two mark gas to look at the sunday papers. joe phillips is the sunday papers. joe phillips is the politicals will be back again tomorrow evening with the political commentator, jo phillips and the political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, nigel nelson. dojoin us then if you can. next we have the film review — but for now, goodnight. hello, a warm welcome to the film review. mark kermode is back with me. and what have you been watching, mark? well, we have a very mixed bag this week. we have venom: let there be carnage, tom hardy and his alien symbiote. we have the sci—fi animation ron's gone wrong, and the michael myers saga continues in halloween kills. do i even know what a symbiote is? you'll find out. so, this is the sequel to 2018's venom, which you didn't see? i did not see. 0k. i have to tell you. so, tom hardy is eddie, who is the host of a kind of alien parasite that lives within him but also comes out of him. so it's like two people inside. have you ever seen the steve martin all of me, with lily tomlin, two people in the same body? it's like that, but with monsters

phillip. it's a crossroads moment for president joe biden.se next few weeks could make or break his presidency. and that's not actually hyperbole. so let's out these three major questions the white house is currently facing. wlrp the economy be just a few months from now? at this moment major shortages in the supply chain. prices, they are up. if the fed wants to target, say, a 2% inflation rate, that's what they're generally looking for, it's been above that level for the last seven months. have we seen the last major surge in covid cases in the u.s.? experts at this moments seem to be optimistic, but no one's quite sure as to what will happen as the weather gets colder. and will we rebuild america's infrastructure and transform it. >> too many folks in washington still don't realize it isn't enough just to invest in our physical infrastructure. we also have to invest in our people. i'm convinced we're going to get this done. we're not going to get $3.5 trillion. we'll get less than that, but we're going to get it, and we're going to go back

joe biden didn't ask for us to vote. this is one how one more moderate democrat said to me thursday night, dean phillips, i'm not afraid to i wish he was more explicit. if the president led us down the hallway on the first floor, i think it would have been close. i think with republican votes, it would have passed. are they doing enough to get this done? >> there are some democrats who feel like president biden could be doing more. just some context prior to him going to capitol hill, congressman pramila did convey to the white house that the president shouldn't convey to progressives to hold the vote and he did express concerns if she did, he could head to europe with a failed vote on his hands, which would be more embarrassing to him. so i think this is a really delicate balancing act. they would have liked to see a vote at least on infrastructure but he's navigating, neating the demands of senators manch and sinema, while also keeping the progressive caucus in line. i think putting out the framework ahead of the trip was a way of signaling we've got to wrap this up. here's a framework hopefully everyone can agree to. a

phillip. this was the week everything shifted at the white house. a clear pivot from listening mode to let's get tofinish line mode. after weeks of back and forth negotiations, president joe biden and top democratic lawmakers are closer than ever to a final build back better bill, now targeting a roughly slimmed down $1.7 trillion framework. now can this get approved before biden leaves on his foreign trip in just days? now slim majorities in both chambers mean it could just take one memory to torpedo it. >> when you're in the united states senate, and you're president of the united states and you have 50 democrats, every one is a president. every single one. so you've got to work things out. >> reporter: that is the reality. top democratic priorities like tuition-free community college and a corporate tax rate hike are officially out, but progpro progressives say they'll take something over nothing. >> everyone may not get everything that they want, but we will get something that will really be significant in terms of child care, universal child care, universal pre-k, home and community-based care. a significant investment in climate change, even though it's again not go