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the boxing rematch. Tennis, triathlon and the women's cup final

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action, we have it all on sports that 6:30pm but now time for the

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Film Review. Hello and welcome to The Film Review

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on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases is Jason

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Solomons. We will see the blockbuster that keeps on giving.

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Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt team up in the Edge Of Tomorrow, and

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tomorrow, and tomorrow. That joke will become clear later. Ken Loach

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is back with a 1930s tail in Ireland with a bid to reopen a community

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centre. And Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron blazed their saddles

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through the Western spoof A Million Ways To Die In The West. Edge Of

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Tomorrow, the latest Tom Cruise. There is always one! The one thing

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about Tom Cruise movies, if you don't like one, another will come

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along very soon. He has got into this blockbuster groove, running

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around dystopia with a young English actor. Oblivion recently and now he

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is in a film that has been billed as Groundhog Day meets all kinds of

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other action films. He plays a spin doctor cast into the Battle of a

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future dystopia where the world is taken over. The concept of this film

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is so high that you get neck ache looking up to work out what is going

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on. It is so big that you just don't notice the holes in the plot because

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of the pyrotechnics. If you know what is going on here, you are

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stronger than me, but I think Tom Cruise is flirting with Emily Blunt.

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Not a good idea. You all right? I think I broke something. What? My

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back. The only thing I can feel is my lips. This is an important rule.

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It is the only rule. You get injured on the field, you better make sure

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you die. Why? Last time I was in combat I was hit. I was bleeding

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out, just not fast enough. I woke up in a field hospital with three pints

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of someone else's blood and I was out. I lost the power. Do you

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understand? We had better start over. The thing about that is that

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Tom Cruise is doing a hamster impression. That is awful. That is

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his lips. It is quite fun because he takes the Mickey out of his own

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green image, which is better than normally being so provost. It has

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been written by Butterworth, who wrote Jerusalem, and I quite liked

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this Friday night blockbuster. The concept was good as far as I could

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follow it. He can reset the day, keep reliving the same day until he

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gets it right. If he does not like it the first time round, you think,

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oh, he is doing it again. It does not get wittier and he does not

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grow. But it is a big scale blockbuster and it stars Jane Hill

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from BBC News. We will watch it just for that. She is in it a bit. And

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Ken Loach's latest? He is back with Jimmy's Hall. I was at the Cannes

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Film Festival when this came out. He is so beloved there, his 12th film

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in competition, that people cheer him. He has a social conscience that

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goes down well, a humanism that beats through his movies and this is

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no exception. A period film, which is set in 1930s Ireland, just after

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independence when a political firebrand called Jimmy is being

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urged to open up his dance hall again so the community can learn to

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do poetry and learn some literature and do some dancing. An element of

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Footloose. As ever, shot through with the community feel. This will

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to get the community to action against the ruling classes, either

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the church here, or some imperialist state, Britain. Lots of Ken Loach

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themes going on but beautifully done with good costumes and great music

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and lovely performances. Lovely performances and you can see that it

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is fun. One of the critics of Ken Loach is that he lets the politics

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overbalance the plot. He has managed to make what is essentially a group

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of people trying to engage in social activism seem like fun. Yes, and I

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think it is. It is not too preachy. They're just trying to better

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community, give the community something to do. The kids wanted the

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dance all. Lots of Irish jigs and dancing, very unusual in a Ken Loach

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movie. The priest was played brilliantly. Add a period in British

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history that we don't see very much. The real history of Jimmy Gralton,

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he was whitewashed and deported to America. It is not really a history

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movie but about what you can do for your community. When you watch a Ken

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Loach film, you feel like a better person for having watched it. I

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forgot how much I liked Ken Loach movies and then I got imbued with a

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humanistic spirit and came out dancing! Where you dancing to A

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Million Ways To Die In The West? Apparently there are 1 million ways

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to die and one way is to put yourself on the big screen, if you

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are Seth MacFarlane. He was very funny in that film and he played the

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teddy bear. He splits audiences. Nobody liked his Oscar show but I

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didn't mind it. He plays a lonely sheep are ditched by his girlfriend

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played by Amanda Seyfried, and then meets Charlize Theron in her first

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comic role. I am setting this up so we can get this clip and see just

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how hilarious it can be when you are not doing Blazing Saddles. I have

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that skirt. I worried to the fair two years ago but good for you for

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trying to bring it back. I figured only a complete idiot would throw

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away a perfectly good thing. We were going to check out the shooting

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gallery. It would be fun, right? Yes, and let's make things

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interesting. A nickel a target. That is actually a little rich for my

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blood. How about a penny? What is the matter? It's business bad? You

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are such a sheep skate! Let's go. You can shear me an! That is awful!

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Isn't it terrible? The rest of it is toilet humour and puerile humour.

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Out of time stuff like that little routine there. You get it in the

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streets and the ghetto and it is transposed. I don't know who sees

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westerns any more. 13`year`old boys might have appreciate this but when

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did they watch Westerns? I don't get this. You can do comedy Westerns.

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City Slickers was fantastic. But there is no point for this Are plain

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spoof. For every ten shots, I did laugh once. `` no point in these

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types of spoofs. And there is no chemistry with Charlize Theron, who

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proves to be a good comedian. Seth MacFarlane is the dead centre and he

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is the director and the actor. Who else can you blame? Nobody. And

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you're best of the week is The Two Faces of January. Yes, an elegant

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thriller packing in audiences slowly. There is no reason to see

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this other than it being an old, elegant thriller, based on a British

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type of film. There is a murderer. Whodunnit? It is quite obvious and

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it is not very twisted but it is very elegant. Kirsten Dunst is very

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good and Oscar Isaac plays a young American in this. I like it. It. It

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transports you to another time as well. They don't make these films

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any more. You might think, I know why, once you have watched it but I

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enjoyed it had a great sense of style to it. Your DD `` DVD is

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called Advanced Style but I have not heard of it. And that is why I am

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here today. It was a fashion blog from some unimpressed by the old

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ladies on the streets of New York. He used to tell them they looked

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fantastic and take their photographs. It is a documentary

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going into the lives of these stylish old ladies in Manhattan with

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big cats and glasses. It is about expressing yourself in a certain

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age, which is a demographic so undersold to and targeted by any

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industry, that I found it extremely inspirational about keeping your

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self`expression into old age. It is not about fashion. It is about

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looking good and accessorising your way through it. It was a brilliant

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documentary. Very funny, very rich and original. I have never heard of

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anything like that. You could get some tips! Big glasses. I will wear

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some crazy glasses next week. You will find more news and reviews from

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across the BBC online. That is it for this week. Thank you for

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watching and goodbye. us, a weekend in which we leap into

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June. Time to look back at the statistics for May. Indeed the whole

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of spring. It looks like it

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