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years since that drop goal which won England the Rugby World Cup. Now on

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BBC News it's time for The Film Review.

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Welcome to The Film Review here on BBC News to take us through this

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week's voices, Mark Kermode. We have The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the

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second instalment. Katniss Everdeen is back to fight again. We have Blue

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Is the Warmest Colour, the controversial winner of the Pandora.

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And we have The Family. Luc Besson directs Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert

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De Niro. What could possibly go wrong? Accent is quite a lot.

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However, let's start with The Hunger Games. Tell us more. I did not see

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the first one. It is a dystopian future tale in which the poor are

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taken from towns in order to fight in the squad at Oriel sport. ``

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gladiatorial sport. At the end of the first one, Katniss Everdeen had

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outsmarted the Games. This is a problem by the character played by

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Donald Sutherland, who realises she is a figurehead, someone who will

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help people rise up and rebel. He kills that what she has to do to

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stay alive is to carry the pretence of a relationship which saw her

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through the first hunger games. The president has decided that in order

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to really began to `` to go up the ante, he will have another Hunger

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Games For The People Who Survived The Fostering.

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People have to be brave enough to take the opportunity. We have to go

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before the killers. They will kill us. What do the others? The ones who

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stay? I do not want people looking to me. I cannot help them.

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Do what you want. I am staying here. That was Jennifer Lawrence is

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Katniss Everdeen. The first film all day waiting if unacknowledged debt

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to Battle Royale, a story about children fighting children. In this

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one, because it is returning champions, the age of the combatants

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is rather higher. This becomes much more a story about what the Games

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mean in terms of keeping the debt dashes `` the masses downtrodden. It

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remains me of rollerball, where you have this gladiatorial sport to keep

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everyone subservient. The problem is, James can's character becomes a

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hero and he becomes dangerous. In the case of The Hunger Games, when

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that is ever gene `` when Katniss Everdeen becomes dangerous, she is

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at work. It is quite a brutal film but not as violent in terms of what

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you actually see. That film had if you trouble is with the censors

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here. It is a grim story with a straw dummy `` an extraordinary

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lead. Jennifer Lawrence is a commanding screen presence and has a

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natural quality. There is enough a lot of action involved. She is a

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fantastic and award`winning actress. The nice thing about The Hunger

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Games is it treats its audiences if they are intelligent, as if they are

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able to deal with a subject matter which is dark and difficult. My only

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criticism would be it is quite long. You're talking about the same when

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first 2001, and when the film. There's a sense they have gone to

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the film and thought, we do not want to leave anything out. If we do

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that, the fans will be upset. That is a minor problem. In general, it

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is a really, really good action entertainment for male and female

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audiences and Jennifer Lawrence is terrific.

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Let's move on. Lose the warmest colour. This caused a controversy at

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Cannes when it won the Palm d'Or. `` Blue Is the Warmest Colour. It is

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very very unusual. What they said was, Wick, the victory of this film

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is as much in the performance as it is with the directors. It is a love

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story over a long period of time. It is a long film and covers a long

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period in the central characters' lies. `` lives. There has been

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controversy about explicit sex scenes and a woman who wrote the

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graphic novel has been quite critical of those. I understand why.

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The film didn't need them. It is a film which is indulgent. But the two

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central performances are so strong, so powerful, so convincing, that

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actually, the things that are wrong with the film starts to fall away

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and in the end, you believe in these people as people. The believe they

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are consumed by a relationship which on the one hand is quite

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destructive. You believe the changing moods of the relationship

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over a long period of time, which is not easy to convey an film. There

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are reservations, but from the acting point of view, it is

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flawless. The controversy, is that to do with the sex scenes of the

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actresses `` the actresses? The Family. Robert De Niro. Yeah, when

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you have had a career with the films he has been in, the question is

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always going to be, aren't you just treading water? The story is Robert

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De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer Aaron witness protection. He was an

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American Mafia mob boss. He gave evidence so now they are hiding.

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They have to move around all the time. The move into France will stop

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there is a lot of jokes about French, although it has a French

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director, which is fine. The French are rude and not tell `` do not know

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how to conduct themselves. They are crime family, so they cannot keep

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their heads down. Here's a clip. I do all right? It is just the

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prospect of packing up again and moving when they find out you have

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killed the plumber. I did not kill him. I taken to the hospital. You

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beat him to a pulp. The only plumber within 20 miles. He disrespected us.

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He tried to rip me off. They just have in my shoes. and would not have

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built `` beat him up. If you do not want to draw attention

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to yourself, don't kill the plumber. The thing is, it is a very throwaway

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idea. It is an idea we have seen before. The idea that a criminal as

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to why all and a sleepy environment and therefore having to behave in a

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way which blends in. It is not without a certain charm. You cannot

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put Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer on screen together and not

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find anything. The thing is, it is so lightweight and throwaway, plus

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the tone is over the place. It is described in the press notes is a

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dark action comedy. Really? It is more like a bumbling, fumbling

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comedy. Moments are quite charming, but they are few and far between. It

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makes specific reference to Goodfellas and you sit there

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thinking, so Robert De Niro is now in a family making jokes about

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Goodfellas? Nothing flags up Scorsese and his great past. It is

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not tenable. I laughed a couple of times, which is more than I do with

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many of these films. But it is not very good. Just disposable. I seem

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to remember your measurement of laughing was six six times. It

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couple of chuckles and is not. I think we should move on.

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The best film out just now is Gravity. I would advise everyone to

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see it on the biggest possible screen. If you can see the day, and

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then all of people cannot, if you can, I think this is the one 3`D

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adds to the film. Generally, it doesn't do anything for me at all,

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but in this case, I thought, you know what, he has directed in such a

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way that the 3`D adds to the story. The couple of people have been to

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see it and, with motion sickness. You do get that sense of, you know,

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the following, which weighs up, which weighs down? `` which we is

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up? I have not had a bad word about this movie. This film is 90 minutes

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long. When is the last time this type of film has done that? James

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Cameron would have made it three and a half hours long and there would be

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a director 's cut coming out with another half an hour. What DVD would

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you like to talk about? This is a strange and incredibly moving film.

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It is the story of the relationship between these two people. He is

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completely obsessed with what it means and it is then dealing with

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tragedy and love and free conciliation. It started out as a

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stage show where they would play songs and do state she's `` speeches

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in between. I thought it was overwhelmingly powerful and

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wonderfully told story. Brilliant use of music. Sometimes you see

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music and it is not done well. This is where we have built the songs. I

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love the story. I thought it was really performed really well told

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and are really moving. Thank you very much. A quick reminder that you

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will find more film news and reviews from across the BBC online,

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including all our previous shows, where you can see the address all.

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`` on`screen. That is it for this week. Thank you for watching.

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We will have to keep warm clouds to hand over the weekend. There is a

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lot of change on the weather front, stained chilly. It is called in one

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or two spots with freezing fog in the morning. High pressure which has

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been here for the last few days is here to stay. You can see how the

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air is flowing around it. At the same time, it is pushing that grey

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cloud around in the direction of the UK. The thickest of the cloud over

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the next couple of days is in the northern half of the UK. This cloud

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will topple over into Scotland, novel England and Northern Ireland.

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There will be clear spells around. It is not one solid area of cloud,

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but you can

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