Line my favourite bit of australian sledging is when someone was swatting flies and they said hey, leave those flies alone. Ending on an anecdote. Thank you for coming in. Coming up now, the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. Hello, mark. What have you been watching . Very interesting, we have the disaster artist, which is the story of the making of the best worst movie ever. Happy end, the new film by Michael Haneke. And wonder, a very touching drama starring Jacob Tremblay. The disaster artist. Yes. Even watching the trailer as many times as i have now, even the trailer, youre sitting there like this. Have you seen the room . This is part of my question, you need to explain all this. Basically its the dramatised retelling of the making of the room which tommy wiseau made in 2003. Its a film that was so bad that it spawned a whole cult following, people go along to join in the screenings, much in sort of rocky horror show style. Tommy wiseau basically wrote, directed and starred in it and financed it. Now we have james franco who plays tommy in the film directing and producing this film based on a book by greg sesestro, who was a co star in the room, who is now played by James Francos brother, dave. Were keeping up. Youre keeping up so far . Were keeping up. 0k. So essentially greg is a model and one actor and we first meet him in a theatre studies thing, hes doing a terrible version of waiting for godot, and then suddenly tommy comes up and takes one word from a streetcar named desire, stella and does this writhing piece. Greg is completely entranced. He said, this is amazing. Youve got so much talent, youre so uninhibited, how do you do it . And tommy says, well, ijust believe in myself. And together they go to los angeles and they decide theyll make it and become stars, but hollywood rejects them and so tommy, who appears to have a, no fixed age, b, no fixed accent and c, untold wealth, no one knows where he comes from, writes his own movie. Heres a clip. The room. Nobody writes it yet. So today you will be the first one. I cant believe it, man, you did this. And of course you play mark. You want me to play mark . Its a big role. Second lead. Yeah, its a huge role. Are you sure . If you dont want to do it, fine im having johnny depp available. No, no, iwant it, iwant the role, ill take it. Its like you say, hollywood rejects us, then we do it on our own. And you have the money to make this . I have, its no problem. Youre really going to make this thing . No, greg, we are going to make it. Mark has just laughed about 20 times during that clip. Ive seen that film twice and both times. But heres the key to it, firstly the fact that tommys such a strange character, he says hes from new orleans and his accent sounds like hes from outer space. But what i like about it, theres a film made by tim burton caled ed wood about edward d woodjr, who made plan 9 from outer space, which was previously thought of as the worst film ever made. And the reason that film worked was you didntjust think ed was a terrible filmmaker, you thought he was a visionary, you believed in the film even though it was terrible. Now, in the case of this, tommy appears to actually believe that the film hes making is a Tennessee Williams level drama and he really thinks that hes making some incredible piece of art, and the reason the disaster artist works is yes, the filmmaking is terrible, yes, the endless takes of the same lines and the awful script and the bad acting and the awful direction thats in the room, yes, all those things are there but it only works because you also believe that beyond it there is something of pathos, there is something of tragedy, there is something of the dream about tommy that makes him acceptable. We see him behaving appallingly on set. The film doesnt shy away from the fact that on set he did behave, you know, really, really badly. Do you need to have seen the room to get the joke . I dont think so because i think. I mean, for a start, you see the room, it makes no sense anyway and when you see the individual scenes that theyre recreating, i mean, it makes sense because you understand that basically tommy. At one point seth rogen, who is playing the script supervisor, says its not to do with whether hes made a movie, has he even seen a movie . He genuinely has no idea how to do this. I thought it was really funny. I thought it was dark when it needed to be dark. I thought it had a strange sort of dreaming charm about it that in the end its a story of triumph over adversity, by making something thats so catastrophically terrible that it ends up getting celebrated. And it made me laugh twice all the way through. 0k. Well, im intrigued. You done that for me, im definitely intrigued. Happy end, is that an ironic title . Its a Michael Haneke film. Its the closest hell get to making a farce. This is a Michael Haneke film about a bourgeois family who behind the facade, there are foul lurking secrets and the cast includes isabelle huppert, Jean Louis Trintignant and tobyjones, our very own tobyjones. As with all hanekes work, its engrossing, its creepy, its unsettling but theres also a very strange sense of deja vu. Theres a thing early on with video phone footage that reminds me of bennys video, a very early film of hanekes. Theres some other stuff which has got surveillance type footage, which makes you think of cache, of hidden. Theres also a strange kind of left turn referral back to amour and the weird thing about all those films ive just cited, when we first saw them they were startling, they were original, they were surprisingly, this isnt. Its well made. Haneke knows how to get brilliant performances out of actors, he knows how to make something feel creepy and strange without quite telling you what it is. But it did feel like we were retreading old ground. I think hes a great filmmaker but this is that weird thing, but to me this felt like. And i never thought id use it, and of incidental haneke film. Itjust felt like, 0k, there we go, thats the new haneke film. Thats it, thats it. And well move on. And it lacked that element. I remember when i saw amour, just thinking, i cant believe he just made that movie because its just so breathtaking and this isnt. Wonder, what did you make of this . Ive read such divided things about this. Have you . I havent read other reviews so ill tell you up front, i liked it. Its adapted from rj palacios novel by Stephen Stephen chbosky, whos best known for perks of being a wallflower. Story is Jacob Tremblay is a young kid, augie, who is really interested in science, really interested in space, and has spent most of his childhood being homeschooled because hes had a series of facial operations as a result of a rare genetic condition. Now, as he becomes a fifth grader, hes going to school for the first time so its a thing about going to school, which is difficult enough, also made more difficult by the fact augie understands that he is different to the people with whom hes going to have to interact, and its about, at the beginning, thatjourney. Heres a clip. Now, i gotta stop here because past this point is a no dads zone and you dont want to walk up with your parents because its not cool. But youre cool. I know i am but technically most dads arent, so. Neither are these helmets. Hey, two rules first, only raise your hand once in class no matter how many answers you know, except for science. Crush them all. Check. Second, youre going to feel like youre all alone, augie, but youre not. Check. Shall we lose this . Come on. Costumes are for halloween, prepare for blast off. I love you. I love you too. Have fun. Bye. So owen wilson, Julia Roberts and of course, Jacob Tremblay. You can see from that, lots of laughs in that clip and its also something that tugs at the heart strings. Its also more complicated than it looks like. At the beginning you think youre going to see from his point of view but actually what happens is the narrative fractures and you see the story from lots of different characters point of view. From the point of view of his sister, who feels that shes been neglected because all her parents attention have gone to her brother. You see the sisters friend, who is no longer a friend, and you find out her back story. Even boys in the film are given context for their bullying. So i thought for a start its a much more complex narrative than people have perhaps given it credit for, it has perhaps a kaleidoscopic structure. The other thing is the film made me laugh and the film made me cry, and those are difficult things to do. People take them very much for granted and think its very easy to do. Its not easy and it works because the performances are good, the script is well honed, and it felt like to me a film that was made with heart, with care, by people who were telling this story and they really cared about the way the story was. Yes, there is sentimentality in it but i think it is sentimentality that it turns. I mean, i cried a lot, i laughed a lot, i was really engaged with the story and i went in slightly suspicious because id seen the trailer, which was a little bit. You didnt know quite which way it was going to go but i thought it was a pretty terrific piece of work. And Jacob Tremblay, hes a really, really talented young actor and i thought that the director handled it with exactly the right degree of schmaltz and seriousness. I laughed, i cried, it worked. 0k. Best out this week . Battle of the sexes, this came out last week and this is the fictionalised or the dramatised story of the tennis match between Billiejean King and bobby riggs. It became called the battle of the sexes. There was a documentary about this almost exactly the same name in 2013. Again, going in to see the drama, the documentary was so great, will they be able to capture that spirit . And they do, they really, really do. Emma stone is great as Billiejean King. Steve ca rell absolutely inhabits this clown, you know, male chauvinist soon roll of bobby riggs. The texture of the film is great, feels like a film that was made in the 19705. Its got an important lgbt story at the centre of it, its got political relevance, its very, very personal. Again, its funny. It is a comedic drama and its all true. The weird thing is youre looking at it and you think, they must be making this stuff up and then you see the documentary and its absolutely true. Yes, fantastic. Quick thought about dvds for anyone who wants to stay in . My feral heart came out last week, we werent on last week, but this is a really, really great indie pic. One of my favourites of the year, directed by jane gull. Steven brandon is a young man trying to find his place in the world. Its a film that did brilliantly with the ourscreen programme in which people put on screenings in their own cinemas. It really found its audience. It was a film with a very, very low budget. Again made with an enormous amount of heart and it is terrific. Its called my feral heart and i defy anyone not to be won over by it. Excellent. I am looking forward to that one. Thank you very much, mark. Thank you. A really interesting week. Thank you. Just a reminder, of course you can find all film news and reviews from across the bbc online. Theres the address and all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well of course. And that is it for this week. Enjoy your cinemas going. Bye bye. Hello once again. I am not sure the next minute will make you laugh and make you cry, but it is a fairly quiet start to the week. But the week itself a bit of a rollercoaster of emotion. So lets start quietly. Meston fog across the south east. Theyre that in mind, some of that will take time before it pops away. A quiet start, maybe not as bright asiam a quiet start, maybe not as bright as i am showing here. There will be some low cloud around so leaden skies for some. And freshening wind through the evening and overnight through the evening and overnight through the evening and overnight through the northern parts of scotland, taking us to a fairly quiet day on tuesday. Eventually cloud, wind and rain across the north and North Western parts of scotland. Thanks to an area of High Pressure it is a fairly quiet start to the week. A big area of low pressure starts showing it and across northern and western parts for the middle part of the week. We all get to see that on thursday, and thatis all get to see that on thursday, and that is the thing which transits asked from the mild start to the week to something a good deal colder to close it out. I told you, it was a real rollercoaster. See you later. Im kasia madera in london. The headlines on the eve of the biggest ever us south korean air drills, washington says the potential for war with north korea is increasing by the day. Its crazy to send spouses and children to south korea given the provocation of north korea. So i wa nt provocation of north korea. So i want them to stop sending dependents. Im rico hizon in singapore. Also in the programme cambodias Prime Minister leads prayers for peace and unity at a lavish ceremony days after dissolving the countrys main opposition party. All these people have been brought to this, the most symbolically important site in cambodia, to impress on the population that the country is united