:00:00. > :00:09.More news at the top of the hour. Coming up next, The Film Review.
:00:10. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:13. > :00:18.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:19. > :00:29.We have I, Daniel Blake, which as you know is the new film
:00:30. > :00:32.by Ken Loach which I know you have seen as well.
:00:33. > :00:35.Ouija: Origin of Evil, does what it says on the packet.
:00:36. > :00:38.And Queen of Katwe, a very interesting family film.
:00:39. > :01:02.Yes, I think he has proved once again he is an incomparable talent.
:01:03. > :01:05.The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006 was his first
:01:06. > :01:11.This one star is a 15 a new joiner who has had a heart attack at work,
:01:12. > :01:15.played by Johns, who is told he cannot go back, he has to work,
:01:16. > :01:19.At the start of the film see him taking a questionnaire asking
:01:20. > :01:23.if he can walk, move his arm to hold something in his top pocket,
:01:24. > :01:26.and he then scored 12 points which means he is not eligible
:01:27. > :01:29.for employment but to get his Jobseeker's Allowance he has to slip
:01:30. > :01:32.in his CV around town, looking for jobs that do not exist
:01:33. > :01:36.and which he cannot take any way because his doctor has told him
:01:37. > :01:40.He cannot manage computers, so he gives up, and he sees a single
:01:41. > :01:43.mother, played by Hayley Squires, who has been homeless for two years,
:01:44. > :01:46.she's given a home hundreds of miles from anyone she knows
:01:47. > :01:50.and as a result she turns up late and is not being treated,
:01:51. > :01:59.I tried to explain to the woman, I have never been to
:02:00. > :02:03.We just moved up from London, I don't know where I am going.
:02:04. > :02:11.What I want you to do is listen carefully.
:02:12. > :02:16.There are rules here we have to stick to.
:02:17. > :02:27.And I am explaining why I wasn't here on time.
:02:28. > :02:31.I understand but what I gather is the decision maker will send
:02:32. > :02:40.I have about 12 quid in my purse all because you cannot calm down,
:02:41. > :02:46.If I was going to create a scene you would know about it.
:02:47. > :02:51.Jesus Christ, who is first in this queue?
:02:52. > :02:53.Do you mind if this young lass signs on first?
:02:54. > :02:58.There you go, go back to your desk, let her sign on and do the job
:02:59. > :03:04.This is brilliantly written by Paul Laverty, one
:03:05. > :03:08.Ken Loach said this is partly about the deliberate use
:03:09. > :03:10.of bureaucratic inefficiency as a political weapon,
:03:11. > :03:13.to basically punish people and stop them from claiming benefits
:03:14. > :03:26.On the one hand it is a very angry film about people at the sharp end
:03:27. > :03:29.of austerity, however it is also, and this is overlooked,
:03:30. > :03:31.a film which celebrates unbreakable bonds between people
:03:32. > :03:35.What happens is Daniel Blake takes her under his wing,
:03:36. > :03:38.he is a carpenter, starts to do up her flat, is impressed
:03:39. > :03:41.that she wants to go back to the Open University to make
:03:42. > :03:46.I think the film does a brilliant balancing act of counter posing that
:03:47. > :03:48.compassion with the lack of compassion of the system
:03:49. > :03:52.which demands somebody fills out a form online when they do not have
:03:53. > :03:57.He has never seen a mouse and when someone says run the cursor
:03:58. > :04:01.up the screen, he literally runs it up the side of the screen.
:04:02. > :04:05.I have seen it a couple of times now.
:04:06. > :04:09.There is one scene in a food bank which is one of the most profoundly
:04:10. > :04:11.moving things I have ever seen on screen.
:04:12. > :04:13.The great thing about Loach and Paul Laverty together,
:04:14. > :04:17.because they are a great double act, is they find a way of humanising
:04:18. > :04:20.people on the margins of society which goes right back
:04:21. > :04:24.to Cathy Come Home and so on, which makes people who may not be
:04:25. > :04:25.sympathetic, sympathetic or empathetic.
:04:26. > :04:41.It lets you see the world through their eyes.
:04:42. > :04:44.As I said, the thing that sometimes gets overlooked,
:04:45. > :04:46.it is a kind of absurdist tragic situation, like Kafka,
:04:47. > :04:49.but the bond between them and the way that contrasts
:04:50. > :04:52.with the facelessness of the situation they are dealing with.
:04:53. > :05:05.It is a personal story, like all of Loach's stuff,
:05:06. > :05:08.You come out feeling enraged but saddened.
:05:09. > :05:12.The performances are terrific and you believe in the characters.
:05:13. > :05:17.I think it is a really important film.
:05:18. > :05:20.Any decision makers in Ouija: Origin of Evil?
:05:21. > :05:22.If there are, they are on the other side.
:05:23. > :05:29.The story is there is a woman with two kids, running a fake seance
:05:30. > :05:32.session, and she is surprised when she gets a Ouija board
:05:33. > :05:35.and is surprised that her daughter is speaking to spirits.
:05:36. > :05:38.The funny thing about it is although it was digitally projected
:05:39. > :05:40.when I saw it, it has these blemishes built in.
:05:41. > :05:46.It makes it look like an old film, this kind of nostalgic retro thing
:05:47. > :05:49.going, which is quite charming and seems to behave quite well
:05:50. > :06:08.It loses its nerve in the second half, turning into all that
:06:09. > :06:11.silliness from Poltergeist, Exercised 3, and also a film called
:06:12. > :06:14.Screamers which nobody remembers any more, I think it owes
:06:15. > :06:19.I wished it could stay that drama from the beginning.
:06:20. > :06:21.You heard the shrieks of enjoyment watching it.
:06:22. > :06:25.The moral is, if you are a phony psychic, don't mess around
:06:26. > :06:28.Do not mess around with Ouija board under any circumstance!
:06:29. > :06:33.Yes, true lif story of Phiona Mutesi who grew up in an impoverished area
:06:34. > :06:36.of Kampala was discovered to have a great skill at chess.
:06:37. > :06:39.David Oyelowo thinks this is fantastic talent and wants
:06:40. > :06:42.to take her away to competition is about which she is very worried.
:06:43. > :07:17.When you're going to be beaten anyway?
:07:18. > :07:20.Coach, I do not think you come from here.
:07:21. > :07:25.When I was a child, my mother left me.
:07:26. > :07:31.But it was a good thing I did not take my life then,
:07:32. > :07:33.otherwise I would not have seen my daughter,
:07:34. > :07:43.I would not have met the pioneersthem or you.
:07:44. > :07:46.Do not be quick to take your king, Phiona?
:07:47. > :08:02.This is a Disney film in mainstream cinemas.
:08:03. > :08:05.Telling a story perhaps you may never have seen before and it does
:08:06. > :08:08.that thing old family films used to do, suitable for everyone,
:08:09. > :08:12.I think the whole family can get something out of it.
:08:13. > :08:15.Really uplifting, a true story which apparently sticks pretty close
:08:16. > :08:20.You feel you are with those characters.
:08:21. > :08:23.It is clearly made with passion, very well directed by Mira Nair
:08:24. > :08:35.I went in with very little expectations and did not know much
:08:36. > :08:38.And when everyone mentions chess on film, you think...
:08:39. > :08:44.There have been a few good chess movies but it is a hard sell.
:08:45. > :08:46.This was really vibrant, engaging, and as I said,
:08:47. > :08:53.it is that rarest of things, a family film.
:08:54. > :08:56.From Rocky to Slum Dog Millionaire, we love the underdog.
:08:57. > :09:00.Any story of aspiration, very cinematic, but also very easy
:09:01. > :09:03.to make that stuff cheesy, and the real clemency is it is not
:09:04. > :09:19.Yes, Andrea Arnold's best work I think since Red Road.
:09:20. > :09:22.She is 18, on the road, shot in the old square Academy
:09:23. > :09:25.ratio, and it is the most perfect use of that ratio.
:09:26. > :09:29.It is long, two hours and 40 minutes, and I tend to be really
:09:30. > :09:32.picky about long films but it did not feel long to me.
:09:33. > :09:34.I think it is a really engaging film.
:09:35. > :09:37.Andrea Arnold makes a certain type of film I think nobody
:09:38. > :09:50.And you were the world's biggest fan of this DVD,
:09:51. > :10:19.It is built on the audio tape diaries of his compassionate account
:10:20. > :10:22.It develops this kind of soundscape world.
:10:23. > :10:27.I think it is genuinely spiritual, I think it has transcended
:10:28. > :10:33.On the other, it is a real sort of voyage of exploration,
:10:34. > :10:37.and the greatest compliment to give it is that I cannot think of another
:10:38. > :10:40.film that does what it does in the way it does it.
:10:41. > :10:44.Again, if it is not on my list of top ten films at the end
:10:45. > :10:49.And he is a theologian, and having to deal with,
:10:50. > :10:55.Yes, and he raises that sort of question and the conclusion
:10:56. > :10:59.There are moments of genuine revelation and you hear this stuff
:11:00. > :11:11.Yes, and the weather is getting cold so a good time to get DVDs!
:11:12. > :11:14.You can see all of The Film Review online, including all
:11:15. > :11:17.That is it from The Film Review and Mark Kermode.
:11:18. > :11:35.If you are just off to bed wondering what is in store for the weather
:11:36. > :11:36.tomorrow, more of the same.