Hail Caesar!, Truth, Anomalisa Film 2016

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

An all-star cast camp it up in Coen Brothers' Hollywood satire,

Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford star in real-life news drama,

I have to apologise for the story on air.

And, puppets on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Do I look awful? I was just taking my make up off.

Plus, we'll take a look at Austrian psycho-horror,

and we're joined by the rambunctious Tim Robey, from the Daily Telegraph.

First up is Hail Caesar!, a new cinematic romp from the Coen

Set in the 50s, in the glory days of the Hollywood studio system,

Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes and Scarlet Johannson

Millions of people looked at us for information and entertainment and we

are going to give it to them. Action. An army of technicians and

artistic people are looking to bring our biggest release of the year,

Hail, Caesar! Is the biggest pitch of the year, with a real star. --

the biggest picture. If we had... If we had... Cut. I play is someone

like Victor mature, inside the film, Hail, Caesar!, who is probably not

the brightest of actors, but I thought he was the smartest guy.

Shut up. You are going to go out there and finish Hail, Caesar! And

you are going to believe every word you say. You will do this because

you are an actor and that is what you do, just like the director does

what he does, you will do this because the picture as worth and you

have worked if you serve the picture you are never going to forget that

again. -- you have worth. I won't forget it. Dam right, not as long as

I run this dump. Eddie Mannix is the fixer, played by Josh Brolin, he

runs the studio and he clears up the mess, the unwanted pregnancies. Gay

people that want to pass the straight, that kind of nonsense.

Based on a real person who did much darker deeds and managed to clear up

people's node -- murders from the night before. Everyone only cysts

because of Eddie Mannix. -- only exists. And what they do to Eddie

Mannix and how they make his life difficult or easy. Studio, I need

your help. She has been kidnapped. 20 million readers want the truth,

Eddie. Based on this warring gossip columnist. The little bird told me

that she disappeared from the set. Yes, he did have to take a break,

minor injury. She will print anything to get more readers, which

is a tendency which we have heard about, which may may not be

fictional. Whenever you get a chance to be in a Coen Brothers film

everyone says OK. They varied it on how complex it is and how big the

dancing was going to be. It was about three sentences in the script,

but the whole thing is tap dance and then they say, there's going to be

some singing, I don't do any of this. Y2J cast me? LAUGHTER

-- why did you cast me? # We ain't going to see a dame

# Half a dozen clams # No dame

# Cut. STUDIO: I love this film, but for that scene alone, I would say

you have to go. I think so. Hollywood likes to make films about

itself, always has, most of the time they paint itself as a dark and

sinister place, the last place on earth you would want to work, but

this has flitted on its head and has presented Hollywood as a fun loving

place, and everything is OK, that is the film is, it is deeply silly. The

Coen brothers very zany, but also deceptively smart, something quite

knowing about this film, it feels it has more than one time in its cheek,

that kind of film. You would have to be something of a mystery to not get

on board. It is definitely fun, very knowing, they are always knowing,

they know everything and they tell you about it, as well. But I found

it rather bitty, every bit of it... Bitty like David Wiley 's? Exactly.

It is very kind of choppy, every section is beautifully done, but I

feel you could watch it in any order and it would still be quite jolly

and fine, but it does not build and have momentum. By their own high

standards, they are coming off one of their best and most profound

films, Inside Llewellyn Davies, it is not the same as that, but I

wanted this to go through the roof as a comedy, but it is just mildly

good fun. Did you not find so many moments very memorable? I want H --

to mention Ralph Fiennes. Channing Tatum in the dancing, George Clooney

is brilliant. You're right, this is a film of bits, but you do not get

sick of it, and it is not a film that takes anything seriously, but

it is interesting. It is a film about believers, the priest and a

rabbi, the joke is setup, and then you have Eddie Mannix, he believes

in the of Hollywood. The Coen brothers on the choir also believe

in the power of Hollywood. The singing and dancing, you can see how

much that means to them, and in terms of Channing Tatum, this is

overdue. When we were younger, you effort to Channing Tatum as a potato

-- you referred. We have got to apologise. He's the of all the

humans. The greatest human potato of all time. His dance number is

fantastic, it stops the show. The film has got to wind up in gay to

give more subplots, and I still think it is enjoyable, but there is

a feeling, that is it. -- wind up in gear. It is trying to make a

melancholic point, it is like A Serious Man, he is going through

these ordeals, but I don't think it gels together into something which

has anything much. It is just fun, and that is fine. I'm OK with that,

at this stage of my life. What I really love, it feel so confident,

it is not, let me make sure that all of this ties up, it is not do that,

it is 90 minutes, and now go and have a kebabs. It is pulling our leg

the whole time, that is what I like about it, we have done Sunset

Boulevard, everyone knows that terrible things happen with terrible

people, but this is the Hollywood film that would not normally be made

by Hollywood. And it has not just one Tilda Swinton, it has two. Yes,

that's right, she is one of the twins, separated at birth, and they

turn up in the same hat, but that is One Show, which is funny. -- that is

one joke, which is funny. We are going to see this film again. I have

seen it twice. I did enjoy it. There is one guy, he walks away with it a

little bit, it is a new star into the fold. You have a sweet kid on

screen. And his date, where they are trying to set him up as a publicity

stunt, that is very sweet. There is profundity to that, these kids are

going to be fine. I liked it. Not convinced.

Next is Truth, starring Robert Redford as American news

anchor, Dan Rather, and Cate Blanchett as producer,

They dared to question the military record of the President of the

United States. They do 's and gentlemen, I give you my friend, and

the reason I have this job, Dan rather -- ladies and gentlemen. He

was one of the biggest names in the news, at CBS, they have this amazing

heritage and history of the people that they could have in News and he

had been the anchor 26 years, he was the longest standing anchor in US

history, an enormous figure in journalism. Let's start from the

beginning. I might have something for the election. The President of

the United States might have gone a while from the military. He never

even showed up. -- might have gone absent without leave. This is a very

controversial story, it points to the fact that he went absent without

leave, and if you do that you go to a military prison and if you do that

you cannot become president. It was a very contentious piece. You have

three hours. You're out of time. Go, go, go. They ran the story and

immediately they were called into question for the process in which

they put the story together and the whole thing it's bloated. These

blocks said the memo can be recreated -- the whole thing

exploded. Pretty soon they were looking at the authenticity of the

documents and the argument was that the story was true. How long have we

been together? Is it that bad. We are going to start an investigation,

CBS would like to appoint an independent panel to have a look at

how the story was put together, and I will announce it. Tomorrow. It was

big, a fuller, personal and professional for Mary and also for

Dan. -- big and profound. He stepped down and Mary has not worked in

television journalism since. They do not get to do this, just for asking

the question. It is about journalism and politics and the presidential

election. It is about the process of investigative journalism, shining a

light on what investigative journalism has become, in its place,

in our everyday lives. I did my job, believe me. I don't have to believe

you. It's got Kate Blanchett, how bad can

it be? -- Cate. Very bad. He did not like it. They set it up, they are

fighting the good fight, and then there is the film with Cate

Blanchett, she is operating a level above the script, she watches her

entire career as the journalist get carted and taken away from her, and

that was compelling, and if it was anyone else I might throw that film

all out the window, but it is interesting. You have the news

agenda being fought over by both sides politically. She is not blame

free, but on the other hand you have the Conservative witchhunt going on,

and I found it compelling, despite the mistakes the film makes as a

first-time film-maker's debut. He wrote Zodiac, which is a much better

script. It is doing much of the same stuff, Danny hates it. I know. You

are trying to find the positive. You are a nicer person than us. I've

tried to find the positive, you can't help thinking about Spotlight,

and I think when they were making this, they were trying to make a

bold, brave film about American journalism, and they were going to

walk away with the Oscars, but the film about American journalism dead,

but that was the wrong one for them. -- did. Spotlight did something

amazing, but this takes the worst of TV news, Truth, everything is puffed

up and slightly silly and the music is circulating the whole time,

deafening you. The self-importance, it pinned me down and sprayed me

with its muscular aroma of self-importance. Oh my goodness.

I've had dates like that. He lives in physical pain, what he

is doing, and you are waiting for him to be hit by a tranquilliser

gun, to be put out of his misery. We have to talk about the other films.

We tried. He really did. Next up is Anomolisa,

a stop-motion film from the writer of Being John Malkovich,

Charlie Kaufman. What is it to be human? What is it

to ache and be alive? Figuring out what the characters were going to

look like was important and we mixed and matched and got these puppets.

We were able to take advantage of the medium, and it was not going to

look like the actors that were cast, you can make them specific and

unique and also very average and available. They are puppets we can

project ourselves onto, in a way you can't maybe when it is a real

person. Most people don't like to look at me too much.

This was a challenging film to make. We started out with so little money.

It it was a huge strain to produce this. Each animator had a goal of

two seconds. 48 individual frames of animation per day. You are watching

this thing that has been hand made, created by people. That's been

manipulated by animators. Can see that, you can feel it. Everything is

so small and detailed and beautiful. That's the thing about stop-motion.

Every single thing is made. Each person you speak to has had a

childhood. Each has a body. Each body has eggs. It was exciting to me

for many different reasons, one of which is that I was a huge fan of

Charlie's to have the opportunity to potentially work of something of his

was very exciting to me. Do you feel that you've changed? What are you

talking about? I don't know. I don't know. Also the material itself, just

purely as a screenplay was very evocative and relatable and

authentic and just beautiful. I think you're extraordinary. Why? I

don't know yet. It's just obvious to me that you are. That relatable

human experience that connects us altogether. That's the magic for me.

Keep talking. I think he's a genius I don't use that word lightly. It's

told with such great, gentle humour. Sorry I grabbed your hand. It's OK.

It's a reflex. I don't like to fly. I said it's OK. You can let go now

though. It's forgiving. I sweat on to my pillow every night. I think

there's something very, very wrong with me. I wanted it to be for

adults. That was the important thing about it. I wanted it to be

naturalistic and emotional. Anomalisa. I want people to see this

movie. Yeah. I wish there was another word I could find to

describe it rather than uncomfortable. It's magnificently

uncomfortable. The reason it's so uncomfortable is because, you are in

the head of this glum, gloomy author Michael Stone. The movie in our

head. It felt that way to me. Every terrible thought you had about

yourself or humanitarian, making small talk with a kabbi or getting

your key card to work in a hotel. The movie knows every one of those

thoughts. It's a disturbing experience. The film is create. It

will speak loudly to self-loathing middle-aged man, but I feel it would

reach the self-loathing middle-aged man everywhere. I might be an old

aged woman. I loved it. To the point where I would question a friendship

with somebody who didn't like it. Too much? Genius is not a want to

use often. He is a genius. It's This film, as usual with him, profound

currently kurnel of an idea at the middle of it. The stuff in the hotel

room, between the two of them. Everyone in the world speaks with

the same voice in this film. That is the idea of the play it's based on,

Tom Noonan voices everyone. Except her. He finds her. She is the

possible ray of sunshine who is going to transform things until he

starts getting a bit bored of her the next morning. That is so sad. So

touching. It's so profound. For me, in a way, the film almost is over

there. For the rest of it's almost as if I fall out of love with, it I

have to say. I found her so moving and so brilliant. She has a little

singing bit which - So good. I can't get enough of her. He's cruel and I

thought - you know, horrible. Yeah. The way it all just, sort of, un -

it's a brilliant depiction - Most human film I've seen in a very long

time iechl don't want to lower the tone much you know me. We have to

talk about the puppet sex scene. It's one of the most extraordinary

thing I've seen on a cinema screen. It captures the magic of the film

really. It's so, disturbingly realistic. You realise just watching

actors carrying out a sex scene is phoney in comparison. You don't

forget you are watching puppets you are are aware the entire time. It

feels like it's talking loudly and clearly because of that. Sad art

house equivalent Next is Austrian horror

film, Goodnight Mommy. Twin boys begin to question

if the bandaged woman back from hospital is

really their mother. I still can't watch it unless my

hand is up in front of my face. Tim. I've got friends who twins later.

Several sets of friends. I have to warn them never to see this or to

let their twins see it. It's going to implant extremely sinister ideas.

Like every to implant extremely sinister ideas.

does a good job of making you not want to go to Austria. It's quite

successful at that. Very well made, very creepy. I love the production

sign, the house is kind of clinically weird and the greys and

everything. When the twins bring back this diseased cat, which dies,

they put it in a tank and put it on the living room table. That fits

right in. You barely notice it. Perfect. It kind of goes very cruel

and nasty. It's the stuff towards the end where I think it becomes

very uncomfortable to watch. It's almost laying it on too thick. They

start messing with their mother's face. She had this face lift. They

start doing these sadistic things to her face. They are not really

believable. I don't believe you could super glue someone's lips

together that easily. What do you think? The dreamy ambience of the

theme. You know you are in trouble when you see that pristine,

beautiful, modernist lake house, you know nothing good is going to

happen. Austrian cinema, like The Cabin in the Woods, terrible things

are going to happen. Once you have that house in that location, once

you have a character covered in bandages and the twins, twins are

instringsically scary. Once you have that stuff - don't email in. That is

not true. I think you're lovely. I don't. Don't email me, you creep me

out as it is. The once you have that stuff going on you don't need much

else. There is a dreamy atmosphere which sets you on edge. It has a

similar feel of everything is fine, everything is I duddic, nothing is

fine and everything is terrible. Fill of the week? Go and see Hail

seesor. And Anomalisa. A three film week. Why not.

Well, that's all for this week and for the series.

We'll be back in the Autumn - can't wait!

We'll leave you with a look at some of the films coming out

Have a lovely summer, and spring and beginning of autumn.

Now then little Miss Foster, make me proud.

That's just typical! We need the perfect weapon.

Never get out of bed. It must be dumping out. I'm getting my pants

on. Stay away. I know what I want. I focus on getting it.

Don't open that door. You're going to get us all killed.

Young lady, you're time is up. Ha-ha.

Tarzan! Seriously, what the hell's wrong with you people? We're bad

guys, it's what we do. I can't wait to show you my toys.

I remembered something. That's not possible, is it? What was I talking

about? Yesterday it was a case full of magical creatures. Unfortunately,

some have escaped. It was open? Just a smidge. The

greatest Gladiator match in the history of the world. God versus

man. Day versus night. Something's coming.