Asa as a sports person. Long way to go. As a sports person. So, ithink long way to go. As a sports person. So, i think we are going to see many, many more wins being celebrated on the front pages. And also using his voice for a lot of societal issues as well. Thank you very much. Good night. And thank you for staying with us for the papers this evening. Next on bbc news, it is the film review, back from us, cheerio. Hello, and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. Far and away my favourite film of the week is summer of 85, the latest from francois ozon, the french director behind such diverse fare as sitcom, under the sand and by the grace of god. A bittersweet saga of love and death, its a coming of age tale that moves the original setting of Aidan Chambers source novel from southend on sea to le treport in france, where the death obsessed alex looks back on his relationship with the beautiful david. With the heady energy of an 805 teen pic, we watch alex falling for the friend of his dreams, being swept off his feet by davids vibrant live fast,
die young attitude and then driven to a jealous rage by the arrival of english interloper kate. While all this plays out in flashback, its intercut with later scenes of an apparently traumatised alex facing questions about a terrible event for which hes being held accountable, but about which he refuses to speak. Gorgeously shot on 16mm, summer of 85 has the tangible texture and grain of its retro setting, albeit filtered through a nostalgic lens that seems to supersaturate the image, amplifying emotions. Bookended by the sound of the cures in between days, with all its unresolved hurt and longing, summer of 85 somehow combines romeo and juliet style tragedy with the thrilling evocation of youthful passion and a strong streak of black humour, creating an accessible film that flits nimbly between rapturous love, agonising anguish and near slapstick absurdity, quite the balancing act. Its in cinemas and on
curzon home cinema now. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa from the sublime to the ridiculous and honest thief, a preposterously silly offering starring liam neeson, who surely has Better Things to do than waste his time on this sort of post taken tosh. My girlfriend, she had nothing to do with this. Im coming for you. Having recently reminded us of his brilliance in ordinary love, neeson is back in slumming mode as tom, the bank robber with the unfortunate nickname the in and out bandit. No, really. Ive robbed 12 banks in seven states, made 9 million in cash. I want to turn myself in. When tom meets kate walshs annie, he decides to put crime behind him and go straight, but only after attempting to turn himself in to the fbi. Instead hes double crossed and finds murder added to his rap sheet. So now tom has to run around chasing people, punching people, shooting people, threatening people on the phone and blowing up their houses in order to prove that hes just a really nice honest guy who should be left alone to live a quiet life. My way. Perfunctorily directed by Mark Williams and played by neeson with the air of a man waiting for his paycheque to arrive, this is straight to video fare that somehow wound up on imax cinema screens, where it clearly hopes to reproduce the success of Russell Crowes actioner unhinged, which was pretty ropey, but looks like citizen kane when compared to honest thief. She loves me for who i am. And i love herfor who she is. And i cant wait to spend the rest of my life with her. Kyle, i slept with ava. What . What do you mean slept . Like we sexually slept together. While no one expected honest thief to be a critics favourite,
the climb has been showered with rave reviews since making its prize winning debut at cannes last year, and its now in uk cinemas. Mikes in the living room. He got fat, right . Yeah. Merry christmas. Oh, my god is that mike . He got fat. Directed by Michael Angelo covino, who stars with his co writer kyle marvin, its a tragicomedy about a toxic friendship between two men the benign and naive kyle and the poisonous, self obsessed mike. Over the course of several years, we see mike destroy kyles attempts to be happy. Can i just say. No sleeping with the women his best friend loves, turning holidays, weddings and funerals alike into car crash disasters, all of which kyle grudgingly tolerates because, hey, theyre best friends. Lets go. Nobody likes her nobody likes you, mike i am the only one who likes you and i dont know why cos youre loud and obnoxious and youre an ass. Theres no doubting the technical
eloquence with which the climb tells its misanthropic tale, with zach kupersteins camera floating between characters and set ups in extended takes that dazzle in terms of planning and choreography. Kyle, listen to me its your choice, but i wouldnt do it. But its also quite an irritating story about irritating characters whose irritating foibles are meant to seem profound and insightful, but are in factjust kind of irritating. Im a bad friend. Oh, my god, mike, are you serious . Like the similarly lauded chuck buck, of which this put me awkwardly in mind, the climb demands a huge amount of audience tolerance for men behaving badly to themselves, to each other and to the women whom the film paints in consistently unsympathetic terms, in stark contrast to the reservoirs of patience reserved for its male leads. Like not in our lives. But hes my friend. Hey. Hey to you, too. Not so pixie, in which olivia cooke plays the titular hellraiser who finds herself embroiled in a blood spattered, gun toting, drug fuelled caper featuring armed priests, hapless sidekicks and mayhem aplenty. Its way too big for you, trust me. Oh, sorry, mr Pablo Escobar welcome to sligo pixie directed and written by father and son team barnaby and Preston Thompson and boasting an all star cast including colm meaney, dylan moran and alec baldwin, pixie wears its inspirations on its sleeve, with a bit of Quentin Tarantino here, a nod to Martin Mcdonagh there and a soundtrack by gerry diver and david holmes that juggles west of ireland western inflections with oceans style heist movie beats. Now that sounds like a lot of fun, but the film never quite lives up to the promise of its pitch. For one thing, the script is nothing like as sharp as it needs to be, lacking the killer punch
of the superior movies to which it owes a debt. Its also self consciously slick, although beneath the stylish surface, theres not much going on beyond the overcooked zaniness. Wheres the money . On the plus side, cooke, whose impressive cv ranges from me and earl and the dying girl to the limehouse golem and ready player one, does a pretty good job of holding it all together, injecting some much needed heart and soul into the proceedings. Beautifully put, frank you can find pixie in cinemas now. I want to play out of doors. It was too hot to do so in india. Im obliged by law to have you taught. Then well need to break the law, wont we . Frances hodgson burnetts 1911 novel the secret garden has inspired several movies, ranging from a silent production starring lila lee to Agnieszka Hollands superb 905 adaptation. Now theres a new version in cinemas and on sky cinema, revisiting the novels theme
of the redemptive power of nature, which seems all the more relevant in these testing times. Dixie egerickx is the recently orphaned mary, sent from india to live in england with her widowed uncle archibald, whose son colin has long been kept hidden and bedridden. But a buried key to a magical garden unlocks healing secrets, bringing about change and rebirth. Screenwritten by the prolific jack thorne, whose recent credits include the aeronauts, radioactive and tvs the eddy, this update relocates the story from the turn of the 20th century to 1947, in the shadow of world war ii and partition. Other significant changes include a more sympathetic portrait of marys parents and the introduction of a ghostly climax which seemed to me to draw inspiration from the amazing mr blunden, one of my favourite movies of all time. Cleaving closely to marys subjective point of view, marc mundens update combines real
locations like trebah in cornwall with cg visuals to evoke a magical garden that may be more a product of its heroines imagination than reality. But we also lose a central theme of the novel, that its only by toiling away in the garden that mary can unlock its restorative power. Here the relationship is much more one sided, with the garden just magically healing those who enter. The result is a peculiar mix of ambiable enchantment and missed opportunities, a likeable film, but not one that has the classic status of its source novel or indeed of hollands adaptation, which for me remains definitive. Off you go. Thats it for this week. Thanks for watching the film review. Stay safe, and ill see you next week. When . When did you sleep together . I dont know the exact dates. Ididnt. Dates . dude, slow down. You should pace yourself. Ahh
hello there, im sure you dont need me to tell you it was a very wet weekend. Persistent rain on saturday gave way to hefty showers on sunday. You could see the shower cards on oui you could see the shower cards on our earlier satellite picture spinning around an area of low pressure. The x hurricane is drifting northwards and has an extremely deep area of low pressure and this will dry outbreaks of rain in ourdirection, and this will dry outbreaks of rain in our direction, brisk winds at time. The centre of the storm is staying out to sea because thats of winds in the centre of the storm will get close to 100 mph or even more. Nothing that windy here but it will be fairly blustery with rain at times. Turning milder later in the week after a cool start. Through monday, another day of sunshine and
showers, the sunshine initially to fill in the west but it will migrate eastwards during the day, some heavy with a chance of hail and thunder, something try developing through northern ireland, wales, the southwest, not as many showers here by the end of the day. It stays windy the further south you are but further north the winds will ease, the dickie across scotland, fairly cool feel the weather,. As you move out of monday and into tuesday, our area of low pressure from the weekend, that finally spends away, the showers fade a little temporary ridge of High Pressure builds its way in so that will calm things down for a time through the early hours of tuesday. It will be a chilly start to tuesday, but the calmer interlude doesnt last long, the rain already splashing into the west through the first part of the day, and the band of heavy rain will push eastwards. Again, some blustery winds and they will travel along way across the atlantic, they will whip
up across the atlantic, they will whip up some rough across the atlantic, they will whip up some rough seas, across the atlantic, they will whip up some rough seas, there could be big waves crashing into western coastal areas. Northern scotland will hold on to brightness, and as we head into wednesday, this deep area of low pressure continues to spin to the north west, it will feed further showers are longer spells of rain across the british isles. It stays unsettled towards the end of the week but temperatures climb 18 01 the week but temperatures climb 18 or19 in the the week but temperatures climb 18 or 19 in the south on friday