:00:00. > :00:00.miles from here, that is all coming up with me, it that fact, but now it
:00:00. > :00:18.is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to
:00:19. > :00:21.The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's
:00:22. > :00:37.cinema releases is Jason Solomons. Long weekend, a visit to the cinema
:00:38. > :00:42.is on the agenda for many families, and they can climb aboard a
:00:43. > :00:45.spaceship and the like. The Buddies Mechanic the Canada Excel back. A
:00:46. > :00:52.talking raccoon is back from volume two. The terrible atrocities of the
:00:53. > :01:01.Armenian genocide in the First World War era Turkey are on the agenda in
:01:02. > :01:05.The Promise, getting big screen love treatment, and Lady Macbeth, a
:01:06. > :01:12.low-budget British cello that has nothing to do with Shakespeare. I
:01:13. > :01:16.was only cinema at the weekend and I saw the trailer for Guardians Of The
:01:17. > :01:20.Galaxy: Vol 2. Even watching the trailer, I felt I let was bombarded
:01:21. > :01:25.with this while of noise and furious and funny little creatures. That
:01:26. > :01:27.sums it up. Boot we'll move on. LAUGHTER
:01:28. > :01:33.If you saw the first one, you'll know that it is about... There a
:01:34. > :01:37.talking raccoon, a talking tree. That he has now been cut down to a
:01:38. > :01:44.tiny tree which is very cute stop there with me on this. I don't know
:01:45. > :01:48.what they do, they save the galaxy from something, although the raccoon
:01:49. > :01:51.who is voiced by Bradley Cooper steal some staff which means that
:01:52. > :01:57.half of the galaxy is after them in a flash Gordon style chase. As we
:01:58. > :02:07.join the action now, they are being chased by hordes of golden aliens.
:02:08. > :02:10.This is weird, because a sovereign fleet approaching from the rear.
:02:11. > :02:16.Probably because Rocket still some of their batteries. Gray Dude!
:02:17. > :02:27.Right. I don't know why they are after us. What a mystery.
:02:28. > :02:37.will you thinking! That your defence! Mother I am teaching her a
:02:38. > :02:41.lesson! I didn't realise your motivation was on tourism. It is a
:02:42. > :02:51.shame that the sovereign has mistaken joint ventures. Exactly. I
:02:52. > :02:57.was means casting! Can you say this will have to be survived this
:02:58. > :03:01.battle. The raccoon looks quite cute. You can call him a puppy or a
:03:02. > :03:05.triangle says Panda. It is a film about banter and insult and not much
:03:06. > :03:10.else. I kind of enjoyed it in a kind of lobotomised carapace. It doesn't
:03:11. > :03:16.really go anywhere. There is a plot about Chris Pratted category defined
:03:17. > :03:20.his father played by Kurt Russell who delivers a beeline like he is
:03:21. > :03:24.looking in the bathroom mirror. They happily explode this guy because he
:03:25. > :03:27.is a planet really and... It really makes no sense. It is kind of a
:03:28. > :03:32.pity, because that had that it would be a much better superhero movie
:03:33. > :03:38.than normal. The colours are good, Zoe Saldana and the other guy who is
:03:39. > :03:45.a Benjamin Thing type person, there's a lot to look at. Eventually
:03:46. > :03:49.it has a poprock album cover Luke. It doesn't really go anywhere, and I
:03:50. > :03:54.feel that plot this is leaves you feeling lost. You are, you're not
:03:55. > :04:01.selling it to me. I better stop saying that. Is that who it is aimed
:04:02. > :04:05.at? It is not going to convert people who didn't see the first one.
:04:06. > :04:09.If you did like the present, there is nothing here that footbridge of
:04:10. > :04:16.it, it feels like it is treading water into volume three. It is
:04:17. > :04:25.inevitable. Makarova leave me with that thought. Shall we move on? This
:04:26. > :04:28.is a change of pace, this is The Promise which stars Christian Bale
:04:29. > :04:35.and Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon. This is set against the
:04:36. > :04:43.terrible atrocities of the Armenian genocide, which took place in 1940
:04:44. > :04:46.that I19 14, 19 15. Yet to be acknowledged as a genocide. It has
:04:47. > :04:49.never had a big-screen treatment, only a few times been dealt with in
:04:50. > :04:55.popular culture. Here it is really front and centre in what is a kind
:04:56. > :04:59.of love, war-torn epic with this love triangle. Christian Bale, at
:05:00. > :05:02.Oscar as a comic Charlotte Le Bon, they try to stay together doing the
:05:03. > :05:06.terrors of this walk where Armenians are being turfed out of villages,
:05:07. > :05:08.ethnically cleansed. They are being turfed out of villages, ethnically
:05:09. > :05:11.cleansed. They have moved away my the Turks are joining with the
:05:12. > :05:14.Germans and there's more. It becomes a sort of uneasy mix of terrible
:05:15. > :05:19.tragedy with this kind of beating heart love story. Is that the
:05:20. > :05:22.director trying to inform is all about history? History that he
:05:23. > :05:29.clearly feels we should know more about by using that as a love story
:05:30. > :05:33.backdrop? That is a sort of thing be seen in Second World War movies,
:05:34. > :05:37.countless times. But here, I didn't really know about the Armenian
:05:38. > :05:40.genocide and am not alone with this. And I don't really know much more
:05:41. > :05:44.about it having seen the film, which I think is a pity, because that is
:05:45. > :05:50.relevant is important. There are some terrible things that went on to
:05:51. > :05:53.the Armenian population, populate that the concentration camps, which
:05:54. > :06:02.foreshadow holocaust troops that we seek. These are very interesting
:06:03. > :06:04.kind of foreshadowing is. It is partly interesting to the point when
:06:05. > :06:07.a love story didn't interest me at all, I wanted to find out what was
:06:08. > :06:11.happening to the Armenians. But you need that love story to give you
:06:12. > :06:14.entry into the story. They played very well, Oscar Isaac is a good, so
:06:15. > :06:19.it's Christian Bale has a gruff news reporter, and Charlotte Le Bon lacks
:06:20. > :06:24.a bit of star power in the middle of it. It is very well intentioned. But
:06:25. > :06:28.I don't think it is going to be the monument that the Armenian genocide
:06:29. > :06:34.deserves in terms of cinema. Let's move on to a film I think a lot of
:06:35. > :06:39.people are talking about. Lady Macbeth, not to do with the
:06:40. > :06:44.Shakespeare play. Not really, but she is a lady Macbeth style
:06:45. > :06:51.character. This is played by British actors Florence Pugh, this is her
:06:52. > :06:56.second major role and she completely devours this role. It is like
:06:57. > :06:59.watching someone blossom on screen. She is terrific. She plays a woman
:07:00. > :07:04.called Catherine who is sold to a wealthy mine owning family up north
:07:05. > :07:08.and becomes a wife, imprisoned in this terrible house which creaks and
:07:09. > :07:13.cracks and the wind billows through. The husband goes away. She is left
:07:14. > :07:17.with the house to herself and get drunk on power and takes a fancy to
:07:18. > :07:21.herself as Lady of the manner and takes a fancy to Sebastian the
:07:22. > :07:33.stable boy. They have a torrid affair and here they are. Did you do
:07:34. > :07:54.without me? Husbands and wives, they kiss like that. Gray LAUGHTER
:07:55. > :07:58.She would speak. You know I shall not be parted from
:07:59. > :08:05.your life, Sebastian. To hell and high water, I will follow you. Julie
:08:06. > :08:18.Cross. Gray to the grave, to the sky. I would rather stop you
:08:19. > :08:22.breathing... Florence Pugh as you say a lot of people talk about her,
:08:23. > :08:27.she was only 19 when that was filmed. It is the director was like
:08:28. > :08:30.debut as well. Yes, he has an opera director, and the story has been
:08:31. > :08:38.made into an opera before. It was banned by Stalin because that would
:08:39. > :08:44.have that I feared that... They read our mind. The way that she does it
:08:45. > :08:49.in this film it is about a good idea, Russia has a terrible
:08:50. > :08:53.consequence for her thirst. We admire and love her, but yet
:08:54. > :08:56.terribly complex and weight is laid is brilliant. I think this is one of
:08:57. > :09:00.the best bit is debuts I have seen in ages, and you think it is a
:09:01. > :09:06.costume drama, it really subverts all those tropes. It is stark and
:09:07. > :09:12.lean and kind of frightening and macabre row. It has a fairly mixed
:09:13. > :09:15.cast with two black characters which bring another shade of class and
:09:16. > :09:20.race to that period drama. I think it is a superb film, five stars from
:09:21. > :09:28.me. Fantastic. There is thereby back onto. And one to my shame I have not
:09:29. > :09:33.been able to see but I'm dying to see. This is an Oscar-winning domain
:09:34. > :09:37.-- documentary God I am not Johnny Grow. You can find it on streaming
:09:38. > :09:41.channel somewhere. It examines race in America through the eyes of a
:09:42. > :09:47.forgotten activist James Baldwin who is a poet, and jazz era writer and
:09:48. > :09:51.author. An extraordinary figure whose blood front and centre of
:09:52. > :09:55.this, an examination of the civil rights movement to him, but it is an
:09:56. > :09:59.angry and powerful film. I can't forget it. I'm surprised it didn't
:10:00. > :10:03.win the Best picture at the Oscars. It is voiced by Samuel L Jackson
:10:04. > :10:07.doing James Bond report back now that animation. I think is one of
:10:08. > :10:12.the best things he has done. The DVD, have you picked is just on the?
:10:13. > :10:15.Your choice is reminding me how old I am, normally it is something that
:10:16. > :10:20.is after the last few months. Now you've taken us back to the 1980s.
:10:21. > :10:27.Letter to Brezhnev, which is like me delving into my albums and coming
:10:28. > :10:31.out with that. It is very much a soundtrack album, and from that era.
:10:32. > :10:35.It is a film that everyone went to see, two girls Liverpool on a night
:10:36. > :10:43.out and falling in love with two Russian sailors. The actors have
:10:44. > :10:50.gone on to bigger things. It has got Brodsky beat in it as well. It was
:10:51. > :10:53.about working-class Thatcher era Britain. It was a rebellious film.
:10:54. > :10:58.But it was also bleak in that classic big way was up and restore
:10:59. > :11:01.them put on Blu-ray, I wonder if the great will still hold to it, but I
:11:02. > :11:05.think it is a real snapshot of Britain that might have been
:11:06. > :11:10.forgotten. A lost classic film, but one person as you hear the name, you
:11:11. > :11:13.are reminded of it. It is a cult classic from the British archives
:11:14. > :11:19.and I'm delighted it is out for a new generation to discover. Ghosh
:11:20. > :11:22.thank you, Jason. You can come again. Thank you Ray Mutch and
:11:23. > :11:28.enjoyed your bank holiday viewing. That is it for this weeked Phil
:11:29. > :11:41.Review. Enjoy your cinema going and we'll see you next time.
:11:42. > :11:46.There has been quite a lot of cloud today, he is an illustration for
:11:47. > :11:48.your offer early on in the