taking us through this week's releases we have got mark kermode. we have actually got some quite interesting movies. a very interesting week, we have ready or not which is a highly regarded comedy horror. we have the goldfinch, an adaptation of a much loved book. and skin, jamie bell as a tattooed white supremacist. ready or not, i saw, i haven't seen the film but i have seen the trailer, and i feel like i've seen the film! here is the thing, a fairly straightforward set up, so samara weaving is this bride who is going to marry alex who is from a very, very posh family, a dynasty, or as he calls it, a dominion. they are called the le domas clan. she gets in there, she discovers that they are all strange and weird and creepy, but andie macdowell says it's fine, they'll all be fine. and then her husband says, "now, there is one thing, a family tradition. at 12 o'clock, we have

to play a game. you have to choose a game, and it will all be fine, it is just a family tradition. but we have to do it." at 12 o'clock, she chooses the game, she chooses hide and seek, and then she discovers that when the family play hide and seek, they play to keep. here's a clip. ijust came to get a drink. i have to call the others. no, you don't. no, you can help me. please. this doesn't end well for you. ijust don't want to be the one to serve you up. daniel, i'm begging you. i'm really sorry about all this. it is true what they say — that the rich really are different. i'll give you a ten—second head start.

daniel... and it is described as a horror comedy, or a comedy horror? is it scary and is it funny? yes. and the best thing about it is, i mean, you laughed after that line when he says that the rich really are different, and that is a theme that has run through a lot of kind of satirical horror. there is a film directed by brian yuzna called society which starts off like a kind of preppy satire, and then turns into this really grungy, strange, mind—bending, almost alien thing. in the case of this, it has got a very good setup, she goes to the family, they are weird, they play this game, it turns out to be deadly. so there is a little bit of the purge about it. but, tonally, the film it it's close to is sam raimi's original evil dead. which are for a long time was thought of as a video nasty, but is actually a comedy film.

sam raimi himself said it's a three stooges movie which just happens to have blood and guts instead of custard pies. and in the case of this, what i really liked about it as it cracks along at a pace. quite often a comedy horror has a good setup, and then it will flag in the second or third act. when you get to the end, you think it is running its course. this actually accelerates in pace, and in the final act, in the cinema that i was in, i heard as much laughing and as much grimacing, that kind of response, as i have heard in any decent comedy horror recently. i thought it was really well done, it is really good fun, it doesn't outstay its welcome, there is not an inch of fat on it, and if you like comedy and you like horror, you will like this. there was one line where somebody says, "0h, geez, you shot the maid!" and that shouldn't be funny, but it kind of is. it is, it is a ghoulish black comedy. but it's played very well. all right. the goldfinch, which is a very chunky book by donna tartt. you have read the book, right? yeah. did you like the book? i did, i didn't love it, but the secret history, which she also did, was amazing. i thought it was good. but apparently the film is too loyal to the book. well, i don't know,

because the weird thing is, i haven't read the book. when i was watching the film, which is a story about a young man who has a terrible tragedy in his past which he blames himself for, he is obsessed with the loss of his mother and also with the titular painting. i'm sure the book is about many, many things. the film it just felt like on the one hand, everything was very rushed, on the other hand, everything was really slow. and ijust wanted it to stop and to finish, because it felt like 2.5 hours of thinking, "i am trying to condense something which is actually quite weighty and profound into a movie which cannot bear the weight of it." this is the worst thing about it, and no—one has said this about the book. it is actually quite boring as a film. which, considering the amount of intrigue and interweaving plot, the paintings here, the paintings there, this person is this, double—crossing, and grief and love and all of that sort of stuff. also some great performers, ansel elgort, who i like very much, written by peter straughan who co—wrote tinker, tailor, directed by the guy who gave us brooklyn. i mean, it has a great pedigree. and yet you watch it... nicole kidman, and you ask why none of this is working. i think there are one of two answers — either that it is genuinely an unfilmable book, and i don't know because i haven't read it,

or more likely, it's just not a very good film. and i think the honest truth of it is it's just not a very good film. well, when you said you couldn't wait for it to finish, i think we got the hint. that's always a giveaway. always a giveaway! right, then we have skin, which is jamie bell, who we last saw in rocketman. the unbelievably versatile jamie bell. you see him in three or four movies with completely different roles. this is based on the real—life story of a tattooed white supremacist who was the subject of a documentary in 2011 called erasing hate, and the title refers to the tattoos, the racist insignia that he has all over his face and his body. so jamie bell is the central character, he has been brought up as part of a neo—nazi family led by this very creepy mother and father. but when he decides that he wanted to go his own way, he wants to break out and wants to form his own family, they at first they accuse him of betrayal, and secondly follow him. here's a clip. you're still breathing because i own you.

and every inch of ink on you. the only way anyone else gets access to your trophies is if i ex them out myself. so who is it? feds? jenkins? splc? what did you give them, son? so the interesting thing about it is that you see the film, the perspective of that central character, who is a white supremacist with all of these tattoos all over his face. and it reminded me to some extent, there is a film called

romper stomper, an antipodean movie from the 90s that actually made a star of russell crowe. which also saw the film from the perspective of a racist skinhead. and the central message of the film is that nobody is beyond redemption. it's about the idea that people fall into that kind of hatred because something within them is broken. so at the very beginning of the film, you see him involved in hideous activities. and then at the film itself still retains a sort of sympathetic edge towards the idea that actually, there is a reason why he has fallen into all of this stuff. i mean, jamie bell is brilliant, and very few performers, ithink, could have carried off the part. it is a risky role to play it, and i think he does it very well. the film is also made with a great deal of sincerity, and a great deal of conviction. and it is tough viewing sometimes. it has a very interesting musical score and a very interesting soundtrack. but what i liked about it was it isn't a film which sees things in a simple yes—no terms. it is absolutely about the idea that you have to look beneath the skin to see the causes of this kind of thing. and actually, i think the drama played out rather well.

it is well done. it's not scared to be confrontational, and it doesn't shy away from showing just how vicious the stuff that he has been involved in is. do you empathise with him at the end? i think by the end of the film, what you understand if the central message of the film, that people fall into these kind of extremist views because of something that is broken in them. and it's about understanding that, that this doesn't happen, that they are preyed upon by people preying upon the weak and the broken and people who have problems that actually can be dealt with. 0k. best out? well, i really, really like the farewell. this is a drama from lulu wang, with a great performance by awkwafi na. she discovers that her grandmother is terminally ill, but nobody will tell the grandmother. and so there is this family gathering in which everybody knows the grandmother is terminally ill except the grandmother. and it is beautifully sort of bittersweet, it's very tender, it's very funny. despite the fact that it is often very sad, it has a great musical score. a terrific performance.

and i went in really not knowing much about it at all. and you know there is a particular joy when you see a film that completely catches you off—guard. you only see the title and a couple of things. i mean, i hadn't seen the poster, which has got all of these kind of fantastic reviews on it. the best way to see a movie! it really is. there is a realjoy in seeing something, in a way, i have, be spoiled that already believe me, if you want something different, something that has got a real heart and soul and will make you laugh and cry, and when you come out you will ring or hug your family, that is the farewell. and best dvd? so dvd and blu—ray, the shining extended cut. you know that stanley kubrick sort of famously fiddled around with a lot of his films. there is a longer version of the shining which hadn't been released theatrically before in the uk until i think four orfive months ago. wow. it's now available on dvd and blu—ray. i think everybody knows a version of the shining. and i am not entirely sure that the extended version is better than the original. how much extended is it? it is not hugely.

there are some key... i mean the way that people always refer to it is you know you are watching the extended cut because there are a bunch of skeletons sitting in armchairs. and it is possible to watch the extended cut and think, i'm not entirely sure... there were additional scenes put in which were taken out by stanley kubrick as he tightened it up. but i think the shining itself still holds up. everybody talks about jack nicholson, shelley duvall is the real genius in that film. because her performance is so raw and so ragged, if you look at what any of the on—set making of footage, that performance was really tough for her. i mean, she had a very tough time on set. and she is brilliant. jack nicholson, yes, but shelley duvall is the hero of that film. yeah, it is a classic. which i love. but i'm not sure i want to see it again! mark, thank you very much. go see ready or not. it has got more laughs. i will, definitely. i fancy that. ok, that is it for this week. thank you so much for watching.

hello there. after a soggy and blustery night, sunday will bring some warmer weather. this cloud on oui’ some warmer weather. this cloud on our earlier picture, developing low pressure has been bringing cloud, outbreaks of rain, very gusty winds on the southern flank is that rain slides across the southern half of the uk through sunday morning, we will see stronger wind gusts in exposed spots. some showers passing through could be accompanied by some really squally winds. anywhere where the rain persists. northern ireland and england could see the brightest, temperatures of13— and england could see the brightest, temperatures of 13— i9 and england could see the brightest,

temperatures of 13— 19 degrees. as that area of low pressure slides is good, notice the isobars are quite tightly squeezed together. that shows we're going to have another swathe strong winds which could affect is then coastal counties at the same time as the high tides, though there could potentially be some coastal flooding. as we go through the night, some showers feeding into northern scotland on a brisk northerly wind. elsewhere, some clear northerly spells, but essentially quite a quiet parts of the new working week because of this little bump of high pressure here. but it is a very transient affair, low pressure, but it is a very transient affair, low pressure, once but it is a very transient affair, low pressure, once again will be raising in from the south—west, and as we go to monday we will see outbreaks of rain splashing again across england, but i think wales, where rain is really going to pilot over the hills and mountains over the next few days, that does certainly bring the potential for some flooding. some of that rain getting into northern ireland, scotla nd getting into northern ireland, scotland largely dry but really chilly here, 10 degrees in aberdeen.

newsday, that area of low pressure jones eastwards, we will c rain on the back of that, but switching to northerlies for all of us on wednesday, that will drag some cold air across the wednesday, that will drag some cold airacross the uk, wednesday, that will drag some cold air across the uk, you will really notice the difference by wednesday, 12 degrees in an bra, 1a in london, and by the end of the week, chance of the more and windy weather.

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