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have gone further having the7m europe? not have gone further having the?m europe? not really. we have seen progress by bmw but other than that jaguar land rover have done well and getting their car to market. what we will see is much more collaboration betweenjl are limit will see is much more collaboration between jl are limit letter will see is much more collaboration betweenjl are limit letter are and other companies in developing the technology. the machinery has now gone silent and shortly they will start ripping it all out and in some new technology for that new electric future. the headlines on bbc news. the biggest network of modern—day slavery is exposed in the uk, eight people are convicted after forcing more than 400 victims into manual labour on farms and in factories. a boost for the uk car industry. jaguar land rover is to invest hundreds of millions of pounds to build electric vehicles in birmingham. the founder of the english defence league, tommy robinson faces jail
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for contempt of court after filming defendants in a criminal trial and broadcasting the footage on social media. now on bbc news a look ahead to sportsday at 6.30pm tonight. we will be like at wimbledon on day five of the championships with defending championship djokovic backend action. we will see coco gauff after two hugely impressive victories and we will have the latest from andy murray teaming up. that's coming up. now though it is time for the film review.
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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 midsommar which angle to tell you in advance is not a horror film. it has horror elements but not a horrorfilm. we have spider—man four from a horrorfilm. we have spider—man fourfrom home. spider—man: far from home. and ibiza: the silent movie. last week was my first week back 50 you are really nice and now... midsommar is the new movie by ari aster who made hereditary. i thought the first half was terrific in the second half was
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silly. florence pugh is brilliant is riven with anxiety about a terrible tragedy that has befallen her family. her boyfriend christian, she needs him for support but what she doesn't know is that he has agreed to go to our pinion festival. she thinks she has to along with it. no you said it would be cool to go. and then i got the opportunity and i decided to do it. look, i don't mind you going ijust wish you would have told me, that's all. well, i just apologised. you didn't apologise, you said sorry which sounds more like too bad. maybe i should just go home. what? no. i'm just trying to understand. and i'm trying to apologise. and i don't need an apology. i don't, ijust wanted to talk about it, that's all. i really think i should just leave. no, no. please, please.
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please, i'm not trying to attack you. i'm not. it really feels like you are! well then i'm sorry! i'm sorry, ijust got confused. i'm sorry. hey, please come on. can you come and sit with me please? just stop. and we can talk about it? look, itjust felt really weird, 0k? but i'm fine. i think it's great that you're going to sweden, i do. so you can see it as a relationship movie. about a couple having problems. it begins in dark winter and they go to sweden to the festival in which everything is bright and happy and everyone is wearing white dresses and headdresses. all very beautiful. and you know because we have all seen the wicker man that things are not going to go very well. but it wears its wicker man influences on its sleeve. but it also is absolutely about her and about her state of mind and weirdly what happens at the
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festival is somehow that becomes externalised. so on the one hand we know that this is dressed in the garb of a folk horror movie of which wicker man is a high watermark but there is not anything like the terrible moment in which edward woodward goes over the hill and realises what this is. it is a much more gradual, slow burn movie about a group of people and one person in the middle of it whose central relationship is falling apart. who is wearing with her great grief about her family who is is wearing with her great grief about herfamily who is brought is wearing with her great grief about her family who is brought to this festival in which everyone toxic family and sisterhood and eve ryo ne toxic family and sisterhood and everyone talks about this being a great wonderful cycle of life and indeed to death. and what i liked was when i said registry was very uneven. first—half, really traumatising, second—half silly. —— hereditary. florence pugh is
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brilliant, will poulter is brilliant. you buy into all supporting actors. there was no one more reserved about ari aster and i was because his short films were great and they are about family and family conspiracy and secrets and i thought hereditary went off the boil but this is much more of a sustained piece. and i promise you it is not a horror movie. i just promise you it is not a horror movie. ijust don't believe you! i love will poulter but i'm still too scared to see it. it is a will poulter film which happens to have skinny parts and it scary bits. may after avengers, where do we go from here? peter parker wants to be
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a normal school but nick fury calls up a normal school but nick fury calls up and says we need you to put on the spider—man costume and come and do the stuff because the world needs you. so what is interesting about the film is it is quite playful. it is very funny but also has kind of dark part because it exists in a world in which the question is what do we all do now? where does it go from here? at the centre of it is somebody who doesn't want to be spider—man, hejust somebody who doesn't want to be spider—man, he just wants to be a normal school kid who wants to be able to tell mg that he has a crush on her. so it is fun? it is fun but has some darkness underneath which i think is important and also stay till the very end because in this case, at the very end there is not just something that throws ahead to the future, also something which refers back to what you have seen but you do need to stick around for it. now a new film. i am a huge fan
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ofjulian temple. everyone went to see absolute beginners. he has made great documentaries. ibiza: the silent movie which is ironically titled. it is about ibiza and the dance culture history. the music is curated by fat boy slim because as julian temple said, he is not a dance culture fan. but what he has done this year has taken the format of silent movies. silent movies a lwa ys of silent movies. silent movies always had music. it uses enter titles rather than dialogue. it serves the same purpose as it would have done in a silent movie and traces back the history of the island and the culture and tells us don't believe everything you see in this documentary but also does a very good job of saying this is where we are and there is both good and bad involved in that. let's look
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ata and bad involved in that. let's look at a clip. laughter so you can see it is witty. he is doing it with humour. he tells you loads of stuff about ibiza. i have never been to ibiza. firstly the
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island was named after bez, the god of dance. at which point we see is from the happy mondays as the god of dance. it goes through the history of the rise and falls, the invasions, transformations, the farmers. it tells us when ibiza came the biggest tourist destination in the biggest tourist destination in the world. there were farmers living in the centre of the island who have never been to the coast. it talks about the nats is, the bohemians, the various people that had been there during its history. it uses archive film clips and cameo performances. and it centres in the end on this strange contradiction which is that tourism and dance culture has given life to ibiza but also stripping it of its identity. and indeed its water supply. and what the film manages to do is, a great documentary should make you know more about and more interested about something you know nothing about. and it does that? you are never going to be bored withjulian
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temple. he makes funny and smart and films. i am really looking forward to it. i am not sure i am looking forward to this week's rerelease. best film out. don't look now. it went out on a double bill in which the supporting feature was the wicker man. i think it isjust a stone cold masterpiece. adapted from a story but the film is absolutely a hole in and of itself. terrifying with a brilliant score superb performances and it is a film about grief and loss. it is impossible to ever look at a picture on what current the streets of venice. without hearing the score. it is to define because it is about something. you have seen it? no, i am too scared! it is about so much
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more than horror. it is about love and passion. and venice! and death. a quick final thought about dvds, streaming. this is a horror movie. what is interesting about this it is a strangely creepy horror movie about a mother and son fleeing off toa about a mother and son fleeing off to a woodland retreat where there is a hole in the ground and this is a film which kind of relates to things like dark water. or body snatchers and what i liked about it was i went into it thinking i have probably seen into it thinking i have probably seen all of this before but ten minutes and i thought this is creepy. and it had that we'll called hand on the back of the neck feel. there are certain glimpses of horror through it so this you should avoid because it is a horror film! midsommar isn't. i hear you. thank you mark. thank god for spider—man. see you next thing.
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good evening. we have had some warm sunshine. there has been more cloud further north. we will see a band of cloud and spots of rain pushing south into northern england through the ceiling and tonight. to the south, will keep the clearer skies but the warm humid air so about 15 degrees in london. further north at cooler fresher air moving degrees in london. further north at coolerfresher air moving in degrees in london. further north at cooler fresher air moving in across northern ireland scotland and northern england. we sat with some spots of rain from north wales towards lincolnshire, that rain creeping further south across england and wales. the odd shower for the london region potentially affecting wimbledon during the afternoon. more sunshine for northern england and northern ireland and scotland. temperatures 14 to 19 ireland and scotland. temperatures 11! to 19 degrees. sunday looks like another mostly dry day with some long spells of sunshine. the chance of some showers but many of us will
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avoid them altogether. a little bit fresher than saturday with top recruiters —— top temperatures. settled weather on the card.
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the uk's biggest ever modern—slavery gang is broken up after a three—year police investigation. some of its 400 victims lived in squalid conditions while forced to work for a pittance while the gang raked in millions. they were systematically, psychologically predominantly, but sometimes physically coerced into doing the work for the organised crime group. eight people from poland have all been convicted of forced labour offences, people trafficking, and money laundering. also on the programme tonight: a glimpse into an electric future — jaguar land rover unveils plans to build a range of battery—powered cars at its plant in the west midlands. the former leader of the far—right english defence league,

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