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the race to dubai, which replaced the tour‘s old order of merit, has only ever been won by one other spanish golfer and that was seve ballesteros. there are so many european tour players that could have done it, probably got close, and to think of that list of seve and then me is hard to believe. it is such a big part of spanish golf history and it is really unique to put my name on something that only seve has done. tyson fury will get his re—match with deontay wilder in february, after wilder beat luis ortiz to retain his wbc world heavyweight title for the 10th time in las vegas. it was a shaky start for the champion, who was out—boxed by ortiz for six rounds. but in the seventh, wilder's devastating right hand left ortiz on the canvas, unable to beat the count. afterwards he said tyson fury
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was definitely next, and then he wanted a unification bout with whoever wins the rematch between anthonyjoshua and andy ruinunior. that fight is in saudi arabia on december the 7th. meanwhile, callum smith has successfully defended his wba super—middleweight title in his home town of liverpool. the fight against fellow—britain john ryder went the distance but smith won it on a unanimous points decision. great britain's dave ryding crashed out of the opening slalom race of the world cup season in finland. he was in second place after the first leg, as he looked for his first victory. but he fell towards the end of the second leg. there has neve been a british winner of an alpine skiing world cup event. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. now on bbc news, it's the film review.
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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 ‘70s—inflected crime thriller. well, let it go has of course been an earworm 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
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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.
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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
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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. really 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 strange 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 —
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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 —
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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!
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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 ‘70s 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,
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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 ‘70s—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,
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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 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
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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.
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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. as we head into the last week of meteorological autumn there is a lot of rain around. a few of us will be lucky enough to see some bright and sunny spells but really the brightness has been at a premium today and we are already seeing our next spell of rain settling into south—west england. here is the early radar picture, gradually tracking north and east through the evening and overnight. probably getting as far north as the north midlands and southern parts of northern ireland and with this heavy rain we could see stronger ones across south—east england and south
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wales, 40—15 places. further north in the rain not getting there until tomorrow so staying dry across northern england and scotland but mist and hill fog northern england and scotland but mistand hill fog in northern england and scotland but mist and hill fog in the tempter not much lower than five or six. frost free again. areas of low pressure to deal with in this frontal system continues north and east, the heaviest rain across england and wales and we have a number of met office rain warnings in place. the rain becomes patchy as it tracks northwards on the far north of scotla nd northwards on the far north of scotland probably staying mainly dry and still quite windy for the shetland isles and stronger ones in parts of south—west england. the temperature tomorrow 9—13, staying mild as we do into tuesday but we get rid of one area of low pressure and another arrives from the atla ntic and another arrives from the atlantic and this has the remnants of what was tropical storm sebastian embedded so that will pep up the rain and strengthen the ones, gusts widely of 40—50, for south wales in south—west england, and into tuesday, more heavy rain on already
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saturated ground, another 15—20 millimetres quite widely with this band of rain pushing north and east, perhaps even more across the high ground of south—east england and wales. raining all the time on wednesday were some holes in it but heavier rain and strong and gusty winds, the strongest will be through the channel coast and across south—west england. the moist tropical air, the temperature widely in double figures, 10—14 on tuesday. low pressure so what is on wednesday, slowly tracking eastwards. further spells of heavy rain and strong winds for northern scotla nd rain and strong winds for northern scotland and one is turning more easterly and we drag down some cold air across much of the uk so to sum it up, and the week ahead, cloudy and mild with spells of wet and windy weather, dry and later in the week.
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this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 7pm. borisjohnson pledges not to raise income tax, vat or national insurance as he unveils the conservative's election manifesto. let's go for sensible, moderate, but tax cutting one nation conservative government and take this country forward. the tories also promise to add 50—thousand nurses to the nhs in england, and restore nursing grants. labour pledges to compensate nearly 4 million women, who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. five teenagers arrested after a large brawl at a birmingham cinema. michetes are recovered and vue cinemas pull the gang film blue story.

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