possibly even conditions that may be able to harbour life today, we may be able to look for biased signatures there. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50, mark, what do we have this week? we have yesterday, the new film by danny boyle and writer richard curtis. apollo 11, an extraordinary documentary. and support the girls, a tale of a day in the life of work. and look, i go away for seven months

and you haven't given me a horror film to watch this week. let's start with yesterday. you must have seen the posters and the trailers. himesh patel plays jack malik, who following a global blackout, when he wakes up, he is the only person who remembers the beatles. they no longer exist. and after an initial period of befuddlement, he realises that his unsuccessful career as a singer—songwriter can certainly be revitalised by the fact he knows these incredible songs that nobody has heard before. certainly he has the best song book in the world in his head, except not everybody recognises genius when they see it, not least his parents. jack isjust playing us a new song. what is this one called? leave it be. let it be. i've already heard that bit.

# when i find myself in times of trouble... hurry up, you are losing the crowd. # when i find myself in times of trouble... hello, love. i am just listening to jack's new song. let him be. let it be. you are the first people on earth to hear this song! well, that went well. i laughed all the way through that. i don't think i have ever heard you laugh so much during a clip as that and here is the thing, it is directed by danny boyle

but it is written by richard curtis. i'm a real suckerfor richard curtis anyway so this is in some ways the best directed richard curtis film you will ever see. you were literally crying with laughter. what is really lovely is, it is one of those ‘what if‘ set ups. what if you were the only person who remembered the beatles? as soon as you start to think about the logistics of it, hang on, that doesn't work, that doesn't work and that doesn't work, and in the third act there is a particularly problematic scene, but i don't care, and i don't care because i was doing exactly what you were doing, i was laughing and smiling and actually crying pretty much all the way through. i think himesh patel is terrific, i think it is one of those films which you go with it, you absolutely go with it, and i think it has got that lovely thing that we all know, richard curtis loves pop music, we know danny boyle is someone

who really understands the way pop music works in a film, and what this manages to do is to say, let's just go with this idea. there's this lovely, it's not even a cameo, it's a role by ed sheeran playing ed sheeran. i laughed at that bit. i think it's really funny because he is really self—deprecating. a lot of people say playing yourself in a cameo role is very difficult. gordon ramsay famously failing to play gordon ramsay in that film love's kitchen. i thought ed sheeran was actually very funny as this buffoonish version of himself, but i just laughed and, if what you want is something that will lift you up and send you out with a spring in your step, this is it. it is exactly what it says on the packet and i loved it. i don't care about any of the things that are wrong with it. terrific. you have sold it. talk to us about apollo 11.

the 50th anniversary of the moon landing is coming up injuly and this is a documentary about that extraordinary mission. i talked before about how that feature film, first man, is not really about the mission, but this really is about going to the moon. we don't have modern—day interviews, what we have is archive footage brilliantly edited, put together, the colours are brilliant as well, it makes you think you are actually watching this play out as if it is happening now. i don't know about you but i am still in awe of the fact that people went to the moon in what was essentially a tin can. quite terrifying, isn't it? and what this documentary did was really remind you of that sense of awe. it has a fantastic soundtrack, a brilliant score by matt morton, which is this throbbing synthesiser score that really cranks up the energy. this was as nail—biting as any thriller i have seen recently. and we all know how it ends.

plot spoiler! but i spent the whole thing gripping the edge of my seat thinking, this is just astonishing, it is astonishing that this happened, and the documentary puts it right there in front of you. terrific. and support the girls. you have seen this as well. i thought this was something you would enjoy. when barack obama was doing his films in 2018, he chose this. it was a refreshingly honest comedy, a drama with comedic elements, about women juggling home lives while working in a place called double whammies. it's basically a sports bar with curves. regina hall, hailey lu richardson, and they are people trying to hold downjobs, all dealing with different things, whilst working in what could easily be a very hostile environment. can i ask, do you get grief?

it happens, when someone is super wasted or whatever, but it is pretty rare, and you can tell when that is coming, and you canjust, like... we have a zero tolerance policy on it. i don't like calling the cops and i don't have to often because we have a lot of officers. officer dominguez is a cutie. but, seriously, let me just say, the most important thing is that this is a mainstream place and it is a family place, which means a lot of families come here, and it also means we are all family. you are not wearing a whole lot of clothes, but if they want to go to a strip club, they know where to find them, theyjust want some sweet girls to look after them. i think what is really good about this is that you absolutely

believe in their lives. completely. there is a realfeeling of comradeship and companionship and you get to know each character's individual stories as the day plays out. i thought it had that thing that the best cinema has, which is real empathy. you felt like, i understand exactly what this environment is like and it is looking at that. you have seen places like this in films like porkies, but this is from the other side. just trying to do their best to feed their family, and it is so well observed. and the performances are completely natural, every single one of the characters, and it is a pretty small release but it is well worth checking out. i thought it was terrific, apathetic, sympathetic, and funny. and regina hall is just terrific. i thought the whole ensemble cast. i didn't think there was a wrong foot in the whole thing. and it leads to a particularly strong ending.

i thought it was great. well worth checking out. and your film of the week? you and i haven't done this togetherfor a while, have you seen rocket man? it was an assault on the senses. i was exhausted by the end. it is so overwhelming visually. it is brilliantly written, a fantastic performance, and wonderfully directed by dexter fletcher, but this is a proper musical, the kind of thing that ken russell would have done, and that is the dexter fletcher connection. did you love it? love would be too strong. i thought it was ambitious trying to fit his entire life into two hours. where was the context? there was nothing about the aids crisis. but it is specifically about that part in his life from nothing, to stardom, to crisis, because it starts with him going into rehab. we need another 15

minutes to discuss that. i did not dislike it. i wanted to see it in the evening with a drink and i saw it in the day with a cup of tea. i could see it with anything and i would love it again. streaming, however? fighting with my family. this was hard work, ifound. really? tell me more. it is based on a true story and in the end they show the clips from a documentary and i thought, this would be a really interesting documentary. dwayne ‘the rock‘ johnson was over in the uk and he saw the documentary, and he thought, that would make a good feature film. i thought that stephen merchant did quite a good job of taking that real life story and turning it into a really accessible drama. a woman from norwich who wants to go into wrestling. a wrestling family, the whole family are about wrestling, but in america it is a really big deal, whereas over

here the heyday was in the ‘70s. i thought it was ok. i am surprised. we are disagreeing on fighting with my family. but we agree that support the girls is terrific. i thank you for a very cheery week on balance. yes. lovely to see you. and that is it for this week. enjoy yourfilm going, whatever you are watching. see you next time. through friday, it focused on the western half of the uk and it is here that we saw our highest temperatures, we reached 30 celsius in the highlands of scotland, making it the uk's warmest day of the year

so it the uk's warmest day of the year so far, but we are expected to exceed that on saturday. we are drying up this heat and humidity from the sahara, it has brought the heat wave across western parts of europe and are friday, france recorded its highest ever temperature and we have got fresher conditions waiting in the wings, but we will not feel the effects of that until a little bit later on in the weekend. for the rest of the day, towards cornwall and southwest wales, more cloud for the western isles we could see some isolated showers and more cloud down on the east, but otherwise dry, clear skies and muggy some spots in the southwest where it drops. 0n saturday, the heat in the humidity continues except the transfers to the eastern half of the uk. we will have more cloud out towards the west and as the day goes on, we will see

showers developing for north wales and northern england and scotland, which is heavy and potentially thundering. that heat and humidity really building in the far south where we could see temperatures exceed 33 celsius, we could see 3a and one or two spots. a fine into the day for many places but this band of rain will continue its journey eastwards and this is a court front and you'll be a bit of a game changer for the second half of the weekend. it has been brought through by an area of low pressure thatis through by an area of low pressure that is sitting up towards the north and the west and will sweep out that heat and humidity gradually. having said that, down towards the south and the east, there's going to be another muggy night with temperatures around 17 celsius, but gradually we will all notice fresher conditions we have a westerly wind that will bring in more cloud and shall re—outbreak that could be heavy and thundering, but a good deal of sunshine around in that sunshine should feel fairly good

with average for the time of year.

this is bbc world news today. i'm duncan golestani. record temperatures in france as europe swelters in an early summer heatwave. the french government warns "everyone is at risk" as temperatures hit their highest ever — 45.9 degrees. the last time france broke temperature records over a decade ago, it was in august so what makes this unusual is notjust high temperatures, it's how early it's come. an inquest in britain concludes the security services should not be blamed forfailing to prevent a deadly islamist attack on london bridge two years ago. after 20 years of negotiations — a mega trade deal between the european union, and four

countries in south america.