Is. We know this stuff. If you live a Healthy Lifestyle you are less likely to get ill. It is hard to make a new habit. Bad habits are easy. We dont mind walking on a treadmill or watching while watching this. That is it. Thank you very much. Coming up next its the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases we have mark kermode. What do we have, mark . This is a very, very mixed week. We have graduation, which is a low key and intense drama. We have ghost in the shell, controversial live action adaptation of a famous manga and anime. And free fire, the new film from ben wheatley. Ben wheatley, we are both fans of ben wheatley. So, graduation. Graduation is from cristian mungiu, the romanian director of 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, which you remember we reviewed here on the programme some time ago. This is another low key and very intense drama. The story is a doctor, his daughter is on her way to school, is attacked, she gets a broken wrist and the doctor is just simply worried it will affect her exams. He is desperate for her to get great exam grades because he wants to be able to go and study in britain. He is convinced that she needs to get away because the place they live is not somewhere that he wants his daughter to grow up. All he can focus on is this desire for her to get good exam grades. As a result of it, he gets drawn into a web of duplicity and corruption. That somebody knows somebody who could perhaps ensure the exam grades are ok, but only in return for a favour for a deputy mayor who needs to be moved up in his wait for a transplant. The daughter, understandably, is not pleased about the idea of essentially cheating. Here is a clip. It is, and you see from that, single shot, basically one shot per scene. What i love about this is its a Perfect Blend of the personal and the political. On one hand, its a story about a father and a daughter, on the other hand its a story that social corruption is everywhere. Every conversation is, ooh, that buildings being going on for ages, yes it will be a backroom deal, well, isnt everything . Its a film in which the personalities of the characters completely draw you in, and you believe in their personal stories, but you also understand it is telling a wider story, about what it means to grow up in a society in which everything seems to be sort of slightly on the wrong side of completely honest. As is so brilliant with this director, what he manages to do is get to that point across, but never sounds hectoring, you never feel like what youre watching is a political statement. What you feel youre watching is a really intense drama in which the doctor, for example, hes concerned about his daughter, but has a mistress. At one point he says to his wife, Everyone Cheats in theirfinal exams. She says, i didnt. And he says, but look where it got you. Its an interesting film about guilt and complicity. Some people have compared him to michael haneke, havent they . Because lots of bad things are happening under the surface of the superficially normal society. Although i think, personally, i think theres a lot more tenderness, a lot more humanity in whats happening here. Hanekes films are terrific, but very harsh, very sharp, sometimes accusatory, i think. Ghost in the shell. Yes, 0k. Live action adaptation of a celebrated manga, a 1995 anime, which people revere for very good reasons. Scarlettjohansson is major, a human ghost in a cyber shell in the future. Shes a person, shes a robot, shes a weapon. That film has become the cause of some controversy about whitewashing, that scarlettjohansson was cast in this role. It has to be said, the director of the 95 anime has said, and i quote, there is no basis for saying that an asian actor must portray that character. It is a controversy that has dogged the film, to some extent. Like the plot of the film itself, you can look at this and think, its a soul of one thing transplanted into a shell which is slightly artificial and slightly more glossy. However, i was strangely impressed by it. I went in with fairly low expectations. I thought it looked terrific. I think it does a very good job of evoking the future world. People have talked about it looking like blade runner, it looks more like the fifth element, oddly enough. A very cluttered future. I was never bored. I found that yes it changed and simplified the narrative to some extent, and loses some of the melancholy and depth of its predecessors, but as a piece of multiplex entertainment, it was better than i expected it to be by quite some distance. Free fire. Ok, so. The new film by ben wheatley. Im a huge fan of ben wheatley. The story is in boston in the 19705 there is an arms deal going down between a group of people, all of whom are variously incompetent. The whole thing looks very volatile and looks like at any moment it could fall apart appallingly, and of course it does. Heres a clip. Try not to hit any of the metal work, because i dont want to get any of those bling burns on my new. Suit. Sorry, what was that . This is from saville. I dont know about you guys, but i for one think verns merchandise is a real gas. My guess is youre whatever youre paid to be, pal. Do you see what you did here . Gunfire. Good. 0k. Ill overlook it this time. Laughter. Is there a lot of that . There is. What i really like about it is this, on the one hand its a tense drama about a bunch of people in a warehouse, all of whom are armed and all whom are fighting each other in various different ways. However, it also has a kind of screwball comedy element. The best way of describing it, its like a silent movie, slapstick sensibility, but with a soundtrack which reminds you of those loony tunes cartoons, that is really, really brilliantly put together. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. Its tense, but also very, very comic. Its also very nihilistic. The idea is that all of these people are variously untrustworthy and incompetent. Theyre all laughed at, from their ridiculous quotes and their foolish mannerisms. Vernon keeps saying watch and vern, watch and vern. What i liked about it, i think what ben wheatley and his Film Making Partner Amyjump managed to do is make it a cross genre film, which they always do. 0k, yes, its a thriller, but also a comedy, but its a very nihilistic comedy. Its a comedy about the fact that if you take. People have compared it to, they say its like the last movement of reservoir dogs stretched out. Its not. Its like that sequence in naked gun 21 2, when theres the close range gunfight, with two people hiding behind the same dustbin, but its like that that, stretched over 90 minutes. It has an absurd edge to it. It passes the six laughs test in the first ten minutes. Its passed the six laughs test in the last two minutes. You were laughing all the way through. Im laughing at you talking about it. 0k, fine, so its me youre laughing at but cillian murphy, brie larson, sharlto copley, armie hammer, a really terrific cast, and every single one of them clearly rising to the challenge of this, thinking its a great script. Its beautifully mapped out. I know nobody ever comes out of the cinema and says this, but the editing is amazing. Laughter. I think you sold that quite well. Good the best of the week is get out. This is out in cinemas at the moment. Have you seen this yet . No, i havent see it yet. Ok, you really should. Its described by its director as a social thriller, and its very much influenced by rosemarys ba by and the stepford wives. But it also alludes to other Horror Movies like red state and green room and films like Tales From The Hood and to sleep with anger. Its a sort of horrifying satire about racism in post racial america, about liberal, rich white people, with this broiling undercurrent of racism. I saw it in a packed cinema and it really played to the crowd. Its done terrifically well and i think its great. Briefly, edge of 17 is your dvd. A coming of age drama that appears to be written and directed by someone who likes the protagonist. Its smart, funny, intelligent and terrific performances from Hailee Steinfeld and woody harrelson. And Kelly Fremon Craig who wrote and directed it, i think, has done a terrificjob. I thought it was really touching, very tender and very funny. Since this is our last film review and i am on holiday from tomorrow, im taking it with me. Very good, you will enjoy it, youll enjoy it, but you have to go and see free fire at the weekend. I will do. Thanks very much. A quick reminder before we go that youll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc. Co. Uk markkermode. And you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. Thats it for this week. Thanks for watching, enjoy the movies. Goodbye. Dealing. If youre just after that and wondering what is installed for this week aheads weather, coming up shortly, i will let you know. It today, it was a glorious day. Lots of sunshine across both the top and the tail of the country. In store. Blue sky in london. Lots of warmth as well with 17 degrees. That is 63 fahrenheit. 0ur week ahead will stay with the dry weather. A bit fresher than it has been of late, but with those clearer skies can we can see some chilly nose to come as well. So, for tomorrow, High Pressure seats. Weather fronts will push on and bring outbreaks of cloud, wind and rain, from the west. It does look as though we continue with Monday Morning on a misty, murky note first thing. That will lift away entities and spells of sunshine. The cloudy and showery spells are more continued. That means a wet story for Western Scotla nd means a wet story for Western Scotland and a few showers into the northern and western isles. It has colleges stabilise the dry. 11 degrees in the afternoon. Outbreaks of cherie rain in northern ireland, and that will push its Weight Eastwards into wales, as well. Central and eastern areas should keep the sunshine. A little bit of warmth with 17 or 18 degrees nine out of the question again for london. As we move out of monday afternoon, those fronts will gradually push their way is words. They will bring more cloud through the night, but they are not good to bring that much anyway of ram. Light patchy rain into the south east corner, behind it clearer skies to come. A scattering of showers into the north and west. The winds will strengthen on tuesday. Generally speaking, we will keep the dry sunny weather. Just a little bit of showery, drizzly rain continues on the kent coast. Highs of ten to 15 degrees. As we move out of tuesday and wednesday, we still see High Pressure weathers. Still a the story for much of the week. Slightly stronger wind up into the far north. The highs of a squeeze together and it is coming from a north westerly direction. A fresher feel in scotland, i suspect. Direction. A fresher feel in scotland, isuspect. But direction. A fresher feel in scotland, i suspect. But a deal of dry weather in the story if you have no gas. Temperatures around 11 or 13 degrees. That strength of the went to the north mightjust take the edge. But the to the first week will have decent sunshine in the offing. 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