Feel of the trenches at a safe distance war on the Silver Screen whether patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies shaped our ideas about war they tell stories of heroism. And trauma wheelchairs. But where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. Most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. Our experience of battle comes from the movies. War has fascinated filmmakers from the start of. Battle scenes push the technical limits of movie make. Over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent. Left. But they show us what war is really like sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran i didnt think it caller who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audie
Good morning. It will be another dry and sunny day for the vast majority of the uk. A little warmer for many of the uk. A little warmer for many of us than yesterday but windier as well. But there are changes afoot, as the day progresses, particularly in the west. I will have more detail for you in around a quarter of an hour. Good morning. Its saturday the 21st of september. Our top story thomas cook has asked the government for financial help as it races against time to avoid collapse. Britains oldest package holiday firm could fall into administration this weekend, unless it finds £200 million to secure a rescue deal. Katie prescott has more. It is low season for thomas cook in more ways than one. The weak pound makes it more expensive it to buy the flights and hotels that it pays for in euros dollars. It is in a competitive market where profits are small and it has hundreds of shops and 22,000 staff. Now heading into the winter period. If we book a holiday with thomas cook, we wil
Theyre going to come for you, you know. I know. I dont care any more. I need to get back now, do what i can. Good luck. So, yes, a man on a mission. A man on the mission, he goes to the moon which has been colonised by this time. It is set somewhere in the near future and it has been colonised. It looks like the wild west in a shopping centre, a bit like westfields, stratford. Then he goes to mars and neptune, he goes to jupiter. It is a long search then . It is quite long. I have to say in the hands of this american directorjames gray i think hes a rather pretentious film maker this is a bit of a space drag. There are people who are saying it is very philosophical and an existential search for meaning, and there are parallels of father and son and maybe god the creator, i do didnt read that in there. I had plenty of time to think this is rather silly, to be honest. And i love brad pitt, i quite like space movies when they are philosophical, 2001, solaris, for example. This one had som
Hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases is jason solomons. So, jason, what do we have this week . Brad pitt dons a spacesuit and shoots for the stars in ad astra. 80s action hero Sylvester Stallone sharpens up his act to release rambo last blood. And a family gathers in china to say goodbye to grandma in the farewell. Lets start with brad pitt in space. Thats right, brad in space. Hes so hot right now in this post tarantino glow from once upon a time in hollywood. This is a very different performance from him, a much more buttoned down performance. In this film, its officially proven that brad pitt is the coolest man in the world. He has a psych evalfrom nasa, who decide his heartbeat does not go over 80 revs per minute, beats per minute . Beats per minute. Beats per minute, bpms, a record. He is officially and scientifically proven to be as cool as anything, so that means he doesnt get very excited in this. He breathes the narra
Fa ct, breezy too, but with some rain. In fact, there are some thundery showers around as well this morning. More detail in around 15 minutes. Its sunday 22 september. Our top story, after the first day of its Party Conference was dominated by infighting, labour will try to move the agenda back to policy today. If the party wins the next general election, it promises to abolish nhs prescription charges in england and replace ofsted with a new School Inspection system. Deputy leader tom watson is calling for unity after he survived a plot by some members to remove him. Heres our Political Correspondent iain watson. Jeremy corbyn is given a rousing reception last night at the opening rally of the labour conference. This is the kind of support he wanted to see, close to a snap election. But elsewhere, unity was fragile and beginning to shatter. First of all, Jeremy Corbyn had to stop an attempt by some of his usual allies to oust his deputy, tom watson, who thought that he hadnt been loya