A Wrinkle in Time, Unsane, Pacific Rim: Uprising Film 2018

Hello there and welcome

to Film 2018.

I'm Al Murray.

Yes, it's late, but we're live

and would love to hear from you.

Tonight, we're talking

about going to the cinema

as a live experience.

So if you had to pick

a film to live and immerse

yourself into the world of,

what would it be?

I would want to be part of a Bridge

too far, all the great escape. Not

one of the guys who were shot at the

end.

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Details are on the screen now.

Right, let's get started.

Coming up tonight...

Quantum physics and an enormous

floating Oprah.

We are worries of the light. Welcome

to the Ava DuVernay fantasy Wrinkle

in Time.

Mad or misunderstood? I am held here

against my will.

In the tense

psychological thriller of Steven

Soderbergh Unsane.

And reporting for duty, we talk

robots and rebellion in Pacific Rim

Uprising.

Plus, we'll also be going behind

the scenes with an immersive cinema

experience, as they take on cult

classic Blade Runner.

So, physics, insanity and lots

and lots of robots -

sounds like a good mix

for a Wednesday evening, eh?

Helping me make sense of it

all are film critics -

and definitely non replicants,

I hope!

- Ellen E Jones and Empire

Magazine's Chris Hewitt.

Good evening, human! Definitely a

replicant.

What is your replicant story?

Stare

deeply into my eyes. The Crown yes!

-- yes!

-- yes!

Right, kicking things off

is big-budget, time-travelling

fantasy 'A Wrinkle in Time'.

This much-loved children's classic -

well, in America, at least -

comes to the big screen

via Director Ava DuVernay.

Starring Oprah Winfrey -

yes, THE Oprah Winfrey -

Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine,

it's the story of teenager Meg,

who has to brave multiple

dimensions, seemingly in the form

of Windows desktops,

in her quest to find her

missing scientist father.

Please be warned, this

VT contains algebra,

buckets of positivity

and a huge, floating Oprah!

You were a top student.

Look at you now. You can't keep

using your father's disappearance as

an excuse to act out.

Is that his work?

What is it about?

Their dad wanted to touch the stars.

We have a girl of colour at the

centre of this amazing universe and

this amazing journey. At the

beginning of the movie, Meg is

really hard on herself and she

doesn't feel like she is worthy

enough to be loved. Not coming back,

is he? Don't give up hope! She goes

on a hectic and tumultuous journey.

This is my favourite planet in the

entire Galaxy.

The guys really help her with that.

Who are you?

We are warriors of the light. The

darkness is spreading so fast.

You

are stronger than I ever was!

Be a

warrior!

Do you trust me?

I trust

you! During the movie, drew

encouragement from her friend, she

finds her flaws make her the most

powerful which is a great journey

for any teenage girl, for any woman

to watch to go through.

What can I

do for you, Mrs Whatsit.

She is

harmless.

You are six, what you know about

harmless?

Have I ever been wrong?

One of these days, you might be

Charles Wallace.

I doubt that, he is

one of the greatest minds in

history, he is prodigious. Of

course, we cannot take credit for

our talents, it is how we use them

that counts.

I think it is a wonderful theme of

self belief in this movie about

learning to accept your fault.

We are in such warriors.

Warriors

who serve the good and the light in

the universe.

You are kidding?

This film allows a breather and a

moment to get job parings and think

about who you want to be in the

world and really interrogate the

light within new -- to get your

bearings.

I am not really a person who has

read a lot of sci-fi and even this

book, it missed me growing up. So to

be a part of this literally

fantastical experience was something

I don't think any of us will ever

forget.

My Love is always there! Even if you

can't see it.

Do we have time for A Wrinkle in

Time? What did you think of it.

There is so much good feeling and

good intention kind this film that

it makes it all the more

disappointing that it is a

disappointment and I feel like I am

seeing the trailer for the first

time.

You are not taken by a giant

flying cabbage Reese Witherspoon and

Oprah Winfrey that smiles down at

you?

Oprah Winfrey is great, yes.

But no. I think Storm Reid is great,

but lead actress. And a couple of

moments, there is a real emotional

connection, that is her doing that.

She deserves credit for that.

Chris.

That you put Oprah, who is not here

for a 30 foot tall Oprah? I was a

little disappointed when she became

normal sized and started interacting

with humans, I loved the idea of

being on a green screen on her own,

with her contract, nobody looks at

me, I will not interact with anyone.

It did give the impression they had

had her for a week and replaced into

the bids they shot.

Or they cut

clips from the Oprah Winfrey show.

The film is heavy on message and we

saw in the package they are keen on

is taking positivity from this. I

found it really sort of a soup of

platitudes. Never more than six foot

from a platitude in this movie. Did

it feel heavy-handed or did it work?

I think that is going to work for

the target audience. There is

definite total hippie nonsense in

there, but there is also quite nice

self-esteem stuff for that teenage

bracket.

Really? One pitch of the

film is the father has gone missing,

a brilliant quantum physicist who

has picked universe and done his

homework so the messages, do your

homework and work hard and life

would you. The other messages, just

believe in yourself, man.

They kind

of undermining each other. Much of

bolts go and let your freak flag

fly, if I can say that. What got to

me, despite the self-help nonsense,

by the end, it is about a young girl

trying to get back with her father

and I won't spoil it but let's say

at the end, I could feel a single

wrinkle rolling down my cheek and it

got me. I was manipulated but I was

buying what they were selling by the

end of it.

What were they selling?

It was a mess. There is no

overriding vision of how this book

is translated to the screen so

bitterly, it looks crazy. And they

make up for that with CGI.

They move

from windows desktop to another

windows desktop, they bear a

remarkable resemblance to the

options you have!

Not even the good

ones.

There is no one great

sequence, and will say that. There

is an interesting sequence where

they land on a planet and a 1950s

Stepford wives, out of the

housewives -- come out of the houses

and try to tempt them in for evil

means and it goes nowhere, it was

episodic. Good performances

commentary macro and Chris Pine is

very good. And it dirty but Oprah,

you cannot argue with that. And if I

was 12-13 years old, which I kind of

am! -- and a 30 foot Oprah.

If you

are viewing...

If you're feeling in need

of a little darkness

after all that positivity,

fear not, we've got it covered.

'Unsane' is a tense

psychological thriller,

directed by Steven Soderbergh

and shot entirely on an iPhone.

Claire Foy - in her first

role post 'The Crown' -

stars as a woman detained

in a mental hospital

against her will.

So not unlike The Crown! See what I

did?

So should she be in there,

or is something much

more sinister going on?

Is this a glorified

FaceTime session?

Let's see.

Sawyer Valentini?

Please follow me.

I don't have a lot

of time, they should be back at

work. What am I doing here? Take

away your clothes down to your

underwear. Not sure what is

happening here.

The door is locked.

It would be better for everyone,

especially yourself, if you do as I

ask.

I have always been a fan of

psychological thrillers. One thing I

really liked about the premise was

the plausibility of it. The fact

that somebody who has been in a

circumstance in which she would like

to get help, finds herself signing a

document that she probably didn't

read very closely. And before she

knows it, she is spending time in a

facility against her will.

There has been some kind of mistake.

Your name is Sawyer Valentini. You

know that already. By saying this,

you have consented a voluntary

commitment for 24 hours.

No, they

said the forms were routine.

You

signed it. One aspect of Clare as an

actress that I really thought was

appealing is this ability of hers to

really sell this idea of someone who

is under a lot of self-imposed

pressure and whether she is acting

out or whether this is something

that is being acted upon her.

Yes, hello, my name is Sawyer

Valentini. I am at Highland Creek

Behavioral Center and I am being

held here against my will. Please

send help! Thank you. I will be out

of here in, like, 20 minutes.

Do you

know how many calls the cuts get

like that every week?

Those are from

crazy people!

The willingness of

Claire to dive in and play a

somewhat unhinged American character

was part of what attracted me to her

as an actor.

My stalker is here! We did a

thorough background check.

You

should be protecting the!

We were shooting in sequence and she

understood the trajectory of what

Sawyer needed to go through.

I must

be insane. I must be insane.

I am not crazy! Maybe it is all in

my head.

I loved this film. I enjoyed every

second. I am a big fan of Steven

Soderbergh, it is good to see him

back after his self enforced

retirement. Did you enjoy this film?

A fizzing with this movie. I did, I

am very glad he got back and he got

bored watching Countdown in front of

the TV in the afternoon. This is a

good follow-up to Logan Lucky. He's

trying different things by shooting

on the iPhone with this. I am a huge

fan of Soderbergh but he is a

slightly dispassionate and

emotionally detached film-maker at

times and I wonder if this means the

movie did not quite thrill me the

way it did you and maybe Ellen. But

a lesser Soderbergh is still better

than 95% of the lawmakers at the top

of their game.

Did you love this

film? I absolutely loved it and

despite how over the top it goes,

nothing wrong with over the top! It

still feels totally plausible. Some

people don't feel the same way. All

the stuff about having your autonomy

taken away by this basis institution

and that frustration goes really

well, there is sexual harassment

stuff you could if you are trying a

bit harder linked to #Me Too but I

am reluctant to do that because it

is such good fun.

Apart from mobile

phones, it does not feel

contemporary, it felt like a 1970s

film. Like play Misty for me, like

what Clint is stored made when he

was playing thrillers -- Clint

Eastwood. You could imagine him as

the antagonist and it is threadbare,

crumbling America that the hospital

seems to represent.

That took me out of the film a

little bit, because I'd get sound

quality like that on my iPhone, but

he got it right in to replace a film

camera can't go, it went right into

Claire Foy's face.

It is a double exposure.

It is good

stuff, and it has a little

professional sheen, but it did take

me out of the film a couple of

times.

I went in not knowing about

the iPhone, and I did think it

looked interesting in a way I

couldn't put my finger on. I really

liked it.

I thought it was medium

and message working together.

And

you get swept up in the excitement

of Steven Soderbergh bestie doing

something he is finding new and

exciting.

He didn't get any text

messages during it!

And Claire Foy's

performance, I have watched The

Crown all the way through, I have

watched be very under control, very

close to performance she is the

Queen, and in this, the question in

the movie is, is she in a mental

institution for the right reason

not? She gives that performance.

It

is great for her, you couldn't have

a better film to do off the back of

something like The Crown.

You almost

feel she also look at the camera and

go, see what I can do? Am not just

the Queen! She won't be being paid

less than anybody else after this.

She is fantastic, she does just

enough to make you think that she

might be unhinged, that she might be

experiencing some psychosis, so that

when there is a twist, it has you on

her side.

Brilliant performance,

delivered up with Steven Soderbergh

in a new form, everything to

recommend it?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

For most of us, going to the cinema

lets us kick back, eat popcorn

and think about something

other than ourselves.

Who writes this stuff!

But with more and more

demands on our time when it

comes to entertainment,

increasingly, audiences

are wanting more -

like being able to actually step

into the world of the film.

This year, 'Secret Cinema' -

one of the first live,

immersive film experiences -

is ten years old, and it

seems their formula of cult films,

dressing up and interacting

with the film is still going strong.

It was back in 1982...

Ridley Scott gave us his dark

dystopian vision of downtown Los

Angeles, with sci-fi epic Blade

Runner. But now, in old warehouse in

east London, that vision has been

brought to life as excited film fans

roll up for the latest immersive

movie experience. Secret Cinema is

really about creating a spectacle

around cinema, so infusing film and

art, allowing the audience to live

inside with it and become part of

the story. When I was a kid, I went

to see a film, Once Upon A Time In

America,, and I fell in love with

cinema, and I thought, why can't

Cinema be more like a club night,

like a music festival, and are used

to go to these clubs and I was

thought that the secrecy and getting

a call where you have to go and meet

people down the petrol station and

find these big parties, why couldn't

you make cinema more rock and roll?

What if you could tell a secret?

What if the audience could be part

of that secret and live inside of a

film for the night? But it is not

just secret Cinema, immersive film

experiences are big news across the

country, from

country, from Die-hard screenings to

classic singalong classics. But this

year, Secret Cinema takes on its

biggest project yet. What ridley

Scott did at that time was

unheard-of, it was epic and

colourful and an entire universe,

and what we have done is taken

inspiration from the film and built

a whole new interactive world.

We transformed a series of

warehouses into the city of LA, and

the audience is thrown into this

dystopian world of LA in 2019. They

have been told to meet at a

checkpoint in a district on the edge

of Chinatown, and told to bring

umbrellas and wear goggles because

of the fears of acid rain. We

literally write a script for a

thousand different audience members

and combine with the actors we have

on-site. There is a complete blur

between performers and audience. All

of our security guards, bar staff,

everybody was at rehearsals, the Riz

and a single person out of

character, and essentially we want

to make it feel like wherever you

look, wherever you go, there is some

part of the world that is coming to

life around you. I just think that

the world has got predictable. Film

is not the same as it used to be,

and this is cinema shakes you, and

that is why it is a testament to why

secret Cinema has grown into

something much bigger, is that

people are looking for this. Let's

take away the seats and reimagine

the space, let's think about the

audience being on the stitch. It is

a protest against the predictable

side of culture, the idea that we

can do anything we want.

OK, so we asked you on Twitter

what film you'd like to be immersed

into and live within.

Ross says, I will choose Working At

The Water Park.

The Water Park. Owen chose Fargo,

and Luke chose La La Land. You have

only got one life! Which film would

you like to live in, and why?

I am

thinking Call Me By Your Name

because you have the endless

Mediterranean summer, you just have

to be careful not to eat peaches.

Chris?

I couldn't possibly answer

Star Wars. The original one, and I

would probably live on Tatooine and

have a lightsabre.

Right!

Last up is 'Pacific Rim Uprising' -

the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's

2013 massive monster movie.

This time round, John Boyega is in

charge as both Producer and star.

It's all very simple -

ten years after the Battle

of the Breach, the Kaiju emerge

from their interdimensional portal,

forcing the Pan Pacific

Defense Corps, or PPDC,

to mount their huge

Jaeger robots once again.

OK?

Good, let's take a look.

Jake. Your father always said he

wanted you to be a pilot.

He said a lot of things. I'm not a

hero like he was. Pacific rim takes

off tenures after the first movie,

and we're introduced to Jake, who is

son of Idris Elba.

Did that haircut

just call you Pentecost?

just call you Pentecost?

It is just

a name.

A really cool name.

He is a

bit of a rogue, a bit rebellious.

Are you having a laugh? One thing

leads to another, and he is back the

PPDC, and now he needs to lead a new

generation of pilots.

With sci-fi, you want to balance the

CG world with the physical, you

don't want to do everything CG, so

we managed to build the heads of the

robots and place it on a hydraulic,

so it had the full movement of a

real head, and every time it got

knocked back, we would feel the G

Force. I also co-produced this one

with my company. I could have done a

13 hour day on which averages, come

back home, have to watch scenes of

myself and give opinions as to which

one works for what.

I love the action, I really do, but

story is what I also do, the story

we are trying to tell.

So, if I were ten-year-old boy, that

film would blow my mind. However,

I'm 49! What did we make of Pacific

Rim uprising?

John Boyega, isn't he

lovely? He is so good, his charisma

does so much of the heavy lifting of

this film, which is lucky, because

Scott Eastwood, maybe, not so

charismatic.

Steady now! John

Boyega, he is probably in seven

eighths of the movie, virtually

every frame. He is so charming and

charismatic, he is the special

effect that makes this film work

more than the giant robot.

And I

love the older brother little sister

thing they have got going as well,

it has real heart.

It makes you

wonder why he wasn't used more in

the last Star Wars movie, because he

has charisma to burn. But I went

into this movie with expectations

that warm floor, I liked the first

movie, it did OK, and this did, I

wasn't expecting that much, and I

came out with a big smile on my

face.

The prequel better than the

original film?

Now you are talking.

I hesitate to say it is better than

the first one, because the first one

was DMO

dot -- Guillermo del Toro.

He is the

big director, and the aesthetic and

the grungy...

But that is what makes

this not Transformers. It is not

really that he is an action

director. There was a point in this

movie where I was going, get on with

it, where are the aliens? Loads of

heart, but more of that the stuff

that you go to this movie for.

But I

like that stuff. You don't see an

alien for ages, the first big action

sequence you get is a giant robot.

Robot on robot action.

They are not

robots! They are men inside Suits.

I

just kind of love that stuff, there

is a sequence later on where a city

is being trashed, and it has an

unabashed joy.

No one seems to live

in the cities, nobody cares what

happens.

Sunday afternoon, no one is

around, don't worry! This is part of

a long line of movies where huge

cities are destroyed. There is a

line, which is, don't worry,

everyone is underground, you can go

to town on this.

It is gloriously

daft in a way that I don't think the

first movie quite got there. They

tried, but this is beautifully

silly, Saturday morning cartoon fun,

but just on the big screen.

In a

way, we could talk about this in

contrast with the other big sci-fi

blockbuster of the season, and

Pacific Rim Uprising delivers an

story, delivers on its stick

together message that A Really Good

Time didn't.

And it is quite china

matey, they have whole sequences in

Mandarin, that adds to that market.

And it doesn't have an ultimate

message of empowerment, it just

says, if you see a giant monster,

punch it in the face, and that is a

message I can get behind.

That is a

life lesson for everyone watching.

OK, so you know what's coming,

what's our Film of the Week?

Unsane.

That or uprising.

I think I

will choose Unsane.

Well, I think our work

is almost done here.

Next week, Zoe Ball -

who has just cycled over 350 miles

in five days for Sports Relief -

will be here on this

not particularly

comfortable film show sofa.

I'd definitely bring a cushion.

Zoe, never agree to do that again!

Playing us out is a look at

the new mega offering from Marvel.

It's 'Avengers: Infinity War'.

Giving new meaning to the term

'all-star cast', the film

stars Robert Downey Jr,

Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo,

Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson,

Benedict Cumberbatch,

Don Cheadle, Tom Holland,

Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany,

Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie,

Sebastian Stan, Chris Pratt,

Josh Brolin, Zoe Saldana

and Paul Rudd, amongst others.

That is one big trailer, eh?

We got one advantage. He is coming

to us.

We have what he wants, so

that's what we use.

Let's talk about this plan of yours.

I think it's good, except it sucks,

so let me do the plan, and that way,

it might be really good.

Wow.

The end is near.

When I'm done, half of humanity will

still exist.

Perfectly balanced. As all things

should be.

should be. I hope they remember you.

I'm Peter, by the way.

Doctor

strange.