And Overall Results are up. More disadvantaged students have already been able to get university places, and the clearing process is busy filling up the remaining courses, but there are suggestions that smaller class sizes in private schools will have favoured those students. The nature of the process that quual have applied means institutions with larger cohorts in given subjects are the ones that are most vulnerable to the statistical vagaries of the system. While there is so much to celebrate and many now are looking ahead, there are question marks over some apparent disparities that have left others still weighing up their options for appealing and the choices of what to do next. Dan johnson, bbc news. Now on bbc news, its time for the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review, with me, anna smith. I am filling in for Mark Kermodes review this weeks releases. First up, baby teeth. An australian comedy drama starring Eliza Scanlon who appears as beth march in Greta Gerwigs fabulous little women. I wanted to ask you something. Uhhuh. Will you come to my School Formal . Im a bit old for it. No. Do i have to wear a suit . I dont think so. I would like to wear one. Scanlon plays miller, a terminally ill teenager who falls for an older boy called moses, played by toby wallace. Moses is not exactly what millers parents would consider boyfriend material he steals, he takes drugs, and he has been kicked out of the house by his own mother. But sheltered miller is enchanted by his rebellious spirit. So her folks reluctantly let him into their home. Based on a stage play, baby teeth is a remarkable debut from director shannon murphy, who deftly steers the tone from dark, character driven farce to tragicomedy without missing a beat. Shes also assembled a note perfect cast. Scanlon and wallace have a palpable connection while essie davis and Ben Mendelson are hilarious and heartbreaking as millers pill
popping mother and her psychiatrist father. This is a film about love, loss, compromise, sacrifice, and accepting the realities of life and death. It is hugely entertaining and it is ultimately deeply moving. I suggest you keep tissues handy. Dont forget your mask either. Baby teeth is in cinemas now. The story of the puppet pinocchio has inspired many a movie version, including the cutesy 1940 disney classic. A new live action version from italian director matteo is a very different beast. A relatively faithful adaptation of the 1883 book, the adventures of the pinocchio, it stars roberto bernini asked geppetto, the woodcarver who crafts a puppet that magically comes to life. Using elaborate prosthetics and cgi, the child actor federico is transferred very credibly into the wooden puppet who just wants to be a real boy. The bond between geppetto and his son is tangible, and his son is tangible, so it is nerve racking when the gullible pinocchio wanders wanders off and gets lost in the countryside, encountering robbers and conmen. Pinocchio is a gorgeous looking film that occasionally tugs on the heartstrings. But it is much more satisfying
in the subtitled version which is showing in independent cinemas than in the dubbed one that is showing in the multiplexes. The cloying english voices make it seem creepy. Either way, pinocchio feels unusually dark and disturbing for a pg film, so while fans of the twisted fairy tale film will find plenty to feast on the parents with younger children might want to wait for the upcoming disney live action film from robert zemeckis. What is going on. It is me, curt, from curts world. Ijust realised something big. Im calling it the lesson. It is a sure fire way for me to go viral and guess what . The best part being i can do off of the front seat of my spree. Stay tuned, buckle up and i will show you the ropes. Peace out. Much love. A cab driver turned into a serial killer in spree, a comedy horror warning about the perils
of social media. In the desperate bid to gain more followers, curt, played by stranger thingsjoe carey, gets a job as a cab driver for the conveniently named company spree. He fits the car with cameras, starts a live feed, and began starts a live feed, and begins slaughtering his passengers using spiked bottled water and a variety of gorier methods. At first he has got too few followers for anybody to notice, let alone believe it is for real. I dont even know why i am making the video. Nobody wants to watch a white guy drive around his friend taunts in one of the films many meta moments. Enter sesha as a standup comedian. It makes things more interesting. Spree is a decent entry into the social media crime thriller genre. More engaging to the recent film infamous and the less insightful than the 2017 comedy Ingrid Goes West which i love. Spree has about two points to make and it does so repeatedly. But it takes its own advice by inserting a few wtf moments that really have an impact and are plenty of known jokes for his target market, if they can stay off their phones for long enough of course. Spree is in cinemas now. Onto a small screen horror that takes itself much more seriously. Sputnik is a russian sci fi about an astronaut who comes back from space with an unexpected passage in tow. Set in 1983 and coloured in neutral grey and brown hues, it stars oksana as a psychologist. Who is surprised when she had asked to treat a famous cosmonaut in a secret soviet facility. It turns out he is suffering
from more than ptsd. He is harbouring a parasite inside of him. Openly influenced by the alien films, this delivers scares and a smattering of gore. Having the creature in captivity somewhat limits the potential really, but igors film is very efficient at building tension from atmosphere and characters. All in all, it is a serviceable horror that is on digital platforms now. If you are a fan of quirky documentaries with eccentric characters, check out my rembrandt, which is in cinemas and on demand now. Prior to 2003, it had never occurred to me that one could buy a painting by rembrandt. You mean that one could actually buy . Dropping in on buyers, auctioneers and art experts, the film follows people with a passion for the dutch painter, revealing the price they will pay for what may or may not be his work. Trust me. Billing itself as an epic art thriller might be slightly overstating it, but it is still a fascinating offbeat watch with playful sense of humour. I am michelle payne. I will be outside if anybody needs me. New to dvd this week is ride like a girl, the true story of michelle payne, who in 2015 became the first woman to win the melbourne cup. Directed by the actor Rachel Griffiths from six feet under fame from it stars Teresa Palmer as the determined young writer who trains up with the help of her father played by the great sam neil. And her brother stevie who is actually played by himself. It is told in a simple style
for a broad audience that has a positive spirit and enough dramatic events to keep the attention. What are you doing after the race . Celebrating. Griffins pitched this as a pg feminist force movie to make men cry, and i reckon she has got it about right. Ride like a girl is on dvd now. We have spent our whole life trying to unite the world. Im tired, dude. Ted, we have a destiny. Now if like me you are looking forward to the future release bill and ted face the music, then why not go back in time first in 1989 to bill and teds excellent adventure . Starring kianu reeves and alex winter as time travelling school kids who scoop up famous people from history, this release comes with an intriguing new message at the start. Please note this film reflects historical attitudes which audiences may find outdated or offensive. Those are historical babes. As much as i really enjoyed bill and ted as a teenager, i have to say that re watching it now, i have to see the point of this warning. There is the ogling of over bills stepmum and the crude character of some of the historical figures. I winced a bit watching joan of arc doing that fitness class in the mall. Still, while this may not have stood the test of time as well as a back to the future, it is still a fun, watchable film with leads and a few catchphrases we can all use right now. Be excellent to each other. Bill and ted excellent adventure is out on blu ray now. Thank you for watching the film review with me, anna smith. I will be back next week. For the meantime, be excellent to each other. I hate that part. Bill, strange things are afoot in the circle k. Hello. I suspect my windows will be rattling just as they were last night as the thunderstorms roll on by across the southern part of the british isles. That is a fraction of the weather story. Other areas have had a lot of low level cloud hanging around for the greater part of the day. And elsewhere, so warm pleasant sunshine until maybe one or two thunderstorms roll on by. Not a great deal of difference in the pattern overnight, much of the activity will be found towards the south and High Pressure keeping it more settled to scotland and Northern Ireland. Quite a lot of low level cloud creeping back in from the north sea here and itjust depends on weather you catch one of these passing thunderstorms or hefty showers. Further north, the cloud really pours on in, so it will be a grey old start to the weekend for many. It will not be that cold in the north, ten, 11 to 13,
another humid night in the south and the humidity still up despite the fact that temperatures are coming back a degree or two. The weekend, mostly cloudy, a prospect of a wee bit of sunshine, there will be spells of rain or hefty showers and it will still feel really quite humid in the heart of both england and wales. So we start saturday looking a bit like friday in the fact that we still have these thunderstorms across the south and then after a grey old start for the north, the best of the sunshine in the afternoon, northwest england england parts of scotland and into Northern Ireland, temperatures responding to the sunshine and if you dont see it on the coast it will be back in 15 or 16 degrees. Here we are on sunday. 0nly real differences with the High Pressure giving ground to the low pressure coming up from the south a wee bit more and pushes the showers into Northern Ireland into the south west of scotland but the bulk of them again going to be found towards the south and there are met Office Warnings about these so please keep up to date with those if youre out and about. A humid feel with a high of about 25 or so. Here we are into the starting next week. Not a deal of difference. The same area of low pressure until the middle part of the week we look to the atlantic for wet and windy weather coming in from the atlantic and once that feature is passed on through, it is only then that we really may freshen things up across the isles but i expect to stay pretty unsettled. The scramble to return home. Hundreds of thousands of british holidaymakers try to beat new quarantine measures taking effect tomorrow. Long lines at calais, as france joins the growing list of countries from where uk travellers must self isolate for 1h days. We decided to try and book a ferry, cancel our holiday and come home to avoid it. I think its very sad. I have driven for 11 hours. Getting back to make sure i dont have to self isolate. The french government says it regrets the uks decision, and is threatening retaliation. Also on the programme. We talk to students now facing uncertainty following the controversy over this years a level results. Opening up the lanes again,
as lockdown measures
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