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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  October 25, 2019 5:45pm-6:01pm BST

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by cloud funding, the appeals with an idea and they did really well. it is code written by and starsjimmie fails who plays a man who is desperate to retrieve his family home in the upmarket district of san francisco. he has a good friend who he tours around the city with and they have been pushed to the outskirts, and a visit this house regularly which is now lived in by a white couple. he feels they are not looking after it properly, he turns up looking after it properly, he turns up and paints their windowsills. he arrives there one day to discover they have been thrown out of the house of the house is now empty. he decides we're going to move back in and he goes to see his aunt to go get the furnishing that used to be in the house before they moved out, here is a clip. your daddy didn't send you here, right? no. you sure? i swear to god. because i hope he's done dragging
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you into his schemes. auntie, this is for us. 0k. i'm proud of you. i really am. thank you. i miss that city. 0h, ooh! you still good though, baby. you still look good. what i love about this and i think you get a sense from that as it has a surreal comic element to it but it also has a pathos and element of tragedy even about it. on the one hand it is about how place changes through gentrification because the whole thing is his grandfather may be how they want to get back to. on the other hand, it is about how any place changes depending on how you look at it. there is a lovely thing
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about the two main characters skateboarding through the city and you city passing by them but you also see the bond between them as one put his hand on the other is a lovely thing about the two main characters skateboarding through the city and you see the city passing by them but you also see the bond between them as one put his hand on the other‘s shoulders as they skippered together. and it is about how people and places are intertwined. the director described it as intertwined. the director described itasa intertwined. the director described it as a love story between a man and a house. it is partly about history, partly about personal relationships. it has the most wonderful score who i hadn't come across before. this cortla nd i hadn't come across before. this cortland owns a fairy tale aspect to this story. on the one hand, it is a story about a prince being exiled from his castle. it can be quite an angry film because gentrification makes people, you know, upset. yes, and absolutely isn't although there isa and absolutely isn't although there is a thread of anger in the narrative but what is lovely about it as it is strangely gentle, strangely serene, almost dreamy. i spent a long time watching it thinking the genius of this, one hand the music is fabulous, and it has this look about it which as you
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get into the rhythm of the priest, you learn to slightly slow yourself down —— the rhythm of the piece. and get attuned to the frequency of the film. it is very rich, often very funny but it has a tragic comic dark out to it. it is about a very real thing, something changing, about a memory, about history and about gentrification, but also it is kind ofafairy gentrification, but also it is kind of a fairy tale. it was made from the ground up for very little money and it was backed by brad pitt's plan b. i don't know how to even describe the second film, i am bemused about it. monos almost defies description is by words because it is a audio and visual experience. it is directed by alejandro landes. it is a story about a teenage guerrilla soldiers in an unnamed location on the top of the mountain above the crowd line ——
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cloud line where they are being trained. we don't have geopolitical details of where they are, even when this is and how this got there. at the beginning they are being trained by somebody, the messenger who leads them to their own devices. there is a motive in the film of a pigs head ona a motive in the film of a pigs head on a stick which immediately makes you think lord the flies. there is a lot of lord of the flies. there is a lot of lord of the flies. there is a lot of lord of the flies. there is a lot of heart of darkness and by extension, apocalypse now. this reminded me of a strange movie about child soldiers which is very hallucinogenic, very moving, upsetting and horrifying. i also saw echoes of other films. it is a film which is so kaleidoscopic that despite the fact it is, one hand, child soldiers, it is about so much more. it is a coming of age story.
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it has a universal thing, you never know where the story is taking place. it is about the group dynamics between this cast and how it fractures and sponges. the cast is made up of people who have never done on—screen work before and on the other hand, at least one cast member was a regular on hannah montana and who i did not recognise until halfway through the film. it has a score that is quite the most astonishing thing i have heard in yea rs. astonishing thing i have heard in years. it is billing, it is actually brilliant and indescribable.” years. it is billing, it is actually brilliant and indescribable. i was about to say despised description. the choice —— is bad estate defies description. the third choice naomie harris, i love her. it is a very nuts and bolts. thriller. she is a policewoman and there is racism in
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the force. very early on she accidentally films an appalling act on her body can. she is on the run from everyone. hello? it's me, it's me. the hell is going on? is that blood? i need sugar. look, i don't know what's going on but you can be in here. i've been shot. what? what do you mean? can i use the phone? who shot you? can i use your phone? you got to go. i don't want no part to this. the police is riding around here all the time, they'll help you. it was the cops that shot me. that is a great set up and she is really terrific and she elevates it
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from being essentially a nuts and bolts b—movie thriller into being something more than that. narratively there is a weird echo of the comic to remember that film set in belfast called 71, about a british squaddie who is separated and finds himself trapped in this area where he doesn't understand the situation, doesn't understand the landscape. this has a similar sort of claustrophobia to it. it is very efficiently put together, there are some very tense set pieces. as a narrative goes on to become slightly more and more unbelievable and in the end it becomes rather ridiculous but all the way through it, you believe in her because you believe in her you believe in the story. i ama in her you believe in the story. i am a real sucker for a in her you believe in the story. i am a real suckerfor a well in her you believe in the story. i am a real sucker for a well executed picture. a well executed stripped down picture which is what this is. it may well be more at home on dvd 01’ it may well be more at home on dvd or screaming. it may well be more at home on dvd orscreaming. i it may well be more at home on dvd or screaming. i don't think it will bea or screaming. i don't think it will be a huge cinema hit but i think she is really great and it is done efficiently by someone who
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understands. the director comes from a horror thriller background, and thatis a horror thriller background, and that is a great thing, good training ground, andi that is a great thing, good training ground, and i think she really elevates it to the next level. 0k, best out is probably something we all need to cheer us up in these dark times. 90 minutes of pure goodness, shaun the sheep farmageddon. i am a huge fan, ijust smiled and laughed and giggled all the way through. it is a shaun the sheep movie with a kind of et twist. it doesn't matter what age you are, it is just so charming and funny and moving and made with real care and love, and i am a huge silent movie fan. there is no dialogue in it. so much asjust a fan. there is no dialogue in it. so much as just a silent movie humour. incidentally the combine harvester isa incidentally the combine harvester is a setup for a gag which i laughed about for about three minutes. honestly, it will make everyone feel the world is a better place, it is
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so the world is a better place, it is so lovely. i think we should have that on prescription then, the whole nation. really should, i don't feel very well, see shaun the sheep farmageddon you will feel better. quick talk about dvds. very quickly, bright bone do not take a huge amount of money in cinemas. it is a duck take on the superhero origin myth. i do not know much about it and consequently i really knew enjoyed it. it is not the most original thing in the world, it ta kes a original thing in the world, it takes a lot of influences from predecessor writing and films but i like how the strength of its convictions and it seemed to take itself seriously enough to work. it isa itself seriously enough to work. it is a dark take on the superman origin smith. i know you have a certain fondness for its superhero movies. i'm certainly married to someone movies. i'm certainly married to someone who loves all of that. that will be on our shelf. but shaun the sheep farmageddon, shaun the sheep farmageddon, shaun the sheep farmageddon. double bill, shaun the
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sheep farmageddon and monos, your mind will be blown. that is my weekend so it is, thank you very much. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello there, we have got some very heavy rain to come. overnight tonight and well on into saturday the heaviest falls of rain across parts of england and wales and the rain bearing cloud is already with us. rain bearing cloud is already with us. you can see that on the satellite picture here. this is a weather front and the thing is it doesn't just stretch out weather front and the thing is it doesn'tjust stretch out into the atlantic, the stretches are the way out into the subtropical atlantic. a front that is over 2000 miles long, a friend that is targeting this conveyor belt of moisture, really in the south of wales. it is here we could see around 2a hours worth of rain with the rain fell total is building up. met office have issued debt and a weather warning. over the
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high ground, and in 20 metres of rain on the way and that is likely to lead to flooding issues. that is not the only place we will see heavy rain, south—west england will get heavy rain and the peaks and pennines, and even lower down in the midlands and northern england, there will be more than enough rain to cause problems locally with flooding issues. further south it is going to bea mild issues. further south it is going to be a mild night. it to the north are some patches of frost, blustery showers affecting north west scotland, some wintry or very high ground and that he is on into saturday. even as the band of rain is as from those worst hit areas there will still be water running off the hills into the river catchments, flooding to get worse before it gets better. a cool day across northern parts of the country, a day of sunshine and blustery showers for scotland and northern ireland. most of us, temperatures struggling into single figures, the exception, the amount arejust clinging on figures, the exception, the amount are just clinging on across the far south—east of england but ultimately colder weather will arrive as we go
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through saturday night and into the first part of sunday. sunday starts off on first part of sunday. sunday starts offona first part of sunday. sunday starts off on a cold note, there will be some patchy frost around and with the clocks going back it means an extra hour in bed. the next hour perhaps under the warm duvet. we have got plenty of sunshine, sparkling blue skies for many of us but there will be blustery winds and showers from northern and eastern scotland, one or two sneaking down to effect the eastern coast of england as well. most of us, it is dry, turning cooler in the south but not quite as cool in scotland, temperatures 11 in edinburgh. not quite as chilly as it has been today 01’ on quite as chilly as it has been today or on saturday but really, looking at the weather picture on the edges, mainly dry, some frost patches around and any showers should be limited to a c north and east of the uk. looks like it will eventually become a lot drier but the chilly airwill become a lot drier but the chilly air will stay with us for quite a while yet.
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families in vietnam say they fear their children are among the 39 people who died in the refrigerated container in essex. the family of 26—year—old pham tra my say they haven't heard from her since tuesday night, when she sent text messages saying she couldn't breathe. the lorry driver remains in police custody and a man and a woman from cheshire have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiring to traffic people. we'll have the latest from essex. also on the programme tonight. the teenagers being sold class a drugs on the social media platfrom snapchat — we hearfrom one mother whose teenage son died after taking ecstasy. if they don't start making an example of it, it's just going to go on and on and on and spiral, and people are going to get away with it, making money. on what? on families being torn apart. the prime minister tells
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jeremy corbyn to "man up" and back

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