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are all online any time, you will be able to see them. coming up next, the film reveals. —— the film reviewer. hello, and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. i'm filling in for mark kermode to review this week's releases. if you're going to make a movie about an eccentric truffle hunter searching furiously for his stolen pig, then surely you want to cast nicolas cage. whistling.
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in pig, he plays a disheveled hermit who lives in the oregonian wilderness with his beloved foraging hog. when she's taken in a violent kidnapping, he doesn't stop to nurse his wounds. he heads straight into town. haunting the restaurants and bars of portland, this christlike spectre will stop at nothing to find his pig. he'sjoined in his search by alex wolf's truffle dealer, who lives in the shadow of his rich father. pig is billed as a thriller, but i think that's a misleading label. while there's some suspense,
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this is a gently paced story about the bond between human and animal, and the extraordinary power of sensory memories. like our hero, the script has little time for the pretensions of high concept dining, but it has a great respect for the art of cooking. you can almost smell the truffles coming off the screen. and cage is tremendous, his dejected but proud figure consumed with the sadness that becomes infectious. pig really sneaks up on you emotionally. that's delicate, delicious debut from michael sarnoski just opened the edinburgh internationalfilm festival and is in cinemas now. you can consume it on digital from the 23rd of august. phone rings. who is this? static.
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owen? is that... i can't hear you. look out of the window. next up, a psychological horror, the night house. rebecca hall stars as beth, a teacher who is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, owen. she's left alone in the lakeside home that they shared, having vivid nightmares about a ghostly presence. rummaging around in owen's belongings, she finds sketches that tell a very strange story and tries to investigate while navigating her grief. there are plenty of effective scares in this film from director david bruckner, who helmed the rural horror, the ritual. figures flicker and loom in the shadows, and sudden sounds will have you jumping out of your seat.
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but the script also explores beth's internal fears. she's terrified to discover that she may not have known her husband as well as she thought. and she's also scared of her own mind. it's a potent combination, and it requires an excellent actress to pull it off. luckily, rebecca hall is exactly that. i've loved her in everything from ben affleck�*s the town to angela robinson's professor marsden and the wonder women. she even brought a touch of class to godzilla versus kong. as beth, she's mesmerising, darting between denial, confusion and gallows humour — something that makes her colleagues visibly uncomfortable. after a terrific first two acts, the conclusion of the night house is convoluted and slightly disappointing. but i would still absolutely recommend this to horror fans who think that complex characters and psychological puzzles are just as important as bumps in the night. owen?
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it's in cinemas now. if you fancy a double bill of complex horrors, then there's a fascinating new british chiller called censor. set amid the moral panic around so—called "video nasties" in the 1980s, it stars niamh algar as enid, who works as a film censor. enid spends her working day watching graphic films to classify them for release. quiet and hard—working, enid's tragic past comes back
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to haunt her when one film reminds her of her missing sister. our mild—mannered heroine begins to unravel and move from the safety of the screening room into the seedy world of low—budget horrors. censor is a film of shocking twists and turns so i won't to divulge much more of the plot. but i will say that it proves niamh algar to be a very versatile performer and barely recognisable from her other recent roles in calm with horses and raised by wolves. there's also a darkly funny turn from michael smiley, who's so great at being humorously sinister. and who's this you've got squirrelled away? this is enid bayne, she's one of our censors. censor announces director and co—writer prano bailey—bond as a major talent who plays with intriguing ideas with visual flair. this story explores mental health and memory as well as politics, the media and power systems. there's a lot to chew on, and while this one�*s ending might also have you scratching your head,
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it's definitely a conversation starter. censor is in cinemas now. i need everyone�*s attention! horn blares. hey, do you mind? i am trying to get my kids to sleep in here! baby cries. oh, now i'm up all night! thanks! if you're after something a bit more cuddly that you can watch at home at the kids, then why not try the animated comedy extinct? basically, the story of time travelling talking doughnuts, extinct is bill and ted meets the secret life of pets — with a dash of horrible histories. starting in 1835 in the galapagos islands, it introduces a species of animals called flummels. they're furry and round with a hole in the middle. two of their number, siblings op and ed end up plummeting through a mysterious time portal into the future. discovering that flummels are now
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extinct, they hop through time and try to save their species. while extinct even features charles darwin... jepson, you get everyone to the beach. we'll meet you down there after we get the darwin guy's attention with the sky flowers. sly flowers ? ..i wouldn't come here for insight into actual actual natural history or indeed quantum physics, but it's a witty, cute watch with a boundless supply of sight gags and characters who are amusingly slow off the mark. something that's usually a winner with kids. it's just landed on sky cinema and now. you're going on a journey, a journey through memory. all you have to do is follow my voice. i'm a fan of the tv series westworld, so i've been looking forward to reminiscence, a film that was written and directed by its co—creator, lisa joy. the dystopian sci—fi stars huthackman as nick, a detective
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living in the post—apocalyptic miami. along with his co—worker, played by thandiwe newton, he helps clients recover their memories, whether they want to recall a loved one orjust find their keys. that's actually how nick meets may, played by rebecca ferguson — a glamourous singer who disappears out of nick's life as quickly as she appeared. nick's search for her takes him in a dangerous and emotionaljourney. this has a great cast, and there are some fun ideas for fans of time—twisting tales, but sadly the film just doesn't come together. both the dialogue and narration feel mannered and unoriginal. and while this eventually subvert some well—worn cliches, it does so very late in the day. so, for most of the film, they feel like exactly that: cliches. and by inviting you to recall everything from westworld to blade runner, reminiscence comes up very short in comparison. all you have to do is follow my voice. it's in cinemas now.
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we'd like to formally welcome you to japan. ok, you saying the same thing you said...? yeah. ok, first of all, we would like to... ..formally accept your invitation to your country and show you a little bit of what we have to offer. she speaks japanese. they sing. finally, a much—loved tv mocumentary comes to the big screen in peoplejust do nothing: big injapan. do you want to watch fast and furious at the exact same time? i'd love nothing more. three, two, one. the series peoplejust do nothing
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catalogued the struggles of a fictional pirate radio station called kurupt fm. openly influenced by the office, mc grindah and his hapless crew put the brent in brentwood with hilarious results. their cinematic debut uses a similar formula within a fish out of water scenario. discovering that their track has been used on a japanese game show, the boys fly to tokyo where they're thrown into the clutches of a smooth manager, played by ken yamamura. meanwhile, their self—appointed manager, chabuddy, played by asim chaudhry, gets into a series of disastrous mishaps. the culture clash comedy is fitfully amusing and will probably date quite quickly, but as ever this draws a steady stream of laughs from the sheer stupidity of its lovable characters, from delusional, self—aggrandizing grindah, played by allan mustafa, to amiable stoner steves, played by steve stamp. after watching these fellas many times from this very sofa, i find it a real treat to laugh
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along with the crowd in the cinema where it's showing now. thanks for watching the film review with me, anna smith. i'll be back next week. in the meantime, stay safe. ragga rap. do you want to translate that for them? i'm not sure i can. too big to translate. hello there. don't be expecting any sort of heat wave through this week. temperatures will be nothing special, really, for the time of year, but there is going to be some relatively warm sunshine. more sunshine, i think, than we had last week, and it will stay largely dry with high—pressure in charge. quite a lot of cloud around to start off on monday morning. some patches of mist and fog too. much of that will tend to lift and break, and then we will see sunny spells through the day. but it might stay a little murky for some western coasts and up towards the northern isles. small chance for shower over high ground in western scotland, maybe wales and the southwest, but the majority staying dry.
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and in the sunshine, temperatures as high as 2a celsius across parts of western scotland. through monday night, we will see some areas of mist, and murk and cloud reforming. this area of cloud working in across eastern england, perhaps getting down into the midlands, maybe giving the odd spot of drizzle. temperatures between 9—13 celsius. and then as we head towards the middle part of the week, it does stay predominantly dry. the best of the sunshine and the highest of the temperatures out towards the west. a bit more cloud and starting to turn cooler further east.
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