obviously done sinn fein, who have obviously done much better than expected in the recent ireland election. thank you both very much for going through the papers with me. those are some of the front pages for the sunday papers. 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 to lucy beresford and martin lipton. and thank you to you for watching. we will see you soon. goodbye.

hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode, as ever. hello, mark, what have you been watching? we have greed — the devil is in the retail. littlejoe — a sci—fi thriller, or is it? is it all in the mind? and like a boss, a comedy that needs to be a lot funnier than it actually is. the devil is in the retail. good tagline. it's a great tagline. so steve coogan stars as richard ‘greedy‘ mccready who is kind of a loathsome british retail mogul who has recently been hauled up in front of a bunch of mps to account for himself. this is a fictional tale. fictional, yes. but it will obviously it will ring certain bells for newsletters. he sunning himself on a greek

island, building a coliseum at which he is going to lord over all his toga—clad friends at a party which is meant to be some kind of huge roman spectacular, including wild animals. however, people are dropping out left, right, and centre, so they're having to turn to not real celebrities, but look—alikes. here's a clip. hi, richard. simon cowell, he's very good. who are you? adele. of course you are. who's the guy with the bandanna? he's rod stewart. looks like rod stewart's bitter older brother? who's she? kylie. kylie minogue?! is that george michael? he's amazing. apparently he can sing as well. i

think the agencyjust send anyone they had on the books. they should have put the ghost of george michael. lots of very cheesy jokes, but they did make me laugh. so steve coogan, who i'm a big fan of, directed by michael winterbottom. they have worked together before and done some very interesting films. on the one hand, this revels in the grotesquerie of the millionaire life. on the other hand, it's aiming at a wider target, which is how is it that all this wealth is produced? that's very important for his part of the story. originally, i think, sacha baron cohen was earmarked to play the central character, and you can imagine him playing it a lot more grotesquely. the thing i like about steve coogan‘s portrayal is that he's very good at playing characters who are essentially utterly kind of creepy and unlovable, but playing them in a way which actually makes their company bearable for the course of the movie. so for me, i think steve

coogan was pretty good. i think sometimes there's a disparity between the very broad—strokes comedy of the film itself and the attempt to deal with more serious subject matter, such as refugees, such as worker exploitation. i was wondering how that would work, because you could say lots of very serious things about the fashion industry, but putting the two together is quite a challenge. but crucially, michael winterbottom, that's the kind of thing he does. because he is interested in those issues, and it wouldn't be a film without them, so i don't think they mesh together perfectly. you wouldn't want the comedy without them, because it would kind of take the heart out of the film. so i enjoyed it while i was watching it. i don't think it's particularly savagely insightful film, but it's a fun watch — it does have something serious at its heart. whether or not it completely manages to make that more dramatic, that's still up for debate, although there is a very interesting intertwining of the modern retail story with kind of archetypal greek

myth, which does tie together well as the drama moves on. i enjoyed it, i think more than some critics did. 0k. little joe. i don't even know how to begin to describe this, but it is curious and fascinating — goodness. so, i loved it. this is a brilliantly low—key psychological thriller, and it is about a plant that has been invented by emily beecham, designed to make the owner happy. it produces oxytocin. the mother hormone. you will love this plant like you will love your own child. but the question is, is the plant infecting people around it? is it changing them to its own ends? carrie fox thinks her dog is no longer her dog, which is obviously very body snatchers. my my dog is no longer my dog. emily beecham's character thinks that possibly her son is a stranger to her. but of course he is. he's at a certain age he's changing, he's becoming a different person.

what i loved about it was there is a way of reading this film which is pretty much all in the mind. our central character is torn between home life and work and there's a suggestion by a psychotherapist, that everything she's feeling is projecting guilt because they've even called the plant littlejoe, named after her. she says let's call it littlejoe. i've seen it a couple of times now. each time i saw it, it looks different. the second time, i thought it was another. it's chilling and icy and beautifully designed. what did you think? visually i loved it. all those wide shots, some of it here, of the plants, the banks of the plants cultivated, i thought it was brilliant. i went into it quite nervous. it's well documented that i'm a bit ofa it's well documented that i'm a bit of a chicken. were you going in thinking it was like a horror—inflicted thing? i thought there would be a little bit of horror. i was a little nervous, but i wouldn't describe it as horror. and it gets, assorted burrows into your brain and you're not sure what's going on. but in a good way. it's a chiller.

it sort of burrows into your brain and you're not sure what's going on, but in good way. i really, really like it. you genuinely come out of it questioning. was something happening, wasn't it happening, was it all in my mind? i think it's really well played. i think the cast did great. every use of green and yellow and red is all very particularly put together. i thought it was great. i think it's not for everybody, but i thought it was really terrific. yes, i would agree with that. i have not seen today's third choice. i wouldn't argue that you should rush to see it. this is a comedy. it's about lifelong friends who have started a cosmetic company. the setup is that, essentially, in comes this beauty mogul who says i am going to invest in a company because i thinks the company is fabulous. but she has to sign a contract saying she gets control of the company if they fall out. here's a clip.

i need you to be fierce yourself so you can inspire the ugly people to buy themselves into gorgeousness! listen to the word — fierced. what is it saying to you? i hear fear, then "st". i hear that too. fierced! now whisper it. feel it inside you — fierced! jarring, unexpected, exhilarating. that's fierced. can you be fierced? yes, yes, we can certainly try. i don't want her as my boss. but what a great performance though. that's salma hayek doing the kind of over the top thing. three really great performances, and the setup is really interesting, so why is it that the laughs stop about ten minutes in?

this is a perfect example of the script being the problem. the script is nothing like as inventive or clever or intimate or intriguing or interesting as it could be. you've essentially got the first act, which is here's the setup, they're friends, she kind of wants to split them apart, because that's what she does. and then you think — this is going where, and that got all cranked up. and it's a real shame because i did think, for the first five or ten minutes, ok, yup, it's going somewhere. and then, oh, no, it's just that other film. it's a real shame because there are few things more disheartening than watching really great screen talent get wasted. i think this is a perfect example of that. it's a shame. very disappointed. and best out therefore is still... it is still... this is the last week i'm going to say this.

parasite is still in cinemas, it is still drawing audiences, and again, how brilliant that a foreign—language film won the oscar for best picture. i know that some high—ranking politicians think that's a bad thing, that we should all be watching gone with the wind. but actually, some of us are watching parasite — a challenging, strange movie by bong joon—ho. i can't wait to see it again, i can't wait to see the black and white version. this to me is what cinema is about. i'd just loved the movie. you liked it. i liked it a lot. it's hugely intelligent, sometimes unexpectedly funny. every time i laugh, i thought i didn't think i would be laughing at all in this film, and it takes you through a lot of different emotions. and i like that in a film. the genius is sometimes you're laughing and recoiling at the same time because it is, and funny enough, i think this is a connection to littlejoe, because i think it has a similar quality to it. that you don't know whether to laugh oi’ that you don't know whether to laugh or be creeped out by certain things. i love films in which there is an ambiguity at the heart of it,

which is what i love about parasite and what i love about littlejoe as well. yes, you are just not quite sure. but yes, it's terrific. what's on dvd this week? honeyland, about a subject i know very little about — it's wild bee—keeping. it begins as a straightforward documentary as bee—keeping, but then it becomes so much else. it becomes is a story of mothers and daughters and neighbours and changing worlds and how a way of life is starting to disappear. it does all of this in a way that's almost imperceptible, that you almost don't notice it's shifting from one tone from it the other. and again, this is one of these films that i knew nothing about going in other than the title, and one of the greatjoys of cinema is it can take you somewhere where you absolutely didn't expect, and that's what honeyland did for me. it's hard going in places, i won't live. it is. there are elements of a

loved about it. i love the big sweeping planes and some of it was really tough. i don't think that is a bad thing, exactly. no, absolutely. challenging cinema is what makes cinema important, although some people just want gone with the wind. excellent. obviously you will be doing that this week. yes. see you next time. thanks very much for being with us. enjoy your cinema going, whatever you choose to see. hello there, we still got more rain in the forecast, which isn't great when you consider there are over 100 flood warnings in force. the numbers have been rising across the northern ireland and scotland over the last 24 ireland and scotland over the last 2a hours as those river catchments respond to recent rain. now, this unlaboured at the moment is this very long weather front, stretches over 4000 mild over towards the caribbean, would you believe it, the testing acres on the end of this one. it has two areas of low

pressure, both of these have the potential to cause us some problems. the first one is beginning to arrive at the man with cloud and rain spilling its way in. the rain at the moment is heaviest across wales, but it's going to get heavy and northern england and across the midlands two. these areas could 20—40 millimetres of rain in some places, given that the ground is saturated that brings further flooding concerns. the ground is saturated that brings furtherflooding concerns. all the while, and scotland, we will continue to see snow showers blowing in on strong winds here through the rest of the night. sunday, as an improving picture, actually, for most of us. the morning cloud and rain pushes it away. sunshine for a time. further showers and wintry over the high ground. still windy but not as windy as it has been over recent days. but cool air in the north but relatively mild in the cloudy vassell. then the next weather system comes through. this one for monday. multiple hazards on this. before the lower arrives the air is going to be calling off and into that cold air we see a band of rain arrived. probably turning to snow for a time across the hills for northern ireland, northern england,

and into scotland where it could also have some snow down to lower levels. there is the potentialfor some pretty tricky travelling conditions, isaac editions at on the roads, particularly for the monday morning rush—hour. then across the northern half of the country is going to be a windy day as well with in excess of 60 or 70 mph. whether due to the heavy snow in scotland, 01’ due to the heavy snow in scotland, or the strong winds, there is quite a high chance of seeing some disruptive weather here as we start the new working week. elsewhere, a band of rain pushes up with, that's not great news given how wet things are ground was. we could see some further flooding issues as this band of ren guixin. and even if as that clears blustery showers will follow too many western errors. the rest of the week ahead, it stays on the windy side. we will see rain or showers moving on, perhaps the next person at area of low pressure coming through on wednesday or thursday, bringing lengthier spells of rain. it will be cold enough to see some of the rainfall as no. u nsettled see some of the rainfall as no. unsettled the next couple of days could bring us further weather

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