13/04/2013 The Film Review

Or welcome mac to Film Review on BBC News. We have Ryan Gosling

revving up to play an all-American hero or an outlaw in The Place

Beyond the Pines. It is a new indie film. We also have Tom Cruise's new

movie. They can get to that in a minute.

The Place Beyond the Pines sounds like a great watch. I people say it

is the best film I have seen this year, so far. -- I will say. I did

not know much about the film before I saw it. I do not want to spoil it

for people. This is about Ryan Gosling who plays an outlaw who

becomes a bank robber. Then the film changes pace. It comes -- it

becomes about the police officer who used to chase him. Then it

changes again and talks about another generation of criminals. It

is completely surprising in every turn up. The clip we are looking at

his Bradley Cooper dealing with police corruption. Is he heroic?

That is the question. This was recovered from my house during a

search. Just a small fraction of what is going on. Don't say another

What do you expect me to do with this? You are joking, right? This

is not my problem. This is your problem. I am bringing it to your

attention because that is what I am supposed to do! Is that right?

Write about other police officers? This is unbelievable. Get this out

of here! Bradley Cooper is terrific. He is building on his reputation.

plays a police officer who is uprights and right-thinking. Does

he get into the ways of the cops? This maybe is very smart. It is

about the wrath of. Ryan Gosling has a long it love-story at the

start. It is also about the legacy you leave behind. And how those

things can be muddled over a period. And how history will see you. I

thought it was really smart, beautifully done. It stars Ryan

Gosling with his top off. People will go for that. He does that a

lot. It is about creating is a hero figure that cinema does it really

well. I saw one reviews said he is the

Steve McQueen of the 21st century. That's not bad.

Let's move on. The crew is in this movie title.

It is a strange film. It is by a young American film maker. He is

part of this new young in secret that is growing up in America. --

indie crew. It is like an American Psycho in Paris. It is the dark

flipside of romantic American films. Here is a young student who goes to

Paris for a gap year to recover from a relationship. He finds

himself completely alienated. He did not know where he can turn. He

finds that he can create a new identity for himself. He takes up

with a prostitute, he stays with friends, he smokes a lot. He does

do know what he can do. He decides this power is rather frightening.

He grows into the monster of bed the title pretence that he is.

-- the monster that he pretence he is in the title.

Is he going to become a Kirra? That question is always lingering. It is

very well done. Loads of great music. Lots of sex.

It is difficult when you don't like the central character.

It tells you from the start in the title.

Films have done it before. They do not make him likeable. They

make no concessions. That is why I like this from. It is not lovable

but it is enjoyable. As long edgy no going in, you're

not going to lead the field. It is not a great romance.

It is an anti- hero film again. It examines the hero, in a way, and

what cinema stars to these creatures that dominate the screen.

Now Oblivion. That is the hero.

Tom Cruise is always playing the hero. Here he is.

I do not know when this film is said.

At the end of his voice over, explaining everything, I had no

idea what was happening. It was such a confusing voice-over. No-one

knew what was going on. They are in the future. He scavengers, shoots

things that are invading the earth. No-one is on the earth anymore. He

The EU have any memories? -- do you have any memories? Our job is not

to remember. Remember? Do you remember her? That was a beacon

that brought her down. We do not know who she is. Or what she is.

Sorry. That is almost comedy dialogue.

You can write this but you can't say it. I do not know who wrote

this. Its for a five-year-old.

He has the same T-shirt that he It is so derivative of all sci-fi,

I was thinking there was a joke here somewhere. At no point does

anyone laugh. I laughed.

The future is a terribly miserable place, it seems.

Instead of watching this film, or get the Matrix out and have another

look. What I like to bat is the design of

it. It was very futuristic. That was the only thing I liked about it.

Your best film is a French one. Explain it.

It was by a very elegant and prolific French film-maker. This

one is probably his best film yet. It is a teacher in a school is

trying to educate a boy in writing fiction. He goes into another

person's house and the teacher becomes obsessed with this homework

that excite Brent -- assignment. It Kristen Scott Thomas is the

frustrated bourgeois housewife. She is brilliant.

Talk about your DVD of the week. It is about 1945.

It is archive footage filmed. It is out on DVD dissuade.

There are a number of things one can say about this.

He misses a bit in between. The winter of discontent.

All of that. How can we judge this? If you judge

it as a historical documentary, it is a bit of.

It is very personal. He makes no It is very personal. He makes no

bones about it. It is actually a bit more than that. It is asking

that generation to get back that spirit. To teach, to adage -- to

educate. What is really interesting is that

we are all in this together. We just came through the war.

just came through the war. just came through the war.

me cry for black it is capable and there we have lost. -- because I