Oscars, Grimsby, Secret in Their Eyes Film 2016

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We're looking ahead to Sunday's Oscars.

I'm here with the wonder that is Danny Leigh and filmic

oracle, Peter Bradshaw, from The Guardian.

First up, Sacha Baron Cohen stars as the idiot brother

of suave-but-deadly secret-agent, Mark Strong.

Green earth. You are transmitting a request. Eyes on the target. I'm in

pursuit. Bravo Two. Give up pursuit, now. I'd rather not. Hello, chaps.

Room for another. Goodbye. Eyes on the target. Who the hell are

you? Your brother. Took me 28 years. I finally found you. Oh, my God.

You'll have to drive. Move. Don worry it's bulletproof. You can't

hurt us. Us.. . We've got bulletproof glass. A roll it up.

Roll it up. I wanted to make an action film that stood up for

itself. Where there was kick ass action. This film is drawing upon

the spy genre in a lot of ways. It's the beginning of a great action

sequence and Sacha comes in and trips and makes everything

(inaudible) Oh, the match is on. Set and, action, action, action! A I had

a touch of clas phobia. Your body is screaming. This is not football.

Forget the football. You're going to drawn. -- drown. I am anticipate

getting out after the second penalty. Noooo! Is I needed to

disappear. I've got the perfect place for you to hide. Back to

paradise. That's your brother. Where have you been all these years? It's

imperative no-one knows I'm here. Our lips are sealed. Mine around.

She's talking about her vagina. OK, Nobby, seduce the agent in the green

dress. You can't miss her. She's gorgeous. Oh, no, she is gorgeous.

You want room From top to cleaned. Bottom. So funny I have to tell you,

while we watched that, we were weeping with laughter? Apart from

the two of us. Easter Island statues. That is what I was going

for. I mean, Sacha Baron Cohen is a gee yus. Borat is genius. AliG is

genus. The Dictator is good. We have been going down and down and down.

Steve Coogan toureded a show called Alan partridge and some of the more

unsuccessful characters. Basically, this is his unsuccessful character.

There are big gross out laughs in it. One or two or three. No. The

rest of it. It's 900. It's kind of weak, kind of sub-Hollywood action

comedy. Everything is direction directed like action. The director

is an action guy. He goes, bang, bang, bang. Strong seasoning, a good

straight actor. . He is not a good straight man. He has to be straight

man to Sacha. It's an entirely different skill. I've got to say, it

pains me to say it. I bow to no-one in my admiration for Sacha Baron

Cohen he has created comedy gee news, not this time. He has been

doing it for 20 years. The you expect 20 years a comic actor will

become introe spective and show they are familiar, unless they were

making movies about tea bagging. It's pure filth. Sacha Baron Cohen

is a filthy man. There is scene, everyone who sees this film will

know the scene. I have never seen the like of. I'm closing my eyes now

and still seeing it. You can play it your head. It will be legendary. It

is. You can city there and go, we can't like it. It's - That is the

tone of voice. I got it. It's laugh-out-loud funny. I went with

Rory. With he were holding on to each other. We were weeping. At one

point I was, "I'm going to be sick. " It feels slap dash. If they give

anything longer than three seconds to breathe a little bit. The

audience will get their phones out and text each other. Never allowed

to relax and breathe with the comedy. He was always outrageous,

but that was always meshed with satire, brilliant and sophisticated

satire which was also laugh-out-loud stuff. It really was. It sat rised

correctness, liberal correctness and bigotry and all those Brigg yant

things. It feels ordinary. It feels ordinary. We will sound like twits

talking about it. I hate it. It's great. It isn't his best If you pick

work. On a film and talk about the fact accents are off. Normally most

will think - Sacha Baron Cohen is a huge Peter Sellers fan. He would

have got the accents right am he can't keep his northern accent

straight. By the time you get to the last word of the sentence, he has

gone back into Christ College Cambridge. It's a funny line. They

had the premier in Leicester Square. Sacha Baron Cohen in his pants. They

wouldn't have done it in Grimsby. I don't think he's aware that Grimsby

is a real place. See it, you will love it. Hilarious.

Next, psychological thriller, Secret in Their Eyes.

A remake of an Oscar-winning Argentinian movie.

It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts

as a cop whose life is turned upside down when her daughter

You could just ask her out. The beauty from Harvard Law. The blue

collar fit. Don't be a dic. They found an unidentified female body in

a garage dumpster. What are we doing guys. The body appears to be

bleached inside and out. What is it? It's your daughter. What? ! Noo!

Help. Death penalty would be too good for him. Our guy. I can't have

you crushing him. You're letting him go, aren't you I'm sorry country

he's guilty. We can't just let him walk.

We're going to get him, no matter what it takes. Ray, Jess. I found

him. How did you find him. Jts online. He was in the prison system.

Can you go through the population in a year if you look at the faces

every night. So I did. For a year. 13 years. Re-open the case. We've

had multiple leads. They have all been false alarms. I don't have the

stomach to watch him walk away again. Maybe we go about this a

little less officially. No. Ray. Justice. I owe my daughter that. We

have to find this guy before Jess does. My daughter was the thing that

made me me. Nothing will ever change that. She's not going to stop. He

can quit his job. He can change his name. He can dump his car. But I

will still find him. I have to apologise because I've been in

Canada, I'm going to say that a lot. Be proud. Ridiculous. I've only seen

the original of this. This is absolutely down to you two. Is it as

good? No, it's not. An honourable failure. Like the Vanishing what is

the point of the remake. There isn't much point. This really tries to do

something with the original. The original was about o two

prosecutors, one of whom is in love with the other one. The cold case,

the nasty cold case plays out in contradistinction to this poignant

failed love affair. A third character which is a bloke.

Hollywood remark recreates these characters, Chiwetel Edjifor who is

in love with Nicole Kidman, like a waxwork throughout the fill. . Never

been more unanimated within the fill. Julia Roberts is pretty good

in this film. She gives a good performance. She is adrift in it.

Her character is totally adrift. It's a shame am he gives an

interesting performance. It would have made much more sense if

Chiwetel Edjifor was in love with her. He is in love with Nicole

Kidman. Frankly, it doesn't work. It's interesting. Tries to do

something interesting with the original film. It doesn't work out.

The original was a terrific movie. I think I think it's a failure. The

original won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. If you were going to

look at them and say which was the sophisticated winner of the Oscar

for Best Foreign Film, you would have to think long and hard, and the

other thing is grimesy. Julia Roberts I will give you. Chiwetel

Edjifor is working too hard. Like a head of department on a team

building week that has gone wrong. He is trying to keep it - That makes

- Nicole Kidman, I don't want to sound ungallant. It's structured

around flashbacks between now and then. There was a problem with

Nicole Kidman doing then and now she looks exactly the same then and now.

It draws your attention to the fact her face looks the same. There is no

problem with that. We have beauty regimes, lord knows it. None of my

faces - Me neither. None of my body. I look like Jeff Capes. It takes you

out of the film. That is where the problem is. I will give you Julia

Roberts. Definitely. So only five days to go until Leo,

Sly, Alicia and the angry little red man from Inside Out,

find out if they're 2016 Let's take a look at

the runners and riders. Let's go. Place your bets. The race

is on. It's time! It's the 88th annual Academy Awards.

She's hilarious. Leading the race is survival epic The Revenant with 12

nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Action. This

could be Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu second Oscar in a row. The first

back-to-back win for a director in over 60 years. It could be fifth

time lucky for long suffering Leo. Hot on its tail with 10 nominations

is John Miller's rip roar Mad Max, fury road. It took audiences by

storm. What a lovely day. The Martian has seven nominations. It

picked up Best Comedy at the Golden Globes. Nothing for director, Ridley

Scott. Steven Spielberg misses out on Best Director category. People

are scared of this man. Despite Bridge of Spiesic ping up six

nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor. Could do

you never worry? Would it help. Two true stories go head-to-head. I

think that's the biggest story. With Boston Globe drama, Spotlight.

No-one can get away with this. Competing with credit crunch film

Big Short for Best Picture. What is that? Despite becoming one of the

stop grossing films in history. Star Wars is left out from the Best

Picture category. It's true. All of it. The composure earns his 50th

nominations, John Williams. Got room for one more? It's been a

controversial year with Snubs aplenty. 50s romance Carol is left

out on the cold. Auto I can't help you with that. Havinged missed out

on Best Picture nominations. The screenplay for Steve Jobs is

forgotten. I don't feel rejected. The second year running that acting

categories have been 100% white. Leading to a boycott of Sunday's

ceremony. What is our objective. To dramatically overreact. Why are the

big hitters like Beasts of no Nation, Straight out of Comton and

Sicario missing in the major award categories? Despite being a knockout

with audiences. Creed misses out. Ly gets his second nod for playing

Rocky. Good call. This is our chance. The surprise hits of the

year were captivity drama, Room. There is a world on the other side

of this wall. What other side. Romance, Brooklyn. Enough. Both

recognising Best Picture and acting cat countries.

But do they stand a chance against juggernauts Mad Max and The

Revenant? This Sunday all will be revealed. And Oscar belongs to you.

Let's slow it weighed down. I hope I'm not being dramatic. Please! It

feels like there is an enormous cloud over this year's Oscars. I

think there are clouds, clouds about the fact that the Oscars which is a

TV show and grew up as a TV show in America is not being watched by as

many numbers and the movie that the Oscars were built on isn't being

made that much because they are putting their weight behind

blockbusters so those films are dying out and we can sit here as

three white people to discuss it, the Oscars is so white and it is a

controversy because it is scandalous. You have creed, Straight

Outta Compton, any one of those films could have been nominated for

Best picture. Where are those films and why haven't they been nominated?

And also girlhood could have been nominated in my opinion. Can Chris

Rock save it? He is really bold. It is a lucky break for the Oscars they

had Chris Rock lined up and also that he agreed because it was a

strange moment when the boycott began to circle. That could go very

wrong for Chris Rock. He could go on and be having to say I didn't

boycott it and should have done but now I have to front this whole

wretched business. He is bold. He is a brave comic so if he owns it. The

Oscars have that lucky break and people will be watching and there

will be this fascination about what will happen when Chris Rock steps up

to the microphone, without that it would just be another year. The

Oscars blundered in with their own incompetence and behaviour that does

not reflect well on them, they have lucked into a good year because

Chris Rock being beaten presenter helps them. It is not necessarily

good news for Chris Rock, it could go either way. He was one of my

favourite hosts. He is brilliant, he is a great stand-up. People are wary

but we are at a distance in Britain. I keep saying scandalous, but Creed

is such a great movie and I love Stallone but the idea that Michael B

Jordan has been -- not been monitored. And the idea that

Straight Outta Compton, made up of so many brilliant parts. The white

scriptwriter. It is completely crazy. I'm not saying the Academy is

racist but if it was trying to do an impression of a racist organisation.

And Idris Elba who could and should have been nominated. There is a

whole other thing with beast of no nation put up by Netflix. That is

for the old school movie industry who are nervous about that. The

whole thing is old school. The Academy awards is the last surviving

institution of the old movie industry, created in the 1920s, half

a dozen old moguls saying here is what we will do, we will invent this

evening and slap each other on the back because we know what is best

and we think genre and typecasting is best and this is what works best

and in 1953 when it was televised the whole thing became a vaudeville

show which is an old-fashioned show business type, the way they all made

their bones, all of the stars and moguls, so the whole thing became

very conservative and essentially rather reactionary. I would say the

Oscars is taking the hit for what is the problem of the film industry. I

don't know why they let themselves do this but the Oscars has let

themselves be the fall guy. How many editors have been nominated, black

editors, nominated for an Oscar? 1969, Hugh Robertson, for midnight

Cowboy. That shows there is a problem for the Oscars and a massive

problem for the film industry. And no black best director at all, only

three times and nothing at all. Let's look at the best acting

categories. Here they are. I will write you a movie for 1200. You

don't want your name on it? No, you don't want my name on it. We are

doing different takes, subtle takes. Medium Phil takes and then big ones.

Because you never know in the edit process where a scene is going to

end up. I have to figure out a way to grow food here on a planet where

nothing grows. Luckily I'm a botanist.

I got the call that Ridley Scott wanted to direct it. Surprise. That

was the end of my deliberations, I just said yes. What Alejandro wanted

to do was create poetry in that story, to have very little chance of

survival and the triumph of the human spirit. I'm not afraid to die

any more. It's happening, the comeback of a superstar. Steve Jobs.

The story is important because he's changed all of our lives, he's

changed the way the world works and the way we interact with one another

and how we watch films and listen to music. I sat in a garage with Steve

Wozniak and invented the future. I look identical to my mum. My

first-ever professional job was playing Violette in 12th night so

this wasn't a surprise at all. It was really riveting for me to

investigate. Thank you. Merry Christmas.

Of course, subtext, the notion that every adult has a secret. I like

that at. It is fantastic stuff to play with as an actor. It shouldn't

be like this. I know. None of us could take ourselves too seriously

when you have a seven-year-old around who is bouncing off the walls

and thinks everything we are doing is hilarious and fun. I want a

different story! No, this is the story you get.

Never speak on my behalf about my business again.

There's the story about to know yourself, about family, imagination,

faith in yourself, ruthlessness. It should be me.

There is only different elements to this movie that I hope people can

walk away with all of them. The story is about this couple who

have lived a rather extraordinary life together and something going

little bit wrong. I'm going to go upstairs and have a

bath, I have lots to do tomorrow. And its about the difficulty. I want

to stop feeling I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland.

Ireland will always be in my heart and I take it with me wherever I go.

It is what home represents to you. It's that security that hopefully

you get to a point where you are able to carry it with you and it

keeps you safe. Some brilliant performances. I think you are not

allowed to put a bet on the actor. Paddy Power will not let me! Is it a

done deal? Has he served his time, I thought he would get it for Django.

It's not just about this performance, is the Oscars story and

that is that Leonardo DiCaprio will come and win the Oscar. Actors don't

win Oscars, roles when Oscars. As soon as he opened the script for The

Revenant, I would not say he just had to turn up but he just had to

turn up and get into it and then it was a done deal. Really? I like The

Revenant and I think he's perfectly fine in it but it doesn't feel like

it's really about him. I love The Revenant, it's not just about the

acting. I love Leonardo DiCaprio and he's perfect in it but it's about

the whole immersive sensual experience, the whole big-screen

experience, that's what The Revenant I think is about. You're seeing it

through Leonardo DiCaprio's eyes, you are not looking at him. Good as

he is he doesn't carry it the way he carried The Wolf of Wall Street but

I think he's perfect in the role and head and shoulders above the other

nominees, to be honest. Possibly Michael Fassbender, although Michael

Fassbender should have got it for Mac Beth and not Steve Jobs. It is

weird because Michael Fassbender and to an extent Kate Winslet are being

nominated for getting through the script, for managing to memorise. --

Macbeth. They are not bad performances but Aaron Sorkin is

like an obstacle course for actors, if you manage to just say the words.

Getting through to the end. Talk about Best Actress, is that Brie

Larson's? I don't think it's as big a lock as it is for Leonardo

DiCaprio. I think she will probably get it but I would prefer Saoirse

Ronan to get it for Brooklyn because she has blossomed in that role and

she gives a wonderful transparent performance. She delivers all of her

thoughts and feelings in such a direct unmediated way directly to

the camera in close up. Marion Cotillard is like that as well. I

remember you saying that anyone else in that role could not have worked.

That role could have gone quite wrong. I don't want to underplay

Brie Larson because Jacob Tremblay is fantastic and he's a little boy

and quite an inexperienced actor and she had to shepherd him through the

role as well as delivering her performance, taking responsibility

for someone else as well. I'm very fond of Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn as

well. She is excellent. We have to talk about Best Supporting Actress.

Best Supporting Actress? It could go Kate Winslet, I'd be happy. I like

Rooney Mara. I think it will go to Alicia Vikander, in! In a. It should

be Rooney Mara, that seemed like a done deal at the time of the

nominations. Rooney Mara spoke out about the film being left out and

maybe if there had been a gun going off on the table we would have got

the best picture nomination and from that moment her odds started

drifting out and she will not get the award. She is really a co-star,

not really a supporting actress, with Cate Blanchett. Cate Blanchett

would be a plausible win, she is superb. Old school. How would you

feel if you were Todd Haynes? The fact he has no best director and no

best picture, I hope he will get a One Direction bounce from not

winning, his film is wonderful, Carol is a glorious film. I love The

Revenant but it would be a tough one if Carol was up for it. Best

Supporting Actor. I love still on in Creed, the perfect Oscars story,

Stallone comes 40 years after Rocky and takes this award but is not the

best performance. Mark Rylance is a totally different level. I love

Creed and Stallone. Mark Rylance will get it. I would like to have

seen Benicia Toro nominated for sick aria because he is such an

interesting actor. Here is a reminder of the other eight films

vying for best picture. I don't think like a bank, big bank,

small bank, I like to make money. We have a Soviet spy. A full

thermonuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. I'm on my way to

America. Ikard buy you a future. You said a few vehicles in pursuit,

maybe -- I can't buy you a future. We have three war parties. I got

unlucky. I have to figure out how to grow four years of food on a planet

where nothing grows. In your face, Neil Armstrong. Get to the boat. You

are forgetting your place. My place is right here on the end of this

rifle. Will he find us? No, he will never find us. The Boston priest. We

need the full scope, that's the only thing that will put an end to this.

We're going to tell this story and we are going to tell it right. We

ended on Spotlight. I remember watching Spotlight and thinking it

was the most wonderful and the most perfect Oscar Best picture win. It

felt like a shoo-in but it isn't any more, is it? It is not, I watched it

twice and got it more the second time. The first time was at the

Venice film Festival and I thought it had a slightly plodding feel but

the penny dropped and I realised the point is that is the drumbeat of

investigative journalism. Without Google. You just work, work, work

until it pays off. That is what the film is about, she will ever, going

to the library, old-fashioned, pre-Google, pre-Internet, getting

the cuttings file, the feeling of the yellow cuttings, I'm old enough

to remember that. I was gripped by it, and it had a kind of 70s feel to

it, this movie. But is The Revenant going to win? I think it will win. I

think Spotlight should win but I come at it from the point of view

thinking Mad Max should win. We disagree about this. Overrated film.

The Oscars has this problem of where to connect with blockbusters, how

does it connect with the films people will see? It has an uneasy

relationship, The Martian and Mad Max get monitored, Star Wars doesn't

get nominated. The Revenant ticks boxes that is a huge action thrill

ride. It is a kind of blockbuster in the clothes of an arthouse movie and

it has Leonardo DiCaprio through the executives love will stop this year

it's the perfect Oscar winner at the executives and Academy love

Inarritu, this wild man figure, the same with third man last year. I

think The Revenant is a done deal but I don't think it should win.

I want to be in your head on Sunday night when it implodes if whoever is

speaking says - the Oscar goes to the Big Short. Will your little -

will you openly weep? I wouldn't mind if Christopher won Best

Supporting actor. I think it is a smug, shallow film decided to make

liberals feel morally sue peopler on the subject of the crash. It wants

to have its cake and eat. It it has anti-banker correctness. It slaves

over bankers. It finds five or six bankers who did well out of the

crash. It is the most over rated film. Christian Bale, very good.

Grimsby is it your favourite film of the week It isn't. Skrooet skrooet.

Well, that's it for this Oscar week - a good time to remember genius

British cinematographer Douglas Slocombe who was nominated

three times for an Oscar and died this week aged 103.

He may never have won an Academy Award, but he was

the man-behind-the-camera on masterpieces like Kind Hearts

and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Italian Job and the first three

Spielberg called him "my behind-the-scenes hero."

Give me the whip Throw me the idol. Into time to argue. Throw me the

idol, I'll throw you the whip. Give me the whip Adios, senor.