Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, The Promise, Lady Macbeth The Film Review

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

is time for the film review. Hello and welcome to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the Armenian population, populate that the concentration camps, which

foreshadow holocaust troops that we seek. These are very interesting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

author. An extraordinary figure whose blood front and centre of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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