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so, jason, what do we have this week? brad pitt dons a space suit and shoots for the stars in ad astra. 80s action hero sylvester stallone sharpens up his act to release rambo: last blood. and a family gathers in china to say goodbye to grandma in the farewell. let's start with brad pitt in space. that's right, brad in space. he is so hot right now in this post—tarantino glow from once upon a time in hollywood. this is a very different performance from him, a much more buttoned down performance. in this film it is officially proven that brad pitt is the coolest man in the world.

he has a psych evalfrom nasa who decide his heartbeat does not go over 80 revs per minute, beats per minute? beats per minute. beats per minute, bpms, a record. he is officially and scientifically proven to be as cool as anything so that means he does not get very excited in this. he breathes the narration of the story of a man sent on a mission to find his dad who disappeared 15 years ago. he is played by tommy leejones. brad has to send him a message to say, "dad, i'm coming to find you." this is a map of an underground lake beneath the launch pad. you'll be able to access the ship from there. we're approaching. they're going to come for you, you know. i know. i don't care any more. i need to get back now, do what i can. good luck.

so, yes, a man on a mission. a man on the mission, he goes to the moon which has been colonised by this time. it is set somewhere in the near future and it has been colonised. it looks like the wild west in a shopping centre, a bit like westfields, stratford. then he goes to mars and neptune, he goes to jupiter. it is a long search then? it is quite long. i have to say in the hands of this american directorjames gray — i think he's a rather pretentious film maker — this is a bit of a space drag. there are people who are saying it is very philosophical and an existential search for meaning, and there are parallels of father and son and maybe god the creator, i do didn't read that in there. i had plenty of time to think this is rather silly, to be honest. and i love brad pitt, i quite like space movies when they are philosophical, 2001, solaris, for example. this one had some decent sequences but not for me at all. i thought it was ponderous, pretentious, i thought it was a real pain to watch. very difficult. i know brad is great. the other thing about ad astra, it's not a ad for an astra at all, they won't sell any cars on the back of this. i did read it looks beautiful, do you give it that or not? i did give it that but i much prefer

gravity which has a similar feel to it. everybody seemed to be speaking in a very stilted fashion, the way it is made, to me, it turned me off almost immediately. it had a breathy terrence malick element to it. you thought of brad in tree of life, where he breathes the same narration, that film got away with it, apart from the silly bit with the dinosaurs. this was a mission too far for brad. right. given you are not over keen on that, i am rather interested about what you are going to say about the next one. rambo: last blood. you remember rambo, surely? i do remember rambo, yes. from the 19805. many people might not know what we're talking about. it takes me back a far away. yeah, he had two massive action heroes in the 70s and 805, sylvester stallone, rocky and rambo.

rocky's still going, rebooted by the creed franchise with michael b jordan. rocky's his tutor in this. rambo hasn't. he's been stuck very much in the 805, i quite like the first film, first blood, this is last blood. sylvester stallone's niece has been taken by mexican drug cartels and sold into sex slavery, which is of course what mexicans always do to americans. sly goes over the border as rambo and gets them back, and then he invites them to come back over the border. this is the first film, i think, to show trump's wall border. is there a wall? there's a sort of a high fence. it is very easily bleached — breached and bleached — by these mexican cartels who come to rambo's ranch where he has booby—trapped it, fashioning spears and arrows and all sorts of pits for them to fall in and die very bloodily. i don't want to spoil it but that is a rambo movie for you, you know where it is going. i found this very nasty.

rather short and nasty and brutish, but very violent and very confused about what it is saying about our american hero. rambo was always a tool of empire, a tool of american gung—ho—ness, sent out to bring back the american troops in rambo 3 and 4. this one, he hates everyone. he hates foreigners, it is about revenge and hatred. he literally rips the heart out of someone, it left a terribly nasty taste in the mouth. plus it is not very good or funny or very fun, and he is looking a little worse for wear, is sly in this one. so, we are not keen on that, that's for sure. what about the farewell which i think you are much keener on? in terms of cultural exchange between two cultures, this is much more up my street. the farewell stars a rising star, awkwafina, a rapper. we have seen her in 0cean5 8 and crazy rich asians. here, she is a young writer called billi who lives in new york, and herfamily are going back

to china for the first time because nai nai, her grandmother is unwell, she has cancer and is going to die. they say to billi don't come because you have such a miserable face that grandma's going to know immediately what's happening to her, because they're trying to lie to grandmother. it says at the start of the film — based on an actual lie. in chinese culture, says the film, they do not tell someone who is ill they are ill, the family shoulders the emotional burden of it. here is awkwafina getting it explained to her in hospital in china. how bad is she? you can tell me the truth. the cancer is quite advanced. shouldn't we tell her? in her situation, most families in china would choose not to tell her. when my grandma had cancer, my family didn't tell her. isn't that wrong to lie? if it is for good, it is not really a lie. i mean, it's still a lie. it's a good lie.

there is quite a lot of humour in this, i was reading as well. it is billed as a comedy, i was expecting a warm family comedy, the sort ang lee made before he went to america, eat drink man woman and the wedding banquet. it has not quite got that warmth but it has a fantastic exchange of what a young american might be getting from china and what china might be getting from a young american. it shows you the skyscrapers of china, the progress, but because it is about this family, this brilliant old woman played by zhao shuzhen, a fantastic performance, it could lead to an 05cars supporting nomination, it shows you so much going on, weddings and karaoke and singing dogs and strange rituals, professional criers, for example. i would recommend eating beforehand because there is so much food going around and around those tables, your stomach will be

rumbling throughout and that is the best kind of movie. that is what families are about, that food element, so bite into it, it is a very warm film and a very smart film. very good performance from awkwafina. i did not laugh as much as i thought i would, all the stars on the poster said it was heart—warming and ifound it sadder but it has that warmth and that sense of a young woman trying to find her roots, getting on — well, this isn't what i was looking for all along. it does not have the normal arc you might expect. we'll put that one on the list, what do you think is the best one out there at the moment? do catch pain and glory directed by pedro almodovar. his new film pain and glory, he is one of the greatest film makers, it is one of his best films starring antonio banderas who is better in this than i have ever seen him, playing an ageing filmmaker,

looking back on his career and a retrospective that the madrid cinematheque are giving him. it delves into his past and growing up with his mum, played by penelope cruz, and flashbacks with his relationships with actors in the past. it is very funny, colourful, tender and moving. i think it is one of the great movies of the year and one of the movies of a great film maker's career, and i think antonio banderas for oscar nomination. we will make a note of that. on dvd you are going for apocalypse now, the final cut. a lot of people are saying ad astra is apocalypse now in space. this is the quintessential one, it is coppola's examination of the vietnam war. which, of course, is what rambo is a hangoverfrom, too. it is out on blu—ray now and is called the final cut, we have had a directors cut. all of them are good. if you have never seen apocalypse now, it is one of the great movies of the last century, one of the best movies made

since the 19705 and it stars martin sheen, marlon brando, a young lawrence fishburne and harrison ford. it is one of my favourite films, it is a mad film, a hallucinogenic film. it has one of the most famous lines of all time. "i love the smell of napalm in the morning." "charlie, don't surf!" he is a wise man and anyone would want to see this on blu—ray. jason, good stuff, as ever. thank you very much indeed, that is it for this week. thank you very much indeed for watching. good evening. it's been a weekend of

two halves. many of us saw sunshine on saturday. more showery rain across much of the uk. 0n on saturday. more showery rain across much of the uk. on both days, it's been pretty warm. it's turning a bit cooler. low pressure is on the way. got a bit of rain through the rest of tonight through northeast england and into northern scotland. wa nted england and into northern scotland. wanted to showers across parts of northern ireland and north wales but clear spells elsewhere, misty patches forming and it will be frost free with those temperatures pretty much staying in double figures. what we are expecting is some rain and wind this area of low pressure, and get out north—west. monday itself not a bad day. my train to northern scotla nd not a bad day. my train to northern scotland and heavy rain and strong winds sweep in across the south—west

of england and wales. much of scotla nd of england and wales. much of scotland should stay dry. temperature is up to about 21. moving through one day night, that rain becomes quite heavy, especially across the southern half of england. the winds also picking up here. with the wind in cloud and rain, it's going to be a mild night. what we're going to be a mild night. what we're going to be a mild night. what we're going to see on tuesday is a bit of a ripple on this when the front. that just acts to a ripple on this when the front. thatjust acts to pep up the rainfall. some heavy rainfall through the day on tuesday and the combination of the heavy rain with the strong winds mean particularly across the southern half of england and south wales, we could see some travel disruption. we got this band of heavy, possibly under we rain and brisk winds working eastwards across england and wales which will be followed by sunshine and scattered showers and thunderstorms. the rain also working into southern and eastern scotland but for western scotla nd

eastern scotland but for western scotland and northern ireland, you should get away with a mostly dry picture on tuesday. even inland, winds gusting at around 30 miles per hour. 40—115 miles per hour on tuesday. wednesday, a bit of rainfall through the south—east. wednesday, not a bad day. wanted to showers around, not as windy as on tuesday. it remains pretty unsettled and autumnal for the rest of the week. 00:14:32,025 --> 2147483051:44:00,728 next on bbc news, 2147483051:44:00,728 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it's the film review.