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gambling and sport but 365 founder contribution of £276 million, that is why i suspect the government will not ban advertising from gambling because £276 million from a single company is a rather large amount to go in. but interesting that this tax list, we have always had a rich list. there are other names like james dyson in their so big people we have heard of. people like to know that people who are very rich are paying a fair share. but this story is that one of the reasonsjk rowling is happy to pay this amount of monies that was once a single mother on and if it and it was a safety net that enabled her to write the books that she has now been famous from. as far as she is concerned, she isjust paying back to society because they really helped her. final point is that there are questions about the a ccu ra cy there are questions about the a ccu ra cy of there are questions about the accuracy of the list and that it can
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only be based on publicly available figures and we don't know people private tax payments. it is striking that many of the richest people in the country do not feature on the list. this is from an economist at the iprr, a left of centre think tank. this is one of the issues, some of these giant corporations like google and amazon are not paying their fair share. people employ accountants to ensure they do not pay as much as they might. that would lead us neatly back to the tech tax, another thing borisjohnson neatly back to the tech tax, another thing boris johnson and neatly back to the tech tax, another thing borisjohnson and donald trump will disagree on. that is another story. that's it for the papers this evening. don't forget, you can see the front pages online on the bbc news website, seven days a week. if for any reason you missed the programme, you can always catch up on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to martin and lucy for giving up our saturday night to keep us informed and entertained. that's all from us
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tonight. next up, the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is, as ever, mark kermode. good to see you, mark, what have you been watching? interesting week. we have the personal history of david copperfield, which is a new interpretation by armando iannucci. we have no fathers in kashmir, which is an ambitious political drama. and the horror franchise is back in the grudge. oh, good. yes, i know. let's talk about david copperfield. 0k, fine, so, this is a new adaptation by armando iannucci, which is kind of notable for two reasons, one, for playing up
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the comedic elements and for finding the kind the modernists, surreal, absurdist comedic elements in the source. and also for its brilliantly inclusive colourblind ensemble cast. at the centre of it all, we have dev patel as copperfield, who recounts his story from a stage. we see him at the very beginning of the film, he comes on stage and he says "i'm going to recount my life story." and then he turns around and walks back into a back drop, and through it and into his own life story. strides across the field, arrives at the place of his own birth to witness his own birth, we then see his childhood, his nightmarish time in the bottle factory, his adventure with his friends, and, inevitably, his love for dora. here's a clip. he's apologising, jip shall we forgive him? he says we shall. thank you, jip. in deeper voice: think nothing of it, sir. he speaks very well. it was actually me. i like to pretend he speaks. some people think it idiotic.
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oh, no, i do it myself, all the time. don't i, mr... ..apple tree? in deeper voice: yes, yes. i'm david copperfield. are you still being the tree? no. i'm dora...spenlow. spenlow, dora spenlow? yes. i don't know why i said it like that, dora. ..spenlow. i don't usually stop in the middle. trotwood, mr spenlow! sorry. yes. deeper voice: bye-bye! sorry? what was that? just jip. deeper voice: bye-bye, tree. appletree. ok, you laughed all the way through that. i laughed a lot during this film, actually. i think it has an extraordinary cast, i mean they cast benedict wong, nikki amuka—bird, rosalind eleazar, tilda swinton, hugh laurie, ben wishaw is the most brilliant incarnation.
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we arrived with that kind of pudding bowl haircut. what i love about the film is this, firstly, i think it's really vibrant, i mean it's a really vibrant piece of film—making. it sets up this theatrical motife at the beginning, and all the way through the film, there are these kind of theatrical scene changes, when they will be in one scene, and the backdrop will literally fall away like a tarp falling, which kind of reinforces the idea of a theatrical presentation. it also has, for me, a touch of the terry gilliams about it. there are childhood memories in which you see some fantastical things, like a hand breaking through the ceiling, as memory and fantasy gives way to reality. it deals with all the really tough stuff, like that time in the bottle factory, but, the film is always full of life and colour and motion and emotion, and i think it. i mean, i laughed, i've seen this twice now,
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and i laughed all the way through, but it wasn't just laughter because it's like a, it's a surface adaptation, it's laughter because the film is so empathetic. it draws you into this absolutely beautiful broad canvas of characters. not a foot wrong, in terms of the performances, some really great comic moments, but at the centre of it, dev patel, who i think has some of the pathos of charlie chaplin. i thought he was astonishing, actually. he's wonderful, isn't he? absolutely wonderful. he was such a versatile actor, he's such a brilliant performer. he has his sort of slapstick moments in it, but he has that central thing that, like chaplain, you love his character for all the foibles and all the failings, and you want him to succeed. and you have to love the character to follow the character through this kind of labyrinthine journey. i think that i loved it more, you had some reservations... i think you love it more than me, but that's not to say i didn't enjoy it, and the colours have really stayed with me. oh, yeah. i mean, really beautiful, and i loved dev patel. i'm not always a fan of films that just are one famous person after another, i find that sometimes as unimaginative casting, but some of this is superb.
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i thought hugh laurie was extrodinary! absolutely brilliant, i also thought that although there are a lot of famous names, there were a lot of lesser known names, i mean this is casting from stage and screen, and there was not one performance in which i thought, "that person "is there for anything other than the fact that they are "the right person for the role." yes, yes, good point. i mean, tilda swinton is a huge name, but she is brilliantly cast as betsy trotwood. she's really, really funny. and hugh laurie as mr dick, you completely believe in his character and his obsession with the beheading of the king, i loved it. already one of my favourites of the year. go and see it. i think we would both say that. go and see it. talk us through your second choice. so, no fathers in kashmir, which is an ambitious drama written and directed by ashvin kumar, who was oscar—nominated for a short he made in 200a. nominated in 2005 called little terrors. so zara webb is noor, she is a british kashmir teenager from birmingham,
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she goes to meet her grandparents in a country that she's never been to before. once she's there, she befriends majid, who's played by shivan raina, and they both discover that their fathers were friends. she always thought, noor always thought that her father had abandoned the home, but it turns out that both their fathers seem to be part of the disappeared. they are people who have been taken away by the authorities and their fate is unknown. now, the interesting thing about the film is this, it is essentially two separate films intertwined. one of them is a coming of age story, and i think advantage is that stuff really brilliantly. i mean, i love a good coming—of—age movie, and i think this has great performances from the two young leads. the other side of it is a much more advertently political drama, which, for me, works less well because it involves a level of dramatic contrivance that i didn't buy into. that said, it's made for a very restricted budgets, and with an awful lot of, you know, passion by everyone involved. so i think that even the parts that it failed, it was worth celebrating the part of it that works, and for me, the part of that that works is the relationship between the two young characters, who i said i think were terrifically well played by zara webb and shivan raina. and because we've had the joy of david copperfield, you had to bring me something
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to offset that. how many of the grudge films have you seen? is that a joke question? here's the thing, in a way, they're all kind of the same. so, short version, there was original versions, j horrorfilms, two straight to videos, than a theatrical release, then a us remake, which spawned two sequels, the third of which, no, the second of which went back to video. everyone had thought this had all gone. no, now it's back. this is described not as a sequel but as a side—quel. a side—quel. what, what? is this a thing? that's the word they're using. apparently it's a thing. essentially, story starts where it was before. brings the horror over to america, a whole bunch of creepy stuff going on, all of which appears to be tied to a particular house. here's a clip. the lenders, the real estate agents, that thing injapan — they're connected. i'm telling you, you've got to trust me. i get it. i do. i wish i knew how to help you.
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just take some time off. spend some time with the girls. and then, maybe it'll stop. it's never going to stop. never. let's get out of here. come on. so this is directed by nicolas pesce, who directed eyes of my mother and piercing. both of which were really, really interesting, creepy, strange, inventive films. this is none of those. this is absolutely a return to that mechanical form of horror movie making, in which it goes quiet, quiet, quiet, bang! quiet, quiet, bang! and the visuals are dark, dark, scary face! dark, dark, scary face! that's it, it's just like all the way through. and you go, are we going to get a cameo? you've got some fine actors, andrea riseborough, you have interesting performances. yes, she is great,
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what is she doing in this? she is reacting to the fact that every couple of second somebody is boo! or somebody... and you just think, oh, come on, seriously? this is like kids entertainment level. this director is a very fine director, unfortunately, this has none of his best traits. ok, best out, i'm afraid i didn't like this one. i know. i didn't like this one, i know i'm in the minority. this is the last week i'm going to fly the flag for it. because i'm just going to use this opportunity to say i think the fact that adam sandler didn't get nominated for best performance for his role in uncut gems is really terrible, because i think whether you like the film or not. no, he is very good, i will give you that. he is very, very good. he is better than very good. he's astonishing. and, you know, this and has other serious film are the two things that demonstrate that in that strange, you know, comedic exterior, there is a really interesting acting for us struggling to get out. but it is a difficult film. so, let's move onto a dvd of the week, because i think we both love it. we both love it, yes! so this is bait, which is
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the markjenkin and film. it is a really, really only authentic detail of tensions in a cornish fishing village, in which there are in comers who are trying to turn it into a tourist house. it is directed by markjenkins who shot the whole film on black—and—white film, without sound, post sink afterwards, hand processed in his studio. it is, i think, one of the most remarkable films of the last decade. it's been nominated for a couple of baftas for best british film. yes, yes. which, let's just say it now, it should win. no question, just forget it, it should win that. he is also nominated, i think, for best debut. i just loved it. i absolutely loved it. you are a fan, right? clever, unusual, inventive. you think, "this is going to be a bit weird." then it completely sucks you in and, again, the visuals, i still remember the visuals. absolutely. and i saw it quite a long time ago. absolutely, and there's a film coming out called the lighthouse, which you should see this on a double bill with the lighthouse, because that... the robert pattinson...? with robert pattinson, that is coming up very, very soon, and these two, somehow, they kind of, they weirdly mirror each other in a very strange way, but what a time to be alive
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when a film like bait is being made this year. it's terrific. great stuff, thank you very much. really interesting, a mixed bag for the week, but an interesting one. do go see david copperfield thank. you so much for being with us, enjoy your cinema going, hello, the sun will reappear for some of us hello, the sun will reappear for some of us tomorrow hello, the sun will reappear for some of us tomorrow after quite some time. for more of us on monday. comes time. for more of us on monday. co m es after time. for more of us on monday. comes after a spell of rain and overnight that rain will push into northern and western scotland. ahead of that, still plenty of cloud and some patchy light rain or drizzle to be had. wind is picking up across the uk, but there isn't any frost going into the morning. this rain courtesy of the weather front which has cold air following on behind. courtesy of the weather front which has cold airfollowing on behind. it will quickly clear away for northern ireland in the morning, push across scotla nd ireland in the morning, push across scotland and through wales, then across england, not reaching far south—east until later in the day. once that rain has pushed on through they will be brighter skies following on behind, more especially to northern ireland and scotland. some showers turning wintry on the hills of scotland as it turns colder behind the rain. the colder feeling enhanced by a strong wind. a
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blustery day tomorrow. yes, those temperatures are coming down, as the rain clears away, and they will be further wintry showers in places sunday night into monday morning. that's your letter. —— weather.
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