it and how it affects their lives, and then two and a half years later they my phone —— refined out of the case has just been dropped. they my phone —— refined out of the case hasjust been dropped. why is that such a delay? it talks about things like looking at digital data, social media interaction between the two parties. it's not clear whether that would take so long, particularly in the world we now live and where technology is at the forefront of everything and if it's taking longer than the methods of investigation need to be updated and need to match and reflect the world we live in. itjust feels like excuses rather than anything i think is reasonable or tangible because, as dawn was saying, it is about real people and their lives and the impact on their lives. and crime is about the person most people would say should take priority. how much of it is down to a shortage of police to do the investigations and the state of play in the criminal justice system generally?

the courts have a bout blog and it isa the courts have a bout blog and it is a bit ofa the courts have a bout blog and it is a bit of a mess certificate should more streamlined. rape victims often have to give up their phones and do not get it back for months. police other then trawling through their private messages and it is traumatic. then there is the waiting time and it is not enough for the victims at all. that's it for the papers tonight. 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, mo and dawn. next on bbc news, it's the film review.

hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. hello, mark. hello, a mixed bag, we have a beautiful day in the neighborhood, which is a very strange film starring tom hanks. we have richard jewell, a true story directed by clint eastwood. and the rhythm section, an uneven thriller with blake lively. so, a beautiful day in the neighborhood, you have seen it? i am already intrigued because you said it was unusual, it's kind of interesting. directed by marielle heller, who made can you ever forgive me? it is a story which centres around a legendary figure in america, fred rogers, everybody in america knows him, this symbol of everything good and honest and wholesome and truthful. i have to say, before i saw the film, i knew nothing about him at all.

in the film, we see him doing a kids show, kind of a cross between sesame street and a session with a psychiatrist. there is a journalist, lloyd vogel, played by matthew rhys, someone who is known for taking a scalpel to their subjects. they say at the beginning, "after you've has written about somebody, they don't want to talk to you again." they send him to do a profile piece on fred rogers as a series of pieces on american hero. he goes to meet fred rogers and cannot figure it out whether he is for real or whether it a fake. here's a clip. and, action. do you know what this is? it's lloyd... lloyd. hold, please. we can't fire him, can we?

hello, lloyd. oh, it's nice to meet you. are you all right? play at the plate. oh, that looks like it hurts. let's chat afterwards. we need to keep moving. maybe we could have evan been take a look at him? no, i'm good, i'm good. sorry, fred, just need to... all right, all right. it's wonderful to meet you, so glad you're here, lloyd, i'm looking forward to talking with you, i truly am. after this. everyone, this is lloyd vogel, he is a wonderful writer. that performance is so strange, the first time you meet the character, i couldn't get a handle on him at all, exactly as journalist is. then during their conversations, every time lloyd asks about fred, he kind of turns round back to it about being lloyd. now, this is based by a journalist who did say that after meeting fred rogers, his worldview

did change, he started to try and see the good in things. in the case of this, they have fictionalised and over dramatised the story of lloyd vogel, he is in the middle of real, personal crisis. through his meeting with fred, he does come to change, in a much more dramatic way than actually happened in real life. but the kernel of truth is there, that somebody with this dyspeptic view of the world met this figure who just seems like nobody could be that nice, nobody could be that positive, and somehow couldn't discover a chink in their armour. i have to say, it is hard, nay, impossible, to think of an actor other than tom hanks who could have pulled that character off. what did you think of it? i spent a lot of time thinking, "does it just cross the line of schmaltz?" i decided theyjust kept it back, theyjust managed it, i think that his because we all kind of love tom hanks, and you cut him so much slack, and he's so impressive.

also, when you first meet him, if you don't know the character, he is kind of creepy. the way that everything is, "hello, lloyd, how are you?" it's a little odd. "it's all about you, lloyd" and there is something that's, "no, just back off!" no, i think the film is really interesting and really strange, and i like the strangeness of it very much. yes. richard jewell, a film in which kathy bates has got a best supporting actress nomination. clint eastwood drama, based on a real—life story based on a security guard who spotted a suspect package at olympic park in 1996, and alerted the authorities, and subsequently became the subject of the fbi‘s investigations as he was somebody who really wanted to be a law enforcement officer. somehow, he fitted the profile of somebody who might have done something to draw attention to himself. this got out to the press, he was treated appallingly by the press. terrific performances by paul walter hauser as richard jewell at the centre of it, very good performance by kathy bates as the mother

who sees the media closing in on him and this terrible media treatment he gets. it is a salutary story, a story about what happens when somebody is thrust, completely unjustly, into the spotlight. it is a shame, therefore, that the figure of the centraljournalist who breaks the story is itself guilty of some really crass, sexist stereotyping, which is to do with the film itself wanting to say, "look at how bad media are." but actually falls into some vilification of her character which is unwarranted and unfair. although clint eastwood knows how to do simple stroke dramas, he is very good at no—fuss, you look at his best stuff. it isjust a shame... as i say, a story about the misrepresentation of somebody in the the public. it is a shame that it falls into that itself with the representation of a journalist. and the rhythm section? based on the novel written by mark burnell, who also wrote the script.

blake lively is a traumatised woman who lost herfamily in an air crash, she then discovers it was not an accident, it was an assassination. she resolves to find the killer, in order to do it, she has to find it jude law, somebody who has specialist experience, and is not pleased to see her. here is a clip. who else knows you're here? no one... i can't hear you. no, no one... no one knows but me. why did you come here then? i'm going to kill reza. 0h, god...he must be terrified. help me find him. you want to kill mohammed reza? you need to hire a professional. i don't have any money. oh, well, you have a job. you're a prostitute, aren't you?

so, some talent there, good talent in front of the camera, also behind, reed morano, cinematographer turned director. the problem with it is that, on the one hand, it wants to be a serious character study, on the other hand, it wants to be a james bond style action—adventure, which is maybe like a rerun of luc besson‘s nikita, or more recently, something like red sparrow or atomic blonde. as a result of it, you never invest in at the characters, you never believe in them. despite some crunchy fight sequences, a well orchestrated car chase, but at no point did i think that anyone in at the film was doing anything other than acting the role of being in on the film. it is a real indication of the film does not make sense on its own terms, you don't watch it, you look at it. you just see it pass by but you never get involved in it, and i was never involved. it is a shame because there are lots of very talented people

involved in it, i think the project itself, i think, is very flawed. there's a lot of talent in the best out and worst. 0h, the personal history of david copperfield, i love it, you've seen it, right? yes, yes. isn't it wonderful? armando iannucci has done a wonderfuljob with this dickens adaptation. dev patel is at the centre of a wonderful ensemble cast. you know, colour—blind casting used at its very, very best, everybody is cast because they are the right person for the role, because they bring the right skill to the role. extraordinary ensemble cast., loads of speaking parts. it's funny, it's uplifting. it looks wonderful, i think. it looks fabulous, actually, it looks a bit gilliam—esque, i think, as well. at a time, you know, there is a lot of uncertainty, it is a film that celebrates community the best in people, suggesting it is possible for people to come together and resolve their differences. you know, how timely that be? everybody needs to watch it then. dvd for anyone who wants to stay in this weekend? finally, downton abbey, i never seen the tv show, but i didn't need to. you see the movie, you go, "yeah,

that is exactly what i thought downton abbey was going to be." a friend of mine who once wrote a review of a film which said, "goes down nicely with a cup of tea." and that is downton abbey. that is perfect for dvd, isn't it? exactly, nothing to frighten the horses at all. and you get maggie smith, so what more do you want? yeah. thank you very much, mark, interesting, a curious week, interesting week. see you next week, thanks for watching, enjoy your cinema—going, bye—bye. the weather over the weekend is looking a little mixed across the uk with both sunshine and rain in the forecast. most of the rain on sunday morning will be across northern parts of the uk. it has been wet

already across some southern parts of the country and you can see the rain here through the early hours in the south—west moving into the midlands and the north—west of england and through northern ireland. towards the end of the night the weather dries out towards the south—west of the uk and you can see in scotland you never had rain overnight in fact some frost and clear sky. the rain is moving northwards through the morning so it should reach the lowlands of scotla nd should reach the lowlands of scotland by mid—morning and snow across the southern upland, maybe the highlands later on in the day. the afternoon south looks fine. the midlands, east anglia and the south—east i think some sunshine and very mild 14 degrees. towards the west, around wales and the irish sea coast west, around wales and the irish seacoast there will be some showers and that will continue through the course of sunday evening as well. the thing that we are really going to notice on sunday, monday and into tuesdayis to notice on sunday, monday and into tuesday is the strength of the wind across the more northern parts of the uk. we suspect —— expect severe

gales across western scotland brought in by this area of low pressure here and then the strong wind will spread across scotland and affect eastern parts of the country as well. this is what it looks like on monday with strong wind and heavy rain in scotland as well as the possibility of some rain flipping far south of england through the southern counties. quite wet weather along the channel. focusing on the wind, in excess of 70 perhaps 80 miles an hour in the western isles. that is through monday evening and it has showers, lots of them. monday night into the early hours of tuesday the wind will strengthen across the eastern half of scotland around the borders and into northern england towards newcastle to there is likely to be some structural damage from those very strongest of wind. in the wake of this stormy weather we will see colder weather spreading across the uk temporarily. i say colder, that is compared to what we had it will not be that cold. temperatures in the south

still reaching 10 degrees. it is the cold wind that really matters.

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