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football news, and we ll get the latest from sydney, where australia are in control after day two of the final ashes test. more on another withdrawal from the australian open, after serena williams announced she wouldn t be competing in melbourne. that s all in fa cup sports day at 6:30pm, but now it s time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is jason solomons. what have you been watching? this week, we find out what happened when christopher plummer replaced kevin spacey asjohn christopher plummer replaced kevin spacey as john paul getty. christopher plummer replaced kevin spacey asjohn paul getty. that isn t them, actually. that s the next film, hostiles, with christian bale and rosamund pike, the ways of the west revived oral revised. we ll be looking at ben stiller as well, checking into a midlife crisis in brad s status, taking his son on a tour of college campuses and reminiscing abo ....
a lot of cgi! john paul getty, who kevin spacey was playing, and the film has been ‘despaceyed and replaced very famously by christopher plummer, the very feat of that is what marks this film out as a footnote in film history. extraordinary from ridley scott to reshape his film around a new performance in christopher plummer. we watch the film now, especially in this climate, trying to see the join, to see if there was a ready break glow of cgi inserts from christopher plummer. can we spot the ghost of kevin spacey you can t at all. the film is seamlessly done, and the reshoots are beautifully done and i think christopher plummer is fabulous in the role ofjohn paul getty. i think they would have been a different. ridley scott talked about how christopher plummer has a twinkle in his eye, whereas kevin spacey has a more cold look, more evil look, and i think that gives the film a lot more heart. we kind of pityjohn paul getty for being the richest man, but he is not ....
i would get the dvd of limehouse gollum, it is out now. this is a sort of east end set victorian melodrama style. starring the great bill nighy and a wonderful performance from olivia cooke, a young british actor. danny mays is in there. it is about murders going on. a sort ofjack the ripper style thriller set in the east end with all of the london fog and people out and about like oliver creatures going out and going oom pah pah, but there is a grisly murder at the bottom of it, and it captures that gothic horror of london very, very well. interesting and well done. lovely. and as you have hinted award season is nearly upon us, so we ll be talking plenty in the coming weeks. thank you very much for now, jason solomons. that is a taster of what is on offer this week. a quick reminder before we go, all our film news and reviews from across the bbc are online. i m sure you know the address but there it is, bbc.co.uk/mark kermode. and all previous programmes are on the i ....
see people who we might have assumed we re see people who we might have assumed were no longer with us, but donald sutherland certainly lived on the wild side. i didn t know who that was until you said that. it is good to see him still mobile. i find was until you said that. it is good to see him still mobile. ifind it interesting, because this film festival is a brilliant showcase, including for some british films. it has a real boost to its profile because it won an award. this is pa rt because it won an award. this is part of the momentum building for awards season, which will come early 2018. what i am enjoying about the film festival this year, we have dame helen as a brilliant and radiant as ever, a couple of days ago we had robert redford and jane fonda, and it is great to see a real vetera n, fonda, and it is great to see a real veteran, top hollywood stars on the red carpet, and there is a hunger for them. forget what you say about the youth market, they can ha ....