leaders st helens, a repeat of the 1987 final that halifax won. — warrington wolves will play hull fc in the other semi. england beat the barbarians in a high scoring match at twickenham. 20—year—old fly—half marcus smith impressed for a young english side who scored six tries as they ran out 51—43 winners. he scored this try and also kicked 21 points. it was also a successful and historic day for the england women, they were first up at twickenham with their first match against the babas and having built a 28—point lead by the break they won a0 points to m. kelly smith rounded off a dominant performance. let's have a look at some of the day's other sports stories. british cyclists have won the last five grand tours but richard cara paz has won the giro d'italia. he held onto his lead on the final

individual time trial in verona — to become ecuador‘s first grand tour winner. great britains simon yates was 8th. italian danilo petrucci won his first moto gp race — at his 123rd attempt — on his home circuit of mugello. he narrowly held off championship leader marc marquez. ott tanak has secured back—to—back wins in the world rally championship, with victory in portugal, he's nowjust two points behind sebastian ogier in the standings northern ireland's kris meeke retired on the final stage. great britain took goal in the men's four on the last day of the european rowing championships in switzerland. oliver cook, matt rossiter, rory gibbs and sholto carnegie held off poland for victory. the british men's and women's eights took silver. great britain's men are back into the top four of hockey‘s pro league after 3—1 victory over the netherlands in eindhoven. chris griffiths sealed the win with an impressive reverse stick strike.

britain are fourth in the standings with four games remaining — only the top four teams assured qualification to the grand final at the end of the month. just about it from sportsday. all those amazing pictures we have shown new for the liverpool parade with their six european trophy, less take you there live now. look, the liverpool bus has been a whisk away with the police escort there away from all those crowds. they are heading back home to their holidays. in the bus depot. i am assured that if the liverpool team still celebrating but was significantly less fa ns celebrating but was significantly less fans now in liverpool. it's been a marvellous day. they have paraded that trophy. that's all from sportsday. now it's time for the film review.

hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. in his spring linens. so, jason, what do we have this week? i have a schlocky shocker from the blumhouse horror locker. olivia spencer and some gullible teenagers star in ma. a nuclear threat unleashes the titans again in godzilla. should i stay or armageddon out of here? laughter. europe on the brink of collapse. this is in 1913, in budapest and the return of the oscar—winning director laszlo nemes in sunset. let's start with ma. as in mum or mother. 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 strained

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 ‘80s 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 it to him. occupied him. the dialogue isn't much better in this then it was in those adverts of the ‘705. but the titans have been unleashed again because of a nuclear threat. charles dance plays an ecoterrorist, as only he could do. 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? it's like he did in son of saul. he does that here.

long snaking travelling shots. literally, like we should 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 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. we see elton grow 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 lived 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 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. the 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 emiljannings. ruins his life because he is from head to toe in love. like the german song. 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. in that club. it is very much that atmosphere. about backstage. a weimar republic film. it's about that decadence that led to nazism. it's 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 it 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. nice to see you. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye.

hello. a mixed day of weather is drawing to a close, the warmest day of the year thus far for some, 28 celsius, but at the same time others had a fairly cloudy breezy sort of day with showers if not longer spells of rain and will continue that vein close by to the low centre to the western side of scotland into the wee small hours, plenty of showers. and a fresh feel to the night. a low of around ten to 12. we were around 16 or 17 last night. monday brings yet more cloud in rain and some rain burst into northern ireland. quite a breezy day here as well. some of the gusts around a0 to 50 miles an hour. but come away towards the east side of scotland, down across the greater part of england and wales, still quite a breezy day in prospect, enough cloud for there to be the odd passing shower, but essentially it is a dry day, the slightly fresher feel to it, many of us seeing temperatures in the teens with a

high of the day of 20. damo this is bbc news. iamjulian i am julian worricker. the headlines at 8.00pm: a sea of red in central liverpool, as hundreds of thousands of fans come out onto the streets to welcome home the champions of europe. it's the sixth time liverpool have won europe's top club competition, after they beat spurs 2—0 in madrid. it's just unreal. you have got to be here to feel it and experience it to know what it really means to us. what he has achieved is absolutely brilliant. just unbelievable. liverpool have brought the european cup back to merseyside and something like three quarters of a million people have turned out to see it. controversy as president trump speaks out on brexit, telling britain it should be prepared to leave