-22 degrees, in this part of china, —22 degrees, but tiny— in this part of china, —22 degrees, but tiny amounts of snow usually fall until— but tiny amounts of snow usually fall until of course deus ex machine. _ fall until of course deus ex machina, it dumps down on the winter olympics— machina, it dumps down on the winter olympics and ironically as daisy said made life harder than it should otherwise _ said made life harder than it should otherwise have been. who would've thou~ht it otherwise have been. who would've thought it was _ otherwise have been. who would've thought it was my _ otherwise have been. who would've thought it was my thank _ otherwise have been. who would've thought it was my thank you - otherwise have been. who would've thought it was my thank you both i thought it was my thank you both very much for taking us through the papers tonight. that is it. goodbye for now. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'mjane hill, and to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode, as ever. hi again, mark. what have you been watching? very mixed bag. we have death on the nile. hercule poirot and his moustache are back. we have an animated

documentary, flee. and marry me — what happens when a pop star marries a fan? death on the nile. kenneth branagh's been busy. he has. this was shot in 2019, and it's been delayed because of covid. and then, of course, belfast has come out, done incredibly well with audiences and done incredibly well with awards voters, so it's a bit odd this is coming out now. it's directed by branagh, it stars branagh as hercule poirot. the story is, he's on the nile, there's a steamer. it is full of a variety show cast list of people, all of whom will either be victims or suspects at some point. lot of glitz, lot of glamour. here's a clip. # shout, sister, shout # tell the whole world what it's all about # there's a reason for a mountain # a reason for a hill # a reason why a doctor

gives a patient a pill # a reason to stand, a reason to sing # but there ain't no reason why a ma can't swing...# we have the karnak all to ourselves until abu simbel. don't worry about your things. darling louise, will go back and pack up all your rooms for you and meet us. happy to, miss. we have a piano tuned, a chef stolen from shepherds of cairo and enough champagne to fill the nile! and it is very much that kind of, "enough champagne to fill the nile!" and then a whole bunch of celebrities and death and murder and hercule poirot, with his moustache. now, interestingly, in this, hercule poirot�*s moustache get its own backstory. there is literally a whole thing about where that moustache came from. it becomes very important about him being somebody who's hiding behind a mask because of stuff that's in his past. that should be a twitter handle! poirot�*s moustache? i am sure it probably is already.

here's the thing with this. you said when you were watching that clip, "it looks very star—studded and glittery" — that is what it is. it's also pretty creaky. i mean, the murder mystery isn't very mysterious, and it feels kind of very mechanical. it's happening on this big steamer with these big paddles going around, and that kind of feels like a metaphor for the film—making itself. it's fine, it's not going to surprise anybody. you go to see this movie, you know what you're going to get. perhaps the stuff about the tragedy that lies behind the moustache may be something that surprises some people. great cast, looks all right. never convinced in terms of it being a gripping whodunit, cos it's like, "well, who really cares?" i'm here for the glitter. i'm here for "enough champagne to fill the nile!" it's fine. it's not belfast. and the thing with belfast is belfast feels personal, belfast feels vibrant and like, "i really wanted to tell this story." this one, not so much, but it is what it is.

a bit of escapist glamour and perhaps not much more. yeah, no, not much more at all. however, flee. now, you've seen flee. loved it! ok, animated documentary byjonas poher rasmussen, and it's a documentary about somebody that he's known since 15 — they met in middle school — called amin here. but that's a pseudonym to protect his identity. he came from afghanistan to denmark. his backstory was always shrouded in mystery, and rasmussen wanted to do a radio documentary about him. he said, "i'm not ready to do it." but then when he started discussing the animated documentary, he realised that he could tell his story and still retain his anonymity, and what we see is a story about somebody growing up and all the wonderful things about being a child, but then the mujahideen, then having to flee via moscow, further on then becoming involved in a terrifying human trafficking story which is about cargo containers and boats and visions of drowning.

and as the story goes from being realist to nightmarish, so the animation reflects that in the way that it changes. i thought this was really powerful, but the main reason i thought it was powerful was because along with that horrifying story, firstly, you're hearing somebody telling this story for the first time, but also it's really a coming—of—age story, a coming—out story. and amidst all of the terror and the horror in the tragedy, there is real warmth and wit and a—ha! i thought it was really moving. did you like it? incredibly moving, very powerful. and no—one should look at it and think, "oh, it's animation, why do i want to watch animation?" i think the story actually would've been unbearable... we should all know this story — we do stories all the time in news about human trafficking — but the animation means you can just about cope with the horror of what he went through. i don't want to do any plot spoilers, but it was absolutely gripping. my attention was completely gripped.

it's only an hour and a half, and your heart's just turning and turning, your stomach's turning, cos it's horrific. and the references to the people—traffickers are, obviously, the most troubling, disturbing elements of it. and also to the russian police, who don't come out of it well either! but i think it is really interesting that a story dealing with such dark material can be so uplifting in the end, cos it is... the message of the story is to accept the future, you have to... deal with your past, yes. and i thought, you hear in those interviews, you hear somebody dealing with the past. it's almost like a therapy session. actually, yes, and because the two men are such old friends, the central character is now 36 and, we are told, has a very successful career in denmark. we don't know who he is, quite rightly, and there are flashes of humour. i mean, you couldn't get through it if there weren't. and that's lovely. there's a lovely detail when he's young and looking at a poster ofjean—claude van damme,

and thinking, "there's something going on here, but i'm not quite sure what it is!", which is a really lovely detail. beautiful. really well—made, i thought. anyway, from the sublime to the ridiculous, marry me. now, have you ever wondered what notting hill would be like if you took away hugh grant and julia roberts and replaced them withjennifer lopez and owen wilson? not really! no, neither had i. and yet, weirdly, now we know. so, the story isjennifer lopez is going to get married onstage to her celebrity boyfriend. just before she goes onstage, she finds out he's been cheating. so, she's on stage — as a character, not as herself — and she decides to marry somebody in the audience. don't take my word for it — look, here it is! they say if you want something different, you have to do something different. so, this time, for the first time, you make a different choice. you jump off a cliff so high, you can't even see the fall. and you just... ..say yes.

sure. i'll marry you. you! gasps. now, ijust wish the viewers had been witness to your reaction to that clip, and incidentally that's one of the better moments in the film! oh, lordy! i was sitting there going, "ok, i know it's based on a graphic novel and i can see it's a rom—com, so, ok, fine, liberties," but it's rubbish. it's utter rubbish! not least because wilson spends the whole movie doing this, "i'm just being mopeyi", like owen wilson. and then it's, ok, so he's a mopey maths teacher, but actually that's so much better than the life of celebrity. none of this makes any sense. i don't believe in any of these people. there's no chemistry between them. i don't believe in anything at all, which would be fine if i was laughing and if i was watching

notting hill, which... i think there's a lot of things wrong with notting hill — i don't care, it's a lovely, funny film! this is absolute rubbish. and i've been quite surprised — the reviews have been, "well, it's not citizen kane, but it's all right!" no, it's not! it's terrible! it says something about the level to which we've descended that this is all right. this isn't all right! people have been starved for cinema... between this and moonfall... moonfall, every time! i refer you to last week's episode. yes. 50, best out? well, ok, the souvenir part ii... joanna hogg film. you've seen it? yes, seen both. 0k. did you...? i really enjoyed this. there's a section towards the end which i didn't fully understand. and i genuinely think i need to rewatch that section, about her graduation... oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. ..but broadly, i really, really enjoyed it, and i really enjoyed it much more even than the first part. great. so, the first part is still available on bbc iplayer, and so if you're going to go and see the souvenir part ii,

you do have to have seen the souvenir part i. it would not make any sense if you haven't seen the first one. the first one is a stand—alone movie, the second is not. i thought it was great. i know exactly what you're talking about, about... you see a film being made, and then the film that you see isn't that, but it's to do with the artistic licence, and what i love about it is it's deeply personal. it'sjoanna hogg making a film which is semi—autobiographical. i mean, more fiction in this than there was in the first film. but terrific performances. i mean, nobody makes films likejoanna hogg. you can watch two seconds of this, and you know that this is a joanna hogg film. and i loved it. and there's something very touching about it. i know it can get criticised, people say it's achingly middle—class, and some people have a problem with that, but this is about the central character coming to terms with a traumatic death of her boyfriend. yes! so, that's the fundamental thing through it, and i thought it was examined really, really cleverly. i think you should be in this chair and i should be there, and you should be doing this. because, no, that is exactly right, that is exactly what it is. and worth saying that it's a film — in that thing

about the middle—class — it's going, "these are the people, this is what they are." it's not making any apologies for them. this is what they are. and i think it's terrific. yes, really terrific. dvd? the story of film: a new generation, which is mark cousins�* ramble through the history of film, which has now been updated. also worth mentioning, i mentioned to bbc iplayer before, if you go to bbc iplayer, the secrets of cinema that i did is also on there! more film history than you can wave a stick at. it's all worth checking out. and i've always said film history is a thrillingly interesting subject. dive into it. there are many resources for doing so nowadays. yes. well, you can never have too much! you can never have too much film history. you can have too much of marry me. i don't think i'm even going to have 15 minutes of marry me. please see moonfall! moonfall is so much better than marry me! also going on the poster. thank you very much, mark. see you next week. enjoy your cinema going, whatever you are brave enough to see. there's...interesting choices there!

see you next time. bye— bye. hello there. after what was a very soggy sunday for most parts of the uk, the weather has plenty more to throw at us through the coming week — not only heavy rain, but some very mild weather for the middle of the week, and then, some stormy weather later. and that could well cause some damage and disruption. on balance, monday is one of the quieter days, but that's not to say it'll be completely dry by any means — we've got cloud and showery rain sinking south—eastwards across england and wales, some brighter spells, as well. for northern ireland and scotland, it's a sunshine—and—showers day, some of the showers wintry over high ground in scotland. the winds slowly easing a little as the day wears on, temperatures north—to—south 6—10 celsius. now, as we go through monday night, we see a quieter interlude, but it doesn't last all that long. outbreaks of rain will return from the west into northern ireland, scotland, western england, and wales. some snow developing for a time over

high ground in scotland. and those are your overnight temperatures, ranging from freezing in the north to around six in the south. and then, into tuesday, this weather system will continue its journey eastwards, and some of the outbreaks of rain are expected to hang around for a good part of the day across some southern parts of england and wales. it will tend to clear to a mix of sunshine and showers as we get into the afternoon, and temperatures north—to—south around 5—1! celsius. and then, as we get into the middle of the week, well, things really step up a gear — and it's all because of the jet stream, the winds high up in the atmosphere. the jet stream is likely to be blowing at up to 200 mph or more in the core of the jet, and that willjust provide the energy to spin up deep areas of low pressure — this the first of those moving to the north of the uk on wednesday. this will bring some outbreaks of pretty heavy rain splashing in from the northwest, the winds strengthening all the while. but those winds coming up from the southwest, so it is going to feel really mild

for northern ireland, england and wales, particularly temperatures 12—15, maybe 17 celsius in east anglia — pretty extraordinary for this time of year. but it is the strength of the winds that gives most cause for concern. as this low moves to the north of the uk, we see this squeeze in the ice bars, there will be gales or severe gales potentially in the most exposed places. we could have gusts of wind up to 90 mph. already a met office warning for the northern half of the uk, the risk of damage and disruption through wednesday night and thursday.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: ukraine's ambassador to the uk says his country may drop its ambitions to join nato, to prevent a russian invasion. we are flexible trying to find the best way out. if we have to go through some serious, i don't know, concessions, that's something we might do, that's for sure. we have a special report from mariupol in eastern ukraine, a vital port on the front line if russia attacks. many here in ukraine still say they don't believe that president putin will invade. some, though, have come here to take up this basic weapons training. they say they want to be readyjust in case.