:00:00. > :00:20.cricket as well. Better news for England's women. All on 6:30 but now
:00:21. > :00:27.it is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to the programme.
:00:28. > :00:31.To take us through this week's releases is Mark Kermode. But to be
:00:32. > :00:36.held this week. I would season is with us so we have 12 years a slave
:00:37. > :00:43.which is being widely tipped as best picture. We have delivery man, it
:00:44. > :00:47.perhaps unnecessary American remake of a French-Canadian original. We
:00:48. > :00:54.have the railwayman, another retelling of the story of Eric
:00:55. > :01:02.Lomax. 12 Years A Slave, doesn't deserve the plaudits? Is good ten
:01:03. > :01:09.nominations. Verity was eligible in the British best film category. It
:01:10. > :01:15.is extraordinary, based on the 19th-century memoir. He was a
:01:16. > :01:19.carpenter, musician and family man who was kidnapped and sold into
:01:20. > :01:23.slavery and as the title tells you, it is 12 years of slavery and it is
:01:24. > :01:29.an extraordinary story from within the belly of the beast. Centrally to
:01:30. > :01:33.his survival, once Solomon has found himself in this particular and, he
:01:34. > :01:36.has been given a new name, he is not allowed to have any human rights, he
:01:37. > :01:41.realises in order to survive you must withdraw -- withhold his rage
:01:42. > :01:58.and his knowledge from the people who own him. Here is a clip. Eliza,
:01:59. > :02:07.stopped! Stop! You have let yourself been overcome from sorrow. Have you
:02:08. > :02:13.stopped crying for your children, will you ever let them go from your
:02:14. > :02:25.heart? They are as my flesh. Then who is distressed? I upset the
:02:26. > :02:34.master and mistress? He is a good man. He is a clever. You luxuriate
:02:35. > :02:42.in his presence. I survived! I will keep myself hardly until freedom is
:02:43. > :02:46.opportune. You think he does not know that you are more than he
:02:47. > :02:55.suggests that he does nothing for you, nothing! You're no better than
:02:56. > :03:02.prized livestock. Lupita Nyongo is fantastic. When
:03:03. > :03:07.offered this role, he was uncertain whether to take it on but he has
:03:08. > :03:12.done it bluntly. It is a very controlled performance. We saw him
:03:13. > :03:16.there in full flight but many of the scenes are wordless. Steve
:03:17. > :03:21.McQueen's camera lingers on his face. The way in which he physically
:03:22. > :03:25.hold themselves during the scenes and a lot of people have pointed out
:03:26. > :03:33.that much of the scene is harrowing, as it ought to be. This
:03:34. > :03:38.is a film in which we see this extraordinary story of someone
:03:39. > :03:41.living an ordinary life, kidnapped and found in these barbaric
:03:42. > :03:45.circumstances and in order to betray that properly, you have to go on a
:03:46. > :03:51.journey with him and you do have to see some genuinely terrible things.
:03:52. > :03:54.I think is completed just five. I also think that Steve McQueen has
:03:55. > :03:58.done a brilliant job of telling the story. In that have some of his
:03:59. > :04:05.films have been stylish more than narrative. Critics say he has these
:04:06. > :04:12.distinctive shots, he has this visual style. Here, the most
:04:13. > :04:17.important thing about this is that it is good, solid storytelling. The
:04:18. > :04:22.best I have seen in a long time. Amongst those BAFTA nominations,
:04:23. > :04:32.there was a supporting actress nomination for the Mac. It is
:04:33. > :04:40.something -- Lupita Nyongo. The film is beautifully captured. Wonderful
:04:41. > :04:45.use of music. Interesting use of song, the way it is used to help the
:04:46. > :04:51.narrative. You think, the film is important and is worthy but the key
:04:52. > :04:56.thing about it is that it is clear storytelling. It is cinema being
:04:57. > :05:02.used for its highest purpose. To give the viewer an electrifying play
:05:03. > :05:10.real experience. I predict a clean sweep as far as the awards are
:05:11. > :05:16.concerned and it deserves it. I suspect the next film, delivery man,
:05:17. > :05:20.not so many. Vince Vaughn is back which is always something that plays
:05:21. > :05:29.with a heavy heart. There was a French-Canadian movie about a man
:05:30. > :05:32.child who discovers his wife is pregnant and he discovers he is the
:05:33. > :05:37.biological father of over 500 children because he used to be a
:05:38. > :05:46.sperm donor. 500 of them have joined a lawsuit to find out who his father
:05:47. > :05:51.is. Is Vince Vaughn busy because we need a feckless man child! I find
:05:52. > :05:57.him quite an annoying screen presence. He has rained it in a
:05:58. > :06:01.little in this movie and because it is so close to the original, there
:06:02. > :06:07.is not so much scope for him to completely mess it up. Very little
:06:08. > :06:13.is lost in translation. Almost nothing is gained and there still is
:06:14. > :06:21.the problem in that the guy does heroic speeches about only I have
:06:22. > :06:28.the right to do fatherhood. I will see worse Vince Vaughn movies, I am
:06:29. > :06:33.not sure it wanted a remake. It is not as funny as it ought to be. The
:06:34. > :06:39.railwayman? This is the story of Eric Lomax which has been told
:06:40. > :06:48.several times before. We meet at the beginning: first, a prisoner of war
:06:49. > :06:57.who severed terribly. -- Colin Firth. Whilst on a brief -- will be
:06:58. > :07:06.journey, he has a brief encounter with Nicole is a clip.
:07:07. > :07:10.I have never been to the Highlands before so finding myself single
:07:11. > :07:16.again, so to speak, I thought, I would like to see them. So I am
:07:17. > :07:19.going by train and then I am catching the coach to Inverness and
:07:20. > :07:23.coming down the other side. What do you think? West Coast is
:07:24. > :07:32.extraordinarily beautiful, you may fall in love with it. If I were to
:07:33. > :07:37.fall in love, what then? Instead of a coach to Inverness, you might
:07:38. > :07:47.change at Oban and from there you can get any number of but trips. It
:07:48. > :08:01.is very romantic. -- boat trips. Are you romantic? I have to be in
:08:02. > :08:06.Edinburgh by Wednesday. That is a great answer! Those
:08:07. > :08:11.sequences work in a very old-fashioned way. Then we see
:08:12. > :08:20.Jeremy Irving playing the younger version of Eric Lomax. He is very
:08:21. > :08:27.good and gets the mannerisms of Colin Firth's character down pat but
:08:28. > :08:33.the strange thing is, the story is a story of suffering and redemption.
:08:34. > :08:38.The strange thing for me is the story he writes is models. The
:08:39. > :08:44.junctions between the past and future don't work quite as well as
:08:45. > :08:50.they ought to. Sometimes he goes into odd little sidings. It is OK,
:08:51. > :08:54.it is just that considering how clear the real life narrative is, it
:08:55. > :09:01.is strange to have modelled it is. Colin Firth is on home territory
:09:02. > :09:09.here. The repressed pain but actually, Jeremy Irving is the
:09:10. > :09:14.standout star. There are too many strange little narratives here. It
:09:15. > :09:19.is however a very hard hearted person who would not be moved by the
:09:20. > :09:25.ending. That is talk about the best one out there in your opinion? There
:09:26. > :09:31.is a release of beauty and the beast which is part of the British film
:09:32. > :09:37.industry's Gothic season. It is a terrific piece of work. It is
:09:38. > :09:42.beautifully rendered and no matter how many times you see it, you
:09:43. > :09:48.always see something new in it. Special effects are very clever and
:09:49. > :10:01.inventive and it has an ending very tail charm. -- fairy tale charm. The
:10:02. > :10:07.best DVD? A little light relief is your next which is a horror movie.
:10:08. > :10:13.It was one of those movies that if a home invasion movie with a twist. It
:10:14. > :10:16.is mean-spirited and fast and kinetic and genuinely quite nasty
:10:17. > :10:21.and I enjoyed it because it grabs you by the throat and doesn't let
:10:22. > :10:27.go. I'm not sure I would relax on the sober but that! That depends, I
:10:28. > :10:33.love a really nice nasty horror movie! You will find more film news
:10:34. > :10:48.and reviews from Mark Kermode on his blog.
:10:49. > :11:00.As it for this week, goodbye. -- that's it for this week.
:11:01. > :11:03.Some frosty evening is coming up so the perfect weather to be getting
:11:04. > :11:07.comfortable on the sofa. If you're heading out onto the roads, bear in
:11:08. > :11:09.mind, we have some rain moving in across the British