over huge adversity which was much commentary so yes, the typhoon last night, tragic many people across the nation but they didn't know until 9am this morning and to then if this match was don't going to continue. they were full of admiration for the way all the resources, the japanese tea m way all the resources, the japanese team and all the support networks came together, the pitch was immaculate and the call it an era— defining game and it did develop to all that expectation. ultimately japan triumph which was probably, although there was a scottish blood in me, the right result bearing in mind everything they'd gone through over 2a hours. mind everything they'd gone through over 24 hours. a massive crowd. huge. i saw footage earlier of the canadian team who are helping with relief efforts. i thought that said

a lot about sport and weight rings people together. you wouldn't have thought about them immediately as a by thought about them immediately as a rugby playing nation but they take into it. 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. it's all there for you — 7 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, caroline and tony. that's all from us, and goodnight. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode.

hi, mark, what have you been watching? we have american woman which is a powerful drama starring sienna miller... animated fun with abominable... and will smith fighting himself in gemini man. ha ha, yes, that is intriguing. let's start with american woman. sienna miller is debra who is a 30—something single mum, living in rust belt pennsylvania. she's pinballing endlessly between variously useless and occasionally abusive men and looking for security and love. one night, her teenage daughter goes out and doesn't come home. and she is left holding her grandson with no idea what happened. here's a clip. it's been, uh... it's been three days since we last saw bridget.

she left home around 7. she was wearing a pink sweatshirt and white sneakers. she had her hair coloured a few days ago, so it's a little lighter now, a little more blonde. but not much. this is a mother's worst nightmare. to know that your daughter is out there somewhere and she's calling for you and you can't get to her... i'm sorry. she cries. i miss my daughter. so, on one level the film is about a missing person,

about disappearance, but it's actually, that's only one part of what it's about. the narrative then jumps forward several years and we see the central character played by sienna miller further on in her life, still trying to find a suitable partner, and again, people like aaron paul plays this initially very charming character. and what happens is we see the weight of the trauma and the grief that she has carried with her as her own character develops and changes. i think the most remarkable thing about this is firstly, sienna miller is really terrific, that's not a surprise because she was really good in supporting roles in foxcatcher and american sniper. she was great in ben wheatley‘s high rise. this is the first time i've seen where she's been really able to command the centre stage and she's terrific, she is really great. she plays each section of the character's life completely convincingly. you really do believe in this character. the second thing is, this is directed by jake scott, who does a very good job of backing

off exactly when you think the drama is going to overplay its hand. so what you get is a film that is very, very convincing about a lengthy period in somebody‘s life in which something is hanging over them. and the thing it reminded me of slightly is the films of atom egoyan. if you think about things like the sweet hereafter or exotica. atom egoyan is very good at making films that exist within the aftermath of something. and i definitely got that feeling from this. really upsetting? well, because her central character is indomitable and has this very vibrant spirit, and yes, she is shouldering a huge burden, but the film doesn't overplay it, the film is about, 0k, this is the situation and life has to move on. and you know that it will keep returning to this central motif about this absence, about what happened and how it happened, but the film is actually about her. originally i think when they were shooting it, it was called burning woman. i'm not entirely sure that american woman is the right title for it, but it is a film that is absolutely about the way a character develops over a lengthy period of time, and you believe every single frame of that performance. not least because it's very physical.

it's not to do with the character saying, i think this, ifeel this, it's to do with the way they stand, the way she holds herself and the tiny little glances. and it has a very, very good supporting cast. i was completely immersed in it, i absolutely believed in the world. i think the problem with it is that the trailers are necessarily selling it as a missing person thriller, and that is one element of it, but that's not the element. it's about her dealing with this great weight but life moving on at the same time. it sounds overall far more interesting than the trailer allows it, perhaps, yes. in their defence, it's a very hard film to trail because it's a hard film to explain. if you say it's a story of somebody growing over a long period of time,

that's not going to bring the audience in. 0k, animation for your second choice. abominable is an occasionally thrilling, largely a little bit blandly charming story. a young girl befriends a yeti creature who is escaping from the clutches of a wealthy eccentric, voiced by eddie izzard, sounding like eddie izzard brilliantly. and her and two friends agree to take the yeti which they call everest to the highest point on earth. the creature has magical powers which you see here, that enables it to turn landscapes into something completely different. and there are some real visual coups. there is a sequence that we're seeing now in which this boat travels through this flowery field which then turns into a giant wave. there is a lovely sequence in which they climb up on a giant buddha statue. she starts playing a violin and the flowers start blooming. so there are individual moments that made me think, wow, that's beautiful and breathtaking. i don't think it's massively original. people have compared it to things like how to train your dragon. i always think about that laika film, the bigfoot movie missing link, which had an altogether more sturdy feel for me.

but i think it will do fairly well with a fairly undemanding audience. and there are certain moments in it in which i thought, wow, that is beautiful, they're using the technology really well. it's not a great film but it has some great moments in it. now, gemini man, you see, i want it to be really good ‘cause it's ang lee, who's so interesting and has does such great work! yeah... yeah. 0k. right, is that it? no. ok, so, will smith goes head—to—head with his digitally—conjured younger self. so he is a retiring assassin who finds that he can't retire because he's being pursued by a young hit man, who weirdly seems to know his every move. it's almost as if he's being followed by his younger self! here's a clip. stop right there! who are you? i don't want to shoot you! fine. don't shoot me.

mind if i shoot you? did i show you a picture of me? yeah, you look old. kid, you take one step closer, you're going to leave me no choice. gunshots. ok, so look, some decently—executed action sequences. this project began in the late ‘90s when it was first thought up and then they thought, we don't have the technology to do this. turns out now they do have the technology to do it but you do think, it's like thejeff goldblum thing, you're so eager to see

whether you could, you didn't stop to think whether you should. because fundamentally, firstly, one bi g problem with it is that i saw it in the 120 high frame rate 3d, which he made billy lynn's long halftime walk in, which is this kind of high frame rate format which makes you think you're watching something that looks like behind—the—scenes footage. oh yes, it's so real it looks like it's not a movie, which is really, really bizarre. the second thing is, it's kind of distracting because even when you see what they've done with the cgi, there's a computer—generated character to some extent, it is impossible not to sit there thinking, oh, that's technologically quite interesting. and my biggest problem is this. although you've you've got people like mary elizabeth winstead injecting a much—needed human note, ang lee for me is a storyteller. yes, yes! tell stories! stop worrying about the technology, stop worrying about whether or not we can push back 120 frames, 60 frames a second, just do the thing that you did before which was be a great storyteller! i have no problem with technology, but technology for its own sake, it feels like the tail wagging the dog. and it is true that in the case of this you think, 0k, most of the ideas i have seen before, it's kind of sub—blade runner idea about body and soul and most

of the time you're sitting there thinking, just, just tell me a story like you used to. i'm sure he'll listen to you. now you've said that, the next film will be... yeah, i've got him on speed dial. yes, mr kermode said. the farewell, that's a lovely story. have you seen it? yes, yes. isn't itjust the most brilliant thing? i did love it, i did love it. am i allowed to say, by the end i, i mean, i really, really loved, is it akwafina or awkwafina? awkwafi na. just, by the end, was she just very slightly too much stroppy teenager? because she is meant to be 3! in the film and she was behaving like a stroppy 17—year—old, but—but—but i am nitpicking because overall i really, really liked it. i just thought it was one of the most honest depictions of family relationships, the way in which there are secrets and lies, very, very mike leigh. mike leigh, yes, yes. and i thought it was really touching and really funny and really moving, and i knew nothing about it when i went to see it other than the title, which i have to say is not...

i love the thing "based on an actual lie", which is a great tag line. yes, it's lovely, it's really, really worth seeing. quick thought about dvd, musicals? hitsville: the making of motown, which is a documentary about the making of motown. we should say it's very, very authorised. there's nothing in here that's not... it's not warts and all, but it's worth it for the interviews, not least because you get berry gordy and smokey robinson, standing by a piano, mis—remembering their own history and then arguing about it, and at one point, one of them says, oh, so—and—so recorded a song, the other one says, no—no, the other person did it, he says, ok, i'll bet you 100 bucks it was the other guy. and they ring somebody up and go, "who...?" that kind of stuff was really, really wonderful, and i laughed more watching their interviews than i have watching many of the year's alleged comedies. (laughs) mark, thank you very much, see you next time. and that's it, enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye.

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i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: syria's government says it will send troops to confront turkish aggression, as turkey continues its military operation against the kurds. emergency teams work through the night injapan as the scale of the devastation caused by typhoon hagibis starts to emerge. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: a new tactic from hong kong's hardcore pro—democracy protestors — attacking pro—beijing targets while dodging the police. and we'll meet the drivers lighting up the roads in australia —