Dunkirk, City of Ghosts, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie The Film Review

women coming up, we will find out how the English preparations are

going. That is all coming up at 6:30 p:m.. Now it is time for Film

Review. Hello and welcome to the Film Review

and to take us through the cinema releases as ever, Mark Kermode what

have you been watching. A bigwig. We have Dunkirk about which everyone is

talking. We have City of Ghosts, and very harrowing documentary. And we

have and we have Captain Underpants which is very funny. Everyone is

talking about Dunkirk. The scale and ambition of this is remarkable. It

is and also the ambition of the release. It is the story of Dunkirk

told by Christopher Nolan and it is the story of the evacuation told

through three intertwining strands that loosely follow land sea and

air. But, all of the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told

over three different timescales, one of the stories last one way, one

last one day and one last one hour and these strands... If you know

anything about Christopher Nolan, you would know that he likes to play

with time. The brilliant thing about this is that he does in a way that

is very clear, you understand what is happening even though it is a

complex structure. It is short on large format film and you have seen

from the images, they are astonishing, great big cameras,

plaudits to the cinematographer, carrying around these bulky cameras

and doing really extraordinary work with them. The film is available in

numerous different formats and depending on where you go to see it,

you can see it in digital, 70... The picture will be

different and look different. The advice I would give is that make

sure you see it in the cinema that you know does the best possible

presentation and sound. Sound is very important, it plays a huge part

in this. It has an extraordinary score. Christopher Nolan talked

about this being a movie about tension, it is not to do with

explicitly what you see, it is about the build-up and the score is like a

rising tide and it fills all the way through the film. I think the most

impressive thing, you know I am huge fan of Christopher Nolan, the most

impressive thing is that for a film on this scale, it is actually, the

thing you take away from it, the smaller images, the image of a man

walking hopelessly into the sea, the image of Kenneth Branagh's face

looking over a lost Horizon, those are very impressive pieces of work

and it is great to see someone making a blockbuster movie that

imagines that the audience are smart enough to keep up with this complex

structure. Christopher Nolan's whole thing has been the audience are

clever than anyone imagines. That is really refreshing. Look how well he

does. Why be Michael Bay when you can be Christopher Nolan? It is what

everyone will be watching. Stories of the terror of Dunkirk and stories

of heroism and there are stories as well in your next choice of some

very brave individuals and I have to be honest, the more I read about

this, another one I am not sure I quite had the stomach for but it is

important work. It is a documentary and it is the harrowing account of

Isis brutality as seen through the eyes of a citizens journalist

collective in Syria. They formed at collective and they decided that

what they would do was document what was going on, to let the world know

and they did that at great personal cost. Here is a clip.

The thing that I think the film does really well is that pays greater

tribute to the bravery of these people in doing this citizen

journalism reporting and it contains horrifying images and there are

several occasions while I was watching where I had to look away.

The bravery of it is that the people who were doing this, they did not

look away, they saw it as their responsibility to document this. As

you quite rightly say, it is a documentary that takes an very, very

difficult subject matter and I think is really important, but it is

absolutely necessary to say that there are things in this

documentary, quite rightly, are very harrowing, but it is a real tribute

to the bravery, that they were trying to get the message out all

the time, even though their own lives are under threat. Many of them

now live in Germany. Even there of course, there is the sense that they

are never completely safe. We approach the summer holidays and we

move to entirely different matters and perhaps very younger age group

is there something for adults? I am 54 and I love Captain Underpants.

This is based on the much loved books. If you're familiar with the

books and I am, I was worried that some on make a movie but now they

have, too, but creating kids accidentally turn their headmaster

into Captain Underpants with the help of hypnotising ring from the

cereal packet. Here is a clip. What's this? It is the paperwork to

separate but two! It's really incredible. I can actually see the

end of your friendship. George, do something. Put the pen down or we

will hypnotise you! What's happening? When I start my fingers

you will obey our every command! You're now be amazing Captain

Underpants! We've got to stop them. Why? You laughed all the way through

that. You're still laughing. I started laughing at the beginning of

this movie and I did not stop. The more it went on, the funnier it

became. I was sitting with critics who were enjoying it but they tend

to be well-behaved but I was laughing like a hyena. It is really

funny and how great that we have a family movie out that you can take

young kids to see and you will enjoy it every bit as as them. Captain

Underpants is a real standout delight. That is one day at least

that is started. It is lovely, when there are not the best kids films

around to see. It is very hard to find something that you think will

work both for the young audience and also for all an older audience. I

would quite happily go and see this again tomorrow. I laughed all the

way through it and you know what a fan I am of the minions, this made

me laugh more. Funnier than the minions and that is really saying

something. That is all we need to hear. What is best out? I have gone

back to Baby Driver, it is still in cinemas and I love it. Edgar Wright

has managed to cross a car chase movie with a romantic musical and

make this film which is funny and sharp and smart and as a piece of

cinema, I think it is really great and I want people to see it in the

cinema. It will come out on home video, but it is one of those

things, the bean to see at? I am going to see it. OK, you have to go.

I am going to see this. You need to see it in a cinema. That sure summer

homework. I did not do well on homework last week. What is the DVD?

As I said last week, you need to see the levelling. Get Out is out, it is

a great horror thriller. Jordan Peel is one of the voices in Captain

Underpants and he wrote and directed this movie. He comes from a comedy

background. What this does is, it is kind of inspired by the books of our

11 who wrote the Stepford wives and tells a about white middle-class

liberal America and it is more of a psychological thriller than a horror

movie although there are moments of horror in it. It is sharp and

satirical and really well played and what I loved about it, it was one of

those films, you could not quite see where it was going. It has great

performances, it is very bright and I didn't know much about it when I

went in and I was really surprised and I love the books anyway, it is

not directly adapted from the books, but it is a really fine piece of

work, but try not to read too much about it before you see the film.

Thank you very much. I have A quick reminder before we go that

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