you've onlyjust met me. written and directed by] blakeson, who made the viscerally—twisty three—hander, the disappearance of alice creed, i care a lot is carried by pike, who wears a smile that looks like it could strip wallpaper at a0 paces. no living family? no family at all. as for dinklage, he's very well—cast as the sotto—voce criminal who hates getting angry and who sucks a straw like a vampire sucking blood, a quality mirrored by his new nemesis. lensed in bubble gum hues that seem to reflect the artifice and plastic superficiality of this world, blakeson�*s film has a slick, vacuum—sealed sheen matched by a brittle synthpop soundtrack. as with alice creed, the genuinely disturbing elements of the opening act gradually give way to more generic heist—y thrills, with blakesson reveling in wrong—footing the audience, upending our sympathies and allegiances in a manner that recalls the wachowskis�* debut feature, bound. i don't lose. i won't lose. i'm never letting you go. ohh. you're in trouble now. the result is a nicely nasty black comedy, a roller coaster ride that swaps genuine moral dilemmas for something more disposable. picking you up, spinning you round, and leaving you feeling entertained — if a little bit empty. you can find it now on amazon prime video. now, it's hard to remember a movie being more badly—received than music. the directorial feature debut from popstar—turned—film—maker sia, which came to uk vod platforms this week. it centres on two half—sisters, kazoo and music — and yes, i'm sorry, those really are the characters names. she sees the world in a completely different way from us. kate hudson's kazoo, orjust zu for short, is a recovering alcoholic and drug dealer who is unexpectedly required to care for her younger sibling, music, a young woman with autism who'd previously been living with her gran. music is played by former dance mum's star, maddie ziegler, prompting charges of ableism from those who thought the role should have gone to a neurodiverse performer, and have also slammed the film's depiction of the dangerous physical restraint used to subdue its title character. music, it's yourfriend, ebo. sia's response to these criticisms was first aggressive and then apologetic. she's since conceded that she "listened to the wrong people" and announced that future editions of the film will come with a warning and some cuts. yet those alterations won't change the fact that this is trite nonsense that can best be described as woefully misjudged. we're about to have a pool party! robot voice: i am happy. swerving unevenly between cliched real life and day—glo coloured fantasy, music is a film that attempts to tell its internal story through the medium of modern dance and fails spectacularly. you can do this. from ziegler�*s gurning performance, which smacks of caricature, to a hudson's utterly unconvincing portrayal of a hardened alcoholic — yeah, right — to the inclusion of celebrity cameos from the likes ofjuliette lewis, henry rollins and sia herself. the whole thing has a whiff of a misguided vanity project. as for the dance numbers, they're totally awful — the kind of thing rowan atkinson would've come up with as his mime artist alter ego, alternative car park. the fact that music has been nominated for two golden globes just serves as a reminder that that dismal debacle is run by a bunch of unaccountable bozos who know nothing about film and whose votes are based entirely on the members�* desperate desire to hang out with famous people. # oo—oo—ooh, love you too... # this is the number we always play when people ask us to play more, because we know that after we play this if they couldn't possibly ever want to hear us again. now, when he's not being one half of bill and ted, alex winter has carved out in impressive directorial career, from the early—90s horror—comedy freaked to his latest outing, zappa, a documentary about the musical legend built upon a wealth of largely unseen personal archive material. i haven't heard anything like it before or since. frank embodied everything. you couldn't say, "oh, yeah, that's rock and roll, because it wasn't." it'sjazz — no, it's pop music — no, well, what the hell is it? it's zappa. describing his film as not a music dock or a conventional biopic but the dramatic saga of a great american artist and thinker, winter's passion project follows zappa's career from his days in the 60s with the mothers of invention to his later orchestral projects. it also covers his fight against music censorship in the �*80s, even though the discs under attack were not his own, and his strange political career, which saw him being invited to become the czech republic's special ambassador to the west on trade, culture and tourism — yes, really. it's time for a revolution. i've often said that the real test of a documentary is whether it makes you feel involved with a subject in which you had no previous interest. while the recent doc, king rocker had had the advantage of being about a musician i really like, namely rob lloyd. my affection for zappa's music is, at very best, passing. i mean, i enjoy the stuff he did with beefheart, but not much else. so it's a credit to winter that zappa had me gripped, taught me stuff i didn't know, and even convinced me to track down some of frank's classical compositions, not something i ever thought i do. i think if we shoot any lower than that, you're gonna wind up with something sleazy. making inventive use of graphics and animations to augment the interviews, concert footage, and home movie reportage, this is a thorough and thoroughly engaging account of a prolific artist. a film that william esquire would undoubtedly hail as excellent. you can find it at altitude film. from the glades of california's laurel canyon to the suburbs of rome with bad tales. despite the directors family name there's precious little innocence on display in this visually stylish yet morally dyspeptic tale that invites us to share its fashionably cynical worldview. narrated by a man writing in a young girl's diary, the story is declared to be inspired by a true story that was inspired by a false story that is not very inspired. a phrase which seems to provide its own review of the film. what follows is a collage of adult behaving badly while children imitate their behavior. parents acting like kids who act like bad parents in a dark suburban fairy tale. there's no doubt in the artistry of bad tales, which is evocatively shot to juxtapose the hot sun setting with the coldness of its depiction of humanity. but beyond being a queasy exercise in modern gothic grotesquery, i'm not sure that this has much to say, sharing the overheated bleakness of but lacking the coming—of—age empathy of, say, lynn ramsey. personally i found myself increasingly impatient with the films ever—so—slightly smug attitude, although others were much more impressed. you can find bad tales now on movie which is also currently home to a couple of delightful canadian oddities. war. a foreign menace emerges and the fate of our country hangs in the balance. our troops sprang into action. and we will not stop until the world... but could one man be destined to save our great nation? in matthew rankin�*s debut feature of the 20th century, the film—maker constructs a satirical account of one man's battle to fulfil his destiny and become the canadian prime minister, proudly flying the flag of national disappointment. a dizzying collage of absurdist set pieces that draw inspiration from everything from 0rwell to german expressionism, this is divertingly bonkers fare, a hallucinogenic medley of twisted history and celluloid madness with a hint of dolly parton and a smidgen of monty python. the brilliantly surreal docu—saga my winnipeg. one of my favourite films of the 21st century. maddens latest also a movie is stop the guesser, ——madden�*s latest also a movie is stump the guesser, a short co—directed from thejohnson brothers and boasting manning trademark lands of soviet cinema styles and deadpan satire. its subject is a carnival act who can guess anything from someone�*s age to how any fish they have secreted about their person. but when our antihero meets and falls for a woman who turns out to be his sister, he must disprove the theory of hereditay so that he may marry the love of his life. clearly madame�*s work is not for everyone but his films have consistently made me laugh, cry, and scratch my head in wonder and if you're looking for an entry into his bewildering back catalogue then this is just the ticket. that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review. stay safe and i'll see you next week. film review. stay safe and i'll see you next week-— film review. stay safe and i'll see ou next week. . hello. there are two sides to the weather stories this weekend. 0n the one hand, it is going to be very mild. 0n the other, some very heavy rain, particularly in the west, this chart shows the rainfall accumulation through the weekend. some parts of eastern england could stay completely dry, but out west, especially over the hills, a lot of rain piling up, that brings the risk of flooding, especially across the south of wales. the met office has issued an amber warning here through tonight and into tomorrow, the risk of flooding and travel disruption. this is the reason why — low pressure dominating the scene. this stripe of cloud, a very slow—moving weather front bringing pulses of heavy rain, very strong winds to the rest of the day. those are the gusts. we can expect 50 to 60mph gusts for some western coasts. and the temperatures as we end the day between 9 and 11 degrees. the wet weather keeps on coming through this evening and tonight especially across the southwest of england, the northwest of england and over high ground in southern wales. northern ireland and scotland, drying out for a time with some clear spells. a little bit chilly across northern scotland. generally speaking, it is a very mild night and a very mild start to tomorrow. but this slow—moving frontal system will still be wriggling around on saturday. bringing further pulses of very heavy rain in similar areas, really, the southwest of england up into wales, parts of northern england. rain returning for a time to northern ireland. it can be very wet here for a time and also pushing north across scotland. whereas east anglia and the southeast could well stay dry with some spells of sunshine. it is another windy day, especially once again for coasts in the west, but the winds coming up from the south bringing some mild air for all and if you do see some sunshine towards the southeast, you could be looking at highs of 16 celsius. 0ur weather front will still be with us for the second half of the weekend, but, if anything, it will edge a little further eastwards. there's some uncertainty about the front on sunday, but central, southern england into the midlands could see some rain at times. to the east of that front, it should stay dry with some sunshine. to the north and the west, a mix of sunshine and showers. another mild day and mild is the theme as we head into next week. perhaps briefly a bit cooler. we �*ll see some rain towards the north and the west, but temperatures could climb to 17 degrees. tonight at six: the duke and duchess of sussex are stripped of their patronages and honorary titles as they leave royal life for good. buckingham palace confirms that prince harry and meghan will not return as working members of the royal family. prince harry will lose all his military titles given to him by the queen, which one friend says will be a blow. i know that, personally, he will be gutted, in many regards, at certain things which he cares so much about, he will not be able to have such a direct involvement with any more, you know, like his titles within the military, for example. buckingham palace says everyone is "saddened" by their decision but the couple remain "much loved members of the family". also tonight: coronavirus infection rates keep falling across the uk — just over 550,000 people have the virus last week, according to the latest data.

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