Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, reminding you that while cinemas may be closed, there is still plenty of new movies to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home. The most mainstream release this week is the dig, A Bittersweet Real Life Drama about the unearthing of the sutton hoo treasures on the the eve of world war ii. What are they . Do you hazard a guess . Burials, men, id expect. We are standing in somebodys graveyard i reckon. Viking. Maybe older. Apparently local girls used to lie down on them in the hope of falling pregnant. Ive read plenty of legends. Ive heard plenty of legends. Is that why you want to dig, mrs pretty . Details of Buried Treasure . Ralph fiennes stars as basil brown, the self taught archaeologist who wears his immense learning lightly and who is enlisted by carrie mulligan s wealthy widow, edith pretty, to excavate the imposing Burial Mounds on her property. My interest in archaeology began like yours, edith tells the initia
hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week s releases, as you see, is mark kermode. hi again, mark. and what do you have for us this week? well, hopefully something for everyone. we have thor: love and thunder another superhero movie. we have a new version of persuasion coming to netflix. and brian and charles, a robot movie with a difference. i m intrigued about number three. good. but, anyway, we will start with thor. love and thunder, which is the sequel to thor: ragnarok, which i know that you did go and see. i did see that, although. you see, there we are. i had to be reminded that we d seen it, in a kind of why are we married? sort of way, because i didn t remember every detail of the film. which one is this? ok, so this is once again directed by taika waititi. so, the plot is driven by christian bale s gorr the god butcher, who is on a mission to butcher gods as his name would suggest. he must be stopped. mean
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here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re making a superhero movie, but we re making jokes about it, cos we re very, very clever! and also, if you re going to do the whole film as a kind of humorous gag, make the gags better than, oh, i need a catchphrase. what s my catchphrase? 0h, here s a catchphrase about a hammer, or a joke which basi
who was around a while ago and then went away. now she s come back. she s battling cancer, but she finds herself transformed into the mighty thor thanks to the reconstructed hammer, which was shattered, from which thor is now separated, and now he s confronted with his ex girlfriend and his ex hammer. here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re