:00:00. > :00:00.Jones from her tae kwon do gold. That is coming up at 630. Now it is
:00:00. > :00:17.time for the film review. Hello and welcome to
:00:18. > :00:19.The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's
:00:20. > :00:22.cinema releases is Jason Solomons. So Jason, what do
:00:23. > :00:34.we have this week? This week we re-examine one of
:00:35. > :00:37.Britain's beloved, maybe not beloved, comic characters, David
:00:38. > :00:43.Brent who is back on the road hoping a musical tour will give him one
:00:44. > :00:48.last shot at fame in David Brent life on the road. We go underground
:00:49. > :00:54.for an across the tracks romance amidst the ghettos and gangs in an
:00:55. > :00:59.explosive Belgian film Black. And more gently, we muck about in the
:01:00. > :01:12.water with the kids, pirates and spies of Swallows and Amazons. Let's
:01:13. > :01:22.talk about David Brent, does this live up to the reputation? David
:01:23. > :01:26.Brent is a great comic creation and I love Ricky device playing him. I'm
:01:27. > :01:30.not too keen on Ricki device playing anything else, there is a sort of an
:01:31. > :01:36.albatross around his neck and we do not like to see him as anything
:01:37. > :01:43.else. Really it is David Brent where he comes alive, rather like Alan
:01:44. > :01:47.Partridge when Steve you sense they are a hair's-breadth away from it
:01:48. > :01:53.and ego of the real things are the some trepidation about Ricky device
:01:54. > :01:59.creating David Brent again. TV spin offs sort of work because people see
:02:00. > :02:04.this character loathsome as he is, what he tries to do for this movie
:02:05. > :02:07.is build some affection for the character. Although he is
:02:08. > :02:12.impossible, he keeps doing himself in the holes wherever he goes, even
:02:13. > :02:16.on stage she is a complete embarrassment so sets off on a tour
:02:17. > :02:24.mainly of Berkshire but he does it all. Very rarely sold out except for
:02:25. > :02:36.this student night. Even the students see the lack of
:02:37. > :02:41.self-awareness. You can't just pick them up they have rights. People
:02:42. > :02:45.often say is there anything you won't joke about? Yes the
:02:46. > :02:56.handicapped. There have been quite a few moments. This tool will get
:02:57. > :03:01.better and better. He once T-shirt? You think is painful to watch, I
:03:02. > :03:09.have to stand next to him. We are going to get a little bit funky.
:03:10. > :03:16.Just when you think it can't get any worse, he shoots a fat girl in a
:03:17. > :03:22.phase with a T-shirt gun. So I'm a laugh matter how much did you laugh?
:03:23. > :03:25.The only gauge you have is if you laugh and I laughed quite
:03:26. > :03:29.frequently, quite loud and quite guiltily because this man is a
:03:30. > :03:34.monster. There is an attempt to make us like him by the end and that is
:03:35. > :03:40.the less successful part of the movie. He tries to add an office
:03:41. > :03:45.romance. That uses his loathsome nurse as his redemption and I think
:03:46. > :03:50.that is less successful but what a great other terrible lyrics to the
:03:51. > :03:54.song 's. The awful way he tries to get in with the band and his racial
:03:55. > :03:59.errors that he tries to befriend his mate Ben Bailey Smith and him
:04:00. > :04:03.putting his foot in it is folly. Whether you need to go to the cinema
:04:04. > :04:07.to see it, it is no cinematic feat but it does make you laugh and for
:04:08. > :04:12.that reason it is a success. Not many laughs in the next film we will
:04:13. > :04:18.talk about which is called Black and I read it is a Romeo and Juliet
:04:19. > :04:25.story set in Brussels about a 15-year-old girl in a gang? That's
:04:26. > :04:31.right. A 15-year-old girl who is in one gang and romance, and illicit
:04:32. > :04:41.romance between a Moroccan born boy in another gang. It is set in
:04:42. > :04:45.Brussels, of it in the so-called jihadist capital, I feel no slight a
:04:46. > :04:49.need at this film understands the place better than countless news
:04:50. > :04:54.reports could possibly do so. That is because it is made by two
:04:55. > :04:59.directors from the area. It is sort of a film that looks stylish, a pop
:05:00. > :05:03.video aesthetic but it has this reality to it. The sort of stories
:05:04. > :05:09.we have not seen that we looked away from an ignored, it is across the
:05:10. > :05:13.tracks romance between a boy and a girl who forced to do things they
:05:14. > :05:18.gangs forced them to do. We are very much in the Westside story rather
:05:19. > :05:21.than Romeo Juliet because we have fighting, almost like Michael
:05:22. > :05:26.Jackson's bad video in places. There is an energy and a fresh mission in
:05:27. > :05:30.it. The energy in the vitality and the language is important. The film
:05:31. > :05:33.was banned on release in France and has not been released there because
:05:34. > :05:37.people at the time after the Paris attack people feared for the
:05:38. > :05:42.security of hordes of use descending on cinemas and there were riots in
:05:43. > :05:49.Belgium at but I do think it is an important and urgent European film.
:05:50. > :05:53.Things haven't really changed for the use of Europe the cinema has and
:05:54. > :05:59.this is an urgent cry from the front line. OK. One film I don't think
:06:00. > :06:06.will be banned anywhere is Swallows and Amazons which we can talk about.
:06:07. > :06:10.Who is as appealing to? Younger children and their parents taking
:06:11. > :06:14.them to the cinemas? Oddly enough we are seen many family films these
:06:15. > :06:19.days if we do they tend to be the precision vacuum packed Pixar movies
:06:20. > :06:24.which are so perfect that there is no room for error. This has the old
:06:25. > :06:28.charm based on Arthur Ransome's beloved book. I say do love it but I
:06:29. > :06:35.never liked it, I was a suburban boy and the idea of knots and sales... I
:06:36. > :06:40.never read it. Putting up a tent not my thing. But if this is your think
:06:41. > :06:44.this is great. It is about a family and children whose dad is a way for
:06:45. > :06:47.the summer holidays and off they go to the Lake District and dream of
:06:48. > :06:51.spending a night away in the middle of the Lake said their mum packs
:06:52. > :06:59.them off and make sure they are shipshape. Captain John will now
:07:00. > :07:07.introduces crew. Able Seaman Walker in charge of the log. It's very
:07:08. > :07:14.important to keep a record. Ships boy Roger Walker. I want to be a
:07:15. > :07:20.lookout. That's what the ships boy does. Keep your eyes peeled. Master
:07:21. > :07:29.Minded Susan Walker. Are you sure you have everything? Remember tatty
:07:30. > :07:40.carnies matches. You have a fine crew here captain. All aboard. Here
:07:41. > :07:49.is to swallow and all who sail in her. Looks like a classic British
:07:50. > :07:52.feel-good film, is it something that families would go to over the
:07:53. > :07:58.summer? It does have some charming it. Lassitude of charm to borrow
:07:59. > :08:02.something from the famous five. Really nice twinkly score that
:08:03. > :08:07.builds up the Pirate and there is an adult thread through it, a spy story
:08:08. > :08:11.going on and it is seen from the kids I view, these pesky kids he get
:08:12. > :08:16.involved in a plot. It's more fun than I thought it would be, I gave
:08:17. > :08:20.up the book ages ago when I was forced to read as a kid and never
:08:21. > :08:25.picked it up again until now and this feels like that, it has the
:08:26. > :08:28.Sunday afternoon charm, a wide fist of the Lake District, the rural John
:08:29. > :08:34.Major 's Britain, albeit bread-and-butter picnics. I don't
:08:35. > :08:38.think many Brexit voters would go for this error of Britain, maybe it
:08:39. > :08:44.never existed but is captured brilliantly and milk nicely in this
:08:45. > :08:49.adaptation of Swallows and Amazons. Lovely stuff. What is the best movie
:08:50. > :08:59.out at the moment? Swallows and Amazons is one but the best run out
:09:00. > :09:04.at the moment is the BFG. I think it is an extraordinary film in terms of
:09:05. > :09:11.the CGI and the performance, it is the best performance I see promotion
:09:12. > :09:14.captures Jon Rahm. It is really charming and I think it has captured
:09:15. > :09:20.the imagination of children really finally in the country, it is a
:09:21. > :09:23.great, very strange piece of work but the twinkle is brilliantly
:09:24. > :09:30.throughout. A towering performance as the BFG should have. Best DVD
:09:31. > :09:35.out? If you cannot get to the cinema and you are not watching the
:09:36. > :09:38.Olympics, there is a brilliance by modern warfare film called eye in
:09:39. > :09:42.the sky starling Karen Millen and late Alan Rickman about how modern
:09:43. > :09:47.warfare is done by drones and flying in and out of the action. It is
:09:48. > :09:51.tensely done almost in real time about the decisions made as to
:09:52. > :09:56.whether to launch an attack from drones. A tense film I have never
:09:57. > :10:01.seen before and in the era of Jason Bourne, this was a more sedentary
:10:02. > :10:07.look at the way modern spy craft is done. Lots of moral dilemmas.
:10:08. > :10:14.Absolutely can be read things from cameras and it was Billy done. I
:10:15. > :10:17.think it was fantastic. Great performance by Helen Mirren and Alan
:10:18. > :10:23.Rickman, you realise how much we miss him when you watch this. Thank
:10:24. > :10:28.you so much. That is it for this week and just so you can catch up on
:10:29. > :10:29.the previous programmes on the eye player but thank you very much for
:10:30. > :10:46.watching. Good evening, only a few days ago
:10:47. > :10:48.when