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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this | :00:00. | :00:26. | |
week's cinema releases, who are you going to call? Mark Kermode. We have | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
a new Ghostbusters, which has been making headlines. We have Men and | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Chicken, which I think you decide to describe as a Danish comedy horror, | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
about chickens. And Summertime. Ghostbusters, one of my favourite | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
films of the 80s. As I'm sure you know, when it was announced that | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
they were going to do a female lead a reboot internet was awash with | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
trolls and people sang, you can't possibly, and a lot of hiding | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
behind, actually, it is to do with defending to the original. I think | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
it was barely concealed misogyny. Then, the film finally came out, it | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
has been previewing for a few days now, and the response has been | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
really to refit. Here in the UK it has got glowing reviews. I honestly | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
think the truth is somewhere in between, that it is fine, it is not | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
great, but it is certainly much better and certainly more | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
crowdpleasing than any other haters would have wanted. I don't think it | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
is quite the classic that some of its cheerleaders are saying. One | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
academic is ashamed by the resurgence of a book she wrote about | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
ghosts with Melissa McCarthy. She went to Melissa McCarthy and ended | :01:46. | :01:55. | |
up getting involved in a resurgence of ghostbusting. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
I like to call this a ghost ship, it sucks in the ghost and neutralises | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
it. Step up to bat and do what you are going to do. You truly scare me, | :02:09. | :02:20. | |
I just want to let you know that. Oh! It is like Mardi Gras in their! | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
It is a proton glove, it will maximise activity during fist to | :02:32. | :02:45. | |
Specter combat. Give it a go. That was awesome! No, that is a deadly | :02:46. | :02:58. | |
high-5. That was funny. You laugh three or four times. A proper comedy | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
has to make you last six times. I think what it is is it is a very | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
likeable remake that has a great affection for the original. Part of | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
me thinks that with the kind of talent we have in the director, a | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
great cast, a great screenwriter, there is so much potential but what | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
troubles me somewhat is that structurally it is a bit ramshackle. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
It is a little bit all over the place in terms of the narrative that | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
plays out is nothing like as disciplined as it needs to be. But | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
it was really nice to see the film liking its subject matter so much. I | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
saw it with an audience in which it was going down pretty well. It is | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
not bridesmaids, it is not the really on the money soaring success | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
that you want it to be, but when you look at the extraordinary talent | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
involved in bringing it to the screen, perhaps my expectations were | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
too high. I think it will do well, and I like it, but don't love it. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Briefly, there has been some criticism of the way the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
African-American character is treated, kind of very 1980s rather | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
than what you would expect in the 21st century. I think she is smart | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and funny enough in the role to neutralise the potential criticism. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
I understand that has been an issue, and I have to say when I was | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
watching it I thought Leslie Jones' performance overcame any of those | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
anxieties. There is a great turn by Chris Hemsworth as the beefcake | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
receptionist who doesn't understand not only how to work a telephone, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
but what a telephone actually is. It is a nice role reversal. When I | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
heard you were going to review Men and Chicken, I thought it was a film | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
about Mendis. This is a very dark Danish comedy about two brothers, | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
and at the start there is a videotape and he says he is not | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
their real father. They end up going to a sanatorium where a group of | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
half-brothers who appear to be the family they didn't know they had. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
They are living a very revoked and isolated existence. The local mayor | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
says here on the island seems to be fairly basic. You think that might | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
be a touchstone to the film itself. It is a strange balancing act | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
between bat horror. As you watch this really strange twisted story | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
playing out, with some absurdist comedy, on the other hand it hints | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
towards Psycho and towards one flew over the cuckoos nest, and the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
island of Doctor Mariah, were all these strange happen. You genuinely | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
feel quite uncertain of this jet black comedy. I thought it | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
maintained that sense of uncomfortable as rather well. There | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
was no point in the film in which I settled into it and thought I had | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
the measure of it. I think that in itself is praising it, but it is not | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
easy to watch, and it is at times very disturbing. May be the Best | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Film about Chechan we will see all summer! I think that is going on the | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
poster. Summertime. Yes, I thought this was a great film. It is set in | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
early 70s France, Delphine is a young woman growing up on a rural | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
farm, she moves to a city to change her life, where she comes across a | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
feminist protest group who she first meets as they run through the | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
streets giving grouping meant a taste of their own medicine. | :06:46. | :07:39. | |
The vibrancy from that clip, what happens is they now develop a | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
relationship initially based on politics but then on passion. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Delphine is then called back to the farm on which she grew up, the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
question is can this love affair survive that move? What I really | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
like about the film, firstly I completely believe in the | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
characters. I thought they were immersed in the roles and I believed | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
in them. Secondly it has a really good indication of that time, the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
heady politics and also the dawning of the relationship, which I thought | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
worked really well. Visually it has a bucolic beauty of something | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
Legendre Florette, but also the frankness. It was a really well told | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
drama about a relationship that we absolutely believe in, it was a | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
personal project and I was engaged in the characters. Many parts were | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
very funny and touching, and it had real heart. I liked it very much. I | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
haven't seen it but I wonder whether the film Carroll, and some of the | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
others you mentioned, give a frame of reference and whether we have | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
seen some of that. Possibly, but for me the real reference point is the | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
director's previous work. In the past she has dealt with the subject | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
of overwhelming passion in the way in which it can be life changing. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
What I saw from it was just a story about two people in a particular | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
circumstance whose lives you completely believe in, whose lives | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
you are invested in, and his fate you genuinely care about. It is like | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
what Roger Ebert used to say about movies, you have to care about the | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
characters and in this case are really did. Notes on Blindness is | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
something you care about, and use their best DVD of the week? | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
Absolutely superb, a wonderful evocation of an account of losing | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
your site. It is a brilliant mix of drama and documentary. Thoroughly | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
enjoyable movie. I'm thrilled to see this has been plain to packed out | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
cinemas. I have seen screenings on the south bank where they have been | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
turning people away. It is so great to see a film is ambitious and | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
adventurous and as important as this touring such an audience. High-Rise, | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
to say it divides opinion, it certainly divides opinion. It was | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
supposedly unfilmable. Yes, and a novel they were trying to filter | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
decades, and I think Ben Wheatley has done to reject adaptation, and a | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
horrific performance by Tom Hiddleston in the lead role. The | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
real genius is that what they have done is take a story that has passed | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
setting, so a story about the present set in an alternative past | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
looking at the future. It is hard to follow that but you are absolutely | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
right. I thought it looked beautiful and was well played, it is smart and | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
intelligent and very well scripted, and plaudits to the screenwriter who | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
did such a good job of adapting and apparently unfilmable novel stop | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
white by JG Ballard. Yes, I didn't say that. We know about | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
screenwriters and authors, they never get the proper credit they | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
deserve. You will find more news and reviews from across the BBC online. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
You can watch our previous shows on iPlayer. Thank you for watching, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
enjoy the movies. | :11:18. | :11:25. |