the minions have attached themselves to gru. he dreams ofjoining an evil empire called the vicious six. his plans go awry. he ends up being kidnapped. therefore, the minions must save him, and in order to save him they have to do a whole bunch of things, including learning martial arts from master chow, voiced by michelle yeoh. here is a clip, and i'll tell you in advance — i think this is hilarious. doubt tells me i cannot break this wood. but doubt exists only in the mind. you know what i say to my mind? wah—dah! now you. he stutters. he yelps. ah, kevin, kevin, kevin. mmm...yah! grunting and shouting. giggling.

0k, we're both laughing a lot, and i haven't even seen it! and there we are! now, here's the thing... that's so silly, but very funny. yes, and it made you laugh. so, look, voice cast, you know — dolph lundgren, jean—claude van damme, russell brand, julie andrews, steve carell, obviously. there's a plot involving a magical stone. none of that matters. what matters is i genuinely think that the minions are the, kind of, 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 of them make more sense than others, it's to do with the minions�* set pieces. they make me smile, they make me laugh. i mean, i know so many people who go, "i cannot believe how much you like minions." i have minions socks, i have minions t—shirts... do you? yeah, genuinely. wow — you're easy for christmas, then! they make me laugh, and right now,

who doesn't want to be able to just go to the cinema and smile? yes. now, there are some downsides. there are some bits of the film in which other stuff is happening. there's 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 and doing the babbling funny voices. i just find minions slapstick funny, and as was demonstrated, so did you. out of absolutely nowhere... i did, i did! the clip of, "kevin, kevin..." somebody only has to go up to me and go, "button," and i start laughing. so, hey, you know, i'm sure there are things wrong with it. i don't care about any of them. brilliant, brilliant, i'm going out to see it tonight! good. we all need a laugh, you're quite right about that. so, very different — tigers, which was the swedish entry for the best international feature at the 94th academy awards. this is inspired by the true life memoir of martin bengtsson, played by erik enge. it's a swedish teenager who is signed up to a top milan team,

finds himself away from home in an environment which is necessarily competitive and hostile. and being a pro footballer is all he's ever dreamed of, but the strains that come with it — and his youth — arejust too much 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 the one hand, they�* re very interested in his physicalfitness, you know, making sure all that's fine, but when it comes to anything to do with mental health, he is basically left on his own. this is directed by ronnie sandahl, who wrote the tennis drama borg vs mcenroe, and clearly understands the psychology of sports. 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 or taking response ability for that. yes, and the fact the environment he's in necessarily turns everyone in the house they're 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 the way in which your mental health is just left to deal with itself. we're worried about, you know, your calves and your tendons and all the rest of it, but not the other stuff. i thought it was very interesting. yes, really interesting and ties in, actually, somewhat with your third choice. it does, which is nitram. again, mental health issues feature in this. this is portrait of a young man, played by caleb landryjones, who won the best actor award at cannes, living in �*90s australia with his mum and dad. he is clearly disturbed and reckless. we see him early on giving lighted fireworks to schoolkids. 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 essie davis, who's fantastic, who takes him in, buys him clothes, buys him a car, and the next thing they appear to be having a relationship together, something his mother, played byjudy davis, is not entirely happy about. here's a clip. i've got him something else, too. more gold? something sweet i know he'll like. 0h, 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 everything. so, great performances. yes. and up until this

point, it's really... ..it�*s like a belated coming—of—age drama about a young man with problems. and then what happens is that he finds himself isolated again, he finds himself with money, and he turns to guns. and there is a terrifying scene 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, you know, 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... yes. ..the accessibility of lethal weapons, and i thought that that scene... i mean, i know you've 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, going, "well, they're going to ask for a license now, aren't they?" or they're going to say, "well, you have to give it a week," or you have to have a note from a your doctor or something — and he walks out! yeah. with fast, rapid weapons and i... it's horrifying, absolutely horrifying.

in fact, there is a moment when the guy in the gun shop says, "you got a licence?" and he says no, and he goes, "oh, that's ok, we can..." and that's literally... jaw—dropping, it'sjaw—dropping. and i think — so, that point that the writer made about that's what he wanted to do, he wanted the audience to get to know a character who clearly is not someone who should own weapons and then see how easy it was, that's the point of the film. i do think it's other things as well, it's a character study, but that was the message that i took away from it. i found it very, very disturbing, but i also thought that it did give the film a reason to revisit a story that is obviously very shocking and still fairly recent history. yes, it's upsetting, but it's incredibly well—made. oh, yes. and you believe in the characters, you absolutely believe in the characters. completely, yeah. really impressive. so, best out, jane — elvis. yes! i'm really sad i haven't seen it yet. i'm genuinely very sad about that. you haven't done your homework, 0k. it's top of my list now, but... here's why you should see elvis. yes, i thought you might have some pointers. it's brilliant. it is absolutely brilliant. it's baz luhrmann, it has

all the musical madness of moulin rouge, it has the "what, all of it" craziness of australia. it has the irreverence of the great gatsby, the shakespearean tragedy of romeo and juliet. it's story of elvis presley and colonel tom parker as played by tom hanks and austin butler, both of whom do a greatjob. i mean, austin butler is amazing as presley. a lot of people have said it's all surface, it's all flash — nonsense. it isn't. it's a film that actually understands its subject, gets under the skin of its subject, does so in a way which is kinetic and vibra nt. if you had no interest in elvis at all, you could 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 am a major elvis bore — i have obsessed about elvis since i was a child — and i was terrified that i'd just sit there and go, "no, that's wrong, that's wrong..." but the dramatic liberties that it takes are perfectlyjustified. like when they're doing the �*68 comeback special, i know that colonel tom parker wasn't actually arguing about the fact 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 about itjust being surface, it isn't, and i think if you love elvis, you'll love this, and if you've never been interested in elvis, you'll be dazzled by this. i really want you to go and see this. i promise. and i really want you to like it, jane. i want you to like it, ok? 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, because onjuly the 15th railway children return is coming out. so this is the lioneljeffries original, back in cinemas on sunday the 3rd, based on the novel by edith nesbit. jeffries was a genius director. he made this, he made the amazing mr blunden, two of the greatest kids films ever made. bernard cribbins is the station porter, petticoats turn into flags, "daddy, my daddy..." i mean, even thinking about it 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! hello there. the weather story for this upcoming week looks rather benign. we've got high pressure trying to build in slowly from the south—west. that will slowly settle things down for northern and western areas, and we should start to see increasing amounts of sunshine and warmth across southern and eastern parts. for monday, low pressure still to the north of the uk, higher pressure to the south. it's close enough to bring further showery bursts of rain at times, most of it across the north and the west of scotland. a few showers for northern ireland, one or two across north west england and north wales. the band of cloud will sink southwards, where after a sunny start in england and wales, it will turn cloudier for a bit through the afternoon. most places should stay dry across southern and eastern areas. the majority of the showers will be across the north and the west of scotland.

temperatures again mid to high teens in the north, could see the low 20s in the south east. so, for wimbledon, it'll be a sunny start. could see a bit of cloud tending to push down from the north west by around lunchtime, but i think it should stay dry through the day and fairly warm, 21—22 degrees with a light north—westerly breeze. through monday night, it's dry for most with clear spells. a bit more cloud pushing into northern ireland, across the irish sea, into western england and wales. lows of 9—12 celsius. tuesday itself, then, more cloud around for northern ireland, in towards parts of england and wales, and then a weather front will arrive later across western scotland to bring outbreaks of rain here. will stay quite breezy across the far north of scotland. elsewhere, lighter winds, variable cloud, some sunshine. again, top temperature on 22, maybe 23 degrees, mid to high teens further north. could see this feature bring some wetter weather to the northern half of the country as we head into wednesday. it'll be quite windy as well across scotland. i think most of the rain slowly

peters out through the day, just a few showers affecting western scotland, maybe northern ireland. but for england and wales, variable cloud, some spells of sunshine and a slightly warmer, muggier air mass. there could be highs of 2a degrees in the south east, the high teens further north. now, as we move towards the end of the week, although we could see further rain at times on thursday in the north, by friday, this area of high pressure will exert its force across the country. so, it should turn drier for all areas with some sunny spells. the best of the sunshine across southern and eastern areas. will actually turn quite warm through the weekend here. always a bit more cloud, though, in the north and the west.

welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... in denmark, at least three people are killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. translation: suddenly we heard shots. - i think there were ten. we ended up in a toilet, where we all huddled together. there were around i! of us. we were so scared. it's just been a terrible experience. police say a 22—year—old danish man has been charged with manslaughter and will appear in court on monday. the country's prime minister described it as a cruel attack and urged the people to stand together. in other news... ukraine's troops have withdrawn from the strategic city of lysychansk. russia says it now controls the entire region of luhansk.