by pedro almodovar. we have a new british horror movie, amulet. and sing 2 more singing animals. that s quite the mixture. so, parallel mothers, lots of sort of excitement about almodovar s latest film. yes, and a nine minute ovation when it premiered, i think, at venice. so, penelope cruz and milena smit are single mothers to be. they are sharing a room together in a hospital, they give birth together, their babies go into observation together, and when they leave hospital, they swap phone numbers. and perhaps a bit more. here is a clip. so, that s one strand of the story. in another strand, penelope cruz s character is trying to excavate a mass grave in her hometown from the civil war, so there are two stories. parallel mothers, parallel stories, personal and political, which sounds like a really fascinating combination. and if you think of the films of guillermo del toro, like the devil s backbone or pan s labyrinth, he s managed to do exactly that with the spanish civil
personal and political, which sounds like a really fascinating combination. and if you think of the films of guillermo del toro, like the devil s backbone or pan s labyrinth, he s managed to do exactly that with the spanish civil war. here s the thing with this, it s beautifully designed, beautifully played a very well written script with great performances, wonderful score. and it sounds like a perfect match. the problem for me is that it s not so much parallel stories, it s tangential stories. you have the spanish civil war story, which kind of appears and then gets sidelined. you have the personal story, which is full of melodramatic contrivance which you re kind of meant to buy into because, hey, it serves the story. and then we move back to the spanish civil war, so now. i have to say, i m in the minority here. most people i ve spoken to think this is great. and i m a big pedro almodovarfan, i loved the short film that he made, the human voice, just recently. itjust fe
this is a sci fi horror hybrid, a soil sample from mars is sent back from mars to the international space station and the crew opened it and they find in the soil a single cell organism. they are delighted because this is proof of life on mars, and it starts growing and everyone is very excited, and then it becomes dormant. they decide against the advice of the entire audience to give the organism and electric shock and see what that does, this is a clip. laughter ready. lowering oxygen. more carbon dioxide. you sure it won t hurt it? it s a very very low voltage. look how fast it s growing. every single cell is a muscle cell and a nerve cell. all muscle. one brain. screams it s in between my fingers. let s not let it go. can i make a suggestion, can ijust go in there and get him? no, you re not going to go in there. of course you re not. because the main thing is quarantine. i can do this, i can. i can do this. help me, help me! somebody help me! what s going on?! you get th
captain, seamus coleman, suffers a broken leg. he was injured in a tackle, in the second half of his nation s, goalless draw with wales, and will have surgery later today. the mass experiment to see if clocks going forward tonight will affect concentration of children in school. and chris fawkes has the weather. a chilly start to the day with frost and fog to contend with but for most of us we look at a dry weekend with plenty of sunshine. in the warm spots it will reach 19 degrees. good morning. first, our main story. donald trump has tried to shrug off the biggest setback so far in his presidency a failure to overhaul his predecessor, barack obama s health reforms. senior republicans withdrew their plans at the last minute because they didn t have enough backing from his own party to win a vote in congress. greg dawson reports. it was a promise that became one of the pillars of his campaign. and one he repeated at every rally. obama ca re he repeated at every rally. obama
something to put on the front page. to have something to put the headlines. indeed. that is journalism. it certainly made us stop, look and read. yes, full marks. but we still haven t read the inside copy. we are desperate to read the inside copy as well. you may have to wait. you might find one in your home tonight, in the cabs, as you head back. keep your eyes peeled for a late night vendor. what is on page four? we ll tell you tomorrow when we review the papers in the morning. why then we will have a hard copies. thank you to both of you. and forget, all the front pages are online on the bbc news website, where you can get a detailed review of the papers. it is all there for you, seven days a week. and you can watch us there as well, if you really want to again, with each night s edition of the papers posted on the page shortly after we finish. ruth, john, thank you for your company this evening. i will be back tomorrow afternoon. coming up next, the film review. hello, an