Doctor Strange, Burn Burn Burn, Train to Busan The Film Review

could be crowned champion were Lewis Hamilton to slip up. That is all to

come on sports day at 630. Now it is time for the film review.

Hello and welcome to the film review on BBC News, here to look through it

with me at Hammersmith. Layla we have got Doctor strange, the new

Marvel film, Benedict, church pays Doctor strange. Then we are going to

Britain for a road trip comedy starring Laura Carmichael from

Darlington Abbey, it is called Burn, burn, burn. Then finally we are off

to South Korea for an Halloween horror, zombies on a train. There is

a change of pace for Benedict Cumberbatch and Dominic strange.

Yes, it is something common with the characters we have said before, he

is an arrogant neurosurgeon, knows better than everybody else, he

perhaps doesn't have so many airs and graces, reminds you of Sherlock

and Allen during. He likes fast cars and he has an amazing array of fast

watches, and he comes a cropper, when he has a car accident from

driving too fast and he goes to seek new age help from the ancient one

played by Tilda Swinton when he runs out of option by conventional

medicine and there he finds a whole new world. I spent my last dollar

getting here, one-way ticket and you are talking to me about healing

through belief. You are a man looking at the world through a

keyhole, you have tried your whole life to through the keyhole and now

on hearing that it can be widened in ways you can't imagine, you reject

the possibility. I because I do not believe in fairy tales about chakras

or chakras or energy or the power of belief. There is no such thing. We

are made of matter and nothing more. Just another tiny moment respect

within an indifferent universe. You think too little of yourself stop

you think you see through me but I see through you.

What did you just do to me? I push all astral form out of your physical

form. War is in the tea? Just T. How does it work, you can see Mr nasty

character but I suppose if he did not believe that your astral thing

could not be thrown out of your physical body he wouldn't go to that

Doctor in the first place? It is a fantasy film but it is nice to see

his arrogant character happen. You have two suspended, but that was a

time and 1960s when psychedelia was invoked, that is a time when 3-D

comes into its own. I'm not ready a fan of 3-D but we see some amazing

other worlds and fractals and it gets trippy, the visual effects are

second to none. Some people have compared it to, in the special

effects to inception and the way that things get rolled up, that for

me was the best bit of inception, just extraordinary? It is the best

bit to be honest, watching these buildings folding

into each other, pulled into a kaleidoscopic fashion, things have

moved on, so it really is visually splendid. A little bit too much

mumbo jumbo and waffle, there are some really long monologues and then

they wake you up with a quip at the end. There was a bit of that, in

inception to I seem to remember. Burn, burn, burn seems terrific.

Yes, it is a UK road trip, I really like one of these charming films

that took me by surprise, the debut director does a tremendous job,

along with the writer. Laura Carmichael and Chloe Perry star as

two women on their 20s, who go on a road trip around the UK, their

friend has passed away and he has left his ashes to them on the

understanding that they will take his ashes

around the UK and stop that significant points, and play a

little video of him, talking about why this is significant. He is quite

a humorous character. Not only does humour come from that but also

interactions, classic road trip style. And Laura Carmichael from

downtown happy turns out to be funny, and somebody else from green

Wing is in this. This is hilarious. He is a wise old hippie who seems

wonderful after a few ciders but terrible with a hangover. There is a

theme to these films, tea and cider. It is a gentle English Thelma and

Louise? Thelma and Louise although with the generation now. It is ready

sharp and funny. And this one? This is a really big hit in South Korea,

it is a zombie horror movie, zombies on a train, simple as that, I liked

it because it is nearly all from the point of view of two central

characters, you have a work colleague Father who is getting

divorced and his young daughter is very unhappy, she wants to see her

mother, on her birthday so he says OK I will take you on the birthday

to another town, and this will be a birthday not to forget because a

zombie outbreak comes along. (ATMOSPHERIC NOISES) (SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING) (SCREAMING) (ATMOSPHERIC NOISES) (SCREAMING) (SCREAMING) Wow,

I liked the idea of people being trapped on the train. I have been on

some rough train journeys but... There is a lot of attention, you

have the disaster movie format where a certain group of people in an

enclosed space, they come together as they had to deal with an

emergency. It focuses more on the human reactions than the zombies

themselves, it is about how people focus on a crisis and how selfish

this probably isn't the way to go and it is promoting kindness and

group activities and understanding, that, there are things which are a

bit over the top. The selfish guy, you never how that will end up.

There is a pregnant woman, and there is the cute kid and the baseball

team. But do you know what, it is re-well done and suspenseful. And

you can also just see, the way it is done, because South Korea is quite

clinical and clean and so on, it is a very different media from the

horror films which have the Gothic thing. Guess it is quite a light and

bright rush-hour horror but no less gripping. The best Korean film that

you would see all week? I would think so. The hunt for the world of

people, is your favourite. Great Kiwi comedy drama, action thrown in,

Sam Neill stars as the grumpy foster uncle, he ends up in the wilderness

with his young charge. Odd couple in the wilderness, and these two are

very different, they learn how to get along, but it is so funny, the

director does a terrific job and he has summoned some of the humour.

From the flight of the Concordes. Rather quirky. I think the thing

that is very, very funny about this is the child protection services

lady who is this complete monster throughout the whole film? She has

got a slightly more surreal edge, they have this thing about her being

the terminator. She appears everywhere going no child left

behind. But the relationship, is terrific. He is the sort of slightly

podgy, very un-fit city kid who likes hip-hop music and he ends up

in the middle of a field, it is the bush. But it is a very, very clever

relationship with a clever script. I loved it, it is still going, it is a

good group movie, a nice want to see with the crowd. It won the audience

award in Edinburgh. And your DVD of the week is the commune? This is set

in 1970s Copenhagen. This is slightly lighter than some of his

other work body starts two fantastic actors, who play a couple who have

decided to open up the home to make a commune and it is about the group

dynamic and the consequences of living as a group. It is not as much

bed-hopping as you might imagine but it start as quite light and fun,

with a jaunty soundtrack and it becomes more

poignant and interesting as the cracks begin to show. The cracks

begin to show and people assert their personalities. Yes and the

permissiveness that it ushers in has consequences on the marriages. And

another interested footnote is that Denmark was voted the happiest

country on earth with Britain coming in in 23rd, I'm not sure where the

commune comes in. Thank you very much. A quick reminder, you will

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