And england have had their best day on their ashes tour of australia so far. Alistair cook completed his first ashes century in seven years. And coming up, mark kermode looks back at 2017s big film releases including the sequel to blade runner, thats the year in film in half an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. High winds and snow have caused disruption for much of england and wales. Thousands of homes and properties are without power in the midlands, the south west and parts of wales, after power lines were brought down overnight. Theres been disruption for passengers at birmingham and sta nsted airports, and collisions on the mi, in the last few minutes stansted had is closed again. M25 and a number of a roads caused by treacherous driving conditions have caused major delays. Viewers have been sending in pictures from their area , georgina tweeted this photo from the departure lounge at Stansted Airport, which has suffered delays due to a closed runway, and reamins closed
The story begins with Imelda Staunton as Lady Sandra Abbott on the eve of her retirement. She has her retirement planned out, she leads a very posh life and discovers suddenly that her husband has been having an affair. Here is a clip. What the hells going on . We were just. Its not what it looks like, sandra. Sandra. Sandra sandra, wait. Get off me. How longs its been going on . Lets not do this here. How long, mike . Since we all went to sorrento. 0h, bloody hell. Thats nearly five years ago ive had enough of all this hide and seek, mike. How could you do this to me . Youre supposed to be my friend. We even took you to the palace. I didnt mean for this to happen, sandra. Oh, really . You knew precisely what you are doing now, please calm down, sandra. Rememberwhere you are. I know exactly where i am, in my own bloody home i have spent my entire married life putting you and your careerfirst, and what got me through was knowing that when you retired we would share our golden years toge
My guess will stop hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, mark kermode is back with us, and what have you been watching, mark . Interesting week. We have finding your feet which is a british i think is dramady i hate that word drama comedy. We have i, tonya with an astonishing central performance by margo robbie, who also produces. And dark river, the new film by clio barnard. Finding your feet even the poster looks like a quintessential british gathering. Yes. Im not sure the poster does it a lot of favours. So it is kind of aimed at the same audience that made best Exotic Marigold Hotel a huge hit. The story begins with Imelda Staunton as Lady Sandra Abbott on the eve of her retirement she has got her whole retirement all planned out, she leads a posh life suddenly discovers her husband has been having an affair. Heres a clip. 0h what the hell is going on . we were just. It is not what it looks like, sandra. Sandra. Sandra wai
She broke her leg. She needs culling. Well, im not giving it mine. Well, youd better get up there, hadnt you . I havent seen you for 15 years. Ill wait with her. Now, i am a huge fan of clio barnard, it takes its title from a ted hughes poem and has a surface similarity to the levelling, and yet it is absolutely barnards film. Its about the way that trauma affects peoples memories, about the way trauma affects peoples perceptions and its about People Living with the ghost of an abusive past. Its very powerful not least because the performances are very good which is something you expect from clio barnard and also because it is a film located very much in the landscape, like the levelling, it has the feeling of buried family secrets coming up from the ground. It is very atmospheric. Although the subject matter is very dark, the tone is totally unexploitative, it feels like a film which wants to understand the psychology of its characters, it is a very sympathetic film and it takes this
Bringing us tomorrow. With us, charlie wells, deputy snapchat editor for the economist, and rosamund urwin, whos Financial Services correspondent at the sunday times. Welcome to you both. Many of the front pages are already in. Will start with the guardian. It looks ahead to Jeremy Corbyns brexit speech tomorrow, where hell outline labours brexit policy. Concerns over the quality of milk post brexit leads the front page of the i. The metro has a picture of the building that was on fire in leicester on theirfront page. The Ambulance Service say six people have been taken to hospital. A chilling warning from the express. They say temperatures in parts of the uk could drop to minus 15 with snow and blizzards expected across the country. While the mirror says the cold snap dubbed the beast from the east could cause death and travel chaos. A colourful picture from the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics is on the front of the telegraph. The times shows a beaming ivanka trump representin