taking us through this week's cinema releases is anna smith. a very warm welcome, anna. see you again. thank you. what have you been watching? i've got a varied menu for you today. we're starting with a restaurant film. it's set over one night over a busy london restaurant. it's called boiling point and it stars stephen graham. then we're going for a slice of licorice pizza. this is set in 1973 and it comes from the great paul thomas anderson. and finally, we're looking at a film starring benedict cumberbatch, the electrical life of louis wain. that looks like something for everyone. so, tell us about boiling point. this is a fascinating film. this was shot in one take in a london restaurant and the idea is that stephen graham plays a chef who's struggling. he's having a bit of a hard time with this family, with his financial woes, and then it's the busiest night of the year in this restaurant and it's really an ensemble drama, so you see everybody working together in this restaurant, trying to make a busy night work. let's have a look at a clip. 0k. hey, mad friday, it'

taking us through this week's cinema releases is anna smith. a very warm welcome, anna.london restaurant. it's called boiling point and it stars stephen graham. then we're going for a slice of licorice pizza. this is set in 1973 and it comes from the great paul thomas anderson. and finally, we're looking at a film starring benedict cumberbatch, the electrical life of louis wain. that looks like something for everyone. so, tell us about boiling point.

to take us through this week's cinema releases is anna smith.to you, not to see you again it will have you been watching? i have a film set in one night over a little restaurant called boiling point an starring stephen graham. then we go for a slice of liquorice pizza by paul thomas anderson and finally a film starring benedict cumberbatch called the electrical life of louis wain. tell us about boiling point. fascinating film shot in one take and is about stephen graham who struggle with this family and financial was in a busy night in the restaurant. really an ensemble drama cc everybody working together in a restaurant try to make a busy night work. must have a little look. hey, my friday, it's going to be busy, which is good, and we picked some more covers up today. what? so, we're looking at about 100. so, we've got to turn the tables over, but obviously not make people feel rushed, yeah? which we can do. we've got a proposal in tonight. they're going to be sat on here, table 13, so, yeah, treat them like royalty. and a celebrity chef in, al

jane hill and anna smith coming up next with the film review. i will see you tomorrow. bye—bye.

return to 1970s california in paul thomas anderson's liquorice pizza, and we'll be finding out what anna smith other major releases this week in the film review at 5.45. our top story this hour, sidney poitier, the first black man to win the oscar for best actor, has died aged 94. born in the bahamas, he won the academy award in 1964 for his role in lillies of the field. he was given an honory knighthood by the by the queen in 1974, and in 2016 he was awarded the bafta fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film. lizo mzimba looks back at his life. # in the heat of the night...# sidney poitier�*s virgil tibbs, a man of authority... i'm a police officer. ..intelligence and a steely determination, never to back down. the kind of qualities that defined sidney poitier on screen and off. he made his cinema debut playing a doctor, a man of status, something almost unheard of for black performers then. with roles like an escaped convict in the defiant ones, and a struggling husband in a raisin in the sun, he tackled prejudice head on. maybe i will get down on my black knees. all right, mr gre

taking us through this week's cinema releases is anna smith. a very warm welcome.s wain. that looks like something for everyone. tell us about boiling point. a fascinating film shot in one take and it's about stephen graham who struggles with this family and financial woes in a busy night in a restaurant. really an ensemble drama, so everybody working together in a restaurant trying to make a busy night work. let's have a little look. hey, my friday, it's going to be busy, which is good, and we picked some more covers up today. what? so, we're looking at about 100. so, we've got to turn the tables over, but obviously not make people feel rushed, yeah? which we can do. we've got a proposal in tonight. they're going to be sat on here, table 13, so, yeah, treat them like royalty. and a celebrity chef in, alexander skye. who? he's going to be sat in the front. alastair... alastair skye. yeah, yeah, him. he's going to be sat at the front, a bottle of chateau sat on his table, billy, yeah? copy that. good, swearing. brilliant! really loud. there's no way you can hear me

anna, some of gulf. >> he gets on the company. good. thank of the nominees include jamie dornan and dame, judi dench for belfast, marlee, matlin and amelia jones is cota and will smiththe cast of king. richard, i had secretly in my mind felt that i would never make anything better than the pursuit of happiness. >> and i never said that out loud. and then i saw king richard. >> and tune in to e tonight for more sag award noms. plus, denzel washington talks to us about losing his mentor, sidney poitier for entertainment tonight. i'm michelle turner. >> we'll take a look at this. 2 wombats are taking on the role of gartner's for a woman in australia. you can see sylvie and tina. they are rummaging through a garden bit and munching on any plants that can find. and while that summer, she feels native to australia, caretaker of the animal says that this pair actually had a tough start to life, but are now loving their new home and focusing on their favorite things sleeping and eating. >> a huge asteroid more than twice the size of the empire state building is expected to race past earth at 43,000 miles an hour, the asteroid will make its flyby on january 18th at one 51 pa

now, don, it's kind of like pie in the sky polly anna, democrats are looking at changing the senate rules so it would actually be a filibuster like mr. smith goes to washington. and like there's no way this is going to happen, but i think it would be so important to have the discussion, and i'm not talking about, you know, ted cruz green eggs and ham style. >> yeah. >> talking about actually discussing what is at stake and hearing from both sides hearre see what they think. >> i think we're beyond that, it would be great if we could actually do it in a democratic way, small d democratic way, we'll see. we appreciate it. i will see you on friday. back tomorrow. >> see you then. >> this is "don lemon tonight." senate republicans baclocking voting rights legislation put forward by democrats. they're going to vote any minute now at the nuclear option, as we look at mitch mcconnell, changing the filibuster to allow the legislation to pass with a simple majority. also, all but certain to fail due to the objections of two democrats, talking about manchin and sinema, and all of that comes in the wake of president biden's nearly two-hour long news