Welcome to the film review here on bbc news. Taking us through this weeks releases we have got mark kermode. We have actually got some quite interesting movies. A very interesting week, we have ready or not which is a highly regarded comedy horror. We have the goldfinch, an adaptation of a much loved book. And skin, jamie bell as a tattooed white supremacist. Ready or not, i saw, i havent seen the film but i have seen the trailer, and i feel like ive seen the film here is the thing, a fairly straightforward set up, so Samara Weaving is this bride who is going to marry alex who is from a very, very posh family, a dynasty, or as he calls it, a dominion. They are called the le domas clan. She gets in there, she discovers that they are all strange and weird and creepy, but Andie Macdowell says its fine, theyll all be fine. And then her husband says, now, there is one thing, a family tradition. At 12 oclock, we have to play a game. You have to choose a game, and it will all be fine, it is just a family tradition. But we have to do it. At 12 oclock, she chooses the game, she chooses hide and seek, and then she discovers that when the family play hide and seek, they play to keep. Heres a clip. Ijust came to get a drink. I have to call the others. No, you dont. No, you can help me. Please. This doesnt end well for you. Ijust dont want to be the one to serve you up. Daniel, im begging you. Im really sorry about all this. Its true what they say that the rich really are different. Ill give you a ten second head start. Daniel. And it is described as a horror comedy, or a comedy horror . Is it scary and is it funny . Yes. And the best thing about it is, i mean, you laughed after that line when he says that the rich really are different, and that is a theme that has run through a lot of kind of satirical horror. There is a film directed by brian yuzna called society which starts off like a kind of preppy satire, and then turns into this really sgrungy, strange, mind bending, almost alien thing. In the case of this, it has got a very good setup, she goes to the family, they are weird, they play this game, it turns out to be deadly. So theres a little bit of the purge about it. But, tonally, the film its close to is sam raimis original evil dead. Which are for a long time was thought of as a video nasty, but is actually a comedy film. Sam raimi himself said its a three stooges movie which just happens to have blood and guts instead of custard pies. And in the case of this, what i really liked about it that it cracks along at a pace. Quite often a comedy horror has a good setup, and then it will flag in the second or third act. When you get to the end, you think it is running its course. This actually accelerates in pace, and in the final act, in the cinema that i was in, i heard as much laughing and as much grimacing, that kind of response, as i have heard in any decent comedy horror recently. I thought it was really well done, it is really good fun, it doesnt outstay its welcome, there is not an inch of fat on it, and if you like comedy and you like horror, youll like this. There was one line where somebody says, 0h, geez, you shot the maid and that shouldnt be funny, but it kind of is. It is, it is a ghoulish black comedy. But its played very well. All right. The goldfinch, which is a very chunky book by donna tartt. Youve read the book, right . Yeah. Did you like the book . I did, i didnt love it, but the secret history, which she also did, was amazing. I thought it was good. But apparently the film. The film is not great. The film is too loyal to the book. Well, i dont know, because the weird thing is, i havent read the book. When i was watching the film, which is a story about a young man who has a terrible tragedy in his past which he blames himself for, he is obsessed with the loss of his mother and also with the titular painting. Im sure the book is about many, many things. The film it just felt like, on the one hand, everything was very rushed, on the other hand, everything was really slow. And ijust wanted it to stop and to finish, because it felt like 2. 5 hours of thinking, im trying to condense something which is actually quite weighty and profound into a movie which cannot bear the weight of it. This is the worst thing about it, and no one has said this about the book. Its actually quite boring as a film. Which, considering the amount of intrigue and interweaving plot, the paintings here, the paintings there, this person is this, double crossing, and grief and love and all of that sort of stuff. And some great performers, ansel elgort, who i like very much, written by Peter Straughan who co wrote tinker, tailor, directed by the guy who gave us brooklyn. I mean, it has a great pedigree. And yet you watch it. Nicole kidman, and you ask, why none of this is working . I think there are one of two answers either that it is genuinely an unfilmable book, and i dont know because i havent read it, or more likely, its just not a very good film. And i think the honest truth of it is its just not a very good film. Well, when you said you couldnt wait for it to finish, i think we got the hint. Thats always a giveaway. Always a giveaway right, then we have skin, which is jamie bell, who we last saw in rocketman. The unbelievably versatile jamie bell. You see him in three or four movies with completely different roles. This is based on the real life story of a tattooed white supremacist who was the subject of a documentary in 2011 called erasing hate, and the title refers to the tattoos, the racist insignia that he has all over his face and his body. So jamie bell is the central character, he has been brought up as part of a neo nazi family led by this very creepy ma and pa. But when he decides that he wanted to go his own way, he wants to break out and wants to form his own family, they at first accuse him of betrayal, and secondly, follow him. Heres a clip. Youre still breathing because i own you. And every inch of ink on you. The only way anyone else gets access to your trophies is if i ex them out myself. Breathing and heart rate accelerate. So who is it . Feds . Jenkins . Splc . What did you give them, son . So the interesting thing about it is that you see the film, the perspective of that central character, who is a white supremacist with all of these tattoos all over his face. And it reminded me to some extent, there is a film called romper stomper, an antipodean movie from the 90s that actually made a star of russell crowe. Which also saw the film from the perspective of a racist skinhead. And the central message of the film is that nobody is beyond redemption. Its about the idea that people fall into that kind of hatred because something within them is broken. So at the very beginning of the film, you see him involved in hideous activities. And then the film itself still retains a sort of sympathetic edge towards the idea that actually, there is a reason why he has fallen into all of this stuff. I mean, jamie bell is brilliant, and very few performers, ithink, could have carried off the part. It is a risky role to play it, and i think he does it very well. The film is also made with a great deal of sincerity and a great deal of conviction. And it is tough viewing sometimes. It has a very interesting musical score and a very interesting soundtrack. But what i liked about it was it isnt a film which sees things in simple yes no terms. It is absolutely about the idea that you have to look beneath the skin to see the causes of this kind of thing. And actually, i thought the drama played out rather well. It is well done. Its not scared to be confrontational, and it doesnt shy away from showing just how vicious the stuff that he has been involved in is. Do you empathise with him at the end . I think by the end of the film, what you understand is, the central message of the film, that people fall into these kind of extremist views because of something that is broken in them. And its about understanding that, that this doesnt happen, that they are preyed upon by people preying upon the weak and the broken and people who have problems that actually can be dealt with. 0k. Best out . Well, i really, really like the farewell. This is a drama from lulu wang, with a great performance by awkwafi na. She discovers that her grandmother is terminally ill, but nobody will tell the grandmother. And so theres this Family Gathering in which Everybody Knows the grandmother is terminally ill except the grandmother. And its beautifully sort of bittersweet, its very tender, its very funny. Despite the fact that its often very, very sad, it has a great musical score. And terrific performances. And i went in really not knowing much about it at all. And you know there is a particular joy when you see a film that completely catches you off guard. You only see the title and a couple of things. I mean, i hadnt seen the poster, which has got all of these kind of fantastic reviews on it. The best way to see a movie it really is. There is a realjoy in seeing something, in a way, ive probably spoiled that already, but believe me, if you want something different, something that has got a real heart and soul and will make you laugh and cry, and when you come out you will ring or hug your family, that is the farewell. And best dvd . So dvd and blu ray, the shining extended cut. You know that Stanley Kubrick sort of famously fiddled around with a lot of his films. There is a longer version of the shining which hadnt been released theatrically before in the uk until i think four orfive months ago. Wow. Its now available on dvd and blu ray. I think Everybody Knows a version of the shining. And im not entirely sure that the extended version is better than the original. How much extended is it . Its not hugely. There are some key. I mean, the way that people always refer to it is you know you are watching the extended cut because theres a bunch of skeletons sitting in armchairs. And it is possible to watch the extended cut and think, im not entirely sure. There were some additional scenes put in which were taken out by Stanley Kubrick as he tightened it up. But i think the shining itself still holds up. Everybody talks about jack nicholson, Shelley Duvall is the real genius in that film because her performance is so raw and so ragged, if you look at what any of the on set making of footage, that performance was really tough for her. I mean, she had a very, very tough time on set. And she is brilliant. Jack nicholson, yes, but Shelley Duvall is the hero of that film. Yeah, it is a classic which i love but im not sure i want to see it again mark, thank you very much. Go see ready or not. It has got more laughs. I will, definitely. I fancy that. Ok, that is it for this week. Thank you so much for watching. Good bye. Have hello there. After what was a very wet weekend in some parts of the uk, things have generally been drying out over recent hours but as we look ahead through monday, we will start off on ahead through monday, we will start offona ahead through monday, we will start off on a chilly note before rain returns again from the south west. Starting off with some missed patches around, that should clear mist. Then rain returns across the south west england, into wales, where some spots and high ground could see close to 70 millimetres, close to three inches. To the north, we will see some showers across scotla nd we will see some showers across scotland and will be on the chilly side here, 11 degrees in aberdeen but generally a lot of dry weather for scotland and northern england. Monday night, rain pushes northwards into northern england, into southern scotland, Northern Ireland as well. To the south of that, we see showers returning. A mild night returning but a chilly start to Tuesday Morning across the northern half of scotland. As we go through tuesday, low pressure churns eastwards and that will drive further showers or longer spells of rain and perhaps some lightning mixed in. The area is pivoting its way southwards. Brightest guys for Northern Ireland and scotland but showers into northern scotland which could be wintry over the highest mountains because temperatures will get to nine degrees in aberdeen. Into tuesday, into wednesday, pressure low pressure d rift tuesday, into wednesday, pressure low pressure drift away and the isobars come from a long way north. That is where the air will come from. A chilly feel on wednesday but we could start with a touch of frost in places, may be down to freezing, and some spots into the countryside and some spots into the countryside and central and southern portions of scotland. As we go through the day, after a chilly start, a decent amount of blue sky and sunshine. A crisp autumn day. One or two showers down north sea coasts where it will be windy and those are the afternoon hires, 11 1a degrees. As we edged towards the end of the week, the temperatures are set to rise again. The chance for wet and windy weather to return a huge amount of uncertainty about that. Before we get there, rain at first through the week ahead but then chilly for the middle of the week, milder later with the chance of unsettled weather 00 14 22,350 4294966103 13 29,430 through thursday and friday