:00:00. > :00:00.ahead to the weekend sport including big fights into different -- on two
:00:07. > :00:18.different sides of the Atlantic. Hello and welcome to
:00:19. > :00:21.The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's
:00:22. > :00:51.cinema releases is Mark Kermode. We have grandma. We have By The Sea,
:00:52. > :01:00.arthouse Brangelina. And Sisters. There has been talk of an award for
:01:01. > :01:05.Lily Tomlin. She plays a grandmother who spends the day with her
:01:06. > :01:11.granddaughter, attempting to raise money that Sage needs for an
:01:12. > :01:17.abortion. They visit all her old friends. She basically regales her
:01:18. > :01:23.with tales of feminist authors and women's liberation and stories of
:01:24. > :01:25.her lost lifetime partner, Violet, and also of her recent break-up with
:01:26. > :01:29.Olivia. Here is a clip. So, what is she doing
:01:30. > :01:37.with me, right? I tell you, she sent me an essay
:01:38. > :01:53.she had written about my work. And then we did and she
:01:54. > :02:05.was cute, and so damn I've written more in the last four
:02:06. > :02:20.months than I wrote in the five What really like about the film as
:02:21. > :02:24.they treat its characters all completely equally. The film
:02:25. > :02:31.absolutely believes in a women passed back right to choose. The
:02:32. > :02:35.film would have been called Bad Grandma because she has more tattoos
:02:36. > :02:42.and gets into more fights than her granddaughter. But she comes from a
:02:43. > :02:46.generation where great battles have been won. She is reconnecting with
:02:47. > :02:49.her granddaughter and is appalled about how little her granddaughter
:02:50. > :02:53.knows. As they get to know each other, they discuss different
:02:54. > :02:57.histories. I thought the film worked because you believe in the
:02:58. > :03:04.characters. The role was written for Lily Tomlin and she makes it all
:03:05. > :03:09.completely her own. Tonnes of terrific supporting performances.
:03:10. > :03:13.The whole film has a loose limbed hand-held feel which feels a bit
:03:14. > :03:19.1970s. You think how long ago the Lily Tomlin was doing Nashville. I
:03:20. > :03:25.really enjoyed it. It is 79 minutes long, one of the new comedy that
:03:26. > :03:31.knows not to outstay its welcome. It is poignant and bittersweet, smart
:03:32. > :03:35.and intelligent. There is a dynamite central performance by Lily Tomlin,
:03:36. > :03:38.who is absolutely at the top of her game and makes you engage with the
:03:39. > :03:49.central character. I liked it very much. By The Sea, Brad Pitt and
:03:50. > :03:54.Angelina Jolie. It has been dismissed as a Brangelina vanity
:03:55. > :04:00.project. It is meant to be inspired by European Sir Mark of the 60s.
:04:01. > :04:05.Angelina Jolie now writes, directs and stars. Brad Pitt is an author
:04:06. > :04:11.who comes to a hotel in Malta. He wants to write but cannot because he
:04:12. > :04:20.has fallen out with his wife. Together they have a terrible time
:04:21. > :04:23.in this very upmarket hotel suite until a good-looking couple move in
:04:24. > :04:31.and they have a very voyeuristic relationship. In many ways, the
:04:32. > :04:34.problem with it, the film is far too interested in its central
:04:35. > :04:39.characters. It takes a long time for anything to happen. You can seek
:04:40. > :04:45.revelations coming from a long way off. It is not bad, not as bad as
:04:46. > :04:49.some of the reviews have suggested. Ultimately it is too involved in
:04:50. > :04:53.characters who, on the outside, are not that involving full it is too
:04:54. > :05:04.interested in people who are not that interesting. It is languorous.
:05:05. > :05:13.But slow is correct. Sisters, I really fancy that. It sounds like
:05:14. > :05:17.Bridesmaids remade. There are sisters who are appalled to discover
:05:18. > :05:21.their parents have decided to sell the family home in which they grew
:05:22. > :05:24.up. They are not best pleased. Here is a clip.
:05:25. > :05:27.Why didn't you tell me you sold the house?
:05:28. > :05:29.Because we knew you try to talk us out of it.
:05:30. > :05:32.You're selling your clocks, by the way?
:05:33. > :05:38.The things in that house meant something to us.
:05:39. > :05:41.Each one of those objects is a puzzle piece in the story
:05:42. > :05:50.Clutter has a name and it's Pokey, the Christmas tree elf.
:05:51. > :06:11.I laughed for 20 seconds, 30 seconds. Structurally Della macro
:06:12. > :06:15.the film falls apart. -- structurally, the film falls apart.
:06:16. > :06:22.They have one last party. As the party turns into Animal House, the
:06:23. > :06:26.film starts to fall down. The performers are good enough but even
:06:27. > :06:31.when overall structurally it is falling apart, individually,
:06:32. > :06:34.particularly the central couple, they are described in a newspaper is
:06:35. > :06:44.having an understanding which is like jazz musicians playing. They
:06:45. > :06:51.risk of each other really well. It was directed by the guy who brought
:06:52. > :06:56.us Pitch Perfect. I laughed all the way through, even as I realised
:06:57. > :06:59.towards the last third, when it was falling down, it was still managing
:07:00. > :07:06.to make me laugh. I loved more in this movie than the ones last week
:07:07. > :07:13.when we were talking about Christmas with the Coopers. It has a slight
:07:14. > :07:17.festive edge to it. It is the funniest Christmas comedy out there
:07:18. > :07:23.by quite some distance. It is Christmas crude though, isn't it?
:07:24. > :07:29.Yelena it is. It is too long. It does not have the depth and the
:07:30. > :07:34.weight of Grandma but it is consistently funny. On your
:07:35. > :07:40.recommendation I saw Brooklyn. There was definitely my best of the week.
:07:41. > :07:49.It is brilliant. It is very difficult to sell because it is
:07:50. > :07:54.understated. Isn't the lead actress absolutely fantastic. I said it was
:07:55. > :07:59.fantastic. He put off because he thought it would not play for him
:08:00. > :08:09.and it does. I know 70 people who thought the same thing when get into
:08:10. > :08:15.their, they are really impressed. I really liked Sunset Song. The
:08:16. > :08:19.interior is digital. I thought a very good central performance. I am
:08:20. > :08:24.a really big fan of Terence Davies. He tried to make it 15 years ago. It
:08:25. > :08:35.has been a long wait but it has been worth it. It is interesting. By The
:08:36. > :08:39.Sea, it took eight years to make. Sometimes it is worth the wait and
:08:40. > :08:47.sometimes it is not. In the case of Terence Davies, it was a funding
:08:48. > :08:51.issue. At the same time as sex lives of the potato was getting funding,
:08:52. > :08:58.he was being told there was no funding for him. Really! One thing
:08:59. > :09:04.about your DVDs is I have never heard of them mostly. Future Shock!
:09:05. > :09:09.The Story of 2000AD. What I like about this is it tells the story of
:09:10. > :09:18.where it came from, who worked for it, how it changed how it came out
:09:19. > :09:22.of punk Britain. How it fell in and out of creativity. It talked about
:09:23. > :09:28.the films that are inspired by it. If you are not a comic book
:09:29. > :09:32.aficionado, it is completely understandable, very engaging. I
:09:33. > :09:39.liked it very much. It looks at how films like the Stallone Judge Dredd
:09:40. > :09:48.and the second movie and things like hardware, I thought it was very
:09:49. > :09:52.gripping. But after Sunset Song. Thank you very much.
:09:53. > :09:55.A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
:09:56. > :09:56.and reviews from across the BBC online, including
:09:57. > :10:20.Hallow. This weekend will be a little bit mixed. Tomorrow morning,
:10:21. > :10:22.the chance of rain and snow across some parts of the country. Not