so on the one hand, you ve got the court case, then you have the flashbacks to her life, her childhood abusive father, abandoned by her mother relationship with two boys, both of whom let her down. two young men, i should say. the book was a huge hit. the film s credentials are impeccable. and yet, and i hate to say this, it all felt very lukewarm. now, i haven t read the book, so i don t know how somebody who had read the book would feel about it. i know that whenever a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, it s very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here t
good to have you on, really high. thank you both, always good to have you on, aubrey - really high. thank you both, always good to have you on, aubrey and i good to have you on, aubrey and jerry. thank you for watching. the film review is next. goodbye. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week s releases is, as you see, mark kermode. hi, mark. hi. what have you been watching? well, as always, a very mixed bag. we have where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of a very popular novel. we have she will, which is the feature debut from charlotte colbert. and kurt vonnegut: unstuck in time, a documentary about the american writer. good old mixture there, yes. yes. so, where the crawdads sing, which is an adaptation of the deep south novel which became a publishing sensation millions and millions of copies sold. this is adapted by lucy alibar, who is best known for beasts of the southern wild. one of the producers is r
what in the world has happened to johnny depp? i don t know alcohol probably drugs bad divorce case, you know, it s a i worry about him ben. you know that his he s hit a hit apart, but he keeps acting and keeps going but i m not in regular touch with him anymore, but he s how well i know him very well. you write a book with him. no, are we edited a book on witty guthrie together? we found a long lost manuscript of woody guthrie. and we called the house of earth. and it was a bit of a literary find and actually i found it, but we were trying to get money for the guthrie s music for kids for after school music programs. so johnny s involvement with it allowed my publisher harper collins to put some money into it and went to this school fund and the bookcare number 10 on the best seller list of for fiction in the new york times when he got through he s been dead forever. so it had a little bit of a nice run. i wrote a cover story of depth for vanity fair where i m attributing ed
conversation which focuses on actor johnny depp, stuntman evil can, and vice president, kamala harris. what s in the world has happened to johnny depp? i don t know. alcohol, probably. drugs, a bed divorce case. you know. i worry about him. he has hit a he keeps acting and keeps going. i m not in regular touch with him anymore. how well did you know him? i know him very well. i spoke to him. no, we edited a book on woody gum free together. we found a long lost manuscript of woody gun three. we called it the house of earth. it was a bit of a literary find. i actually found it. but we are trying to get money for the music for kids for after school music programs. johnny s involvement with it allowed my publisher, harper collins, to put some money into it and it went to the school fund. the book came number 10 on the backs seller list on the new york times, when he has been dead for ever. it had a little bit of a nice run. i wrote a cover story of depp for vanity f