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 i'm 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 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 biggerfilms 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? 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. in that club. 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.

2.5 minutes of broken english is all ican 2.5 minutes of broken english is all i can promise you here, i assure you. we are nearly done with the weekend here coming towards midnight and this is the scene across south—east england captured earlier today and another whether whatcha was in the heart of the heat story of the day. 28.8 made at the hottest day of the year thus far across the british isles to all that heat is 110w british isles to all that heat is now being shovelled onto the crossley of towards the near continent. averages widely from iberia into scandinavia reaching 30 degrees and if you are heading that way but behind the weather front which is where the british isles will be on monday it will be a fresher feel to the day. not cold by any means that all butjust a little fresher. i don't think we will see

28 or 29 for a while. low pressure keeping the supply of showers going from western scotland and northern ireland, a rumble of thunder and gust of wind to 45 miles an hour. a dry start to the south and then as the heat of the afternoon comes through it will be the case that we spot a couple of showers drifting from wales in the south—west towards the midlands and east anglia. are quite like to follow and then we are looking at tuesday. with regards to another little system developing here, extending the rain a wee bit uncertain but showers affecting the south—west into wales the midlands, northern england north of ireland, central and southern scotland later in the day. for the south—east, far north during daylight hours escaping the bulk of the rain, may be a showery burst and not much more than that. tops around 20 degrees also. a deal more uncertainty not much about the rain progressing towards the

north of scotland tuesday night into wednesday and leaving behind a lull in proceedings, it is what happens with the trading portion of the front and development nearby on the near continent where they may get even nearerfor near continent where they may get even nearer for the south—east and if they do so there will be thundery burst of rain clipping in towards kent and sussex perhaps towards london and east anglia. that is one to watch but for the most part wednesday is a decent day and if you have an outdoor plan i don't think the weather will get in the way. however, if it were the case that some of rain came a little further west on wednesday night into thursday was the bulk of the rain, we think, it will be in the north sea. ‘s uncle come closer to central and eastern parts of the british isles.

i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: coming ready or not — donald trump will begin his state visit to the uk in the next few hours. china defends its actions 30 years on from the tiananmen square crackdown, in a rare public acknowledgment of events. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. also in the programme: hope is fading — the search for eight missing climbers in the himalayas is suspended due to bad weather. a 13 storey cruise ship crashes into a quay in venice — reigniting calls for a ban.