virgin and knocked up. what is that date? oh, that's the date my dad died. oh, my god, your dad died? i'm so sorry. don't be, it's fine. it's totally cool. so, what happened? ok, you don't need to ask that... it's kind of inappropriate. he was a fireman. so, he died in a fire. oh, my god! no. yeah, we knew, we don't like to talk about it, that's why we don't bring it up. davidson plays scott carlin, a 20—something wastrel who still lives with his widowed mother and spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of opening a tattoo restaurant, a fusion which everyone tells him is a very bad idea. i am being real. it's never been done before! i looked it up. while his younger sister heads to college, scott lounges around at home until mum, winningly played by marisa tomei, starts dating a firefighter. i mean, are you flirting with me? yeah. yeah? yeah, a lot. this pushes scott's buttons because his beloved father was himself a fireman saving the lives of others but losing his own life in the process, leaving his son bewildered and becalmed. can scott make peace with his past and allow his mother to build a new future or will he simply spiral into self—destruction? having lost his own father, a new york city fireman in 9/11, davidson brings a poignantly autobiographical edge to the king of staten island, nowhere more so than in a central scene where scott delivers an angrily impassioned rant about the pain of loved ones left behind when first responders make the ultimate sacrifice. it's a scene of remarkable honesty and candour. outrageous, perhaps, but also inflected with the unmistakable spark of personal truth. why do we have to clean this thing anyway? it'sjust going to get fire on it. elsewhere, it's much more business as usual with apatow bringing his familiar loose limbed approach to the proceedings allowing the drama to ramble and shamble its way between the touching, the amusing, and the occasionally indulgent. no, no, this is my favourite. oh, you killed that. yeah, i really worked hard on the eyes. there are engaging supporting performances, most notably from steve buscemi as the fire house stalwart who teaches us some home truths, and davidson retains the damaged anarchic charm which has served him so well on saturday night live. when am i going to get my break? like... at two and a quarter hours, the king of staten island is half an hour longer than it needs to be, but it still manages to touch a nerve. it's available in digital platforms now. black gi. is it fair to serve more than the white americans that sent you here? nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die without the faintest idea of what's going on. # the time has come today... last year spike lee won his first competitive oscar as co—writer of blachklansmen, the stranger than fiction tale of an african—american american cop infiltrating the ku klux klan in the early ‘705. for his new movie da 5 bloods, which boasts an all—star cast including delroy lindo, clarke peters, and chadwick boseman, lee follows four ageing vietnam vets who return to the country in which they fought the american war. he hit me upside the head and sk—bop! just like in '68. yeah, brother man. we're back. nominally, they've come to recover the remains of a fallen comrade lost in battle. but they're also on the trail of gold, a stash of which they buried here all those years ago and now hope to retrieve. as always, lee strikes a prescient political note — opening with news footage of muhammad ali and malcolm x and tracing a hidden history of oppression from slavery, to soldiering and onto the current unrest, reminding us that the divide and rule politics of the past are still in play today. bloods! this is all vintage lee. what's less assured is the way the da 5 bloods mutates into a three kings—style adventure which finds our ageing anti—heroes getting chased, shot at, and blown up in thejungles of modern—day vietnam — selling their souls for gold like the fortune seekers in treasure of the sierra madre. such tonal shifts are of course nothing new to lee. his most provocative works combined tragedy and comedy, history and fiction, and alienation and immersion to powerful effect. but while the changing moods of blachklansman seemed bold and audacious, there's something rather more mechanical about the warring elements of da 5 bloods which appear bolted together rather than alchemically bonded. isee... ghosts. compare this to the hughes brothers' still under—appreciated 1995 masterpiece dead presidents which for my money painted a more vivid picture of the toxic legacy of vietnam while shifting effortlessly from coming—of—age story to war—is—hell drama, to heist thriller before climaxing in a cry of raw political outrage that seems even more relevant today. # what's going on... on the plus side, the ensemble cast are terrific and lee's ear for music remains as sharp as ever from terence blanchard's rich score interspersed with bursts of marvin gaye's what's going on, sometimes erupting as a group sing—along, also resurfacing as a plaintiff solo voice. da 5 bloods is on netflix now. if you're looking for something more family—friendly, then disney's artemis fowl aims to fill a harry potter—sized hole in the movie market. you never told me how to start. sir kenneth branagh, who played gilderoy lockhart in chamber of secrets, directs this adaptation of eoin colfer‘s source which the author memorably described as "die hard with fairies". although personally i prefer the phrase "wizard: impossible". this isn't about the father. this is about the son. artemis fowl. ferdia shaw, grandson of robert, is the 12—year—old mastermind who must search for his missing father played by colin farrell in a world where magical creatures are real and deployed with military precision. taking inspiration from the roller coaster rides of old saturday morning serials, branagh keeps things moving along briskly flipping nimbly between worlds real and imagined via a series of hidden layers, jet powered portals, high—tech flying machines, and action—packed punch ups. the result feels like an unlikely mash—up of bond and the book of kells, a marriage that isn't always successful despite the enjoyable efforts of damejudi dench and josh gad. for all its pyrotechnical pizazz, there is little here that achieves the classic status of numerous texts of which artemis fowl doffs its derivative cap. best to take it as a bit of fluffy fun, an escapist distraction in difficult times, made all the more palatable by its trim 95—minute running time. welcome, madame curie. i do not know why i am here. you're here because the panel would like to consider you for professor curie‘s position at the university. you wish to give me pierre's seat? we don't want to give you anything. altogether more serious although no less odd is radioactive which was due to open in uk cinemas in march just as lockdown began and now comes to video on demand for monday. adapted by persepolis creator marjane satrapi from the graphic novel by lauren redniss, subtitled a tale of love and fallout, radioactive tells the story of marie curie played with fearsome conviction by rosamund pike. did you get all the acclamation you felt you deserved? in pike's hands, the french—polish scientist who became the first woman to win a nobel prize and the first person to win it twice is a force of nature, a brilliant thinker battling with a chauvinist establishment that considers her as unstable as the elements to which she dedicated her life. will you please give me my x—ray machines and ambulances? sam riley is pierre curie, the partner in whose shadow marie is initially forced to dwell but upon whose love she depends. written by jack thorne and shot by anthony dod mantle, this is a deliberately unruly picture which abandons the classical biographical storytelling of 1943's madame curie starring greer garson and instead embarks upon a more anarchic vision in which past and present, triumph and guilt, advantage and harm collide. with her own background in graphic novels, satrapi displays an inventive eye for detail, lending a surreal air to scenes bathed in the eerie glow of discovery. hallucinatory images fill the screen as the film strives to take us inside curie‘s mind, an experiment that's only partly successful. the result is very strange indeed, impressively inventive, occasionally ridiculous, but always anchored by pike's centre performance. and the worst picture of the decade is showgirls! i want to watch this thing over and overand overagain. i think we're still talking about showgirls because we are not done with it. i will leave you with news of a new documentary that aims to do for showgirls what tim burton's ed wood did for plan 9 from outer space, the punningly entitled you don't nomi. get it? a role like nomi, it felt like a james dean role or a young robert de niro role, it's a huge role. if it was done in a real movie, that would've been a star making role. a notorious flop when it first opened in 1995, showgirls from basic instinct writer and director joe eszterhas and paul verhoeven has since been reclaimed by cult film fans who see it as part of a grand trash tradition of valley of the dolls and mommie dearest. jeffrey mchale‘s documentary uses clips and talking head voiceovers to track the film's path from catastrophe to camp classic, arguing that in its barrel—scraping awfulness, showgirls actually achieves a bizarre kind of greatness. whatever you think of showgirls — and believe me i'm no fan — there is realfun to be had in tracing its twisted legacy which, like tinto brass's equally notorious caligula, continues to amaze and appal in equal measure. i used to love doggy chow. i used to love doggy chow, too! that's it for this week. thanks for watching the film review, stay safe and i'll be back next week with more home viewing treats. i need somebody to tattoo, i'm running out of... come on, rich, what about you? don't even look at me, dude. why? your work is mad inconsistent. obama ain't right! the broad with a pattern is going to change very little of the week ahead, it will be a week of contrasts in the uk as it was over the weekend. many places in the south of england having a warm and sunny day on sunday, a dramatic skyline though in the north—west of england following those late in the day thundery showers. an area of low pressure is keeping this very u nsta ble pressure is keeping this very unstable air across the uk to more showers to come. a lot of low cloud is streaming in from of the north sea at the moment so a great start for some places but over the weekend we keep this mixture of warm sunshine and some heavy and thundery downpours. anyplace is starting dry on monday, great start for much of scotla nd on monday, great start for much of scotland in the north—east of england, down to lincolnshire and east anglia, burning back to coastal areas, sunshine develops more widely as it warms up, we develop those showers particularly in the afternoon. some of them heavy and thundery, not many showers across southern england, probably more chance of picking up some downpours as you head into perhaps northern ireland. a few sharp shower as possible in western scotland where it is good to be an awful lot warmer thanit it is good to be an awful lot warmer than it will be for eastern scotland where we are struggling with that low cloud coming off the north sea. many places will end monday dry and probably quite sunny as well but there will be a few sharp showers still around in the evening. those will then fade away overnight but we have still got this flabby area of low pressure, not a great deal to see on the pressure chart but enough low pressure and enough instability in the airto low pressure and enough instability in the air to bring us more showers and many places will start the day dry on tuesday against oppy a great start for the north—east of the uk, but again we trigger those showers, probably more widely, those showers developing during the day on tuesday. again some slow—moving, heavy, perhaps thundery downpours and temperatures typically again into the low 20s, as they will be again probably on wednesday. not a great deal is changing, those showers developing perhaps this time more towards the west and of the uk, so more towards the west and of the uk, so for eastern scotland, while it may be a bit grey at times it should be largely fine, there may be some sunshine at times as well. temperatures not changing a great deal of the week ahead, we keep those showers going through thursday and friday particular across more southern parts of the uk as it dries up southern parts of the uk as it dries up further north. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. railway carriages in india are being turned into makeshift hospital wards as coronavirus cases surge. nearly 12,000 new cases reported in the last 2a hours. the killing of another african american man during an arrest in atlanta prompts fresh condemnation and despair. the london protest image of one man carrying another to safety that's become a symbol of unity. i wasn't thinking, i was just thinking of the human being on the floor. it wasn't going to end well had we not