Triple Nine, Bone Tomahawk, Freeheld Film 2016

I'm Antonia Quirke sitting in for Claudia, who will be

We'd love to hear what you think about tonight's films,

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kate Winslet star in high-stakes heist

Blood-soaked trouble in the Old West.

Kurt Russell plays cowboys and cannibals

The only advantage we have over these cave dwellers is being

smarter. Let's not lose that. And stand up for your love rights -

Julianne Moore fights Plus, Chris Pine battles

the snow-crunching Atlantic Sharing the sofa with

me tonight, as ever, And we're joined by

critic Ashley Clarke. First up, director John

Hillcoat's Triple 9 - a police corruption thriller

starring Kate Winslet like you've never seen her before,

as a Russian-Israeli Mafiosa Triple 9 is basically the story of

an ex-military guy who is put in a situation by the mother of his

child. He enlists a number of cops to help him pull off a heist so that

he can get his son back. We are not finished, Michael. There is another

job. She said she will kill every last one of us if we do not get this

thing. So they are put into a corner where they have to find a way of

getting more time to do a certain am a very difficult job. And so they

decide that with the help of the police officers in doubt group,

their one avenue is to try to orchestrate a Triple 9. What is

that? It means a cop has been killed. Every cop in the city runs

towards that car. We will have all day. It is actually a code which

means an officer is down. There is an understanding in America that if

they hear that, they will all go to the scene of the crime. Officer

down! Your job - get home at the end of the night. No-one is quite what

they appear to be. So it is every shade of grey, really. With a gang

of people, and then, the puppet master of all of that being Kate

Winslet, in a really different role for her. We would like to know how

things are progressing. Tell them we are going to make it work. This is

fantastic. It is incredibly cool, something totally different for me,

playing a truly brutal, horrible, horrific human being. She is the

matriarch of a Russian criminal family and she is running her

husband's operation while he is in prison. She is a very, very powerful

individual. I suppose I just had not imagined that I would be asked to

play a role like that in my lifetime. There is no limit to what

desperate men will do - when pushed. Danny, this opens so promisingly,

with a car chase, very reminiscent of Hit, and then we are down in a

bank vault, by the safety deposit boxes, which reminded me of Inside

Man. And then somebody holds up a plastic bag full of fingernails and

teeth... We should stop there. It is interesting, because so many heist

movies are glamorous. Really they serve as adverts for a life of

crime. Not Triple 9, which is a film where things go wrong, chaotically

and violently and unexpectedly. It has got that 70s vibe, it is going

for the French connection, I think it wants to rub shoulders with those

70s crime Classics. Also, it has every box set of The Wire lined up

chronologically. It wants to tell this mesh of storylines and

characters, in a two-hour movie. I think it is one of those areas where

TV has merged film out of the territory. It maintains an admirable

pace. I thought it was propulsive. But it gives itself so much plot to

resolve that it cannot help but start to drag. Apparently the writer

came up with the story when he took a long train journey or car journey

with an under cover not takes agent. And he jotted down all of the

stories. And I think they have shoehorned to many of them in. The

strength actually is the atmosphere of the thing. It is thick with

atmosphere. 70% of its takes place at night, and the bits in daylight,

it is a really specific kind of daylight. Atlanta in the deep South,

it feels cold. They have got that precise light, when you are kind of

hungover. It has got something about it. That is the strength of it. But

you're right there is too much story. Who is in charge, is it the

shadowy character in prison, or is it his wife, Kate Winslet, who I

think steals this movie? How did Kate Winslet get... Unless they were

literally picking names out of a hat. They thought, we want more of

this? But it sort of works. I do not even know if she thinks it is

working while she is doing it. But because the film has that off-kilter

kind of energy, her being such an or odd piece of casting... She is very

good. It seems like stunt casting. She is born to be this controlling

woman who is in charge, she just walks into it! I say that as a

condiment. Underneath the beehive walks into it! I say that as a

cast. It is a great example of a walks into it! I say that as a

film which is a great cast, lifting fairly average, solid material into

a different realm. Chiwetel Ejiofor is fantastic as a will. Casey

Affleck is great. Woody Harrelson can do this in his sleep. And

Michael Williams pops up. We should not say what he does in it. They

were consciously downbeat about all of their performances. The film

itself is very heavy-handed, which is par for the course for John

Hillcoat. His films are pretty sledgehammer heavy. Sometimes you

want a sledgehammer. Our next film also stars

Casey Affleck, alongside Chris Pine, Set in 1952, it is the true story

of a fearless rescue mission Set in 1952, it is the true story

There is this terrible storm in 1952, in an

There is this terrible storm in look. Jesus, Mary and Joseph! The

There is this terrible storm in front half of the

There is this terrible storm in completely. That is where most of

the officers were. On the back half, there was a bunch of men who were

still afloat. -- sunk completely. We had two or three hours, and then we

sank. Choose yourself accrue and assess that ship. This is a true

story and I think it is as much about the people in danger as it is

about the people doing the rescue. It was only a small coastguard

rescue team which went out. And it was impossible conditions. And these

four young guys went out at six o'clock at night in February, in

sub-freezing weather, to try to rescue 32 men. The compass is gone!

We are in Massachusetts, nearing winter, and we are out in the

winter. And it can get very cold, and the days can get very long.

Complaining stops really fast once you see the real guys and what they

went through. But it is good to have an experience somewhat of what they

might have gone through, because it helps with the reality of the

situation. We have got about five seconds, boys! If I were a much

better actor, I could probably just always fake it. But I am always

thrown by how fake stuff is. Here, it is actual rain, I am actually

freezing cold. The wind is blasting in your face. And so there is not a

lot of acting. You stay in doubt, take your punishment, you shout your

lines, and then you dry off! This ship will be sunk by nightfall!

Ashley, it is 63 years since this happened, and it is still considered

the most daring sea rescue in American history. I think there are

two films here. One is the oil to at sea, the big budget spectacular CGI

filled disaster movie, with Casey Affleck as the hero. He is great,

and when the film is at sea, it is very tense. I am not very good with

water. I cannot really do the canoe across the lake, as my family found

out this summer. It was not fun. At the other movie here is the

old-fashioned love story, with Chris Pine and his paramour to be. He is a

coastguard. It lost me, I thought it was really weak and limp. I could

not disagree with you more. I am with you. I fell in love with it

because it is not like Carol, it is not a movie which is this gorgeous

version of what life was like in the 1950s. It is like a 1950s movie

which has been brought back to life. Chris Pine and Holliday Grainger,

they made my heart swell. Even the name! She has got that all about

her. Chris Pine, he has to struggle with his good looks, but then he

steps up and becomes a hero. Holliday Grainger waiting for him

back on shore. Like a robot! What kind of robot?! Apparently Chris

Pine said he did this because Bernie Webber, the character he plays,

always admitted that he was afraid throughout the whole thing. That is

the thing. There is no one-liners. You assume the real Bernie Webber is

a strong and silent type, and the character is the same, there is no

pithy one-liners. There is a difference between being understated

and not really registering as a presence. I felt that Casey Affleck

was so strong, that he dwarfed what Chris Pine was doing. Every time the

action moved back to the town, it lost me. This is a actually in 3D. I

saw it in 3D. I had no idea of that. 3D always profoundly irritates me,

but I really enjoyed it in 3D. There 3D always profoundly irritates me,

is something about the effect. With the oil tank and the tilting of the

camera, and the queasiness. It has that extra dimension. I think we

both saw it in 2-D. If I had the third dimension, I might have had a

better reaction. I am fine with two dimensions. If this film had been

made in 1952, it would have had the tiny little boat made of peanuts and

match ticks. But you would not have had the effect. You would have had

to have the hard-core suspension of disbelief when it came to the storm.

You would have just had the actors wobbling about on the set. It is an

improvement on The Perfect Storm. Anything would be! But there are

moments of real calm which I thought were splendid. The bit where the

compass is lost... I remember everything about this film. He says

he is navigating at this point just the feel of the wind on his face.

Little things like that, which are true to how it happened. And would

be very useful in a nautical contest for any of the three of us. All when

I go canoeing in the summer. I was expecting to be underwhelmed and I

came out thinking, for a brief moment, I wanted to be a better

person at the end of it. Let me say it is entertaining in places. As a

whole it did not grab me but I thought the scenes Patsy were really

well done. It is like walking into the picture Palace in 1952. I agree.

You must stay to the end of the credits, when you see photographs of

the real crew, and it is heartbreaking how young they were.

Next up, the intriguing Bone Tomahawk, starring

Sheriff Kurt Russell at the mercy of cave-dwelling cannibals.

It is a horror Western that did very well at the London Film

This is Sheriff Franklyn, identify yourself right now or I'll shoot you

dead. There's a situation. Mrs O'Dwyer was abducted. Bone Tomahawk

is's Kew mission where some of the inhabitants of the town, called

Bright Hope, are kidnapped and a group is assembled to go rescue them

from an unknown tribe. It ain't going to be easy making camp - I

know it won't. We need to keep ourselves collected. Well it ain't

going to be easy. Action! There are going to be people who find it slow

and not delivering in things and then certainly over delivering in a

hideous fashion, but this is a deliberately paced western without

atmosphere and all the spaces and the uncomfortable pauses of people

in that world. This tastes like corn. It's corn chowder. Oh. Then

things are lining up. I I wanted to do something different, and I think

it's different. Ambush. Are you seeing all this? We didn't know what

it was like. You can't go anywhere on that leg. It needs to be operated

on. You combine these horror elements and this thriller aspect

and taking a lot of sterotypes and turning them sideways. Brace him. So

you get the classic western feel of these guys going on their yourny,

but what they go through, and what Ned say, I've never seen before in a

film. I got into horror when I was very, very little. In Terrells of

the violence, I need stuff that actually will shock me and make me

uncomfortable. -- terms. There are a couple of scenes in particular that

people seem to have a hard time with in this movie. I did when I wrote

them as well. When it gets nasty, it gets very, very nasty. So it feels a

little bit like a genre combination to a lot of people. If you want to

question my morals, do it later. People who I know have been asking

what's wrong with me for so long that it's not really a surprise at

this stage any more. My mum is not going to watch Bone Tomahawk. We'll

make sure all this has value. Danny, I was really impressed by

much of of movie. Made in 21 days. What did you think? It has speed and

momentum to it. It's interesting because a bit like the Finest Hours,

the old school proposition. A western made up of at first quite a

long stretch, saloons and jail houses and men in their long Johns

it becomes something else. Something different with blood on its hands

and nasty around its chops. A horror movie - Brutal. Genuinely horrific.

Unusual. It's interesting because sometimes you are tempted to close

your eyes. The sound, people may have got a whisper of it, the sound

is gruesome and horrific - it make it is worse. You can tell what is

going on. It proves that film itself is an audio as well as visual

medium. I couldn't agree more. Very little music in the film, isn't

there? There is a lot of space in the movie. It takes confidence for a

film-maker to do that It's his first film. I think it's an interesting

experiment. It was interesting, I keep saying "interesting" it came

out similar time to Hateful Eight that takes the western as its basis

and intergrates elements of horror, the Hateful Eight look at the the

Thing. There are unsettling things in it. It was a slog. I found it

very long and boring. Almost like a cult classic that was trying to

announce itself as a cult classic without getting that reputation.

Many of the - It is a truly frightening film. It would be wrong

to call it a cod comedy. Moments that came out of nowhere. We saw in

the clip, Richard General kins about to tuck into his chowder. He takes a

mouthful, Russell waiting for his reply. Holds his finger up, three

seconds go by. He is getting on with his dinner. You never see that in a

movie. Holding the film because he is eating his chowder. We are taken

to the cave. We need to talk about this cave. Don't go too far. It

reminded me of The Des sent. It needed to go a little bit furthers

ast a a critique of American myths of the Old West a dodgy line

reputation Ali with what it does with the bad guy aages. They bring

in a Native American to say, they are not one of us. They get rid of

him again. It's brave about the savages. We don't know - they could

- Why is that brave? It's left with a question mark. They are just

there. I really like that was just - In and of itself is a good feature.

Within the myths of the Old West and troublesome reputation it's an area

worthy of study. It left me feeling un#k078 foshl. It's tricky when you

mess with the old western. There are a reason why people look at them and

think they were problematic. When the first cry goes up down that

canyon. It happens so rarely, doesn't it these days in cinema you

think - I'm glad I'm not there. Well made. The slowness as well. We have

to stop. Do see it. I loved it. And last, Julianne Moore stars

in Freeheld, the real-life story of a terminally-ill cop who fought

the mulish New Jersey authorities If

benefits to her partner, If

would it be? What is your dream? A house, a dog, the woman I love, who

loves me. Me, too. Domestic partnership is new. I like the idea

of being a kept woman. What's the matter I think I pulled a muscle.

Get it checked out. Yeah. It is a human rights story, a gay rights

story. It's a police story as well. And, you know, it's a major, major

love story. Could I have your number? That was the most important

thing that you see that connection, the deep love that they had for each

other and the kind of support that they offered each other, too. I

guess that make it is official? Official, baby. They were ordinary

people Iing, living ordinary lives who found them snefs an

extraordinary situation. Because of their courage and the depth of

feeling they discovered that they had for each other, they made a

difference in the world. My name is detective

Laurel Hester, I've worked for the Ocean County Police

Department for 23 years. Recently, I was diagnosed

with stage four lung cancer. When my heterosexual colleagues

die their pensions go to their spouses but,

because my partner is a woman, In my 23 years as a police officer

I've never asked for special treatment, I'm only

asking for equality. We anguished over this situation,

but we have to deny your request. There was this loophole that let

Count whyy officials decide who got the pension benefits and who didn't.

They say no to Laurel. Then, basically, the whole story becomes

this really inspiring fight for justice during a time in two

individuals life that is just a tragedy and difficulty of

unimaginable proportion. We're just average people. We have a house and

we worked so hard on it because we thought we were going to live in it

forever. But I guess that's not going to happen. So the house will

just really like to hold on to it, you no he, to remember... To

remember how much we love each other. Thank you. Ashley, this was

written by the Oscar and daft ya nominated writer of Phil defl ya.

Concerned with quality and rights. Is it stirring stuff? No, in a word.

It isn't an earnest and well intentions film about a very

important subject. It's based on a short documentary from 2009, which

is well worth checking out. I just found the script really, really ham

fisted. A lot of the time it seems characters are reading descriptions

of themselves or - I live by the sea. Things like that. You know we

know because we can see your house by the sea. The score is intrusive

too. I was wondering who is responsible for this? It turns out

it's Johnny Marr from The Smiths. Morsi was always the talent. Ellen

Page didn't she come out as a lesbian. Six years she spent trying

to get it off the ground. I'm sure that is right. A passion project.

Julianne Moore is great. It's like a euphemism people trot out when the

film is cased in stoj. It could become the all purpose social fuf

missism. When there is an awkward pause - wasn't Julianne Moore great.

There was a feeling that Spotlight which was about important things was

weighed down by that importance and was grey and flat. I think the

people who said that were very, very wrong. You could hold up Freeheld as

an example - no this is the film that is grey and flat and weighed

down. For character drama it's uninterested in the central pair.

Michael comes along, it should have been cold Michael Shannon Freedom

Fighter. Once it is's established that Julianne Moore is not well her

character and Ellen Page's character recede into the background. In comes

- It's Steve Carell. He plays the Lader of the Garden State Equality

Movement from that time. A gay lawyer. He looked up this guy Steve

Goldstein on YouTube. He is doing a good imposition. It's all over the

place. Unless you have a banner along the screen explaining what was

going on it seems glaring. You get the sense of the characters falling

in love am they have this island of happiness. Things shattered. In the

middle of this under stated film you look like a character plot of from

Are You Being Served. Steven Goldstein has this thing he does to

draw attention to the cause. It makes perfect sense in that context.

Steve Carell, an intelligent actor, it looks terrible 246789 is a moment

where you think - wasn't Julianne Moore great. We haven't got time for

any more. Film. Week. Triple 9. The Finest Hours. Me too.

Playing us out tonight is Eddie The Eagle.

Released in April, the thrillingly promising Taron Egerton plays Eddie,

the Alpine athlete from Middle England who dreamt

of becoming the first British ski jumper to compete in the Winter

For as long as I can remember it has been my ambition to become an

Olympian. Eddie, are you not an athlete. You're right, I'm never

going to go to the Olympics. I'm going to go to the Winter Olympics.

You will never be Olympic material. Let's do it. I really need a coach.

You do realise the time to start jumping is when you're five or six.

What do you know about it? 1968 Champion. How come I've never heard

of him? He kicked him out. He was disrespectful of the sport. He just

after a few tips. Give up, there's one for free. Could you give me a

push, please. A push? It's higher than I expected it to be.

You're not going to give up, are you? I'm going to do it. I was

kicked off every time I was on before I got to prove myself. That

is why I need my own moment. It's a world that doesn't want to know you.

What's new. I know what it's like to be written off. It will hurt like

hell. W-very no desire to be associated with ludicrous antiques

and defeat. You're a disgrace to the sport. Really. Personal best and

we're a disgrace. Here he comes, Britain's Eddie Edwards. You're

Eddie the Eagle, just fly. COMMENTATOR: And he's off.

Can he do the impossible? Hands up, that was my fault.