has to be a slimming down of it as a result of this. 0k. has to be a slimming down of it as a result of this. ok. we are going to end there. sorry! there are about four pages. there are a number of pages and a number of points that the paper goes into. that is the end of our paper review for this evening. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, martin and lynne. next on bbc news it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news.

to take us through this week's releases, as ever, mark kermode. hello, mark. hello. something for everyone this week. we have harriet, which is a true story of bravery. we have frozen 2. let it go, again. and 21 bridges, a ‘705—inflected crime thriller. well, let it go has of course been an ear worm all day... of course, of course. ..but let's start with harriet, which i'm really hoping you are going to tell me is really good. it is really good. good! so this is a film about a former slave turned abolitionist harriet tubman. cynthia erivo is the woman who escapes slavery, makes her own way to philadelphia where she meets up with the underground railroad, who cannot believe that she has made this journey pretty much under her own steam. here's a clip. so where are the others? weren't no others. you know, you can trust me. i'm a friend. who — who'd you make the journey with?

i left my husband and family. it wasjust me and the lord. well, i don't know if you know how extraordinary this is but by some miraculous means, you have made it 100 miles to freedom, all by yourself. would you like to pick a new name? to mark your freedom? most ex—slaves do — any name you want. they called my mama rip. but her name harriet. i want my mama name and my husband. harriet tubman. wow. you really have to remember that cynthia erivo is british as well. remarkable. it is a really brilliant performance.

the tag line is be free or die. there is talk about it doing a harriet tubman biopic for quite a long time — i think 20 years ago is when they started talking about it — and no... i mean, it is a really inspirational story. she is terrific in the title role. it is very well — kasi lemmons and the co—writer gregory allen howard do a really good job of taking a quite complex historical story and compressing it into something which works as a really sort of adventurous, engrossing narrative on screen. on the one hand, you have the grit of the story, the horror of the story. in the way the film is shot, you get — i don't know if you remember this, but with 12 years a slave, there was always that thing about the beauty of the landscape against the horror of what was happening. yes, yeah! you get some of that here. you also get this kind of slightly mystical element. she's had an injury to her head which causes fainting, but she seems to have almost like a hotline to the almighty, and it plays with that really, really well. but the most impressive thing about it is that it manages to tell a historical story in a way

that is really dramatic, really engrossing that assumes you wouldn't know anything about this story beforehand and does so in a way that i think a mainstream audience could completely embrace and i think it's, you know, it's think it's a really, really well—made film and a really engrossing story and great to see this story told on the big screen. yeah. fantastic. rally looking forward to that. frozen 2. i mean, i cannot stop singing it all the time, but, yes... ok, so this picks up, you know, some — a few years after the first film. elsa hears a straight sound calling out of the north, calling her to the forest. now there is a new quest, a new problem to be solved. josh gad is olaf who is grown up and is now dealing with some of the problems of maturity. we have all the stuff that you would expect — we have spectacular visuals, water, ice, you know, heroines, action, drama. we have some absolutely belting songs. we have idina menzel belting out into the unknown which is kinda of up there to some extent with let it go. there's a lovely song by olaf about when i'm older, everything will make sense, but it doesn't make sense now. i have no doubt that this is going to be a runaway smash and i have no doubt that it is going to find a very,

very sympathetic audience because we know these characters, we love these characters, we have so much invested in it — and you can hear a big but coming. laughs. the thing is, from my point of view, you remember when toy story 2 came out and it was "wow! it's actually better than toy story!" yes! and you remember when godfather 2 came out and it's like "wow! "it's actually better than godfather!" well, frozen 2 is... it's fine. it's fine, yeah. but the thing is when i saw the first one, i just thought "this is so magical" and i didn't — you know, i had no expectation about it. it was so magical and so thrilling and so wonderful. i have no doubt that this is going to, you know, score a home run with its audiences but what it does not do — and i know it's asking a lot, what it doesn't do is take it to the next level. what it does is it feels like "ok, this is really successful. you'd like to spend time with these characters again and we'd like to repeat that box office bonanza and so, here's frozen." so it's fine. but that's. .. they're not going to put that on the poster, are they? "it's fine." it's fine. but then again, what do they care what a 57—year—old bloke thinks? i mean, as i say, i'm sure with its target audience, it will... ijust want it — i wanted it

to be the godfather 2. we so don't have time for that thought! i know. sorry. 2! bridges. so chadwick boseman as a new york cop with a reputation for shooting bad guys. sienna miller is a narcotics cop. they meet up in the wake of a crime which has gone wrong and a number of policemen have been shot. they decide that they are going to shut down manhattan by closing the 2! bridges and then they have to pursue what they think are two suspects, including a quite breathtaking chase sequence. here's a clip. police, stop! don't shoot!

it's tense! yeah, so what do you immediately think of when you see that? you immediately think of french connection. popeye doyle chasing charnier on and off the train, ok? and the film is obviously referring back to those ‘705 thrillers. it doesn't have the grit or the depth of, you know, serpico or french connection. what it does have is a kind of very cliched, hard—boiled dialogue. it has an absolute nuts and bolts plot. you know, at the beginning, we've got something to do, we've got a limited amount of time to do it, the bridges can only be closed until five o'clock in the morning, we've got to catch these two people. and so, it's kind of set up almost like you think of something like the warriors. you know, very, very simple set—up — you've got to do this and you've got to do it in a limited period of time. what i liked about it is that, for me, it was an a—list b—movie.

remember we talked about black and blue before? mmm — yes, yes. i said it's the same thing. you know, it's something which is a nuts and bolts idea but it's elevated because it's got every good performances. the dialogue in this is so ripe, you can actually smell it, but it's fine because you think "ok, it's a b—movie, but itjust happens to being played by very fine performers and it's directed with an efficiency and an enthusiasm for the genre." and i like a ‘7os—inflected crime thriller, i'm not making any claim for it being great, but i really enjoyed it as a good nuts and bolts popcorn thriller. there is a twist in it that you see coming a mile away. chuckles. but that's absolutely fine because it knows what it is and it does what it is efficiently. it does not have any great depth but then, frankly, it doesn't need it. but it's honest. it's honest! honest! exactly, it's an honest thriller. and best out this week is a re—release? it is. so the bfi‘s got this musical season and so they have put ken russell's tommy back into cinemas. now, i — i love ken russell. i think ken russell is the great, you know, british post—war film—making talent. you know, powell and pressburger and then onto ken russell — that's the lineage. and tommy is extraordinary. it is based on the who's rock opera but it's completely reinvented

by russell because russell was interested in films about false messiahs in, you know, twisted religions. it's got brilliant songs, as we know... yes, yes. ..from the who. it's got a a range of completely crazy performances, including famously elton john as the pinball wizard up on those massive boots and i'm — you haven't seen it, have you? laughs. you need to — no, but this is brilliant. it's an embarrassing admission! no, no — it's not! because when tommy came out in cinemas, ok, the only place you could see it with a proper sound mix was in leicester square, when it played... and i was five! yes, exactly. but everyone else who saw it in the cinema saw it with a bad sound mix. now, it's back in the cinema so you can enjoy for the first time the way that ken russell wanted you to experience it. this is a thrilling treat and i think you should embrace that moment. i will, i will! that's the joy of a re—release. it is. that's the joy. and a quick thought about dvd this week? look, i did this with you in mind, ok? annabelle comes home. i see this! i don't — i don't think it's by any means — but here's what it is. firstly, of all of the annabelle movies, it's the one that

i like the most. and i've chosen it for you because it's a horror movie but it's actually not very scary. it's actually... 0k... it's got nice characters that we can empathise with and we can enjoy and it's like a — it's like roller—coaster fu nfair ride. so thrilling, but not — it's not disturbing. it'sjust — it has got a... 0k. it's like a — it's like a — it's like a way in. you haven't heard how much i swear on a roller—coaster! it's not pretty! i am going to get you to like horror movies. it's a — i'm — this is gonna happen. this is a very good way in. annabelle comes home. it's fine, just a little bit but nothing deeply disturbing. 0k. scary enough to count as a horror genre, however... yes. 0k. but not scary enough to disturb you or give you a sleepless night. 0k. well, it is certainly a week with something for everyone. something for everyone. exactly as you say. i'm afraid harriet is top of my list but it won't surprise you to hear that. yeah, it's great. and you will really — you will really like it. it's really worth seeing. thank you very much. see you next time. thank you very much for being with us. enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye.

we've had more rain today on already—saturated ground, as much as 20 millimetres across some parts of south—west england, wales, north—west england as well and even more over higher ground. the rain across england and wales are starting to ease and put its way northwards, going through the night most of the rain is going to be confined to eastern scotland. still some heavy rain initially across north—east england but it is eastern scotla nd north—east england but it is eastern scotland that is going to bed the brunt of the rain through the night. some mist, some mark, some patchy cloud for east anglia and south—east england, this in turn will encourage some dense patches of fog. tomorrow, briefly, we have a fairly weak ridge of high pressure. we still have rain to deal with initially across eastern scotland, making its way north and east throughout the day. out on the atlantic, another low pressure system pushing its way through the evening. the rain pulls its way into the northern isles and becomes confined here throughout the day, quite wet and windy for the northern isles. but also, quite wet

and windy. poor visibility and that is going to be slow to lift was not any brightness on sundays really at any brightness on sundays really at a premium. it's mild, 9—12 does this the top temperature. rain will be putting in through the chilly isles —— it's mild 9—12 the top temperature this evening, rain will be pushing in through the aisles of chilly. it's going to be raining across england and well on monday, we still have met office warnings. a bit patchy as it moves its way north and eastwards into northern ireland and eastwards into northern ireland and into scotland. northern scotland actually staying mainly dry on monday. some brightness skies and sunshine behind this rain with a scattering of showers, quite mild, 9-13 scattering of showers, quite mild, 9— 13 celsius. we get rid of one area of low pressure only for another one to arrive as we come into tuesday. this contains the re m na nts of

into tuesday. this contains the remnants of what was tropical storms sebastien. this extends its way north and eastwards once again across the uk. some heavy showers developing across southern coastal counties do tuesday afternoon. again, we have warnings in place from the met office, but this rain, strong winds as well as more rain coming into wednesday. overall it is really quite an unsettled week ahead. signs things will turn drier, but also the return of night frosts.

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