It may be a classic. Well talk about that later. Youre such a horror fan lets start with wind river. I watched the trailer for this in awe when i went to see detroit. Even the trailer is visually stunning. But so stark. Yeah, written and directed by taylor sheridan, saying its the conclusion of a trilogy about the modern american frontier. Its set in wyoming on a native american reservation. Theres the death of a young woman at the start, which brings together two characters. One isjeremy renners hunter, tracker, who is dealing with his own issues of grief and guilt. The other is an fbi agent played by Elizabeth Olsen who is basically shes in vegas beforehand she arrives completely unprepared, a total outsider, not even the right clothes for the job. Immediately everybody thinks, whats she doing here . Heres a clip. Imjane banner. Are you by yourself . Yeah, just me. Im the Tribal Police chief. Thats cory lambert. He found the body. This is his father in law, dan. We got the same job, hey. Im sorry to meet under these circumstances. So do you want to show me the body . I dont mean to be rude, im just freezing my ass off here. The quicker the better. Thats going to get a lot worse if you go out there dressed like that. The body is five miles on a snowmobile. Im afraid youd be dead by the time we got there. I got the call and this is what ive got. At the beginning theres hostility towards her character. But shes very tenacious. In order to pursue the case she needs a tracker on board. This isjeremy renners character. You saw from that clip how much of its to do with the environment, to do with the landscape. You said watching a trailer made you feel. I was cold by the end of the trailer it was extraordinary visually. I thought, whoa, this is going to be bleak. That chilliness goes all the way through the drama. And actually, though it is a murder mystery investigation with a sort of labyrinthine plot, its really about this land, about people being forced to live in a land never meant for anyone to live in it, about the hardship, the difficulty of that life, about the community. And what i like about the film is its very sympathetic towards its characters. Its all to do with placing and setting. That wyoming backdrop is really brutal. Jeremy renner is well cast. He tends to underplay emotions. A lot is said by doing and saying very little. Elizabeth olsen i think is terrific as the character who arrives from the outside and has to prove her way and prove that shes worthy of this case. And during the course of the film, you really come to see her character understand the bleakness of this landscape, the difficulties that the people who live here face. So i think its a very, very solid, very gripping drama. Bizarrely, when you consider that it is narratively a murder mystery thriller, its much more about environment. Its about place. Its about those people. Its about the plight of the indigenous people. 0k. Insyriated, your second choice. This is a drama, not a documentary. Yes, absolutely a drama. Set in damascus. Theres an apartment block in which a family and others in the block are trapped inside by sniperfire and helicopters and gunfire outside. And what happens is that there is a character who is the matriarch, hiam abbass, who is brilliant, who is controlling, looking after everybody in the apartment block. There is a young couple, who have a young baby, who are planning to leave. Theyre going to make their getaway at nighttime. But then what happens is tragedy strikes. There is an air of deception that surrounds the tragedy, because our central character doesnt tell what she knows. And somehow through this deception its as if the outside conflict comes in. So what you then have is a series of characters trapped within this really hellish environment in which there is a lie that they are dealing with. There is a knock at the door, it turns into something approaching a Home Invasion movie and it becomes very, very claustrophobic. Filmed with very tight hand held cameras following you around the apartment. You feel the space. At times, although its a completely different setting, it did remind me of under the shadow, another story about conflict outside and a mother and a daughter dealing with the. Theres a shell thats come through the roof, but its also a ghost story. Its tough. There is a central sequence which is very, very hard to watch. Though it was very well filmed, not exploitatively filmed. Occasionally it drifts over into melodrama. You really do feel this oppressive environment that they re living under. All right. Now, the third choice. I dont know why im laughing. Because youre right to laugh. Because youre back from your summer holidays, you thought, i know, ill give jane one that she just will not like at all, because its not my thing. I think you will do. This is it. I love your optimism its an adaptation of a stephen king doorstopper novel, which has been done, theres a very famous tv version with tim curry as pennywise the dancing clown, the really demonic presence. So the story is basically, a group of kids living in a town, who are all haunted by visions that seem to tap into their deepest fears. And somehow theres a central character, it of the title, who seems to be feeding upon theirfears. It starts with a sequence which has become iconic, in which Young Georgie meets pennywise. Heres a clip. No ah hiya, georgie. What a nice boat. Do you want it back . Um. Yes, please. You look like a nice boy. Do you want a balloon, too, georgie . Im not supposed to take stuff from strangers. Oh, well, im pennywise, the dancing clown. Now we arent strangers, are we . How are you feeling . This has provoked so much debate in the newsroom today. I am the only person surrounded in a sea of people who had no desire to go any further than that scene. Heres the thing. Yes, its a horror story, there is a strong horror element, but actually what it is is a coming of age drama about a group of kids called the losers, who gang together to try and find this mythical evil, to try and unravel this curse thats happening time and time again to the town. And the films that it refers to are poltergeist to some extent, the goonies, theres nods to et, theres a touch of stand by me in there. Its absolutely a film which works, because the director cares about the young characters. He cares about the misfits, the outsiders. You come to care about them too. Yes, it is, there are, moments of fear, moments of shock, jumps. Anybody who finds clowns fundamentally creepy is going to be very impressed by bill ska rsgards performance. Incidentally, he does a very good job of filling tim currys clown shoes. He does it brilliantly. But its an adventure. I mean, its a horror inflected adventure, but it is an adventure. This is only the early years of the novel. Theres a section of the grown up years. This is chapter one. Theres going to be a second one. There is. This owes a debt to some extent to nightmare on elm street. At one point the kids go past a cinema showing that. Theres a lot of Freddy Krueger in there. And theres a score that goes from lush orchestral adventure music to nursery rime chimes, the strange, twisted. Youre not buying this. Its a romp. Its really enjoyable. Its really good fun and its scary when it needs to be. Personally, i would have liked it to be more scary. I still remember the first time i saw pennywise the clown, and you do get those moments, but i really liked it. What was best about it was how affectionate it is for the source material. I think fans will really go for it. Lets talk about the wonderful bill nighy. Yes, limehouse golem is terrific. It came out last week. Its a story set in 1880s london. There is a killer stalking the streets. Bill nighys detective is sent to investigate it. They know its an unsolvable case and they want him to take the fall. The film is about theatre, the theatre of murder, the theatre of death and real life. So on the one hand, half of it takes place on stage, music hall, half of it takes place in the morgue and out on these misty streets. A lot of hammer in the way in which its lit, the way in which its ghoulish. Very visual. Music hall. Yes, and funnily enough, people havent quite appreciated enough what a good looking film it is. Its brilliantly written by jane goldman, who adapted the novel. Its a complicated novel to put on screen. I really liked it. Danny mays was wonderful. Im a big fan of his. I think youll enjoy. It it is gory. It is gorier than it. There is gothic gore in there. You see, theres a line between that and being scared out of your wits. Actually, heres what you should do, see both of them and then tell me which you enjoyed the most. Good plan, mark, back to back, with a bottle of gin to get me through it i shouldnt advocate that, this might be on in the morning. Well edit that bit, right . Lets talk about the dvd. Yeah, actually, blu ray, shock treatment has come to blu ray. Shock treatment is the sequel to rocky horror. It was described as an equal, not prequel or sequel. When it first came out, it was pretty much ignored. Its a mess, no question about it. The creator said its a mess because it started as one thing and turned out as another. Whats really interesting is its become incredibly prescient. Its about a world taken over by reality television. People thinking that they can solve all of their problems by going in sitting in a tv studio in taking part in a game show. The songs are fabulous, the dance routines are fabulous. When it came out, i thought this is a mess but im enjoying it. This is a mess but its nightmarishly prophetic, and i really like it. I could handle that one. Lovely to see you back. Just about. Nice to see you. See you next week. Just a reminder, youll find all ourfilm news and reviews from across the bbc online. And you can find all the previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. That is it for this week. Whatever youre brave enough to go and see, i hope you enjoy it. Soft drinks are available thanks very much for watching. Have a great week, bye bye. I hope you will not find the forecast for the coming week prophetic, but it starts on a blustery note. In the south west, 5060 blustery note. In the south west, 50 60 miles per hour. More persistent rain and wind in the north east of scotland, including the northern isles. Sharp thunder, hail, brightness in between. It will be closer to 10 11 12 if you have wind. Tuesday, a better day. Isobars cranking around high pressure. Left sunshine, less wind. More sunshine. Cherish it. Behind me is the shape of things to come. Late on the shape of things to come. Late on the day in tuesday and the first pa rt the day in tuesday and the first part of wednesday, windy. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. The headlines Hurricane Irma slams into the us mainland. Strong winds have left 2. 5 million homes and businesses in florida without power. Theres barely a soul on the streets anywhere in southern florida, due to risk of flying debris. The hurricane has caused widespread destruction across the caribbean. At least 25 people have been killed and thousands have lost their homes. My my mums room, the roof came off. Then my bedroom came off. Im Babita Sharma in london. Also in the programme. Bangladesh accuses its neighbour myanmar of genocide, as more and more Rohingya Refugees flee across the border. How the world cup has helped to change attitudes in india
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