we have the hummingbird project, which is a film about obsession, and a child's eye view of the world in we the animals. you always have a mixed bag, don't you? yeah. men in black, i remember seeing the first one, i didn't think they would make three more. yeah, i think you're not alone in that. i thought the first was great. i remember seeing the first one and being really surprised by how smart and funny it was. i like barry sonnenfeld. i liked the special effects, i thought the story was well told. second one, terrible, third one, not great. now the fourth instalment, which is attempting to kind of breathe new life into it. so we have tessa thompson is molly, who as a child met an alien, nobody believed her, who would believe a child who met an alien, and so she decides she wants to become one of the men in black, she pursues this dream. she finally meets up with emma thompson's agent 0. who does actually allow her tojoin the men in black. they have a discussion about "men in black?"

emma thompson says, "yeah, i know, i've had the discussion, they're very attached to the name." she's then teamed up with chris hemsworth in an adventure which involved extraterrestrials and the most powerful weapon ever in the universe and also kumail nanjiani playing this tiny little character, pawny, who is essentially a pawn in a chess set who is looking for a queen. here's a clip. excuse me, what happened here? we had the best party. kanye showed up and dropped like a whole new album. look around, we got our arses kicked! my queen! i'll never serve another. i must end my own life in the most painful way possible. i don't think that she would want you to, you know... who are you to know what a queen would or wouldn't want? are you a queen? well, i mean, to the extent that all women are, yes. but no, no. i'm not a queen. you know what she is, though, is an agent. is that a title? it is a title. maybe the best way to honour the dead is to go on living.

yes. i pledge loyalty eternally to you, agent m. no, no, no, i'm not interested in a subject. too late, it's done, i've pledged the loyalty. i wish you'd said no, no, no before. and if you should die before i, i promise to end my own life... ..in the most painful way possible. now, you didn't laugh during that. no. laughter. that's some of the best stuff in the film. right. did you laugh? no. i think that that character is the funniest character in the film and i did have a few chuckles during it. the main problem is men in black was really good but you're right, didn't necessarily need all these sequels? it's not terrible, it's just terribly ordinary. there's an awful lot of visual effects going on, there's an awful lot of stuff being thrown at the screen, but it felt very sort of throwaway and very disposable. and it is tempting to say, oh well, it's because f gary grey has come on board to direct it. but actually, you know, sonnenfeld was behind both the previous sequels, neither of them were as good

as the first one. so although there are some charming performances, and i do think kumail nanjiani is, you know, from the big sick, and is a really funny writer and performer. i think that's not anything like enough to paste over the cracks. is that the hollywood way? that you just keep making sequels? if they're making money, why not keep making them? there used to be a law that a sequel will take two thirds of what the original took regardless of how good or bad it is, that is no longer the case but if you have name recognition, your money is safer, even if the film itself is frankly not up to snuff. 0k. not up to snuff. right. the hummingbird project, with jesse eisenberg, is that up to snuff? i think it is. it's a really weird little film. jesse eisenberg, he was so edgy in social network, he plays someone who is a trader, who bullies his cousin into leaving the organisation that they work for, and joining him in digging a trench from kansas to new york, down which he can put

a fibre cable that will shave the time of trading from 17 ms to 16 ms. and this apparently will create a tiny opportunity — equivalent to the beating of a hummingbird's wing — that will allow them to get ahead of the game. the funny thing is it sounds terribly unpromising. in fact, it's really gripping. there's a great performance by salma hayek as the boss who doesn't want to let them go. it's got a touch of werner herzog in it. about somebody dedicating themselves to a dream which is mad which involves them burying this pipeline through rivers and mountains, no matter what it is, they have to carry on going through a straight line. on the one hand, it is about family loyalty, on the other hand, it's about having the vision of having a faster way of doing something but it is about obsession and giving yourself over to an obsession and it can take over your life even to the detriment of your health. i actually thought it was really good. it is called the hummingbird project. you have to seek it out. i actually thought it was really good.

we the animals. a coming—of—age drama? yes. three young kids growing up in a sort of dysfunctional household in upstate new york. the father is prone to violence, the mother struggles to get out of bed. so the kids are left very much to fend for themselves. what are like about this is, it felt, on the one hand, very, very naturalistic but it also had a real poetry to it. here's a clip. what if it's pops? telephone rings. hello? mami. how come you didn't answer when i called you? because you sound so ugly. here, try. yo—yo, what's up? woman! this is your husband talking to you right now. you better act right! what do you want from me? dig at me, mami, talk to me. i've been missing you. i've been missing you real bad. i know, mami, i know.

i'm sorry. no, baby, i'm sorry. i think that's got a really lovely natural tone to it and what i really like is on the one hand it has that charming naturalism, but it's also very poetic. for example, you feel every drop of rain, you can feel the mud between their fingers when they're burrowing around in the ground. there are moments in which it goes to animation because the central character, the youngest character draws and these animations kind of come to life. and it deals with some very difficult subject matter, it deals with kids coming to terms with their own sexuality, it deals with a violent relationship between their parents and trying to find their own way in the world. and it's tempting to say it's like that kind of movie terrence malick made before he went off the boil or the kind of thing david gordon green did when he was making films

like terrence malick before terrence malick went off the boil, but actually, i think the thing it's closest to is the florida project. you know, that child's eye view of the world. the world is harsh and the world is tough, but actually it's being looked at through a child's eyes and it has a real poetic edge to it. it is a feature debut and i thought it was very, very fine and effective piece of work. and the acting in that clip looked extraordinary. you literally thought you were just eavesdropping on those three kids having a completely normal, you know, charming and really tender conversation about something which is very difficult which is that their parents are having difficulties. i really liked it. good. best out? dirty god. so this is directed by sacha polak and it stars vicky knight. an vicky knight has never been in a feature film before, never acted before, and she is astonishing. she plays somebody who is the survivor of an acid attack and she's trying to redefine her life. she is absolutely brilliant. i mean, honestly, seeing this performance you think she'd been

in theatre all her life or before a camera all her life. it's a really natural but very, very complicated performance, and i think she's an absolute star in the making. the film itself is really good, again it deals with difficult subject matter in a way which is subtle and effective. she is an absolute star, i thought her performance was extraordinary — vicky knight, a name to watch for the future. right. my best out, for what it's worth, is rocket man. 0h, rocket man. it was fabulous. i know you loved it. i loved it. yeah, i absolutely loved it. and we both want to see it again, don't we? yeah, and as you said yourself, you come out of the cinema and you want to go straight back in again and watch it because it is so good. absolutely. highly recommended. if anyone who hasn't seen it. and best dvd? if beale street could talk, which is — it kind of got overlooked, partly, it was up for some awards, but it didn't get the attention it deserved. i think barryjenkins is a brilliant director. and i loved this. and what i loved most about it is it's a film about social justice and imprisonment, and a lot of very difficult stuff, but it is at heart a love story.

with another wonderful score by nicholas britell. and if people didn't see it in cinemas, and many people didn't, it didn't find the audience it should have done, get it on dvd or blu—ray, it's really fabulous. and barryjenkins did moonlight. yeah, here did. moonlight, it is astonishing that film did as well as it did, because it came out of nowhere, it was a little independent movie thatjust won over the hearts of everyone who saw it. we've got used to the fact that it was a huge hit, it started as a really, really small movie thatjust found its audience — and deservedly so. it's actually great that that can still happen in today's hollywood. it renews your faith in films when something like that can be discovered. because obviously there's a blockbuster market out there. and it's great, i think, that rocket man's done as well as well as it has as well. because rocket man is a film which takes risks, more than bohemian rhapsody did, but it still managed to find an absolutely mainstream audience. so, yeah, we're in a pretty good period at the moment. people say cinema isn't as good as it used to be. barry norman said every year there are the same number

of comparatively good and bad films itjust depends which one you look for. and we have a mixed bag every week, we have good and bad for you. and it is up to you to decide which are good and which are bad. anyway, mark, thank you very much indeed. thank you. that is it for this week. thank you so much for watching. it's goodbye from both of us. we've had lots and lots of heavy rain last week, that is working off the hills into the river catchments, the hills into the river catchments, the river is quite slow responding, it has come up and come down but thatisit it has come up and come down but that is it at the moment, it is in flood. a number of flood warnings, a few across the midlands and in lincolnshire. looking at the weather picture at the moment, the pressure with every single day of the month so with every single day of the month so far, there to the rest of ireland at the moment, feeding and showers and longer spells of rentals of the wettest weather is pushing from northern ireland into scotland and

it was so drift northwards through the rest of the night. over weather front coming in across wales and north incan, a narrow band of rain but think of this is if you find yourself underneath this area of rain, it is not going to move very far, very fast as you head into monday so that will be a few unlucky places having quite a wet day. to the north of the weather front having showers. there will be quite widespread as well, south—east of oui’ widespread as well, south—east of our weather front, for east anglia and most of southern england, the south—east, midlands, largely dry picture with some warm spells of june sunshine coming through the stop temperatures into the low 20s. the good news is we get rid of that area of the pressure as we head into the middle part of the week, the bad news is that there's another one coming up in the south to replace it and that means yes, we do have more wet weather on the way. last thing

wet weather on the way. last thing we need that those flood warnings in place. tuesday, wet weatherfor western scotland, pushing eastwards with time, england and wales pushing —— turning progressively cloudier and more humid, we may seem some showers rake out in the day. temperatures into the low 20s, if we do see sunshine coming. could be than that but there has been a yellow weather warning issued for thunderstorms. the amount of rain you get is going to vary from place to place but given that the ground is complete this saturated, it's not going to take much to see some surface water flooding building going to take much to see some surface waterflooding building in quite quickly and there is a bit of uncertainty about how far east and west the storms are going to go, so don't take this as gospel, that could be some heavy downpours just about anywhere in england posing that threat of flooding where those bigger storms come through. to the north and west of the uk, we will have some heavy showers but at least the weather has not been as wet here. it is less impactful, normal dampers working in, sunny spells as well. there's a tendency late in the week which i was to become concentrated into the north—west of the uk with the weather becoming drier and sunnier towards the south—east of the uk pot that is a

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i'm sharanjit leyl in hong kong — where protesters are still on the streets. organisers say on sunday there were nearly two million people on the streets. if confirmed — it would be the largest protest in hong kong's history. the territory's leader carrie lam apologises for proposing the bill that demonstrators fear will increase chinese influence. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: millions of people are still without electricity after a massive power cut across almost all