ican do in do in training —— i can do in training every day, but something about racing puts those doubts to the surface. i've squashed all of those. i can move forward and be the athlete i know i am. i want to be the athlete i want to be as well. britain's sam bird continues to lead the formula e world championship — but couldn't add to his points total after crashing out on the final lap of race 2 at the rome e prix. bird was taken out by nick de vries on a chaotic final lap that had just resumed after a late safety car. belgium's stoffel vandoorne held off the challengers to claim his first win of the season. and finally in parts of the country today — the final day of championship cricket's opening round of fixtures was struck not by no—balls, but snowballs. a number of games were hit by the unseasonably wintry weather — including in manchester where lancashire�*s games with sussex ended in a draw. that didn't stop some of the sussex team getting in some extra fielding practice.

that's all from sportsday. we'll have more for you in the next hour. hello, and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in the home while we look forward to cinemas reopening in may.

this weekend, it's the baftas, at which the oscar best picture contender sound of metal is up for a number of awards including best actor for riz ahmed. your hearing is deteriorating rapidly. it will come back. untilthen, wejust keep going, 0k? ahmed plays ruben stone, a drummer working in a noise metal two piece with olivia cooke's singer—guitarist, whose life is turned upside down when his hearing suddenly fails. terrified, ruben attends a rural retreat run by paul raci'sjoe where the possibility of a new life seems to be offered. but will ruben�*s desperation to regain his hearing thwart his future growth? a labour of love from director and co—writer darius marder, sound of metal has its roots in derek cianfrance�*s unfinished docu—fiction project, metalhead, which was to have starred american

sludge—metal dquucifer. taking on the lead role in marder�*s film, ahmed, an accomplished actor and musician who recently shone in mogul mowgli, not only had to learn to play the drums but also to become fluent in american sign language, a challenge which he says taught him how to listen. i was wondering, joe, i don't know if it's possible. but. . .i need money. just to buy back my rv. there's something sublime about watching a performer of ahmed's calibre step up to the next level, as if his craft has been amplified by learning this new language. he's never been more expressive or engaging. you look and sound like an addict. plaudits, too, to bafta and oscar—nominee raci, a veteran of stage and screen who was raised by deaf parents and described asl

as "my native tongue". as for marder, he conjures a world where every detail rings true, aided by a superb sound design team who brilliantly capture ruben�*s changing aural experiences as he wrestles with addiction and identity. the result is an extraordinary film that you can find on amazon prime video from monday, and then in cinemas when they reopen in may. in the eerie argentine drama, a common crime, elisa carricajo plays cecilia, a teacher whose life unravels in the wake of a tragedy that's

comfortably close to home. when kevin, her housekeeper�*s teenage son, mysteriously knocks on her door one rainy night, cecilia is scared and fails to let him in. later, when kevin's body is dragged from the local river, cecilia becomes overwhelmed by her guilty secret — that she could have saved him but didn't. directed and co—written by francisco marquez, who made the long night of francisco sanctis, a common crime looks like a mystery mystery thriller with overtones of supernatural horror. but there's no mystery about who killed kevin. it's clear from the outset that the police are to blame and that his crime was simply coming from the wrong side of the tracks. as marquez has said, to be poor in argentina means to already be a suspect. as for the ghost that haunts cecilia, is this not merely a manifestation of her bourgeois guilt, an unconscious acknowledgement of her own

complicity in kevin's death? brilliantly played by carricajo, cecilia becomes an emblem for a broken society, in which the spectre of the disappeared still looms large and in which the economics lessons that cecilia teaches her students clearly have a deadly edge. it's engrossing affair, chilling and thought—provoking. it's available through virtual cinema screenings and on vod now. in don siegel�*s �*50s sci—fi classic invasion of the body snatchers, from jack finney�*s novel, the residents of an american town are replaced by soulless replicas that grow in pods. a �*70s remake by philip kaufman added an eerie widemouth alien scream that was picked up in abel ferrara's �*90s version. now we have assimilate, a new—ish movie that actually opened in the us a couple of years ago in which the residents of a american town are replaced by soulless

replicas that grow in pods and that emit a strange widemouth alien scream. can i help you, boys? you could be forgiven for assuming that assimilate was simply the latest in a long line of body snatchers remakes, which also includes the invasion from 2007. yet, unlike its predecessors, which duly acknowledged their source, assimilate makes no mention of the novel or any of its screen adaptations, preferring instead to pretend that this is an original film from an original script, rather than a bland rip—off of an uncredited yet enduring classic. in the interest of balance, i should admit that this time the protagonists are teenagers armed

with spy—cams and a website, and there are some bitey bug things. hey, that's new, but other than that this is nothing more than a movie that does exactly what its evil aliens do — making an artificial replica of something that already exists, that looks exactly the same, but is utterly empty. you can find assimilate on digital platforms from monday, but why would you bother when all of the other accredited versions of body snatchers are out there doing the job so much better? the fact that a new movie bears a resemblance to an old movie doesn't mean that it has to be terrible. take palm springs, which opened to very positive reviews at the sundance film festival last year and went on to pick up a brace of golden globe nominations, including best musical or comedy film. # if you're lost you can look and you will find me. - # time aftertime. nice. screaming. run, rabbit, run. # time aftertime.

don't come in here! what? it's going to be a beautiful wedding. andy samberg is nyles, a hawaiian—shirted wastrel who's been reliving the same wedding day, not his, over and over again for as long as he can remember. cristin milioti is sarah, the sister of the bride who finds herself unwittingly dragged into the same temporal vortex in which nyles is trapped, about which she is not best pleased. she's not alone, withjk simmons, who was similarly dragged into nyles�* private hell, seeking revenge with a crossbow. you don't have to be a film historian to get a sense of deja vu, or to go, "hang on, isn't thatjust groundhog day but with more people dragged into the time loop?" the answer is yes and no. yes, palm springs owes a debt to the �*90s classic in which bill murray woke up on the same day over and over again while gradually falling in love

with co—star andie macdowell... wait, stop, there is a bomb in the cake. ..but rather than simply replicating or ripping off groundhog day, which itself owed a debt to such diverse sources as it's a wonderful life and anne rice's novel the vampire lestat, palm springs takes that premise and runs with it, acknowledging and even joking about some of its predecessors�* philisophical conundrums. i'm going to get out of this. suit yourself. see you tomorrow. it helps that samberg and milioti make likeable leads, and that the script by max barbakow and andy siara maintains a nice balance between screwball wit and sassy crudity. it's also significant, although completely coincidental, that in the wake of the anniversary of the first lockdown the idea of being trapped in the same endless day seems particularly poignant. palm springs may not be a masterpiece, and it's certainly not the most original film released this week, but it's rewardingly

goofy fare that raises a laugh and a smile, and frankly those have been in short supply lately. you can find it on amazon prime video. i'll leave you with news of two films that were made a few years ago but have just become widely available in the uk. from 2015, songs my brothers taught me is the debut feature of chloe zhao, whose latest film, nomadland, is currently a favourite for best picture and best director at the baftas and the oscars. anything that runs wild got something bad in it. you want to leave some of that in there, because they need it to survive out here. a tough, lyrical and typically honest coming—of—age story, it clearly lays the groundwork for both the rider and nomadland, and is available exclusively on the streaming service mubi.

meanwhile, wilderness is a 2017 production made in association with falmouth university's school of film and television, whose other credits include markjenkin's acclaimed cornish masterpiece, bait. what's going on? you haven't told her? this is getting interesting now. a jazz—inflected �*60s love story that unfolds against the rugged beauty of the cornish coast, it's a low—key but still thematically rich affair, heavy on dialogue, light on action, that picked up several festival awards and is now available on a range of digital platforms. this is perfect, isn't it? it's all i've ever wanted. that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. stay safe and i'll see you next week. go ahead and tase me! go on, just do it!

i'm touching your bike. hello there. we've seen a lot of showers around today. they will be fading away overnight. they will linger for longer across the eastern side of the uk before skies tend to clear. could be some icy patches around overnight, not least because we've got some wetter weather coming into wales. could be some snow as well, and that will extend its way into the cotswolds. it won't be quite as cold as last night in northern ireland, but elsewhere, a widespread frost, lowest temperatures in the clearest skies in scotland and northern england. that wintry weather moves away from wales, briefly heads into southern england before the cloud breaks and we're left with some showers. most of the showers will be in northern ireland. a much drier, sunnier day, i think, for scotland, northern and eastern parts of england and into the midlands, and the temperatures will be a shade higher than they were today. it's still cold, though, and it will be a cold start again, i think, to tuesday. many places dry and sunny to begin with. a few showers arriving, though,

in western scotland, northern ireland. another area that could see some showers, wales and into the midlands. many places will be dry, and those temperatures into double figures.

this is bbc news the headlines at seven the duke of edinburgh's children pay tribute to their late father — after a private church service attended by members of the royal family: i think the way i would put it is, we have lost almost the grandfather of the nation. and i feel very sorry and supportive of my mother, who is feeling it, i think, probably more than everybody else. it's been a bit of a, a bit of a shock. however much one tries to prepare oneself for something like this, it's still a dreadful shock. and we're sort of trying to come to terms with that. and it's very, very sad. in a statement released earlier, princess anne said her father has left a legacy that would inspire. we'll continue look

at the tributes being paid. also ahead...