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in 2016 and we will be in Belfast ahead of the BBC sports personality | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of the year award at the weekend. Now on BBC News, it is time for the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
film review. Welcome to the Film Review on BBC | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
News. To take us through this week's | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
cinema releases is Mark Kermode. Surprisingly there is a new Star | :00:31. | :00:43. | |
Wars film reopening everywhere. We also have sharper, which is an | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
interesting film. And Snoopy, the peanut film. Star Wars is a must | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
see? Everybody is worried about the plot spoiler. Let's just say this is | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
taking place sometime after the return of the Jedi. There is a | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
battle between good and evil. All I will say is it involves a scavenger | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
played by Daisy Ridley. It reunites friends old and new. We have a | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
montage of stuff available from the trailers. Even this will not spoil | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
it. Who are you? I am no one. I was | :01:29. | :02:00. | |
raised to do one thing. But I've got nothing to fight for. Nothing will | :02:01. | :02:13. | |
stand in our way. I will finish what you started. Those stories about | :02:14. | :02:31. | |
what happened? It is true. All of it. Come along way since George | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Lucas. I never click with the original. I was into the idea of | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
darkness science-fiction, Silent running to some extent. When the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
prequels came out, I was old enough to think, they are nothing like as | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
good as the originals, they have a weightless, digital quality. Even | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the original Star Wars fans were disappointed. I went into this as | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
someone who wasn't a Star Wars aficionado. It made me feel like a | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
12-year-old watching the Star Wars movie. I thought it was really | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
exciting and engaging, dramatic and tragic. One of the things I like | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
about it is it has a feeling of physical heft. It is shot on 65 | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
millimetre. Desert scenes, you get a sense of the Lawrence of Arabia | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
grandeur, which was so absent from the Lucas prequels. You have | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
characters, you are interested in the story. They ride the fine line | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
between number one pond, it interstellar adventure and humour. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
There are jokes in this movie that are funny. In no way so many | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
comedies don't manage to have. What surprised me was, I watched it in a | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
pack cinema with people who were Star Wars aficionados. You could | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
feel the anticipation. Everybody was really excited when it opened. But | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
there was a sense they didn't want to be disappointed. Not only did it | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
not disappoint them, it really captured my imagination. I found I | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
was surrounded by crowds of people who were laughing, cheering and | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
gasping. I suddenly realised I was one of them. It was a strange | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
experience and it comes down to JJ Abrams. He is a fine director. He | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
does hear what he did with the Star Trek movies, taking it back to the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
original, but also going back to the future, using it as a way of looking | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
forward. The two stars were terrific, good at holding attention. | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
As you engage with. As I said, it was like finally going, I see, I get | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
this. I confess, I have seen it twice. Twice in 24 hours. The second | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
time round, it was thoroughly immersive. But both times round I | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
bought this is satisfying, it has the JJ Ember Inns -- JJ Abrams sense | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
of heft. You feel there is some physicality which was lacking from | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
the digitised prequels. You wouldn't be surprised, $57 million on the | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
opening night. People talking about three billion dollars, including the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
merchandising, which George Lucas very cleverly made sure he got. It | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
is easy to assume something like this is going to be a massive hit. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
What it is all so really, really difficult to make a movie that will | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
play with the fans and also played to the audience who aren't | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
completely invested in it. If it does end up doing Titanic business, | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
no pun intended, it will be because of repeated viewing and both groups | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
of people really like it. And for me, somebody who wasn't on the side | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
of Star Wars before, I thought it was a distraction. I was sold on it. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Completely sold. Sherpa? Totally different. We had Everest, seem | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
largely through the eyes of the tourists and the tour guides. This | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
is a documentary about the guides who take the most risks and at the | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
least reward. The film-makers set up to follow a Sherpa on an historic | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
22nd summit of Everest. What happens in 2014 is a terrible disaster. As a | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
result of this disaster, the Sherpas decided they would go on strike. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
They would say, with the conditions, this is a terrible thing that has | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
happened. It became almost an industrial dispute. What is very | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
gripping is, on the one hand, breathtaking visuals, but it is a | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
story about workers taking charge of the workplace, the tensions that | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
ensue between them and the tourists. Some of them, the attitude towards | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
the indigenous Sherpas, is terrible, it is being. I found it very | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
compassionate, told its story very intelligently, not with any sense of | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
bias, but it gave you a sense of a workplace changing before your eyes. | :07:31. | :07:41. | |
Snoopy? Are you a fan? They are OK, small-town America, quite innocent. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
That phrase, small-town America, innocent. It is a digital animation. | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
It is an attempt to update with that in animation but keep exactly the | :07:56. | :07:56. | |
thing you'd just moments like this when you need your | :07:57. | :08:19. | |
faithful friend. Yes, Hello. Hello. She said, hello. It is | :08:20. | :08:55. | |
visually very nice? Very nice! It is not to do with big laughs, it is wry | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
smiling. CPM margins going off and fighting with the red Baron which | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
justifies the digital animation. But there is a tension between very old | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
school America and the modern visuals. It was OK. Cute and some of | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
the pop songs are a grating. I wonder if it will hold the attention | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
of younger viewers? Frozen is a grating, but that went down well. | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
Now, Grandma? I really like it, Lily Tomlin plays a Grandma trying to | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
help her teenage granddaughter to raise the money for an abortion. In | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
doing this she meets old friends and acquaintances. It doesn't fall into | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
the cliches of a bad grandmother, she has more tatties and her | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
granddaughter. It is more intelligent than that. I thought | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Lily Tomlin was terrific. Your DVD of the week is about Wilco Johnson? | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
This is a story about somebody facing up to their own mortality and | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
realising it makes them feel more alive than ever. As we know, the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
story of Wilco Johnson is extraordinary. Everybody thought he | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
was going to die, including him. He's still here and as hard as he | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
did. Julien Temple is a really good film-maker and understands how to | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
make metaphysics out of a documentary. | :10:40. | :10:40. | |
A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
and reviews from across the BBC online, including | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
There was a rare treat for a lucky few today will stop the sunshine | :10:46. | :11:06. | |
came out, albeit | :11:07. | :11:07. |