the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you got for us this week, mark? a very exciting week. we have men, which is a horror inflected fairy tale. we have major, which is inspired by a true story of heroism. and bergman island can life and art ever be separated? men, the clip of this gives me the creeps so much that i don t think i could bring myself to watch it! and you say it s some kind of fantasy horror? yes. let me try and sell it to you. so it s by alex garland, who wrote and directed ex machina and annihilation. i think it s like a playfully twisted fairy tale about gender. jessie buckley is harper. she s come out of an abusive relationship. she decides to go off to a country retreat to what she calls the dream country house with the emphasis on dream, because everything about what we re looking at tells us, you know, there s an apple tree outside from which apples
no one bbc news, it s time for sportsday. now on bbc news. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m isaac fanin. iga swiatek is the french open champion once again. the favourite desert crown wins the derby at epsom. it will be all to play as england go into day four against new zealand needing just 61 runs to win the match. half centuries from ben stokes and joe root have given england hope they can begin head coach brendon mccullum s reign with a victory. joe wilson is at lords. stuart broad urged england to believe, and then he made things happen. that was darrell mitchell dismissed for 108 and wickets seemed to be falling with every delivery. eventually, they were. broad on one of his charges. soon, new zealand were 285 all out, meaning if england could score 277 in their second innings, they win. if. here are three england batters. new zealand s bowlers were too good. ben stokes had made one when this happened. overstepped, no ball. captain back in. could stokes make the m
see, i could see you flinching. yeah, i shivered in that little bit! but i think that s great because i think what that means is that the film is achieving that kind of fairy tale ambience. i mean, obviously, you know, apple trees, there s the spectre of the green man. there s all these male characters played by the same person, which tells us something which is either that she is seeing all men as the same person or that all men are basically the same, which is essentially, you know, the message at the centre of the movie. the reason i liked it is this firstly, i like the idea about adult fairy tales. i mean, the best fairy tales are scary. they are creepy. you know, when we were kids, we read fairy tales because we liked that. this is an adult tale, but it is creepy. second thing is, jessie buckley is terrific. she always is. i ve never seen a film in which she s bad. roy kinnear playing all the different men does manage to inject each one with a different ambience, but y
while the risk remains low, more cases of monkeypox are expected to be detected worldwide, and countries are being asked to increase surveilance. shelley phelps, bbc news. now on bbc news. it s the film review with martine croxall. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you got for us this week, mark? a very exciting week. we have men, which is a horror inflected fairy tale. we have major, which is inspired by a true story of heroism. and bergman island can life and art ever be separated? men, the clip of this gives me the creeps so much that i don t think i could bring myself to watch it! and you say it s some kind of fantasy horror? yes. let me try and sell it to you. so it s by alex garland, who wrote and directed ex machina and annihilation. i think it s like a playfully twisted fairy tale about gender. jessie buckley is harper. she s come out of an abusive relationship. she decides to