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so if you've got some teens, the teens and the adults can play together. and if you've got little kids, the little kids can play with each other or the adults and the little kids can play with together. unfortunately, i don't have any kids that are old enough to play the kind of thing i want to play. brilliant! that was marc, and you'll find the details to all of the games marc mentions pinned to the top of our twitter feeds. that's it for now, though. you staying in that place next week or are you moving around again? i don't know. tweet me — we could have a vote! through the week, you can keep track of all the team on social media on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter, @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. bye— bye.
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hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding out the best films for viewing in the home. the most eye—opening film getting a digital release this week is the assistant, a high—impact drama about the day in the life
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of a young woman working for an abusive and strangely familiar entertainment mogul. where is he? julia garner is jane, a college graduate with dreams of becoming a film producer who finds herself on the bottom realm of the industry. her tasks are menial — making coffee, ordering lunch and arranging travel. but she also has to clean up after her boss, removing used syringes from his waist bin, picking up suspicious earrings from his office floor, scrubbing stains off his office couch. and fielding calls from his increasingly exasperated wife.
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what can i do? when a new recruit is flowm down from boise, idaho, jane fears she will become her boss' next victim. but in this culture of harassment, no—one is interested in complaints, only conformity. i won't let you down again. starting life as a work of stripping nonfiction, film—maker mutated into a drama inspired by the real—life stories of women working in the television industry. as a result, everything about the assistant rings true. from the slight shabbiness of the office, which has no hint of hollywood glamour, to the day—to—day bullying practised by the workmates who know this is the way to succeed. garner is terrific, but it's a performance relying more upon looks and words to convey jane's entrapment and the silencing that goes with it. crucially, jane is denied a voice in the industry which keeps its dark secrets unspoken. it's a smart choice too to keep jane's boss off—screen. although we hear him laughing and yelling through closed office doors and down telephone lines, you never meet him
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face—to—face. lending a universality to the character that extends beyond the specifics of, for example, the harvey weinstein case, which clearly inspires this me too drama. i can see that you've got what it takes. thanks. so why you in here trying to throw it all away over this? although it's set in the entertainment industry, the assistant will strike a chord with anyone who's worked in an office where bullying and harassment are just business as usual. the film is available right now on a wide variety of platforms. altogether more esoteric is emma, a hypnotic and bewildering film, the latest from chilean director pablo llorien.
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the story follows a couple who have returned the young boy they adopted to a foster home from which he came. there are hints of fiery deeds in his past, but the boy's absence precipitates a crisis in the couple's relationship which threatens to tear them apart. gael garcia bernal, who previously starred in llorien‘s drama no, is the choreographer of a dance company. in the title role, the anya taylor—joy is utterly incendiary. parlaying a tv career into a great feature debut. emma is described as a movie about family. a testimony about the way families are shifting and direction. themes of masculinity and femininity are explored in sometimes a bleak fashion, with the time—spliced narrative telling its kaleidoscopic story.
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as always, there's a political element with corrupt authority figures attempted to police an ever—diversifying world. ultimately, this is an experiential movie, defined by fiery visuals and haunting images that invite the viewer tojoin in this strange dance. you can experience emma exclusively on movie. diana kennedy's knowledge of mexican cooking is unsurpassed. she's a legend! for something more down to earth, check out nothing fancy. it's about british woman who became an unlikely doyenne of mexican cooking. people plagiarise my recipes, they haven't done the research, i do the research. a force of nature, kennedy, who's in her 90s, lives in an ecologically sustainable prosperity which holds forth on a range of issues. from the correct way to make guacamole, it's meant to be lumpy, to macho despoilation the planet,
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by trump and putin. interspersed with these conversations is archive footage of kennedy's extraordinary career, travelling thousands of miles for recipes for her own cookbooks. it's appalling. mexico is importing chickens. mexico is importing chickens. read my books and learn, please! what will you do when i'm gone? who is going to start screaming? described as an indiana jones of food, kennedy is fantastically entertaining. an independent woman who speaks openly and honestly about love and ageing, food and fulfillment, sex and death, and the need for a little more salt in all our lives. you can enjoy her company now on a wide range of digital platforms.
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looking ahead, monday sees the digital release of reborn, a low—budget horror flick which debuted to crowd pleasing responses at frightfest halloween in 2018. described as carrie meets firestarter, this b—movie‘s main selling point is barbara crampton. start of reanimator and beyond, she's become a mainstay of any horrorfilm since returning in 2011's you're next. i want to know where her body is. she plays an actress whose stillborn daughter returns from the grave as a needy teenager with destructive electromagnetic powers. the script is stilted, the effects basic and the scares familiar. the only surprise is the playoff to a subplot about auditioning for peter bogdanovich, which raises a few passing chuckles.
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a few passing chuckles is pretty much all you get from can you keep a secret, which opened on monday. i heard you guys broke up. i'm sorry, are you 0k? yeah, i'm fine, i think. you know, it's for the best. it will be good to be single. freedom. right. based on the book by confessions of a shopaholic author sophie kinsella, this throws alexandra dederio's emma on a journey to reveal her most personal secrets to her ceo. i just want this huge, amazing romance. turbulence stopped a few hours ago. why didn't you tell me that? it seemed like you needed to get a few things off your chest.
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romance inevitably ensues and he holds all the cards. he knows everything about her and she knows nothing about him. this is formulaic blair, held up by the substance of dederio who has something of a sandra bullock quality. enlivened by a few nice supporting performances as notable as laverne cox as the main character's tough buy sympathetic boss. i asked where it came from an came from russia on a wave after being smashed up by a storm. for my own personal recommendation of the best film currently available for home viewing, let me direct you to the whalebone box from maverick genius andrew kotting. iain sinclairand his photographer boschjoin andrew kotting on a pilgrimage. the other into the dreams of eden cottingham, the daughter and muse of andrew. it's a remarkable work available
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excessively on movie. i leave you with news that bacurau which had a limited theatrical release before lockdown, is available on blu—ray. a near future dystopian parable, this tale of a remote enclave that has disappeared from maps and satellite tracking systems nodds to bunuel and serio leone, providing plenty to engross, entertain and occasionally shock. that's it. thanks for watching the film review.
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stay safe and i will be back next week with more home viewing treats. x actually ovaries with some panda eyes. would you buy this if it was on a product of some kind? is a product for my ovaries? no it's not. no. hello there. well, you probably noticed over the last couple of days the weather has been a bit unsettled with lots of showers. certainly friday no exception to that theme. you can see the extent of all those showers moving across the uk, and they brought with it some dramatic skies. a double rainbow spotted around the southend—on—sea area of essex, and a little bit further south in sussex we had this dramatic bolt of lightning coming from one of the storm clouds with some hail mixed in as well. over the next few hours, showers moving eastwards
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across england, only slowly clearing here. the showers will then tend confined to the north—east of scotland, where it will stay cloudy all night. temperatures 3—7 degrees. now, as far as the weekend goes, we are going to see an improvement in the weather. spells of sunshine and for quite a few of us, it will stay dry. showers around, particularly across the north and east, but with lighter winds, it will feeljust a little bit warmer. here's the area of low pressure that's been bringing the showery weather over the last couple of days. it's tending to move its way further eastwards, but we start off with an area of cloud and a bit of rain tied in with a very weak low. that low weakens further but as we go into the afternoon we start to see some cloud develop and the cloud will tend to develop where we see north—westerly winds bashed together with more northerly winds. this is a convergence zone. across some eastern areas of scotland, eastern areas of england, that is the area you are most likely to see showers popping up during the afternoon. elsewhere, it is a largely dry picture. as i say, with lighter winds and more sunshine to go around,
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it's going to feel warmer. temperatures for most of us between around 11! and 18 degrees celsius. in many respects, sunday looks like a similar kind of day. a dry morning foremost with some sunshine. perhaps a bit cloudier towards the south—west, and perhaps into the afternoon, we could start to see some showers developing and if they do pop up they can be slow—moving in nature and some can be on the heavy side as well. temperatures again for most between 11! and 18 degrees celsius. heading into next week, well, high pressure looks set to take up residence towards the north—east of the british isles, but towards the south—west, low pressure lurks, so we'll have a north—east/south—west split to the weather. south—western areas, cloud increasing, probably rain as well, but the further north and east you go, the drier the weather stays.
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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: north korean state media report kim jong—un attending an official event — apparently quashing rumours of his ill—health. american authorities authorise the drug remdesivir as an emergency treatment for covid—i9. and — the british government claims success in coronavirus testing — but the opposition questions the numbers. and — britain's farmers fear the consequences of a labour shortage — as european workers stay away and not enough britons step in.

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