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:00:18. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News.
:00:24. > :00:27.To take us through this week's releases we are joined by Anna
:00:28. > :00:36.Smith. We have got a Jane Austen adaptation
:00:37. > :00:43.to start with. Kate Beckinsale starts as a scheming widow.
:00:44. > :00:53.Then we have Alice Through the Looking Glass. James Bobin is
:00:54. > :00:56.directing. Finally, we have Money Monster. Jodie Foster directs a
:00:57. > :01:04.hostage thriller starring George Clooney. Love Friendship, given
:01:05. > :01:09.the British love of bonnets and men on horses, I suspect this would be a
:01:10. > :01:14.big hit? I suspect so. This is not what you would expect of Lane
:01:15. > :01:20.Austen. It is based on Lady Susan, a novella she wrote when she was 18.
:01:21. > :01:25.It was published Posthumus Lee. A little bit more mischievous. I think
:01:26. > :01:30.this is probably her naughtiest adaptation on screen to date. Kate
:01:31. > :01:34.Beckinsale is so much fun. She plays a scheming widow who goes to the
:01:35. > :01:37.country to patronise relatives, flirt with the gentleman, and IV
:01:38. > :01:47.women and try to marry off her daughter, as we see now. -- annoy
:01:48. > :01:55.the women. Have I done anything to dishonour your father? To honour
:01:56. > :02:00.means to listen with respect. I do. Perhaps you will pay attention to
:02:01. > :02:03.the law of the universe. An offer as splendid as this is not likely to
:02:04. > :02:10.come around again. He has offered you the one thing he has a value to
:02:11. > :02:14.give, his income. I fear and reproach myself having shielded you
:02:15. > :02:16.for far too long. Have I let you start -- had a let you starve a
:02:17. > :02:30.little bit more you would have resisted less. I was often hungry at
:02:31. > :02:33.school. Not nearly enough. I can see Sir James is a kind man and if it
:02:34. > :02:41.was not a matter of marriage, I'm sure I could like him. Marriage is
:02:42. > :02:46.for one's whole life. That is one of the things we love about Jane
:02:47. > :02:51.Austen, she is so waspish. So sharp. She is a beautifully written
:02:52. > :02:56.character. Whit Stillman next most of it and builds on with his own
:02:57. > :03:00.writing. The comedy is so sharp. She's the kind of character you
:03:01. > :03:04.recognise in the modern day. This is a woman who knows how to wrap
:03:05. > :03:08.everybody around her little finger and passes off her own selfishness
:03:09. > :03:13.as being very ultra with stick. There are wonderful lines. She has a
:03:14. > :03:17.handmaid who packs and unpacks her. She says, as there is an element of
:03:18. > :03:25.friendship involved... Some lovely lines. I think that is something one
:03:26. > :03:31.could steal in a restaurant. Jane Austen is terrific. One of the
:03:32. > :03:40.things I see in a lot of costume dramas on television, we like the
:03:41. > :03:44.bonnets and stuff like that, but is that daughter, mother relationship
:03:45. > :03:48.reflected today? Obviously you have got the drawback that times have
:03:49. > :03:51.changed and it is about arranged marriage -- marriages. We live in a
:03:52. > :03:56.time where women can make their own living. But at the same time these
:03:57. > :04:03.characters are timeless. The only moment I did not like was that Chloe
:04:04. > :04:09.Savini is cast as American friend. There are jokes at her expense her
:04:10. > :04:14.husband played by Stephen Fry. She is the wrong actress for this. She
:04:15. > :04:17.was with Kate Beckinsale in the last days of disco. It seems like
:04:18. > :04:24.sentimental casting. Besides that, great cast. Alice Through the
:04:25. > :04:30.Looking Glass, another one that we love. Do we need another Alice? We
:04:31. > :04:34.really do not. The last one, Alice in Wonderland, was not a great
:04:35. > :04:39.success in terms of criticism and my feelings about it. They have decided
:04:40. > :04:43.to replicate a similar formula. It has very little in common with the
:04:44. > :04:50.original text. Apart from she goes through a mirror. She ends up in
:04:51. > :04:54.Wonderland and indulges in a time traveller fantasy, which I am pretty
:04:55. > :05:01.sure was not in Lewis Carroll. It becomes this bombastic, loud, heavy
:05:02. > :05:09.soundtrack. Great CGI but there is too much of it. It looks quite
:05:10. > :05:13.hallucinogenic. Also, when was the last film with Johnny Depp in it
:05:14. > :05:23.that you really like to? Some years ago now. He seemed to peak then. Is
:05:24. > :05:26.a shame because he can really turn it on. Sacha Baron Cohen is not
:05:27. > :05:33.going through a great part either. He is not but he is funny in this.
:05:34. > :05:38.He is playing time. He has a relationship with the director.
:05:39. > :05:46.Maybe that is why it works. The month -- we want everyone to see is
:05:47. > :05:52.Money Monster. -- the one I really want to see is Money Monster. It is
:05:53. > :05:57.a newsroom thriller set in a TV studio, George Clooney playing this
:05:58. > :06:01.confident, Brache presenter. A gunman breaks into the studio and
:06:02. > :06:05.wholesome hostage. He wants to find out what happens to his investment.
:06:06. > :06:18.Julia Roberts is the producer trying to manage things and control it.
:06:19. > :06:35.Here is a look. You have got a delivery? Don't move. Jesus! Cut the
:06:36. > :06:42.feed. Turn those cameras back on. Whoever is in their turn those
:06:43. > :06:47.cameras back on! I cannot. Turn those cameras on! I'm going to
:06:48. > :06:50.discount to three. I swear to god I am pulling the trigger. -- I am
:06:51. > :06:58.going to count to three. Tents. I am a sucker for these
:06:59. > :07:00.real-time hostage thriller is where you're on the edge of your seat and
:07:01. > :07:04.you are waiting to see what happens and how the different characters
:07:05. > :07:11.deal with it. I thought this worked quite well. I could enjoy it broadly
:07:12. > :07:15.speaking. What we do not see their is they are dealing with the firm
:07:16. > :07:20.that is accused of being corrupt. There is perhaps too much going on.
:07:21. > :07:28.They are trying to spread out the characters and the action. It is
:07:29. > :07:34.essentially a two hander between George Clooney and Jack O'Connell.
:07:35. > :07:43.The big short and so on are about the evils of our age. That shows
:07:44. > :07:52.something more like dog Day afternoon. Two very different
:07:53. > :07:54.movies. Exactly. It is trying to comment on financial corrupt and
:07:55. > :07:58.then make a moral statement. Apparently originally it was very
:07:59. > :08:02.much about those two guys. It suffers in to undertake on too much.
:08:03. > :08:06.If I paid money for this in the cinema I think I would be quite
:08:07. > :08:10.happy. It is still mainstream and enjoyable and it delivers as a
:08:11. > :08:16.thriller. Bankers and financial people have become the villains of
:08:17. > :08:21.the day. One thing about the premise that made me wary is do people
:08:22. > :08:27.really take financial tips from guys on television seriously. You think,
:08:28. > :08:33.George Clooney, lovely guy, but if you about making money he would not
:08:34. > :08:36.be a TV person. Exactly. Jack O'Connell's character, you are not
:08:37. > :08:41.sure that if he was ripped off, his first thought would be to march into
:08:42. > :08:47.the studio. The best of the week, Singh Street? I love this film. It
:08:48. > :08:53.is a musical set in Ireland in the 1980s. A young boy wants to join a
:08:54. > :08:58.former band to impress a girl. Simple but lovely. If you are a fan
:08:59. > :09:03.of the Cure and the jam and grew up with that music, it is a treat. I
:09:04. > :09:07.love the idea of a guy who says to a girl, you can be in my band, but he
:09:08. > :09:12.does not actually have a band or Anni musical talent. He has got a
:09:13. > :09:20.lot of confidence. He is quite sweet. And your DVD choice is
:09:21. > :09:26.Victoria. Very gripping. This is real-time. It was filmed in one
:09:27. > :09:30.take. It is slightly improvised. It is about a young girl on the Berlin
:09:31. > :09:33.clubbing scene who meets a group of guys. It is about them hanging out
:09:34. > :09:39.and having fun and then things take a turn. It is incredibly ambitious.
:09:40. > :09:43.You may think that is just a gimmick, doing the whole thing in
:09:44. > :09:49.one take. The question is, does it work or doesn't it? Everyone I have
:09:50. > :09:55.spoken to says it works. Yes, you are totally immersed. It is a very
:09:56. > :10:00.intense experience. I bet Hollywood will come knocking for the director.
:10:01. > :10:01.Thank you very much. That is it for this week. Thanks for watching.
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