everything is working. it is the only thing that is keeping astronauts alive when they go out and do a spacewalk, so it is vital that it works well. so when anne made the decision that a large would not be safe for her, they thought it best to swap out a crew member and nick hay went out instead. so that shows you always so many things that go into the planning of spacewalks, the consideration of who was there. jessica and christina were the people on the space station, they were the right people to do thejob. there's a whole string of spacewalks going on at the minute, they are replacing a lot of batteries. luca parmitano and andrew morgan, who are also on the space station today — they are heading out in a little while to go and fix an experiment. so all of these things play in, and we just had the stars aligning for this all—female spacewalk today. and olivia, this may be a very simplistic question. you've trained tim peake, for example — are expectations on men and women different when you are out in space?

from an astronaut‘s perspective, absolutely not. they are all trained to do theirjobs correctly and properly, and are all very, very capable of doing that. there is no difference in their abilities. i think what you see sadly is still this difference in the media interest in it. you go back to the early days when sally ride flew into space, along with the first woman to do a spacewalk — all the women astronauts, all the questions they got asked had nothing to do with being able to do theirjob. the questions being asked to man where, "how's your hair going to be? how's your makeup? " all sorts of weird questions. and that is an indication not of the jobs they are doing, but the media. it's great that there is this interest in today and it is certainly a milestone, one i'm really happy to see reached. but i look forward to when this isn't something that we comment on, and men and women are able to go about their business without comment on their gender.

life to the international space station there, that spacewalk historic, seven hours later, is now complete. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello, a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and as ever, mark kermode is with me and has had his fill of films. what have you been watching this week, mark? it's a week of sequels this week. we have maleficent: mistress of evil. zombieland: double tap. and a shaun the sheep movie, farmageddon.

i love shaun the sheep! i can't even pronounce the title of the angelina jolie... i don't know why struggle with it so much. maleficent: mistress of evil. in the first maleficent, which kind of revisited sleeping beauty as a mother—daughter tale seen from the point of view of angelina jolie's character, who we learn through the course of the movie is not actually evil but has a whole lot of things going on. at the beginning of this, a voiceover says, "well, yes, but people still thought she was evil." and now we start the new movie many years later. elle fanning's aurora is set to marry a handsome prince, to the disdain of her mother, played by michelle pfeiffer. here's a clip. i remember the story of a baby, a baby cursed to sleep and never wake up. really? who would do such a terrible thing to an innocent child?

well, there are many who prey on the innocent. i'm sure your kind would agree. what do you mean my kind? she means humans. there are fairies missing from the moors... what i'm missing is some wine. ...stolen by human poachers. that's the first i've heard of it. someone gave the order. i would not mess with her! i know that already! here's the weird thing. this was kind of the sequel nobody was really asking for, but itjust happened anyway because the numbers seemed to add up. if the other one was a sympathy for the devil story, this is building up to a great big battle which i have to say comes a little bit like lord of the rings—light. the script is all over the place. literally, it looks like somebody took a bunch of plot elements, threw them on the floor and thought, just arrange them in a fashion...

have a bit with a castle and an attack and the thing with the fairies in danger, and there's some magic powder and some stuff going on, and then undo all the stuff from the first movie, but then put it all back together again. the biggest battle of the film, honestly, is the battle of the accents. it does sounds like a gargling of the english language. it's like somebody swallowed a bunch of rolls—royce parts. "family!" the other think which really bother me is, this kind of story — "tale as old as time" — needs magic. and there is a stunning lack of magic. there is a lot of cgi, a lot of effects, but no magic, and i have to say no soul, which is a real shame because there was a lot of talent on screen and a lot of talent behind the screen and very, very little magic. that is properly disappointing. does it get any better with our next sequel? zombieland: double tap, another sequel which is another one, i don't remember thinking, "i wonder what happened to the characters from zombieland!"

so, this was pretty much a decade in development hell. first film was fine. notable primarily for a cameo role for bill murray, which passed into legend. this picks up, we have got the survivors, they have moved into the white house. they are generally living the dysfunctional family life. abigail breslin goes awol. she runs off with a hippie, so the guys have to go back on the road again. and it's more of the same. it all sorts of goes around with a passable sense of fun, a lot of messing around in the white house, a lot of dysfunctional family stuff. the problem with it is this. it plays like a series of set pieces which, individually, are quite entertaining. there's some quite good zombie carnage stuff. there is a couple of funny new characters, but there is nothing that makes you think, "we wrote this because it really needed to bring the story on." also, one of the real shames of it is that towards the end of the film, there is what absolutely should have been, i am not going to reveal that, a completely secret surprise

which absolutely is neither secret nor a surprise thanks to the publicity in the film. i am not going to be any part in telling what it is, but it's one of those moments when you think, "remember what it was possible to watch a movie without knowing a whole bunch of stuff about it in advance?" that would improve it. quite a cast we are looking at. quite a cast, and many who you think they're doing it as a bit of light relief. i am not sure why... i am not sure why we needed to come back. it's fine. i chuckled a few times, i giggled a few times. not enough to justify a sequel, though. better than maleficent, though. made more sense. 0k! wow! we can talk about something good about shaun the sheep, right? who doesn't love aardman? farmageddon. ok, i think aardman are like one of the absolute gold standard names in entertainment. they never put a plasticine foot wrong. and in the case of this, this isjust wonderful. i started smiling the minutes the title credits came on, and then i laughed, i giggled,

i guffawed, i chuckled and ijust beamed my whole way through the movie. the story is, spaceship comes down, blue alien — shades of et, shades of x—files — and our heroes have to help the alien on earth and to reunite with his fellow aliens. no words, lots of noises, and a huge amount of fun. here's a clip. clang. laughter. groaning.

shaun gasps. you laughed all the way through! and i've seen that clip three orfour times. it's that level of laughter all the way through. the thing i love about it is this. on the one hand, it's a throwback, although it is very noisy, to silent cinema. it's a throwback to the universality of silent cinema. it wasn't to do with language. it was all to do with the universal language of cinema. there are no voices... exactly. there's that. it is a brilliant sense of slapstick. it's absolutely full of literary references, but they're not sort of coy and postmodern and winky. they are there for the joy of them being there. it's really touching,

it's really funny. the characters are more three dimensional than the human characters we have seen in the other films, even though it is largely plasticine sheep and aliens. there is a scene in zombieland with a combine harvester and a scene in shaun the sheep with a combine harvester, and shaun the sheep is much, much, much funnier. i just... honestly, you could take anyone to see it. it doesn't matter how old you are, as long as you have a fundamental knowledge of cinema, and i love slapstick. slapstick to me is like dance. it's like a really high... i think it's wonderful and i enjoyed it so much. and particularly in what has not been a vintage week, this just stood out like a shining beacon of joy. this is what cinema should be about and ijust loved it. and perhaps if any of us, notjust children, and particular adults, feeling a little worn down maybe by current events. the world has been tough recently. go see farmageddon. wonderful. might have to see it several times

in the next weekend. just lovely. in terms of best out — i have let you down. i was not brave enough... i was not brave enough! i want you to see it because it has divided people so much. the reason i chose it is to slightly play devils advocate. i know so many people who love it. i know an equal amount of people who absolutely hate it, and i really want you to know what you think of it. go and see it. everyone who has seen it says he is outstanding. and i think there are interesting things about the film itself, not least of which is it has divided people so much. there are some film critic friends of mine who i've said it is the worst film they have seen this year, others who have said is the best. it is a real kind of marmite film. i like it. i think it has flaws, but, yes... the real star of this film is hildur gudnadottir‘s score, because she has done the most brilliantjob of scoring the film.

his performance is great, but if it wasn't for that score, it would not have the depth that it has. all right. we'll see where we are this time next week. and a quick thought about dvd? a blu—ray release of angel heart. i know you're not a big horrorfan, but you must have seen angel heart, right? 30 years old. did you love it? i was 20 when it came out, so i would have been way too chicken to see it then. think how bad i am now! ok, but it is brilliant. it remind you how brilliant mickey rourke was when he was really brilliant. it has robert de niro. it is based on a novel called fallen angel. i think it is one of the cases where the film is better than the novel. it really stands the test of time. the time when it first came out, people were slightly dismissive of it because it is a horror film. it is a really, really brilliantly told, sort of steel trap of a film, with two great performances.

actually, three great performances. brilliant soundtrack, really atmospheric, and robert de niro eating a boiled egg in the most threatening way you have ever seen. well, on that note, i'm looking forward to shaun the sheep. thanks very much. probably so is half the nation, given what's ahead. thank you very much, mark. we'll see you next time. that is it for this week. enjoy your cinemagoing, whatever you choose to see — perhaps all of them. have a good weekend. thanks. bye— bye. hello, there are some heavy showers out there this evening, perhaps a rumble of thunder with some hail and winds. as low pressure moves across the uk, we have clear spells and showers around overnight. showers through an area of rain heading further southwards, temperatures

dipping into single figures and there may be the odd mist and fog patch here and there to start the day tomorrow, with winds light overnight. onto the start of the weekend, cloud and rain in scotland pushing into parts of northern england, a few showers heading through northern ireland. south of that, sunny spells. and the contrast and how things feel for saturday, south of this area are cloud and rain, south—westerly wind with mild — it's feeling colder north. with the strength of that wind in northern scotland, we have a south—westerly and sunny spells, temperatures in the mid teens. fewer showers on sunday.

this is bbc world news today. i'm samantha simmonds. our top stories. after the eu summit, borisjohnson mounts a last minute push to persuade the british parliament to vote for his brexit deal. what matters is mps coming together, across the house tomorrow, to get this thing done. police and protestors clash in barcelona, after after half a million people take part in a huge march in support of independence. fighting continues in northern syria, with reports of bombardment by air and artillery — despite turkey and the kurds agreeing a pause in hostilities. and stepping out in space — two nasa astronauts embark on the first all—woman spacewalk.