hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's this is bbc news. cinema releases is jason solomons. i'm lewis vaughan jones. in his spring linens. our top stories: jubilation for liverpool — so, jason, what do we have this week? i have a schlocky shocker crowned winners from the blumhouse horror locker. olivia spencer and some gullible teenagers star in ma. of the european champions league — after beating tottenham 2—0. a nuclear threat unleashes huge celebrations in the spanish capital. it's the sixth time the titans again in godzilla. liverpool have won europe's premier football contest. should i say i'm armageddon out of here? 40 a0 yea rs i a0 years i have been waiting. a0 yea rs. a0 years i have been waiting. a0 years. and i love it. but a sadder story from

laughter. europe on the brink of collapse. the world of football — this is in 1913, in budapest former arsenal and sevilla winger and the return of the oscar—winning jose antonio reyes is killed director laszlo nemes in sunset. in a car crash. let's start with ma. and police in the american state of virginia say a disgruntled as in mum or mother. employee was responsible for a workplace shooting that killed 12 people. one of the teenagers calls octavia spencer's figure ma. a slight racial overtone in this, and the film—makers have brought us get out and us. they have been gradually turning the horror genre on its head with the racial elements in there, and that is to the fore here. octavia spencer, who won the oscar for her supporting actress role in the help, that director that she re—teams here for a film that has very good credentials. juliette lewis stars in it. alisonjanney also stars in it. small roles, it's about octavia spencer, really, who plays a woman who agrees to buy some teenagers some alcohol because in the us they can't do it, so adults have to do it for them, provided they come back to hers and party in her basement. they do that, but then she gets a bit needy and they think we shouldn't do that and find another venue, leaving

octavia spencer's ma feeling put out ofjoint and turning a little bit stalkery, as we can see in this clip. phone repeatedly chimes. hey, this is ma. i got a new number. just picking up a few things. don't make me drink alone. and i don't want to hear any of this "i have homework" crap. don't make me drink alone. # don't make me drink alone... are you guys mad at me for something? i mean, i risked myjob so that you could have fun, and we definitely did. the least you could do is say thank you. don't keep your phone by your bed. that's the first thing. it's not good energy.

you will not get good sleep. it is terrible for you. it spirals and gets a lot worse. things get really strange between the teenagers and ma. it's a good idea, octavia spencer is great at this. people have talked about kathy bates in misery. it's that kind of role. or carrie, where something happened in her past and why she's wreaking some alcoholic revenge on these particular teenagers. so it's quite a clever little film, but it doesn't really reach get out or us levels, much bigger films than little horror films. this one has a old—fashioned 80's slasher movie vibe to it. that isn't quite scary enough to carry it through. is it aimed at teenagers? i would think so. don't drink, teenagers. certainly don't drink with ma. heaven forbid. what have we got next? i think it's godzilla.

is it anything like the films that i saw? or the tv series. they were invented in tokyo in 1954 as a response to the nuclear threats. releasing these titans, these dinosaurs. do you remember the chewits adverts? with the big monster? they said it is a long shot but it mayjust work and give to him. occupied him. the dialogue isn't much better in this then it was in those adverts of the ‘70s. but the titans have been unleashed again because of a nuclear threat. charles dance plays an ecoterrorist. he wants to pit the titans against each other. with these, you want to wait till the monsters clash. you don't really care about the humans, even if they are played by vera farmiga or sally hawkins. if you remember from the shape of water, she is good with monsters and can even tap dance with them. she doesn't bother with that here. you really want the monsters

to fight each other. what will godzilla do? will he beat mothra? will he get slammed down by rodan? what i am waiting for is godzilla versus king kong. that is coming. it has to. that is the clash we are all waiting for. that's the big purse. is there enough of the monsters in this? sometimes, in the new godzilla movies, the monsters are so big. it's full of actors going like this... and you never get to see the full scale. in this one, you get to see the cgi monsters taking on each other at boston's fenway park. i have enjoyed a baseball game there. the dinosaurs were not appearing that night. sunset is next. a hungarian film. from oscar—winning director laszlo nemes. gave us one of the greatest holocaust films, son of saul. he is back with a film called sunset, easily the film of the week. terrific.

but it is very confusing. it stars a woman played by a newcomer, a woman called irisz. we see things through her eyes and watch her face almost continuously. she arrives in budapest in 1913, a flowering, great society full of inventions and industry, she wants to work in a hat shop that used to belong to her parents. it doesn't any more and she thinks herfamily has been wiped out, but somebody says your brother is living here. but he's gone to seed, he's gone bad, he's an anarchist, and she wants to investigate and find out more. very tense. is it in the style that this director usually does?

very tense. is it in the style that this director usually does? it's like he did in son of saul. he does that here. long snaking travelling shots. literally, like i wanted to be gawking at godzilla. i was gawking at the audacity of this movie. i can't believe he is still doing the same shot. a horse will pull out of the blue and peasants will come with flaming torches and coachmen will come all snaggly toothed. aristocrats will be randomly assassinated while in the same shot and you are like, "what is going on?" the point is you don't know what is going on. it is about the collapse of the austro—hungarian empire and about europe now and how that could come to the fore. at the height of intellectual sophistication, how does it turn bad and how do we turn on ourselves? why do we destroy our own societies? that's what this is asking. it does it brilliantly. great performance from the lead. she's in every shot. we are seeing it through her eyes.

extraordinary. for best out, you have chosen rocketman. taron egerton and in his platforms. bursting through every door in a big outfit playing eltonjohn. in a biopic that really isn't a biopic. it is sort of about eltonjohn and his friendship with bernie taupin. it is fabulous. it is a neorealist musical. it uses the songs we know so well. and they reappropriate those lyrics, breathing new life into songs you thought you knew so well. elton grows up with his mum and his dad. it also goes very dark and very deep into elton‘s past drug use and drug addiction and homosexuality. a very bold film in the way bohemian rhapsody wasn't bold, it was bright and good and fun, but this one is stronger and bolder. not a family musical but it is brilliant. eltonjohn said he didn't want a sanitized version of his life.

i don't think he has lived a sanitized life. he is proud of the fact that he is still standing, as the song goes. i can't get it out of my head. he is still standing and he lives to tell the tale, a brilliant tale. if you remember the songs the first time around orjust heard them and wondered what they were about, this really adds another layer to the rocketman and to eltonjohn himself and his legacy as a musician and the lyrics by bernie taupin are terrific poetry. best to stream. the blue angel. marlene dietrich. der blaue angel — he name of the club. where marlene dietrich made her breakthrough. in her tights and stockings. it brings down a respectable school professor, played by the brilliant emiljennings. ruins his life because he is from head to toe in love. like the german song.

speaks german. i can do it in german. very good. falling in love again. university of modern languages. idid. i have looked you up. a lot of people will not have seen this film ever, will they? but they will have seen cabaret. it is very much that atmosphere. it's about backstage. a weimar republic film. it is about that decadence that led to nazism. it is also just sexy and very funny and brilliantly performed. she sang the song all the way into the ‘90s through decades doing her cabaret show. all over the world. iconic piece of cinema and you can see it at home. you can see in a few cinemas. you can see it on bfi player. my streaming choice for the weekend. an erotic masterpiece. i have to say thank you.

danke schon. nice to see you. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. the first half of the weekend and the first day ofjune brought a burst of heat and sunshine for some of. seems like this were repeated across many southern and eastern parts of the uk with a feed of warm airfrom iberia parts of the uk with a feed of warm air from iberia lifting parts of the uk with a feed of warm airfrom iberia lifting temperatures to the west of london, close to 28 degrees, the warmest day of the year so degrees, the warmest day of the year so far. towards the north—west it was not as warm as that because we had more cloud and outbreaks of rain and that cooler weather is heading in everyone‘s direction over the next 24—48 hours. low pressure taking charge of the scene in this cold front here bringing outbreaks of rain. behind that we have cooler

rabbit ahead of the cold front for most of us we're getting off to very mild and muggy start to sunday. we will see heavy rain continuing to drift across scotland and then here isa drift across scotland and then here is a cool front, a band of cold and showers drifting eastwards. as we see the showers moving further they will squash the heat increasingly into eastern parts of england. parts of the south—east and east anglia could again reach 26,27, of the south—east and east anglia could again reach 26, 27, 28 degrees through the afternoon but further west cooler and fresher. carter from burning him 19 or 20 degrees at best with a band of cloud and showers that could temporarily bring thunder and lightning. for northern ireland, bright skies for much of the day but showers return later on. for scotla nd showers return later on. for scotland we see a band of cloud and showers continue to drift eastwards and for all of us it will be breezy. as we had deep into sunday evening we see a swell here, an area of low pressure turning windy across northern ireland scotland with hefty showers as well. it all or be into the cooler air by this stage so not

such a warm and muggy start to monday morning. monday dominated by low pressure. you can see monday morning. monday dominated by low pressure. you can see a monday morning. monday dominated by low pressure. you can see a lot of white lines and isobars on the chart across the northern half of the uk. it will be a blustery day and we will see some showers, some of which could be heavy and thundery. further south not as windyjust could be heavy and thundery. further south not as windy just a could be heavy and thundery. further south not as windyjust a couple of showers but many places will be dry with spells of sunshine. however, no more mid— high 20s. most places in the mid—to—high teens. through the coming week it will feel much cooler 00:13:35,244 --> 2147483051:43:32,982 with rain at times but also some 2147483051:43:32,982 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 sunshine.