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you don't know what these things, you don't know what these things, you don't know what the impact is if you delay it until you're 70, are we going to end up with an elderly population with all of these other problems as well? the procedure is not extortionate either, £3000 for removal and £4000 for grafts, a lot of money for the nhs but not beyond reach. for many women, they aren't able to work and function, so this would be for a long time. we have just got time to talk about maga. she has got a new project. she wants to edit a children's book. —— meghan. it follows a sarah ferguson.
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plus prince charles. she wants to write one based on her two dogs, guy and bogard. who she abandoned. bogard had to be left behind when she came to britain because he did not travel well. they caused a social media star. the sunday times pointed out that it may not be a children story so much as a horror story. it will sell. it will sell. very good. did you get a call from the bbc? funny, they probably can't get through. funny. stick to journalism. thank you for coming in. thanks you for tuning in as well. you can see the front pages on my view on the bbc website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you. next on bbc news, it's the film review.
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good night. 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 bald head. it's dwayne johnson and jason statham as hobbs and shaw in a fast and furious spin off. and a sequel to a video game that no one plays any more, 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
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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 later for 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 is shaw. they ‘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
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invented a super virus that will take over the world. and the trouble is it has been put inside shaw's sister, vanessa kirby who played 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?
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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 person who comes out
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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.
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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 sudeikis, 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.
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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, a big hit, 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.
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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 holliday grainger, who we were talking about not that long ago on this programme... in tell it to the bees, where she did another good accent,
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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 i for girls, which is a very good thing. you can feel that in the sketchiness of the untidiness 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. holliday grainger 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.
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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 0bama and barack 0bama 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
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is still doing this, if you watch netflix, he has two seasons of she's gotta have it on there which is his original film 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 her trying to work her way up this hotel ladder. i thought it was brilliant and a really great performance and directed very well by lila aviles, her first film. a gem to find online. thank you very much, good to see you and see
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you again soon. enjoy your cinema going. that is for this week. see you next time. goodbye. there are more heavy downpours in the forecast not only for tomorrow but for the next few days. not great news for those parts of the uk that have been so badly affected by flooding. this is how things pan out through the rest of the night. this band of cloud and jahri rain very proud northern ireland into western scotla nd proud northern ireland into western scotland knocking on the door stops in wales in the far south—west of england. elsewhere the odd mist putts. not a particularly chilly night. tomorrow we have a band of cloud and jahri rain drifting eastwards. as the most works into northern england and scotland we will spawn some hit and a mist
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heavy, thundery downpours. the further south you are, not as many showers in the south—east of the uk. south—eastern england probably com pletely south—eastern england probably completely dry up to 26. there is a met office yellow warning for thunderstorms across northern england, southern and central parts of scotland, hit and miss downpours which could give up to 40 millimetres of rain in a couple of hours in some places. there could be further travel disruption and flash flooding. it stays unsettled with further heavy showers and a brisk breeze as we head into the start of the new working week.
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function, so this would be for a long time. this is bbc news i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: a shooting at a shopping mall in el paso texas. reports from the us say at least 19 people have been killed. police fire teargas in hong kong as anti—government protests continue for the ninth consecutive weekend. talks to avert strike action at heathrow resume on sunday, but more than 170 flights next week are already cancelled. and the belfast pride event gets a special visitor — the irish prime minister leo varadker.
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