‘ want to want to get ‘ want to get voters want to get voters back. ‘want to get voters back. before they want to get voters back. before we go, boris johnson they want to get voters back. before we go, borisjohnson mejeremy hunt, esther, dominic raab, michael gove a confirmation tomorrow, and andrea leadsom as well... the list is growing and there will be some deals done. both of you, thank you very much. a fascinating weekend of politics. thank you for watching as well. 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. a big thank you to my guests this evening, john and kate. it's goodnight from us. next on bbc news, it's the film review.

hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. you aren't here to announce your candidacy for the leadership of the conservative party? thankfully not! what are the big releases? we have aladdin, the latest disney live—action remake. rocketman, which isn't a biopic, more a musical about eltonjohn. nobody knows that we are fun. and booksmart, which has been described as superbad for girls. aladdin first, did guy ritchie rub the magic lantern with this? that's very good! you havejungle book, cinderella and dumbo and now this, so it is like disney is working through the back catalogue, turning those animations into live action movies. now we have this one,

the street rat turned royal suitor. he needs the help of a genie, played by will smith, and it was robin williams in the original animation. there's a strange sense of watching something that is new, but also a sense that you've seen it before. can you make me a prince? there's a lot of grey area in, "make me a prince." i canjust make you a prince. 0h, right. you'll be snuggled up with that dude for the rest of your life. be specific with your words. it's in the detail. i don't understand, if she likes you, why change? she has to marry a prince. ok, i can do that.

kind of the same but different. better? no, definitely not. you know when you asked about guy ritchie and the magic lamp, i thought about king arthur not pulling the sword out of the stone. in terms of this he makes it work, there's no question that it's fun and enjoyable. it makes some updates, especially in the character of princess jasmine, who is much more the agent of her own destiny. she has her own song. they have reject some of it. i'm not entirely sure, actually i am sure what the artistic point of redoing these films is. i know that the financial point is that they end up being very successful. will smith does a pretty decentjob. very hard doing that role because when the animation was done, so much of it was robin williams riffing, and then they built the animation around his improvised riffs. you don't have that.

you have something that is efficient, a die—hard story, updated slightly, they've made some changes which are admirable. but a lot of the time you get the feeling that i know this already and it's impossible not to miss the robin williams animation. plus, i love animation. i have to say, i'm cautious about embracing the idea of taking the animated films and making it as a live action because i'm not sure what the point is, other than ticket sales. you mentioned the song forjasmine. is it a proper feminist update? it's a good, catchy and empowering song. the fact that they've done that may be justification enough. i'm slightly cautious about this whole thing about working through the animations. i'm not sure this is a great thing. that's fine and it does the job. then you get to rocketman, which is not a biopic of eltonjohn,

it is a musical based on his life, directed by dexter fletcher, who was brought in to save bohemian rhapsody when it was falling apart, bryan singer. i think it's wonderful. we were talking about the trailer before. the trailer is amazing. often an amazing trailer means the film isn't so good but the movie is every bit as good. firstly, whereas bohemian rhapsody had a problem with the timeline which meant that if the songs are in the wrong place, it is irritating. but because this is a jukebox musical, you can put the songs wherever you like. secondly, taron egerton is brilliant. he doesn't look like elton john but it is the physicality of the performance, the chest forward but looking like he is vulnerable behind the glasses. the film is about a little kid who wants a hug.

a central relationship between him and bernie taupin, which has the tenderness such as in captain fantastic. it almost looks like it's been directed by ken russell. i'm a big fan of him, dexter fletcher has worked with him. there are scenes that i think ken russell would have loved. tributes to mgm musicals, fantasias. the whole thing just swept me off my feet. authorised but not sanitised, right? absolutely, there was a thing with bohemian rhapsody being family friendly, but this, it's a story of sex and drugs. finally enough, it owes a structural debt to the ian durie biopic, sex & drugs & rock & roll, which was set up as a vaudevillian stage show with ian durie as the unreliable narrator. here you have elton writing

his story from rehab. he walks into rehab dressed in a costume that makes him look between a demon and a chicken. he goes into this self—analysis. i read one review, "i am eltonjohn, i'm an alcoholic, a sex addict, and i have a problem with shopping." he also says "i am elton hercules john," adding to the absurdity. wonderful. talking about sex and drugs, they feature in your next movie. they feature in the trailer for booksmart. talking about trailers, the trailer makes booksmart look like it is a superbad film but it is more than that. directed by olivia wilde, kaitlyn dever and beanie feldstein are playing amy and molly, who have spent their school careers not partying, being focused on education so that they can get two good colleges but the end of term is coming and they are realising that they

might have missed out. mark your calendars and make plans to attend the drama department summer programme shakespeare in the park. we will be performing the bard's comedeis as modern tragedies, outside whole foods across town. it's what we did in my programme last year, when i lived in barcelona. i will be directing. and alan may be starring, depending on auditions. i don't audition! i'm offer—only. this looks fun, but i'm not going to be here. yeah, amy's spending the summer in botswana making tampons. well, blood attracts lions. i'm saving lives. i have a fear of big cats. i can't because i'm working

all summer, and also i don't want to. you are a philistine. why would you be here when you can debate? nobody's winning in that outfit. that is really funny and what i like about it, it is funny, i laughed all the way through, but at the heart of it it has that american graffiti end of an era feel about it, they are going their separate ways and it is sensitive about theirfriendship. it is evenhanded about the characters with regard to race, gender and sexual orientation. it looks at all of them with an open mind. funny but never mean, it doesn't have that mean spiritedness which runs through some films. it reminds me of bridesmaids in that it has that same sense of being about friendship, someone going from single to married, in this case going from school to college. the essence is the same, what your friends mean to you. for all the stuff that's in the trailer, the animal house—style bad behaviour, it is very sweet and funny and well—written, and very well played.

and for everyone, notjust for teenagers, young people? i'm 57, however old it is, and i laughed all the way through. excellent! that's a recommendation. the best? i love birds of passage, a colombian film about the birth of the drug age. birds of passage is really terrific. a story brilliantly told. it was described by a film—maker as not the godfather, it is the godmother, it has the same sense of epic sweep. you'll have to seek it out because it is arthouse. and on dvd? burning, a three—way love triangle that may or may not be a murder mystery. i've seen it three times and i don't know how to define it but it is haunting and i was mesmerised.

you sold them all to me, i will spend the weekend in the cinema! that's it, thank you for watching. hello. for some it has been a sunny start to the bank holiday weekend. we saw a high of 25 celsius in london on saturday afternoon. this was kent around the same time. for others a different story, cloudy with outbreaks of rain across parts of northern england, northern ireland and scotland, and many of us will see some rain through the rest of the bank holiday weekend. it will be turning cooler as well and the winds will be strengthening. this is all down to an atlantic front working its way eastwards, like me to stall across parts of northern scotla nd to stall across parts of northern scotland through much of bank holiday weekend. it is scotland which will see the lion ‘s share of the rain through the early hours of

sunday morning, and likely to keep it here through much of the day. across northern ireland, the rain will work its way eastwards across england and wales, turning more showery as it does so, so the rain more patchy across east anglia and south—east england. behind it some spells of sunshine, a fine afternoon across northern ireland and the rain continues across the far north of scotland, coupled with strengthening westerly wind. gusty across northern and western scotland, temperatures nine or 10 celsius. elsewhere 11! to i9 celsius, maybe 2! in the best of the sunshine. the rain across east anglia and south—east england starts to pull away. we will keep some rain overnight across scotland. mainly dry, some clear spells developing and a slightly cooler night. temperatures under the clear skies heading down to six or seven celsius, double figures in the centre of town. still that rain persisting across northern scotland through bank holiday monday. elsewhere it is a day of sunny spells in showers, the showers most frequent the further north and west

you are, starting to see an improvement across the far north of scotla nd improvement across the far north of scotland during the afternoon as things turned drier, nine celsius here and 14— i9 celsius further south. we keep some showers going on tuesday. they should start to ease off, so not as many as we will see on bank holiday monday but still a cool north or north—westerly breeze with a drier day across scotland, save for a scattering of showers. quite cool in the breeze and the cloud will be bubbling up through the day. nowhere immune from shower, and temperatures at best 16 or 17 celsius in southern england, nine or ten further north. a cool and u nsettled ten further north. a cool and unsettled theme through the week, a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. goodbye.

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