A lot about sport and weight rings people together. You wouldnt have thought about them immediately as a by thought about them immediately as a rugby playing nation but they take into it. Thats it for the papers tonight. Dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you 7 days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. And if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. A big thank you to my guests this evening, caroline and tony. Thats all from us, and goodnight. Hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. Hi, mark, what have you been watching . We have American Woman which is a powerful drama starring Sienna Miller. Animated fun with abominable. And will smith fighting himself in gemini man. Ha ha, yes, that is intriguing. Lets start with American Woman. Sienna miller is debra who is a 30 something single mum, living in rust belt pennsylvania. Shes pinballing endlessly between variously useless and occasionally abusive men and looking for security and love. One night, her teenage daughter goes out and doesnt come home. And she is left holding her grandson with no idea what happened. Heres a clip. Its been, uh. Its been three days since we last saw bridget. She left home around 7. She was wearing a pink sweatshirt and white sneakers. She had her hair coloured a few days ago, so its a little lighter now, a little more blonde. But not much. This is a mothers worst nightmare. To know that your daughter is out there somewhere and shes calling for you and you cant get to her. Im sorry. She cries. I miss my daughter. So, on one level the film is about a missing person, about disappearance, but its actually, thats only one part of what its about. The narrative then jumps forward several years and we see the central character played by Sienna Miller further on in her life, still trying to find a suitable partner, and again, people like aaron paul plays this initially very charming character. And what happens is we see the weight of the trauma and the grief that she has carried with her as her own character develops and changes. I think the most remarkable thing about this is firstly, Sienna Miller is really terrific, thats not a surprise because she was really good in supporting roles in foxcatcher and american sniper. She was great in Ben Wheatleys high rise. This is the first time ive seen where shes been really able to command the centre stage and shes terrific, she is really great. She plays each section of the characters life completely convincingly. You really do believe in this character. The second thing is, this is directed by jake scott, who does a very good job of backing off exactly when you think the drama is going to overplay its hand. So what you get is a film that is very, very convincing about a lengthy period in somebodys life in which something is hanging over them. And the thing it reminded me of slightly is the films of atom egoyan. If you think about things like the sweet hereafter or exotica. Atom egoyan is very good at making films that exist within the aftermath of something. And i definitely got that feeling from this. Really upsetting . Well, because her central character is indomitable and has this very vibrant spirit, and yes, she is shouldering a huge burden, but the film doesnt overplay it, the film is about, 0k, this is the situation and life has to move on. And you know that it will keep returning to this central motif about this absence, about what happened and how it happened, but the film is actually about her. Originally i think when they were shooting it, it was called burning woman. Im not entirely sure that American Woman is the right title for it, but it is a film that is absolutely about the way a character develops over a lengthy period of time, and you believe every single frame of that performance. Not least because its very physical. Its not to do with the character saying, i think this, ifeel this, its to do with the way they stand, the way she holds herself and the tiny little glances. And it has a very, very good supporting cast. I was completely immersed in it, i absolutely believed in the world. I think the problem with it is that the trailers are necessarily selling it as a missing person thriller, and that is one element of it, but thats not the element. Its about her dealing with this great weight but life moving on at the same time. It sounds overall far more interesting than the trailer allows it, perhaps, yes. In their defence, its a very hard film to trail because its a hard film to explain. If you say its a story of somebody growing over a long period of time, thats not going to bring the audience in. 0k, animation for your second choice. Abominable is an occasionally thrilling, largely a little bit blandly charming story. A young girl befriends a yeti creature who is escaping from the clutches of a wealthy eccentric, voiced by eddie izzard, sounding like eddie izzard brilliantly. And her and two friends agree to take the yeti which they call everest to the highest point on earth. The creature has magical powers which you see here, that enables it to turn landscapes into something completely different. And there are some real visual coups. There is a sequence that were seeing now in which this boat travels through this flowery field which then turns into a giant wave. There is a lovely sequence in which they climb up on a giant buddha statue. She starts playing a violin and the flowers start blooming. So there are individual moments that made me think, wow, thats beautiful and breathtaking. I dont think its massively original. People have compared it to things like how to train your dragon. I always think about that laika film, the bigfoot movie missing link, which had an altogether more sturdy feel for me. But i think it will do fairly well with a fairly undemanding audience. And there are certain moments in it in which i thought, wow, that is beautiful, theyre using the technology really well. Its not a great film but it has some great moments in it. Now, gemini man, you see, i want it to be really good cause its ang lee, whos so interesting and has does such great work yeah. Yeah. 0k. Right, is that it . No. Ok, so, will smith goes head to head with his digitally conjured younger self. So he is a retiring assassin who finds that he cant retire because hes being pursued by a young hit man, who weirdly seems to know his every move. Its almost as if hes being followed by his younger self heres a clip. Stop right there who are you . I dont want to shoot you fine. Dont shoot me. Mind if i shoot you . Did i show you a picture of me . Yeah, you look old. Kid, you take one step closer, youre going to leave me no choice. Gunshots. Ok, so look, some decently executed action sequences. This project began in the late 90s when it was first thought up and then they thought, we dont have the technology to do this. Turns out now they do have the technology to do it but you do think, its like thejeff goldblum thing, youre so eager to see whether you could, you didnt stop to think whether you should. Because fundamentally, firstly, one bi g problem with it is that i saw it in the 120 high frame rate 3d, which he made billy lynns long halftime walk in, which is this kind of high frame rate format which makes you think youre watching something that looks like behind the scenes footage. Oh yes, its so real it looks like its not a movie, which is really, really bizarre. The second thing is, its kind of distracting because even when you see what theyve done with the cgi, theres a Computer Generated character to some extent, it is impossible not to sit there thinking, oh, thats technologically quite interesting. And my biggest problem is this. Although youve youve got people like Mary Elizabeth winstead injecting a much needed human note, ang lee for me is a storyteller. Yes, yes tell stories stop worrying about the technology, stop worrying about whether or not we can push back 120 frames, 60 frames a second, just do the thing that you did before which was be a great storyteller i have no problem with technology, but technology for its own sake, it feels like the tail wagging the dog. And it is true that in the case of this you think, 0k, most of the ideas i have seen before, its kind of sub blade runner idea about body and soul and most of the time youre sitting there thinking, just, just tell me a story like you used to. Im sure hell listen to you. Now youve said that, the next film will be. Yeah, ive got him on speed dial. Yes, mr kermode said. The farewell, thats a lovely story. Have you seen it . Yes, yes. Isnt itjust the most brilliant thing . I did love it, i did love it. Am i allowed to say, by the end i, i mean, i really, really loved, is it akwafina or awkwafina . Awkwafi na. Just, by the end, was she just very slightly too much stroppy teenager . Because she is meant to be 3 in the film and she was behaving like a stroppy 17 year old, but but but i am nitpicking because overall i really, really liked it. I just thought it was one of the most honest depictions of family relationships, the way in which there are secrets and lies, very, very mike leigh. Mike leigh, yes, yes. And i thought it was really touching and really funny and really moving, and i knew nothing about it when i went to see it other than the title, which i have to say is not. I love the thing based on an actual lie, which is a great tag line. Yes, its lovely, its really, really worth seeing. Quick thought about dvd, musicals . Hitsville the making of motown, which is a documentary about the making of motown. We should say its very, very authorised. Theres nothing in here thats not. Its not warts and all, but its worth it for the interviews, not least because you get berry gordy and smokey robinson, standing by a piano, mis remembering their own history and then arguing about it, and at one point, one of them says, oh, so and so recorded a song, the other one says, no no, the other person did it, he says, ok, ill bet you 100 bucks it was the other guy. And they ring somebody up and go, who. . That kind of stuff was really, really wonderful, and i laughed more watching their interviews than i have watching many of the years alleged comedies. laughs mark, thank you very much, see you next time. And thats it, enjoy your cinema going. Bye bye. Good evening. Clear skies across many parts of the country. Great conditions with greater visibility for viewing the hunters moon. Our weather watchers have been doing that and sending in their pictures. This one comes from dumpster a bit earlier on. Clear skies, this one comes from dumpster a bit earlier on. Clearskies, not too much mist and fog around to spoil but lunar view, but some patching mist and fog. Rain clearing away from eastern scotland. By monday morning we will have a few showers arriving in the south east and some rain pushing close to Northern Ireland as well. Temperatures first thing monday 5 io ireland as well. Temperatures first thing monday 5 10 degrees. Through the course of the morning this show is on the south east are going to be quite happy. Later on today as they push north they could bring thunderstorms in quite a lot of heavy downpours. Lying surface water and potentially gusty winds around this area. Northern england and parts of eastern scotland should stay dry through the day. Into tuesday that rain clears away to the east. A window of drier weather. Some sunny spells when the mist clears way. Top ten pages fairly average, 12 15. Top temperatures. Im rico hizon in singapore. The headlines syrias government says it will send troops to confront turkish aggression, as turkey continues its military operation against the kurds. Emergency teams work through the night injapan as the scale of the devastation caused by typhoon hagibis starts to emerge. Im lewis vaughanjones in london. Also in the programme a new tactic from hong kongs hardcore pro democracy protestors attacking pro beijing targets while dodging the police. And well meet the drivers lighting up the roads in australia