Darkest hour. You wait years for a churchill film to come along and weve had two quite recently, really. So we reviewed churchill with brian cox here on the show a few months ago. The story then was that brian cox was playing brilliantly, i think, churchill anxiety ridden in the run up to d day. Now we have gary oldman as churchill, anxiety ridden around the time of dunkirk. Its 1940. The nazis are sweeping across europe. The resistance is crumbling everywhere. Hes basically being advised by all sides to appease rather than fight. Heres a clip. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war that we are clearly losing. Losing europe is still. Europe is lost. And before our forces are wiped out completely, now is the time to negotiate. In order to obtain the best conditions possible. Hitler will not insist on outrageous terms. He will know his own weaknesses. He will be reasonable. When will the lesson be learned . how many more dictators must be. Wooed, appeased. Good god, given immense privileges. Before we learn you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth that is pretty much the give me an award clip. Theres no surprise its got such awards buzz about it. And he won a golden globe, didnt he . Yeah. I think i remember in 2012, when it looked like he was going to win the oscar, then he was beaten to the punch byjean dujardin, i think it was. I think this time may well be his year. And it is a terrific performance. Despite being buried under a lot of facial prosthetics, you know, you can see his personality coming through. Its a very interesting take on churchill. I think the performance has conviction and grit. Much as i really, really like the brian cox film, i think this is a really solid, awards courting and probably awards worthy performance. My problem is the film itself, which is not as good as his performance. On the one hand, its tojoe wrights credit that hes trying to inject a sense of immediacy and urgency into a film which could become a bunch of people arguing in rooms, essentially. And he does that well. But he also mixes up, on the one hand some very well created, you know, historical recreations, with some utterly fanciful dramatic license. Such as a scene in which churchill suddenly decides to take a quick referenda of the way the British Public feel by going on the tube train and asking people what they think about whats going on. In a scene which, whatever the emotional truth of it may be, just struck me as utterly preposterous. I think the central performance is very good. And its a crack cast. It is. Kristin scott thomas. Its a very good cast and clearly a crowd pleaser. Its going down incredibly well with the american critics. I have no doubt that it will play very well. I have to say, from my point of view, there were moments in it that i thought it was cringy. Where it was much too on the nose. I felt like it was explaining everything. You know, obviously, this is complicated subject matter, but there are certain moments in which characters dont have to be introduced by their name, their title and rank whilst theyre actually in the room with you. But the thing that will carry it is the performance. And it is a really good performance. I think it will continue to be rewarded with awards. We will soon know in the next few weeks. Whats the second choice . The brawler, mukkabaaz. Which is this boisterous, politically tinged boxing movie cum romance. From the director of the gangs of wasseypur. Which i think we spoke about on this show here. Young boxer struggling to find his place in the world, finds himself at odds with the local big boss. He falls in love with a young woman who has no voice but whose actions speak volumes. Its a strange and occasionally ramshackle affair. The dialogue is full of cussing. And colloquial cussing at that. There is music in it but it is very racy in its lyrical content. The fight sequences, you really feel that youre watching people beating seven bells out of each other. It has the ability to eschew conventions and mix in grit and substance with its story. I think its a bit overlong. Two and a half hours. I felt it could be tightened up a little bit. But what i liked about it, firstly, it is a bit anarchic. A bit ramshackle. Youre not sure where its going. It seems to switch genres at certain times. It always keeps you on your toes. I mean, a boxing movie should do. It is a film which dances around you and keeps you alert. I enjoyed it. Its not perfect, but its a pretty solid thriller with some sort of social things to say, as well. Ok, yeah, thats interesting. Good to bring us something that i certainly didnt know too much about. Ifeel like ive read a lot about three billboards. Im a huge Frances Mcdormond fan. Me, too. So talented. And a big Martin Mcdonagh fan. So this is the latest from Martin Mcdonagh who of course made in bruges. Frances mcdormand probably still most famous for fargo. 0h fantastic. An extraordinary cv. So, like darkest hour, this is shaping up to be a major oscar contender. Its a western inflected tragi comedy. Frances mcdormand is a grieving mother. Her daughter was abducted and killed. And the local police force, headed up by Woody Harrelson as the chief, hasnt made any arrests. In a state of desperation, she decides to take those titular three billboards and emblazen them with signs that name and shame the Police Department and say, how come there have been no arrests . Heres a clip. When the dna dont match no one whos ever been arrested. And when the dna dont match any other crime nationwide. And when there wasnt a single eyewitness from the time she left your house to the time we found her. Well, right now, there aint too much more we can do. Could pull blood from every man and boy in this town, over the age of eight. Theres several rights laws prevents that, mrs hayes. And what if he was just passing through town. Pull bloody from every man in the country, then. And what if he wasjust passing through the country . If it was me, id start up a database. Every male baby whats born, stick him on it. And as soon as hed done something wrong, cross reference it, make 100 certain it was a correct match, then kill him. Yeah, well, theres definitely civil rights laws prevents that. You can see from that clip that what the film does is it plays with your sympathies. On the one hand, Frances Mcdormand is set up as the heroine. But then what shes saying there is outrageous. And suddenly, the chief is the one whos reasonable. I think the real triumph of this film is, its a tragi comedy that is very funny. Thats one of the few clips that we could play that doesnt have chaucerian swearing in it. Martin mcdonagh has a real ear for this stuff. And it is very funny. He can make you laugh and gasp. He writes brilliantly. He does. Before, he had a cynical edge. But this actually has heart. Because the tragedy is, if anything, more powerful than the comedy. So what you get is a story about people who are eaten up by rage, eaten up by anger, eaten up by desperation. Its really a film about how those things impact upon the characters. There are these lines that are delivered as trite little greeting card messages. Anger only begets greater anger. Through love comes calm. And yet they seem to be sincere. What really surprised me is how tender this film is. Yes, its very funny. Yes, its very violent. Yes, its very dark. Yes, it deals with edgy subject matter. But it also has a really tender heart. It has upset some people because all the characters are seen to be three dimensional. Like sam rockwell is introduced as a racist cop. But as it goes on, you start to see hes also a victim of his circumstances. That doesnt play very well with everybody. Because it is a film about moral ambivalence in which there isnt a good character or a bad character. Everybody is in this kind of morass. But i thought it worked really well. Ive seen it twice. Second time round it was more powerful. When it needs to be funny, its blisteringly funny. But its also really tragic. And, oddly enough, very tender. Goodness. Rich. Yes. Very rich film. Yeah, id be interested to know what you think about it. We can discuss next week. For now, i know best out youre saying is anotherfilm stunning scenery, beautiful setting, but quite bleak, as well. Yes, hostiles, which is an end of an era western from scott cooper. Christian bale is a battle hardened captain ordered to take his nemesis back to his sacred lands to die. It is a film, therefore, about coming to terms with the legacy of violence. Actually, the reason ive chosen it is because it has a brilliant score by max richter, which is really evocative. The score seems to come out of the landscape. It uses this incredible instrument called a yaybahar which id never heard of before until i heard this film. It really captured me. I think its not getting perhaps the attention that it should have got. I think its a very interesting piece of work. Its called hostiles. Its worth it for the score alone. And dvd, youve picked one of my films of last year detroit. Superb. Why isnt that on the awards radars . I dont begin to understand. Its so well made. Really, really brilliant. The anatomy of an uprising. Set in the late 1960s but i think relevant to today. Fantastic ensemble cast. John boyega, will poulter, both absolutely brilliant. I would have had both of them in supporting actor nominations. Fantastically directed by kathryn bigelow. Yet somehow it seems to have slipped off the radar, which is a shame. I thought it was a really gripping piece of work. Absolutely. A hard watch, but it is brilliant. But it has to be tough because of the subject matter. It would be wrong if it wasnt. Absolutely. This is the chance to see it, if you didnt see it in the cinema. Its on dvd this week. Mark, thank you very much. See you next week for more. There is, of course, more film news and reviews from across the bbc on the website. You know the address, bbc. Co. Uk mark kermode. You can find our previous programmes on the bbci player. Its a busy week at the cinema. Enjoy your cinema going. See you next time, bye bye. Hello once again. Definitely more excitement and drama at your local cinema than there is with the weather at the moment. Make the most of the quiet spell. A bit of a phoney war going on. Things are going to change over the next few days, which we will come to. This is how it was before the sun went down. A lot of cloud yet again across the british isles. Im sure some of you are fed up with this. One odd two gaps around, not all doom and gloom but the phoney war and the quiet speu but the phoney war and the quiet spell is beginning to come to an end. Out towards the west, we have quite a bit of cloud, some breeze as well. Not such a widespread problem with fog as a consequence tonight and quite windy across the North Eastern quarter of scotland, and a supply of showers overnight. What news of the weekend . Wet from the word go across parts of west devon and cornwall and towards the isles of scilly. The breeze noticeable here, and also temperature in the western fringes of scotland. Further east, a quiet start to the day, not too much in terms of breeze. But we turn on the fan has become towards the Northern Quarter of scotland, where we have that supply of showers running up on the south easterly wind. Elsewhere, limited amount of sunshine again. Maybe parts of east anglia and the far north of scotland, where there will be a chilly start, and through the afternoon in the higher ground, more likely to see a spot of rain. Once you get that rembrandt, you keep it for a good part of the day and the evening. Through the evening and the evening. Through the evening and overnight, you get the sense that front is weakening all the while. Not a cold night by any means at all, because there is a lot of cloud around and a little bit of breeze as well, especially in the northern half of scotland. Whats left of the original front goes to the ease, bringing the prospect of some rain, brighter skies behind. You may lose a degree or two between saturday and sunday but the compensation of some sunshine. At the end of the day and through monday, my word, here comes the change. We have that very active weather front with a lot of wind associated with it moving through the british isles. Monday is the last of the relatively mild days, because tuesdays friday is much, much colder, to the extent that it will also be windy and when you put those two things together, you end up those two things together, you end up with plenty of showers, many of which will be wintry. There is weather eventually in the british isles, all of it right there. This is bbc world news. President trump has said he wont, for the moment, pull out of the iran nuclear deal. He has described the 2015 deal as one of the worst in american history. He added that this new 120 day waiver will be the last. President trump also denies using an offensive word to describe poor countries when discussing immigration. The United Nations is among those calling his comments racist. These are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. Sorry, but theres no other word one can use that racist. A makeover for facebook. 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