:00:00. > :00:00.the Summer. And Katie joins us from Edinburgh head of another Six
:00:00. > :00:00.Nations weekend. That is an Sportsday at 6:30pm. Now it is time
:00:00. > :00:26.for The Film Review on BBC News. Hello and welcome to The Film Review
:00:27. > :00:31.on BBC News. To take through this week's similar releases, Mark
:00:32. > :00:35.Kermode. We have some good stuff. Yes, Dallas Buyers Club. Matthew
:00:36. > :00:40.McConaughey has become a top awards contender. He would have thought
:00:41. > :00:44.that three years ago? The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring
:00:45. > :00:49.Ralph Fiennes, the story of Charles Dickens's private life. And of
:00:50. > :00:58.RoboCop. What are they going to do with the 1987 original? -- a reboot
:00:59. > :01:04.of RoboCop. Dallas Buyers Club, great performance by Matthew
:01:05. > :01:10.McConaughey. Yes and Jared Leto. The story is inspired by Ron Woodroof's
:01:11. > :01:13.story. He was diagnosed as HIV-positive and was given 30 days
:01:14. > :01:20.to live. He took medication which did not work out for him and so he
:01:21. > :01:25.started going outside the USA to set up a method of getting medication
:01:26. > :01:31.into the country. It was the Dallas Buyers Club. There was a membership
:01:32. > :01:35.fee, so technically they were not selling medication. The authorities
:01:36. > :01:42.were not pleased. What are you doing here? I live here. Are you
:01:43. > :01:52.roommates? Not exactly. What are you doing here? This is my patient. You
:01:53. > :02:07.are treating these people? With what? Anything except that poison
:02:08. > :02:14.that you are walking. Do you ever wear any colour? All I see is white,
:02:15. > :02:17.the white coat, the white shoes. Tell him I am looking for him. I am
:02:18. > :02:27.telling patients to stay away from here. Wants to grab a steak
:02:28. > :02:30.sometime? I know it is read. The headline is the weight that he
:02:31. > :02:33.lost. But that is the least remarkable thing about his
:02:34. > :02:37.performance. What is really good, at the beginning Ron is an unlikeable
:02:38. > :02:45.character. Homophobic, misogynistic, they get, and quite a dangerous
:02:46. > :02:52.person. -- bigoted. When he looks for medication it is the survival
:02:53. > :02:56.instinct but he brings it back for financial gain. His friendship in
:02:57. > :03:00.inverted commas is with Jared Leto's character, and it is only to
:03:01. > :03:04.bring in the drugs. But his character undergoes a change. He
:03:05. > :03:07.softens. He comes to understand that the people that he was contemptuous
:03:08. > :03:12.of before are dealing with the same thing that he is dealing with. The
:03:13. > :03:15.triumph of the film, which has a naturalistic feel, shot in
:03:16. > :03:42.widescreen, hand-held, by a director who did a great job with Crazy, no
:03:43. > :03:44.incidental music, only music on the jukebox, so naturalistic and real,
:03:45. > :03:47.with great performances. It also does that clever thing of giving you
:03:48. > :03:49.a loathsome character at the beginning and, I hate to use this
:03:50. > :03:52.phrase, standard Hollywood, you go on a journey with him. It is
:03:53. > :03:55.redemptive. He redeems himself. It is like much of America and much of
:03:56. > :03:57.the world which saw AIDS as a gay plague. He goes through that journey
:03:58. > :03:59.and becomes a much better person after the fatal illness. There is
:04:00. > :04:02.the comparison with Philadelphia, with the homophobic lawyer
:04:03. > :04:10.approached by Tom -- Tom Hanks and in the film, he realises there is a
:04:11. > :04:14.kindred spirit. It also manages to find genuine joy and an uplifting
:04:15. > :04:19.story amongst the tragedy. And a great performance by Matthew
:04:20. > :04:27.McConaughey. I think that was his best performance. And Jared Leto,
:04:28. > :04:34.too. Terrific. The Invisible Woman. Directed by and starring Ralph
:04:35. > :04:39.Fiennes and about Charles Dickens's relationship with a young actress.
:04:40. > :04:43.They developed an affair. It is basically a story about what it
:04:44. > :04:47.means for her to be Charles Dickens's partner that without being
:04:48. > :04:52.his wife. It comes to life partly because it is done in a good weight
:04:53. > :04:58.with an intelligent script by Abi Morgan which really understands
:04:59. > :05:03.politics. -- a good way. But also Felicity Jones is very intelligent.
:05:04. > :05:09.Jihad is one of those faces. You can look at somebody on the screen and
:05:10. > :05:15.you can see what she is thinking. -- she has one of those faces. She has
:05:16. > :05:21.a vibrant green presence. She implies with very little speech a
:05:22. > :05:23.great depth of character. The film makes you understand her
:05:24. > :05:30.circumstances without in any way being preachy fusty or stale. With
:05:31. > :05:34.Ralph Fiennes playing Charles Dickens, it could feel
:05:35. > :05:39.old-fashioned. But actually it is a very modern film because it is
:05:40. > :05:47.dealing with her plight. The plight of many, being in this weird
:05:48. > :05:52.position when she is the woman who is invisible. In terms of being a
:05:53. > :05:56.director, Coriolanus, home territory, and this is very
:05:57. > :06:00.different. Directing on screen is very different to the theatre and I
:06:01. > :06:04.think this is well directed. The smartest thing about the direction
:06:05. > :06:10.is that he understands it is about small gestures. The trick is to back
:06:11. > :06:16.off and not flash the directing up. He is an actor's director and he
:06:17. > :06:20.does very well with that here. I have to say that my expectations
:06:21. > :06:27.were not tie with RoboCop. Did we need another one because the
:06:28. > :06:33.original is one of the best of that genre ever? Total Recall was
:06:34. > :06:39.terrible so what are they doing with RoboCop? It is basically the same
:06:40. > :06:43.story, a man put into a robotic body. The twist is you cannot put
:06:44. > :06:49.robots on US soil but if you put a guy in it, it is not a robot. But
:06:50. > :06:58.the real sparks come when Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman fight out the
:06:59. > :07:02.philosophical implications. What is wrong with you? Nothing. The
:07:03. > :07:09.software release information to the brain. The computer has finished the
:07:10. > :07:13.job. You wanted a man inside the machine and that is what you have
:07:14. > :07:19.got. But the human element will always be present. Fear, instinct,
:07:20. > :07:23.bias, passion, they always interfere with the system. OK. I have to give
:07:24. > :07:28.the American people something they can root for, something
:07:29. > :07:36.aspirational. Pretty good? I don't know how to sell OK. Help me. Just
:07:37. > :07:43.get him to do that. Him to do that. It is a man inside the machine.
:07:44. > :07:49.Right there! Great stuff, corporate stuff. Isn't that better than you
:07:50. > :07:52.expected? Yes. The whole film is better than you expected. It does
:07:53. > :07:56.not bring a whole new dimension to RoboCop and it does not threaten the
:07:57. > :08:00.original but it is much better than it could have been. It is satirical
:08:01. > :08:05.and it does have the politics in it at the same central concern. One
:08:06. > :08:11.about fascist policing and secondly about man and machine. If you take
:08:12. > :08:15.away bits of the body, when are we human? All those things are there.
:08:16. > :08:18.Yes, it is not the original, but at least it appears to be made by
:08:19. > :08:26.somebody who understands what is good about the original. It is not
:08:27. > :08:31.the rehash of Total Recall. Best of the week is 12 Years A Slave. I will
:08:32. > :08:38.change next week. I have flown the flag solidly! And now Paul
:08:39. > :08:43.Greengrass doing what he does best, taking the drama and filming it like
:08:44. > :08:49.a documentary. Tom Hanks's best performance, this. Captain Phillips.
:08:50. > :08:55.The total newcomer is a wonderful actor, too. Nobody does this like
:08:56. > :09:00.Paul Greengrass. What amazed me was how the pathetic you feel to Somali
:09:01. > :09:06.pirates, not the most sympathetic people. -- how sympathetic you feel.
:09:07. > :09:10.That is because he shows you who they are before, the economic
:09:11. > :09:16.situation and what drives them to do what they do. Thank you. More film
:09:17. > :09:18.reviews available on Mark Kermode's blog. That is it for us. Thank you
:09:19. > :09:36.for watching and goodbye. Hello. I wish I had some good news
:09:37. > :09:41.to bring you but I think the flooding could get worse over the
:09:42. > :09:45.next few days. More storms heading in. The tell-tale curl of cloud on
:09:46. > :09:48.the satellite picture out in the Atlantic, spiralling into the centre
:09:49. > :09:50.of the next storm. That