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he cannot persuade them, where he cannot persuade them, cannot appeal to the loyalty, he knows the game is up and good thing as well. we need to get that money that we were promised to some of the most desperate people in the world. that's it for tonight. unfortunately all we have time for but lovely to see you both. jo phillips and nigel nelson looking at tomorrow's front pages. and it's goodbye for me. hello and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. i'm filling in for mark kermode
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to review this week's releases. french exit, a dark comedy starring michelle pfeiffer, is finally making a glamorous entrance to uk cinemas this weekend. it's all gone. i spoke to you about this as a possibility for seven years. and then eventuality for three. what did you think was going to happen? frances, what was your plan? my plan was to die before the money ran out, but i kept on keep not dying and, here i am. based on the novel by patrick dewitt and directed by azazeljacobs, it stars pfeiffer as deliciously curt manhattan socialite, frances price. after her wealthy husband dies,
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frances is forced to sell up and decides to move to an apartment in paris with her grown son malcolm, played by lucas hedges. there's also a key role for a pet cat, so this is a fittingly feline move for the former catwoman. what's she paying you? paying me? aren't you her gigolo? oh, god no. that's my mother. it's not clear exactly when french exit is set, but the transatlantic ship journey to paris lends a pleasingly old—fashioned flavour. in fact, this emerges as the strongest sequence, despite one or two amusing set pieces later. frances clearly finds her son's complicated love life rather dull and i would have to agree, although i did enjoy an understated turn from danielle mcdonald as a psychic he has a one night stand with. i've only been unlucky, but i have a sense that this will change suddenly and permanently. anyway, that's what i tell myself. but this is pfeiffer�*s show.
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she brings a seductive quality to dewitt�*s stylised dialogue and a tinge of sweetness and regret to the withering, wearily cynical barbs. i've been incredibly lucky at times and tragically unlucky and others. french exit is a strange, slightly morbid film that won't be for everyone, but it has its pleasures for fans of pfeiffer, black comedy, and black cats. what happens if you get slightly drunk at work every day? four teachers find out in the oscar winner another round. helmed by celebrated danish director thomas vinterberg,
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another round stars mads mikkelsen as a dejected history teacher who agrees to join his mates in an experiment. inspired by a theory that modest inebriation increases creativity and opens the mind, they decide to maintain and monitor blood alcohol levels during the day, secretly swigging at school. at first they see some results. lessons definitely get livelier. and when they up the ante, there are laugh out loud moments. look out for a side—splitting scene in the supermarket. but there are of course downsides to the idea, and i think another round is best in its contemplative moments, pondering on drinking culture, friendship and mental health. nevertheless, compared to other vinterberg films, from feston to the hunt, it is a little on the slight side and i'm still surprised by its success at the bafta film
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awards and the oscars where it beat powerful international features such as collective and quo vadis, aida. but it's an enjoyable film that's sure to be an art—house crowd pleaser. another round is in cinemas now and there's also a remake in the works with leonardo dicaprio hired to play the lead. whether they call it drunk teachers remains to be seen. onto a slasher horror movie with a twist — it's also a body swap comedy. good morning! that's me, millie. ordinary, boring millie. honestly, if this was a horror movie, i'd be one of the first to get killed. like i said... girl screams. freaky stars catherine newton as millie, a high school student who accidentally trades bodies with a serial killer known as the blissfield butcher who's played by vince vaughn. the switch happens after the butcher has attacked millie, so when she rocks up to school acting very differently to usual, her classmates assume she's
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in shock rather than, you know, a middle age murderer in the body of a teenaged girl. meanwhile, millie wakes up as a wanted man in desperate need of a shower and must persuade herfriends to help her. feel our glory and our might! writer—director christopher landen, who wrote four paranormal activity films and directed happy death day, among many other things, balances gore and scares with a witty, contemporary take on the body swap genre. the title is a nod to the freaky friday movies which centred on a mother and daughter. but the gender swap allows freaky to look at the different powers wielded by a burly white man and a pretty young woman. even if it spells it all out in ironic capital letters. i want my body back. come and get it. freaky also touches on gender identity and sexuality. though thankfully it's less like 2002's similarly themed the hot chick and more likejumanji, welcome to thejungle, when jack black was the avatar
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of a teenage girl. have you ever seen me dressed like that? i mean, i kinda like a lot of what he's doing with it, but the point is that you've never see me dressed like that. both vaughn and newton give it their all, with amusing support from misha osherovich as millie's gay paljosh and celeste o'connor as their woke friend nila, who josh affectionately calls �*the word police'. the result is a slasher comedy that's both nostalgic and contemporary with crossgenerational appeal. the casting of alan ruck, who played ferris bueller�*s best friend, as a bullying teacher, is a nice touch. freaky is in cinemas now. and if you'd rather watch a slasher flick in the safety of your own home, there's an entirely unrelated new trilogy on streaming. fear street part one, 1994 is on netflix now. at music festivals, i've been known to go out of my way to avoid the band idles, having dismissed them as shouty, testosterone fuelled rock.
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but a new documentary has made me see them in a different light. # my mother worked 15 hours, five days a week. # my mother worked 16 hours, six days a week. # my mother worked 17 hours, seven days a week. # the best way to scare a tory is to read and get rich. my mum wanted to really be the best mum in the world, and she loved me more than anybody else could have in the world. but she didn't love herself, and, she ended up dying because of that. don't go gentle, a film about idles, is a portrait of eccentric bristolians who have as much sensitivity as they do testosterone. it's an intriguing juxtaposition that's apparent in their lyrics, once you actually listen to them. director mark archer seems more interested in the characters than the process of their songwriting, using candid interviews with individual bandmembers. won't be able to repeat any of that. laughter.
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their talk of love and loss contrasts with footage of them messing about on stage, play fighting and indulging in antics too crude to describe here. this next song is called... heckling in audience. white privilege, how bout that? perhaps it's this very contrast that's attracted such an ardent fan base of women and men. they're called the af gang and they share their feelings and secrets with each other as well as their idles fandom. felt like i really belonged to something. so while it's far from a perfect music doc, this is an entertaining and thought—provoking study of modern manhood in all its excess and fragility. it's in cinemas now. finally, get your leopard print and your shoulder pads out for lady boss, the jackie collins story. girls, when they leave for school, should be taught that in life they can do anything. i really have this strong belief that women can do anything. girls can do anything — that was her motto. girls can do anything. girls can do anything.
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girls can do anything. women can do anything. as much as she was saying that to everybody else, she was consistently saying it to herself. initially best known as the younger sister of actress joan collins, jackie started penning racy novels in the �*60s and became a hugely successful author in the �*80s and beyond. i remember books like chances and lucky being passed around on the school bus and we didn't have to search too hard for the naughty bits. but this doc from laura ferry looks behind the bunk busters, exploring jackie's childhood and success with one fabulous secret weapon — joan collins herself. and she said, "one day i'm going to write a book about all this". and i said "well i think that's a great idea. �*cause, you know, what hollywood is really like". the dynasty star offers up choice anecdotes about jackie's time in hollywood, where she took mental notes on the wild parties that would form the basis of novels like hollywood wives. excerpts from jackie's handwritten diaries paint a portrait
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of a complicated young woman who was in the shadow of her beautiful sister. while joan speaks affectionately of jackie, who sadly passed away in 2015, other interviews range from the glowing to the positively snide. archive tv footage shows jackie being besieged by angry women while defending her position as a feminist who aimed to liberate women with erotic fiction. men, as far as i could tell, had it all their own way. ultimately, lady boss is as star—studded, fascinating and funny as you'd expect from a doc about jackie collins, even if it's not quite as hilarious as that french and saunders sketch in the �*90s. it's in cinemas now. thanks for watching the film review with me, anna smith. mark kermode will be back next week. meantime, stay safe. are you a poet? i work in finance. there is, ifeel, a certain poetry in numbers. gross.
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what did you say? i said gross. hello again. that we can weather was always going to be dominated by showers, showers coming from big clouds like these that responded over the skylines of staffordshire, and the heavens opening not! million miles away in birmingham. because the surface water building up because the surface water building up on the roads here. we have this line of storms that moved across the midlands and into lincolnshire. just south of lincoln itself and a real deluge, 25 mm of rain in the space ofjust one hour. that is nearly half a months worth of rain in the space of one hour and i'm sure that will be one or two issues here. we have areas of rain pushing northwards across scotland, heavy showers easing in northern ireland, one or two showers elsewhere and for
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the big ones working across northern england for the next hour or two. later in the night we will see another area of rain moving up across southern areas of england and rain pushing into southern wales as well. widespread area of rain will move into parts of wales come in the midlands and east anglia before breaking out into showers later on in the day. another day when there showers will be widespread and some of them torrential as well. could bring 30 mm of rain in the space of just one error, so a risk of seeing localised flooding in the heaviest of those downpours, and dry weather between the showers as well. on into monday and tuesday week at the next area of low pressure swinging across the uk so the weather certainly not settling down in the sense but monday seeing rain pushed northwards across scotland, sunshine and a few showers elsewhere but generally a slightly drier and of day for most of you. in this rain moving into southwest accompanied by strengthening wins anther monday
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afternoon. monday night time on the two tuesday our area of low pressure pushes them bringing the rain and gail's developing around the coast and then along the english channel coasts in the southeast by tuesday, showers follow our main band of rain through and start to feel just a little fresher. temperature is around 17 to 19 celsius. from there later in the week the showers will gradually become a little bit less widespread, the weather slowly gets a little bit more settled. before we get there, sunday will see plenty of heavy downpours.
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this is bbc news. i am ben boulos with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. england are through to the semi—finals of euro twenty—twenty — after a four—nil victory over ukraine. they'll now play denmark — while italy will take on spain in the other semi—final. tens of thousands of brazilian protesters call for president bolsonaro to resign over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. in miami — an approaching storm accelerates plans to demolish the rest of the apartment block where 2a people died and more than a 120 are missing. hundreds of supermarkets in sweden are forced to close after a cyber—attack that's hit organisations around the world. and — the sexism row in ukraine — after a government plan for women soldiers to parade in high—heels.
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