in the middle of it. once going back to a classic old stephen king text that has been brought to the screen before. and i think it is efficiently done, if rather generically done. at the centre of it is a story about grief and about loss and about... if you're offered the chance to overcome grief and loss, would you do it? the novel itself is very dark, the film has a more lightly comic tone to it. i neverfound it scary. no. i did think it had a kind of twilight zone appeal, or like can eerily comic sort of thing and it solidly done, it's very stylishly shot by laurie rose and the department are very good. john lithgow is always somebody you can always rely on. i did believe in the family, but what i didn't get was the sense that this had moved us on any further. it felt like a solid, meat and potatoes, crowd pleasing mainstream stephen king horror. i have only seen the trailer, but that looked pretty scary to me.
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0k. well, i think you might enjoy it. i was never i was never scared, i did enjoy it, but i thought... it felt like solid burger and fries affair. you are a hard guy to scare. i am, i know. 0k. now, shazam!, which is about a 14—year—old boy who gets the power to transform into a superhero every time he said the word shazami. yes, and suddenly he is in the red suit with the flash and everyjoke is that at the moment he discovers he can become shazam!, he is still a 14—year—old kid. and anything we are always told with comic book superheroes is that with great power comes great responsibility. of course, they haven't got the great responsibility, so what he does as he goes into the local store because he looked old enough now and he tries to buy some beer. he makes youtube videos of all his exciting superpowers like stopping bullets, until his nemesis, in the shape of mark strong, turns up and suddenly he realises that actually, there is something he has to do. i like this. it was kinda fun, like a superhero riff on big. remember when tom hanks becomes a kid who becomes a man? there is also...
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it's like a sort of comic version of chronicle, played more for laughs or imagine deadpool with none of the r—rated nastiness in it. it is two hours and ten minutes long and i could happily have cut half an hour out of it. but it's breezy and bright and it is entertaining and it is very affectionate. it feels very... it is kind of cute. cute? cute. 0k. happy as lazarro? directed by alice rohrwacher who made the wonders, nominated and won the best screenplay award at cannes. so, set in rural village called inviolata, and violated, perfect. it has been cut off from the rest of the world. we meet a series of sharecroppers who are working the land and they are being forced to work for no money because they are constantly in debt to the marchesa.
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you can see from that that it has an almost dreamy, fairy tale quality and then the police turn up and nothing is quite like it seems. of ways, you can read it as a dogville parable about workers' rights and exploitation, or you can read it as a story about past and present because there is a time travelling element about it. that is never explained. it is played naturally but these are strange and supernatural things happen. you can see it as a cousin of the village. i am reminded of al pacino
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in dog day afternoon. actually, what i think is that in the end, it is a story of someone who sees the good and things to such an extent that it protects him from the corruption of the world in which he lives. the best thing about it is that i think everyone who sees it will interpret it any different way. you can read it and many many different ways and you can see as a parable, a fairy tale or a political story. it is kind of weirdly magical and you sort of go with it. i loved out of blue, the carol morley film, and similarly with this, you just have to go with it. it is a really melancholy and charming and strange and i don't really know what it is about, but i know what it might be about. i would happily see it again. best out as a film that came out when we were at school? yes, a clockwork orange, the adaptation of anthony burgess‘s novel. brilliantly played
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by malcolm mcdowell. it is ultraviolence and terrorising and that is a part of the film that became notorious. the design is extraordinary, but the violence at the beginning of the film is very, very full on. what people forget is that most of the film actually happens after that and it is to do with this thing this technique. so a type of aversion to make? or aversion therapy? exactly. the idea is that if you take away so much of a person, do theyjust become nothing more than a clockwork orange? that section of the film gets far less attention than the beginning which is the the thing that made the film notorious. there are lots of stories about it being banned, it was not banned in the uk. kubrick asked warner bros to remove it from circulation in the uk after it had its first run. the reason you could never see it was because stanley kubrick did not want it to be shown.
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it was not shown again until 1999 or 2000 when it was reissued. and you know because you made a documentary about it. no end to your talents? it has a lovely sons and feel to it. it is an old—timer bank robber and redford's performance is just great, sissy spacek as well. it is very, very gentle and very nostalgic. i just love that. i thought it was really touching and it is a character study of them. it looks like the kind of film they made in the 70s and they don't make any more. from my point of view, that's perfect. all right, mark. thank you. that is all. goodbye from both of us.
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good evening. summing up —— some of us were good evening. summing up —— some of us were lucky enough to see blue sky on sunday. this is the picture taken off the north coast of northern ireland. beautiful blue skies there, we still have some clear spells around us we had to the course of tonight, but cloudier skies through parts of southeast england up to whales, a few spots of rain here. mostly dry elsewhere, but lots of mist and fog and low clouds. temperatures not falling to low. just a touch of grass frost in the sheltered glens of scotland first thing. once that murky and misty start, northeast england in coastal england and scotland, still some showers through southeast england into wales, perhaps 1—2 parts of southern ireland. into tuesday, more
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