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advert realise that as soon as the advert comes on, we pick up our mobile phone? —— disillusion. comes on, we pick up our mobile phone? -- disillusion. a great picture on the front of that sunday times. young jofra archer at lords. i was there yesterday. it is so exciting to have a man of this calibre with this particular style of bowling in the team. it is really exciting. it looked like we might have been able to win. we got a draw but it makes the rest of the test much more exciting. and it was a very exciting day, despite the fact it ended in a draw. i think england probably declared too late and that is why that is a look of frustration rather than pure joy we is why that is a look of frustration rather than purejoy we have. is why that is a look of frustration rather than pure joy we have. all set up for the next fascinating test match starting on wednesday. i think. lucy, henry, thank you both very much indeed.
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thank you to my guests this evening, henry and lucy. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news 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 the bbc iplayer. and from all of us, good night. 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? well, we've 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
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from cartoon to live action and searches for the lost city of gold. and if you're desperate for a film where i2—year—olds say disgusting things, you're in luck. good boys is also out. well, let's not start with the i2—year—olds saying disgusting things, 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 actually. 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 upon the old guard, upon the mainstream. and it focus on three different people. one is rick dalton, he's an actor played by leo 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 then you have sharon tate,
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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. and i can't afford to hire a bunch of guys that smoke cigarettes and sit around talking to each other all day in 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 want to him. throw him off a building, right? light him on fire, hit him with the lincoln. right? 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
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he brings on the set. well leonardo dicaprio looks like he's having fun. are they all having fun? i think so. i think that's one thing that actors get in a tarantino movie, they can really go to town. and there are some big tarantino—esque moments. he's known for big, flamboyant, ott moments, there are a couple of those in the film. absolutely. but i think it's a slightly more melancholy and mature film from him. because it is about growing old, it's 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. but i think overall, it's much more serious, more authentic, perhaps less immediate than some of the other films, but it is one,
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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 a bit and that the sharon tate character, played by margot robbie, who is obviously a great actress, she just 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 one of the leads. if it was someone less famous we wouldn't focus on that quite 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 of what she's trying to convey. so it's not all about dialogue. we haven't mentioned violence a lot yet. i mean, tarantino, cataclysmic
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violence quite often, what about here? yes, certainly some moments, some explosive violence, but i think overall it feels slower, it feels calmer, and it does just 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 quite 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's actually fun, this. 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 where she's brought up 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. quite educational, very strong on celebrating latino culture. it's all still there in the movie but the key difference is that it is co—written by a guy called nick stoller, who also worked on the
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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 same with this... i love that line, "respectful of the muppet legacy". you've gotta be respectful of the muppet legacy. this is absolutely respectful of the tv show, but it does have a laugh too. there's 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 that the jungle of school or secondary school is more scary than thejunglejungle. yes, yes, yes. exactly, it's like you have seen it. saw the trailer. it is 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 still very much aimed at young children. now talking about the young children, what about those i2—year—olds and theirfoul language? yes, good boys. so, it's produced by seth rogan, we know is an actor but he's also a writer and producer. even though it's about three
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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'll 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. that's thejoke, thejoke is, it's a 15 certificate film and it's young children saying
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inappropriate things, and they say some things that will make you laugh out loud, and they say some things that will make your hair curl. actually, as well as being funny, that is fairly truthful. i remember being i! or 12 and you think you know everything, you have a lot of bravado, you don't really know what you're 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 quite poignant and starts to 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. and do you think, like the three i2—year—olds in question are boys, right? 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 saying this, and that's the joke. if you are a teenager you'll find that funny. what do we do now? let's talk about...
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..notorious, so this is the best film out at the moment. this is a reissue, bfi have reissued this, the classic hitchcock movie, ingrid bergman, cary grant. actually there's a cary grant season at the moment at the bfi southbank in london at the moment, 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 is just still sparkling itself. so good together, this romance, she's undercover on a mission in rio, he's her government handler and they have this quite complex romance actually. still looks brilliant, immaculate, perhaps a simpler story than some other hitchcock movies, but so glad to see it on the big screen. and 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, where you're at the edge of your seat because you don't know what is going to happen —
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you kind of do because you have seen it before. but the tension is there, so even though it's 73 years old. 73 years old! ‘46, 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 who is kind of 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 a guy called 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 like 85 minutes long but it actually packs a lot in. and even better than that, there is a cameo from mark kermode in it! you're kidding me! who can have predicted it? what does he do? he plays himself, who else is he going to play?
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yeah, so, great romcom, very romantic, very funny. and slightly younger than the annie hall generation. yeah, i think so. it feels like it's 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. thank you for watching. goodbye from our film review. hello. it's been a weekend of lots and lots of showers particularly for scotland and north wales. finally enough, thatis and north wales. finally enough, that is where the majority of the showers are at the moment as well. there are a few sneaking into the english channel at the moment, they
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will tend to run onto the coastline. some could pushy man, but by and large it's across these eastern areas where we will have some larger gaps through many showers. that is where the driest weather is going to be overnight. now it's quite a busy night, not cold, temperatures between 10— 13 degrees. and looking at the weather picture for monday morning, as i was going quickly across wales, south—west england again, becoming widespread, heavy and may be thundery. they will push into eastern england. a high chance of catching showers in eastern england as we go through the afternoon. the heaviest downpours across the south of scotland, northern ireland, north—west england. this part of the world could see some fairly lovely thunderstorms as we head to the afternoon. limpet is struggling in scotland. we've still got some warmth in sale than —— in the south. that's your weather.
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