we have the irishman, martin scorsese, a netflix film that is playing in cinemas. and luce, a very intriguing psychological thriller. so, are we starting with the good liar? we're starting with the good liar. 50, helen mirren and ian mckellen. they are silver surfers who meet online. they are filling up the online dating forms and they are both for being about themselves, so the good liar sets itself up at the very beginning, we learn very early on that he is a conman, he meets helen mirren, a grandson doesn't trust in mcallen and frankly neither would i. chuckles. the size of your estate, there'd be a windfall every week! so, what would you...? mmm? steven? i thought you were in spandau. huh, did you? well, they let me out early. 0h, steven! why didn't you let me know you were back?

you should've called! what have you got her doing? so he moves in here with his gammy leg and the first time i leave you alone with him, he's got you giving him all your money? no! here now. no, no, no. that's not what's going on here! that's jumping a few fences! listen, roy. do you know what? this isn't your house. steven. he's an intruder. can you see that? you're embarrassing me in front of mr halloran and roy, who i... don't, don't. don't touch me. 0h! at the beginning we are being set up for a twist which, i might say, if you did not see it coming you were asleep on thejob. you did not see it coming you were asleep on the job. there you did not see it coming you were asleep on thejob. there is you did not see it coming you were asleep on the job. there is a second twist in the third twist down the line that made me go heaven's sake. if you are to enjoy this, you have to listen to them during the scenery fallout with. it is preposterous tosh, but by know from some people

they have kind of enjoyed it for all its ridiculousness copy apparently, the novel seems slightly less fanciful. fanciful. it's kind of a weird cross between, like, miss marple sunday afternoon tv and something which is slightly more sweary than that. it makes no sense whatsoever. the pleasure in it is seeing two actors enjoying themselves — although, i have to say, i never believed that they were anything other than two actors enjoying themselves. you never actually believed in the characters, as they were. i mean, it's a really odd film. it falls between several stalls. it's directed by bill condon, who is a very good director, and it has a very fine cast but it is absolutely ridiculous nonsense. is that an opportunity missed? i mean, the world is full nowadays of con men, you know, trying to wrangle people out of their savings. but here's the thing — at the beginning, the premise which is set up is the good liar — who is the good liar? and that's a nice little idea and, you know, obviously, one expects there to be twists and turns in the narrative, which it does exactly what you expect. but then, it goes into the realms of the utterly ridiculous.

but, you know, there's a certain pleasure in seeing very, very fine actors having fun. it doesn't make any sense. 0k. any sense! let's move on to your... no sense! i think we got that message! let's move on to your second film — does this make sense? — another film with fine actors, the irishman. yeah, i thought this did a lot more than i expected. so this is martin scorsese, joe pesci, robert de niro, al pacino, so big stars. robert de niro kind of back working with scorsese and making the kind of movie they made when they were making goodfellas and casino. it's made for netflix, but it has got a brief theatrical window — i think it's 21 days. and it's the story of frank sheeran. it goes over six decades. al pacino plastimmy hoffa, the union leader. joe pesci is playing very, very underplayed. stephen graham is playing the kind of character thatjoe pesci would've played in a previous incarnation. the thing there's been a lot of talk is that the film uses digital de—ageing technology, because we see the characters go from the 1940s through to... and there's lots of question about, you know, is it distracting? i have to say, i didn't think it was. the only distracting thing is occasionally,

their bodies move like old men, although their faces look young. 0h, weird! yeah. but in a 3.5—hour movie, for that to only be occasionally distracting is actually pretty good. and the fact of the matter is it's a very interesting story, it's well told, there's real film—making brio, it has a terrific soundtrack, there are, you know, the performances are all solidly good and it does — i mean, it takes full advantage of the fact that it's a netflix film, therefore its 3.5 hours long, which is the probably thing that will make a lot of people think "you know what? i will stay in and watch this at home." but i watched it in the cinema and the 3.5 hours pretty much flew by, with the exception of the last act, which did feel like "oh, 0k, you're making this for a home audience". but i thought it was — i was — pretty entertaining and the digital de—ageing bothered me much less than i expected. and frankly, if they could digitally de—age me in that way, i would be very happy. i don't like the idea of that, though. it's well done. it's well — it's just make—up. it's digital make—up. that's all it is. it's like, you know, performance capture. it's just digital costumes. digital de—ageing is just digital make—up — if you use it properly. it's gonna do a whole

profession out of a job! well, it — i mean, you still need to use ordinary make—up, as well. there are older periods in which they do do the standard ageing thing. but i think it is, you know, it's the future. but you just have to be careful that the technology — it's not the tail wagging the dog. fairenough! now, we need to move on to the third one, luce. yes. so this is based on a stage play byjc lee. naomi watts and tim roth are a liberal white american couple who adopted a child who had grown up in war—torn eritrea. now he is a model student, he is fantastic at sports, he is fantastic at debating, but one of his teachers has started to have worries about him. is something up with him, or does she have a hidden agenda? here's a clip. like, what are the criteria for evaluating what is a valuation of privacy? is privacy a civil right? i think so. maybe the law isn't so sure. if i went through your desk without your knowing, would you feel like your privacy was violated? yes, i would. so? feelings aren't a legal argument.

in the newjersey case, the teacher assumed the girl was guilty, because of her feelings. that's called reasonable suspicion. it's all the police need to search your car. so it's about what's reasonable? that's what courts are for. really, it's just about people though, right? whether they conform to what we think there? it's not that simple. nothing ever is. now that's kind of the nub of it. and what you see from that is, you know, what i was saying about the first film, there are twists, but you can see them coming a million miles away? the great thing about this, it is based on a stage play and it does feel a little bit stage—y. but all the way through, you are kept guessing as to what is actually going on. does it tell you at the end? i don't... it is, in my opinion, impressively unresolved. yes, things do get solved up to a certain amount, but it is a film of great ambiguity. there's a terrific soundtrack by geoff barrow and ben salisbury, whose soundtrack all

the way through is telling you this is awkward, this is off—kilter, there are strange things at work here. and what i really liked about it is it's actually very hard to sustain a movie in which, right up until the very end, you are questioning people's motives, you're questioning people's characters. but also, you also start to realise that the film isn't going to tie itself neatly up. it is going to leave questions unresolved. i thought it was very, very well played. i think it's a great performance by kelvin harrisonjr. octavia spencer is absolutely terrific. it is a very sort of satirical take on the middle class couple and their presumptions about things, and one of the things that... kinda of the white saviour stuff? yeah, but one of the things that it does also is it wrong—foots the audience. it plays to the audience's expectations and then it wrong—foots them — or does it? all the way through this, i kept thinking, because i saw it immediately after watching the good liar, "this has the sense of ambiguity, the sense of uncertainty that the film before didn't have". i don't think it's gonna have a huge cinema audience, but i think it was really

well worth seeing. my only reservation — it is based on a stage play and it is quite stage—y. but actually, i thought the story was really well told. great, 0k. you've got 30 seconds for best out? best out is monos which is this extraordinary film which, on the one hand is a story about child soldiers, but is so much more than that. it is a modern—day lord of the flies. and extraordinary soundtrack by mica levi, which is one of the weirdest soundtracks i've heard all year, and a brilliant ensemble performance by a cast, some of whom are very well known, some of whom are completely unknown, but all of whom mesh together brilliantly. brilliant, disturbing, overwhelming, wonderful. wow! that sounds incredible! now, then — and very quickly — best dvd? yesterday. so the story is everyone has forgotten the beatles, except for our central character. and, you know, what would it be like if you woke up and you were the only person who remembered heyjude? i think it's really fun. i'm a sucker for richard curtis scripts anyways. i think it's really well played. i mean, i — it's one of those things that you either love it or you go, "oh, for heaven's sake! this is — this doesn't make any..." but i really, really enjoyed it. i laughed, cried — and i've watched it twice and the second time around, it was just as powerful.

i — i thought it was... i'm a sucker for really well—done sentimentality and this was like a great pop song — you can listen to it over and over again. thank you, mark. i've gotta see that. still haven't seen it yet and you've made me want to watch it. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching us. goodbye. hello there, and welcome to look at whether for the week ahead. tha nkfully whether for the week ahead. thankfully we had a drier day on sunday, we will see some drier windows of weather this week but because it has been so wet this autumn of course many warnings remain in place and for more details on those you can head to the weather website as you can see her behind me. the week ahead, we keep a similar situation to what we have had just recently weather cold side of our jetstream, damp had just recently weather cold side of ourjetstream, damp upper—level winds, means these temperatures will be below average for much of the week however because of the close proximity of the jetstream that will still flow weather fronts and low pressures away, a lot of them diving

southwards but also was enough to british isles to give us some more rain. stopping the week ahead is still looking unsettled, it will be quite chilly unmentioned by day with some frost that night so that is a change for some of us copy but monday, more rain to start with, and oui’ monday, more rain to start with, and our first significant hail snow through the small hours across scotland. behind it, the north—westerly wind sets and bringing lots of showers so there are met office warnings out for monday for the rain, particularly very sensitive where we have seen the severe flooding, so those are one certainly to keep our ion. there will be a lot of standing water on the roads anyway and with that bracing north—westerly wind it is going to feel cold for all of us with only 670 celsius. to says very little change in the area of low pressure, but it is still sitting on tuesday so it is still providing, forcing if you like, the moisture to bring further spells of showers and again in those areas very sensitive to further rainfall at the moment,

and it is cold at the moment, again it is likely to be wintry over the hills, in particular it will feel cold but they do stutter is on the west later in the day, though showers, because we start the average of high—pressure building and, so not too long behind it is another band of rain but a brief window of dry weather through tuesday night and into wednesday as we see a widespread frost and a risk of ice because it has been so wet. wednesday we can breathe again with some dry weatherfor a wednesday we can breathe again with some dry weather for a time but this area of low pressure it positioning, it is causing a bit of a headache at the moment, slowly into parts of northern ireland and later southern and western areas, so giving many parts a drier day, a chilly day though, because we're starting with a frosty day, and what happens next? it look so that low pressure area will think its way southwards but leave it with a front sitting across the uk with quite a brisk wind around them and it may be that they sit on some central areas, so again, parts of northern england, the midlands and there are warnings out

already for this system so we need to keep a close ion that. to the north of that, it is cold, sunny spells and wintry showers doubly to the south, as i say, we do look as if we are set for more rainfall over the course of wednesday night to thursday, but then it should pull away, it moves down towards the south but that is going to be the battle as we headed through into the following weekend. we have got a cold northerly setting and for a time on friday, still that rain is lingering in southern eastern areas much of the day, and if we take a look at the pressure charts through friday and beyond, it looks like that will be a bridge of high—pressure, we see those other weather fronts close by and always the risk of this low bringing more rain into southern and eastern areas, but with higher pressure further north it should be drier but it is still an unsettled picture. there are warnings, more on that on the website.

you are watching newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: a state of emergency is declared in new south wales and now queensland, with warnings that bushfires in australia could pose a catastrophic threat to sydney. bolivia's president evo morales announces his resignation after weeks of protests over last month's disputed elections. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: cyclone bulbul rips through coastal areas of bangladesh and india, killing at least 13 people and forcing more than two million out of their homes. living with hiv in pakistan — we find out how families are coping in a part of the country where infection rates are growing.