hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. here to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason. what have you been watching? jane, the action movie alert, two of the biggest stars of that genre go head to baldhead.

it's dwayne johnson and jason statham as hobbs and shaw in a fast and furious spin off. and a sequal to a video game that no one plays anymore, but can the flightless birds and the green pigs unite to lay an animated golden egg at the summer box office with angry birds 2? and long—lasting female friendship is tested by a boozy night out in dublin and the arrival of the new man on a scene. that's animals. it's august. have you been having fun? it is fun. some of the movies are a bit strange and then you get some really good ones, what they called counter programming so i have some foreign gems a little laterfor you in the programme. but we will start with fast and furious hobbs and shaw, attack of the ampersands, as you can see, very rarely you get two in the title. action lovers will find themselves between a rock and a stath—place.

see what i did there? dwayne johnson is hobbs and jason statham as shaw. them ‘baldly‘ stare each other down and like a couple of angry easter eggs, scowling at each other. one is recruited in la and one is recruited in london and together they come together, though they do not want to, they are angry about this and they take on a bionic villain played by idris elba and he has invented a super virus that will take over the world. and the trouble is it has been put inside shaw's sister, princess margaret in the crown. doing something not very princess margarety here, abseiling down the cheesegrater in a chase sequence. as you do. now or never. i'm more of a "now" type of guy! on my three? sure. one, two, three! no one tells me what to do!

music. laughs. and i guess it's kind of like that for two hours? about there? two hours, fast and furious. does what it says on the tin and it's a very popular franchise and i really enjoyed the last few with the car chases, normally they go from rio and tokyo. here we are in ukraine, london, although i did not recognise the city and quite a bit of it was shot in glasgow and i thought i didn't recognise london in that one. they go to ukraine, samoa, and there are car chases with helicopters and drones and things explode all over the place and they have

to get the virus out of her or it will explode, and they want to destroy the human race but hobbs and shaw want to save the world. it's not quite as fun as perhaps it thinks it's going to be, the dialogue between hobbs and shaw doesn't really sparkle, i think the script thought this would be funny but jason statham and the rock seem to face off and neither wants to crack and neither wants to give way. no—one wants to give anything, idris elba wants to be macho in it as well and the eprson who comes out on top is vanessa kirby. they asked me not to tell you but there is a lot of celebrity cameos in the film. i am not allowed to reveal them, as if this would perk it up. oh, the film—makers said that? do not let on that there are people like dame helen mirren... is it because you are in it? i wish i was. that alone does not really perk it up. there is a lot of furious, and not enough fun. is the next film any more fun? i'm guessing it's aimed at children? is that a fair supposition? angry birds 2, the movie.

it's aimed at children, drunk students, or people who play video games on their phone. so basically all the same. this is an animation, the first film was a surprise hit so of course there will be a sequel. it's very different to the first one. the first one had the birds on one island being played pranks by the green pigs on another island. the plot is really not complicated and i don't know why i'm bothering to explain it. then there is an eagle on the other island who is really angry and she is lobbing ice bombs at both islands and the birds and the pigs have to team up to defeat the angry eagle. so it's like a war mission movie or heist movie. where eagles dare. that's my film reference. the plot should not be complicated, it is august! it isn't. what i suggest is you let it wash over you because the bright colours and animation, it is quite funny and you have a great voice cast, bill hader, peter dinklage, jason sudekis, leslie jones. you have lots of pop songs from eltonjohn to axel f and dance

off between eagles and a puppet bird who looks like big bird. and there is a plot with hatchlings who steal eggs and they are voiced by the daughters of nicole kidman and keith urban. not saying that nepotism doesn't work in hollywood. get your children young into the hollywood scene. it's deliriously silly and i surrendered myself to the sugar rush of the visuals and rather enjoyed it and my children did as well. good. that is a good recommendation. your third pick this week is based on a novel which i am afraid i haven't read and i am coming at it cold. i will give you a secret, i have not read it either. it is written by emma jane unsworth and she actually wrote the script as well that there is a connection there. normally do not do that, and you usually surrender your control but she has actually done a really good job of getting the script right. this film has been described as being like a female withnail and i and you can see why because it is about two girls

who have been living together in dublin and very close relationship and they fuel each other‘s drug and alcohol taking and they stall each other‘s development and they are very co—dependent and very witty and very funny together. very hard to break into this relationship, but impending 30th birthdays loom and family responsibilities and the arrival of the new fellow named jim puts this relationship under threat. hey. hi. interesting choice. i suppose i'm intrigued by all these people, jotting down notes in their little notebooks not actually getting anywhere. how do you know they are not getting anywhere? because they're still here, trying, jotting down notes in their little notebooks every day. plus, it's the only place open this early with the decent wine. but the trying is the thing. i've always thought we're not defined by who we are but who we try to be. i always tried too hard at school. i always did everything too hard.

who said that to you? i'm only a pianist because i sit down and do it every day. so, leave them alone. and holiday granger, who we were talking about not long ago on this programme... in tell it to the bees, where she did another good accent, i do not know what her real accent is. she had a very good irish accent in tell it to the bees. another female—powered film and as i say like withnail and ifor girls, which is a very good thing. you can feel that in the sketchiness of the untidyness of their relationship. i really like this, a lot. i thought the relationship was really well done and the director is good

on the atmosphere and the sensitivity of a relationship that is blooming but cannot last and is going to change and someone will getjealous. holiday granger is fantastic in it and she has this great charm to her and she is good at doing that first flush of white wine and the colour returns to her cheeks. i thought it was well done, and a real cult classic in the making this film. that is interesting and i look forward to it and i expect lots of people will be. i am struck by your best out this week, because i cannot believe it is 30 years! 30 years since do the right thing? and almost to the day, this film change the world in several ways. the first film review i ever wrote for the university magazine, which is why i do thisjob, is because of this film but even on a grander scale it changed the world. do you know how? i do not but you can tell me. michelle obama and barack obama went to see this film on theirfirst date. and that is how they forged their political sensibilities and their colour and got all the way to the white house and this film literally did change the world. it's by spike lee and of course it is set over one boiling hot night in new york in front of sal's pizzeria where mookey the delivery boy, played by spike lee gets

involved and it boils up to a race riot which is the main thing but really it is about the visuals of spike lee. but it's beautiful to look at as well, it evokes and i watched it recently because we had our own heatwave here — and you can feel the heat of brooklyn almost coming off off the screen and the fabulous bright colours. it is terrific. the dialogue and the soundtrack is amazing. fight the power by public enemy, an all—time hip—hop track which is a powerful start, and rosie perez dancing to it. one of my favourite films of all time and one of the best films ever made, and spike lee is still doing this, if you watch netflix, he has two seasons of she's gotta have it on there which is his originalfilm and that is brilliant as well. still looking at brooklyn that has very changed in those 30 years, and the gentrification that is going on, but still talking about black issues and black history, i think it is a brilliant film and it's out and the sentiments, 4k restorations of those colours you talked about, they are even brighter and more ferocious and hot. fantastic, 30 year rerelease of do the right thing. quick thought about dvd, streaming?

there is a film called the chambermaid which is set in mexico city. i suppose a companion piece to alfonso cuaron‘s roma which nearly won the oscar. it's about a hotel cleaner in mexico city and we see her working in the hotel, the divide between wealthy and poor customers and clients and guests and the hotel staff, the picture of her is in the laundry room there, we see trying to work her way up this hotel ladder. i thought it was brilliant and a really great performance and directed very well. herfirst film. a gem to find online. thank you very much, good to see you and see you again soon. enjoy your cinema going. that is for this week. see you next time. goodbye. friday saw a respite from the rain for many parts, although the severe flood warning remains in force at whaley bridge dam.

and we do have more rain in the forecast later in the weekend, and into the new week. however the day should start for many dry, bright, a little bit of mist and fog inland now the nights are getting longer, and it could be murky for a time near the east coast before the sunshine gets to work and melts that cloud away. but notice as we go through the day there is a chance of some showers for northern ireland, primarily, but there could be the odd heavy, thundery one across the hills of scotland, and perhaps the odd shower across northern england, north wales, but largely dry and fine in the south and east, it is worth stressing that many places will stay dry with spells of strong sunshine through the day today. so there is reallyjust an outside risk of an interruption from a shower to edgbaston — nevertheless, that risk is real. for most of the time it should be dry and fine. but as time goes by through the coming evening, this low pressure advances on further east, there is an increasing risk we will start to pick up thicker cloud, drizzly rain and then, by the time we are heading towards morning, some heavy rain coming into northern ireland.

ahead of that we are pulling in a southerly wind, so that will increase the temperature and humidity, so it will be warmer, if anything, through the coming night, temperatures 15 degrees in the central belt of scotland. with that extra humidity comes the risk of some more significant rain on sunday. bands of slow—moving, heavy and thundery showers are forecast for scotland, for northern ireland for a time, northern england, north wales, really anywhere from the midlands and lincolnshire northwards, but again, southern and eastern areas, largely fine and warm, warmer still, 26—27 on sunday. but given the risk of further heavy downpours in those areas already affected by flooding, the met office have issued that warning ahead of time. and actually it looks more unsettled then again in the next week, almost as if the weather is repeating its pattern, low pressure comes in and become slow—moving, and throws further spells of rain at us. we start that way on monday, that clears up the way, some respite, heavy showers follow back into northern ireland, it will feel fresher on monday with that humid air clearing for a while, picking up more of a south—westerly wind for the start of the new week. but again come tuesday, it looks as if they will be some rather large and heavy showers around with some hail and thunder in there as well. so it is one of those we need to keep our eye on, as ever there is more

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