i live in there. it's my home. frances mcdormand earning her third best actress, oscar styles�*s furn, best actress oscar styles furn, a recently widowed woman who finds herselfjoining america's nomadic community, discovering a new life on the road here, she meets people who found a different way of living and starts to reassess her own past, present and future. we work horses have to gather together and take care of each other. and that's what this is all about. accepting her oscar, zhao noted that i have always found goodness in the people i've met everywhere i went in the world. that's a sentiment that runs throughout her third feature, a tone poem with western genre inflections inspired byjessica britta's nonfiction 2017 book finding rich themes of human kindness running deep

within the margins of society. one of the things i love most about this life, there's no final goodbye. please just say, i'll see you down the road. and i do. building on the experiences of her previous films, songs my brothers taught me and the rider shall here mixes seasoned professionals like mcdormand and david strathairn with screen first timers playing close to home, lending a real authenticity to the proceedings. beautifully lens by dp joshua james richards, who captures the harsh beauty of the midwest. nomad land is a wide—screen experience that will be in uk cinemas from may the 17th. in the meantime, you can find it online on disney plus. from the sublime to the ridiculous, with wild mountain thyme, a ripe slice of irish whimsy that makes the fluffy 90s charm a waking

makes the fluffy 90s charm waking ned look like a hard hitting ken loach documentary and gives the 2010 stinker a run for its money as the most preposterous torc ever to grace the emerald isle. are you all right? fine, how are you doing out there? fishing. that was fishing? yeah. emily blunt and jamie dornan are star—crossed pair rosemary and anthony, who grew up on neighbouring farms. and they were clearly made for each other, despite anthony's bizarre inability to pop the question. would you marry me? enterjon hamm's american relative, adam, and quickly gets the hots for rosemary and her land after being offered the chance to buy the family farm, which anthony's father feels he is ill suited to inherit.

i don't see a clear path. from where to where? from me to you. the fact that anthony's rural irish father is played by native new yorker christopher walken should set alarm bells ringing, not least because walken screen accents generally range from queens to brooklyn to manhattan's little italy, with the occasional hint of second generation sicilian gangster, perhaps, but essentially not going beyond the boundaries of the five boroughs. indeed, from the moment walker's narrator tony riley says, welcome to ireland. you know you're about to spend the next 90 minutes in the company of somebody doing the worst irish accent since a ginger haired mickey rourke uttered the immortal words. i saw myself laying on the street, dying, not wanting to die. in the toe curling 80s thriller a prayer for the dying. that man was man as the full moon drowned himself. although wild mountain thyme may have been largely shot in senik county mayo with the support of screen ireland, walkman�*s accent takes us

on a madcap tour that swings from the hollywood highlands of brigadoon to the australian—american merriment of tom and nicole in far and away via the horrors of sean connery�*s crimes against language in darbee, oakhill and the little people in the car. its name on me. ah, i don't know. as for the rest of the film, which is adapted by oscar pulitzer and tony award winner john patrick shanley, it's a mix of rom com clich s and pinch me so i know i'm not dreaming. plot contrivances that seem to have been cooked up after a night on the island in one of those terrible theme pubs where drunken americans sing along to the pogues while loudly reminiscing about a country that they claim to love but have never actually been to. you can find outjust how bad it is for yourself from all major uk digital retailers. after the cole crash, insanity of wild mountain time, there's something almost reassuringly boring

about without remorse, applauding thriller adapted from tom clancy's 90's novel of the same name. we fought for what america could be. but they crossed the line. they brought that war to my house. that contract is broken. they're going to play by my rules now. michael bjordan stars as navy seal john kelly, akajohn clarke, who finds himself the target of an assassination plot, picking off members of the squad with whom he undertook a rescue operation in war torn syria. having lost his wife and unborn child, kelly embarks without remorse on hunting down the killers, putting him at loggerheads with the russians and americans alike as everybody double crosses everybody else. and all problems are solved by running, punching, shooting, shouting, stabbing and generally blowing things up, much like the rainbow six video games to which this owes a debt. did you know russia was dealing weapons out of aleppo when we went

went in. and we had a few? you can't fault the pedigree of this amazon original movie that the charismaticjordan star of black panther and creed being joined on screen by the likes ofjodie turner smith. who was electrifying and queen and slim, guy pearce currently wowing audiences in the sky series, mayor of east town and the infinitely versatile jamie bell. yet somehow director stefano�*s salema, whose previous credits include the gomorra tv series and the big screen sicarios sequel, squanders their talents delivering a lump, an action that trudges drearily from one set piece to the next, with lots of huffing and puffing but zero emotional engagement. for all the on—screen fireworks, this lackluster affair fails to generate any real dramatic sparks. it's available now on amazon prime video. if you want something that really gets under your skin, then let me direct you instead to the extraordinary mexican drama identifying features.

directed and co—written by fernanda valdez, the film follows magdaleno searching for her son, who went missing en route to the us border. meanwhile, another young man is deported from the us and finds himself in the same militia ridden badlands to which magdalena is led. together, they search for lost family members, finding common cause amid a landscape that can be both beautiful and terrifying. the winner of several international festival prizes, including an audience award at sundance, this riveting directorial feature debut marques valadares as a major film—making talent. it's an astonishingly assured

and adventurous piece that mixes personal and political elements in a narrative that is part thriller, part heartbreaking family saga and part magical realist horror story, a descent into the inferno that has its feet firmly on the ground, even as it crosses the border into fantastical, nightmare, haunting cinematography by cloudy and becquerel and a soul shaking. and a soul shakingly eerie score by claricejensen completes the picture, making this a must see. you can find identifying features exclusively on bfe player. i'll leave you with news of something altogether more upbeat, the animated fantasy, the michal�*s vs the machines, which is new to netflix. the last humans must be here somewhere. wait. they're coming.

is that a burnt orange 1993 station wagon or is it of a warrior spirit? the only people who can save the world super sorry everyone. super sorry everyone. co—produced by phil lord and christopher miller, the geniuses behind the lego movie. the film plays out in a world in which robots derived from next generation mobile technology are taking over the planet. led by a techy ii named powell, voiced by olivia colman. you treated me like... swipe, poke, poke. humanity�*s only hope is the michal�*s a typically dysfunctional nuclear family with old fashioned dad, heroic mum, dinosaur obsessed son and daughter. katie, who dreams of film school, have been inconveniently interrupted by the annoying robot apocalypse.

packed with smart gags about modern addictions. hey, who could have guessed that big tech companies didn't have our best interests at heart and boasting the same comic tension between high voltage action and small time family squabbling that made the incredibles such a treat, the mitchells vs the machines put a smile on my face from start to finish. so we just do that right? at times, i was reminded of the oddball charm of the diary of a wimpy kid books to which this was an inspirational debt. it's certainly past the six last test with flying colours. you can find it on netflix. that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. stay safe and i'll see you next week. how about we put our phones down and we can make ten seconds of unobstructed family eye contact? see, this is good right here.

this is natural. april may well have been quite a quiet month with a good deal of dry weather in the forecast, but the story really has been the overnight frost, hasn't it? as we close out april 2021, there has been a grass frost recorded somewhere in the uk for the whole of the month. but we close out the month perhaps on a little bit more of a tradition, with sunny spells and april showers. the showers so far have been pretty hit and miss, rolling in off the north sea. through the afternoon, further showers developing inland. the showers could be heavy, with a little bit of thunder mixed in there, even some hail, as well. if you dodge the showers and keep the sunshine, temperatures a little subdued for this time of year. a maximum of 7—13 degrees. those showers continue to the early evening, but then they will start to fade away, and under clearing skies, we do it all again, temperatures

are likely to fall away, so for the first morning of may we could start again with a touch of frost, particularly in scotland, northern ireland and northern england. low single figures perhaps below freezing here. as we go into the weekend, despite frosty mornings, a case of sunny spells and dodging some showers. the rest of the sun first thing, showers developing through the day and there could be some heavy ones and a little more widespread in the afternoon. can't rule out the odd rumble of thunder and some hail, temperatures still struggling, 7—13 degrees. almost a repeat performance as we go into sunday. a lovely start, some sunshine coming through, more cloud developing across the far north and west and some heavier showers across england and wales into the afternoon, with a high of 1a degrees. the real change arrives for bank holiday monday. what a surprise. yes, it will turn increasingly wet

and windy, with this area of low pressure. something we have not seen for quite some time. just where that low is going to be sitting, still subject to change, but at the moment it looks like the heaviest of the rain is going to push its way out of northern ireland across england and wales. on the leading edge we can see some snow to higher ground in scotland, and we could see some welcome rain into eastern and south east england, with a high of 12 degrees.

a deadly crush at a religious festival in israel leaves 45 people dead, and around 150 injured. men and boys at the event struggled to escape the crowd through a narrow passageway, leading to panic and tragedy. all of a sudden, we saw paramedics running by, like mid—cpr on kids, then one after the other, they started coming in ambulances, then we understood, like, something is