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who is a sensation. And a Paralympic star reveals her winter sports | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
targets. That is all coming up at 6:30pm. Now it's time for the film | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
review. Hello and welcome to the film review | :00:00. | :00:27. | |
on BBC News full stop to take us through this week 's releases is | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Mark Kermode. What do we have? We have Little Men, an impressive, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
low-key drama. We have a new version of The Magnificent Seven. And a | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
terrific British genre picture, The Girl With All The Gifts. I quite | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
like the look of Little Men. Rightly so. It's made by Ira Sachs. In his | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
previous film, a same-sex couple in Manhattan lose their apartment and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
have to stay with family. In this week of Greg Kinnear, a struggling | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
actor, who moved to Brooklyn after his father dies and he ends up in an | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
apartment where he is the landlord for a shopkeeper who has been living | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
with a rent that is now somewhere below market value. It's about | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
gentrification and property. Crucially, you have these conflicts | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
playing out between adults and yet their sons are developing this | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
friendship which comes to be very important for them. As the adults | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
squabble, one says, our parents are in a business dispute and it's | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
getting ugly. The kids decide to respond by not talking to the parent | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
any more, which doesn't go down well. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Do you ever think about anybody other than yourselves? Huh? | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
One of the hardest things to realise when you're a child | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
is that your parents are people, too. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
You understand that? They care about things? They make mistakes. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
They try to do what they think is the right thing to do. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Does any of what I'm saying make any sense to you? | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Why don't you tell me what's so funny, Tony? | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Think you've got it in you to be an actor? | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
See how you react when you don't get into LaGuardia. Just see then. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
That's an awkward car journey. What I really like is that it can do | :02:30. | :02:44. | |
awkwardness but it's also very funny. There is a sequence where one | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
kid goats to a drama lesson and it's a very funny sequence. But it's | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
about so many different things. On the one hand, gentrification, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
property, money. On the other hand, families breaking apart and being | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
fractured. On another level, it's about the friendship between these | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
two boys, which becomes everything to them. It's almost like a love | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
story, but what's really lovely about the films is that it's sort of | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
set up what in other dramas would be great moments of revelation and then | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
steps away from them and allows the audience to decide what the personal | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
interplay 's are. It doesn't demonise any characters, they are | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
all good and bad with strengths and floors. It's funny and touching and, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
importantly, it's honest and moving. I was swept up in it. I thought it | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
was a really beautifully understated film which, as I said, has socio- | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
economic but can also be taken as a story of a great youthful friendship | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
finding its feet. Interestingly, I sent not just about money but about | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the awkwardness of talking about money, about acknowledging money | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
problems and all of that, acknowledging it in front of a | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
different generation. There is real awkwardness and tenderness and | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
affection and humour. It's a terrific piece of work. Moving on to | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
The Magnificent Seven, which is a remake of that film, which was a | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
reboot of Seven Samurai. It has Denzel Washington leading a renegade | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
band called in to basically save a town, which is being hideously | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
oppressed by a mining baron. This time, the renegade band is Ethan | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Hawke, Martin Sensmeier, Chris Pratt and others. On the plus side, they | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
are a diverse gang, giving the film a contemporary relevance, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
particularly at the moment. On the downside, the film isn't ashamed to | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
indulge in every single western cliche imaginable, people walking | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
into bars and the piano stopped playing, loads of guns being twirled | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
around people's fingers, and this stand-offs in which the camera | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
focuses in on eyes. -- endless stand-offs. It is fine but not | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
moving forward in any way. You wonder why you are not watching the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
original film. A lot of people might be watching and how does it compare | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
with the previous one? It doesn't have any of the timeless quality of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
that, but it has action sections which are very cranked up, and that | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
is the most modern think about it, the level of carnage in the gunplay | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
sequences is very modern. It's not terrible. I know some people have | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
taken against it. It's fine but not much more, which brings us nicely to | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
The Girl With All The Gifts, which is really terrific and very | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
impressive. This is a British chiller which takes a sort of new | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
riff on very well worn zombie themes, to an extent. The land Scott | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
is post-apocalyptic -- the landscape is post-apocalyptic, but it is | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
closer to the concerns of Never Let Me Go. The world has been overrun by | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
hungrys, marauding bands of zombies, infected by a fungal plague. We open | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
with a young girl in a cell, manacled to a wheelchair, then taken | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
to a classroom and we realised that these are children who, on one | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
level, appear to be dangerous but, on another level, they just appear | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
to be children. And by and by Zeus wanted to punish | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
Prometheus for his mistakes, so he fashioned a woman of clay | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
and gave her the name Pandora - Pandora opened up the box, whereupon | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
every plague and tribulation, every misfortune and evil thing | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
in the world came pouring out, and they have afflicted | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
mankind ever since, Yeah, sweet dreams(!) | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Bloody talk to it. But then Pandora peered into the box | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
and found one more And she lifted it in her | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
hands and set it free. Hope is the good thing that makes | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
you be able to stand Good night, black and | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
white kitten. So Jim artisan, the teacher comes | :07:28. | :07:56. | |
psychologist, sees them the newcomer, Sennia Nanua, who is great | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
in the central role. You have Glenn Close as a doctor just sees these | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
children as specimens. Paddy Considine is the soldier who is | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
afraid of them but, during the film, comes to think something different. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
They go on the road to London, which is overrun by this fungal foliage, | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
and they find themselves taking their way through groups of hungrys. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
The film is smart and adventurous. It takes well worn zombie riffs and | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
does something new. It has a very good ensemble cast, all of whom are | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
bringing their a game to the proceedings. It has a fantastic | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
musical score, which superbly accentuates the sort of John Wyndham | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
atmosphere. There is something of that in the clip. Off-kilter, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
unusual, slightly eerie, also a touch of David Cronenberg in its | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
attitude to infection, seeing both sides of an argument. And I thought | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
it was really well done. It's on a tight budget, 4.4 million. They have | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
made the most of it. The resources are somewhat constrained but the | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
vision of the film-makers is anything but. It's a film which | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
dares to be adventurous, which dares to be challenging and to try | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
something new. Not just looking back to the past, although it's happy | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
nodding its head to Romero, but looking to the future and doing | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
something interesting. I loved it very much. What do you pick out of | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
all of those? The best thing in the cinema at the moment is Hunt For The | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Wilderpeople, a New Zealand film. It's about a story of a young boy, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
and his adoptive father. They go into the wild together in the middle | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
of a manhunt. It's one of those movies which is funny and charming | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
but also very poignant. It has essential human truth to it but it's | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
completely unexpected. It's a terrific movie. A touch of Captain | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
fantastic. It's not been very widely seen, because it on relatively | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
limited release, but everyone who's seen it loves it. Once they go to | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
DVD, who do you pick? Love And Friendship is a brilliant adaptation | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
of an early episode rework by Jane Austen will stop fantastic central | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
assortments -- central performance by Kate Beckinsale, who is terrific | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
as a scheming Austin character who you admire and are afeared of. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Brilliant comedy performance by Tom Bennett, who comes close to stealing | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the show. When you look at the director's back catalogue, you | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
think, that makes sense, because there is so much of that Austin wit | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
and humour running through his work. I've seen it twice and both times I | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
beamed all the way through. It's intelligent and funny and insightful | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
and adventurous and, again, not what you would expect, but a real winner. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
If you beamed all the way through... And you know how curmudgeonly I am! | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Thank you. A quick reminder that you can get more news and reviews online | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
at the website. You can catch up on all the previous shows on the BBC | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
iPlayer. That is it for this week. Thank you for watching. Goodbye. | :11:32. | :11:48. | |
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