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in 2016 and we will be in Belfast ahead of the BBC sports personality

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of the year award at the weekend. Now on BBC News, it is time for the

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film review. Welcome to the Film Review on BBC

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News. To take us through this week's

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cinema releases is Mark Kermode. Surprisingly there is a new Star

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Wars film reopening everywhere. We also have sharper, which is an

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interesting film. And Snoopy, the peanut film. Star Wars is a must

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see? Everybody is worried about the plot spoiler. Let's just say this is

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taking place sometime after the return of the Jedi. There is a

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battle between good and evil. All I will say is it involves a scavenger

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played by Daisy Ridley. It reunites friends old and new. We have a

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montage of stuff available from the trailers. Even this will not spoil

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it. Who are you? I am no one. I was

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raised to do one thing. But I've got nothing to fight for. Nothing will

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stand in our way. I will finish what you started. Those stories about

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what happened? It is true. All of it. Come along way since George

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Lucas. I never click with the original. I was into the idea of

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darkness science-fiction, Silent running to some extent. When the

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prequels came out, I was old enough to think, they are nothing like as

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good as the originals, they have a weightless, digital quality. Even

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the original Star Wars fans were disappointed. I went into this as

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someone who wasn't a Star Wars aficionado. It made me feel like a

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12-year-old watching the Star Wars movie. I thought it was really

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exciting and engaging, dramatic and tragic. One of the things I like

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about it is it has a feeling of physical heft. It is shot on 65

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millimetre. Desert scenes, you get a sense of the Lawrence of Arabia

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grandeur, which was so absent from the Lucas prequels. You have

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characters, you are interested in the story. They ride the fine line

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between number one pond, it interstellar adventure and humour.

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There are jokes in this movie that are funny. In no way so many

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comedies don't manage to have. What surprised me was, I watched it in a

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pack cinema with people who were Star Wars aficionados. You could

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feel the anticipation. Everybody was really excited when it opened. But

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there was a sense they didn't want to be disappointed. Not only did it

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not disappoint them, it really captured my imagination. I found I

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was surrounded by crowds of people who were laughing, cheering and

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gasping. I suddenly realised I was one of them. It was a strange

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experience and it comes down to JJ Abrams. He is a fine director. He

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does hear what he did with the Star Trek movies, taking it back to the

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original, but also going back to the future, using it as a way of looking

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forward. The two stars were terrific, good at holding attention.

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As you engage with. As I said, it was like finally going, I see, I get

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this. I confess, I have seen it twice. Twice in 24 hours. The second

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time round, it was thoroughly immersive. But both times round I

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bought this is satisfying, it has the JJ Ember Inns -- JJ Abrams sense

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of heft. You feel there is some physicality which was lacking from

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the digitised prequels. You wouldn't be surprised, $57 million on the

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opening night. People talking about three billion dollars, including the

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merchandising, which George Lucas very cleverly made sure he got. It

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is easy to assume something like this is going to be a massive hit.

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What it is all so really, really difficult to make a movie that will

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play with the fans and also played to the audience who aren't

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completely invested in it. If it does end up doing Titanic business,

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no pun intended, it will be because of repeated viewing and both groups

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of people really like it. And for me, somebody who wasn't on the side

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of Star Wars before, I thought it was a distraction. I was sold on it.

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Completely sold. Sherpa? Totally different. We had Everest, seem

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largely through the eyes of the tourists and the tour guides. This

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is a documentary about the guides who take the most risks and at the

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least reward. The film-makers set up to follow a Sherpa on an historic

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22nd summit of Everest. What happens in 2014 is a terrible disaster. As a

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result of this disaster, the Sherpas decided they would go on strike.

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They would say, with the conditions, this is a terrible thing that has

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happened. It became almost an industrial dispute. What is very

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gripping is, on the one hand, breathtaking visuals, but it is a

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story about workers taking charge of the workplace, the tensions that

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ensue between them and the tourists. Some of them, the attitude towards

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the indigenous Sherpas, is terrible, it is being. I found it very

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compassionate, told its story very intelligently, not with any sense of

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bias, but it gave you a sense of a workplace changing before your eyes.

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Snoopy? Are you a fan? They are OK, small-town America, quite innocent.

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That phrase, small-town America, innocent. It is a digital animation.

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It is an attempt to update with that in animation but keep exactly the

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thing you'd just moments like this when you need your

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faithful friend. Yes, Hello. Hello. She said, hello. It is

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visually very nice? Very nice! It is not to do with big laughs, it is wry

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smiling. CPM margins going off and fighting with the red Baron which

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justifies the digital animation. But there is a tension between very old

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school America and the modern visuals. It was OK. Cute and some of

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the pop songs are a grating. I wonder if it will hold the attention

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of younger viewers? Frozen is a grating, but that went down well.

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Now, Grandma? I really like it, Lily Tomlin plays a Grandma trying to

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help her teenage granddaughter to raise the money for an abortion. In

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doing this she meets old friends and acquaintances. It doesn't fall into

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the cliches of a bad grandmother, she has more tatties and her

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granddaughter. It is more intelligent than that. I thought

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Lily Tomlin was terrific. Your DVD of the week is about Wilco Johnson?

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This is a story about somebody facing up to their own mortality and

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realising it makes them feel more alive than ever. As we know, the

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story of Wilco Johnson is extraordinary. Everybody thought he

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was going to die, including him. He's still here and as hard as he

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did. Julien Temple is a really good film-maker and understands how to

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make metaphysics out of a documentary.

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A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news

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and reviews from across the BBC online, including

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came out, albeit

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