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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  July 3, 2022 6:45pm-7:01pm BST

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we have tigers, which is a sports drama with a difference — it was sweden's academy awards entry. and nitram, a very disturbing drama with a great central performance by caleb landryjones. so, where do you stand on minions? i've seen one of them. it made me laugh, i seem to remember, it was a while ago, there have been a lot of them. yes, there have, but i think that's a good thing. so, this is the sequel to the minions movie, which was a prequel to the despicable me movies, which is when we first met the minions. set in the 1970s, gru is a young kid. the minions have attached themselves to grui. he dreams of something called the vicious six, his plans go awry,
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he ends up being kidnapped. therefore, the minions must save gru and in order to save him they have to do a whole load of things, including learning martial arts by master chow, voiced by michelle yeo. and i'll tell you in advance, i think this is hilarious. doubt tell to me i cannot break this word. but doubt exists only in the mind. you know what i say to my mind? yah! now you. he stutters. he groans. kevin, kevin, kevin. yah! giggling. 0k, we're both laughing a lot! and i haven't even seen it! there we are! and there we are! now, here's the thing... that's so silly, but very funny. yes, and it made you laugh, so voice case — russell brand,
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julie andrews, steve carell, a plot involving a magical stone, none of that matters. what matters is i genuinely think that the minions are the great animated slapstick creation of our time, in the same way as tom and jerry. it's a formula that works and i love slapstick comedy, i absolutely love slapstick comedy, and every single minions movie — 0k, some of them are better than others and some make more sense than others — it's to do with the minions�* set pieces, they make me smile and laugh. i know so many people who go, i cannot believe how much you like minions, i have minions socks, a t—shirt... do you? you're easy for christmas! they make me laugh, and right now, who doesn't want to be able to just go to the cinema and smile? yes. there are some downsides, there are some bits of the film in which other stuff is happening, bits of plot going on and other things that i'm not really very interested in. doesn't matter — soon enough, we'll get back to the little yellow kids knocking into each other
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and doing the babbling funny voices. i just find minions slapstick funny, and as was demonstrated, so did you. idid! out of absolutely nowhere. the clip of, kevin, kevin... somebody only has to go up to me and go, "button". and i start laughing. so i'm sure they are things wrong with it — i don't care about any of them. brilliant, brilliant, i'm going out to see it tonight! we all need a laugh, you're quite right. so, very different — tigers, it was the swedish entry at the 95th edition of the academy awards. this is inspired by the true life memoir of martin bengtsson, played by alfred enoch, who finds himself in a hostile environment that is necessarily competitive and hostile, and being a pro footballer is all he has ever dreamt of — but the strains that come with it and his youth — arejust too much
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to bear, and when he starts to crack, the industry into which he's been inducted just has no interest in dealing with it. so, on one hand, they're very interested in his physicalfitness, you know, making sure that all that's fine, but when it comes to anything to do with mental health is basically left on his own. this is directed by ronnie sandahl, who wrote the tennis drama, bob versus mcenroe, and clearly understands the psychology of sport and, for me, this is really a portrait of a young man struggling with mental health issues that are not being paid any attention to by anyone else, and it's engrossing and what i know about football wouldn't fill the back of a postage stamp, but it's not about football — you know, it's about coming of age and mental health issues. yes, and that is why i'm so interested to see it because i'm like you on the football front, but it almost wouldn't matter, it seems to me, from what i know, which sport it's about, it's about the pressure he is under at a young age... and no—one looking out for him
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or taking response ability for that. yes, and the fact the environment he's in necessarily turns everyone in the house they are living in against each other, because they are all competing for a place on the team, so it is an absolute dog—eat—dog world. and that's the point of entry for me, not the sport, it doesn't matter what the sport is. it's way in which your mental health is just left to deal with itself. we're worried about your calves and your tendons and all the rest of it, but not the other stuff. i thought it was really interesting. really interesting, and ties in again with your first choice. it does, and it ties in with nitram. this is portrait of a young man this is played by caleb landryjones, who won an oscar at cannes. this is a clearly disturbed a school kid, his dad says, "you can't do that." his parents can't control him. and then his path crosses with a wealthy woman played by davis, who is fantastic, who takes him in, buy some clothes and a car and connecting they appear to be having a relationship together, something his mother, played byjudy davis,
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is not entirely happy about. here's a clip. something sweet i know he will like. goodness, you know a lot about my son. you live with someone and... what exactly's going on here? sorry, i don't know what you mean. he mows your lawn, you buy him a car, he mows it again, he moves in with you. what's next, marriage ? he needed a car. he doesn't have a licence. i didn't know that. yes, well, i guess you don't know anything. so, great performances. yes. and up until this point, it's really a like belated coming—of—age drama about a young man with problems, and then what happens is he finds himself isolated again, he finds himself with money, and he turns to guns, and there is a terrifying scene
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in which he walks into a gun shop and basically buys a whole load of extremely high—power weapons that are sold to him like this is completely normal. and what the film is really about is that. it's about that more than it's about his issues. the writer, shaun grant, started working on it when he was in america in the wake of a couple of terrible shootings and his mind went back to the 1996 port arthur massacre in australia, which was a lone shooter massacre, and he said he wanted to write a film that made the audience, especially those pro—gun, to sit with a character who clearly should not have access to firearms and watch as they are so easily granted to him. and i think, i mean, obviously, the film caused a lot of controversy because it's talking about a subject that's still in fairly recent history, but i think what's really important about it is it's a film about somebody with personal problems and those personal problems then become a national tragedy because into the equation you throw...
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yes. ..the accessibility of lethal weapons, and i thought that scene... i know you have seen the film as well, i hope you felt the same way that i did, that scene is terrifying. yes, and that scene really stuck with me and i thought the tempo of the film was very good because the scene in the gun shop is fairly late on, by which time you have formed a very strong picture of a young man with enormous problems... yes. and myjaw was on the ground, saying, "they're going to ask for a license now or you're going to have to give it a week or you're going to have to have a note from a your doctor now or something," and he walked out with fast rapid weapons and... it's horrifying, absolutely horrifying. there's a moment on the kind gun shops is, "you got a license?" and he says no, and he says,
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"that's ok, we can..." that is jaw—dropping. that point, that is what the writer wanted to do, he wanted to get an audience of and show them a character who clearly was not someone who should own weapons and show them how easy it was, and that's the point of the film. i do think it has other things as well, it's a character study, but that was the point i took away, i found it very disturbing, but i also felt it did give the film a reason to revisit a story that was obviously very shocking and still very recent history. yes, it's upsetting, but it's incredibly well—made. and you believe in the characters, you really believe in the characters. yes, absolutely. completely, really impressive. so, best out — elvis. yes, i am really sad i haven't seen it yet, i'm generally very sad about that, to top my list. here's why you should see elvis. yes, i thought you might have some pointers. it's brilliant, it's absolutely brilliant. it is baz luhrmann, it has all the musical madness of milan rouge, the what all of it craziness
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of australia, the irreverence of the great gatsby, the shakespearean tragedy of romeo and juliet, the story of elvis as played by tom hanks and... austin butler, austin butler is particularly amazing as presley. a lot of people have said it's all surface, it's all flash — nonsense. it's a film that actually understand the subject, gets under the skin of its subject and does so in a way that is kinetic and vibrant. if you have no interest in elvis at all, you can watch this and go, "wow, that is a whirlwind ride through a rock and roll life!" but if you do know about elvis, and i do — i was obsessed with elvis since being a child — and i was terrified i would sit there and go, no, that's wrong... but the dramatic liberties it takes are perfectlyjustified. i know tom parker wasn't actually arguing about whether they should have snowmen when elvis was actually wearing black leather — it doesn't matter, it works. and i think it has depth, contrary to what many critics have said aboutjust being surface, it isn't and i think if you love elvis, you'll love this, and if you've never been interested
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in elvis, you'll be dazzled by this. i really want you to go and see this and i really want you to like it. i will let you know. i do like baz luhrmann, so i have high hopes. that's half the battle because it's very much a film by baz luhrmann. away from baz luhrmann, a quick word about the railway children. yes, so the railway children is back in cinemas, so this is the lioneljeffries original, back in cinemas on sunday the 3rd ofjuly. based on the novel by edith nesbitt. jeffries was a genius director, he made this, he made the amazing mr blunt and two of the greatest kids films ever made, petticoats turn into flags, daddy, my daddy... i mean, even thinking about that just sends me a quiver. it's such a great piece of work and i think lioneljeffries is a fantastic film—maker. see it on a big—screen! fantastic. what a week! join us next week, if you possibly can. enjoy your cinema—going. goodbye!
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hello, there. sunday brought a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. through the week ahead we're going to see the temperature is picking up particularly in the south, many of us seem on the web dry pressure is just mac mini the see more in the way of dry weather is high pressured gradually builds its way in. fan of the west weather fronts just floating the north—west of scotland could bring some wet weather at times and some blustery conditions and that is certainly what we got is bigger what we got as we go overnight into monday, fairly blustery across the north and west of scotland in particular, setting of scotland in particular, setting of showers for scotland, northern ireland, and feeding into north wales stelios. to the south of that lovely guy with patchy cloud, overnight lows of 8—13 c. as you start the day tomorrow with a scattering of showers across scotland and northern ireland, northern england fairly blustery to begin and wins tending to ease it was northern england across central and southern england and wales they will be a band of cloud to begin with and could just bring the odd isolated showers and sunny spells slip through, temperature setting in the mid to high teens for many in
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the mid to high teens for many in the maximum of 23 celsius. here's how it looks as we move into tuesday and that by the front edging in just topping on the top but a bright start from the west many and will start from the west many and will start feeding as we go to the day on tuesday and potential for one associate was a northern and western areas particularly into the north—west of scotland late in the day, temperatures at a maximum of 23 celsius. high pressure continues to work its way in is weaving to wednesday stainless weather looks like it could bring the spell of wet weather for a time. like it could bring the spell of wet weatherfor a time. budgie made its way south was not a great deal on it by the time it gets to some patch the uk slightly dry day to be found here, plenty of cloud around but some vital sunny spells in time, is. generally sitting in the high teens, low 20s, a maximum of 2a celsius and then into the second half of the
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week this map shows temperatures in relation to average across our shores you can see that orange colour going to see temperatures are picking up for the second half of the week and you can see that here on the outlook and then we're in belfast sitting on a high teens, low 20s, but for cardiff and london getting into the mid to high 20s later in in the week. the by.
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