:00:00. > :00:00.Championship and the Davis Cup. That is all on Sportsday at 6.30. Now it
:00:00. > :00:22.is time for The Film Review. Hello and welcome to
:00:23. > :00:25.The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's
:00:26. > :00:33.cinema releases is Mark Kermode. We have hail Caesar, the new movie
:00:34. > :00:37.by the Coen Brothers which I know vow have been looking forward to. We
:00:38. > :00:44.also have London has fallen, which I think you have been looking forward
:00:45. > :00:49.to slightly less. And time out of mind. Richard Gere on the streets of
:00:50. > :00:54.New York. I love the Coen Brothers. I haven't
:00:55. > :00:58.seen this one. I went into this with high expectations because I has seen
:00:59. > :01:03.the trailers and laughed like an idiot. I thought I'm going to be
:01:04. > :01:05.disappoint. I wasn't. The film starts, 30 seconds any am laughing
:01:06. > :01:13.and I laughed all the way through. It is like a breezy slip side to
:01:14. > :01:19.Barton Fink. He is this playwright. Goes to Hollywood to make art, he
:01:20. > :01:25.makes wrestling picture, this is 1950s Capitol Pictures, they have a
:01:26. > :01:31.prestige picture being made called hail Cesar. However, their star
:01:32. > :01:36.Baird Whitlock is kidnapped by a group called the future. Meanwhile
:01:37. > :01:40.Eddie Mannix he is a studio fixer, it is his job to go round fixing the
:01:41. > :01:44.problems the studio have dealing with their stars, and one of the
:01:45. > :01:50.problems they have is that Ralph Fiennes is this very testy British
:01:51. > :01:54.director, who is making a sophisticated drama, called Merrily
:01:55. > :01:59.We Dance he doesn't have a leading man. He has been given Hobie Doyle
:02:00. > :02:14.who is what they refer to as a dust actor. Here is a celeb. Say your
:02:15. > :02:22.line just as I am about to do. Sure. Were it so simple. Would it were so
:02:23. > :02:38.simple. Simple. Who do you say that? You say say it like I said it.
:02:39. > :02:58.I am trying to say that. We can use Christian nape, Lawrence is fine,
:02:59. > :03:04.just as I call you Hobie. Trippingly. Trippingly. Say the line
:03:05. > :03:11.trippingly, don't say trippingly. Tell us more. So that refers to the,
:03:12. > :03:17.I can't stand him sequence from Singin' In the Rain. The plot is
:03:18. > :03:21.completely all over the place. It involved red scares and herring and
:03:22. > :03:29.atomic bombs and people being kidnapped. It is there to string
:03:30. > :03:34.together a number of set pieces. There are aquatic scenes which are
:03:35. > :03:40.reproduced, a loving homage to 1950 Hollywood. We have this biblical
:03:41. > :03:44.epic, with a hint of cheese. There was an American review that said it
:03:45. > :03:47.is another one of the film of the Coen Brothers hating the movie
:03:48. > :03:51.industry. It isn't. It is a film that works because it loves the
:03:52. > :03:57.thing that it is dealing with. At the same time is Eddie Mannix, he
:03:58. > :04:02.has a better job offer from someone else who say work for us, we are
:04:03. > :04:06.serious, you don't have to deal with the frivolity but he has underneath
:04:07. > :04:10.it a belief in the frivolity. He loves the industry. I feel the same
:04:11. > :04:15.way about the Co-operative Bank brother, I thought the performances
:04:16. > :04:20.were universally terrific. Hobie Doyle is wonderful. And it is one of
:04:21. > :04:25.those movies which it is no just it is funny and you are laughing at the
:04:26. > :04:30.jokes, it is in between the jokes you are smiling. It, you know, I
:04:31. > :04:33.just grinned like a loon all the way through the film. It was, it was
:04:34. > :04:45.made for me, and I loved it. I think you will like it too. Comedy. Were
:04:46. > :04:49.it so simple. London Has Fallen There was Olympus and fallen and
:04:50. > :04:57.White House down which were the same film. This is the sequel to him puck
:04:58. > :05:01.has fallen. We have Gerard Butler bringing his bargain basement Bruce
:05:02. > :05:03.Willis impression to London. We are told sequel to him puck has fallen.
:05:04. > :05:06.We have Gerard Butler bringing his bargain basement Bruce Willis
:05:07. > :05:08.impression to London. We are told by a news report that "An attack has
:05:09. > :05:12.decimated most of the capital's known landmarks." OK, fine, it
:05:13. > :05:17.hasn't. What are unknown ones? They are fine, the decimation has
:05:18. > :05:20.happened by a series of kind of super imposed explosions of the kind
:05:21. > :05:26.most video game manufacturers would be embarrassed about. The effects
:05:27. > :05:32.are treble. The script is laughable but not in that good way. Do you
:05:33. > :05:36.remember team America world police, imagine that with all the jokes
:05:37. > :05:40.taken out and acting more wooden that the puppets. To call it meat
:05:41. > :05:46.headed would be to do a disservice to meat. Am I right that Americans
:05:47. > :05:50.saves a British democracy? How did you guess that? Was Donald Trump
:05:51. > :05:54.involved? I don't want to give away what happens but it is true that
:05:55. > :06:02.Americans going round kicking people is apparently the answer. Right.
:06:03. > :06:06.Time Out of Mind Richard Gere, last week it was a Richard Gere movie in
:06:07. > :06:10.which he played a millionaire with homes to give away. Now we have
:06:11. > :06:13.this, which I think was made in 2014 and the story is, that he is a man
:06:14. > :06:18.called George, he wakes up in the morning in a bath. Gets thrown out
:06:19. > :06:23.of an apartment and he sort of wanders the streets of New York and
:06:24. > :06:28.he slowly comes to the realisation that he is homeless. He has slipped
:06:29. > :06:32.through the crack, the movie is shot with long lens, constantly you sigh
:06:33. > :06:36.him through windows, across a crowded street, what this does is it
:06:37. > :06:40.places him in the landscape, and forget what you are watching is a
:06:41. > :06:43.famous movie star, you is that right to believe that what you are
:06:44. > :06:48.watching is somebody who has got lost in the system, and is now
:06:49. > :06:58.trying to redigs cover his identity. Here is a clip -- rediscover.
:06:59. > :07:04.Where did you live last? I... I have been moving round for while. No,
:07:05. > :07:11.sweetie, where did you come from, before here? Where was the last
:07:12. > :07:18.place you resided. Sheila's. Where is she? Queens, I don't know. Could
:07:19. > :07:24.you go back there and stay? No, she was evicted. She didn't say goodbye,
:07:25. > :07:30.she didn't do anything stupid cow, she knew I had no place to go. So no
:07:31. > :07:40.staying with the cow. Have you got family? If I say I have family, does
:07:41. > :07:45.that mean I can still is a stay here? Yes, unless they would be
:07:46. > :07:50.willing to take you in. I don't have family. Come on darling. You would
:07:51. > :07:55.much rather stay with your family than stay here. You understand what
:07:56. > :07:59.I am saying? Please, trust me on that one. What What happens is you
:08:00. > :08:05.come to trust his character, more important you come to trust the
:08:06. > :08:09.people round him. Ben Vereen's character who is streetwise. Richard
:08:10. > :08:12.Gere's character doesn't talk very much. Over the course of the running
:08:13. > :08:18.time of the movie, it is slow, it takes its time. You get a sense of
:08:19. > :08:21.the hardship of the lives they lead but the diversity of the lives they
:08:22. > :08:27.lead. I thought it was really well done. I thought Richard Gere was
:08:28. > :08:30.much more convincing, I have always liked hip: But there is that thing
:08:31. > :08:35.people go a Hollywood actor doing this stuff. He is slumming this. He
:08:36. > :08:40.is not. This is a pet project. This is something he has produced. I
:08:41. > :08:45.thought it was very intelligent. Very sympathetic and something which
:08:46. > :08:49.really, I mean you come out of it feeling you know, that need for, for
:08:50. > :08:53.a night's sleep and he keeps saying all I want to do is sleep. I need to
:08:54. > :08:58.sleep. He can't. He has been moved from place to place, train stations
:08:59. > :09:04.and hospitals and I thought it really got under his skin but the
:09:05. > :09:08.characters round him. I think this humanises it very well. Let us move
:09:09. > :09:16.on. Your best of the week isn't what many people would suspect. But
:09:17. > :09:21.actually, one of your interests. It's a documentary called Hitchcock
:09:22. > :09:26.triumph foe. In the early 62, triumph foe did a series of
:09:27. > :09:32.interviews with Hitchcock. He was trying to get him accepted as an
:09:33. > :09:36.auteur, the interviews made up a book which was very important to
:09:37. > :09:40.film-maker, this documentary uses audio tapes and photographs from the
:09:41. > :09:44.original interviews but speaks to people like Martin Scorsese and Wes
:09:45. > :09:50.Anderson, it is fascinating, as an insight into the way film-makers
:09:51. > :09:54.talk to other, secondly, about the idea that somehow the book becomes a
:09:55. > :09:59.work which is on a par with the rest of triumph foe's film catalogue. I
:10:00. > :10:03.think it is entertaining and anybody who is interested in cinema, anyone
:10:04. > :10:09.who is interested in it should watch it. You would enjoy it. And a couple
:10:10. > :10:13.of the biopics have portrayed Hitchcock the monstrous side of him.
:10:14. > :10:16.This is talking about the craft. This is two film-makers talking
:10:17. > :10:22.about the craft and the specifics of the craft. The specifics of visuals.
:10:23. > :10:30.It is really really, it is very engrossing. Your DVD is The Lady in
:10:31. > :10:35.the Van. It is lovely. Maggie Smith, fantastic performance at the woman
:10:36. > :10:39.who parks on van on Alan Bennett's drive and stays for is a years. It
:10:40. > :10:45.is funny, as a lot of comedy, but it is touching and move, not in a
:10:46. > :10:49.sentimental way but it is a really richly rounded dam what. In the
:10:50. > :10:55.middle this fantastic performance by Maggie Smith who is dynamite.
:10:56. > :10:58.A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
:10:59. > :11:00.and reviews from across the BBC online, including
:11:01. > :11:17.That is it for this week. Enjoy the movies. And goodbye.
:11:18. > :11:23.The worst of the snow is now over across northern parts of the UK.
:11:24. > :11:28.There is still a bit of wintriness round but most is turning to sleet
:11:29. > :11:30.and rain. Of course across the south of UK we never really had the snow
:11:31. > :11:32.clear blue