french exit, 3 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, 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. 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. and tragically unlucky at 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, 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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 of a complicated young woman who was in the shadow of her beautiful sister.

while joan speaks affectionately ofjackie, 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. what did you say? i said gross.

that some showers through the day but showers are going to be on the cards throughout this evening. with this area of low pressure driving our weather in this area of low pressure developing rapidly to the south could bring some unceasingly weather through monday night. the remains of his evening will be under downpours and i think the thunder will easily list to go through the night but it will stay unsettled further outbreaks of showers and rains for scotland, northern england, northern ireland. pure showers in the south by the mop made from most in mild cloud coming off of scotland and looks as though the northern half of the country will have the thickest cloud, the shower outbreaks for the self and it looks drier and sunnier than the day. not ruling out the odd shower but there will be some heavy ones for the north and eventually, it will start to ease into northern england and northern ireland ahead of this gathering massive rain. in between

you feel warmer than its vote today just because we've got some sunshine and some strong sunshine coming through. as a result, some high levels of palm at this time of year and some high levels of uv as well. and so as we go to the week ahead at wimbledon, that means there's a chance of some interruptions. and monday looking at the drier and tuesday concerning on wednesday, it would not lecture will at some showers but it would tend to diminish in frequency and intensity. but, as a going to monday evening and overnight, this area of rain gathers and pushes his way across much of england and wales. but, if we will see some impact from dull force winds through the channel and windy weather for the time of year affecting many parts of the southern half of england in the southern half of wales and england as well. and into tuesday, we will see showers, heavy showers but some areas may well skip the showers and stay dry but this area of low pressure, this rain makes its way into eastern

parts of both england and scotland during the day on tuesday and showers following him behind, still warm with 18 for the average of the time of year. but that would trigger some heavy showers as well. and though showers still around on wednesday and diminishing and numbered through thursday and friday but some question marks over the weekend and is over, you can catch more, including the warnings on the website.

this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at seven: a cabinet minister indicates that the use of face coverings will become a personal choice when lockdown restrictions in england are eased. we trust the british public to exercise good judgment. people will come to different conclusions. more than 20 million people watched england's brilliant night in rome, as they thrashed ukraine, and moved on to the semifinals of the euros. it has been a long year for everybody, and i'm chuffed that the two performance we put on have brought so much enjoyment and happiness to people. it was a saturday night

to celebrate for fans — football now is coming home — with england facing denmark at wembley on wednesday night.