which is a british horror movie written and directed in her directorial debut, and the story is an ex soldier from an unnamed european conflict finds himself destitute in london and taken in by a nun. in a horror movie, which is never a good sign and she says i can give you a house to stay in but you have to do the house up and incidentally in the house is magda, who is her mother who is in the attic and her presence is heard through screaming and banging and there is something deeply, deeply disturbing going on. the film starts with this slow burn atmosphere and then there are a couple of creepy moments with what s going on upstairs and there s a couple of pretty good jump scares and then in the third act goes absolutely full on altered state weird. and i loved it. i thought the performances were great and i thought it was very wry and funny.
you have the spanish civil war story, which appears and gets sidelined. you have the personal story which is full of melodramatic contrivance which you are meant to buy into because, it serves the story. and then we move back to the spanish civil war so now i have to say i am in the minority here. most people i have spoken to think this is great. and i am a big fan and love his films, but it felt to me like this is not one of his best works. it has some great elements in it, and it has some things i will cherish, but it did feel like to films and like i said not so much parallels, but kind of tangential. fascinating. he does not usually the politics, does he? he has done political committee before, but it s never really landed for me. but this is a serious work. it is serious, and it s very personal and heartfelt. i wish i liked it more than i did. which brings me onto amulet,
the first australian woman to win an australian open title in 44 years. good morning. weather warnings are in force across the northern half of the uk, with severe gales in the forecast for today. there is more very windy weather to come later in the weekend. i will have all the details here on breakfast. good morning, it is saturday january 29. our main story this morning, the long awaited report into alleged to lockdown parties in downing street is expected to be delivered to the prime minister shortly. it s release had been thrown into doubt after the met police requested the report makes only minimal reference to the events also being investigated by the force. officers say they have now received the material they have asked for. helen cut has more. after weeks of waiting, sue grey s report still hasn t been delivered to number ten, report still hasn t been delivered to numberten, but report still hasn t been delivered to number ten, but it will be shortly, before the metropolitan
0n the one hand it s paying tribute to the classic tribute to the classic film noirs of the 30s and 40s but it s also as with all of his stuff it feels very modern. and it feels, there is a piece written about it by martin scorsese about how much he loves it and i can see why because it s that kind of film, but i thought it was terrific and i m a big fan of del toro. have you seen this? i have not, it looks beautiful. don t let that convince you that it s also, its got a lot of substance and one of the darkest endings of a film in ages. i was left at the end thinking, wow, they really went for it. you come out thinking well done. dvd streaming. censor is out on dvd. it s a feature debut. brilliantly put together. it s a story set during the 19805 video nasties.
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