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That's all on Sportsday at 6.30, now though on BBC News -

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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.

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To take us through this week's cinema releases is James King,

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Welcome, James, what have you been watching this week?

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First up it feels like ages since there has been a new fresh romantic

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comedy. It is called the The Big Sick and I will tell you about that.

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From Australia, Hounds of Love, a brutal true story, a kidnap drama.

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And a big hit in the States, it stars Queen Latifah and is a comedy

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called girls strip. This is a really interesting take,

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doesn't work as a film? Yes, there is a lot to do is take about it.

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Colonel Nang Janney is the writer and the star and he has written it

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with his partner about their life. -- Kumail Nanjiani. It is about the

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real-life romance. He is from a traditional Pakistani family were as

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Emily is a white American, academic and eccentric family. That is the

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chalk and cheese dynamic for the romantic comedy. Why so it called

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the Big Sick? There is also an illness which happens to one of the

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characters. There's a lot happening, a lot of story. The clip is from the

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beginning of the movie. He is trying to make it as a stand-up comedian

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and meets And now at the niceties are out

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of their way, I have to tell you when you yelled at me

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really put me off. You should not heckle

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comedians, it's so rude. I just gave a woo-hoo,

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it's supportive. Yelling anything at

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a comedian is considering So if I yelled out,

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you are amazing in bed, Yeah, that would be

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an accurate heckle. Already it is endearing. The writers

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are inspired by the greats, Richard Curtis, Annie Hall and tipsy so if

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you are inspired by those movies, that is a good start. That is one of

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my favourite films. People have said this is some statement about racial

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relations in America right now but it is not, it is a true story about

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two people getting together. Is there anything new in talking about

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two interracial couples? That is a refreshing thing about this film, it

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is in there but it is not trying to make a larger statement. It is just

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about what happened to them. It is very charming. He wrote it in but it

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is not too self-serving, more affectionate than that? Absolutely,

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it is a lovely relationship between Kumail Nanjiani and his parents. I

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know his father from his part in ice age and he is showing us what a good

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actor he is. I think you could be up for our reward -- and awards for

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this performance. I love Holly Hunter. She is just nuts in this and

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brilliantly so. How lovely to go into the summer with sums being

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genuinely fun. We have not had a fresh romantic comedy for a while.

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People think we know all the tricks and the cliches but this actually,

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it has a romantic comedy framework but it is doing new things. Our next

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film from Australia, I have read lots about it but I know I could not

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stomach it, talk me through and explain. Again, loosely based on a

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true story about murders which happened in Perth in Western

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Australia where a suburban couple were kidnapping teenage girls. What

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is gripping about this film is that it is not some exploitative horror

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movie. It is a character study of this couple who do this and why they

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do it and what is going on in their heads. Specifically, the wife, who

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she is and what has gone on in her past and why she is on the situation

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and does what she does. That stops it just being a cardboard cutout

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horror movie. It is actually about the characters, these

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three-dimensional characters the kidnappers and the girls they

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kidnap, the all have their story which has stepped out. This is the

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first film from Ben Young who captures suburban Australian life

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very well, disillusionment and a kitchen sink drama really. It is

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brittle and uncomfortable but very well made. I here you and that he is

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a talent to watch but I am not sure I have the stomach for that. Girls

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Trip, on the other hand takes us back into the lighter world.

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Definitely back into the lighter world, Queen Latifah, college

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friends go away for the weekend and chaos ensues. Have a look at the

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clip. What was that you were saying

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about pent-up energy? # I slay, I slay, I slay all day.#

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Have a good evening, ladies. Is it fun? Is it silly? It is all of

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those things, it has a relentless bubbly Nissan boarding about it. It

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was difficult to find a clip we could play. -- ugliness and

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bawdiness. Its characters are four confident and successful black woman

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and you do not have enough of those movies. It is not an Oscars movie,

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it is joyfully frothy and silly which is why it is refreshing. It is

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clunky at times but this likeness carries it along. It has been a big

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hit in the States and this will change things. That is interesting

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because I was thinking how much I enjoyed hidden figures which was the

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last time it focused on African American women. The fact that even

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resonates with you shows what a positive it is about sort of film.

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Hidden figures is great but it is the Oscar worthy serious movie, this

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is just joyfully not like that. It is deliberately frothy and flimsy

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and everyone is having fun and that is the real novelty. It is a good

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time, as those for younger viewers something which Mark was reading

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about. This is out no. I could've chosen Dunkirk but everyone has said

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how great it is, I do not need to add to that. Captain Underpants is a

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DreamWorks animation, based on the bestselling books. The hypnotise the

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school principal into believing he is this sk -- this superhero. It is

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silly and nonstop. It has that self reflecting quality that adults

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alike. There are loads of jokes about pants. The main antagonist is

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-- the main protagonist is called Professor Pippi pants. What are you

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going to pick for us? I'm going to choose life which is about

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astronnaut springing back Martian life form to earth. It starts out as

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a single cell organism and grows. When you watch this, you're thinking

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alien by Ridley Scott but it is not as good, a lot of similarities,

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mainly set in a spaceship. I would say watch it for a Jake Gyllenhaal,

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the main star, he always brings melancholy to what he does. He says

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some really interesting things. It is familiar as a science-fiction

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movie but Jake Gyllenhaal makes it something more than run-of-the-mill.

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OK, thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed, that is it for

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this week. Whatever you're seeing, enjoyed, see you next week.

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Some wet evenings this weekend if you're heading to the cinema one of

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which

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