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pig's ‘wh eeif'w anything and if a pig's kidney turns out to be the best solution in the short term until we get sd printing kidneys and hearts. hearts are much more difficult because you cannot just rip the heart out of somebody, so just rip the heart out of somebody, so ifa just rip the heart out of somebody, so if a pig's heart turns out to be the solution, then there are people, 280 people on the waiting list for hearts, and most of them may die on that waiting list, it put you into a different sphere of thinking. this is pretty controversial because there is a new awareness of animal liberties. we went out to try and find as many vegetarians or vegans and ask, would you take a pig's heart? some of them said yes, even though they are vegetarian but i don't think that would necessarily be the case. it depends how ill you are and the light is off in your
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life, it can give you such hope. kidneys are very hard to come by. this is a good, moral story which makes people discuss which is a good sunday newspaper front story which sparks a discussion. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. thank you anne ashworth and lynne faulds wood next on bbc news it's the film review. hello, welcome to the film review on bbc news. and to take us through this week's cinema releases is james king. so james, what have we got?
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well, we have got leo, brad and margot, as i like to call them, teaming up for quentin tarantino's ninth film, once upon a time in hollywood. and dora the explorer goes from cartoon to live action and searches for the lost city of gold. and if you're desperate for a film where12—year—olds say disgusting things, you're in luck. good boys is also out. well, let's not start with the 12—year—olds, let's start in hollywood and quentin tarantino. how is it? it's just a lot of film. it's a film i have seen a couple of times, i'm desperate to see it again. so we go back to 1969 hollywood for this movie, a changing time. it was, we really see the youth culture and the counterculture starting to encroach
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upon the old guard, upon the mainstream. it focus on three different people. one is rick dalton, he's an actor played by leonardo dicaprio, who feels like his moment has passed. he feels middle—aged and too old for this whole game. cliff booth is played by brad pitt, who is rick's best friend, his stuntman, and you have sharon tate, played by margot robbie. sharon tate was a real person, she was a real actor, married to roman polanski, and she is the opposite, her star is on the rise. so it's these three people over a few days in hollywood, 1969. this is a clip where rick is desperately trying to get some stunt work for cliff. let's have a look. i can't afford to hire a bunch of guys that smoke cigarettes and sit around and talk to each other all day n the chance i might use them. i got a four—man team here. i need more than that, i got to get it approved. i got to look after my dudes. hey! if your dudes were a better match i would say ok, you got me, but that's not the case and you know it. he is a great match for me. yes. you could do anything you wanted to him. throw him off a building, right.
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light him on fire, hit him with the lincoln. get creative, do whatever you want. he's happy for the opportunity. rick. yeah. i don't dig him. and i don't dig the vibe he brings on set. well leonardo dicaprio looks like he's having fun. are they all having fun? i think so. that is one thing that actors get in a tarantino movie, they can go to town. and there are some big tarantino—esque moments. he is known for big ott moments, there are a couple of those in the film. absolutely. but i think it is a slightly more melancholy and mature film from him. because it is about growing old, it is about two guys having midlife crises, and with the sharon tate storyline, obviously, in the background of the whole film, there's the manson family, the manson family cult, which brings us a much darker side to the story. so there is a lot going on. yes, if you want your big ott tarantino moments — you just saw a clip of bruce lee — there are moments like that in the film.
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but overall, it is much more serious, more authentic, perhaps less immediate than some of the other films, but it is one, you know, as i said, i have been to a couple of times, i think it's a film you will want to revisit because there is so much going on. i have seen criticisms that it is self—indulgent and that the sharon tate character, played by margot robbie, a great actress, shejust isn't given enough lines. yes. yeah. she doesn't have a lot of dialogue, that is true. i think there is a problem that it is margot robbie. because she's famous, we expect her to be in it more. she's a supporting character, she's not a lead. if it was someone less famous we wouldn't focus on it so much. but there are moments where it is about her and she doesn't say anything, but through facial expressions she says so much. there's a scene where sharon tate is watching one of her own films at the cinema, it's perhaps the most beautiful moment in the film. she doesn't say anything, but you get the sense
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of what she is trying to convey. so it's not all about dialogue. we haven't mentioned violence a lot yet. imean, tarantino, cataclysmic violence quite often, what about here? yes, certainly some moments, some explosive violence, but overall it feels slower, calmer, and it does feel more mature. this is his ninth film. he has been making movies for, what, 27, 28 years, now? he's not the young buck that he once was. that is very much reflected in this film. it's about people who aren't as young and cool as they used to be. let us move on to dora and the lost city of gold. does it strike gold? it is actually fun. it's a live action version of the cartoon series. it's huge on kids' tv. in the cartoon she's young, probably about six in the cartoon. in this live action version she has been aged up, she's a now teenager, 16 years old. leaves the rainforest and goes to la to hang out with her cousin. still very adventurous though. one good thing about the tv show, it has been quite moral and upright. educational, very strong
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on celebrating latino culture. it's all still there in the movie but the key difference is it is co—written by a guy called nick stoller, who worked on the recent muppet films. if you've seen them, they send themselves up a bit. they're very respectful of the muppet legacy but they send themselves up and it's the... i love that line, "respectful of the muppet legacy". you've gotta be respectful of the muppet legacy. this is respectful of the tv show, but it does have a laugh too. there is a few knowing winks and a few knowing nods and gags in there for the adults who will take their kids. ultimately, very clean cut, very sweet, very lovely, but there are some good jokes in there too. and the idea being thejungle of school or secondary school is more scary than the jungle jungle. yes, yes, yes. it's like you have seen it. saw the trailer. it's a teen movie because of that, but i still think it plays to under tens. it's not like a proper teen film, it's very much aimed at young children. now talking about the young children, what about those
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i2—year—olds and their foul language? yes, good boys. so, it's produced by seth rogan, he is a writer, producer and actor. even though it's about three 12—year—old boys, because it's produced by seth rogan, who made the brilliant film superbad several years ago, a fabulously filthy teen movie. this is like a junior version of superbad. so three boys, and they're getting into trouble when they lose their drone in a neighbour's garden. let's have a look at good boys. look, can we please have the drone back? if you don't give it back, i'll tell my dad you stole it. and i'll tell them you're a pervert. we'll tell the whole school. this is sensual harassment. we will tell everyone you're a misogynist. i never misoged anyone. this is what happens when you don't respect women. i respect women. my mom's my best friend. what about me ? does it work? that's all we could show. ah — because? because it's fruity.
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that's the joke, the joke is it is a 15 certificate film and it is young children saying inappropriate things, and they say some things that will make you laugh out loud, will make your hair curl. as well as being funny, that is truthful. i remember being 11 or 12 and you think you know everything, you have a lot of bravado, you don't really know what you are talking about, but you pretend you do and that's certainly reflected in the film. the interesting thing is, as the film goes on, it goes from being superbad to being more like stand by me. it starts to get poignant and deal with issues of growing up and friendship and childhood. so yes, there is a lot of dirty jokes, it's not for children, aimed at is—year—olds, but the surprise is at times it gets quite touching. i never expected that. do you think, like the three i2—year—olds in question are boys, is it going to appeal to girls? yeah, i think teenagers, i think that's the joke, is that they are too young to be
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saying this, and that is the joke. if you are a teenager you'll find that funny. what do we do now? let's talk about... ..notorious, this is the best film out at the moment. a reissue, bfi have reissued this, the classic hitchcock movie, ingrid bergman, cary grant. there is a cary grant season at the moment at the bfi southbank in london, so it ties in nicely with that, and restored as well, so looking sparkling, like it could have been made yesterday, and the chemistry as well between cary grant and ingrid bergman isjust still sparkling itself. so good together, this romance, she's undercover on a mission in rio, he's her government handler and they have a complex romance. still looks brilliant, immaculate, perhaps a simpler story than some other hitchcock movies, but so glad to see it on the big screen. it still has that brooding impending horror about it. so brooding. the tension is ridiculous, there are classic moments, scenes that go on for a long time,
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you're at the edge of your seat because you don't know what is going to happen — you kind of do because you have seen it before. but the tension is there, so even though it's 7s years old. 7s years old! 1946. yes, still works. just time for a look at a dvd, what is your favourite? benjamin. this is out on dvd. simon amstel wrote and directed this. stars colin morgan playing the title character. benjamin is like simon amstel, because he is sort of a neurotic vegan film director. so this is a british film? yes, romantic comedy. this is what happens when benjamin, who's a bit uptight, meets the new love of his life. this is noah, very laid back, french, very relaxed, musician. so, it's a romcom, reminds me of annie hall, angst—ridden romcoms, because there's so much anxiety in this. all the characters have neuroses, but very charming, very funny and packs a lot in. it's 85 minutes long but it packs a lot in. and even better than that, there is a cameo from mark kermode in it!
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you're kidding me! who can have predicted it? what does he do? he plays himself, who else is he going to play? yeah, so, great romcom, very romantic, very funny. and slightly younger than the annie hall generation. yeah, i think so. it feels like it is very much twentysomethings in london, trying to cope with life, trying to cope with being grown up. and poignantjust or funny enough? oh, no, i think it's both. it feels like it's simon amstel reopening up his heart, showing to it the world and the results are very poignant. james, thank you. it has been great having you, come back again soon. thank you. now that's it for this week. thanks for watching. goodbye from our film review. hello. some of us have a bit of rain to come over the next few hours. the cast—iron certainty to get rain in
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scotla nd cast—iron certainty to get rain in scotland and northern ireland. we have seen the rain bands filtering in over recent hours and they will be with us all night. we have this weather front setting southern coast of england so rain grazing the south coast. it could turn to bring damp weather in across south—east england and also parts of east anglia may be through the night. and at the same time late in the night show is becoming more widespread across wales and south—west england. a breezy night, temperatures between ten and 14 degrees. tomorrow, if we get rain to start across south—east england it will clear quickly. but they spread eastwards and it is one of those days where no one is immune. but it is the likely places where the showers will be particularly widespread, scotland, northern ireland, at the far north of england and into parts of wales. temperatures not too bad for england but cooling down for scotland and northern ireland. things will get
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better in the week ahead.
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