:00:00. > :00:00.women coming up, we will find out how the English preparations are
:00:00. > :00:00.going. That is all coming up at 6:30 p:m.. Now it is time for Film
:00:00. > :00:26.Review. Hello and welcome to the Film Review
:00:27. > :00:32.and to take us through the cinema releases as ever, Mark Kermode what
:00:33. > :00:39.have you been watching. A bigwig. We have Dunkirk about which everyone is
:00:40. > :00:52.talking. We have City of Ghosts, and very harrowing documentary. And we
:00:53. > :00:57.have and we have Captain Underpants which is very funny. Everyone is
:00:58. > :01:01.talking about Dunkirk. The scale and ambition of this is remarkable. It
:01:02. > :01:07.is and also the ambition of the release. It is the story of Dunkirk
:01:08. > :01:12.told by Christopher Nolan and it is the story of the evacuation told
:01:13. > :01:17.through three intertwining strands that loosely follow land sea and
:01:18. > :01:20.air. But, all of the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told
:01:21. > :01:26.over three different timescales, one of the stories last one way, one
:01:27. > :01:29.last one day and one last one hour and these strands... If you know
:01:30. > :01:33.anything about Christopher Nolan, you would know that he likes to play
:01:34. > :01:37.with time. The brilliant thing about this is that he does in a way that
:01:38. > :01:42.is very clear, you understand what is happening even though it is a
:01:43. > :01:47.complex structure. It is short on large format film and you have seen
:01:48. > :01:49.from the images, they are astonishing, great big cameras,
:01:50. > :01:52.plaudits to the cinematographer, carrying around these bulky cameras
:01:53. > :01:57.and doing really extraordinary work with them. The film is available in
:01:58. > :01:59.numerous different formats and depending on where you go to see it,
:02:00. > :02:17.you can see it in digital, 70... The picture will be
:02:18. > :02:20.different and look different. The advice I would give is that make
:02:21. > :02:22.sure you see it in the cinema that you know does the best possible
:02:23. > :02:25.presentation and sound. Sound is very important, it plays a huge part
:02:26. > :02:27.in this. It has an extraordinary score. Christopher Nolan talked
:02:28. > :02:30.about this being a movie about tension, it is not to do with
:02:31. > :02:33.explicitly what you see, it is about the build-up and the score is like a
:02:34. > :02:36.rising tide and it fills all the way through the film. I think the most
:02:37. > :02:40.impressive thing, you know I am huge fan of Christopher Nolan, the most
:02:41. > :02:43.impressive thing is that for a film on this scale, it is actually, the
:02:44. > :02:47.thing you take away from it, the smaller images, the image of a man
:02:48. > :02:52.walking hopelessly into the sea, the image of Kenneth Branagh's face
:02:53. > :02:56.looking over a lost Horizon, those are very impressive pieces of work
:02:57. > :02:59.and it is great to see someone making a blockbuster movie that
:03:00. > :03:04.imagines that the audience are smart enough to keep up with this complex
:03:05. > :03:10.structure. Christopher Nolan's whole thing has been the audience are
:03:11. > :03:16.clever than anyone imagines. That is really refreshing. Look how well he
:03:17. > :03:25.does. Why be Michael Bay when you can be Christopher Nolan? It is what
:03:26. > :03:30.everyone will be watching. Stories of the terror of Dunkirk and stories
:03:31. > :03:34.of heroism and there are stories as well in your next choice of some
:03:35. > :03:37.very brave individuals and I have to be honest, the more I read about
:03:38. > :03:43.this, another one I am not sure I quite had the stomach for but it is
:03:44. > :03:48.important work. It is a documentary and it is the harrowing account of
:03:49. > :03:55.Isis brutality as seen through the eyes of a citizens journalist
:03:56. > :03:58.collective in Syria. They formed at collective and they decided that
:03:59. > :04:03.what they would do was document what was going on, to let the world know
:04:04. > :05:09.and they did that at great personal cost. Here is a clip.
:05:10. > :05:15.The thing that I think the film does really well is that pays greater
:05:16. > :05:19.tribute to the bravery of these people in doing this citizen
:05:20. > :05:22.journalism reporting and it contains horrifying images and there are
:05:23. > :05:25.several occasions while I was watching where I had to look away.
:05:26. > :05:30.The bravery of it is that the people who were doing this, they did not
:05:31. > :05:33.look away, they saw it as their responsibility to document this. As
:05:34. > :05:48.you quite rightly say, it is a documentary that takes an very, very
:05:49. > :05:50.difficult subject matter and I think is really important, but it is
:05:51. > :05:52.absolutely necessary to say that there are things in this
:05:53. > :05:54.documentary, quite rightly, are very harrowing, but it is a real tribute
:05:55. > :05:57.to the bravery, that they were trying to get the message out all
:05:58. > :06:00.the time, even though their own lives are under threat. Many of them
:06:01. > :06:07.now live in Germany. Even there of course, there is the sense that they
:06:08. > :06:12.are never completely safe. We approach the summer holidays and we
:06:13. > :06:17.move to entirely different matters and perhaps very younger age group
:06:18. > :06:21.is there something for adults? I am 54 and I love Captain Underpants.
:06:22. > :06:27.This is based on the much loved books. If you're familiar with the
:06:28. > :06:32.books and I am, I was worried that some on make a movie but now they
:06:33. > :06:38.have, too, but creating kids accidentally turn their headmaster
:06:39. > :06:43.into Captain Underpants with the help of hypnotising ring from the
:06:44. > :06:48.cereal packet. Here is a clip. What's this? It is the paperwork to
:06:49. > :06:54.separate but two! It's really incredible. I can actually see the
:06:55. > :06:59.end of your friendship. George, do something. Put the pen down or we
:07:00. > :07:10.will hypnotise you! What's happening? When I start my fingers
:07:11. > :07:19.you will obey our every command! You're now be amazing Captain
:07:20. > :07:32.Underpants! We've got to stop them. Why? You laughed all the way through
:07:33. > :07:36.that. You're still laughing. I started laughing at the beginning of
:07:37. > :07:40.this movie and I did not stop. The more it went on, the funnier it
:07:41. > :07:43.became. I was sitting with critics who were enjoying it but they tend
:07:44. > :07:47.to be well-behaved but I was laughing like a hyena. It is really
:07:48. > :07:51.funny and how great that we have a family movie out that you can take
:07:52. > :07:56.young kids to see and you will enjoy it every bit as as them. Captain
:07:57. > :08:05.Underpants is a real standout delight. That is one day at least
:08:06. > :08:08.that is started. It is lovely, when there are not the best kids films
:08:09. > :08:13.around to see. It is very hard to find something that you think will
:08:14. > :08:17.work both for the young audience and also for all an older audience. I
:08:18. > :08:20.would quite happily go and see this again tomorrow. I laughed all the
:08:21. > :08:24.way through it and you know what a fan I am of the minions, this made
:08:25. > :08:29.me laugh more. Funnier than the minions and that is really saying
:08:30. > :08:36.something. That is all we need to hear. What is best out? I have gone
:08:37. > :08:39.back to Baby Driver, it is still in cinemas and I love it. Edgar Wright
:08:40. > :08:42.has managed to cross a car chase movie with a romantic musical and
:08:43. > :08:48.make this film which is funny and sharp and smart and as a piece of
:08:49. > :08:52.cinema, I think it is really great and I want people to see it in the
:08:53. > :08:56.cinema. It will come out on home video, but it is one of those
:08:57. > :09:08.things, the bean to see at? I am going to see it. OK, you have to go.
:09:09. > :09:14.I am going to see this. You need to see it in a cinema. That sure summer
:09:15. > :09:20.homework. I did not do well on homework last week. What is the DVD?
:09:21. > :09:29.As I said last week, you need to see the levelling. Get Out is out, it is
:09:30. > :09:32.a great horror thriller. Jordan Peel is one of the voices in Captain
:09:33. > :09:38.Underpants and he wrote and directed this movie. He comes from a comedy
:09:39. > :09:43.background. What this does is, it is kind of inspired by the books of our
:09:44. > :09:49.11 who wrote the Stepford wives and tells a about white middle-class
:09:50. > :09:52.liberal America and it is more of a psychological thriller than a horror
:09:53. > :09:56.movie although there are moments of horror in it. It is sharp and
:09:57. > :10:00.satirical and really well played and what I loved about it, it was one of
:10:01. > :10:06.those films, you could not quite see where it was going. It has great
:10:07. > :10:09.performances, it is very bright and I didn't know much about it when I
:10:10. > :10:15.went in and I was really surprised and I love the books anyway, it is
:10:16. > :10:19.not directly adapted from the books, but it is a really fine piece of
:10:20. > :10:21.work, but try not to read too much about it before you see the film.
:10:22. > :10:25.Thank you very much. I have A quick reminder before we go that
:10:26. > :10:33.you'll find more film news and reviews from across the BBC
:10:34. > :10:35.online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode --- including Mark's top ten
:10:36. > :10:38.films of the year so far. And you can find all our previous
:10:39. > :11:11.programmes on the bbc iplayer. I have got quite a mix of whether on
:11:12. > :11:13.the way