man, go! crowe stars as an aggrieved, overweight and aggressive ball of anger whose path crosses with caren pistorius's rachel, a mother in the middle of a messy divorce who is late getting her son to school and herself to work. i'm pretty sure that truck is following me. he's road raging. why don't you just chill, man? after she honks him at a traffic light and then refuses to apologise for her perceived rudeness, he sets out to teach her a lesson, pursuing rachel and her friends and herfamily while blaming her for his violent retribution. hey! pull your window down! pitched somewhere between steven spielberg's duel and joel shumacher‘s falling down, unhinged from director derrick borte, is a nuts and bolts affair that does exactly what it says on the tin without ever really

stopping to think about it. andy. who's phone is this? i'm sitting here across from a friend. we note from the trailer that the action is going to involve crowe wreaking mobile phone havoc in a diner and a giant truck running over a car, and that pretty much sums up the movie. a popcorn mix of interpersonal craziness and big crunchy carbound carnage. can you see him? he's catching up. it helps, of course, that playing a character with anger management issues is hardly a stretch for russell crowe, although unlike michael douglas's more interesting character in falling down, crowe starts crazy and then just gets worse. you can hardly call this an analysis of societal rage, but watching 90 minutes of head—banging pedal to the metal big screen thrills, ifound myself happy to be back in a cinema, succumbing to the magic of the big screen. better bring your a—game. cos you're going to need it.

also getting a wide summer release this weekend is summerland, a film that could not be more different from unhinged in every respect. we were expecting you hour ago. sorry. frank! this is miss lamb, your new guardian. i don't want him! we've all got to do our bit. the brilliant gemma arterton stars as alice lamb, a reclusive writer living in a south coast village during world war ii. alice is considered an oddity by the locals, a loner who investigates and debunks myths and folklore, looking for the facts behind the fiction. i don't think it's very interesting. i wrote them. when young evacuee frank shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep, alice has no time for him, insisting that he be rehomed. but inevitably a bond grows between the pair, with alice warming to her new charge as we learn about the love and loss that haunts her own past and the possibility of magic in the future. was she the one you loved?

would you think it was strange? no. written and directed by olivier award—winning playwright jessica swale, summerland is a lovely, heartfelt film about matters of life and death that has its feet on the ground and its head in the clouds. in the central role, arterton, who's also an executive producer, relishes the chance to play a character who doesn't care about what the outside world thinks of her, preferring instead to find refuge in her work. he's not on his own. gugu mbatha—raw is perfectly cast as the face that haunts alice's memories, reminding her of what love once felt like, while a supporting cast including penelope wilson and tom courtenay ensures that even the smaller roles have have to. miss lamb! what's most important, however, is that summerland is a film full of hope, something we all sorely need right now.

mrs litvak? who are you? mrs litvak, i'm very sorry for your loss. from the heart—warming to the horrific with the vigil, another new cinema release, this from the blumhouse label that gave us paranormal activity, the purge and get out. written and directed by feature a first—timer keith thomas, the story plays out over the course of one night during which a troubled young man is hired to keep watch over a recently deceased member of the orthodox jewish community. plagued with guilt and anxiety, yakov discovers that mr litvak believed he was being pursued by an evil spirit, a spirit that now seems to have set its sight on yakov, contacting him through visions and cell phone calls, refusing to let him leave this apparently haunted house. set largely in a gloomy apartment where light is replaced by darkness visible, the vigil is at its best when suggesting rather

than depicting its brooding horrors. there are a few perfunctoryjump scares here and there, but it's the atmosphere of dread, aided by a groaning soundtrack, that's the film strongest suit. have you been enjoying it here? yeah. you see, normally we hire a working couple in the winter to help with maintenance. and then there's a strip—down, emptying all the vans, giving them a good scrub... sounds great. there's a hint of dread, too, about make up, and atmospheric british psychodrama from writer director claire oakley. molly windsor is ruth, a taciturn teenager who arrives at a bleak off—season cornish caravan park where her boyfriend tom is working. lipstick smears on the mirror and strands of red hair on tom's bed cause ruth to suspect that he's being unfaithful. but her own growing relationship with the charismaticjade suggests

that if deceptions are at play, they may be internal rather than external. she's got a bit of reputation, you know? reputation for what? like its central character, make up is an enigmatic riddle, a film that slips seamlessly between genres. on one level, it's a coming—of—age story about someone discovering their identity and sexuality. but it's also haunted by horror, with the eerie vistas of the caravan park reflecting ruth's inner turmoil, stalked by shadowy figures whose presence seems both threatening and elusive. do you know a girl with long red hair? she's not ringing any bells. crucially, oakley, making herfuture debut after helming several shorts, wants to keep the audience guessing, musing upon how much of this is genuinely mysterious and how much isjust in ruth's mind. it's a strange movie, low on explanation, big on atmosphere. thanks to cinematographer nick cooke and composer

ben salisbury and the sound designer, all of whom lend to the air of unease. ruth, you don't need to go! ruth! you can find make up on home cinema and then select uk cinemas over the coming weeks and months. the stars have their beginnings and their ends. for a few moments, somewhere in between, a few, very few may support thought. the late johann johansson was a brilliant composer who was oscar—nominated for his scores for the theory of everything and sicario. he was also the director of last and first men, which played at the berlin film festival earlier this year and is now available on demand from bfi player. inspired by olaf stapleton‘s cult sci—fi novel and narrated by tilda swinton, the film uses words, music and haunting footage

of abstract monuments from the former yugoslavia to evoke a vision of futuristic humanity on the brink of extinction. the universal end comes in due course. growing out of a multimedia project unveiled at the manchester international festival in 2017 and completed after joha nsson‘s death in 2018, last and first men is a hauntingly and elegiac work described by its creator as a film that straddles the border of fiction and documentary, a meditation on memory and failed utopia contextualised through the literary mode of science fiction. all right, well, never thought i'd be saying the last mission before mars, and yet here we are making less preparations for the long journey. thank you. the future of mankind, or rather womankind, is the subject of proxima, the story of an astronaut preparing for a lengthy stint on the international space station

in service of a forthcoming mission to mars. eva green is sarah, a french astronaut whose presence is not immediately welcomed by matt dillon's mike, who considers her little more than a tourist. but during the gruelling training procedure, sarah proves that she's more than a match for any man whilst also wrestling with the demands of motherhood and the prospect of saying goodbye to her daughter. written and directed by alice winocour, who co—wrote the brilliant mustang, proxima is a quietly engrossing tale of a woman following her dreams to the stars while facing the consequences of her actions on earth. like last year's lucy in the sky, in which natalie portman played an astronaut unable to readjust to normal life after leaving earth's atmosphere, winocour‘s film maintains an intriguing balance between the everyday and the out of this world, with green doing a terrificjob of portraying the warring pressures that her character must face in order to achieve her goal.

at its heart is a palpable tension between the anxiety she feels at leaving her child behind and the pride she takes in showing her daughter that she, like her mother, can do anything she wants. proxima all feels very real, not something that can be said of flash gordon, which celebrates its 40th anniversary with a 4k restoration, playing in selected cinemas before coming to disc. # flash! # ah-ha! # saviour of the universe!# a camp cult classic, flash gordon looks even more bonkers now than it did back in 1980, with the great max von sydow tearing up the screen as ming the merciless, while brian blessed delivers perhaps the most famous line of his career. with all his men, he couldn't even kill flash. gordon's alive? they don't make them like that any more. that's it for this week. i'm off for a few weeks now, but anna smith will be

here while i'm away with all the best new movies. thanks for watching and stay safe. are we dreaming? i'd like to think so. scorching hot day across many parts of england but particularly in the southeast and the met office recorded a temperature of around 38 celsius at london heathrow. not a record but not far off. certainly one of the highest temperatures ever measured in our shores. now, the weather is freshening up. that's the good news if you don't like the heat and this is where it's coming from. off the atlantic. this cool front here has already brought rain to parts of northern ireland and western scotland. and this process is going to continue through the course of friday evening into saturday. we will see these atlantic winds winning and they are going to push the heat a little bit deeper into europe. but it's still a very warm if not hot evening out there. temperatures in east anglia

in the southeast hovering around the mid—20s late evening and 22 degrees also in newcastle. this is the forecast for this evening and overnight. we could see some storm still rumbling across some eastern areas. gusty winds and hail with that. later in the night it looks as though those storms will fizzle away. the fresher atlantic winds already setting in across ireland at this stage at 5am in the morning on saturday. we're talking around 11! in belfast. still pretty warm in east anglia in the south—east, around 18 degrees. here's the weather map for saturday. you can see yellow colours here. that indicates that fresher air coming off the atlantic driven by this low close to iceland. basically, by this stage the hot air is further east into europe. and we have a mixture of sunshine and showers. all in all a very pleasant saturday on the way. most of us will miss the showers and will have frequent sunny spells. 25 the top temperature in london, so quite a dip in what we had on friday and in the north of the uk, we are talking closer to around 18 degrees.

how about for the football? the fa cup final. beautiful weather around, really rather ideal weather conditions with temperatures in the low to mid—20s and sunny spells. saturday into sunday, we'll see weather fronts moving across the northern half of the uk. that showery theme continues. i think for northern ireland, scotland and it looks as though the lakes and maybe parts of yorkshire, we could see some showers around on saturday but south of that, the weather is going to be dry. it's going to be a little bit cooler. temperatures 20—23 across southern areas of the uk. more like 17 in the north. that's it for me. bye— bye.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. for viewers in the uk and around the world. a gloomy warning from the head of the world health organisation — he says the impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt ‘for decades to come‘. the top infectious diseases expert in the united states is quizzed by lawmakers: dr fauci tells them the us lockdowns have been less strict and less effective than those in europe. in vietnam after three months without any new infections the country now reports its first deaths from covid—i9. the uk halts any further easing of lockdown restrictions due to come into force in england. borisjohnson said it's necessary; to deal with a rise in infections.