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That is at 6:30pm. Now it is time for the film review. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
To take us through this week's releases we are joined by Anna | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Smith. We have got a Jane Austen adaptation | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
to start with. Kate Beckinsale starts as a scheming widow. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
Then we have Alice Through the Looking Glass. James Bobin is | :00:44. | :00:53. | |
directing. Finally, we have Money Monster. Jodie Foster directs a | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
hostage thriller starring George Clooney. Love Friendship, given | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
the British love of bonnets and men on horses, I suspect this would be a | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
big hit? I suspect so. This is not what you would expect of Lane | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Austen. It is based on Lady Susan, a novella she wrote when she was 18. | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
It was published Posthumus Lee. A little bit more mischievous. I think | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
this is probably her naughtiest adaptation on screen to date. Kate | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Beckinsale is so much fun. She plays a scheming widow who goes to the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
country to patronise relatives, flirt with the gentleman, and IV | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
women and try to marry off her daughter, as we see now. -- annoy | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
the women. Have I done anything to dishonour your father? To honour | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
means to listen with respect. I do. Perhaps you will pay attention to | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
the law of the universe. An offer as splendid as this is not likely to | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
come around again. He has offered you the one thing he has a value to | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
give, his income. I fear and reproach myself having shielded you | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
for far too long. Have I let you start -- had a let you starve a | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
little bit more you would have resisted less. I was often hungry at | :02:17. | :02:30. | |
school. Not nearly enough. I can see Sir James is a kind man and if it | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
was not a matter of marriage, I'm sure I could like him. Marriage is | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
for one's whole life. That is one of the things we love about Jane | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Austen, she is so waspish. So sharp. She is a beautifully written | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
character. Whit Stillman next most of it and builds on with his own | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
writing. The comedy is so sharp. She's the kind of character you | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
recognise in the modern day. This is a woman who knows how to wrap | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
everybody around her little finger and passes off her own selfishness | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
as being very ultra with stick. There are wonderful lines. She has a | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
handmaid who packs and unpacks her. She says, as there is an element of | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
friendship involved... Some lovely lines. I think that is something one | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
could steal in a restaurant. Jane Austen is terrific. One of the | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
things I see in a lot of costume dramas on television, we like the | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
bonnets and stuff like that, but is that daughter, mother relationship | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
reflected today? Obviously you have got the drawback that times have | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
changed and it is about arranged marriage -- marriages. We live in a | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
time where women can make their own living. But at the same time these | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
characters are timeless. The only moment I did not like was that Chloe | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Savini is cast as American friend. There are jokes at her expense her | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
husband played by Stephen Fry. She is the wrong actress for this. She | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
was with Kate Beckinsale in the last days of disco. It seems like | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
sentimental casting. Besides that, great cast. Alice Through the | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Looking Glass, another one that we love. Do we need another Alice? We | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
really do not. The last one, Alice in Wonderland, was not a great | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
success in terms of criticism and my feelings about it. They have decided | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
to replicate a similar formula. It has very little in common with the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
original text. Apart from she goes through a mirror. She ends up in | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
Wonderland and indulges in a time traveller fantasy, which I am pretty | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
sure was not in Lewis Carroll. It becomes this bombastic, loud, heavy | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
soundtrack. Great CGI but there is too much of it. It looks quite | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
hallucinogenic. Also, when was the last film with Johnny Depp in it | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
that you really like to? Some years ago now. He seemed to peak then. Is | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
a shame because he can really turn it on. Sacha Baron Cohen is not | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
going through a great part either. He is not but he is funny in this. | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
He is playing time. He has a relationship with the director. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Maybe that is why it works. The month -- we want everyone to see is | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Money Monster. -- the one I really want to see is Money Monster. It is | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
a newsroom thriller set in a TV studio, George Clooney playing this | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
confident, Brache presenter. A gunman breaks into the studio and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
wholesome hostage. He wants to find out what happens to his investment. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Julia Roberts is the producer trying to manage things and control it. | :06:06. | :06:18. | |
Here is a look. You have got a delivery? Don't move. Jesus! Cut the | :06:19. | :06:35. | |
feed. Turn those cameras back on. Whoever is in their turn those | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
cameras back on! I cannot. Turn those cameras on! I'm going to | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
discount to three. I swear to god I am pulling the trigger. -- I am | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
going to count to three. Tents. I am a sucker for these | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
real-time hostage thriller is where you're on the edge of your seat and | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
you are waiting to see what happens and how the different characters | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
deal with it. I thought this worked quite well. I could enjoy it broadly | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
speaking. What we do not see their is they are dealing with the firm | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
that is accused of being corrupt. There is perhaps too much going on. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
They are trying to spread out the characters and the action. It is | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
essentially a two hander between George Clooney and Jack O'Connell. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
The big short and so on are about the evils of our age. That shows | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
something more like dog Day afternoon. Two very different | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
movies. Exactly. It is trying to comment on financial corrupt and | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
then make a moral statement. Apparently originally it was very | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
much about those two guys. It suffers in to undertake on too much. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
If I paid money for this in the cinema I think I would be quite | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
happy. It is still mainstream and enjoyable and it delivers as a | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
thriller. Bankers and financial people have become the villains of | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
the day. One thing about the premise that made me wary is do people | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
really take financial tips from guys on television seriously. You think, | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
George Clooney, lovely guy, but if you about making money he would not | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
be a TV person. Exactly. Jack O'Connell's character, you are not | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
sure that if he was ripped off, his first thought would be to march into | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the studio. The best of the week, Singh Street? I love this film. It | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
is a musical set in Ireland in the 1980s. A young boy wants to join a | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
former band to impress a girl. Simple but lovely. If you are a fan | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
of the Cure and the jam and grew up with that music, it is a treat. I | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
love the idea of a guy who says to a girl, you can be in my band, but he | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
does not actually have a band or Anni musical talent. He has got a | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
lot of confidence. He is quite sweet. And your DVD choice is | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
Victoria. Very gripping. This is real-time. It was filmed in one | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
take. It is slightly improvised. It is about a young girl on the Berlin | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
clubbing scene who meets a group of guys. It is about them hanging out | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
and having fun and then things take a turn. It is incredibly ambitious. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
You may think that is just a gimmick, doing the whole thing in | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
one take. The question is, does it work or doesn't it? Everyone I have | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
spoken to says it works. Yes, you are totally immersed. It is a very | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
intense experience. I bet Hollywood will come knocking for the director. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Thank you very much. That is it for this week. Thanks for watching. | :10:01. | :10:01. | |
Enjoy the movies. Hello there. Will the weather be | :10:02. | :10:18. | |
forcing you to | :10:19. | :10:19. |