Hello there, welcome to the film review on bbc news. Taking us through this weeks cinema releases is james king. What do you have for us this week . Well, playmobil the movie is an animated musical, but will it have us dancing in the dark of the cinema . We go back to the glory days of hitchcock, bergman and grant with the reissued thriller notorious. And, yes, ive been using Bruce Springsteen song titles because blinded by the light is out. Its the story of one boys passion for the boss. Lets start off, then, with playmobil the movie. Who is this aimed at . Very good question. Its aimed young. I think that was the big surprise for me. We are quite used to family film now that have several layers to them, several levels to them. So obviously children have to be taken to these films by their parents. This ones aimed squarely at the under tens. Theres not really anything there for the older folk. In the wake of the lego movie and its sequel, as well, of course brands like playmobil were going to be looking to get into the movie world. This actually starts out as a live action film about a brother and sister who then get magically transported to the playmobil world, this animated world of small plastic figures. They get lost, they have to find one another again. When they are there, they are helped by different characters. There are vikings in this, there are cowboys, there are unicorns and there is a super spy called rex dasher, voiced by daniel radcliffe. Here he is in action. Rex is brilliant, suave, fun at parties, a master of disguise. And did i mention roguishly handsome . Surprise rex dasher at your service. I love that trick never gets old word of advice. In this town, nothing is what it seems. My enemies have eyes and ears everywhere. This way after me this onesjust garbage. Chuckles. It is lacking a little bit, i think, in that wit that we got used to with the lego movies, or with pixar movies, things like that. Also, and i know ultimately its just a film about small plastic figures aimed at children. It doesnt make any sense, though. The internal logic of this film is all over the place so what i would say is this its not great. The songs are there to paper over some of the cracks. Theyre fine. If you have children, and its of course the summer holidays, and theyve seen toy story 4, and theyve seen angry birds 2, and all the other films out at the moment, then perhaps this will entertain them. I always look at these films and think longevity. Is this actually going be something we are going to go back to a lot in the years to come . Itjust doesnt have that charm, that craftsmanship about it that you get in the lego movies or you get in the pixarfilms, the Studio Ghibli films from japan, anything like that. Will probably do for the summer. I think people will forget about it very quickly. Well, lets go to something that is much, much older, notorious, a reissue of the great hitchcock movie. Which is, as you were saying, part of the hollywood sort of glory days. Absolutely, the golden era. Ingrid bergman and cary grant star. She is sent down to rio, actually, on an Undercover Mission to try and track down some nazis down there who are hiding out down there. He is her american handler and quite a complex romance follows. Because it is a restoration, you can kind of see it there in the clip, it looks absolutely sparkling. It looks as if it was made just yesterday, rather than 1946. And the chemistry is so great between. Look at cary grant there. That is what movie stars should look like. The chemistry is great. He is of course suave and sophisticated, but playing a more withdrawn character than usual. Ingrid bergman just almost stealing the show, actually, as this wild playgirl, and hitchcocks direction. Youre going to see some familiar hitchcock things in there, the camera moves, the classic characters. The whole film is quite intimate. I think hitchcock wanted to make it simple. He would go on to things like north by northwest, which were epic. This is more simple, much more focused. And i really love the precision of it. I watched it again the other day and was just so pleasantly surprised by how precise and how neat the whole thing is. It really is him working at the peak of his powers. How do you think it ranks amongst all the hitchcock movies . I think its one that actually perhaps we dont talk about quite so much because it is an espionage thriller. Its not the psychological thriller or quite so obviously a psychological thriller like psycho. But actually, when you watch it again, the performances are flawless and i think the direction is flawless as well. So romantic. Some great kissing scenes in this. Some of the most famous kissing scenes in hollywood history. 0k. I would love to see that. Looking forward to seeing that once again. Its been ages since i saw that movie. Right. Now, blinded by the light. This is by the director of bend it like beckham, who we were interviewing in here a couple of weeks ago. Gurinder chadha, yeah. And its based on a true story, by the journalist sarfraz manzoor, about him growing up in the 80s, in luton, part of a british pakistani family but loving the music of Bruce Springsteen. Now, his family dont really appreciate this. Some of his friends at school dont appreciate this. There is something about bruce, this 30 something rocker from jersey, a long way from luton, that appeals to him. Viveik kalras stars in this. Lets have a look. Music born to run by Bruce Springsteen in the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American Dream at night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines sprung from cages out on highway 9 chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin out over the line 0h baby, this town rips the bones from your back its a death trap, its a suicide rap we gotta get out while were young cos tramps like us, baby, we were born to furl. Hey, get out of here its a kind of a feel good movie. And she was telling us when we were interviewing her about the film, actually, thats she and sarfraz manzoor, whose memoir who it is based on, went up to Bruce Springsteen on the red carpet and jointly asked, could they use his music . And he said yes. Yes, i think that was the way this film got made. Thats how they did it. Theyjust had to kind of pounce on him. But hes been very supportive of it since and has been at a premiere in america and things like that. Because his music is throughout the film. It certainly sent me home to listen to Bruce Springsteen songs. That is one of the many things it will do. You want to go and scream some Bruce Springsteen songs after watching the film. Because the music of moment of the best moments, i think, for me. It really captures the power of his songs and why they have universal appeal, because of their lyrics, because he writes about working class people, people with big dreams, people who live out in the suburbs, and that can appeal to lots of people around the world. It does really capture the power of the music. Some of thejokes, i think i was a bit less convinced by the lighter moments, but certainly the serious moments in this film. There are some good scenes between father and son as well, which are very powerful. The serious moments, the moments where it really immerses itself in the music, those are really strong. Yeah, because she did say she wanted to highlight the kind of racism that there was at that time in the uk. Yeah, and again, you wouldnt necessarily think that Bruce Springsteen songs from the 80s would do that. When you see the lyrics, sometimes the lyrics are on the screen, not as subtitles but quite cleverly blended into the background in the movie. When you see the lyrics and you really think about it, you understand why this guy would so associate with Bruce Springsteen music. Springsteen comes to luton best out . Holiday. This is a danish film. Has raised some eyebrows, i think, understandably. It is quite a startling film at times, quite a stark film at times, about a young woman who is dating a drug dealer. She goes to turkey, on holiday with him to a beach side resort. And hes quite possessive, she meets some other people there. She makes some new friends and that really affects their relationship. And really what it is, it is a film about power struggles, about power games, mind games, as well as this young woman growing up and working out who she is. There are some very alarming moments in it. There are some upsetting moments in it. It certainly requires a lot of viewing for viewers. You dontjust sit back and watch it and dont think about it. You have to take about this movie. You will want to discuss it afterwards. That is why i liked it, though. It does shock, it does surprise, and it is unconventional. And i think isabella has a great future in the european art house world, because this is a very strong debut from her. Best streaming . For the birds. This is about a hoarder. She is called kathy murphy, lives in upstate new york. She hoards birds chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks. Has about 200 of them inside and outside. Any reason why . Um, well, that is what the film explores. At first you thing its just about chickens, but actually it explores her psychologically. And it gets to explore her relationship with her husband it is quite an unconventional relationship and what is going on in her head. Dont think it is just a film about a woman who hoards chickens. Actually, it becomes much broader and really delves into this marriage and becomes rather inspiring, actually. Its certainly a surprising film. That is why i wanted to recommend it, because you think it is about one thing. As the film goes on, it blossoms into something much different. Sounds interesting. James, thank you very much indeed. Pleasure. All right. That is it for this week, though. Thank you so much for watching and its goodbye from both of us. Good evening. And unseasonably deep area of low pressure has been in charge, making it feel more like november. Wet, windy and thundery storms around, too. The head, things are going to be unsettled but not quite as wet or as windy as it has been. Through the night we have some heavy showers across parts of southern england, some drizzly rain for the north east, damages cooler and fresher in the north. Further south we are holding onto that milderair south we are holding onto that milder air for south we are holding onto that milder airfor a bit longer. South we are holding onto that milder air for a bit longer. On monday still a few weather fronts draped across the uk although the main area of low pressure has cleared away. We have them so through monday morning from the channel islands, the isle of wight, kent and sussex and the odd thunderstorm activity in the south. Through the north, the midlands and wales, some sunshine from monday morning. A bit of hard edges of the north east of england. Much brighter for Northern Ireland and scotland, but still some showers coming in from the north west. So there will bea from the north west. So there will be a day of sunshine and showers, most of those hours packing in from the north west. Southern england also sing some heavy showers. But some sunshine in between as well. Temperatures 15 19 celsius, below parfor temperatures 15 19 celsius, below par for this temperatures 15 19 celsius, below parfor this time of temperatures 15 19 celsius, below par for this time of year. We have lost that humidity that we have had. We still have some showers as we head into tuesday morning, but some clear spells, too. And somebody is quite widely will be down to single figures in the morning. A fresh start the day, the odd misty patch around. Through tuesday again, some showers but few and far between. A lot of dry weather with some sunshine, lighter winds, too. Temperatures better than monday, 16 21 degrees. That shouldnt feel too bad. But it isnt going to last long. This area of low pressure is piling in from the south west from wednesday. So wednesday, a unsettled story. We have rain moving from west to east across the bulk of wales. Not quite as strong as we have seen over the last couple of days. Also rain over the northern half of scotland, drier to the south of that. Around 16 20 degrees. A ridge of higher pressure keep things mostly dry as we look to the course of thursday but later on friday and into the weekend, the next big area of low pressure arrives. Probably not as wet and windy as it has been but do prepare for some very u nsettled but do prepare for some very unsettled weather for this coming weekend. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. The headlines britain calls for an inquiry into the hong kong violence. China tells it to back off. China has just china hasjust made it clear china has just made it clear it will not accept what it calls british meddling, and the influence of hong kongs on time colonial power these daysis kongs on time colonial power these days is very limited. 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