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As Australia and New Zealand prepare to do battle in the Rugby league

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World Cup final, we will ask if the tournament has been a success. That

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is at 630. Now it is time for the film review.

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Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this

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week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode. So Mark, what do we have

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this week? This is the week we see the release

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of Saving Mr Banks. Mary Poppins is one of the greatest films ever made.

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We have day of the flowers in which two sisters travel to Cuba.

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And we have carried, do we need a remake of the 1976 classic? ``

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Carrie. There are people in the world who do

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not like Mary Poppins, I have not met any of them. The story of Saving

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Mr Banks is that PL Travers goes to Los Angeles to do business with Walt

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Disney. She needs the money, and what Disney does want to make the

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film. She has a real contempt for what Walt Disney does. But she needs

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the cash. After some persuasion, she decides to go to Los Angeles where

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she meets Walt Disney is it `` what Disney. `` walked Disney.

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Here you are maths. You cannot imagine how excited I am to finally

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meet you. It is an honour. It is so nice to meet you. I cannot

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believe I have PL Travers right here in my office. After almost 20 years.

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20 long years. I wish you could have seen me there, being as a whippet, a

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racehorse eyeballs. But look at you. `` racehorse I was. I love it. There

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is so much to like about it. I think Mary Poppins is a wonderful film and

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it is nice to see somebody paid tribute to it. This is an attempt to

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find the roots of her character. But the real meat of it takes place in

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California where she is resisting the film being made and everybody is

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doing their best. Emma Thompson is brilliant at being very snappy, very

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court, very short, but all the way through it, you also believe in her

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own passion. It is something she loves. She does not want to give it

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up. She never reconciled herself with the movie. I think the

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relationship on`screen between her and Tom Hanks version of Walt Disney

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is brilliant. He has just the right amount of steel underneath the

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charm. There are some wonderful scenes with the Sherman brothers.

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Some fantastic songs in the film, they are making them up and she just

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says no, no, no,. I think the film will work for any audience. Emma

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Thompson's performance is to reflect. I hope that she gets awards

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recognition. Quite often, comic performances are overlooked. She is

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snippy, witty, she is hard to like, but impossible not to love.

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Day of the flowers. Two sisters take their father's

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Ashes to Cuba where they want to scatter them on the eponymous day of

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the flowers. There is a romantic element, a family story. What I

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thought was charming about it is that it is very ambitious in the

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amount of different stories `` storage plans `` story strand it

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attempts to tie up. It does an impressive job of taking all these

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disparate strands and making them work in a way that, by the time you

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get to the end of it, you do care how it works out. You do genuinely

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care about the characters. It is not perfect, but I thought it was a

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sweet, charming movie. Also, the romance of Cuba. The reality of

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Cuba, great place though it is, is very different from its romance. And

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on this, one of the sisters is very political, the other is a

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fashionista. It plays those ideas against it each other `` against

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each other. Stephen King's first novel, the

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story of a young girl with a fanatically religious mother who is

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trying to stop her daughter from maturing. The daughter develops

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telekinetic abilities. It is a trick. You see? It is going

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to be OK. It is not too late. Do not doing this for me. I will have to

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tell that boy the truth. From that sin was born and other, the worst

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sin. I'm warning you, mother. Please don't do this. There will be a

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judgement, carry. `` Carrie. Carrie is really sturdy story, well

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written, an interesting story about a mother and daughter. The way that

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girls can gang up on each other, their cruelty. This is a perfunctory

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retelling of it. On one hand, it is very faithful to the novel, but you

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kind of wonder what the point of it is? The first film was so well

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done, an operatic version of the novel. People of our age remember

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the final jumper at the end of the film. This is not a total failure,

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but it is very ordinarily in its retelling of the story. It is

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updated slightly with mobile phone footage. The actresses are very

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good. But the problem is if you have seen Carrie already, there is

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nothing new. If it brings a new audience to the story, fair enough.

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But I am surprised by how ordinarily it is.

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The Hunger Games to. Yes, it pretty much ups the ante.

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This is about what the games mean in terms of oppressing the rest of

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society. Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely fantastic. I'm not sure

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how they are going to do the next one. This is really good,

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intelligent, teen entertainment with a real edge and a fantastic central

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portrayal by Jennifer Lawrence. And the made`for`TV aspect of utter

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cruelty. It says a lot about reality television. Satirical, but still

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tough. It is a roller`coaster ride. And the DVD is Alan Partridge, Alpha

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Papa. I think it works. I went to see it in a cinema and I laughed all

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the way through it. The story is that there is a siege at the radio

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station for Alan Partridge works. I thought it was consistently funny.

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Yes, it is a TV spin off, but if you want something that is going to make

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you laugh, it will do the job. If you want something on a cold

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November weekend, it will work. A quick reminder before we go that

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you'll find more film news and reviews from Mark online.

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That's at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. That's it for this week though.

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Thanks for watching. Goodbye. Good evening. This weather front has

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pushed further southwards bringing patchy, light rain, but quite behind

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it `` but behind it, quite a clearance. The best of the sunshine

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in eastern Scotland and the North East of England. The wind will start

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to ease off, but the strongest of the wind this evening will move into

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the North Sea. Over the next few days, those winds easing down. It

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will stay dry for the bulk of the weekend. Those winds pushing off

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into the North Sea, the

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