Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, reminding you that while cinemas may be closed, there is still plenty of new movies to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home. The most mainstream release this week is the dig, A Bittersweet Real Life Drama about the unearthing of the sutton hoo treasures on the the eve of world war ii. What are they . Do you hazard a guess . Burials, men, id expect. We are standing in somebodys graveyard i reckon. Viking. Maybe older. Apparently local girls used to lie down on them in the hope of falling pregnant. Ive read plenty of legends. Ive heard plenty of legends. Is that why you want to dig, mrs pretty . Details of Buried Treasure . Ralph fiennes stars as basil brown, the self taught archaeologist who wears his immense learning lightly and who is enlisted by carrie mulligan s wealthy widow, edith pretty, to excavate the imposing Burial Mounds on her property. My interest in archaeology began like yours, edith tells the initia
Kilmeade. There seems to be no cure, they are calling it cultural dementia. Whenever one of their latest causes goes south. And myself, that includes fleeing new york for florida. [laughter] but they are, the media. Whatever they get is contagious, spreading faster than whoopis legs in a hotel pool. [audience reacts] there is a back straight to that joke so it was not just some kind of indiscriminate, disgusting comment. She did claim that she liked to have sex in pools. Direct your letters to her for that image. Do you remember the duke scandal . You are not supposed to. That is when a bunch of white frat boys were accused of raping a black stripper. The problem was it never happened. The only person who went to jail is the prosecutor. And the stripper never writes back. How about the khadeen kids . Remember when those catholic kids were portrayed as racist for has been a i almost had a naked american man. But then video turned up showing that he was actually hassling them first and h
Of their last 16 tie. They thrashed Sparta Prague 5 1 in the czech capital. Brighton suffered a heavy defeat though going down 4 0 to roma in italy. Term lawrence with the goal they are wild west ham are in germany to face freiburg. That one is currently goal is. Both of those matches around half an hour and. There are eight matches in the Europa Conference League on thursday in perhaps the pick of the ties dutch side ajax drew 0 0 at home to aston villa, both sides had a player sent off. You can follow all the scores on the bbc sport website. India ended day one of the fifth test in dharamsala on top after england won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists started brightly with Opener Zak Crawley making 79 taking his total runs in the series to more than 400, before he became one of five wickets for kuldeep yadav, who also took the scalp Ofjonny Bairstow on his 100th test, out for a rapid 29 off 18 balls. Ravichandran ashwin also playing in his 100th test took the remaining four wi
and white house denying that the president brought up genocide during the call on thursday. and the latest developing story from the white house. hey, david. good afternoon to you, aishah and everyone watching right now. the speaker is en route to asia. she has some pre scheduled trips to singapore, japan, south korea, but the big question, the suspense, will she go to taiwan? she wants to go. some republicans who are her political enemies in congress are agreeing with her, they want her to go. some democrats are saying don t go. the white house is being mum on it, but the communist party in china is saying absolutely do not go. listen. well, i don t remember talk about my travel because as some of you know it s a security issue, it s a security issue for every member of congress travelling, especially abroad, but for the speaker, it is additional security issue and for those travelling with me, not just members, but staff, et cetera. it s an interesting issue because
marilyn monroe, blonde bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn poor marilyn, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time. and she was very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered. they re funny. they re tender. they re human. they feel modern. bingo. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. she was a businesswoman. what a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s actually rather frustrating that people can t