few weeks? -- a running in the next few weeks? —— a number of horses. there is one running on tuesday, i could be mistaken. she has a lot of runners through the summer. i am sure she will be disappointed not to be able to attend particularly royal ascot where she goes every day every year. of course. that is the final word. that is it for the papers this evening. thanks to my guests, deputy political editor of the independent rob merrick and editor of the racing post tom kerr. goodbye. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies now available for viewing in the home.

the most high—profile release of the week is the high note, a musical drama that clearly wants to be a star is born, although for me it could easily have been called a star is a bit boring. margaret! hi. what do you think of this? do you think it's too booby? mm, yes. 0h. perfect. you can go. dakota johnson is maggie, personal assistant to fading diva superstar grace davis, played with gusto by tracee ellis ross, daughter of diana ross, and star of the tv show blackish. music plays. maggie's tasks are menial, but she has her sights set on becoming a producer, either for grace, whose music she's remixed on the quiet, or for the young musical prodigy

she met in the local grocery store and swapped clunkily scripted quips about don henley and sam cooke. maggie. david. this is david, played by kelvin harrisonjr, who was so great in last year's waves but has less chance to shine here. david is an enigma: a muso who busks his songs on the streets but lives in the kind of lavish pool—laden pad that should be the lair of an international rock star. where does his wealth and musical talent come from, and what will grace make of maggie's new hook up? hmm. stop, stop, stop, stop, stop! i'm not going to tell you guys you're great if you're not great. directed by nisha ganatra, who made the similarly so—so emma thompson satire late night, the high note swings gently between the passably innocuous and the frankly ridiculous, dishing up sub high fidelity conversations about the pros and cons of pop music interspersed with the kind

of fanciful music production sequences that make 2006's wish fulfilment fantasy band slam look like a hard—hitting warts and all rockumentary. you said you was going to listen to me this time. there were a couple of nice supporting performances, most notably from ice cube as grace's managerjack. a man desperate for his client to accept a celine dion—style residency in vegas, where he could have his cake and eat it — both literally and metaphorically. you always walk away. grace! for all its vinyl loving hipster shtick, nothing in the high note rings true, leaving this forgettable fairytale to hit more bum notes than les dawson playing the piano, albeit without the crowd pleasing results. the high note is available to rent now. altogether more adventurous is only the animals, a sinewy french mystery thriller based on a novel by colin niel, which you can catch

on curzon home cinema. knocking. unfolding in non—linear segments that flip back and forth in time, like tarantino's pulp fiction, the story follows a group of disparate characters whose lives, which variously play out in europe and africa, are somehow linked with the disappearance of a woman. in the snowy mountains of southern france, an illicit affair and an abandoned car seem to offer vital clues to murder most foul. but as director dominik moll, who made lemming, shifts the perspective of this chaptered story from one character to another, we realise that nothing is what it seems — to us or to them. like who you think i am,

which came to uk streaming services in april, only the animals uses the anonymity of the internet as a key plot device in one of its many unravelling strands. this is ultimately a story about loneliness and about the way that people can interact at a distance without ever understanding the true nature or effect of their actions. it's also a damn good thriller, a riveting puzzle that will keep the audience guessing, visiting and revisiting events from different angles, allowing us to see only fragments of the picture until it all finally falls into place. the result may be massively contrived, but there's a touch of hitchcockian magic in the dramatic way this story is told. dramatic storytelling was the stock in trade of mike wallace, the american tvjournalist who became infamous for his hard—hitting interviews on shows like 60 minutes and whose life and times are chronicled in the documentary mike wallace is here. there is a new billionaire in town.

trump's the name. donald trump is a major dealmaker, a swashbuckler. donald, you're in your late 30s. you've a0 years to live, minimum. well, i hope you're right about that. what you going to do? ah, there are a lot of things to do. you know, a fertile imagination and a good fertile mind, mike, it's amazing — it's really amazing what can be thought up. there's so many things to do. there is so much to be done. politics? no, not politics. starting out as a cheesy tv star who advertised cigarettes and golden fluffo shortening, wallace made his mark in the 1950s with night—beat, a no holds barred interview show that proved to be ahead of time. you are not answering the specific question that i put. a decade later wallace was back in the spotlight on cbs, earning himself as a reputation as the most feared interrogator of his generation. i'd like you to get out of here. but was wallace's combative style journalism or theatre and what were the demons that made him such a divisive figure?

told entirely through existing interviews, with no need for post hoc narration, israeli director avi belkin‘s engrossing character study boasts a wealth of archival footage from goody early tv appearances through groundbreaking coverage of vietnam, watergate, the iran hostage crisis and beyond. throughout we see wallace holding politicians and celebrities to account, whether it's putin and ayatollah khomeini or kirk douglas and shirley maclaine. i am very pleased to receive you as my guest, mr wallace. anyone who enjoyed michael mann's true—life thriller the insider, in which wallace was played by christopher plummer, will be intrigued by this doc‘s brief account of the internecine struggles that delayed his interview with the tobacco industry whistleblowerjeffrey wigand, memorably portrayed by russell crowe. but the real revelations here are closer to home in wallace's account of his personal insecurities, anxieties and struggles with depression. it's an engrossing portrait of a man, his profession, and his legacy.

a legacy which, arguably, paved the way for both the best and the worst in modern tvjournalism. this is the news for the hour. what would you like to tell us about yourself? i don't know. aren't you like some big science girl? tell me about science. a wannabe radio star trying to get a break at around the same time that mike wallace was making waves in the late 1950s is at the centre of the vast of night, an award winning indie pic that won the audience prize at the slamdance festival last year and is now available on amazon prime. jake horowitz and sierra mccormick are high school kids who respectively work in a small town new mexico radio station and telephone exchange. number please? hello?! large objects holding over my land... one night strange noises and reports

of something in the sky lead them into a twilight zone style tale that may involve the soviets or something more out of this world. they've come here before. they like this place. framed as an episode of the paradox theatre tv show and filled with deliberately alienating devices, the vast of night is an audacious feature debut for director andrew patterson, who breathes strange new life into familiar older riffs. plaudits too to cinematographer mi littin—menz, who performs wonders with fluid camerawork following characters through streets, buildings, and car parks in breathlessly flowing fashion before coming to rest on their faces, knowing exactly when to move and when to just stay still. people are saying there's something in the sky. yeah. 0k.

from new mexico to south korea, where bong joon—ho's satirical class war masterpiece parasite finds two families from opposite ends of the economic spectrum haunting each other‘s lives. designed with the same architectural elegance as the astonishing home in which much of the action plays out, this note perfect gem became the first film made entirely in a foreign language to win the oscar for best picture. it's now available both digitally and on disc, with the limited—edition steelbook blu—ray including the black and white version of the film, which bong first unveiled at the rotterdam film festival earlier this year. while parasite was hailed as the best film of last year, i'll leave you with something from the movie widely considered to be the worst. spotlight and a drum roll please. # and so maybe my home isn't what i had known.

# what i thought it would be...# adapted from a long—running stage show hit, cats drew hearty boos on screen, even after director tom hooper tried to appease viewers with upgraded cgi fur effects. not even a star—studded cast including judi dench, idris elba, taylor swift, and rebel wilson could convince people to pay for this turkey, which was reported to have lost over $100 million in cinemas. # ..alone and haunted...# maybe it'll make some of that back on disc and download. or maybe not. that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. stay safe and i'll be back next week with more home viewing treats. right, well, that's not going to work, is it? hiss. that's what i say to you. hiss.

it's been another day with nationwide sunshine. in wales, the warmest day of the sun shines so far. you can see those clear skies nearby on that weatherwatch picture. some mist and fog forming around the coasts of eastern scotland, but for most of us, clear and starry overnight with temperatures 6013 degrees. a little cooler potentially out in the countryside. tomorrow, another fine and sunny day nationwide. a little bit of fairweather cloud developing as we head into the afternoon but not spoiling the sunshine much. it will be warm once again. the temperatures: into scotland, reaching the 20s and the warmest areas. looks pretty warm in parts of the highlands. 2a as well into western areas of northern ireland and across western wales this weekend. a favoured spot for seeing

some pretty high temperatures — 25 degrees in porthmadog and similar temperatures over in bournemouth. into tuesday, this weather front approaching the far north of scotland. that's going to bring some rain across these far northern areas. maybe five to ten millimetres from that system. so some wet weather, and is the northerly winds begin to work in, it's going to feel cooler as well. temperatures quite a bit down on recent days in stornaway and lerwick with highs of ten to 30 degrees here. elsewhere, another warm and sunny day in northern england and wales, temperatures low to mid 20s. change is on the way, and into the middle part of next week, outbreaks of rain for some of us week, outbreaks of rain for some of us and turning progressively cooler as those more northerly winds begin to push that bit further south, with rain or showers in the forecast for many of us. along with that, the northerly winds dragging on cooler hour, so instead of temperatures being in the mid— 20s, actually

towards the end of the week we are looking at temperatures generally into the high teens, perhaps just into the high teens, perhaps just into the high teens, perhaps just into the low 20s in the warmest areas. not everyone will see rain, but the amount we do see from place to place is going to vary quite a bit, but at least for some there is rain on the horizon. that's your weather.

this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. protests against police brutality continue right across the us following the killing of an unarmed black man a week ago. in the capital, activists are gathering outside the white house. busy beaches at sunny british coastal resorts. ministers announce an easing of lockdown in england starting on monday. brazil overtakes france as the country with the fourth—highest death toll from coronavirus. nearly 29,000 people have died in south america's biggest country. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken reach the international space station onboard the spacex crew dragon capsule.