:00:00. > :00:00.one-day international between the West Indies and England. And a
:00:00. > :00:00.report from the track cycling Championships. Now it is time for
:00:00. > :00:25.the Film Review. Hello and welcome to the Film Review
:00:26. > :00:29.here on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases and
:00:30. > :00:41.discuss the Oscars, Mark Kermode. We have Non Stop, The Book Thief, an
:00:42. > :00:46.adaptation of Marcus Zusak's acclaimed novel and We Are What We
:00:47. > :00:53.Are, a remake of a Mexican cannibal movie.
:00:54. > :01:00.Right, Non Stop. Liam Neeson started out as a sensitive character actor
:01:01. > :01:05.and now he is the go to action guy. The story behind nonstop is he is an
:01:06. > :01:14.Air Marshal and he has a drink problem. He is on and aeroplane and
:01:15. > :01:21.he gets text messages from someone saying they are going to kill
:01:22. > :01:30.someone. He starts interrogating the passengers. Here is how he does it.
:01:31. > :01:39.What happened to Amsterdam? Show me your pass. What is your name? Why?
:01:40. > :01:51.Take it easy! I didn't do anything! I have rights! What the hell is
:01:52. > :01:57.going on? The threat is real. I have a suspect in custody, I need a
:01:58. > :02:09.background check, his name is Tom Bowen. Your supervisor -- you
:02:10. > :02:16.threatened your supervisor. I did not threaten anyone. I need a seat
:02:17. > :02:21.check on seat 23. If three minutes, someone on this plane is going to
:02:22. > :02:27.die. Do you hear me? I'm sorry, I find it hysterically funny. It is
:02:28. > :02:38.entertaining up to a point. The story is he hits a bunch of people
:02:39. > :02:47.before someone eventually opens up. If you look at a film like Read Why,
:02:48. > :02:51., it is essentially a story like murder on the Orient express but on
:02:52. > :02:58.an aeroplane. It is not as good as it ought to be. It is fun but not as
:02:59. > :03:08.fun as some other upmarket films. The great comparison is, put it next
:03:09. > :03:14.to Red Eye. I'm concerned about how he got a text message on a plane. He
:03:15. > :03:25.is an Air Marshal. You have learned something new. Snakes on a plane is
:03:26. > :03:30.probably better than this? No, it is a terrible movie. I went in thinking
:03:31. > :03:34.I want great big popcorn fun. It is OK. It has one of the worst endings
:03:35. > :03:42.I have seen in a long time. The Book Thief? It is an up that
:03:43. > :03:46.patient -- it is an adaptation of a very successful difficult novel. It
:03:47. > :03:51.is about a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany. The problem is, they
:03:52. > :03:56.have the narrator who is death himself. At the beginning we have
:03:57. > :03:59.the voice of death. Then we have the young girl who becomes interested in
:04:00. > :04:06.literature at the same time the Nazis are burning books. She is a
:04:07. > :04:13.member of the Hitler youth. It is seeing the world through the eyes of
:04:14. > :04:17.children. You think of other films, these are child I've use of the war
:04:18. > :04:23.that managed to achieve a level of profundity. This does not manage to.
:04:24. > :04:29.It is a very handsome looking film by Brian Percival who did Downton
:04:30. > :04:34.Abbey. It feels a bit chocolate box like. It shies away from difficult
:04:35. > :04:41.subject matter. The fact we have the narration by death makes it feel
:04:42. > :04:48.more metaphysical than it is. Solid performances, looks very handsome
:04:49. > :04:52.but does not scrape the subject -- the surface of the subject. If you
:04:53. > :04:57.enjoyed the book you will think it is a failed adaptation. There is a
:04:58. > :05:03.theory that around the time of the Oscars, a month afterwards, that is
:05:04. > :05:07.when Hollywood buries movies which are not very good. The Book Thief
:05:08. > :05:12.was thought of as an Oscar contender. The fact it and has one
:05:13. > :05:20.nomination for the score says something, it is a movie which has
:05:21. > :05:28.awards written over it but it has not been nominated. What about We
:05:29. > :05:35.Are What We Are? At the beginning of the movie the mother dies. It is a
:05:36. > :05:43.Mexican film but this relocates the action to America. It changes the
:05:44. > :05:47.gender structure at the beginning. It is the mother who dies and the
:05:48. > :05:50.daughters have to take over the responsibility for the family's
:05:51. > :05:55.cannibalism, while at the same time wondering what it might be like to
:05:56. > :06:12.have a normal life. Here is a clip. So how old are you now? 14. 14.
:06:13. > :06:25.Grown-up. It happens. It does. Catch. Thank you. What is this? A
:06:26. > :06:31.bone I found out back. My dad would know, he is good at bones. There is
:06:32. > :06:39.an old surgery by the creek. We used to go there when we were little. How
:06:40. > :06:46.far? Not far. Maybe I should take a look? This might be from one of our
:06:47. > :06:55.relatives. I will show you where it is. You are really pretty, Rose,
:06:56. > :07:02.just like your sister. I will see you later. CU. That is really
:07:03. > :07:06.creepy. It has a very chilly palette, there
:07:07. > :07:11.is a lot of rain, the whole area is sodden and there is a vale of tears
:07:12. > :07:16.about the whole thing. They have fundamentally changed the genetic
:07:17. > :07:19.structure of the original. The original was about suburban
:07:20. > :07:24.alienation. The central theme is religious fundamentalism and
:07:25. > :07:28.obsession. It gives you a sense that you feel sympathy for these
:07:29. > :07:31.characters even though what they are doing seems completely terrible.
:07:32. > :07:35.Although it is not perfect and I do not think it will in any way
:07:36. > :07:40.challenge the supremacy of the original, I thought it was an honest
:07:41. > :07:43.and thought-provoking attempt to take the central ideas of the
:07:44. > :07:47.original film and do something original. We have seen so many
:07:48. > :07:50.horror remakes where they are essentially take a foreign language
:07:51. > :07:55.film and essentially gutted but change the language to English. This
:07:56. > :08:01.is trying to do something different. The writer and director have had a
:08:02. > :08:04.good bash at it. The two young women stars are really terrific, doing
:08:05. > :08:08.that thing in which they are trying to find their own way but there is
:08:09. > :08:12.this family heritage which they cannot escape. I thought it was
:08:13. > :08:23.interesting. Interesting indeed. Now, the Oscars this weekend. Is it?
:08:24. > :08:28.! Best movie? I think it will be 12 Years A Slave. Steve McQueen has
:08:29. > :08:35.done a fantastic job of telling the story. I think you will like it as
:08:36. > :08:41.much as I do. For me it was the absolute standout of the year. I
:08:42. > :08:47.think best director I do not think we'll go to the same film. I suspect
:08:48. > :08:54.it will be Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity. People say it is
:08:55. > :08:59.brilliantly directed. How did they do that? How did they create that
:09:00. > :09:04.world, essentially send us into space for 90 minutes. If you look at
:09:05. > :09:09.the BAFTAs for example, I think there is an awful lot of love for
:09:10. > :09:14.Alfonso Cuaron's work on Gravity as director and I suspect that means he
:09:15. > :09:20.will beat Steve McQueen. I think he is a brilliant director but I think
:09:21. > :09:24.Steve McQueen's direction of 12 Years A Slave is extraordinary. But
:09:25. > :09:29.it is not in your face so people do not say it is a brilliantly directed
:09:30. > :09:34.film but it is. Best male actor. We have talked about Matthew McConaghy
:09:35. > :09:39.a lot. He has gone the opposite way of Liam Neeson. He has gone from
:09:40. > :09:52.someone who you do not want to see the films to someone who is
:09:53. > :10:02.terrific. He is in ten three macro. -- Dallas Buyers' Club. The bookies
:10:03. > :10:09.are backing him to win. And I think he will. I think he has the edge. I
:10:10. > :10:19.suspect in America it will be him. And what about Jared Leto? I suspect
:10:20. > :10:24.that Jared Leto will win for Best supporting actor is at the Oscars.
:10:25. > :10:29.Female? Cate Blanchett, you can put your house on it. Don't actually do
:10:30. > :10:38.that! From the first moment of this film, people said clear Oscar
:10:39. > :10:42.contender. The film is not perfect. It is not Woody Allen's best work
:10:43. > :10:50.but she is Titanic in it. I think she will walk it. Any surprises or
:10:51. > :10:55.breakthroughs? I am still holding out for bar code Abdi winning for
:10:56. > :11:01.Captain Phillips. He was someone who you never see on screen. He's
:11:02. > :11:11.holding his own against Tom Hanks, two-time Oscar winner. It is a very
:11:12. > :11:17.good story. Abdi does a fantastic job. I would love to see him win. I
:11:18. > :11:24.suspect he won't but I would love to. He made something completely
:11:25. > :11:28.unacceptable but you started to have some sympathy. His casting was so
:11:29. > :11:32.important. You had to care for him or the story would not work. You can
:11:33. > :11:37.find more reviews from Mark on his blog. That is it from this week.
:11:38. > :11:53.Thank you for watching and goodbye. Hello. Funny spells for many on
:11:54. > :12:01.Saturday but first thing in the morning it will be a bit wintry --
:12:02. > :12:02.sunny spells. View fog patches moving through the night as