The film review on bbc news. To take us through the cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. What have you been watching this week . A very big week, obviously. We have dunkirk, the new Christopher Nolan film, about which everybody is talking. We have city of ghosts, a very harrowing documentary from the maker of cartel land. And Captain Underpants the epic first movie, which is really funny. Everyone is talking about dunkirk. The scale and ambition of this is remarkable. It is and also the ambition of the release. It is the story of dunkirk told by Christopher Nolan who has made things like dark knight, interstellar and inception, and it is the story of the evacuation told through Three Intertwining Strands that loosely follow land, sea and air. But although the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told over three different timescales, one of the stories lasts one week, one of the stories lasts one day, one lasts one hour and these strands. If you know anything at all about no
He is expected to talk about the ongoing and controversial war on drugs, the conflict in marawi against islamist militants and economic policy. Howard johnson has more from manila. This will be Anya Shrubsole second State Of The Nation address. It is a chance to him to set out his vision for the philippines in the years ahead. A spokesperson said he will be speaking about terrorism, he will be speaking about terrorism, he will be looking at the conflict in morale we, on the island of mindanao. Marawi. There have been more than 570 deaths. His extension of martial law on minder now. Minder now Opposition Groups will be speaking out as well, putting together an alternative State Of The Nation address and that is likely to heavily criticise Rodrigo Duterte for his record on human rights during his campaign on his war on drugs. Howard johnson in manila, and we will have more analysis on that State Of The Nation address in the philippines very shortly. But first, lets take a look at some of
This is hardtalk. A quarter of lebanons population are Syrian Refugees, which is putting the countrys infrastructure and resources under increasing strain. The party of my guests, Ghassan Hasbani says he wants to send them home. Some leading politicalfigures there are calling for the refugees to be sent home. But since some in the government have ruled out talking directly to president assad, how can they be sure any returning refugees would be safe . Ghassan hasbani, welcome and thank you for being with us. After one and a half million syrians have sought refuge in your country. About a quarter of your population. How big a threat those that represent . M quarter of your population. How big a threat those that represent . It is a threat those that represent . It is a huge economic and social burden. Lebanon welcomed all these syrians at the beginning, given the humanitarian situation as they were in. After a while, several years on, the numbers have increased significantly and they ha