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
Good morning. It is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. For many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its tuesday 21st may. Rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the Infected Blood Scandal. Details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. Its been described as the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Yesterday a Public Inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Cheering and applause. A moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. Sir Brian Langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the Infected Blood Scandal. Outside, some of them reflected
as we ve been hearing, a review has concluded the release of personal information by police investigating nicola bulley s disappearance was avoidable and unnecessary. the mum of two went missing in lancashire, prompting a huge search before her body was eventually found in the river wyre. lancashire police was criticised for revealing she had been struggling with the menopause and alcohol issues. live now to zoe billingham who previously served as his majesty s inspector of constabulary. iam i am interested for your reaction to these findings. thoughts first of all to the family of nicola bulley. this report is quite right. i remember the news that the police were releasing personal information about someone who had been missing for a number of weeks, stopped us in our tracks, and it s caused lots of women in particular to question whether such deeply personal information relating to perhaps someone s mental health, the fact that they were going through menopause, what on ear