centring on the unlikely figure of better call saul star bob odenkirk. take it. i don't want it. it ain't a matter of want, hutch, it's the principle of need. so, keep my sister safe, bro. he plays hutch, an apparently shy and retiring worker drone with a boring job who fails to break heads when his house is broken into, to the sneering disappointment of his colleagues, neighbours and family. little do they know that mousy hutch is actually a coiled spring, a lethal weapon doing his very best to keep his long dormant killer skills under wraps. who are you? having once worked as an auditor, or trained assassin, hutch put his past behind him to settle down and start a family. but now the cat is out of the bag and a group of russians are on his tail, meaning that it's time for hutch

to stop playing nice and start playing nasty. what is happening? don't call 911. while the premise may sound like an unholy mishmash of taken and a history of violence, nobody is actually a total hoot thanks to a playfully hard—boiled script by derek kolstad, energetic direction by ilya naishuller, who made 2015's hardcore henry, and a wonderfully deadpan central performance by odenkirk. you should've seen it go up. it was something. in supporting roles, alexey serebryakov chews the scenery magnificently as hutch's murderous nemesis, while christopher lloyd has huge fun playing the star's equally deadly dad. you brought a lot of shotguns! you brought a lot of russians! there are laugh—out—loud gags about kitty cat bracelets and crunchy punch—ups that recall the fight scenes from john wick, with which this shares a key producer. it all adds up to a deliciously guilty pleasure, a near—perfectly executed slice of b—movie mayhem that's more fun than any movie this had head—crackingly

disreputable has a right to be. you can enjoy the hell out of nobody in cinemas now. from physical punch—ups to emotional sparring matches with the jet black comedy shiva baby. 0h, mom, i can't eat that. why not? i'm vegetarian. you're killing me. i've told you so many times! you've not eaten a single thing all day. that's because we just got here! you look like gwyneth paltrow on food stamps... oh, my god. ..and not in a good way. developed by writer—director emma seligman from her acclaimed 2018 short film of the same name, shiva baby stars rachel sennott as danielle, a young woman having a nightmarish time at what is sardonically described as a funeral after party. you think she has an eating disorder? among the guests are danielle's smothering mother and father, brilliantly played by polly draper and fred melamed, her estranged friend and sometime lover maya, played by molly gordon, and danny deferrari's max, a sugar daddy who turns up

with his wife and baby only hours after enjoying danielle's paid—for services. i'll get his number later. now, now, now, now, now. no, mom, mom... what follows is a string of excruciating encounters that make the toe—curling embarrassments of mike leigh's abigail's party seem like a walk in the park. accompanied by the brilliantly edgy strains of ariel marx's jittery panic—attack score, shiva baby is by turns hilarious and horrifying, a fever dream of social dysfunctionality that leaves its audience unsure whether to laugh or scream. do you kids know each other? um... sennott is mesmerising in the lead, a bundle of raw nerves making her way through a sea of obstacles wearing a smile that looks like it might snap at any moment. meanwhile, the supporting players do a pitch perfectjob of conjuring a crowd that can be warm and supportive one moment, brutallyjudgemental the next, all with the aid of some of the sharpest urban family dialogue since the heyday of nora ephron. you though that baby was cute? yes.

it was hideous, freakishly pale. it may be a bit too spiky for some, but i found shiva baby as entertaining as it was awkward. you can find it exclusively on the streaming service mubi. at the recent academy awards, everything seemed designed to lead up to a finale in which chadwick boseman would receive a posthumous best actor oscar for ma rainey�*s black bottom, only for plans to go awry when anthony hopkins, who wasn't at the ceremony, unexpectedly won for the father. what do you do for a living? um, i look after other people. other people? yeah, myjob is to help people who need help. sounds like one of those guys you're always trying to dump off on me. hopkins plays anthony, father of olivia colman�*s doting daughter anne, who struggling to manage her dad's dementia. anthony accuses anne of wanting to get him out of his flat so she can take it over for herself. i'm not leaving my flat!

but it soon becomes clear that past, present and future are colliding in anthony's mind, leaving him uncertain as to where, when and even who he is. what is this nonsense? what is that? what are you talking about? where is she? i'm here. uh... meanwhile multiple actors play single characters, such as mark gatiss and rufus sewell representing interchangeable male figures, olivia williams alternating with olivia colman, and imogen poots as a new carer who reminds anthony of his absent daughter laura. hey! directed by florian zeller, upon whose award—winning stage play le pere the film is based, the father, for which zeller and christopher hampton won the best adapted screenplay oscar, does an impressive job of invoking anthony's fractured state of mind, with particular plaudits due to production designer peter francis�*s subtly shifting sets. who exactly am i?

but it can also feel rather stagey and performative, packed with showy speeches and overplayed reactions more suited to the theatre than the cinema. personally i still think the best movie ever made about alzheimer's is natalie erika james�*s relic, a heartbreaking australian horror film that was completely ignored by oscar voters, but that deserves every award going. you can find relic on blu—ray or on streaming services like shudder, while the father is in cinemas now. the winner of the best international feature oscar at this year's academy awards was thomas vinterberg's another round, which opens in uk cinemas injuly. in the meantime, running against the wind, which was ethiopia's entry last year, is now available on digital platforms.

the story follows two boys from a remote rural village whose lives take them in very different directions after an early encounter with a camera. one dedicates his life to training as a long—distance runner determined to emulate the success of his sporting hero haile gebreselassie, who has a cameo role. the other heads to addis ababa with dreams of becoming a photographer, only to find himself caught in a web of crime and poverty. described as being inspired by true events, this ratherformulaic tale of tested friendships didn't make the academy shortlist, but still offers a touching portrait of brotherly bonds and youthful dreams. it's less rewarding when the narrative slips into crime and sports movie cliches,

where cinematographer mateusz smolka shocker makes the most of the vivid, varied scenery and injects an air of excitement and urgency into the sometimes rather drab storytelling. you can find running against the wind on digital platforms now. from ethiopia to australia for the coming—of—age lgbtq romcom ellie and abbie (& ellie's dead aunt). what has gotten into you? where has my sweet daughter gone? you're like a different person, and all i can seem to think is that it must be that... ok, let's not say anything that we might regret. it must be that girl. oh, i'll walk home, thanks. written and directed by monica zanetti, who said she wanted to make a movie that teenagers could watch with their mums, this crowdfunded film which began life as a play, centres on school captain ellie, who's deceased aunt tara appears to her as quote a fairy godmother on the eve

of her coming out. but i don't think that there's anything you can do to help. ok, sweet ellie, yeah, sure, so let's talk about today, then, shall we? ellie has fallen for classmate abbie, played by zoe terakes, whose previous credits include playing trans inmate red king in the popular tv series wentworth. in theory, tara has appeared to give ellie some much needed advice on how to ask abbie to the year 12 formal, the australian equivalent of a prom. but it seems that ellie is not the only one in need of help. just don't. released to coincide with pride month, ellie and abbie (and ellie's dead aunt) is a somewhat ramshackle but still solidly good hearted affair. at times, the supernatural subplot put me in mind of the 2010 oddity

it's a wonderful afterlife, with a zanetti seeming a little uncertain just how seriously to take the ghost story elements. personally i found the ghost story of a distraction the beautifully clumsy courtship between ellie and abbie with all its small—scale interpersonal triumphs and tragedies. look, a lot of prefaces upfront, i have absolutely no interest in being messed around. terakes ins particular good is a character whose sexuality is thought to be tough in reliant

and terrific support from kiwi legend rachel house, who proved a scene—stealer in films like hunt for the wilderpeople and thor: ragnarok and who again knots out of the park here. you can find ellie and abbie (and ellie's dead aunt) in cinemas now. i'll leave you with news of the coen brothers 1996 classic fargo is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a limited uk cinema release. thought you might need a little warm up. thanks so much. so what's the deal now, double homicide? yeah, looks pretty bad. two of them are over here. frances mcdormand, who recently won her third acting oscar in the best picture winner nomadland, earned herfirst statuette as marge gunderson, the pregnant detective investigating a snowbound high—speed pursuit shooting and execution type deal. i'm not sure that i agree

with you hundred percent under police work there, low _ yeah? oh yeah. oh, yeah. the opening because of this is a true story, but don't go believing everything you read. all you need to know if that fargo is a blackly comic masterpiece that has not age today. yeah, that's a good one. it's in selected cinemas now. that's it for this week. thank you watching the film review. stay safe, and i'll see you next time. i was just wondering if you had any new vehicle still off a lot in the past couple of weeks. specifically a tan coloured sierra. mr lund regard? quite hot across the country on sunday. back to reality and it was that we will continue to see a fare them in a cloud today. this was a story a few hours ago across parts of cumbria and it is from this with a front that is introducing that the cloud with a light drizzle as well. fresher conditions and breezy are following on behind but we still keep the sunshine and heat into the far southeast. that's where the highest temperatures in the best of the weather is likely to be. that's a kind of weather you like. i was a front moves its way down into the milk winds and southwell for the afternoon, so maybe a little spot or two of drizzle for the cricket at edgbaston for breezy or day and that means that behind that front, a fresher feel, means that behind that front, a fresherfeel, 14—21 the overall high. we could see 2a in the

southeast and 75 fahrenheit. now moving out of friday into the start of the weekend, i pressure continues to build once again back across the country and circulating around that high pressure we have got the south—westerly flow driving in the humid airfurther south—westerly flow driving in the humid air further north. south—westerly flow driving in the humid airfurther north. yes, a week with a front across the top but generally speaking is going to get hotter as we get to the weekend. so on saturday we have a bit more of a breeze and a few scattered showers into the northern aisles in here not quite as warm and scotland and northern ireland, but central is in a part of england once again seeing temperatures into the low to mid 20s and moving it highest values for the north generally around 11! to 19 degrees. but for the cricket it looks as though we will continue to seek a try and settle story particularly on sunday. 27 degrees and perhaps too hot and many of the spectators and even the players as well. so on sunday plenty of dry and sunny weather right across the country. still that week with a front just effecting country. still that week with a frontjust effecting perhaps the western isles and generally speaking it is a drier and sunnier and humid

feel to the day. 26 degrees for every name and 2a for a whole city and 28 for london and may a degree orso and 28 for london and may a degree or so higher and it looks as though the weather may well peek into the early part of next week somewhere could see 30 degrees and that will be the hottest day of the year so far.

at six: world leaders hold talks their first face—to—face talks at the g7 summit in cornwall. the focus is on the pandemic and rebuilding global economies, as borisjohnson said errors over the past 18 months mustn't be repeated. i actually think this is a meeting that genuinely needs to happen, because we need to make sure that we learn the lessons from the pandemic. a focus on education, as the us first ladyjoins the duchess of cambridge on a visit to a cornish school. tonight, the queen will be joined by world leaders and other senior royals at a reception at the eden project. also on the programme: the number of new covid cases rises above 8,000 for the first time since the end of february,

as health leaders urge the government to delay lifting lockdown completely.