instead of smart wearing jeans instead of smart trousers. it is disrespectful to the actors. i think you and i, isn't it more important that people actually go to the theatre and fill it up. i don't think the actors would care if he turned up in a furry bikini. don't think the actors would care if he turned up in a furry bikinim is dark, they don't care. 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 on our website. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to my guests this evening nigel nelson, and jo phillips. that's all from us, coming up next is the film review. goodnight.

hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have got this week? something for everyone, hopefully. we have the hustle, which is a new take on a familiar story. we have pokemon: pikachu detective — i know you're a huge fan. high life, a science fiction film directed by claire denis. that a was very telling look. i know you're a huge fan of the hustle! did you see dirty rotten scoundrels?

yeah. funny, not really. that was already a remake. now we get another version of the same story, in which we have a gender flip. so now we have rebel wilson, who is a low level scam artist, who meets anne hathaway's much more upmarket con woman on a train. they are both headed to a similar destination. their paths cross. they are forced against their will to work together through a strange mixture of coincidence and blackmail. and what they will end up doing is working together, but also against each other in a competition. here's a clip. i work alone. i get it. but what you're not getting is that a girl like me can make it real uncomfortable for you in this town. itjust takes one phone call. hello, interpol? tell me, penny.

why are women more suited to the con than men? because we're used to faking it? it comes down to one universal truth. no man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is. we'll always be underestimated, and that is what we use. does this mean you're going to teach me? i'm teaching you now. yes! wait, what was that last part? i couldn't hear you, you were talking into the ocean. i'm loving anne hathaway's very posh english accent. it's a terrible english accent! which is weird because she can do great accents, but it's kind of ear—scraping. here is the thing — when comedy doesn't work, it is like the worst thing to happen. particularly when a film's been made almost with gaps in the dialogue for the laughter to happen. and the strange thing with this movie is — it's two stars who i really like who are really funny and really

sharp in other movies, and it is a story that has been done a couple of times before. but what happens is there's laughs in the first 5—6 minutes, and you think, "this is great, i can turn my brain off". and then suddenly, it all stops. and there is like 90 minutes of arid, desert — tumbleweeds blowing through the auditorium as gag after gag just fails to land. there is nothing like being in a pretty packed cinema and watching a comedyjust suffocating, just sucking the air out of it. it's one of the unfunniest mainstream comedies i've seen in a long time. sometimes mainstream comedy, i'll find stuff gross or offensive, or annoying, but this was just completely dead. you have a test, don't you? six laughs? six laughs. did it get any laughs out of you? what is weird is that in the first five minutes, there was a couple of parts i thought, "this is fine — two laughs". but then — finished. as i said, comedy is really hard, and i think it

comes down to directing. you and i were speaking before we came on air about how sometimes a movie that bad can get. it's because a script can look funny, the cast can looks funny, the setup can look funny — but when you actually get it into the editing room, it is all to do with timing. is the script funny though, or is itjust the directing? you know... i would like to say that the script is funny, except now that i'm thinking of it, i can't think of a single funny line in it. so the script is awful, and the direction is awful. it is terrible. detective pikachu? it isn't terrible. so i'm not the target audience for a pokemon movie. noram i! this has been hailed as — this sounds like damning with faint praise — it's been hailed as the best—reviewed live action film adaptation of a video game, which is pretty damn specific, frankly. but actually, it's pretty good. the story is that you have a young man who has to team up with pikachu,

played by ryan reynolds, in order to follow the trail of his father, following a tragedy. and it takes place in this future city in which pokemon and humans live side—by—side, but there is still an underground wargame going on. one of the reasons it works is that ryan reynolds is basically doing a much more pg orfamily—friendly version of the character that he did to some extent in deadpool. there's a certain amount of the live action animation interface — do you remember who framed roger rabbit? remember the first time you ever saw, that it was astonishing, what they were doing with it? actually the live action animation stuff works really well here. actually, it is designed really nicely. some of the cityscapes look — dare i say it — a little bit blade runner—y. and for someone who has absolutely nothing invested in the idea of watching a film based on pokemon go, ifound myself laughing — i laughed more times in this than in the whole of the hustle in the first ten minutes of it. it's a little bit shambolic

and a little bit ricocheting in terms of the plot, but i enjoyed myself and nobody was more surprised than me because i had thought at the beginning of the week, "i'm going to like the hustle, i'm going to endure detective pikachu". it was completely the other way around. life is full of surprises. it really is, and good for it. so is the cinema. high life — i'm rather intrigued by this, actually. it's a sci—fi drama, convicts sent into space, part of a social engineering experiment. it's a science fiction film directed by claire denis who made trouble every day. funny enough, his does have a connection to trouble every day, because at one point claire denis was thinking of vincent gallo as a lead for it. as you said, it is — this strange cargo freight—like spaceship which is heading towards a black hole. there is some form of social experiment going on. because the story is told nonlinearly, we are told information out piecemeal. an awful lot of the film is to do with you having to put together what order the story is in, how all the characters fit together. what we know is that robert pattinson is on board

and he leads this kindke of monk—life celibate existence. juliette binoche is the doctor who is running strange reproductive experiments. as they move towards the black hole, the crew starts to fall apart. they all start to fragment, and it becomes a sort of existential film in which outer space is really inner space. here's a clip. do you have the baby dog? i had to leave it. why didn't you take it? we could have kept it. we couldn't have kept it. i wanted dog so bad. you know what? step away from the door. i've got to clean myself, i've got to disinfect. he'lldie in there. it is cruelty!

what do you know about cruelty? you don't know anything about it. i have to clean — i have to disinfect myself. step away from the door. move away from the door! get out. i love the, "what do you know about cruelty? you don't know anything about it." whenever you see this type of science fiction film, you automatically think about things like solaris, which is the perfect embodiment of outer space and inner space. and black holes have been something that science fiction has used since the discovery of black holes. we recently saw films like interstellar, and there is that idea that if you move towards an abyss, it will reflect yourtself back to you. it is the case that if you try and do a simple linear version of what happens in the story, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. what i liked about it was that, as i was watching it, i found some of it frustrating and some of it really mesmerising.

i found some of it a bit chilling. afterwards, ifound myself sifting through individual fragments of the narrative and finding connections with claire denis' work that i hadn't initially seen. the first thing is — it is a film you need to give time. second thing — this is a very good cast — i think robert pattinson is really good. ijust take great pleasure in looking back at the twilight movies and looking back at the amount of sniffiness they got from mainstream critics. and when you look at the two key players in the twilight movies, they have forged paths where they have sought out proper film—makers who make challenging movies. they have used their high profile to work in projects that could really benefit from that high—profile involvement. and they are both willing to take risks. i think pattinson — i have always been a fan of him. if you look at him in david cronenberg's cosmopolis, a strange, deep and tortured movie, he is great in it. i think is really great in this.

i don't pretend to understand what the whole film is about. there are things in it which are ludicrous, but i don't mind any of them because i think the film is reaching for something which it occasionally manages to grab. i find it hard to believe you didn't understand what it was about. i thought you knew everything! what's the best out? have you seen eighth grade? yes, i really loved it. isn't it great? tender and beautiful. directorial debut of bo burnham — doesn't it look like a film made by someone who's been making films all their life? the anna meredith score is great, really gets into the head of its central character. but the most important thing is — both you and i are nothing like the central character, but didn't you feel the depiction of the anguish of being a 13—year—old was universal? absolutely. it felt like me as a 13—year—old. yeah, which is astonishing! when you think of it — it's13—year—old growing up facing problems that neither you or i know

anything about on a first—hand level, it puts you right in the middle. i loved it. highly recommended. best dvd? the favourite is out on dvd. we should always remember that the dvd and home viewing market is enormous, particularly compared to cinemas. the favourite was a big winner at awards season, and rightly so. many people will be seeing it for the first time now. it is a historical drama, but it's the least historical drama i remember seeing. and anna meredith, who does the score for eighth grade — some of her experimental music turns up in the favourite, so the two are connected. i enjoyed that one a lot as well, also very highly recommended. thank you very much, that is it for this week. thanks for watching and goodbye. hello, good evening. we do have better weather on the way. we had

thunderstorms earlier on but they are fading away and we will find clearing skies and light winds overnight. it is going to turn quite chilly, probably a frost across parts of scotland and even further south, temperatures won't be far away from freezing in a few rural areas. high pressure is building across the uk and that will bring an improvement in the weather. we will find this weather frontjust pushing the far north—west so more high cloud coming into the western side of northern ireland later come into the north—west of scotland. as temperatures rise elsewhere we will see cloud building up and a bit of convection. could give an isolated, like shower over the pennines and perhaps the downs. it will feel warmer and it will be drier and sunnier. that is the theme next week, high pressure around, dry weather and more in the way of sunshine and because of that, it will feel warmer.

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