:00:00. > :00:00.Super League. And news that Novak Djokovic has sacked his entire
:00:00. > :00:00.coaching team. That's on sports day at 10:30pm. And now, does film
:00:00. > :00:27.review. Hello and welcome to the film review
:00:28. > :00:33.on them BBC News to take us through this and are releases as Mark
:00:34. > :00:39.Kermode. This is a big bag this week. We have Mindhorn, in which an
:00:40. > :00:46.80s TV detective plays it for real. We have Harmonium, a Cannes
:00:47. > :00:53.prizewinner. And Jamie Foxx in the thriller Sleepless. Mindhorn I am
:00:54. > :00:58.smiling before I start. I loved Bergerac back in the day. A TV
:00:59. > :01:05.detective on Jersey, you see images from my town and all the third Reich
:01:06. > :01:11.comes back. Mindhorn is a 1980s TV -- all the memories come back.
:01:12. > :01:17.Mindhorn is a 1980s TV detective but is more like Alan Partridge got
:01:18. > :01:22.ready. He played Mindhorn with a bionic lead an outside to see the
:01:23. > :01:26.truth. Julian Barratt plays the actor who plays him. He's now he's
:01:27. > :01:31.washed up, balding, doing adverts. For orthopaedic sock. He's desperate
:01:32. > :01:34.for a job. The Isle of Man police get in touch and say we have a
:01:35. > :01:36.suspected serial killer who will only speak to Mindhorn, the
:01:37. > :01:42.fictional character he believes is real. The police state, and play
:01:43. > :01:46.Mindhorn for us to help us get him. So he thinks, this is a career
:01:47. > :01:54.providing opportunity to make the most. Is a clip. OK, here's a list
:01:55. > :01:58.of prompts, the stick to script. And avoid any of these trigger words.
:01:59. > :02:01.Insane, nonstop, mental. Usual stuff. Is this the phone? That is
:02:02. > :02:26.the phone. Great. The app. Actually, if you could keep it in
:02:27. > :02:33.its cradle. You're laughing all the way through that. What then happened
:02:34. > :02:35.is he thinks this is going to be a massive publicity opportunity but
:02:36. > :02:41.doing the course of that committee meets characters from his old life.
:02:42. > :02:44.Davies is co-starring on-screen butties in love with her. She's now
:02:45. > :02:51.with his stuntman, his duck stuntman. Steve Coogan plays as the
:02:52. > :02:56.spin off character who has become successful and he is jealous. It's
:02:57. > :03:00.interesting, funny in the moments of comedy comes together. You about is
:03:01. > :03:07.terrific, Kenneth Branagh plays himself, Simon Callow plays himself.
:03:08. > :03:11.Not Simon Cowell. There are plenty of laughs all the way through. My
:03:12. > :03:16.only reservation is that sometimes it feels like a 30 minutes get
:03:17. > :03:20.stretched out to 90 minute movie. That said, it's really nice to see
:03:21. > :03:24.the Isle of Man playing the Isle of Man. There are so many movies where
:03:25. > :03:30.the Isle of Man played Ireland in waking Ned, and me and Orson Welles,
:03:31. > :03:33.and Cornwall in Stonebraker. It's nice to see the point being that
:03:34. > :03:44.they are on the Isle of Man. When it's funny, it's funny and the
:03:45. > :03:49.physical comedy works well. If you have that nostalgic thing you are
:03:50. > :03:55.talking about. Things like Bergerac and the $6 million man. Those jokes
:03:56. > :03:58.will work. I thought it was funnier than it was expecting, it's
:03:59. > :04:02.inconsistent but it works when it works. It has a great supporting
:04:03. > :04:06.cast. Andrea is great. The joke is funnier because she is playing it
:04:07. > :04:11.straight, reacting with a straight face. It entertained me even though
:04:12. > :04:20.it's uneven. OK. They could not be more different from Harmonium. This
:04:21. > :04:24.is a Cannes prizewinner. It that has a mysterious stranger who turns up
:04:25. > :04:28.on the door of a family, father, mother and young child. The father
:04:29. > :04:33.recognises him, gives a job and food and lodging, and the wife says, who
:04:34. > :04:38.is he? How do you know him? He says he's an friend. It's evident he's an
:04:39. > :04:43.old friend from eight heart of the husband's pass that the wife doesn't
:04:44. > :04:47.know about it. Slowly, the film reveals its secrets. What I liked
:04:48. > :04:50.about it was it's a movie in which the story is not told through what
:04:51. > :04:53.he will say that through what they do, through their actions, the way
:04:54. > :04:57.they stand and behave. He immediately get to see with this
:04:58. > :05:03.character, he has been possibly in confinement. The journey sleep of
:05:04. > :05:08.the light on, he eats food fast, you know more about these characters
:05:09. > :05:13.than they tell you. The films and moves from something that seems to
:05:14. > :05:18.be understated and low-key to something that is actually quite
:05:19. > :05:21.tragic and dramatic. The change happens almost imperceptibly. It's a
:05:22. > :05:27.film that wrong-footed me several times I didn't know whether it was
:05:28. > :05:31.going, but I found myself gripped. When the big revelations occur, they
:05:32. > :05:34.are also more powerful. It's cold Harmonium because doing it, the
:05:35. > :05:37.young daughter is learning to play the instrument. The stranger
:05:38. > :05:42.actually starts to teach her how to play an instrument, which seems to
:05:43. > :05:47.be partly innocent but also seems oddly threatening. That is pretty
:05:48. > :05:51.much the tone of the whole film. I have read the word leak in relation
:05:52. > :05:59.many times. People have suddenly, it is bleak but it is also very human.
:06:00. > :06:04.It's not just bleak. It's engaging in the way it makes its dramatic
:06:05. > :06:11.punch work even better. That is moved to Sleepless. This is a Jamie
:06:12. > :06:14.Foxx vehicle? What's your take? From a film in which violence is
:06:15. > :06:19.everything to one where noise is everything. Jamie Foxx is a cop who,
:06:20. > :06:22.very early on, we see him get a large staff of drugs with his
:06:23. > :06:26.partner. If you have a large stash of drugs they belonged to somebody.
:06:27. > :06:31.They belong to a casino owner who wants the back and decides he will
:06:32. > :06:36.kidnap Jamie Foxx's sun. Meanwhile, Rachelle Monaghan is a internal
:06:37. > :06:44.affairs agent on the trail of Babcock. Another criminal, all of
:06:45. > :06:50.whom end up in this casino Golding double-crossing, chasing each other
:06:51. > :07:02.and fighting each other. His eclipse. -- here is a clip.
:07:03. > :07:16.RAP MUSIC Stay right there! The Kop's sun, we have him! He will
:07:17. > :07:36.bring the dope. I take? -- OK? No! That's pretty much the tone of the
:07:37. > :07:40.film all the way through. The thing is, that idea of the single
:07:41. > :07:47.location, if you think about a thing like die hard, or snake eyes, maybe
:07:48. > :07:51.this is tapping income but doesn't have the punch or panache of either
:07:52. > :07:56.of those phone. A bunch of people chase each other around a confined
:07:57. > :08:00.space and it's lots of running, jumping, Ponting, shooting. It never
:08:01. > :08:05.engages I dramatic level. There are some good performances in it but you
:08:06. > :08:08.keep thinking, it is OK, I quite like watching this, but it never
:08:09. > :08:14.actually gets under your skin and use, grow its ironic it's cold
:08:15. > :08:18.Sleepless, but does it's not a movie that engages keeps you awake. The
:08:19. > :08:21.whole whole sections on it that you think, yeah, I have been here
:08:22. > :08:26.before. As seen this done better. I'm not particularly gripped this
:08:27. > :08:30.time round. Is it a remake of a French film? Apparently the original
:08:31. > :08:33.is very good. I wonder why films that were made a few years ago need
:08:34. > :08:41.to be remade another language. There is no reason. On that note, let's
:08:42. > :08:44.talk about Lady Macbeth. If there wasn't a general election, I would
:08:45. > :08:49.have seen. I'm looking forward to it. It's really good. Firstly, the
:08:50. > :08:55.director has come out of theatre. I think he made one short film before.
:08:56. > :08:58.This is a really good piece of thin. Fantastic central performance by
:08:59. > :09:13.Florence Pusey will huge. She will clearly be a major star. -- Florence
:09:14. > :09:16.Pugh. The director did Siberian Lady Macbeth, it takes the action to
:09:17. > :09:23.Victorian north-east England and it is a really engaging story with a
:09:24. > :09:27.great central performance and one of those soundscapes that draws you in,
:09:28. > :09:30.tells the story again more through the whistling of the wind and the
:09:31. > :09:34.creaking of the chairs than it does to the dialogue. We would love it.
:09:35. > :09:40.It is worth seeing but see it in this cinema, don't wait for the DVD.
:09:41. > :09:45.OK, good tip. Talking of DVDs, for someone who doesn't have, in this
:09:46. > :09:48.week 's case, a lot of time in our hands, for the Scorsese. I was
:09:49. > :09:53.ambivalent about silence when it came out in the cinema. This is a
:09:54. > :09:58.project that Scorsese wanted to do for decades and decades. Based on
:09:59. > :10:04.the 1966 historical novel on persecution in the 17th century
:10:05. > :10:08.Japan. It is a film made in integrity and honesty. I think
:10:09. > :10:13.doesn't dramatic failings in it, but it looks absolutely beautiful and
:10:14. > :10:20.Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam driver are normally the stars but
:10:21. > :10:24.the Japanese car still the show. One of its stars was an Harmonium. Fix
:10:25. > :10:33.either the Japanese stars Perhaps you underestimated at first
:10:34. > :10:38.time round. Although it's often not perfect, it was interesting watching
:10:39. > :10:42.it again and seeing it is deeper and more resonant than first time round.
:10:43. > :10:47.So worth having a go although it is a tough watch. No question, it's a
:10:48. > :10:51.tough watch. Mark, thanks as ever. See you next week, a quick reminder
:10:52. > :10:54.before we doubt that you can find all the film News and reviews from
:10:55. > :11:02.across the BBC online. I'm sure you know the address by now. You'll find
:11:03. > :11:07.all our previous programmes on the BBC I play. That is it for this week
:11:08. > :11:07.from both of us. Thanks for watching, happy cinema going.
:11:08. > :11:23.Goodbye. It's been lovely in western Scotland
:11:24. > :11:24.for days now. Plenty of sunshine and some warmth and we got it again