hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week s releases, as you see, is mark kermode. hi again, mark. and what do you have for us this week? well, hopefully something for everyone. we have thor: love and thunder another superhero movie. we have a new version of persuasion coming to netflix. and brian and charles, a robot movie with a difference. i m intrigued about number three. good. but, anyway, we will start with thor. love and thunder, which is the sequel to thor: ragnarok, which i know that you did go and see. i did see that, although. you see, there we are. i had to be reminded that we d seen it, in a kind of why are we married? sort of way, because i didn t remember every detail of the film. which one is this? ok, so this is once again directed by taika waititi. so, the plot is driven by christian bale s gorr the god butcher, who is on a mission to butcher gods as his name would suggest. he must be stopped. mean
we ll have the latest. good morning. the heat continues to build over the next few days. today it is looking dry, with strong sunshine, and it will feel very warm, especially in the south. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s sunday, iothjuly. our main story: eight candidates are now officially running in the conservative leadership contest, following a series of announcements from senior figures within the party. the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt, are the latest to come forward and the foreign secretary, liz truss, is expected to declare in the coming days. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrance into the race are the first to set out detailed plans, and both focus on economic policy. entrants. jeremy hunt, who lost a borisjohnson in the final two last time around, promises to council rise in corporation tax, and reduce it further. to cancel. he would also cut business rates
some coastal areas with some sea breezes and temperatures might not be quite so high in scotland and northern ireland. but still a very warm day. some changes into tuesday, high pressure and heat gets pushed away and we will start to see this weather front move down, nothing in terms of rain or cloud, bringing cooler and fresher air, keeping the heatin cooler and fresher air, keeping the heat in east anglia and the south east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nine tory mps are now in the contest to become the next party leader and prime minister. a russian attack in ukraine is reported to have killed 15 people at a block of flats, many others are feared trapped. sri lanka s deepening economic crisis: the president says he ll step down after huge demonstrations, the us appeals to politicians to act swiftly a massive data leak reveals how top politicians around the world secretly helped uber. scotland records its hottest day of the year so far, as much of the uk swelters
here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re making a superhero movie, but we re making jokes about it, cos we re very, very clever! and also, if you re going to do the whole film as a kind of humorous gag, make the gags better than, oh, i need a catchphrase. what s my catchphrase? 0h, here s a catchphrase about a hammer, or a joke which basi
bid tomorrow too. it says the pair will fight it out to be the candidate to take on rishi sunak. meanwhile, the mail claims sunak the former chancellor has been forced to deny links to the former number 10 adviser dominic cummings. the express concentrates on sunak s successor as chancellor, nadhim zahawi. they quote him as saying he s being smeared over tax . the ft says senior conservative party figures are planning to thin out the field of leadership candidates rapidly, to stop the campaign becoming ugly. the guardian says the tory rivals as scrambling to get enough supporters to stay in the contest; the mirror leads with something completely different the crisis over ambulance crews being stuck outside a&es, while the daily star is all about the heatwave, claiming britain will be hotter than hawaii tomorrow. asi as i say, welcome back to both. we will start with the guardian s front page that tory rivals are scrambling for support is because the all important 1922