:00:19. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:24. > :00:29.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:30. > :00:36.-- James King. What do we have this week? Woody Allen has a new film out
:00:37. > :00:42.called Cafe Society, set in Thursday's New York and LA starring
:00:43. > :00:47.Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell and Kristen Stewart. Sausage Party, not
:00:48. > :00:51.words I ever thought I would be saying on BBC News. This is a very
:00:52. > :00:59.cheeky animation from the warped mind of Seth Rogen. And a Brit
:01:00. > :01:06.flick, Brotherhood is written by, produced by and stars Noel Clarke.
:01:07. > :01:13.Great, sausages to come, but let's start with Woody Allen and Cafe
:01:14. > :01:17.Society. Yes, he's 80 years old now, still making pretty much a movie
:01:18. > :01:21.every year. This one set in the 1930s, between the East Coast and
:01:22. > :01:25.West Coast of America. Jesse Eisenberg stars. A young guy who
:01:26. > :01:31.goes to work in LA with his uncle, Steve Carell, is a big-time talent
:01:32. > :01:34.agent and works with a lot of stars. When he gets out there and worked
:01:35. > :01:39.with his uncle, meets his uncle's assistant, played by Kristen Stewart
:01:40. > :01:43.and falls in love with her. It is really the story of this
:01:44. > :01:48.relationship. We have a clip. This will go back a little earlier on in
:01:49. > :01:51.the movie, when Bobby, Jesse Eisenberg's character, has a meeting
:01:52. > :01:53.with his uncle and it doesn't quite go to plan. Here it is, Cafe
:01:54. > :01:57.Society. Let's have a look. Adolphe Menjou's threatening
:01:58. > :02:02.to walk off the picture. I'll give you the details
:02:03. > :02:04.at Jack's Friday, you'll be You can't believe the
:02:05. > :02:16.last couple of weeks. Christ, it's all about ego,
:02:17. > :02:19.this whole town runs on ego. Yeah, I'm Bobby, Ben
:02:20. > :02:21.was my brother, though. Yeah, and bring Harry,
:02:22. > :02:34.because I agree, Joel McCrea And don't disappoint me
:02:35. > :02:50.by cancelling with some excuse. He does uncomfortable well. He's and
:02:51. > :02:54.watching it, I had a feeling I haven't had for a while, which is I
:02:55. > :02:58.don't miss Woody Allen being in Woody Allen films and more. He is
:02:59. > :03:02.not in them as much now as he used to be. He doesn't write roles for
:03:03. > :03:05.himself so much. Maybe of this bill was 20 years ago, he would have
:03:06. > :03:09.played that part. The thing about Woody Allen's acting is it's
:03:10. > :03:13.basically a routine. You get someone like Steve Carell and you have a
:03:14. > :03:15.proper actor. Steve Carell is absolutely brilliant in it. Jesse
:03:16. > :03:28.Eisenberg is great in this clip. She reminded
:03:29. > :03:31.me of Diane Keaton, the ultimate Woody Allen news. There are elements
:03:32. > :03:33.of this film like Annie Hall. A completely different setting but
:03:34. > :03:37.it's ultimately a story about a relationship. It's not got a huge
:03:38. > :03:41.plot to it like some other Woody Allen films, it's much more
:03:42. > :03:45.meandering and casual than that. And it is a film about romance and the
:03:46. > :03:52.highs and lows on the ups and downs of romance. And looks good. The time
:03:53. > :03:56.and the setting. If you are making a movie about the golden years of
:03:57. > :04:00.Hollywood, it's literally golden. The sun is in every shot of the LA
:04:01. > :04:04.seems. It does go to New York as well and it looks very different.
:04:05. > :04:10.Beautiful film to look out. Very casual, relaxing film to watch. Now,
:04:11. > :04:14.Sausage Party. I read one line synopsis of this earlier. Sausage
:04:15. > :04:19.strives to discover the truth about his existence. Would you care to
:04:20. > :04:28.elaborate a little? OK, this is Seth Rogen, the actor and writer. It is
:04:29. > :04:33.an animation. It's in the tradition of cap next toy cap next story. It's
:04:34. > :04:37.about a world we humans don't know about, in this case about a world of
:04:38. > :04:43.the shelves in the supermarket on the products on the shelf. So
:04:44. > :04:47.sausages, and we see a hot dog bun. I am glad you clarified that! Fruit
:04:48. > :04:51.and veg, bottles and all that. They have a relationship, they talk to
:04:52. > :04:55.each other and they have their own world. Two crucial things about
:04:56. > :04:58.this. First, they have a very strong belief that when they leave a
:04:59. > :05:03.supermarket and bought by someone they will go to a better life, a
:05:04. > :05:10.better place. The title probably give this away, if the shape of the
:05:11. > :05:15.bun didn't give it away, it's still the. User cheeky earlier and what I
:05:16. > :05:21.read suggested it was more than cheeky. I was being nice. It is a
:05:22. > :05:27.very dirty film. It is a 15 and aimed at adults. It is not Disney
:05:28. > :05:31.Pixar. The first 15 minutes are an onslaught of dirty jokes. And if you
:05:32. > :05:36.find a way that a sausage looks hilarious, then that's a lot of the
:05:37. > :05:41.film. But actually, I was getting quite bored by that. I was going to
:05:42. > :05:45.say, is it sustained? I thought, is this it, is this what I have to stay
:05:46. > :05:49.and watch 90 minutes of? But then it becomes something a bit different.
:05:50. > :06:00.Then it starts to question their beliefs about the afterlife and
:06:01. > :06:02.going things. And it becomes a film about faith and about religion,
:06:03. > :06:05.really. It starts to deal with some quite big topics. For example those
:06:06. > :06:08.characters in it, one is a flatbed and one is a bagel, they argue with
:06:09. > :06:12.each other and it is blatantly a reference to Arab and Israeli
:06:13. > :06:17.issues. At least there is some bravado. There is dirty jokes, some
:06:18. > :06:21.silly jokes, and probably more jokes than insight that at least there is
:06:22. > :06:26.an attempt at insight. Something very different now, Brotherhood. Of
:06:27. > :06:30.course, we had Kidulthood and adult to do now Brotherhood. This is the
:06:31. > :06:34.third in the trilogy. Noel Clarke created the whole series and is
:06:35. > :06:37.playing Sam, who in the earlier movies, in the first when he was a
:06:38. > :06:43.troublemaker and went to prison. Now he is back. London, the gangland of
:06:44. > :06:47.west London. He is trying to go straight and lead a quiet life, a
:06:48. > :06:51.family life, but people from his past keep coming back and you find
:06:52. > :06:55.it difficult to stay out of trouble. Here he is in action in Brotherhood.
:06:56. > :07:15.What, you wanna try that again without your pool balls, cuz?
:07:16. > :07:19.Your old cuz, go look after your grandkids.
:07:20. > :07:35.How does it compare with its two predecessors? It is interesting
:07:36. > :07:39.because they acknowledge the fact he is now an older character. The first
:07:40. > :07:43.one was a teen movie and they're not trying to do another teen movie. Now
:07:44. > :07:47.is a guy who is 30 odd and not a teenager any more and it's not quite
:07:48. > :07:52.as cool, fit and hip as he used to be. I like the fact they've done.
:07:53. > :07:55.Noel Clarke looks toil worn in this with the weight of the world on his
:07:56. > :07:59.shoulders. He's very good in the lead role. It is questionable about
:08:00. > :08:04.the violence and the language and the attitude towards women. I saw
:08:05. > :08:08.references to misogyny? The argument against that if that is the world
:08:09. > :08:11.they are showing, they are just being honest, but I'm never sure if
:08:12. > :08:14.that is a good enough argument. I think that is debatable but it is
:08:15. > :08:16.certainly a very good lead performance from Noel Clarke. It is
:08:17. > :08:38.his baby, he and directed and produced
:08:39. > :08:41.it. If he can't give himself a good role, it's never going to work. It
:08:42. > :08:44.feels authentic. I think that is the main charm. I was going to ask that,
:08:45. > :08:47.in terms of the setting and the story it is telling? It has gripped
:08:48. > :08:49.and guts and it does feel like this is someone who knows what they are
:08:50. > :08:52.talking about, then pretending anything. This is authentic. Let's
:08:53. > :08:54.talk about a pick of yours that is out there at the moment. I think
:08:55. > :08:58.this is the Jungle Book? Yes. The Jungle Book is the DVD I will do in
:08:59. > :09:00.a second. Juliet, this is still out in the cinema. Mark talked about it
:09:01. > :09:04.last week. This is Pedro Almodovar. In the same way Woody Allen is
:09:05. > :09:08.playing it a bit cooler with Cafe Society, I think he is doing the
:09:09. > :09:12.same with Juliet. It is not his most showy movie. It's not like the skin
:09:13. > :09:18.I live in. This is a much quieter and more subtle movie, a film about
:09:19. > :09:22.a mother who has lost touch with her grown-up daughter. And really
:09:23. > :09:27.exploring why that happened, that grief and loss and guilt. Really
:09:28. > :09:33.haunting, not a thriller, but like a Hitchcock thriller in certain
:09:34. > :09:38.respects, here and creepy, haunting and subtle. It takes place over a 30
:09:39. > :09:41.year period? Absolutely. But it does it seamlessly. Mark said last week
:09:42. > :09:46.it doesn't feel like a huge flashback movie and it doesn't. Even
:09:47. > :09:50.though their flashbacks, they feel two parts of the same thing. I
:09:51. > :09:55.pre-empted this, let's talk about the Jungle Book, your DVD choice.
:09:56. > :10:00.The biggest film of the year, over ?46 million at the UK box office.
:10:01. > :10:09.Number one DVD in the UK this week. A huge film. I like the fact that in
:10:10. > :10:12.the world of dark, angry, violent comic book movies we live in right
:10:13. > :10:18.now, the one that has beaten them all is a big, old-fashioned,
:10:19. > :10:21.traditional family film. Very modern special effects, the CGI is amazing
:10:22. > :10:25.but it feels warm hearted and traditional. The director, some
:10:26. > :10:31.great vocal choices for the animals. Bill Murray as the bear, Scarlett
:10:32. > :10:35.Johansson is in there and I'd resell bar. He has chosen those very well,
:10:36. > :10:41.they are people with genuinely brilliant voices and it is a luxury
:10:42. > :10:44.as film to watch. A really epic, warm, traditional family film.
:10:45. > :10:45.James, that's great. Thank you very much indeed.
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:10:51. > :11:06.Good evening. The last of today's rain will still be moving its way
:11:07. > :11:10.through the south-eastern corner of the UK. Then is fine and dry for
:11:11. > :11:11.most of England