:00:27. > :00:31.Welcome to the film review on BBC News. We go through this week's
:00:31. > :00:38.cinema releases. We have got Summer in February
:00:38. > :00:41.which is a period drama set in Cornwall in 1913. It features than
:00:41. > :00:47.Stevens from Downton Abbey. And then there is Man of Steel, the
:00:47. > :00:51.Superman epic. The rebid of the saga. It features a British actor,
:00:52. > :00:56.Henry Cavill, for the first time in the lead role as Superman. Then we
:00:56. > :01:04.look at stuck in lava which is an American indie comedy drama which
:01:04. > :01:06.has a man who is stuck in that love with his ex-wife -- Stuck in Love.
:01:06. > :01:12.Summer in February is nice and gentle.
:01:12. > :01:16.Wouldn't it be nice? It is set on the Cornish coast in 1913. Some
:01:16. > :01:20.great actors in this. Based on the diaries of a man called Gilvec
:01:20. > :01:30.Evans who was very much in love with a young woman in an artist's
:01:30. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:44.colony. We will look at when they My God! What are you doing here
:01:44. > :01:54.expect? I asked and they said you would be here. This is my sister,
:01:54. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :02:00.Florence. This is one of your party's? We love a party. This is
:02:00. > :02:07.Laura. A famous painter. Very famous. This is her husband, Harold.
:02:07. > :02:15.The nice to meet you. This is one of our models. If they ask nicely.
:02:15. > :02:22.This is my dearest friend, a captain. How do you do? How do you
:02:22. > :02:27.do? Gilvec. Please. Come and get warm. We do what we like and we say
:02:27. > :02:32.what we like. You were a soldier? Some of the time. And the rest of
:02:32. > :02:37.the time, you do and say what you like?
:02:37. > :02:41.One of the reviews I've read a seemed to say that while the
:02:41. > :02:46.performances were fine, the script is a bland.
:02:46. > :02:52.It is very exposition area. It is not particularly interesting. It
:02:52. > :03:01.should be. It was about a bohemian artists' colony. It gets more and
:03:01. > :03:06.more drab and more melancholy towards the end. It is tragic. He
:03:06. > :03:11.does from a frivolous insight into an artist's' colony we should be
:03:11. > :03:15.fascinating to being very plodding. A TV director worked on this and it
:03:15. > :03:21.feels very small screen. Cornwall is beautiful. I'm a big
:03:21. > :03:26.fan of Cornwall. The performances are great. Dominic Cooper is good
:03:26. > :03:31.as Alfred Mining's who was a bit of a cad in his day. He is romancing
:03:31. > :03:36.Florence what Gilvec hop -- hovers in the sidelines awkwardly. It is
:03:36. > :03:41.worth seeing if you worried than of period drama.
:03:41. > :03:43.A matter what else you have, without a decent script, if all you
:03:43. > :03:48.can do is introduce everybody so that the fake audience and knows
:03:48. > :03:52.what's going on, it is awkward. It is based on the diaries of I
:03:52. > :03:56.person named Gilvec and it is from his perspective and he did not know
:03:56. > :04:00.what is going on in the head of Florence. He never learned why she
:04:00. > :04:05.is making these bizarre decisions. You get less sympathetic as the
:04:05. > :04:09.film moves on. Let us move on to man in steel --
:04:09. > :04:13.Man of Steel. They tried to reboot the sick man
:04:13. > :04:21.franchise at the years ago and now Man of Steel is back with a lot of
:04:21. > :04:27.money and a lot of affects -- Superman. You have some people.
:04:27. > :04:31.This is very representative of the film. You have a lot of action. You
:04:31. > :04:37.have a lot of soul-searching and serious Origin staff from
:04:38. > :04:41.Christopher Norland. We begin at the beginning. On Krypton. We go
:04:41. > :04:45.down to earth way he wrestles with his demons.
:04:45. > :04:48.We have the dying planet of Krypton. The good thing about Superman
:04:48. > :04:54.movies is that we all know the basic story so we just have to
:04:54. > :05:00.watch the action. E C Clark Kent? Are which there were more of that
:05:00. > :05:04.stuff. That is being mooted. He's a drifter at the beginning. He drifts
:05:04. > :05:08.from town to town trying to remain anonymous rather unsuccessfully.
:05:08. > :05:13.He's a super hero. He is also enormous.
:05:13. > :05:18.He is painting bathrooms? Oil rigs.
:05:18. > :05:22.Amy Adams is great as Lois Lane. She is trying to track him down but
:05:22. > :05:25.when the mate -- they meet him, there is a disappointment. Not a
:05:25. > :05:30.lot of romance. Destruction but not...
:05:30. > :05:35.A very accomplished movie in a lot of ways. Fantastic scenes but my
:05:35. > :05:38.pulse was not quickened. You should be excited by this may be but I was
:05:38. > :05:43.not. Stuck in Love is an American movie.
:05:43. > :05:46.A great cast. A writer with right of what has problems with his
:05:46. > :05:56.children and he bumps into his wife after three years and realises
:05:56. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:04.I'm thinking a lot about what you said. Really?Someone said the same
:06:04. > :06:11.thing recently. Someone else asked you to stop hanging around their
:06:11. > :06:16.house at night? About moving on with my life. He was that?Do you
:06:16. > :06:24.know Patricia? She lives about 1.5 miles down the beach. I remember
:06:24. > :06:34.her. Yeah. I always suspected you had a crush on her. She is very
:06:34. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:38.pretty. She is very married. You seen her? I think that I'm a good
:06:38. > :06:44.way for her to kill an hour after she drops the kids off after school.
:06:44. > :06:50.An hour? And Alan! So she thinks you need to stop moping around as
:06:50. > :06:53.well. Something like that. Is this supposed to be funny? I am just not
:06:54. > :06:57.getting it. It is like one of those senior
:06:57. > :07:00.academics at operas because there is little stuff like having a
:07:00. > :07:07.writer who raises his children to be writers and pays them 30 doesn't
:07:07. > :07:13.have to do jobs. That is a big thrust of it. -- so he doesn't. It
:07:13. > :07:19.has has aspirations to... It would be clever to have a film
:07:19. > :07:22.about a writer without writer's block. If you are a writer, you
:07:22. > :07:27.write it. That is how you make money.
:07:27. > :07:31.It is a so-so in the film. A good cast and it is lovely to see
:07:31. > :07:34.Jennifer Connelly. It seems that everyone was scripted by the same
:07:34. > :07:38.person. A Your Best Of the Week is Behind
:07:38. > :07:43.the Candelabra. Everyone I know who has seen it has loved it.
:07:43. > :07:49.Michael Douglas is fantastic as Liberace and a great spot from Matt
:07:49. > :07:54.Damon. It moves from hysterical to tragic and it is an electable.
:07:54. > :08:04.There is a surreal world. They have a real relationship with real
:08:04. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:08.relationship problems. There is It is promised on a big joke that
:08:08. > :08:12.people did not understand that Liberace was possibly day.
:08:12. > :08:18.A mind that for as much? As possible. Especially when he
:08:18. > :08:21.surrounds himself with so much glamour and glitter.
:08:21. > :08:26.Zero Dark Thirty is a wonderful film.
:08:26. > :08:35.A good chance to see. If you have not seen it yet, this is one film
:08:35. > :08:39.you should see. Kathryn Bigelow and the rest were very restrained. It
:08:39. > :08:43.is a gripping film even if you know the outcome.
:08:43. > :08:49.It was a work-in-progress, because the hunt for Osama Bin Laden was
:08:49. > :08:55.film. The controversy about it was the question of the torture scenes
:08:55. > :09:01.which are difficult to watch. Some people were very offended.
:09:01. > :09:06.I have seen more offensive things on television. I have seen at 24.
:09:06. > :09:11.It was not controversial in my view. It tells stories in a
:09:11. > :09:16.straightforward way and allows you to make your own mind.