sense among these world leaders that he is somebody they can deal with. i think they did find theresa may quite hard work. some would say that she's not quite as personable, worm and charismatic as other people have been or perhaps borisjohnson might be. a couple of minutes left. let's talk about the weather. we may be in a lovely air condition studio in bbc hq. a lovely air condition studio in bbc hq, but it is still gorgeously worm outside at the middle of the night. and it is not going anywhere, this weather. it is going to be hot until halloween, and it has pictures of a bear floating at whipsnade zoo, cooling down. they say that we are going to, what are the temperatures are? let's get this right. 30 degrees in september, 24 in october, more likely to have temperatures much hotter than average until the end of october. and for those

climate change deniers, this is absolutely the way that things are going to be going. really, we have to change. we have to adapt. we have to change. we have to adapt. we have to start working out how to keep very old building school in unexpected temperatures. this has been quite a summer. we have had extremes, having three? -- happened to be? but not really cold. injune there was a suggestion we would have to have a hosepipe ban. but the latter one nice and green, abe? that is it. you can catch up online with all of the papers as well. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seeven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any

evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank—you to my guests this evening — john and penny. from all of us, goodnight. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? we have a proper mixed bag. we have crawl which promises to do for alligators whatjaws did for sharks. pain and glory the award—winning film from pedro almodovar. and angel has fallen, gerard butler is back.

alligators to start with. we have had alligators in films like i believe lake placid? alligator, eaten alive. i think technically lake placid was a giant crocodile. the story is a swimmer from the university of florida goes back home and she finds out herfather is in his house in a hurricane zone and she cannot get in touch with him and she goes to the house to go and check that he is all right. when she gets there, everything is flooded and wouldn't you know it, there are huge come on! siren blares.

watch out! whimpering. that is no ordinary flood, is it? so you can see the jaws—iness to it, or elements of it. there's another one called bait, putting sharks in a supermarket. this film cost around $13 million, has already taken $65 million. it is a perfectly efficient, exploitative b—movie creature feature in which it works because it has good performances and you like the characters. the father daughter relationship works well and partly there are no surprises but that includes there is no surprising mistakes.

sometimes you can see the bit of production in the film a little bit, but it is done well. the director alexandre aja knows how to put this stuff together. there are a few laught—out—loud funny lines in it like, "we are not going to be out—smarted by these pea—brained reptiles!" which reminds me of a line from snakes on a plane, it is a straightforward unpretentious monster rampage movie. and it understands the parameters of what it can do, it is all set at the house, there is a basement that does all the set up you can do and it does it all in a kind of snappy efficiency. snappy, good. it will not win pulitzer prizes or oscars but it does exactly what it sets out to do. i looked at the cast list earlier and suspected not all the people on the list survived, without wanting to spoil the ending. i would not spoil anything. pedro almodovar you mentioned a moment ago and pain and glory. this was terrific. this is a very personal semi—autobiography...

a filmmaker played by antonio banderas, wracked with pain, both physical and metaphysical. he's had a back operation and back pain. he is in a moment of stasis in his life where there is a revival of a film he made 30 years ago with an actor he has not spoken to for 30 years which forces them to get back together again. and whilst the present—day plot is moving forward, he is cast back to memories of his childhood, memories of his mother washing clothes in a stream, memories of a time they lived in a cave dwelling. memories of going first to the cinema and seeing movies projected against whitewashed walls. so the whole film ebbs and flows with the tide. it's beautifully done, very personal. there is a great performance by penelope cruz as the younger embodiment of the character's mother. antonio banderas, i've never seen him be quite so vulnerable. his face is this mask of melancholia and regret yet the childhood

reminiscences are so vivid and vibrant that these two things are living side by side. on the one hand the ecstasy of his childhood memories but funnily enough they are different film—makers. a comparison here between the work of pedro almodovar and terrence davis. terence davies remembering films as his mother singing. clearly a very personal movie. there are hints? there are hints of it. what he has done is taken the real story in fictionalised it and just taken elements. but there are some things you can see are absolutely personal particularly the portrayal of the figure of his mother. i thought was terrific and i think antonio banderas should be up for an oscar nomination after this. that's definitely a commendation. ok, on to angel has fallen. where are you with the has fallen series? it was only earlier when somebody said the trilogy

of the has fallens that i realised. olympus has fallen which was the not—good version of white house down. i hated london has fallen in which there's a line, "most of london's known landmarks which were destroyed." well, what about the unknown landmarks? gerard butler is back and is framed for an attack on the president's life. here's the clip. what is that? are they bats? they're drones, they're drones!

on radio: art! i didn't think that would end well. here is the thing. i know this sounds like damning with faint praise. but i think this is the best of the has fallen series. for a number of reasons, because firstly again in much of the way of crawl, it understands its reasons. gerard butler was brilliant in vanishing, about lighthouse keepers. it has the right register here. a great performance by danny huston who is chewing through the scenery. halfway through nick nolte turns up as gerard butler's dad. and he is doing that nick nolte thing where he is "i am a vietnam veteran living off the grid", and i really enjoyed it. i didn't expect i was going to at all because i hated london has fallen. i went into this thinking, are we getting more of the same? and i remember the basic critical reviews have not been well received. but in the screening i was in,

as soon as nick nolte turned up, it became but the father and son thing, people started laughing, enjoying it and that laughter continued right the way through to the end credits. of all the has fallen ones, this is the best. that is slightly damning with faint praise. i saw a lot of praise for nick nolte. he is great. he has almost become a caricature of nick nolte, there are whole lines of dialogue that are... mumbles incoherently. and gerard butler says "you always say that!" moving on from your nick nolte impersonations! let's talk about the best film out at the moment. blinded by the light. are you a bruce springsteen fan? iam. i am not. this is based on a memoir of the scriptwriter. and it is a story about a young man who connects with the music of bruce springsteen despite the fact that his life has nothing to do with bruce springsteen's life. it's directed by gurinder chadha,

who directed bend it like beckham. it bursts into song like sunshine on leith did. so it is almost like a musical. i thought it was charming. you can pick holes in it, but i thought it was really charming and it moved me and made me laugh, it made me cry. i just love the idea that music is universal. somebody on the other side of the atlantic with a completely different life from you can write songs that mean so much to you and is particular in the world you live in. and even if you are not a bruce springsteen fan. which i'm not. nothing against him. let's talk about the best dvd. wild rose which is this lovely film about a glaswegian single mum who is a country western singer and dreams of going to nashville. titanic central performance byjesse buckley. she's recorded a country album, she is fantastic. it has its feet on the ground

but its head in the stars. again, it understands how music can transport you to another place. gritty and realistic but also romantic in his romantic view of the world. the idea that you can dream large in such a great central performance. i thought it was really good. her singing voice is outstanding. she can really sing and i did an onstage interview with her and i asked if she would mind singing a song and she did and i said, "fine, you are the real deal!" she can make it but she can also act. i thought was a really lovely film. good stuff, thank you mark. that's it for this week. thanks for watching. goodbye. good evening, if you like warmth and sunshine you will have approved of the weather today. it sets the tone for the rest of the weekend. as we go through the rest of tonight, we

will see increasing amounts of cloud in parts of the south—west and wales. at the same time the patchy rain in northern scotland will clear away to the north. there will be clear spells with overnight lows of between 11 and i6. clear spells with overnight lows of between 11 and 16. tomorrow, blue skies and sunshine were some missed patches which will tend to clear. some cloud in the west at times. some cloud in the west at times. some thick cloud moving its way into shetland. otherwise, plenty of sunshine. look at the temperatures, 28 in glasgow, 33 in the south—east. humid conditions as well. that humidity might well generate some mist and fog in western areas going through monday morning. monday another mainly find they were spells of sunshine. some showers developing here and there. cool in the west but still warm in the south and east with temperatures up to 32 or 33 degrees.

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