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but i very much enjoyed the film. it s called the collini case, it s in cinemas now. ok, now, respect. i really want this to be good. yes. because aretha franklin what a figure, what a life story. an extraordinary life story. and so the good news is, she s played byjennifer hudson, who is fantastic in the lead role i mean, i think everybody expected this. aretha franklin herself effectively appointed jennifer hudson. she had, you know she was very controlling on the project right up until her death in 2018, and she said tojennifer hudson, you re the right person to do this so that s great. i mean, she can sing, she can act, she has charisma, she has presence and it s a great performance. i think the problem is that the film itself isn t quite as exceptional as either its central performance or, indeed, as aretha franklin. it s a very sort of tumultuous life story and the film wants to play things fairly safe. so there s domestic abuse, there is alcoholism, there ....
crisis in the nhs will be set out on tuesday. measures like mask wearing and home working are under discussion. a day of events marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the us concludes with a simple light show over new york. the 40th great north run gets under way here in newcastle later. nearly 60,000 people will take part in the uk s biggest half marathon. i ll be meeting some of them. good morning. for many of us, a decent day of weather coming up. some cloud, bright and sunny spells and a lot of dry weather. however, in wales it is a different story. here the cloud will thicken late on and we have some afternoon rain on the way. i will have your forecast coming up on breakfast later on. it s sunday, the 12th of september. our top story: the 18 year old british tennis superstar emma raducanu has been congratulated by the queen for her stunning performance which saw her win the us open last night. the teenager from bromley made history in new york by beati ....
it s a courtroom drama. now, i love a courtroom drama, i do understand that courtroom dramas are full of things that never happen in real courtrooms, like people producing witnesses out of nowhere that nobody s heard of, people presenting papers ijust happen to have in my bag. i quite like a courtroom drama too, you see, so. but. yeah, i m a suckerfor it. i keep expecting somebody to slam the table and say, you can t handle the truth! if you accept that the drama itself is fairly contrived and it does, you know, have all those conventions, then i think it s very entertaining. but more importantly, it is about something very serious. it is about that thing of looking back into the past, looking back into a country s guilty past and your own family s guilty past and asking questions about whether people are the people that they seem to be. so it s doing quite a clever thing which is it s a very entertaining pot boiler on one hand but also, it s about something far mor ....
very much. rachel watson and liam thought. have a great weekend. thank you. and thank you for watching us here on bbc news. from myself and the team, cheerio. from myself and the team, cheerio. hello, and welcome to the film review. look who s here! he s real it s mark kermode really here in the studio, not an avatar! it is fabulous to be back in the studio with you, jane. how lovely to see you again. so, we have a packed show coming up. so, we ve got reviews of the collini case, which is a german crime thriller. we have respect, which is the biopic of aretha franklin, withjennifer hudson. and we have herself, which is the new film by phyllida lloyd, which i think you and i have different opinions about. chuckles to be discussed. we start with the collini case. yes, so, german crime thriller, based on a book by ferdinand von schirach which i confess i have not read, although it s apparently a very famous book. story is a young lawyer is assigned to a case in which h ....
, the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love. we ve been patient but our patience is wearing thin and refusal has cost all of us. so please do the right thing. maria: look over here, not over there, at the massive blunder in afghanistan, 13 military heroes dead, a nation still mourning 20 years after the worst attack on our country. so who is accountable and will any heads roll? coming up, antony blinken on the hot seat tomorrow, testifying roand the first republican to question him is here with us this morning. texas congressman michael mccall, the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee gears up. the ramifications of shutting down bagram airbase as china looks to move in. plus, the call that no one is talking about, joe biden and xi jinping on the phone for 90 minutes this week, but the origins of covid did not come up. florida congressman michael waltz, the first green beret ever elected to congress and a veteran of the war in af ....