tv The Film Review BBC News February 6, 2022 6:45pm-7:01pm GMT
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and no—one's going to want to look at me with my trademark, - so i hold onto that. even if we soften them up and kept no, no, you can do anything - you want, but my eyelashes stay right where they are. that's really you. mmm. yeah, this is who i am. now, you can see from that, i mean, it's an extraordinary performance of extraordinary personality. i mean, the nails, the eyes everything about them. a credit to a lot of make—up artists on this film. apparently she spent several hours in make—up every day, because there's also prosthetics work. the way thatjessica chastain described it, she said it gave her a long runway every day to build up to the performance, because it's a big performance. the story is really fascinating, not least because if you don't know it already, the fact that she went from being somebody —
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televangelists generally come from the evangelical religious right, which we all know a lot more about in the more recent years, but her embracing of people with hiv/aids and her becoming an lgbtq icon is really not what you would've expected. i think her performance is great. i think the rest of the movie isn't as good as her performance. i think the movie itself — i mean, the story is really mind—boggling. the film itself, it felt a bit televisual, and maybe there's a kind of thing going, because obviously, i mean, it's based on a documentary, and in a way, it's kind of — nothing can match up to the fact, you know, fiction has a hard job of keeping up with fact. and maybe there is a point being made that because it's about televangelism, that it being televisual kind of makes sense? i thought she was great, i thought the film was ok. what did you think? i thought she was fantastic and i spent — it's interesting you talk about documentaries, because i spent most of the film thinking, "god, this would make a fantastic documentary" and then came out and read a bit more and discovered there had indeed been a documentary! and i suppose that's where you're right to say it's televisual because i thought,
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is this just because i'm a journalist or — i spent the whole thing thinking, well, i'd actually really like to see lots of archive footage and interviews with her kids and that's what i would really like to see now. it is a fascinating story, so it does hold your attention. oh, yeah, no, it really does. and because it goes — like i said, if you don't know the story already, it goes in an arc, which is so unpredictable. and one of the things that she does is she gets herself a seat at the table, which is an all—male table, and describes — she literally gets a seat and brings it to the table, and jerry, he's, like, what's she doing?! and at that point, you really like her. yeah. you think, well, there's a woman who knows knows her own mind. so, there is really interesting tensions going on in that story, and i think her performance embodies it, but the film itself just felt oddly kind of slightly flat in comparison to her central role. i think that's true. i think it's an interesting story. she's great. oh, i'm not meant to say, really,
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you could wait till it's on telly. i'm not meant to say that, am i? it's a film, it's made for the big screen, but that's kind of how i felt. but actually, no, i kind of agree with you. i think it wouldn't lose anything on the small screen, because maybe the whole thing about televangelism, it being televisual, maybe that is kind of the point. so, you know but her performance is great and it is a stranger—than—fiction story. absolutely. so it does hold your attention, yeah. yes. so jackass forever. now, this is a decade afterjackass sd, and 20 years after the tv series ended with the first feature film. so that was the end of it, and two decades later, they're still doing it, remnants of the old gang with some newer arrivals. the stunts as ever revolve around bodily functions with particular emphasis on �*downstairs'. so, underwaterfarts, there's a lot of that,
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there's vultures picking raw meat out of somebody�*s underpants. there'sjohnny knoxville getting knocked unconscious by a bull and being shot out of a cannon, a tribute to the flight of icarus. here's the thing — i actually rather enjoyed this. i thought it was quite sweet, and i haven't been a fan of jackass up until now. one of the things that's interesting about it is the film industry is so much about objectifying women, it is very interesting to see a film in which it is the male body that is completely on display and is utterly ridiculed and seen without any form of squeamishness, and there is something oddly subversive about that. also, there is a scene — we do have a woman taking part in this — who gets stung on the lips by a scorpion as a scorpion botox thing, which you could see as a comment on the ludicrousness of a society in which — which embraces the idea of botox. there's a thing at the end which says "no animals were harmed." the same cannot be said of the cast who endure exploding toilets and i thought it was kind of oddly sweet, which is not something i expected to say about jackass. well, from those pictures, i did not expect you to say the word �*sweet�* at all, so it kind of is, though.
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0k, 0k. ah moonfall. i do like halle berry, so tell me more. well this is the latest from roland emmerich who gave us independence day, day after tomorrow, 2012. patrick wilson and halle berry are astronauts in space, they get attacked by giant space gloop. they get down to earth, nobody believes them. ten years later, the moon is falling out of the sky and a conspiracy theorist says it's �*cause the moon is made of cheese or something on those lines and, therefore, the thing they have to do is to go back into space with the conspiracy theorist who's never been in space before to save the world from being destroyed by a roland emmerich movie. here's a clip. you know, without electronics, we're going to need to make split—second calculations up there. plus, we lost our flight engineer. mm. no no, no, no. guys, i'm not cleared for this. well, i'm the acting director of nasa, so ijust cleared you. congrats. yeah, but i've got ibs — irritable bowel syndrome. i get motion sickness too.
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you said you always wanted to be an astronaut. i have debilitating anxiety. kc, if the moon really is what you think it is, we're gonna need a mega structurist. suit up. yes, that's right — it's tin hat conspiracy theory in space from the i mean, this is, and i say this with this is the stupidest film i have ever seen, and i have seen a lot of films. laughs oh, that's going on the poster! it's kind of 0k, shall we rip off gravity — do a bit of gravity, then we'll do a bit of lars von trier�*s melancholia, then we'll do a bit of event horizon, and then a bit of 2001, but the clear sort of inspiration behind this is sharknado 2. this is like if somebody gave the makers of sharknado 2 $160 million and said, "go knock yourself out." it's a film which as you watch, it's notjust that it defies
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the laws of gravity, it defies the laws of drama and everything else. the script appears to have been written by alexa, which somebody said, "alexa, write me a terrible movie script, all that has to happen is it has to have �*moonfall�* in it — the moon has to fall." i actually i could feel my iq reducing. my iq's not very big at the beginning. by the end of it it was i mean, i actually really enjoyed it because it was like, 0k, this has gone so far beyond stupid, it's like intergalactically dumb, and the best thing about it is it's gotjokes in it, so there are bits that are meant to be funny and then bits that are just stupidly funny. also, it's the kind of film where, which, in the middle of a shoot—out, a character turns to another character and goes, "they're shooting at us." and you go, "i know!" i can that's what the banging noise is about! and then gravity gets inverted because the moon is near and the sea becomes the sky,
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and then the helicopter�*s underwater and it's like i can't decide which movie i want to make, i'lljust make all of them, i'lljust make all of the movies! and i well, i'm booking my ticket. fantastic! here's the thing — if you see it, see it on the biggest, stupidest, loudest, dumbest screen possible. it is not a film to be watched in miniature. it is a film to be swept over like a wave of idiocy! well, i'm not often speechless, but i am now. so, um you'lljust have to tell me what you think is best out, �*cause amulet. ahh, i haven't this is not — it's not a horrorfilm, jen. you didn't go! you didn't do my homework. i didn't go. i didn't do my homework. romala garai's i know, romala garai, we like her. directoral debut. herfirst — exactly, yeah. and it's got a great sort of, you know, gender politics subtext, and it's very much like films like relic, also owes a debt to andrzej zulawski's possession, which i know you also haven't seen, and i'm going to give you a dvd of it — that's a really strange movie. i have got so much homework. amulet is great, and i
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think you will like it. i think you will find stuff to enjoy in it. so, please please go and see it. 0k, 0k. 0k. is there a dvd i can watch instead? yeah, encanto. it's nice! you know, people like encanto. encanto is still playing in cinemas and is still actually taking quite a good box office, it's now available on dvd. i imagine that the people who love it, who really, really love it will just watch it over and over and over again. great music, interesting animation. i thought the story was a little bit too muddled, but then again, this is a week in which moonfall happened. so, you know, suddenly it seems like an absolute brilliantly put together work of logic. yeah, so, that's please see amulet. please see amulet. 0k. whatever you do, it's a cracking week in so many ways. it is. thank you, mark. thanks for being very entertaining. thank you for being very entertaining. enjoy your cinema—going. make sure you watch that one on a big screen — that's our takeaway for this week. see you next time. bye— bye. after a weekend where we have seen heavy rain, strong winds and snow, tonight is looking quieter. most of the showers will fade including snow showers affecting scotland and parts of northern england. winds will ease, too, under clear skies will see a widespread frost on the risk
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of ice across scotland but for more western areas will see cloud building so here we will escape the frost elsewhere temperatures at or below freezing so it is a cold start to the new week but it does not last long. this is a warm front approaching from the atlantic. as it name suggests it will push milder air gradually eastwards through monday so after that cold, frosty start, milder conditions are slowly starting to work their way eastwards. with it will come a lot of cloud. sunshine of the first thing in the further east you are it will quickly fade as that front pushes eastwards introducing more cloud. patchy light rain and drizzle. persistent rain across northern and western scotland day to in the day. holding on to the sunshine the further east you are the longest. the breeze will pick up particularly for western areas. stronger gusts in northern and western scotland but that the temperatures. after that frosty start, temperatures to ten or 11 celsius. we will keep that cloud cover as we go through monday
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evening into the early hours of tuesday. perhaps persistent rain for a time across scotland just nudging into northern england. where we have got the cloud base we are likely to see mist and fog developing but for many, away from scotland, meyer started tuesday. temperatures getting close to freezing at some cold 0r start to dig back in and it is all tied into this cold front which travelling southwards through tuesday. ahead of it, milder and something colder. sunshine and wintry showers pushing in from the north and west of the day. further south we are keeping a layer of cloud bringing patchy light rain and drizzle particularly for coasts and hills and mist and fog, too. still mild across central southern inventor parts of wales and parts of northern england but colderfurther northern england but colderfurther north and that rain continues, that cold of a moving southwards as we head into wednesday. all tied into this cold front and by the day will start to see more snow showers piling into scotland so something of a temperature yo—yo in the week
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