i m jane hill. and taking us through this week s cinema releases is jason solomons. good to see you, jason. what have you been watching? well, this week we ve got everything elvis, we ve got beckett, we ve got wham! talk about absurd. we ll start with baz luhrmann s long awaited biopic of the king elvis and the man who discovered him, colonel tom parker, played by tom hanks. and then we go to france for, literally, a prison drama a drama being made in a prison where inmates put on samuel beckett s waiting for godot. they do have time on their hands, after all. and then i will not let you down it s george michael freedom uncut. will it be any good? you ve got to have faith, jane. excellent. plenty more puns where they came from. let s start with elvis. i mean, i love a lot of baz luhrmann s work. so tell me, what s it like? yeah, this is the man who made strictly ballroom, moulin rouge, the great gatsby. he s got this typically frenetic style, and here he is taking on th
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that s it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. hello and a very warm welcome to this week s film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week s cinema releases we have, as ever, mark kermode. mark, what delights have you been sampling this week? a very mixed bag this week. we have good luck to you, leo grande, starring emma thompson. we have the new francois ozon film, everything went fine. and lightyear, the ultimate origin story, apparently. good luck to you, leo grande, this had a lot of advance publicity because emma thompson has been talking about body image in the media a lot. yes. there has been a lot of press about it. she stars as a widowed former religious studies teacher who s only intimate encounter in her whole life has been her husband and apparently very mundane and vanilla. she s now single, widowed. and she s decided she wants to find out what all the fuss is about. she makes a list of stuff that she wants to do and being practical to the point