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Heres a clip. But the piece de resistance is the peacock throne. An exact copy. Now i really do feel like the empress of india. I thought she was supposed to be dying. It really is a remarkable addition to the house, your majesty. We have abdul to thank for the whole idea. To celebrate, a little surprise for your majesty. What is this . A mango, your majesty. One moment, your majesty. Its. Off. Sir henry, this mango is off. It looks like a terrific performance as usual from judi dench. Yes, and ali fazal is very good as abdul as well. Its a very likeable film not least because the performances are very likeable. From the outside it looks rather fluffy. It looks like a good looking film that will appeal to the people that loved mrs brown, also people who went to see the best exotic marigold hotel, which was such a big hit. You scratch the surface however and it is a more serious film underneath about an Indian Muslims very close friendship with the monarch who is head of the church of england, and what you find is that they have a huge amount in common. That they have enormous shared interests. And their friendship becomes something which, because everybody else around is so concerned by it, seems to threaten the stability. In fact it is actually giving her a great solace and comfort. I think the real Scene Stealer for me is adeel akhtar, who plays abduls sidekick, unwitting sidekick. And he was so great in the big sick. And here he plays a character, he is an incidental character, who doesnt really want to get involved in all this. At first this character is comic and has an element of pathos and then later on this character becomes the voice of subdued anger underneath the film. It is something which is enjoyable. It is fairly broadly played. It says at the beginning it is inspired by real events, mostly. Although weirdly enough some of the things that you think must be dramatic do actually turn out to be true. But its funny. Its very well played. The cast are enjoying themselves. I dont think its earth shattering by any means but it does have a serious story underneath it. 0k. And if youre looking for something rather different, totally different, it is the villainess, i suppose, about a trained assassin. Yes, the villainess is an absolutely insane south korean action movie about a femme fatale who is forcefully recruited at a young age to become a trained killer. In the opening scene there is a sequence in which she makes her way through a Building Full of baddies which makes the corridor sequence from old boy look like some kind of low key character study. There is a very similar narrative to nikita, the idea of somebody who was taken at a young age who is trained. In fact there is a scene in the villainess which very specifically seems to recall the Bathroom Scene from nikita. The film has an operatic narrative. It is something which is histrionic, it is overcooked. The plot is labyrinthine and occasionally you cant follow the plot. But you can always follow the fight sequences because they are choreographed so well. It is a film with real visual panache. I sat there in a Screening Room with people who were gasping. Apparently when it played the festival circuit it was getting Standing Ovations and you can see why because it is choreographed with real visceral power. Its called the villainess. And it is quite something. Did you gasp . Everyone else was gasping. Idid. The opening sequence, it is turned up to ii and then some. Bear in mind this is the week in which Darren Aronofskys mother comes to cinemas. Everybody will know that this has caused an awful lot of controversy. Darren aronofsky, who made black swan, which i know you are a big fan. Yes, fantastic. It was a big hit. I have to say black swan was rather more accessible than this. This basically as an archetypal story. Jennifer lawrence is the mother of the character. She is a woman living with her older husband, a poet, played byjavier bardem, in this remote house which she is doing up, which she is trying to turn into a paradise for both of them. He is blocked. He is a writer but he cant write. And then at the door turns up ed harris who then also brings with him his wife, played by michelle pfeiffer, who is garrulous and garish, and immediately starts to invade their privacy. Bardems character is absolutely thrilled. Jennifer lawrences character is not pleased. Here is a clip. Why dont you want kids . Excuse me . You are not going to be so young forever. Have kids. Then youll be creating something together. Thats what keeps a marriage going. This is alljust setting. Oh, you do want them. A great director, a great cast, a stellar cast, i have to say. Is it a great film . It is an extremely polarising film. What happens is it turns from a paranoid nightmare, Something Like rosemarys baby, into something closer to apocalypse now, a Home Invasion movie. Its very allegorical. On the one hand you can see this invasion as the invasion of mother earth, being despoiled by mankind treating it badly. You can see it as a story about the way in which older men prey on younger women. You can also see it as a biblical story which has a creator, which has an adam and eve, which has a cain and abel, and obviously if you think about the director, he made noah, he took the book of genesis and turned it into a story with a bunch of fighting rock monsters. It is an extreme cinema experience. Whilst i was watching it i found myself feeling profoundly claustrophobic. So much of the film is right on Jennifer Lawrences face. You see everything from her point of view. It is subjective cinema. It becomes more and more insane, crazy, over the top, moves towards a third act. There have been talks about walk outs. You can either be disgusted and walk out, or laugh at the film, or laugh with the film. It is a a garish black comedy and everything is massively over cranked. Whilst i was watching it i found it very oppressive. But with distance i started to see more and more things in it. Im very impressed by it. It really does grab you. It never lets you go. I cannot say it is a pleasant viewing experience because it doesnt. Its incredibly intense. Darren panofsky has referred to exterminating angel as a touchstone but horror fans will see david lynch and david cronenberg. There is. It is a very full on experience that will leave you massively disorientated and you need to give yourself at least a week afterwards before deciding what to think about it. And im not kidding. It is a week it will take to settle down. I thought you were going to say to take a week off work. All right. Lets talk about the best out at the moment. I really like it. As you probably know this has become a record breaking horror success though its more of a horror adventure than a horror. Based on a novel by stephen king. There was a tv miniseries before. This works because of the affection for the losers, the central misfit kids, they take us on this journey. It is a film that reflects the goonies. References to poltergeist. People who are fans of Stranger Things will find an awful lot in it. When it needs to be scary it has some scares. It is not film. It is much more a coming of age adventure. Which is true of much of stephen kings writing. And it has a terrific incarnation of pennywise the clown which i think gives tim currrys version of pennywise, which i thought was definitive, a run for its money. It is very good. It is very enjoyable. It is a real roller coaster ride. And best dvd . A very impressive british film called chicken. It is directed byjoe stephenson. It is a story about a young man who is trying to find his place in a world which is often very hostile. There are certain elements of ken loachs kes there. It was one of those films i knew nothing about before i saw it and it really drew me in. As i said a small film but with a big heart and lots of ambition. It is very touching and affecting and i really liked it. Its called chicken and its well worth checking out. All right. Thank you. Just a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online. And you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. That is it. Thank you for watching. We are only halfway through september but it feels like the weather is plunging as headlong into the depths of autumn because temperatures have been dropping away over the last few days. We stick with cool weather through the weekend, High Pressure to the west, low pressure to that used, that brings a northerly airflow, cool air across the country, continued risk of some heavy showers. As we go through the weekend, particularly by sunday, those showers should begin to ease. There will be some spells of sunshine. Cool days but particularly chilly nights with a touch of frost. On saturday some showers through the morning around coastal areas but by the afternoon those showers will break out more widely even inland. Some of them heavy and some of them thundery. Sunny spells between the showers. By the end of the day things will start to dry up across northern scotland and through saturday night and into sunday morning dry and Clear Conditions will spread further south. That could give the odd fog patchy and the and it will also bring a chilly start to sunday morning. Some spots in the countryside could see a touch of frost. After that chilly start sunday promises to be a fairly bright day with fewer showers, more in the real sunshine, especially out west, still some showers in eastern parts and some of these could be heavy. Temperatures will begin to look just heavy. Temperatures will begin to lookjust a little bit. Through sunday night into monday, High Pressure is trying to take control of our weather. Not many isobars on the chart. Winds will be fairly light. Some showers into eastern areas but a dry day generally, spells of sunshine. It will be another cold night on monday night. Tuesday, more of the same, more dry weather stop temperatures just beginning to lift a little bit. Late in the day we will see reagan to the north west ahead of a develop atlantique frontal system. Strong winds for the middle of the week. Ahead of that system we are likely to tap into some mild ear pushing its way up from the south west. Particularly in south eastern areas where we might hold some sunshine to the day you could get to 19 or 20 degrees. Rain across western and central areas. For our forecast further ahead we have to look at what is going on in the western atla ntic what is going on in the western atlantic because this Tropical Storm has been meandering for a few days and how this behaves could have a big influence on our weather. Through next week it will move close to the east coast of the usa and could bring destructive weather, but it does what it does next that will have a big see on our conditions into next weekend. It looks like that storm will throw remnants of tropical moisture towards the north west of the british isles. That could bring outbreaks of rain with High Pressure tried to build its way in from the south, many of us its way in from the south, many of us will see settled weather. As the tropical remnants move towards the north west it looks likely we will see some warmer air moving in. Feeling warmer for next weekend by day and by night. More settled for many with the chance of some rain in the north west. It follows a bombing on a london tube train during this mornings rush hour, 29 people were injured. Police say the bomb was home made and only partially exploded the Prime Minister urges us to be calm but vigilant. The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets providing extra protection. Commuters caught up in the attack tell of a large explosion on the train. This fireball wasjust this fireball was just going over your head and everybodys screaming. Massive bang occurred. Didnt know what happened, looked around and the first thing we saw was an orange sort of fireball circumventing the whole tube coming towards you. Whoever planted the bomb is still on the run,

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