Oh, i loved lady bird, i loved it im glad you did. Of all the films this film season lady bird has given me more pause for thought than any of the other ones. I have seen it three times and it has taken that long for the subtleties and emotions to sweep over me. It is a film told from Greta Gerwigs point of view, the writer and director. It stars saoirse ronan. Women crew the film. I think it is a film told from a very fresh feminine perspective. It is a film we have seen hundreds of times before, a High School Movie with cliques and drama and mothers and best friends and house parties and prom night. It is Everything Simple on the outside but inside it is sweet and beautiful. Really, it is about a mother and daughter relationship, between lady bird that is her name given to her by herself her mum wants to call her christine. The mum is played by Laurie Metcalf who was in roseanne years ago. She has not been on the big screen ever, really. She takes her opportunity brilliantly. Anyone who has been a daughter and had a mother, i think this film will resonate beautifully, movingly and hysterically. Here they are arguing, as they do throughout the entire film, about which college Christine Lady bird should go to. I want to go where culture is. How did i raise such a snob . New york, or at least connecticut or new hampshire. You will not get into those schools anyway. Mom you cant even pass your drivers test. You wont let me practice enough the way that you work, or the way that you dont work, you are not even worse state tuition, christine. My name is lady bird actually, it is not. And it is ridiculous. Call me lady bird, like you said you would. You should just go to city college, with your work ethic, go to city college, then to jail, and then back to city college. We both laughed at that line, go to jail it is for anyone. I didnt want to say it is a female film in some stereotypical way. I think a lot of people will love it. There is an interesting twist on the male characters which i will not give away. It is so well observed, the writing. That is the thing about this film. Its charm accrues through its details. Its observations of small town life, though its not that small town, sacramento is the capital of california but for lady bird it represents a prison she wants to break out of. Here she is with timothee chalamet, oscar nominated for call me by your name, and who plays a pretentious pseudo indie band rocker in this who she falls for. It builds up all the stuff we have seen before and gives it this very fresh, gentle, subtle and clever take. It breaks your heart quite often. It is about stuff that is often not said. It is a film of noncommunication. All the frustration that her and her mum have, where her mother passively aggressively nags her and says, is that dress maybe too pink . All that stuff that is left unsaid and never talked about. People i know who have seen the film have written to their mums and said, mum, i actually really love you, i do not say it enough. Ther are many hollywood films about fathers and sons, they always climax with the dad saying son, i love you. But this is the opposite of that. It starts with the mum and daughter saying i love you, and then not doing it for the rest of the film until it breaks your heart at the end. I think it is divine, absolutely gorgeous. It is a delight and Greta Gerwigs first, astonishing. Herfirst on her own. She is the fifth to be nominated for the oscar. If you are a betting person, i would have a discreet flutter on lady bird taking best picture. It is small but perfectly formed. What did you make of the mercy . The mercy stars colin firth. You remember in pride and prejudice when he emerged from the lake . In this one he gets a right old soaking. He plays donald crowhurst, an eccentric from devon. He invented his old boat and is about to enter a round the world yacht race. He has a happy marriage with rachel weisz and kids but he decides to do this in an ealing esque spirit of the little man taking on the world. He is getting sponsorship from a local car dealer played by ken stott and getting sponsorship from tinned soup firms and rum firms, and then he sets sail up off on his race and it becomes a totally different movie. It becomes profound and moving and mystical and perplexing. Why is this man taking on this challenge . It is a true life tale so i do not want to tell people what happened even though they can look it up and find out, but what happens is extremely strange. The film struggles to take that on board. Colin firth does some of the best acting in years. It might be something to do with the water. It brings the best out of colin. Fascinating. So it does not quite reach the film you are expecting . It is a film of two halves. David thewlis is good. Rachel weisz does not have much to do apart from answer the phone and look worried a lot. Colin firth is good but then the film gets bogged down in its own mysteries but they are true mysteries. No one knows what happened in this movie. It drifts rather to a climax, to use a nautical phrase. We will not give anything away. The shape of water, this is a curious film and i mean this in a good way. I enjoyed it but you do get to the end and think, i am not sure what it is about. It is about Sally Hawkins who plays a mute cleaner called elisa and she has a job in an american underground Nuclear Facility which i think peppered the us in the cold war in the 50s and 60s. A creature is brought in rather like the roswell incident. They bring it in, in a tank, to do experiments. They suspect it can help them defeat the russians somehow and win the space race. It is never clear. They mistrust this creature entirely about from one mute outside cleaner played by Sally Hawkins who strikes up a strange relationship immediately with this creature in the tank. How was your trip . Just one number please. Security, call security. Head of security. Moaning noise. Get them out. Michael shannons agent strickland glowering as only Michael Shannon can do. That clip gives the impression it is all foreboding and dangerous and scary but a lot of it is not. It is an unbelievably beautiful film. The Production Design is extraordinary. That is why it has got so many nominations at the oscars and the baftas, i2 and 13. The design is good. The music is great and the cinematography. There is a lot of great stuff in it. I think there is too much in it. It is a busy film. It pastiches film noir and b movies which the director Guillermo Del Toro was watching, and he thought wouldnt it be nice if the girl and the creature get together like they do in king kong and splash . Interspecies romance. It is entirely unique of the directors vision. Any hint of cynicism will ruin the spell of the film. You have to watch it entirely spellbound like Sally Hawkins does. She is terrific in it. But if you enter with any outside thoughts you will say, it is a bit silly, i think someone is dancing with a fish. I know it will not be for some people. Very interesting. I think it is worth seeing in a curious way. We have not managed to se black panther yet, much to my other halfs digust but we are trying to get there it is such an important movie. I have to mention it as the best film out there. It is brilliant. For a marvel movie it packs so much thought into it. It is about wakanda, an african country whose borders have to be protected by tchalla. People have compared it to the lion king. If that is cute, this is the cool version. Everyone in it is fantastic. Culturally, it has an all black cast. That has never been the case before. A black blockbuster. But watching it you forget connotations of race. You are just watching a movie which transcends race which i think is so important about it. And everyone in it is amazingly hot and sexy so wakanda was the hottest place in the marvel universe. Michael bjordan takes his top off and everyone was swooning. Colin firth has nothing on him and a quick mention of a dvd . Most beautiful island. A very strange film. In mystery horror of the night. It is about immigrant cleaners and au pairs who work in new york, the black economy. It is about the nether world they can get sucked into it. A sex world. It is made by ana asensio who stars in it and directs it. I thought it was fantastic. Little details of new york life. A fresh new indie film that i can recommend because you have never seen it before. Jason, thank you very much indeed. A really interesting week. Enjoy your cinema going, whichever of those interesting films you decide to take on this weekend. Thanks for being with us, bye bye. Its been a day for looking up at the blue sky or down at the spring pla nts the blue sky or down at the spring plants coming through. The idea is they have been encouraged by some sunshine, a bit over the weekend, more saturday than sunday. A shot from scotland here today. It bit of rain in the west of scotland. The weekend, fine, sunny spells for many. It will be a bit milder. The satellite picture, this area of cloud turning things wet across Northern Ireland and western scotla nd Northern Ireland and western scotland over the past few hours with outbreaks of rain moving in, a bit of snow to be higher hills. Very slowly edging further eastwards as the night goes on into north west england, in two parts of north and west wales. Behind it some showers following. Some clear spells ahead, patchy frost in southern england and the midlands, but not as widespread as last night. This weather system weakening as it ages south, so probably nothing more than an area of thick cloud and a few showers onceit of thick cloud and a few showers once it gets into east anglia and the south east later in the day. By this stage, hardly any showers left, just cloud. Some sunny spells, especially north west scotland, wintry in the hills but many on saturday afternoon will have broken ground, any spells, seven to ii degrees, it will feel very pleasant indeed. On saturday night, clear spells, temperatures dipping, a touch of frost, lasting longer into sunday morning across the eastern parts where skies are clear for longest. To the west, outbreaks of rain moving in. Here is the weather system for sunday, it is this weather front, it warm front, the leading edge of less cold air. It will be turning a bit milder. But it does mean that after a chilly start in the east, temperatures will be quite slow to recover on sunday. Outbreaks of rain in the west, gradually edging eastwards. Sunday afternoon, dont get too excited in belfast, you will have 12 degrees but it will be cloudy and wet. Going into next week, its a mild but rather cloudy and damp start as the week goes on, we expected to turn colder. An easterly wind developing. Still lots to play for in the details. We will keep following that. Just uploading our latest weather for the week ahead video, you can watch it here in an hours time. This is bbc world news today. Our top stories. Us special Counsel Robert Mueller brings charges against russian nationals for trying to help donald trump win the 2016 american election. The indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three Russian Companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system. The fbi says it mishandled information warning about the danger of the Florida School shooter. Battling criminal gangs in rio dejaneiro brazils president orders the army to take over security in the state. 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