against rafa nadal. no love lost between these two, and when nick kyrgios takes to the court, it is never dull. it is always box office with the australian. we can expect more fireworks tomorrow, you match you will not wa nt to ta ke tomorrow, you match you will not want to take your eyes off. rugby union now — and the premiership champions saracens were heavily beaten in their first league game since being relegated for salary cap breaches. they lost 41 points to m, at harlequins... the win moving quins up to 6th in the table. adam wild has more. saracens are, for the moment, a club in confusion. relegation is a certainty, but the future of their players remains much less certain. punished severely for the salary scandal, now harlequins seemed intent on making them pay once more. it took them little over a minute to score the game's opening try. this would always be

a derby with a difference, but few expected it to go quite like this. the game rapidly got to saracens. the second half began just like the first. harlequins got a fourth try. they still have plenty to play for this season. if this was saracens' first step towards relegation, it may well be a long, painfuljourney. harlequins showed little sympathy, saracens will meet plenty more clubs like that along the way. let's quickly round up some of the day's other stories. england edged a dramatic bronze medal match at the copperbox arena in london. in a game where both sides had control in stages, jess thirlby‘s side eventually won 65 points to 63. worcester wolves are the new british basketball league cup champions after victory against bristol flyers.

kofi josephs making the game safe, as amir williams won the most valuable player, worcester winning 67 points to 59 in front of a record crowd at the birmingham arena. sevenoaks won the women's title. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. 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 the comedic elements and for finding the kind of modernist, 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 backdrop, 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. 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. apple tree. 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 whishaw is the most brilliant incarnation. 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, 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's 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. 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, 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 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.

i see. 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. 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, what is she doing in this? she is reacting to the fact that every couple of seconds 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 punch drunk love are the two things that demonstrate that in that strange, you know, comedic exterior, there is a really interesting acting force 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 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 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, do go see david copperfield, thank you so much for being with us, enjoy your cinema going, see you next time, bye—bye. hello. it has been a day of big changes in our weather. we have had a band of rain sweeping eastwards. you can see the bright white cloud on the satellite picture, that is what brought the cloud and behind it is the speckled cloud, indicative of cloud and colder air. this evening, the rain will clear from eastern england, but these showers will rush in from the west, some will be heavy, thundery and wintry across the northern half of the uk. not only over the higher ground, still at relatively low levels.

certainly the potential for ice during tomorrow morning. showers will continue to pile in from the west during the day, wintry across the north and west of the uk. further south, any showers were largely fall as rain. eastern scotland and england should stay predominantly dry. more sunshine than of late, but windy and chilly. a cold start to the new week with snow and ice for many of us, then a new change turning mild at later in the week.

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