:00:00. > :00:00.hopes to become the first British boxer to lift a world title belt in
:00:00. > :00:09.front of a sell-out crowd in London. That is all coming up in Sportsday.
:00:10. > :00:19.Now on BBC News, it is time for The Film Review.
:00:20. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this
:00:28. > :00:36.week's releases we have Jason Solomons. What we have? Mirror,
:00:37. > :00:41.Mirror on the wall, who is the atheist queen of all? We will try to
:00:42. > :00:46.find out with Mirror. And in Sri Lanka, lost souls, a family
:00:47. > :00:53.endangered in a dangerous suburb, in Dheepan. And Michael Shannon gets to
:00:54. > :00:57.grip with his son's otherworldly powers in the indie sci-fi thriller,
:00:58. > :01:05.Midnight Special. All human life is here! Now, The Huntsman: Winter's
:01:06. > :01:11.War, what do you make of it? The Huntsman: Winter's War. The
:01:12. > :01:22.flooding' is the least of this film's concerns! -- the floating
:01:23. > :01:32.apostrophe. Snow-white is not even in it! They decided the hunky
:01:33. > :01:37.huntsman is much more interesting. All about what happened to him,
:01:38. > :01:44.captured as a child soldier, raised as a huntsman, taken to an icy
:01:45. > :01:47.kingdom ruled by Emily Blunt... Charlize Theron is the evil queen
:01:48. > :01:52.somewhere. How they get it all in is a mystery. It makes no sense at all.
:01:53. > :01:55.There are dwarves, and Emily Blunt rides a polar bear the work!
:01:56. > :02:15.Obviously! All I had to do was send her
:02:16. > :02:25.to you and you led her They're just like children!
:02:26. > :02:36.CHUCKLES You knew she'd betray
:02:37. > :03:11.you and you spared her still. Augusta well, I liked the polar bear
:03:12. > :03:21.a thing, whatever that was -- well, I liked. The sabre-tooth polar bear!
:03:22. > :03:25.The icy thing... The original was pretty icy. It had the seven dwarves
:03:26. > :03:31.and now there are only four. They may have doubled them up. It is
:03:32. > :03:34.almost as if someone got round the table in Hollywood and said, you
:03:35. > :03:40.know that Frozen, that was really good, so let's have two sisters
:03:41. > :03:49.hurling ice at each other. Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron, then,
:03:50. > :03:55.with her ginger hair, they gave her a Scottish accent, kind of. He has a
:03:56. > :03:58.Braveheart accent, it is such a mash up and a mess but actually somehow
:03:59. > :04:04.there are some very spectacular effects. I do not know who it is
:04:05. > :04:16.for. Young Game Of Thrones fans? Busy fans? The ones who ball at the
:04:17. > :04:27.sort of nudity... -- balk at. And her Scottish accent. Who knew? She
:04:28. > :04:33.canny dae it! LAUGHTER
:04:34. > :04:38.And Dheepan, the current Palm d'Or holder. It did not win at Cannes and
:04:39. > :04:42.there was a feeling that when he won at Cannes last year it was because
:04:43. > :04:46.he had been overlooked before. But I think Dheepan is equally good, the
:04:47. > :04:51.director Jacques Audiard, I think he is the coolest director, I was good
:04:52. > :04:55.to see in Europe, but probably in the world, I think. Martin Scorsese
:04:56. > :05:00.is more the sort of American Audiard because of all the influences. Here,
:05:01. > :05:04.he does his usual look at a family living on the margins, hero who has
:05:05. > :05:08.to survive. It is about our Sri Lankan refugee who smuggles himself
:05:09. > :05:14.and his false family to Paris and they are given status as asylum
:05:15. > :05:21.seekers as the leader in this crumbling estate in the Banlieue of
:05:22. > :05:26.Paris, as the collet. He has two negotiate his way through the drug
:05:27. > :05:30.dealers and hoodlums and -- as they call it. He gets back to his
:05:31. > :05:35.soldiering ways, rediscovers the ways of the jungle from when he was
:05:36. > :05:43.a Tamil rebel. Extraordinary, everything he packs into this movie,
:05:44. > :05:47.but Michel -- Audiard does it. It has a thrill ride which so many
:05:48. > :05:51.French directors love, but they do not often have the thrill you get
:05:52. > :05:57.with Audiard's films. They are cool to watch. The Huntsman: Winter's War
:05:58. > :06:01.will not do it, but Dheepan make. And Midnight Special might? Another
:06:02. > :06:07.very interesting director called Jeff Nichols who did a lovely film
:06:08. > :06:11.called Mud with Matthew McConnachie. He is interested in Americana and
:06:12. > :06:16.mythology, and faith as well, the strange placing of faith. This is
:06:17. > :06:19.about a very strange boy who has two were blue swimming goggles to
:06:20. > :06:24.protect his eyes, and we don't quite know why. He seems to be on the run
:06:25. > :06:28.with his father, played by Michael Shannon, driven by Joel Edgerton.
:06:29. > :06:35.They are on the run from cult who to be a wash of this boy, led by Sam
:06:36. > :06:39.Shepard and again we quite know why -- occult who seem to worship this
:06:40. > :06:42.boy. All we do know is that this boy seems to be able to conjure things
:06:43. > :06:47.out of the blue. Here's a clip. Yeah, well, you oughta
:06:48. > :07:04.watch your kid. You cannot leave the van -
:07:05. > :07:44.you hear me?! I think anybody watching that will
:07:45. > :07:49.think, this is Stephen Spielberg, something like that. It is
:07:50. > :07:54.interesting that. It is a bit more like Close Encounters, kinder than
:07:55. > :07:58.normal life, someone fascinated by... Then it builds to a climax
:07:59. > :08:03.where perhaps the aliens arrive. I like sci-fis when they are set in
:08:04. > :08:08.the year round now. JJ Abrams did it very well with Separate as well and
:08:09. > :08:13.then there is that bit where the aliens either appear or do not
:08:14. > :08:17.appear and I think it is best if you don't do aliens -- Super eight. As
:08:18. > :08:22.soon as you use outer space stuff you have to design it and use
:08:23. > :08:29.special effects. I thought for most of its running time, Midnight
:08:30. > :08:33.Special was great, very mysterious and uneasy, and I do not want to
:08:34. > :08:34.spoil it but at the end that is the necessity of the special effects,
:08:35. > :08:40.which are not very special, because which are not very special, because
:08:41. > :08:51.it is an indie film, because unless you have that budget the look kind
:08:52. > :08:56.of on wonderful. With Mud, Huckleberry Finn, and the kids, the
:08:57. > :08:59.children, very annoying and, well, it is way into the story... It is
:09:00. > :09:03.the same here. I think he is interested in how kids can be
:09:04. > :09:07.portrayed, how their sense of innocence can be removed by a
:09:08. > :09:12.America and by faith as well. He is interested in how faith, God and
:09:13. > :09:18.cosmology is twisted, this cult run by Sam Shepard. In Mud there is a
:09:19. > :09:20.shoot out in a hotel, and a blonde starring, Reese Witherspoon, and
:09:21. > :09:26.Kirsten Dunst is the sort of blonde American star he gets on this one. I
:09:27. > :09:28.think he is a very fine film-maker, and has slightly, crop with Midnight
:09:29. > :09:35.Special, but it is still very interesting to watch. I can't really
:09:36. > :09:37.reveal the end, of course, but, you know, for most of the journey I
:09:38. > :09:49.thought it was very special. Your Best of the week is this film shot
:09:50. > :09:53.in one take, Victoria, apparently in the wee wee hours in Berlin. Yes, a
:09:54. > :09:56.Spanish woman who gets caught up with a failed heist with some
:09:57. > :10:00.friends she meets on the street, and it is all done in one take, so I
:10:01. > :10:06.think it is sort of breathless to watch, and it looks like Breathless
:10:07. > :10:10.as well. Your DVD of the week is Sunset Song and I have to say that
:10:11. > :10:15.Peter Mullan can do is Scottish accent, as can Agyness Deyn. Yes,
:10:16. > :10:21.very good. Terence Davies's film. Fields of wheat, set in Scotland,
:10:22. > :10:25.based on a classic Scottish novel. Lewis Grassic Gibbon. I have not
:10:26. > :10:28.read it but everybody speaks about it. Nobody actually wants to read
:10:29. > :10:34.it. But you don't have to because the film, I think, is a very smart
:10:35. > :10:38.adaptation. It feels very literary and it is a very strong performance
:10:39. > :10:44.by Agyness Deyn doing a great Scottish accent. It is also another
:10:45. > :10:48.world, pre-World War I. The loss of innocence and the loss of a way of
:10:49. > :10:53.life, in a way, with them being suddenly hauled into modernity.
:10:54. > :10:59.Peter Mullan plays this Victorian father, and I don't know if he can
:11:00. > :11:04.play any other father -- Centauri and father. Some career advice
:11:05. > :11:07.therefore Peter as well! That's it for this week. Thank you for
:11:08. > :11:08.watching, and do enjoy the movies.