,of this now partly because the risk of the pandemic at but also partly because we've experienced empty rows and got used to walking and cycling and got used to walking and cycling and we seeing clear reveries in place like venice and have seen how quickly things can go back to a form of normal life. —— a clear rivers and places. that puts real power behind this time i hope. lovely to have you both again. thank you very much. that's it for the papers. coming up next, it is the film review. good night. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home.

the standout new release this week is missjuneteenth, the directorial feature debut from channing godfrey peoples, whose cv includes writing credits on tv series queen sugar. turquoisejones. is that you? i haven't seen you since the pageant. it slipped my mind that you have a daughter old enough to be in the pageant. set in fort worth, texas, this very engaging drama follows a former pageant winner whose daughter is now competing for the same title that her mother won years ago. what's her problem? i beat her. nicole beharie is turquoisejones,

the one—time beauty queen now juggling shifts at the local diner—bar and the funeral parlour while trying to ensure that teenager kai gets the breaks she never had. not only will you represent your beautiful selves, but our history as well. turquoise desperately wants her headstrong daughter to win missjuneteenth, a pageant celebrating the belated freeing of slaves in texas on june the 19th, 1865, a full two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation of 1863. that sense of delay or deferred emancipation runs throughout the film, as turquoise continues to battle against inequality as a working single mother who found herself unable to pursue her own aspirational dreams. pick up your salad fork. yet despite this strong, historical, political underpinning, it's the warm and empathetic portrayal of day—to—day life that shines through peoples' film. having grown up in fort worth,

she understands the rhythms and the resilience of this community, clearly relishing the blend of true grit and true beauty that lies at the heart of her film. that's my baby! it's no surprise that both mother and daughter should turn to maya angelou's phenomenal woman as a defining mantra, although the differing ways that each interpret that poem speaks volumes about the changing world in which they live. you can find missjuneteenth in cinemas and on vod platforms now. jonathan, um... this is amazing. oh, no, no. he won't. i've had one before. when? well, it's illegal, so, you're not getting any. so is killing grandma. 0h, nice comeback, kiddo! well, it's illegal, so, you're not getting any. so is killing grandma. 0h, nice comeback, kiddo! in bille august's acclaimed 2014 danish drama silent heart, a woman suffering from a terminal disease gathers her family

around her for one last weekend after which she plans to take her own life with the help of her husband. now, original screenwriter christian torpe has revisited and rewritten the silent heart screenplay for the english—language remake, blackbird. hey! susan sarandon steps into the central role of the feisty grandmother whose chalk and cheese daughters join their father and their mother's best friend for what turns out to be an early christmas dinner. can we all behave as normally as possible? over a couple of days, old wounds are reopened and hidden grievances uncovered, with contrived revelations, recriminations and inevitable reconciliations wheeled out in shopping list fashion. you cured me. i cured you. 0k, tmi, tmi! there's something fantastically formulaic and uncomfortably comfortable about the way this all plays out. it's kind of like ajohn lewis ad for euthanasia. but with a cast this good, which includes sam neill, kate winslet, mia wasikowska

and the great lindsay duncan, it's hard to avoid getting just a little involved. it helps that director roger michell, whose credits include notting hill, the mother and le week—end, really understands the architecture of dramatic, domestic interiors, making the most of the largely housebound settings, aided by peter gregson's stirring but sparingly used score. you up yet? i'm dead soon. you coming down? having been released digitally to little fanfare on monday, blackbird comes to dvd from the 28th. do you remember my mother? she read stories to you when you were very young. yeah, i have a vague remembrance of that. he speaks vietnamese my vietnamese isn't very good any more, do you mind telling him that for me? in the vietnam—set british drama monsoon, crazy rich asians star henry golding plays kit, a young man returning to the country of his birth for the first time in decades. your english is very good.

better than your vietnamese. having fled with his family as a child, kit is now back to scatter his mother's ashes, but encounters with estranged relatives and a handsome young american whose father fought in the vietnam war make him question his purpose, his heritage and his identity. directed with understated flair by hong khaou, who made the affecting 2014 drama lilting, this is a very low—key mood piece that melds kit‘s own personaljourney with a portrait of modern vietnam as a country in flux, evolving and changing as rapidly as this prodigal son. beautifully shot by benjamin kracun, whose anagrammatical credits include both beast and beats, this may prove too underplayed for viewers longing for big, emotional climaxes. you can really make something of yourself here. but i liked its refusal to shift into melodrama, encouraging the viewer to see the bigger picture and

appreciate the sense of place. monsoon is in a few cinemas and on digital now. bands would be cool. such as? simple minds. we bought how much? we'd like to book pink floyd and fleetwood mac. we decided to book one of your more up—and—coming bands, iron maiden. who? the winner of the audience award at the edinburgh international film festival last year, schemers is a biographical inspired romp by music promoter turned first time film director dave mclean that's currently playing in uk cinemas. conor berry stars as davie, a young chancer who we first meet being chased down a scottish street in a freeze—frame manner which doesn't so much recall trainspotting as simply sample it. if this movie was a pop tune, the copyright writs would be flying. gig cancelled. promoter dead. from there, we follow our feckless antihero as he attempts to put on a string of increasingly ambitious gigs, culminating in a make or break iron maiden concert

which may or may not come together. i need a bunch ofjakies to fill the positions. anyone who saw the brilliant belfast—based feature good vibrations will know that it's possible to make an utterly wonderful movie about a gaudy presenter staging an against—the—odds gig that will leave audiences cheering. but whilst glenn leyburn and lisa barros d'sa's masterpiece tugged brilliantly at the underdog heartstrings, schemers is less lovable and, let's be honest, less originalfare. sorry, what are you trying to say? many of the roles are little more than thumbnail caricatures. even davie himself doesn't offer much to root for or sympathise with. yet conor berry is clearly a star on the rise, and while schemers may be flawed, i predict we'll see a lot more of berry up on the big screen in the future.

back in 2018, belgian film—maker lukas dhont‘s girl, a fictional drama about a trans teenager who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, became the subject of heated controversy. now, the french documentary petite fille, little girl, offers an engaging and empathetic portrait of an eight—year—old whose gender dysphoria sets her and her parents at odds with a school system unready or unwilling to adapt to change. remarkable for its intimate access to sasha and herfamily, little girl, which is in selected cinemas and on curzon home cinema, presents not only an up close and personal portrait of specific hot topic issues, but also an engaging and insightful look at the universal traumas of childhood and parenting. whatever your views going into this documentary by sebastien lifshitz, you'll come out wishing only the best for the film's wholly sympathetic subject and hoping

that the world really is changing for the better. becky, i'm going to speak to you like an adult because i expect you to act like one. through radio: you're not at the neighbours'. i know you're in the woods behind the house. now, alleged funny man kevinjames starred in some of the most horrifyingly unfunny comedies of all time, including i now pronounce you chuck and larry, grown—ups and of course, paul blart: mall cop one and two. so, it kind of makes sense that his new film becky is a horror—inflicted thriller in which james is actually meant to make the audience feel deeply uncomfortable. in a role originally pegged for simon pegg, james plays a neo—nazi prison escapee who terrorises a family in a remote lake house while searching for a mysterious key. where's becky? lulu wilson is the young teenager who takes on the baddies with blood splattered, diy aplomb, cranking out what the bbfc have labelled "18—rated, bloody violence

and gore", but what horror fans will call a delightfully nostalgic throwback to the good old days of the video nasties. screaming. from the co—directors of 2017's bushwick, becky feels a bit like home alone meets you're next, albeit without the wit of the former or the white knuckle scares of the latter. i don't have your stupid key! wilson makes a feisty final girl, dispatching villains with brutal aplomb. you didn't call on me once, sweetheart. as for kevin james, he seems less creepy every time he speaks, which is peculiar because that's the exact opposite of what usually happens. you can see for yourself when becky becomes available online on monday. i'll leave you with news that as fires continue to burn in the us, ron howard's national geographic documentary rebuilding paradise is in cinemas, offering a terrifying, if not particularly investigative account of the tragedy which befell the titular town in 2018, and a more uplifting tale of the indomitable community who survived the disaster.

we're coming back! cheering. also, if you were watching the film review back injune and were intrigued by my review of the austrian thriller... that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. stay safe, and i'll be back next week. do you know there's more non—deciduous trees in norway than the entire continent of africa? that's fascinating, dad. isn't it? good morning. a frosty but sunny start to the week for areas from scotland all the way to the bristol still cloudy first thing in east

anglia and in the southeast, a bit of rain, cloudy debt morning in northern ireland but brightening up here from mid morning onwards as cloud apache rain spreads its way through scotland during the day come and into the afternoon across wales in the west and french's. it means towards the west we brighten up with some time later on and at long last the cloud of the winds anglia corner and will feel warmer on the weekend. that also continues to happen as we go through what monday night but then the cloud comes back in with patchy rain and drizzle to take us into tuesday. further north and west, we see clear skies into tuesday morning and a chance of frost but not quite as cold as we have seen through recent nights. as for tuesday, the lingering weather front across east anglia air, the southeast may take a while to shift commit the rest of the country probably on the dry side and the brightest days of the week and plenty of sunshine around, pleasa nt and the sunshine but things turned stormy or as you go to the second half of the week. goodbye for now.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the new york times says it has obtained president trump's tax records dating back two decades, which it says reveal chronic losses and years of tax avoidance. it reports mr trump only paid $750 in income taxes in the year he won the presidency and pay no income tax at all in the ten yea rs pay no income tax at all in the ten years previous —— 15 years. fighting breaks out between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh, with casualties on both sides.