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miles from here, that is all coming up with me, it that fact, but now it

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is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to

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The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

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cinema releases is Jason Solomons. Long weekend, a visit to the cinema

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is on the agenda for many families, and they can climb aboard a

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spaceship and the like. The Buddies Mechanic the Canada Excel back. A

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talking raccoon is back from volume two. The terrible atrocities of the

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Armenian genocide in the First World War era Turkey are on the agenda in

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The Promise, getting big screen love treatment, and Lady Macbeth, a

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low-budget British cello that has nothing to do with Shakespeare. I

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was only cinema at the weekend and I saw the trailer for Guardians Of The

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Galaxy: Vol 2. Even watching the trailer, I felt I let was bombarded

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with this while of noise and furious and funny little creatures. That

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sums it up. Boot we'll move on. LAUGHTER

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If you saw the first one, you'll know that it is about... There a

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talking raccoon, a talking tree. That he has now been cut down to a

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tiny tree which is very cute stop there with me on this. I don't know

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what they do, they save the galaxy from something, although the raccoon

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who is voiced by Bradley Cooper steal some staff which means that

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half of the galaxy is after them in a flash Gordon style chase. As we

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join the action now, they are being chased by hordes of golden aliens.

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This is weird, because a sovereign fleet approaching from the rear.

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Probably because Rocket still some of their batteries. Gray Dude!

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Right. I don't know why they are after us. What a mystery.

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will you thinking! That your defence! Mother I am teaching her a

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lesson! I didn't realise your motivation was on tourism. It is a

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shame that the sovereign has mistaken joint ventures. Exactly. I

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was means casting! Can you say this will have to be survived this

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battle. The raccoon looks quite cute. You can call him a puppy or a

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triangle says Panda. It is a film about banter and insult and not much

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else. I kind of enjoyed it in a kind of lobotomised carapace. It doesn't

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really go anywhere. There is a plot about Chris Pratted category defined

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his father played by Kurt Russell who delivers a beeline like he is

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looking in the bathroom mirror. They happily explode this guy because he

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is a planet really and... It really makes no sense. It is kind of a

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pity, because that had that it would be a much better superhero movie

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than normal. The colours are good, Zoe Saldana and the other guy who is

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a Benjamin Thing type person, there's a lot to look at. Eventually

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it has a poprock album cover Luke. It doesn't really go anywhere, and I

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feel that plot this is leaves you feeling lost. You are, you're not

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selling it to me. I better stop saying that. Is that who it is aimed

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at? It is not going to convert people who didn't see the first one.

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If you did like the present, there is nothing here that footbridge of

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it, it feels like it is treading water into volume three. It is

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inevitable. Makarova leave me with that thought. Shall we move on? This

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is a change of pace, this is The Promise which stars Christian Bale

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and Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon. This is set against the

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terrible atrocities of the Armenian genocide, which took place in 1940

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that I19 14, 19 15. Yet to be acknowledged as a genocide. It has

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never had a big-screen treatment, only a few times been dealt with in

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popular culture. Here it is really front and centre in what is a kind

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of love, war-torn epic with this love triangle. Christian Bale, at

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Oscar as a comic Charlotte Le Bon, they try to stay together doing the

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terrors of this walk where Armenians are being turfed out of villages,

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ethnically cleansed. They are being turfed out of villages, ethnically

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cleansed. They have moved away my the Turks are joining with the

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Germans and there's more. It becomes a sort of uneasy mix of terrible

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tragedy with this kind of beating heart love story. Is that the

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director trying to inform is all about history? History that he

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clearly feels we should know more about by using that as a love story

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backdrop? That is a sort of thing be seen in Second World War movies,

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countless times. But here, I didn't really know about the Armenian

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genocide and am not alone with this. And I don't really know much more

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about it having seen the film, which I think is a pity, because that is

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relevant is important. There are some terrible things that went on to

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the Armenian population, populate that the concentration camps, which

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foreshadow holocaust troops that we seek. These are very interesting

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kind of foreshadowing is. It is partly interesting to the point when

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a love story didn't interest me at all, I wanted to find out what was

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happening to the Armenians. But you need that love story to give you

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entry into the story. They played very well, Oscar Isaac is a good, so

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it's Christian Bale has a gruff news reporter, and Charlotte Le Bon lacks

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a bit of star power in the middle of it. It is very well intentioned. But

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I don't think it is going to be the monument that the Armenian genocide

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deserves in terms of cinema. Let's move on to a film I think a lot of

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people are talking about. Lady Macbeth, not to do with the

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Shakespeare play. Not really, but she is a lady Macbeth style

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character. This is played by British actors Florence Pugh, this is her

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second major role and she completely devours this role. It is like

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watching someone blossom on screen. She is terrific. She plays a woman

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called Catherine who is sold to a wealthy mine owning family up north

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and becomes a wife, imprisoned in this terrible house which creaks and

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cracks and the wind billows through. The husband goes away. She is left

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with the house to herself and get drunk on power and takes a fancy to

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herself as Lady of the manner and takes a fancy to Sebastian the

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stable boy. They have a torrid affair and here they are. Did you do

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without me? Husbands and wives, they kiss like that. Gray LAUGHTER

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She would speak. You know I shall not be parted from

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your life, Sebastian. To hell and high water, I will follow you. Julie

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Cross. Gray to the grave, to the sky. I would rather stop you

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breathing... Florence Pugh as you say a lot of people talk about her,

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she was only 19 when that was filmed. It is the director was like

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debut as well. Yes, he has an opera director, and the story has been

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made into an opera before. It was banned by Stalin because that would

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have that I feared that... They read our mind. The way that she does it

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in this film it is about a good idea, Russia has a terrible

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consequence for her thirst. We admire and love her, but yet

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terribly complex and weight is laid is brilliant. I think this is one of

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the best bit is debuts I have seen in ages, and you think it is a

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costume drama, it really subverts all those tropes. It is stark and

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lean and kind of frightening and macabre row. It has a fairly mixed

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cast with two black characters which bring another shade of class and

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race to that period drama. I think it is a superb film, five stars from

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me. Fantastic. There is thereby back onto. And one to my shame I have not

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been able to see but I'm dying to see. This is an Oscar-winning domain

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-- documentary God I am not Johnny Grow. You can find it on streaming

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channel somewhere. It examines race in America through the eyes of a

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forgotten activist James Baldwin who is a poet, and jazz era writer and

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author. An extraordinary figure whose blood front and centre of

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this, an examination of the civil rights movement to him, but it is an

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angry and powerful film. I can't forget it. I'm surprised it didn't

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win the Best picture at the Oscars. It is voiced by Samuel L Jackson

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doing James Bond report back now that animation. I think is one of

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the best things he has done. The DVD, have you picked is just on the?

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Your choice is reminding me how old I am, normally it is something that

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is after the last few months. Now you've taken us back to the 1980s.

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Letter to Brezhnev, which is like me delving into my albums and coming

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out with that. It is very much a soundtrack album, and from that era.

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It is a film that everyone went to see, two girls Liverpool on a night

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out and falling in love with two Russian sailors. The actors have

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gone on to bigger things. It has got Brodsky beat in it as well. It was

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about working-class Thatcher era Britain. It was a rebellious film.

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But it was also bleak in that classic big way was up and restore

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them put on Blu-ray, I wonder if the great will still hold to it, but I

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think it is a real snapshot of Britain that might have been

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forgotten. A lost classic film, but one person as you hear the name, you

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are reminded of it. It is a cult classic from the British archives

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and I'm delighted it is out for a new generation to discover. Ghosh

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thank you, Jason. You can come again. Thank you Ray Mutch and

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enjoyed your bank holiday viewing. That is it for this weeked Phil

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Review. Enjoy your cinema going and we'll see you next time.

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your offer early on in the

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