:00:26. > :00:31.Review. To take us through this week's releases is Anna Smith. What
:00:31. > :00:37.have we got? Three hotly anticipated releases, the first from the
:00:37. > :00:40.director of Bridesmaids. It's a buddy cop comedy called The Heat. We
:00:41. > :00:46.have Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as a couple of mismatched
:00:47. > :00:53.cops. The only film is Only God Forgives. By contrast this is a
:00:53. > :00:58.sombre affair. It's from Nicholas Winding Refn. Ryan Gosling is in
:00:58. > :01:01.this one as part of the underworld in Bangkok. And Red 2, Bruce Willis
:01:01. > :01:08.back in the game with Helen Mirren and new faces as well in the comedy
:01:08. > :01:13.caper. I notice that the Heaton was ridge
:01:13. > :01:18.fally called untitled female buddy fally called untitled female buddy
:01:18. > :01:22.cop movie, which sums it up. Yes the hook is it's two women, we've so
:01:22. > :01:28.rarely seen this. Sandra Bullock plays a New York FBI agent, very
:01:28. > :01:31.uptight, very buttoned up and rule observing. Melissa McCarthy is this
:01:31. > :01:41.Boston cop. It's her local home. She runs around the streets cleaning
:01:41. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:48.them up her own way. They do things How long is this going to take? I
:01:48. > :01:54.don't know maybe 12 hours, hope flip less. I have to find out what drives
:01:54. > :01:58.him. We could beat him with the phone book. No. It is crucial that
:01:58. > :02:02.you remain patient. It's crucial that you stop wearing that stupid
:02:02. > :02:08.barette. What is the problem with this? You have one on your head.
:02:08. > :02:11.top of my head like a normal person. What is the difference? Move on.If
:02:11. > :02:15.you go in the room you could break the bond we've created. Trust me on
:02:15. > :02:25.this one. Do you understand how important this is? Yeah I do.You
:02:25. > :02:25.
:02:26. > :02:33.will be patient? I will.OK. All right.
:02:33. > :02:37.Hello. Coffee? I drink a little more coffee than I probably should.
:02:37. > :02:44.I laughed and I laughed throughout that. It's very funny. It is very
:02:44. > :02:49.funny. Melissa McCarthy is so hilarious. She has a talent for
:02:49. > :02:53.improvisation. She did that in Bridesmaids. She did a sarcastic
:02:53. > :02:57.bulldog impression and wonderful contrast with Sandra Bullock's
:02:57. > :03:02.uptight agent. It is really funny. The main problem is the plot, which
:03:02. > :03:05.is negligible. It's a Scooby Doo style. The writers aren't interested
:03:05. > :03:10.in the story, something about tracking down a drug dealer. Does it
:03:10. > :03:14.really matter when it's too funny? It probably doesn't. If you look at
:03:14. > :03:17.the first of the Hangover films and so on, you either laugh your way
:03:17. > :03:22.through it or Bridesmaids or you don't. At least Bridesmaids there
:03:22. > :03:26.say point to it. Yeah, Bridesmaids was probably a stronger film theme
:03:26. > :03:30.atically and emotionally. This has a sweet emotional payoff. Like many
:03:30. > :03:34.buddy movies, they start off hating each other and they warm to each
:03:34. > :03:39.other. Of the things is it's a bit of a cliche, but it's not a cliche
:03:39. > :03:44.with women. I've never seen one. That's the refreshing thing. We
:03:44. > :03:49.haven't seen this dynamic before. We saw it briefly in Miss Congeniality
:03:49. > :03:55.2 and she was paired with a female agent there. Normally it's men
:03:55. > :04:00.though. It brutes up other ideas like gender -- brings up other ideas
:04:00. > :04:04.like gender equality in the work place. Drive I thought was a
:04:04. > :04:10.terrific movie, Ryan Gosling was terrific. I'm looking forward it
:04:10. > :04:14.Only God Forgives. You may not be after we talk about it. I agree I
:04:14. > :04:20.loved Drive. Refn is a great director. He's written this on his
:04:20. > :04:25.own. It's very experimental, nothing against that, I've enjoyed many
:04:25. > :04:30.slow, pond Russ films like Enter the Void. But Ryan Gosling plays a crim
:04:30. > :04:36.nap who has to settle a score. He comes up against an angel of
:04:36. > :04:42.vengeance who is a vigilante cop. There's very little dialogue, and
:04:42. > :04:47.then suddenly, extreme violence. This almost fetishises violence and
:04:47. > :04:51.then asks for forgiveness. I couldn't forgive the tedium. Just
:04:51. > :04:55.relentless? And also, point is that you don't get to know the
:04:55. > :04:59.characters. They're very broad brush strokes. Because there's so little
:04:59. > :05:05.dialogue and Gosling chooses to give nothing away in his face at all in
:05:06. > :05:12.this film. He's a great actor but he looks mood moody without. We have
:05:12. > :05:19.Kristin Scott Thomas his brassy mother, that's briefly entertaining.
:05:19. > :05:24.This doesn't have the humour that Tarantino would have. It's a little
:05:24. > :05:30.solemn. Red 2, two views of this. I bumped into somebody who said "Why
:05:30. > :05:35.did they even make Red 1". I kind of laughed at Red 1. It's three star
:05:35. > :05:41.out of five fun. I don't see why they needed a sequel. But apparently
:05:41. > :05:46.they're making a third as well. This movive sees them coming out of
:05:46. > :05:56.retirement. Bruce Willis's character finds out that he's implicated in a
:05:56. > :06:02.nuclear plot, wrongly of course, but there's a hit out on him.
:06:02. > :06:06.Yeah. MI6 has given me a contract to kill you. Apparently you're guilty
:06:06. > :06:10.of nuclear terrorism, murder and you're number one on Interpol's most
:06:10. > :06:15.wanted. Did you say?I said yes, the money's good and if I don't do it,
:06:15. > :06:21.somebody else will. It's bad, isn't it? Is that Marvin?Yes, and Sarah.
:06:21. > :06:26.Send them my love, won't you. gave her a gun. Was it loaded?Yes,
:06:26. > :06:31.yes. Are you being controlling?No. You have to take chances in a
:06:31. > :06:36.relationship. You have to be supportive. I don't need her to fit
:06:37. > :06:41.in. I need her to be safe. Just rent Dirty Dancing and tell her you love
:06:41. > :06:45.her. It's important to enjoy life while you still can. I thought that
:06:45. > :06:48.was very engaging. There are probably four or five scenes like
:06:48. > :06:53.that which are very funny. The rest, not so much. There's a lot of action
:06:53. > :06:57.and the action is kind of, there's always that breezy light tone and
:06:57. > :07:01.bodies flying everywhere, which sits slightly oddly with that tone.
:07:01. > :07:05.Mary-Louise Parker is great fun. And John Malkovich who is great. Anthony
:07:06. > :07:09.Hopkins comes in and he brightens the screen up. But it just plodded a
:07:09. > :07:14.little. It wasn't as solid as the first film. It wasn't as funny as
:07:14. > :07:18.the first. Really, not as good as the first? I thought, I enjoyed the
:07:18. > :07:23.first film. Perfectly nice. But I did think when I was watching it,
:07:23. > :07:30.you know, this could be oceans 11, but it's not. Not sharp enough.It
:07:30. > :07:33.has a great cast, not slight slightly - Helen Mirren is terrific
:07:33. > :07:38.and terrific in the first one, but it doesn't quite carry it off.
:07:38. > :07:48.is the same, if not slightly worse. Give that a miss. Your best of the
:07:48. > :07:51.week? Let's move on to that. I've seen Wadjda, a Saudi film. Yes, the
:07:51. > :07:55.first female film director from Saudi Arabia. It's about a girl who
:07:55. > :07:59.wants to have a bike, which is very frowned upon for girls there. It's
:07:59. > :08:05.about her journey of discovery, coming into adulthood and really
:08:05. > :08:09.discovering what kind of repression is existing in her own world. It's
:08:09. > :08:14.not tub thumping feminism, but it's about her personal search for
:08:14. > :08:20.equality which has wider implications. I found watching it, I
:08:20. > :08:23.learned more about the human face of what happens in Saudi Arabia than in
:08:23. > :08:28.any newspaper or TV programme, you understand it through the eyes of a
:08:28. > :08:32.child in the way that Oliver Twist tells you about London. You get. It
:08:32. > :08:37.She's learning and we are learning with her. It's a lovely slice of
:08:37. > :08:42.life films that you feel you're immersed in that culture. I agree.
:08:42. > :08:49.And the men are peripheral. It's what women do to women in enforcing
:08:49. > :08:53.the stereotypes. Very much so.Your DVD is The Paperboy. It's not
:08:53. > :09:01.necessarily the Best Film, but if you didn't see it in the sin mew,
:09:01. > :09:08.get it on DVD. It's a torrid crime thriller about erotic obsession. You
:09:08. > :09:13.have Nicole Kidman fixated on John Cusac's character. It's a great
:09:13. > :09:18.cast. It's a film you would be talking to with friends afterwards.
:09:18. > :09:22.A review which said it's a plain bonkers thriller. That means you
:09:22. > :09:26.would disagree about it. A reminder before we go that you'll find more