enthusiasm for class. enthusiasm for class a narcotics leads him not into a gutter in edinburgh, but to a swanky poolside terrace in la. now you have one of the biggest bands in the world, where does it go from here? played in his younger years by leo flanagan, and by bremner as an oddly childlike adult, mcgee's biggest breaks seem to be down to chaotic fate. with his unswerving belief that each new signing will be bigger than u2, he somehow stumbles into a position of immense cultural performance. helping to define the era of britpop and gaining access to the corridors of power under tony blair's new labour where everything starts to unravel. directed by nick moran who previously did a brilliant job with thejoe meek story telstar, this is entertaining if inevitably self mythologizing fair. bremner is clearly having a ball in the lead role, but it's the supporting characters who often steal the show. from a former skids front man

richard jobson as alan's overbearing dad, to jason isaacs in a rip—roaring cameo as a coke addled producer. it's a biopic, forrest gump meets boyz n the hood. personally, i could have lived without the somewhat hackneyed staged interviews, and for all its excesses, there's little sense that this gets under the skin of its la rger—than—life subject. but like many of the bands that mcgee champions, this is entertainingly bolshie fare. loud, brash and absolutely full of itself. creation stories is on sky cinema from saturday. it's a book. it's a little more than that. open it. you bought drugs from yourself? i had to beta test it. sticking with substance fuelled lifestyles, silk road retells the story of self—proclaimed dark web pirate ross ulbricht who made a fortune setting up what was effectively amazon for drugs.

a site where narcotics could be bought, sold and even customer rated under the anonymity of bitcoin currency. that's 1.2 million a day. likeable love simon star nick robinson plays the real—life entrepreneur whose libertarian dreams of changing the world lead him into increasingly paranoid isolation, obsessed with money, riven with deadly suspicion. by contrast, jason clarke is the fictional ravaged narc who worms his way into ulbricht�*s confidence albeit from a distance, determined to bring him down. we get him on conspiracy to commit murder. checkmate. there may be a brilliantly incisive movie to be made of the story, told in a rolling stone article by david kushner, but this is not it. instead it's stylishly empty fare, fitting perhaps the subject matter. robinson who was terrific in the underrated coming—of—age pic the kings of summer makes a sympathetic lead

although it's worth remembering for all of his talk about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, ulbricht was essentially a dealer grifting in industry not built upon freedom but on extortion, greed and murder. the result is a passable if lightweight cyber crime thriller that you can find online, appropriately enough, from monday. at the other end of the dramatic spectrum we have oleg which opened to very positive reviews at canne in 2019 and now arrives on mubi, offering a vivid and occasionally horrifying portrait of economic migration. valentin novopolskij is the latvian butcher that travels to belgium in search of work but finds himself effectively enslaved by smilingly psychotic

polish criminal andrzej. seeming initially to befriend and support oleg, andrzej is soon exploiting and abusing him refusing to pay for his work and threatening to kill him or his family if he leaves. inspired by real—life tales of modern slavery that add a gritty veracity to the kafkaesque proceedings, the director's film has an urgent documentary quality interspersed with quasi—religious dreams of drowning that somehow universalize the story. dawid ogrodnik is particularly

good as oleg's nemesis. a ball of nervy energy who oozes danger, switching in an instant from goofiness to gangster. as for the main, he plays the sacrificial lamb to a tee, and strangely innocent face fits perfectly for the role of someone trapped in hellish surroundings stripped of their voice and their identity. oleg is available from tuesday. too hungry now aware of this year public entry from the best foreign film oscar was the lengthily entitled preparations to be together for an unknown period of time. it may not have made the academy's shortlist but that's no reason to miss out on these twisty treats from this writer director. natasha storck is martha, the hungry neurosurgeon living in the us who returns to her

homeland after a fleeting encounter at a conference with janosh at a conference in newjersey. realising that he's �*what she's what she's been looking for�*, she goes to a rendezvous in budapest but when she gets there he insists he has no memory of meeting her. has martha encountered a doppelganger? is he just pretending not to know her? or has she simply imagined their relationship, carefully conjuring every detail so even i believe it happened? she's sighted many people, like hitchcock, alongside influences all

the strings of the emotional tension of the superb french film tell no—one. impressively, he managed to keep the narrative options open forfar longer than should be credible. with martha and janos playing an unspoken game of cat and mouse following each other through a city whose distinct districts seem to mirror and map internal conflicts. part ghost story, and part love story, this playfully mysterious film is a joy to watch with stork drawing us deeper into the kaleidoscopic world. while he toys expertly with the tricks of memory and the mind. you can find it on curzon home cinema. this sunday the 21st is world down syndrome day. on thursday the brilliant british movie my feral heart

starring stephen brandon had its terrestrial and network premiere on bbc four, and now is available on iplayer. it's a real indiejam, which writer producer duncan said that inspiration came from the similarities and experiences that we all share regardless of needs adding that this story is about ability not disability. that's a sentiment that also rings true with amber and mme, a beautiful and uplifting documentary about childhood, friendship and education that's available from home viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of the cake now? time for the taste test. focusing on twin sisters amber and olivia and directed by their dad, ian davies, the film follows the girls as they start school together, embarking on different journeys that will see each challenged in different ways. she just finds it a bit trickier. now she doesn't want to go to school as much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved in the world of these sisters who share a palpable bond that is tested by the classroom environment, but that also

proves unbreakable. are you going to go to school tomorrow? i don't want to. how are you feeling? sad. the honesty which with the camera catches both of them at work and play is terrific, it's like being in a room grow and wishing only the best for their future. it really is a lovely film, for details of how to see it go to amberandmefilm.com. following a lengthy fan fuelled campaign, zach snyder's directors cut of the 2017 flop justice league has been completed and is now available for home viewing.

the original theatrical release was finished byjoss whedon after snyder left due to a family tragedy and was universally panned by critics, myself included. this new cut which clocks in at a heaven's gate style four hours restores the film to snyder's original vision producing a substantially different experience that's been enthusiastically embraced by ha rd—core devotees. life is either one or zero, it's to be or not to be. not both. for me it has problems that cannot be solved. and no re—cutting could solve, and the endless video game cg effects, some of which is still look bad and the wooden dialogue, flatpack characters is an abundance of character building, and visibly overburdened plot. we have to try, don't we?

we have to try. i do understand the desire to see the movie as it was intended to, having spent four hours doing just that i could tell you that this is an improvement on the disastrously disjointed 2017 cut. it may be bloated and turgid, but at least it's coherently bloated and uniformly turgid. you can judge zach snyder's justice league for yourself on sky cinema. that is it for this week. thanks for watching the film review, stay safe and i will see you next week. joanna mcgee? as i live and breathe! hello there. for most of us, the weekend promises a fair amount of dry weather, the amount of cloud will vary a bit from place to place, and there will be somejumps around in temperatures as well, as we will see in a moment. this was the satellite picture then from friday, showing we had some decent sunshine, particularly across parts of scotland. that was how the sunshine looked in the highlands. not far away from that, in sterlingshire, we have the highest temperature in the uk, up to 17 celsius, very mild for the time of year.

but it wasn't like that everywhere — north—east england had a really chilly day on friday, just 6 celsius. a big jump upwards in temperatures, though, on the way later today. why the change? well, yesterday, we had the winds coming in from the north—east. it's all down to the wind direction, you see. these north—easterly winds brought those low temperature to eastern england because they were travelling over these really cold seas. the temperature in the water just 6 degrees at the moment. but the winds today are changing direction in a big way. they are coming in from a north—westerly direction, hence that big jump upwards in temperatures widely across eastern areas of england. now, here's the weather picture over the next few hours. we've got cloud across england and wales, a few gaps in the cloud for scotland, slowly filtering into parts of northern england. and on account of the cloudy skies, it's not cold, temperatures around 6—7 celsius. 0n into saturday then, this weather front is going to go nowhere fast, staying across central england and wales all day. another cold front will push into the far north of the uk, bringing rain to northern scotland late in the day. could be an odd patch of drizzle as well from that

slow—moving front across england and wales. that's why it's going to stay cloudy here, but we'll see some sunshine. central and southern scotland, and particularly north—east england, that's where the best of the sunshine is going to be, and it's going to be a much warmer day across north—east england. in the warmest spots, temperatures reach 17 celsius. but those north—westerly winds bringing some cooler weather into north—west england and north wales as well. sunday, while a cold front will have moved across most of the uk bringing cloudy weather across england wales again, what that cold front is going to do, well, it's going to introduce cooler and fresher air. so sunday, temperature—wise, temperatures not quite as high, still, though, managing to reach double figures for most of us. what about next week? well, of the area of high—pressure bringing the settled weather is going to continue to influence our weather, but it will probably gradually turn a little more unsettled across the north—west.

this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm mark lobel. our top stories: europe braces for a third wave of coronavirus infections with fresh lockdowns in france and poland. president biden visits atlanta after the murder of eight people this week, he calls for unity and an end to violence against asian americans. tanzania swears in its first female president after the death ofjohn magufuli on wednesday. cleaning out to make some space — final preparations are under way for a mission to remove some of the dangerous debris in orbit.