first world tour. he raps. cheering. he raps. but when zed is struck down by debilitating sickness, he finds himself facing a future as uncertain as the identity struggles to define. torn between dreams of success and loyalty to his roots, zed becomes haunted by magical realist visions interwoven through the fabric of this urgent urban drama. if you want me back to where i'm coming from... directed by feature first timer bassam tariq from a script covid—i9 is spreading co—written by actor "significantly" faster through england than even and musician ahmed, the government's own mogul mowgli is as enigmatically "worst case" plans — hard to define as its central character. according to its experts.

they say numbers with the virus needing hospital care were already i tried to stand up for my blood. higher than anticipated — theirfears are backed up my blood won't let me stand up. by the country's chief statistician. riz ahmed himself has called it it's very difficult to think a horror musical with with elements that we are going to do anything of comedy about family ties other over the next few weeks than, very, very sadly, see an increase in deaths. and generational divides, it comes as figures suggest that daily new cases of coronavirus while others have variously described it as is streetwise in homes in england jumped by nearly thriller, a rap feel tone poem, 50% last week. also tonight — and a modern spiritual odyssey. whatever you call it, a powerful earthquake mogul mowgli is an impressively unpredictable hybrid that grabs hits turkey and greece — the audience's attention and draws us deep into zed's highly the devastation leaves at least 11! personal experience. dead and hundreds injured. finding a balance between the us has buried more people with covid—i9 explanation and intuition, the film—makers trust their audience to keep pace of the shifting narrative, finding universal themes in the details of zed's specific story. it's a genuinely unique work and i advise you to seek it out in cinemas. he raps. now, this being halloween weekend, there are several films on offer

with a seasonal horror theme. when was the last time you spoke to her? it's been a few weeks. top of the pile is relic, the extraordinary debut feature from natalie erika james. which offers a spine tingling, heartbreaking tale of a woman with alzheimer's becoming lost in the labyrinthine corridors of her mind and her home. tea 7 emily mortimer is kay, the somewhat distanced daughter of robyn nevin‘s edna, who lives alone in a remote woodland house in victoria, australia. when edna goes missing, kay and her daughter sam, played by bella heathcote, hurried to the increasingly decrepit family home where edna mysteriously reappears with no memory of where she has been. do you know where you were, mum? i suppose i went out. kay wants to move her mum to care home in melbourne,

but dreams of a cabin riddled with creeping black mould and edna's own belief that there is someone else in the house need ——lead our protagonists deeper and deeper into the dark heart of her condition. like its australian stablemate the ba badook, relic, which is co—written by christian white, is a horror movie with a heart, a film that uses it's surreal narrative to tell a story that is absolutely rooted in reality, in the tensions, anxieties and projections of child parent relationships, and in the bewildering spectre of dementia. describing her film as dealing with the terror of grieving for the loss of someone while they're still alive, james conjures a superb chiller that's both profoundly scary and also profoundly moving. there are echoes of the psychogeography of edgar allan poe's fall of the house of usher, along with the dream logic of david lynch's eraserhead. but it's the awesome sense of longing, loss and ultimately love

that is the film's strongest suit, putting it in the same category as hideo nakata's masterpiece dark water, which similarly blended tears with fears to absolutely overwhelming effect. gran, you're bleeding. i can do it myself. you've hurt yourself... no! stop! get out of here! get out, get out! it's my room, it's my house! get out! relic, which is released under the prestigious fright fest presents label, is one of the films of the year. it's available in cinemas and on digital now. eerie whispering. from australia to britain for another very impressive feature debut that blends surreal horror with social realism. congratulations. you are being released as asylum seekers. not as citizens, not yet.

written and directed by remi weekes, his house, which opened in cinemas last week and is now on netflix, finds a sudanese refugee couple forced to live in a rotting house on a bleak and inhospitable state. inhospitable ——estate. told that they must stay here or risk arrest and deportation, the pair soon discover that they are not alone in the house, that guilty secrets lurk within its walls. as long as you can get along, fit in, you're one of the good ones. was this dark force there already? did the couple bring it with them? and most importantly, can they live with it? i saw something. brilliantly dramatising its central sense of displacement and alienation, his house asks what it means to belong somewhere, to have to assert your right to live in your home, even when that home turns upon you. tonally, this reminded me of babak anvari's under the shadow, in which a mother and daughter are trapped in besieged tehran apartment, or of mati diop‘s atlantics,

in which ghostly apparitions haunt a tale of imperilled senegalese migrants. matt smith is the housing officer who tells the couple to just fit in, but it's sope dirisu and wunmi mosaku who carry the film, making us care about their plight and share their dreams and nightmares. this is my house! one of the greatest horror novels of all time, the haunting of hill house, was written by shirley jackson, herself the subject of a new film shirley byjosephine decker. i'm well within the bounds of our agreement. hm... our agreement didn't include sluts interrupting my dinner. handmaid's tale star elisabeth moss plays jackson as a brittle, unstable presence who shares a toxic dependency with husband stanley, reminiscent of who's afraid of virginia woolf? into this household comes odessa young's rose, a pregnant young newlywed whom the author initially torments and ridicules.

oh, so the writing's going well, then? please don't ever ask me that again. but as shirley starts to write a story inspired by the real—life disappearance of paula jean welden, rosie and paula's identities begin to overlap with disorienting consequences. you are hiding something. based on a novel by susan scarf merrell, shirley is not a conventional biopic. rather, it's a work of fiction mixed with some fact that attempts to paint a screen portrait of shirley jackson that somehow echoes the tone of her eerily inimitable writing. you're getting on well with the wife. you don't want my work to suffer, too, do you? i'm not one for dramatics. inevitably that's a near impossible task, and there are plenty of moments when shirley proves as patience testing as its embittered and frequently unlikeable subject. but there's something admirable about a film which is willing to take these kind of risks, indulging in the same strange

character transfers that were a key part of jackson's poetic literature and giving moss the chance to tear up the screen as an enigma who proudly calls herself a witch. you're really scraping the barrel these days. the result may not be a great film but it is brave, and i suspect it would have raised a cynical chuckle from jackson herself. it's in cinemas and on curzon home cinema now. i know about witches. they're real! roald dahl‘s 1983 novel the witches was memorably filmed by nic roeg in 1990, an adaptation notable for its weird atmosphere and for its botched finale which wimped out on the source material. now, back to the future director robert zemeckis has cooked up a new version of the witches which moves the action to 60s america. when young orphan charlie hanson goes to live with his grandma agatha, played by octavia spencer, she teaches him that witches are real and takes him

to the fancy—schmancy hotel, where a spectacular showdown of mice and men ensure. originally envisaged as a stop motion animation to be directed by guillermo del toro, who now shares in screenwriting credit, this live—action cg heavy roller—coaster romp lacks the beautiful strangeness of roeg's version. with anne hathaway's strangulatedly scandi inflected grand high witch proving no match for anjelica huston‘s legendary incarnation. what happened to us? elsewhere, there is plenty of stuart little style kinetic mouse action, but little of the eeriness which made dahl‘s source such an anarchic treat. yet, for all its flaws, this does at least follow through on the promise of the source story, a reason to be cheerful. originally intended for cinema release, it's available now for rental on a range of streaming platforms. you're a wolf when you sleep... a girl when you're awake. robyn!

something's happened to me. yeah, i can see that. it's flipping great! i'll leave you with news of something altogether more original. wolfwalkers, the latestjaw—dropping animation from cartoon saloon, the kilkenny—based company behind secret of kells and song of the sea. sean bean provides the voice of bill goodfellowe, a i7th—century hunter who takes his daughter robyn to ireland, where simon mcburney‘s cromwellian lord protector commands him to rid the forest of wolves. but when robyn befriends a young wolfwalker, who is a girl when awake, a wolf when asleep, she unlocks a transformation that will place her and herfather in grave danger. co—directed by tomm moore and ross stewart, this gem of a movie runs in the tradition of the films like miyazaki's princess mononoke or hosoda's wolf children, an adventure centred on the forging or breaking of an essential bond with nature. it's a thrilling, empowering, life affirming tale that will dazzle viewers young and old alike.

it's in cinemas nationwide now. that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. i'll be back in a fortnight. next week, it's anna smith. gran? hello there. we have ended the week on a relatively fine note, we've seen quite a bit of dry weather across the north of the uk, further south more cloud with outbreaks of rain. things are set to turn a lot more turbulent this weekend — we're going to see deep areas of low pressure bringing spells of heavy rain and also some gales, severe in places. for the rest of the day, to the northern half of the uk which will hold on to the best of the brightness, a few blustery showers here, more cloud and some spots of light rain and drizzle further south. across the south and the north the winds will be fairly brisk,

but through central areas they will be lighter for a while. for a while because the next area of low pressure will be moving up from the south this evening and overnight, bringing increasing cloud, outbreaks of rain, some of it will turn out to be heavy in the north and west, and it will introduce much milder air across southern areas, mid—teens by the end of the night. a chillier night for the north of scotland under those clearer skies. as we head into saturday, this is the deep area of low pressure that has been named storm aidan by the irish met service, and it is here we are likely to see the most destruction across the republic of ireland, also strong winds across the irish sea coasts, which could also cause some disruption. a band of heavy, squally rain, moving east through the course of saturday, very strong winds on that as it moves through. behind it, blustery showers and sunshine, longer spells of rain continuing across the north—west of the uk and these winds gusting up to 70 mph along the irish sea coast. elsewhere, generally around 40—45 mph, maybe even more than that in exposure.

we will see sunshine around into the afternoon, those temperatures on the mild side again. storm aidan clears away, but another one hot on its heels moves through for sunday, so again another very windy start, widespread gales, outbreaks of rain through sunday morning, clearing through to sunshine and blustery showers. some of these will be heavy across western areas, merging to produce longer spells of rain. and it is across the north and the west where we will see the strongest winds once again. mild in the south—east, but a little bit cooler further the north and west. with these spells of heavy rain and gales at the weekend, we are likely to see some disruption, so stay tuned to your bbc local radio and to the weather forecast. as we head into next week, have a look at this. things settle down because a big area of high pressure will start to build in, bringing sunshine, but also 00:13:48,506 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 chilly days and nights.