:00:00. > :00:00.half past six, with me, Ollie Foster, BBC News. First, time for
:00:00. > :00:18.the film review. Hello, and a very warm welcome to
:00:19. > :00:26.the film review. To take us through this week's
:00:27. > :00:35.cinema releases is Antonia Quirtke. We are going to start with Silence,
:00:36. > :00:39.Martin Scorsese's new film, Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam
:00:40. > :00:46.Driver, they are playing Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan.
:00:47. > :00:49.Passengers, starring Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, about two
:00:50. > :00:54.passengers sleeping in suspended animation for 120 years on their way
:00:55. > :00:59.to a new colony on a far-away planet and they wake too early. And also,
:01:00. > :01:06.Assassin's Creed, Michael Fassbender's big movie, based on the
:01:07. > :01:08.computed game. So we will be looking at some films which were released
:01:09. > :01:16.over the festive period. Let's kick off then with Silence, great passion
:01:17. > :01:23.of Martin Scorsese, trying for years and years to get this made. First
:01:24. > :01:27.got it in with Daniel Day Lewis, Gallagher -- Gael Garcia Bernal and
:01:28. > :01:33.have you buy them have been attached to it. He was famously brought up a
:01:34. > :01:37.devout Catholic, had a great and genuine interest in the priesthood,
:01:38. > :01:41.at one point he was going to join the priesthood, so Catholicism has
:01:42. > :01:47.been a real thing for him. -- Benicia Del Toro. Religion in his
:01:48. > :01:52.films, the last temptation of Christ and Kundun but even something like
:01:53. > :01:55.mean streets, marvellously there. What is the religious Martin
:01:56. > :01:59.Scorsese like? This is a difficult film to watch, it is about the
:02:00. > :02:04.persecution and torture of priests and their flock. 106 to one minutes,
:02:05. > :02:09.incredibly long, and relentless, long conversations reflecting Martin
:02:10. > :02:14.Scorsese's own ambiguity towards his own faith. I know that it has been
:02:15. > :02:17.very highly praised, and not many people have gone to see it but it
:02:18. > :02:22.has been critically tremendously well received. I found it... I think
:02:23. > :02:27.that there is a pulse of confusion in it, I was not clear what Martin
:02:28. > :02:31.Scorsese was trying to say. The directors he admires, religious
:02:32. > :02:37.directors, Carl Dreier, with Joe Navarre, Robert Bresson, there is a
:02:38. > :02:40.euphoria in those sorts of films. Things like Joe Navarre. And yet,
:02:41. > :02:47.you can't think, this was says's moment to join the ranks of those
:02:48. > :02:50.kind of directors. -- Martin Scorsese's moment. I'm not sure that
:02:51. > :02:55.he has done it, but I know that many people disagree with me. -- Carl
:02:56. > :03:11.Dreyer. Let's take a little clip here, for a preview. Padre. We have
:03:12. > :03:16.fought to travel, for the Lord. You must pray for courage. If we do not
:03:17. > :03:19.do what they want, then there could be danger for everyone in the
:03:20. > :03:26.village. They could be put in prison, they could be taken away for
:03:27. > :03:42.ever. What should we do? Trample. Trample! It is all right to trample.
:03:43. > :03:50.What are you saying? You can't! ... You can't... As you were saying, a
:03:51. > :03:56.long watch, a pretty gruelling watch, but the performance is good?
:03:57. > :03:59.Absolutely, Andrew Garfield, when he played Spiderman, that role did that
:04:00. > :04:03.young actor no favours and here he is, he has a quality of deeply
:04:04. > :04:06.inherent youthfulness and vulnerability, anyone who saw him in
:04:07. > :04:10.never let me go will remember that, and also, a Japanese actor, is your
:04:11. > :04:15.garter, he plays the grand Inquisitor in this, and he is an
:04:16. > :04:23.incredible actor, ingenious casting for Martin Scorsese. -- Spider-Man
:04:24. > :04:26.-- Never Let Me Go. And this is a comedic actor, but he playing
:04:27. > :04:31.someone who does the most terrible things, he's a comedic actor, he has
:04:32. > :04:38.wonderful kabuki gestures, and the performance are something else. --
:04:39. > :04:43.Issey Ogata. Something pretty different, Passengers, silence,
:04:44. > :04:48.gruelling, is Passengers something easier? A lot fluffier, a lot more
:04:49. > :04:52.fun, this is about two passengers in suspended animation, hibernation for
:04:53. > :04:56.120 years on their way to a new colony on a new planet and for
:04:57. > :05:00.reasons we will not go into, spoiler alerts, they wake up early.
:05:01. > :05:04.Wonderful idea, so is able, two strangers facing an eternity
:05:05. > :05:10.together, walking endless corridors, gigantic spaceship, and, breaking
:05:11. > :05:14.into the entertainment facilities, and with their little wristbands,
:05:15. > :05:20.one of the funniest things is the ways in which there is even know one
:05:21. > :05:23.else existing, you are still slaves, your life had been formalised before
:05:24. > :05:28.you left Earth. Also this lovely simmering sexual tension between the
:05:29. > :05:33.two main stars... It would have been all right to leave it at that but
:05:34. > :05:37.there is this derring-do, in the third act, not entirely necessary.
:05:38. > :05:42.You can feel moments where it is reaching for some tougher kind of
:05:43. > :05:47.glory, think of something like Alien and wandering the corridors of that
:05:48. > :05:50.spaceship, intensely sinister and threatening place to be but this
:05:51. > :05:55.place looks pretty nice. I would not mind moving there myself! There are
:05:56. > :06:01.moments when you are shown how jerry-built this craft is, hammering
:06:02. > :06:04.away against things, putting fuses together to get things to work, that
:06:05. > :06:09.ought to have been frightening and made me feel how vulnerable these
:06:10. > :06:14.people are and yet it does not quite do that. There is a wonderful cameo,
:06:15. > :06:19.Michael Sheen plays a bartender, rather sinister. He is a robot. And
:06:20. > :06:23.you can see that he is struggling with the part, trying to bring more
:06:24. > :06:26.to it than is there on the page, unfortunately, it is not on the page
:06:27. > :06:30.but it is fun. Let's talk about Assassin's Creed, which video game
:06:31. > :06:36.players will be very familiar with, based on the video game. Movies used
:06:37. > :06:42.to be based on novels... Now they are based on video games(!) this is
:06:43. > :06:45.catastrophic... Nine instalments in this video franchise, one of those
:06:46. > :06:51.movies that has been long in production, lots of re-shoots,
:06:52. > :06:55.rejigs, starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons,
:06:56. > :07:00.Charlotte Rampling, incredible cast. To even begin to describe the plot,
:07:01. > :07:02.I am not sure there is any point! Be assassins... Assassins against
:07:03. > :07:19.Knights Templar, let's take a look. Do you recognise this? It is an
:07:20. > :07:27.assassins blade. This is the actual one that your father used to take
:07:28. > :07:36.your mother 's life. He's here, you know... Your mother 's death, not
:07:37. > :07:44.something a boy should ever be made to see.
:07:45. > :07:49.So, catastrophic, you said... charitably(!), I am sure a lot of
:07:50. > :07:53.people will go to see it nonetheless. Why do you think it
:07:54. > :08:00.doesn't work? Unbelievably incoherent, extraordinary, it is...
:08:01. > :08:03.It opens... It opens with three flashbacks, three flashback! What a
:08:04. > :08:06.flashback does in a film, someone is standing there and saying, hang on a
:08:07. > :08:13.sec, let me fill you in, and then they do that twice more. Hang on, if
:08:14. > :08:18.you don't know this... The rest won't make any sense... Three times,
:08:19. > :08:21.15 minutes! ... Feels like the movie never start, then you are in there
:08:22. > :08:26.and you feel like the movie will never end! I went to the cinema to
:08:27. > :08:30.see this, two were asleep at the end of the row that I was sitting on,
:08:31. > :08:37.that sums it up. Rugby does! Never mind. So that is Assassin's Creed.
:08:38. > :08:42.-- probably does. Best movie out at the moment, in your opinion. A
:08:43. > :08:46.monster calls, now this is the most extraordinary cell, actually, it is
:08:47. > :08:51.a fantastical terminal illness melodrama for children. -- A
:08:52. > :09:03.Monster's Call. Maybe it is not for children, it stars a 12-year-old
:09:04. > :09:07.boy. -- sell. He's visited by a Yew Tree, over a few evenings, and it is
:09:08. > :09:11.played by Liam Neeson, it has a wonderful shape, Dickensian shed,
:09:12. > :09:14.visited three times to be shown things that may help you deal with
:09:15. > :09:18.life. It is a flat-out classic, it has the emotional heft of the
:09:19. > :09:22.Railway children, moments of iron man by Ted Hughes and pans
:09:23. > :09:25.Labyrinth, I think it is a masterpiece, go and see it and take
:09:26. > :09:31.all of the family. Good recommendation! Best DVD? A terrific
:09:32. > :09:36.film which is just... Featured quite a lot in the Golden Globes
:09:37. > :09:41.nominations. Hell or High Water, Ben Foster and Chris Pine, bank robber
:09:42. > :09:43.brothers, and Jeff Bridges is the Texas Rangers who is tracking them
:09:44. > :09:48.down, which sounds terribly familiar, that kind of plot, and
:09:49. > :09:52.features a great deal in cinema. One of them is on a roll, the other
:09:53. > :09:59.brother is a little too wild, the Texas Rangers always a step ahead of
:10:00. > :10:02.them. It feels like a movie of the mid-19 70s or early 1980s, like
:10:03. > :10:06.midnight run, where you come away from it thinking, you will look
:10:07. > :10:09.through the TV listings and think, Hell or High Water is on tonight,
:10:10. > :10:15.unmissable, fantastic! -- Midnight Run. It has slotted into that
:10:16. > :10:17.classic film territory already, Jeff Bridges has been nominated for a
:10:18. > :10:21.Golden Globes for his Best Supporting Actor and he does the
:10:22. > :10:26.most fantastic thing towards the end of the movie. There is a death scene
:10:27. > :10:29.and just in a couple of seconds you see everything that Jeff Bridges can
:10:30. > :10:35.offer as an actor, the way that he absorbs the shock, it is a magical
:10:36. > :10:41.moment, such a terrific film. Thank you very much the joining us. That
:10:42. > :10:45.is it for this week, thank you so much for watching, goodbye.