Next on bbc news its the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases is mark kermode. 50, mark, what do we have this week . We have the dead dont die, it is a zombie movie but not a horror movie. So you are fine. 0k . We have stuber which is an action comedy. And the brink, a documentary about steve bannon. The dead dont die. Yes, it is a zombie movie but that is about the end of the horror. This is an ironic, kind of movie. This is byjim jarmusch. So we have two cops, adam driver and bill murray, who are driving around centerville which is a real nice place. Then they start to think Something Weird is happening, there are news stories about the world being knocked off its axis by polar fracking. Daylight ending when it shouldnt do. By the time they get to to the station, things are going severely wrong and the dead are coming back to life and walk on the earth, not to the delight of everybody. Guys. Shouldnt we be telling each other that its all going to be ok . Like this will all go away like a bad dream . Ronnie . Gee, wendy, im not sure i can say that. Cliff . Please . Its all going to be ok, wendy. Maybe itll alljust go away. Like a bad dream. I doubt it. You were laughing all the way through that clip. Who doesnt love bill murray . Theres a lot to be said for him. Individually, there are lots of funny and charming moments. You have a cast which includes steve buscemi, Tilda Swinton wielding a samurai sword, iggy pop is on the search of good coffee. If you are a fan ofjimjarmusch it often starts to feel like a greatest hits collection of quirks and jokes, there isnt anything you havent seen before. You might see it as a sister picture to only lovers left alive. The weirdest thing about it is that it takes a lot of tropes from george romeros zombie movies, particularly the dead trilogy. Which i know you watch on hard rotation. Each of which are about a specific thing, dawn of the dead is about consumerism. The sort of is seems to be saying, we are all consumers, and what we are looking for is wi fi, zombies Walking Around looking for wi fi. In passing, it is quirky and funny up to a point. There is also a fourth wall breaking device, there is a song by sturgill simpson, it is on the carved and bill murray says why do i know the song . And adam driver says it is the theme song. And also how do you know this is going to happen . Well, we have seen the script. There is a weird fourth wall breaking. You think it is handily going to do something really interesting and magical and itjust doesnt. Every now and then, it cuts back to tom waits who plays this sort of wild man and lives in the words and quotes henman melville. And does a lot of being tom waits with hair. Tom waits is that the only impression i can do. I wanted more. I think there are individual funny and quirky moments but itjust felt like yeah. It seems to me like youre saying it doesnt quite hold together. Like the zombies, it doesnt go anywhere itjust wibbles around and then falls over. Wibble i love that lets move to the second film, which i havent seen, but i like the premise. Kumail nanjiani and Dave Bautista in a comedy. I think Kumail Nanjiani is really funny, he is an assuming uber driver. Dave bautista is a Law Enforcement agent, who due to a complicated plot contrivance, there is a bad guy he has been trying to get for ages. He has a laser surgery, therefore he cant see. He knows where the bad guy will be. He has to get an uber driver to help him. So they are thrown together like a sort of odd couple buddy cop movie. I think Kumail Nanjianis always funny, he does get the maximum laughs. He isjust a driver driving an electric car. The problem is, it is not really enough for the film. Also they have a brilliant martial arts performer who is never really given the chance to shine. So in the end it comes down to whether you find Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista sparking off each other. Dave bautista plays the whole thing like a short sighted bear with a sore head, which is a joke that lasts around 15 20 minutes. Afterwards it starts to kind of. Again, a talent that i wanted more. I will confess that i did laugh four or five times and all of those laughs were because ijust find Kumail Nanjiani just funny. Number three is a documentary but this has a regular cinema release . Yes, documentaries are now a very important part of cinema. This is directed by alison klayman, it is a documentary about steve bannon. And what steve bannon did having gone out of the white house for complicated reasons and is now going around the world trying to drum up support for his populist nationalist movement. In doing so, we see him, inserting with a rogues gallery of people, people with links to far right groups, on the other hand, opportunist millionaires and nigel farage. If youre interested, what i like to do is set up something and ill fund it somehow and i think youre the perfect guy. We help knit together this populist nationalist movement throughout the world. Because guys in egypt are coming to me, the modi guys in india, duerte. Duterte. You know, and we get orban, and. We are somehow some sort of convening authority for conferences and stuff like that so we get ideas out. I mean, you think thats a worthwhile thing . Yeah. Nobodys got it, nobody is doing it right now. Its not being done. The reason that we are going to beat corbyn and sanders is theyre not prepared to take on any powers that be. Were fire breathers, i mean, were taking on the establishment every day. Youve taken on at the tory party, im taking on the republican party. They dont have that. And thats why we can steal a march on them. And the reason they dont want to do it its immigration. As long as they dont take on. Theyjust refuse to take on immigration, were prepared to take it on. Yes. Its a global revolt. Were fire breathers and were taking this on. The thing is, the documentary doesnt interrogate them at all, it is a fly on the wall documentary. It is like spending time in his mind. The film maker had very good access. Yeah, great access. In a way, it is left to journalists who we see actually challenging bannon. Great interventions from paul of the guardian and others who do actively challenge him, talking about charlottesville, affiliations to people who are appallingly racist and have extremist views. Those sections remind you the importance of good journalism, ofjournalists who are willing to raise the hard questions, willing to integrate and ask things that are difficult. Do you really need to be interested in the minutiae of us politics to enjoy it as a film . Enjoy is a strange word because i found it very hard company to be in. I respect the film makers decision to literally stand back and let people have their say. Give them enough rope, let them say what they want. Obviously, there are moments in the documentary which do cause an intake of breath in which people say things which are quite outrageous but the documentary is very keen to just stand back and say, judge it yourself. Which i did. Anyone who follows you on twitter can imagine how you judged it. Lets talk about best of the week. Well, this film, which is out in cinemas, and its not a really wide release, but its never look away and its a film by Florian Henckel von donnersmarck, who made lives of others. I think it is a very smart film. It is inspired by, but not based on, the life of gerhard richter. The artist. Yeah, the artist. Its a film about ways of seeing, that is kind of talking about quite complicated artistic ideas but wrapped up in a melodramas that goes through various sections of history from the war and then from fascism to communism to the west and what is interesting about it, on the one hand, its a very mainstream and very accessible film of a love story and a mystery. On the other hand, it is a film which look at that title, never look away is asking about the ways in which artists can look at things by kind of looking at them from the side. Sometimes you can only look at something by looking away. Its three hours long. Yeah. But it flew by. Ok, thats good. Im terrible with long films but i thought it absolutely flew by. All right. And dvd . Yes, this is a very brief theatrical release, but armstrong, the documentary about Neil Armstrong is coming out on dvd next week. We are at the anniversary of the moon landings, we have seen a lot of films about it it was apollo 11 just recently and first man, the feature film, not long before that. But the fact of the matter is that it is such an astonishing story. This documentary concentrates much more about his life story so before and after the mission. Armstrong, but i am just did addicted to this. Its all very fascinating, isnt it . Thats just the thing. Every single time, i am astonished at what was achieved when people work together, what you can actually do. At the centre of it is this very, very enigmatic character who was never very emotional in public but did something extraordinary. Fantastic. Thank you very much. See you next week. Enjoy your cinema going. Bye bye. The first half of the weekend dry and fine but some hefty show is around the eastern side of scotland, the pennines, midlands, east anglia and south east england. High pressure easing the showers. If few going across south east england and east anglia. Good spells of sunshine for most of us at the chance of rain over Northern England and wales and maybe one or two across south west england. The south coast, some breeze. Finally dry conditions for the cricket world cup at lourdes in london. A lot of cloud around through the morning but increasing of sunshine, gentle north easterly breeze. Similar conditions for wimbledon as well. A fine and today from mice. Late spells of sunshine. In creasing cloud overnight across northern and eastern scotland, eastern england. The odd patch of drizzle but mostly dry. Lows between eight and i3 celsius overnight. The area of High Pressure still with us. We will all see some warm spells of sunshine through the day. Fairly light winds. Changing wind direction so along the eastern coasts. As a going into tuesday, were still on to that area of High Pressure but this frontal system starting to make inroads and likely to produce showers on tuesday across northern ireland, western scotland. Some of those becoming heavier. Working their way further north and east. Much of england and wales, mainly dry with good spells of warm sunshine. 2a, 25 may be 26 celsius for east anglia and south east england. Middle part of the week, england and Wales Holding onto the area of High Pressure but the frontal system continuing to push its way eastwards introducing more cloud, showery outbreaks of rain and by thursday things will turn more unsettled. This is bbc news. Im duncan golestani. Our top stories storm barry weakens as it strikes land but the danger for americas gulf coast is not over. We are out of the eye, but we are not out of the conditions that will cause heavy rainfall for the city of new orleans. 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