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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  February 9, 2020 11:45pm-12:01am GMT

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hello and welcome to that the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's t‘fli‘fi éfflifiés eff, e‘n‘ut compensation. that equates to around £1700 per person, from a pot that cinema releases is mark kermode. 50, mark, what do we have this week? was expected to deliver between 200 exciting week. birds of prey, the new harley quinn film. we have dolittle, he can and £570 million. further100, talk to the animals, this time with a welsh accent. was expected to deliver between 200 and £570 million. further 100, just over 1000 people have applied for and parasite, the international compensation but it is estimated up hit from bong joon ho. to 15,000 could but have yet chosen quite a mixture. not to. there are questions about it really is. whether those people are birds of prey and the fantabulous sufficiently informed or whether they feel that they don't want to be emancipation of harley quinn. involved in the process anymore. it it follows up from suicide squad has been difficult enough for them so has been difficult enough for them which was a complete mess so far. and it is much better and the last story of the night as than its predecessor. the daily mail, and this is hrt, margot robbie steps out on her own and at the beginning, disparate women touched up to four times the national health service she is broken up withjoker and she blows up the chemical plant price... (crosstalk). in which they sealed their love. she is newly employed by a slimeball this is jolly good that we are played by ewan mcgregor seeing something like this on the front page. i haven't, luckily, from and she finds herself in a centre of a roller—coaster ride of a plot
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which involves a stolen diamond, the menopause, but an awful lot of teenage thief and a growing band of lethal women who women really struggle with it. have become targets. here is a clip. there's 200,000 women affected in the country, and you have to get the right medication for this, and we they're all here for me... ..aren't they? got something like two—thirds of the medication is not available in some no. brands for these women, so of course they're not? no, they're not. they are looking at the internet, do you know what that means? they are looking at the internet, they are looking at the internet, they are going abroad, women are that means he's notjust flying to spain to buy it for after the kid any more, he's after all of us. he's sure as hell after me, themselves, and the worry for me as ijust robbed him. you just betrayed him. somebody who has had cancer, i you just killed his bff and you're wouldn't take hrt, because they dumb enough to be building don't want to do anything to bring a case against him. so, unless we all want to die it back again, and they are getting very unpleasant deaths, we're going to have the wrong drugs, they are getting to work together. 0k. counterfeit drugs, who knows what on the internet and there is also these yeah, ok. sure... chemists, probably quite well—known names cashing in on this and charging four times what they were paying before, were putting women's yes! health at risk and giving them a the best thing about this is, miserable time. good story for the firstly, it does have a genuinely entertaining anarchic air. daily mail to highlight the plo and apparently when margot robbie
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it's explicitly a women's paper. was first talking about it, many thanks indeed for being with she said she wanted it to be like an r—rated girl gang movie us. and that is the vibe. that's it for the papers it is very physical and has a sense tonight. of controlled chaos, don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers which i really like. online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — directed by independent movie 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers director, kathryn yan, — and if you miss the programme any an edgy sensibility. evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. 00:02:21,186 --> 2147483051:37:55,308 next on bbc news 2147483051:37:55,308 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it's time for the film review. the location, you can see here, it looks like a fairground ride in which there has been an explosion of a candy floss maker. it barrels along, it is funny and the characters are well drawn and well defined. it is easy to get this wrong. in other hands, this could have turned into batman and robin, which was just a dress up pantomime mess of a movie, but this is actually as much fun watching the film as it is looking at the poster and watching the trailer. i was really pleasantly surprised because i had gone in thinking, i hope this is good but i expect it won't be and it was. it was much better than i had
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any right to expect. it is fun? it is good fun and it genuinely has a kind of sense of chaos at the heart of it, which is what you need for the character of harley quinn and they pull that off rather well. unfortunately, the same cannot be said of dolittle. i felt that coming! the latest screen incarnation of doctor dolittle, he can talk to the animals. partly, robert downeer now doing dolittle has decided to do the most bizarre welsh accent for the central character. apparently, he discovered some druidical pagan welsh figure upon whom he decided to base the character. it's not a welsh accent the likes of which i've ever heard before. if you remember russell crowe‘s roving accent when he was doing robin hood, it makes that look like the most precise accent you've ever heard. it looks like the whole film has been redubbed, this is the better version. we also know they did three weeks
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of re—shoots after the first version of the film wasn't deemed to be funny enough, this is the version of the film that has had three weeks of making it funnier?! itjust lies there in the cinema like a dead fish. it is ugly, it is badly written, it is played by a cast of characters all of whom who should have far better things to do than be in this mess of a movie. somebody pointed out to me, they said the rex harrison version flopped when it first came out. but this isn't the rex harrison, isn't it? it is on course to, what is the phrase, "underperform" at the box office. i do wish you would say what you really thought! shall we talk about parasite? we both loved it. immediately we have seen it and we need to be careful about what we say about it. no plot spoilers. the less you know about it, the better it is. a new movie by bong joon ho come up for several awards and we would have seen it at the baftas and it will feature at the oscars.
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a tale of the park family, who live in this unbelievably angular, modern and glassy bright lit building high above seoul, south korea. and the other family, the kims living this hand to mouth existence in this semi—basement literally in the very bottom of the hill down which all the rubbish falls. they are a weirdly mirrored family but we first meet the family in the semi—basementjust attempting to get by. here's the clip.
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so, they are living almost underground and the son gets a job working in the house on the hill and the two families meet and these kind of mirror images meet. that is all you want to say about the plot. people have talked about it being like hitchcock but it is almost like shakespeare because it combines tragedy, comedy, mystery, metaphysics and drama. there are moments that have the melancholy heart—tugging power of a ghost story and moments which are almost slapstick. yes. and moments which make you cast with the revelation of the plot twist. it is designed beautifully
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and the storytelling is so visual. even if you watch this without the subtitles, you could understand the story from the way in which the camera moves from different locations. the music, which really brilliantly captures all these different shifting tones it starts with this sombre piano piece and this orchestral piece and then there is a weird bit which is choric vocals and a musical saw, these elements that should be fighting somehow come together in this perfectly harmonious... i've seen this four times! wow! every time i see it, i notice things that i haven't seen before and i love it. it is as near perfect as any film i've seen in the last decade, i want to see it again. bong joon ho has now prepared a black and white version which played at rotterdam and hopefully it will play here. the most important thing to say, go see it without reading or hearing any more about it. don't let anybody spoil the plot or anybody say to you, there's this brilliant bit when...
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if they do, run away! i did not see that bit coming that we won't talk about and i thought it was so clever! did you like the film? i loved it. i'm not good with violence, there are a couple of moments when i'm a bit like that, but on balance, i loved it and i thought it had masses to say about class and money and was beautifully shot. snowpiercer, obviously but come! memories, he is good at depicting stratified social groups. i also think the cast across the board, an ensemble cast, this is what you need an award for best ensemble cast, you can't pick out individual performances. it is an ensemble cast and it is like watching a swiss watch work. i love this film, i love this film, it is fantastic and everybody should see it.
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best out, another film you like as well? david copperfield. i am more keen than you are but the cast... i enjoyed it and great ensemble cast. fantastic. and a modern adaptation a classic text that found things in it that i hadn't seen in previous adaptations. loved it. dvd is a great one to watch at home, terrific. judy. renee zellweger is storming the awards at the moment. i am slightly more ambivalent about this than some people, but i think she looks like a dead cert lead contender at the oscars. she was at the baftas. my favourite part of this film is the fans who meet her. and it's through their eyes that you actually see the magic ofjudy garland. i lovejudy garland and i was more convinced by the fans‘ reaction. were you? that's just me. i found it incredibly sad, beautiful and sad in equal measure. yeah. flawed. that is sad. but parasite is great! go and see parasite! it is a great film, see it. enjoy your cinema going,
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see you next time, goodbye. hello there. damaging gusts of wind cause major disruption and it looks like it is going to stay very windy throughout this week, with frequent showers and issue, some of them turning to snow across northern health because it is turning colder you can see the first signs of that with temperatures close to freezing so with temperatures close to freezing so there will be some snow showers and icy stretches across the far north. showers into the south—west will merge togetherfor north. showers into the south—west will merge together for longer spells of rain as we go through the day, some of those heavy with hail and under. snow showers across northern england, northern ireland and scotland, anywhere above 150 metres, and it is going to feel cold with gale force gusts of wind on exposed north coast. it's almost repeat performance of the theme on tuesday, plenty of isobars and
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strong gusty winds to look out for, and plenty of snow showers, so blizzard—like conditions in the north and more in the way of sunshine where the south but cool for all with highs of 4—8d.
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i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: oscar fever grips hollywood as the stars arrive for the 92nd academy awards ceremony. we awards ceremony. are nine hours away here in hollywood we are nine hours away here in hollywood from the academy awards. could the korean—language drama parasite make history as the first non—english language movie to win best picture? i'm lewis vaughanjones in london.
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