this is bbc news. i'm martin stanford. our top stories: putting trade talks back on track, the us and china agree to halt hostilities, after a bruising 12 months. president trump prepares to visit the demilitarized zone between north and south korea — hello and a very warm welcome but will kim jong—un be there? to the film review on bbc news. and to take us through this week's nearly a month after cinema releases is mark kermode. lovely to see you. sudan's brutal crackdown, hundreds return to the streets of the capital, demanding civilian rule. and north macedonia's first what have you been watching? ever gay pride march, a big week. we have yesterday, as the lgbtq movement which is the new film by danny boyle and writer richard curtis, marks its 50th anniversary. apollo 11, an extraordinary documentary, and support the girls, a tale of a day in the life at work. and look, i go away for seven months and you haven't given me a horror film to watch this week. no, i know. i'm really sorry.

you're going soft in your old age. iam. i will get you one for next week. let's start off with yesterday, you must have seen the posters and the trailers. himesh patel is in star making form as jack malik, who, following a global blackout, 12 seconds, he's hit by a bus in the blackout, when he wakes up he is the only person who remembers the beatles. the beatles no longer exist. he goes on google they don't exist, they didn't happen. and after initial period of befuddlement, he realises his that unsuccessful career as a singer songwriter and be revitalised by the fact he knows this incredible catalogue of songs that nobody has heard before. so suddenly he has the best song book in the world in his head and this is the answer to everything, except not everybody recognises genius when they see it, not least his parents. here's a clip. it's terry! terry. terry, hey. jack'sjust playing us a new song. what's this one called? leave it be. let it be. 0h, excellent. well, rock on, jack. # when i find myself

in times of trouble... would you like a drink, terry? dad! what? i'd already heard that bit. i'll get a beer, please... carry on, jacko. i'll be back. hurry it up, darling, you're losing the crowd. 0k. # when i find myself in times of trouble, mother mary... phone rings. let him be. let it be! carry on broadcasting, young man. you're the first people on earth to hear this song! ooh, that will be marge. well, that went well. oh, that's good coffee. laughter. you see, i havejust laughed all the way through that. exactly. i don't think i've ever heard you laugh so much during a clip as that. here's the thing, i mean, so it's directed by danny boyle but it's written by richard curtis. i'm a real suckerfor richard curtis anyway. this is, in some ways, the best directed richard curtis film you will ever see,

because danny boyle... you were literally crying with laughter. i did laugh out loud in the cinema when i saw the trailer. a few people did look at me. what's really lovely is it is one of those what if set ups, what if you were the only person who remembered the beatles? what i think the film does is, as soon as you start to think about the logistics of it you go, hang on, that doesn't work and that doesn;t work and that doesn't work. in the third act there is a particularly problematic scene, the whole of which could have come out and i don't care. the reason i don't care is 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 and it's a real star—making performance. i think that it's one of those films in which you go with it, you absolutely go with it. and i think it's got that lovely thing where we all know that richard curtis loves pop music and we know that danny boyle, when you look at his films, he really understands understands the way that pop music works in a film. and what this manages

to do is to say, look, let's just go with this idea. there's a lovely, is not even a cameo, there is a role by ed sheeran playing ed sheeran. i laughed at that bit! i think he's really funny, because he's really self—deprecating. a lot of people have talked about 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 in this that ed sheeran was actually very funny as this kind of buffoonish version of himself. but ijust laughed and smiled. if you want something that will lift you up and send you out with a spring in your step, this is it. absolutely does what it says on the packet i thought it was... i loved it. i don't care about any of the things that are wrong with it. terrific. you've sold it to anybody watching. talk to us about apollo. apollo 11. the 50th anniversary of the moon landing coming up injuly. this is a documentary about that extraordinary mission. i'd talked before about the feature film first man isn't really about going to the moon it is about grief and loneliness. this really is about going to the moon. it's about a lot of other things as well but it is about going to the moon.

we don't have modern—day interviews. what it is is it's archive footage, brilliantly edited, i mean the colours are vivid as well, put together in a way that makes you think that you're actually watching this play out as if it's 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. a tin can, yes. literally a tin can. quite terrifying, isn't it?

what this did was remind me of that sense of awe. it has a fantastic soundtrack. a brilliant score by matt morton, which is this kind of throbbing synthesiser score that really cranks up the energy. this was as nail—biting as any thriller i've seen recently. and we all know how it ends. i've spent the whole thing gripping the edge of my seat thinking this is astonishing that this happened and the documentary really put it right there in front of you. i thought it was terrific. apollo 11. terrific. and support the girls. now, you've seen this as well. i thought this was something you would enjoy. this is, when barack obama was doing his favourite things of 2018, alongside things like annihilation and eighth grade, he chose this. and they think it's a great choice. a refreshingly honest comedy, a drama with comedic elements, about women juggling their home lives with working in a place called double whammies. described as a sports bar with curves. regina hall leads up this dynamite cast. including hayley richardson. they are people trying to hold down jobs and families and dealing with different things while working in what could easily be a very hostile environment. can i ask, do you get, like, grabbed?

it happens. yeah, like when someone's super wasted or whatever. but it's pretty rare and you can usually tell when something like that's coming and just, you know, kind of like... let me just say this — we have a zero tolerance policy on it. you know, i don't mind calling the cops if a customer is committing the crime of sexual assault. and trust me, you know, i don't have to call far, because, you know what, we have a lot of officers who are regulars. and officer dominguez is a cutie, i think. seriously, y'all, let me say the important thing is that this is a mainstream place. it's a family place, which means a lot of families come here. it also means that we're all family. and you're not wearing a whole lot of clothes, but, trust me, if these guys wanted to go to a strip club they know where to find them. theyjust come here so some sweet girls can take some care of them. it is like working at chili's or applebee's except it is more fun any tips away better. usually. if you know how to work it. i think what's really good about this is you absolutely believe in their lives. completely. there is a feeling 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, fine, i understand exactly what this environment is like and it's looking at that from... you have seen things like this in films like porky‘s. but from the other side. this is looking at it from the point of view of people working. trying to do their best to feed their family. it is so well observed. really beautiful. the performances are completely natural. you absolutely buy every single one of the characters. it is a fairly small release but really worth checking out. i thought it was terrific. i thought it was really empathetic and sympathetic. and funny. and regina hall, who we see again here, she isjust terrific. terrific. i thought the whole ensemble cast. i don't think there was a wrong foot in the whole thing. and it leads to a particularly strong ending. i thought it was great. a small release, support the girls, well worth checking out. your film of the week? because we have not done this togetherfor a while, have you seen rocket man? yes, it's an assault on the senses.

in a good way. i was kind of exhausted at the end. not in a bad way, but it is so overwhelming visually, but clever visually. brilliantly written by lee hall, fantastic performance by taron egerton, and wonderfully directed by dexter fletcher. who, of course, was the guy who saved bohemian rhapsody. yes! this is a proper musical. the kind of thing that ken russell would have done. did you love it? love would be too strong, actually. there were a lot of things they liked about it. 0k. i thought it was ambitious trying to fit his entire life into two hours. where was the context? there was nothing the aids crisis. except it is very specifically about that part of his life from nothing to stardom to crisis to everything falling apart. it starts with him going into rehab. we need 15 minutes to discuss that. i didn't dislike it. give it another go. i've wanted to see in the evening with a drink and i saw it in the day

with a cup of tea. i'd sit in the middle of the night with anything. streaming, however. this was hard work, ifound. fighting with my family? i'm astonished. tell me why, what you didn't like. at the end, it's based on a true story, at the end they show the clips from the documentary and i thought this would be a really interesting documentary. the documentary is the thing that the rock — dwayne ‘the rock‘ johnson was over here in the uk watching television and he saw the documentary. have have you seen the documentary? no, only the feature film. he thought it would make a good feature film. i thought that stephen merchant did a pretty good job of taking that real—life story and turning it into a really, really accessible drama. a woman from norwich who wants to go into wrestling. wants to go into wrestling. comes from a wrestling family. her whole family are about wrestling. wrestling has gone from the uk to america where in america it is a really big deal. over here the heyday

was in the 1970s, world of sport in the afternoon. i thought it was ok. well, i'm surprised. so we disagree on fighting with my family. good performances. and we are agreed that support the girls is terrific. oh yes. 0k. and thank you for a very cheery week, on balance. yes. all things considered. welcome back. lovely to see you, mark. thank you very much. see you next week. and that is it for this week, as you will gather. enjoy yourfilm going, whatever you're watching. see you next time. bye— bye. hello again. well, it was the warmest day of the year so far or should that be the hottest day. 3a in parts of heathrow and northolt in west london but we have seen a sharia spread its way in across the uk and as we head into sunday, the highest temperature of 25, it's still warm but not as hot and humid as it was today. watson into the date was. in aberdeenshire, some lightning bolts coming down. a

number of these storms produced very heavy rain. some localised surface water flooding. look at all these storms showing up on our radar and lightning detector. still wanted to coming around with the western side of scotland. overnight tonight, a few more cracks. fresher our follows. temperatures still into the mid—20s. temperatures eventually coming down to 16 by the end of the night. tomorrow, pressure kind of day. particularly across southern and eastern country. north—west, claudia. here we have some rain at times. running infrom claudia. here we have some rain at times. running in from the far north of scotland, temperatures aren't particularly impressive. 14 for stornoway. for most of the uk,

temperatures are pretty reasonable. that is still going to feel pretty warm. obviously not as hot as it was today. heatwave still want in europe. as atlanticare spreads, that excessive heat, extreme heat, records tumble. we will see fresher conditions working in. temperatures falling. much of the weekend, the weather is looking ok. north—westerly winds bringing a few showers across the north—west on monday but brighter or sunnier spells around. a little bit on the cool side. further south—east. that's about average for this time of year. the most of the week, looking at dry weather conditions for many of us. generally running into the high teens, low 20s. it will feel warm in the sunshine. low 20s to mid 20s and the warmest areas. there will be a lot of dry 00:14:02,011 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 weather to come. a very good night.