director laszlo nimitz in sunset. let's start with ma. as in mum or mother. one of the teenagers calls octavia spencer's figure ma. a slight racial overtone in this, and the film—makers have brought us get out and us. they have been gradually turning the horror genre on its head with the racial elements in there, and that is to the fore here. octavia spencer, who won the oscar for her supporting actress role in the help, that director that she re—teams here for a film that has very good credentials. juliette lewis stars in it. alisonjanney also stars in it. small roles, it's about octavia spencer, really, who plays a woman who agrees to buy some teenagers some alcohol because in the us they can't do it, so adults have to do it for them, provided they come back to hers and party in her basement. they do that, but then she gets a bit needy and they think we shouldn't do that and find another venue, leaving octavia spencer's ma feeling put out ofjoint and turning a little bit stalkery, as we can see in this clip. phone repeatedly chimes. hey, this is ma. i got a new number. just picking up a few things. don't make me drink alone. and i don't want to hear any of this "i have homework" crap. don't make me drink alone. # don't make me drink alone... are you guys mad at me for something? i mean, i risked myjob so that you could have fun, and we definitely did. the least you could do is say thank you. don't keep your phone by your bed. that's the first thing. it's not good energy. you will not get good sleep. it is terrible for you. it spirals and gets a lot worse. things get really strange between the teenagers and ma. it's a good idea, octavia spencer is great at this. people have talked about kathy bates in misery. it's that kind of role. or carrie, where something happened in her past and why she's wreaking some alcoholic revenge on these particular teenagers. so it's quite a clever little film, but it doesn't really reach get out or us levels, much bigger films than little horror films. this one has a old—fashioned 80's slasher movie vibe to it. that isn't quite scary enough to carry it through. is it aimed at teenagers? i would think so. don't drink, teenagers. certainly don't drink with ma. heaven forbid. what have we got next? i think it's godzilla. is it anything like the films that i saw? or the tv series. they were invented in tokyo in 1954 as a response to the nuclear threats. releasing these titans, these dinosaurs. do you remember the chewits adverts? with the big monster? they said it is a long shot but it mayjust work and give to him. occupied him. the dialogue isn't much better in this then it was in those adverts of the ‘70s. but the titans have been unleashed again because of a nuclear threat. charles dance plays an ecoterrorist. he wants to pit the titans against each other. with these, you want to wait till the monsters clash. you don't really care about the humans, even if they are played by vera farmiga or sally hawkins. if you remember from the shape of water, she is good with monsters and can even tap dance with them. she doesn't bother with that here. you really want the monsters to fight each other. what will godzilla do? will he beat mothra? will he get slammed down by rodan? what i am waiting for is godzilla versus king kong. that is coming. it has to. that is the clash we are all waiting for. that's the big purse. is there enough of the monsters in this? sometimes, in the new godzilla movies, the monsters are so big. it's full of actors going like this... and you never get to see the full scale. in this one, you get to see the cgi monsters taking on each other at boston's fenway park. i have enjoyed a baseball game there. the dinosaurs were not appearing that night. sunset is next. a hungarian film. from oscar—winning director laszlo nemes. gave us one of the greatest holocaust films, son of saul. he is back with a film called sunset, easily the film of the week. terrific. but it is very confusing. it stars a woman played by a newcomer, a woman called irisz. we see things through her eyes and watch her face almost continuously. she arrives in budapest in 1913, a flowering, great society full of inventions and industry, she wants to work in a hat shop that used to belong to her parents. it doesn't any more and she thinks herfamily has been wiped out, but somebody says your brother is living here. but he's gone to seed, he's gone bad, he's an anarchist, and she wants to investigate and find out more. very tense. is it in the style that this director usually does? it's like he did in son of saul. he does that here. long snaking travelling shots. literally, like i wanted to be gawking at godzilla. i was gawking at the audacity of this movie. i can't believe he is still doing the same shot. a horse will pull out of the blue and peasants will come with flaming torches and coachmen will come all snaggly toothed. aristocrats will be randomly assassinated while in the same shot and you are like, "what is going on?" the point is you don't know what is going on. it is about the collapse of the austro—hungarian empire and about europe now and how that could come to the fore. at the height of intellectual sophistication, how does it turn bad and how do we turn on ourselves? why do we destroy our own societies? that's what this is asking. it does it brilliantly. great performance from the lead. she's in every shot. we are seeing it through her eyes. extraordinary. for best out, you have chosen rocketman. taron egerton and in his platforms. bursting through every door in a big outfit playing eltonjohn. in a biopic that really isn't a biopic. it is sort of about eltonjohn and his friendship with bernie taupin. it is fabulous. it is a neorealist musical. it uses the songs we know so well. and they reappropriate those lyrics, breathing new life into songs you thought you knew so well. elton grows up with his mum and his dad. it also goes very dark and very deep into elton‘s past drug use and drug addiction and homosexuality. a very bold film in the way bohemian rhapsody wasn't bold, it was bright and good and fun, but this one is stronger and bolder. not a family, musical it is broken. eltonjohn said he didn't want a sanitized version of his life. i don't think he has lived a sanitized life. he is proud of the fact that he is still standing, as the song goes. i can't get it out of my head. he is still standing and he lives to tell the tale, a brilliant tale. if you remember the songs the first time around orjust heard them and wondered what they were about, this really adds another layer to the rocketman and to eltonjohn himself and his legacy as a musician and the lyrics by bernie taupin are terrific poetry. best to stream. the blue angel. the name of the club. where marlene dietrich made her breakthrough. in her tights and stockings. it brings down a respectable school professor, played by the brilliant emiljennings. ruins his life because he is from head to toe in out of made love. like the german song. i can do it in german. very good. falling in love again. university of modern languages. idid. i have looked you up. a lot of people will not have seen this film ever, will they? but they will have seen cabaret. in that club. it is very much that atmosphere. about backstage. a weimar republic film. it is about that decadence that led to nazism. it is also just sexy and very funny and brilliantly performed. she sang the song all the way into the ‘90s through decades during the cabaret show. all over the world. iconic piece of cinema and you can see it at home. you can see in a few cinemas. you can see it on bfi player. my streaming choice for the weekend. an erotic masterpiece. i have to say thank you. nice to see you. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello again. we have had some big weather contrasts across the uk during the day today. it was the far north of england, scotland and northern ireland that had the thickest cloud and outbreaks of rain but particularly wet in western scotland today. you can see how that rain has been pretty slow moving and is beginning to push its way eastwards now. into the south of this, although they started off rather cloudy, that cloud broke up through the afternoon, so across much of england and wales, the skies did get much brighter later in the day. for example, over in wales. for england and wales, we keep those clear skies overnight as well. a few exceptions, cloud thick enough for and odd spot across the northwest of wales overnight and perhaps over the hills and coasts of northwest england. clearing away from scotland and northern ireland and a few patches over towards the west coast of scotland as we head through the end of the night. mild night, 9—13 degrees the overnight lows and then for the weekend, mixed weather fortunes again, really. quite cloudy and humid across the north and west of the uk with outbreaks of rain for the second half of the weekend, so saturday definitely the better of the two days. further south, some warm if not hot spells of sunshine and feeling quite humid on saturday. sunday, start to see some rain moving in from the west, but perhaps not reaching east anglia and southeast england until evening time. saturday's forecast then. got a front heading in bringing a bit of patchy rain to north wales and northwest england, but will not last too long before some brighter weather, too. scotland and northern ireland, not as much rain around. but it will stay rather cloudy and temperatures for many into the high teens, but the sunshine across eastern wales and across the bulk of england, becoming warm if not hot with temperatures up to 28 celsius across london and the south east. for sunday, low pressure in charge and this area of rain is a cold front that pushes its way in. outbreaks of rain for many, areas of the rain not really reaching east anglia and southeast england until evening time, so here staying dry, sunny and warm with the temperatures into the mid—20s. otherwise, brisk westerly winds pick up and we will be going into some fresher air. temperatures not too low, highs between 17 and 20 for many areas on sunday. looking into next week's weather, not looking too great, really, some spells of rain around at times. that's your latest weather. bye for now. this is bbc world news today. our top stories. mexico's foreign minister is on the way to washington for talks after president trump threatened trade tariffs of mexico does not stop the flow of migrants. we have seen a massive influx and they have the ability and legal authority in which to deal with it and we are simply asking them to do that stop by british retail tycoons say they are strenuously denying misdemeanor assault in the us. scientist hail a new hope for preventing malaria and it is all down to a fungus that has been genetically modified. excitement and madrid as liverpool

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