:00:02. > :00:12.Cup Final with me, Olly Foster on Sportsday at 6. 30 on BBC News.
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:00:30. > :00:35.News. To take us through this week's releases is Mark Kermode. What have
:00:35. > :00:42.we got, you Trek fan you? We have Star Trek Into Darkness, the second
:00:42. > :00:50.reboot from JJ Abrams who pretty much reinvented the franchise. We
:00:50. > :00:58.have Dead Fall, a chilling neogothic thrill thriller and we have Mud
:00:58. > :01:01.which demonstrates that he is more than a pretty face, does Matthew
:01:01. > :01:07.McConnaghey. I've read all the stuff and Star
:01:07. > :01:10.Trek is aimed at people who don't normally go to those movies?
:01:10. > :01:14.franchiser didn't like it when he was kited and came to it very late.
:01:14. > :01:19.They wanted to keep those fans on board but to bring in a whole new
:01:19. > :01:22.generation of fans, people like you who never got it. So they invented
:01:22. > :01:28.this interesting thing whereby the whole history exists but here is
:01:28. > :01:33.another one. The two can coexist. Star Trek Into Darkness. You must
:01:33. > :01:39.have seen some of the old Star Trekkers? They were a bit talky for
:01:39. > :01:45.me. A bit of whizz (BANG) And a bit of Star Wars, that's going to cause
:01:45. > :01:50.trouble. JJ Abrams is about to go and do the Star Wars movie and he
:01:50. > :01:54.feels like you do, that it was a bit talky. In the case of the new movie,
:01:54. > :01:59.there is discussion and colonialism versus pacifism and imperialism. In
:01:59. > :02:03.the new movie, all the conversations are had in the middle of massive
:02:03. > :02:13.explosions. This is a film that begins with Spock in the middle of a
:02:13. > :02:20.
:02:20. > :02:30.volcano and goes up from there. Here On the bridge... We still have
:02:30. > :02:30.
:02:30. > :02:34.contact. Spock? ! I've activated the device, Captain when the countdown
:02:34. > :02:39.is complete, render the volcano inactive. I need to bring Spock back
:02:39. > :02:46.to the ship. Give me one way to do it? Maybe if we could have a direct
:02:46. > :02:55.line... You are talking about an active volcano. If that things
:02:55. > :03:02.erupts, I can't guarantee... The enterprise is too large. Nobody
:03:02. > :03:07.knows the rules except you but there has to be an exception? Uerks none.
:03:07. > :03:17.The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. We are talking
:03:17. > :03:18.
:03:18. > :03:25.about your clief! -- life. Who 'd have thought those two in the same
:03:25. > :03:28.clip. Fantastic. That's the tone of the movie. Obviously the original
:03:29. > :03:33.series was constantly about current affairs, Vietnam and race relations
:03:33. > :03:37.and class issues. This has a back throw which is about terrorism, but
:03:37. > :03:42.all those debates are held in the middle of absolutely full on turned
:03:42. > :03:47.up to 11 actions. When you were watching that clip you were laughing
:03:47. > :03:54.but not dericively, you were enjoying it. Definitely.Scotty's
:03:54. > :04:04.saying, we can't do it, you cannot change the law of physics, and the
:04:04. > :04:05.
:04:05. > :04:10.one thing that JJ Abrams knows how to do is to give you spectacle. In
:04:10. > :04:15.The narratively slightly less satisfying, but for the most part,
:04:15. > :04:19.Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic and he holds the camera brilliantly.
:04:19. > :04:22.He has a great deal of spookiness about him in his roles and you can
:04:22. > :04:27.imagine this would come through and it would be perfect for him? But he
:04:27. > :04:31.has to play with your sympathies. Half way through the movie, you
:04:31. > :04:35.start thinking, I understand that and qst a question about
:04:35. > :04:39.imperialism, colonialism and pacifism. All that's going on.
:04:39. > :04:43.Buildings fall down and planets are blown up, nuclear reactors are
:04:44. > :04:49.wuered together with bits of string, so you come out of it thinking it's
:04:49. > :04:53.largely surface but what surface. JJ Abrams knows how to make things look
:04:53. > :05:03.good and has an infch weighs with lens flair. This isn't a single shot
:05:03. > :05:11.
:05:11. > :05:21.that's not drenched with lens flair and it's been retro fitted into 3 D
:05:21. > :05:21.
:05:21. > :05:28.-- infatuation with lens flair. Dead kl fall? A strange concoction.
:05:28. > :05:32.It's a neogothic chilling thriller starting off with a brother and
:05:32. > :05:37.sister, they've come out of a job that's gone wrong, they are heading
:05:37. > :05:40.towards the Canadian border and heading towards a cabin in which
:05:40. > :05:45.Sissy Spacek and Kris Kristofferson, great acting where they are going
:05:45. > :05:49.to, and in the course of their escape, all these weird plot threads
:05:49. > :05:55.intertwine, there's violence, comedy, shock and essentially family
:05:55. > :06:05.strangers. Any movie that features snow features dead bodies and a
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:06:09. > :06:14.female policewoman. Fargo isn't like this, but this has the pulp pulpy
:06:14. > :06:20.edge to it. Bana was very good and Spacek and Kris Kristofferson is
:06:20. > :06:24.good. It's trashy but it knows why and it's enjoying itself. We talked
:06:24. > :06:28.about Star Trek, this is super ripe and I enjoyed it a lot more than I
:06:28. > :06:38.thought I would. It's not going to stay around for a long time but I
:06:38. > :06:39.
:06:39. > :06:44.thought it was really good fun. Talking about conversions. Matthew
:06:44. > :06:50.McConaug He r I thought was an idiot, then I saw killer Joe and
:06:50. > :06:55.thought it was great. Everyone thought the same, he did Magic Mike
:06:55. > :06:58.and now Mud. Two boy boys that live on the river, they find this
:06:58. > :07:03.deserted island where there is a boat up in a tree, been put there by
:07:03. > :07:13.a storm years ago, they want to use it as a tree house but it's already
:07:13. > :07:16.
:07:16. > :07:25.being used by his Mud. Here is a clip.
:07:25. > :07:35.I was going to see where that got me this afternoon. It never tasted so
:07:35. > :07:45.
:07:45. > :07:51.good! Why do you have that pistol? Protection. Don't need toe be afraid
:07:51. > :08:01.of me. Got two ways to protect myself out here. This shirt and this
:08:01. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:09.pistol. There are fierce powers in the world, good, evil. Us men have
:08:09. > :08:14.to take advantage when we can. You coming?
:08:14. > :08:20.An interesting clip that. Set out the themes of the flil. It's about
:08:20. > :08:26.manhood and about boys becoming men. It's a boy-type film. Huckleberry
:08:26. > :08:29.Fin and Mississippi, maul boy. Actually, the director who did
:08:30. > :08:33.shotgun stories and take shelter, he's great at location, you can feel
:08:33. > :08:39.and hear the swamp and smell the trees and I love that about his
:08:39. > :08:44.work. Those two kids are brilliant as well. There have been comparisons
:08:44. > :08:53.made to Stand By Me because one of them looks like River Phoenix from
:08:53. > :08:57.Stand By Me. It's performance-led. Matthew McConaughey's found his
:08:57. > :09:01.second act and it's a film about atmosphere and relationships. It's
:09:01. > :09:09.not perfect but is an interesting boys to men film with a strong sense
:09:10. > :09:16.of setting and yet more proof that Matthew McConaughey's got a great
:09:16. > :09:21.future ahead of him, after everyone was saying he was done. You loved
:09:21. > :09:27.Killer Joe? Yes, he's the per son fifation of evil in that. Everyone
:09:27. > :09:33.said is there a scene in which he takings his shirt off? Yes, but it's
:09:33. > :09:41.not a taking his shirt off kind of film. Thank goodness for that. In
:09:41. > :09:45.The Fog is the best of the week for you? Yes, set in Belarus. It has
:09:45. > :09:51.echoes of loyalty and betrayal and what it means to collaborate and in
:09:51. > :09:56.the way that all war movies do, it's about ideas and conflict and human
:09:56. > :10:00.suffering. It's not an action movie, it's a tough watch, but a tough
:10:00. > :10:03.watch that's fully rewarding and it has a haunting atmosphere. We were
:10:03. > :10:07.talking about the atmosphere of that film. It has a strong sense of place
:10:08. > :10:14.and you feel like it's dealing with weighty issueses, although it's a
:10:14. > :10:24.personal drama. The fog is the moral fog of who's doing the right thing?
:10:24. > :10:24.
:10:24. > :11:07.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:11:07. > :11:10.The moral fog and literal fog. You can der spret the title in many ways
:11:10. > :11:20.but it nods towards the fog of war -- interpret. The Impossible?Yes,
:11:20. > :11:24.
:11:24. > :11:32.extraordinary story, a real life story about this family.