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Super League. And news that Novak Djokovic has sacked his entire

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coaching team. That's on sports day at 10:30pm. And now, does film

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review. Hello and welcome to the film review

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on them BBC News to take us through this and are releases as Mark

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Kermode. This is a big bag this week. We have Mindhorn, in which an

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80s TV detective plays it for real. We have Harmonium, a Cannes

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prizewinner. And Jamie Foxx in the thriller Sleepless. Mindhorn I am

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smiling before I start. I loved Bergerac back in the day. A TV

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detective on Jersey, you see images from my town and all the third Reich

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comes back. Mindhorn is a 1980s TV -- all the memories come back.

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Mindhorn is a 1980s TV detective but is more like Alan Partridge got

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ready. He played Mindhorn with a bionic lead an outside to see the

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truth. Julian Barratt plays the actor who plays him. He's now he's

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washed up, balding, doing adverts. For orthopaedic sock. He's desperate

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for a job. The Isle of Man police get in touch and say we have a

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suspected serial killer who will only speak to Mindhorn, the

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fictional character he believes is real. The police state, and play

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Mindhorn for us to help us get him. So he thinks, this is a career

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providing opportunity to make the most. Is a clip. OK, here's a list

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of prompts, the stick to script. And avoid any of these trigger words.

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Insane, nonstop, mental. Usual stuff. Is this the phone? That is

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the phone. Great. The app. Actually, if you could keep it in

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its cradle. You're laughing all the way through that. What then happened

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is he thinks this is going to be a massive publicity opportunity but

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doing the course of that committee meets characters from his old life.

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Davies is co-starring on-screen butties in love with her. She's now

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with his stuntman, his duck stuntman. Steve Coogan plays as the

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spin off character who has become successful and he is jealous. It's

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interesting, funny in the moments of comedy comes together. You about is

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terrific, Kenneth Branagh plays himself, Simon Callow plays himself.

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Not Simon Cowell. There are plenty of laughs all the way through. My

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only reservation is that sometimes it feels like a 30 minutes get

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stretched out to 90 minute movie. That said, it's really nice to see

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the Isle of Man playing the Isle of Man. There are so many movies where

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the Isle of Man played Ireland in waking Ned, and me and Orson Welles,

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and Cornwall in Stonebraker. It's nice to see the point being that

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they are on the Isle of Man. When it's funny, it's funny and the

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physical comedy works well. If you have that nostalgic thing you are

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talking about. Things like Bergerac and the $6 million man. Those jokes

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will work. I thought it was funnier than it was expecting, it's

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inconsistent but it works when it works. It has a great supporting

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cast. Andrea is great. The joke is funnier because she is playing it

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straight, reacting with a straight face. It entertained me even though

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it's uneven. OK. They could not be more different from Harmonium. This

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is a Cannes prizewinner. It that has a mysterious stranger who turns up

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on the door of a family, father, mother and young child. The father

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recognises him, gives a job and food and lodging, and the wife says, who

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is he? How do you know him? He says he's an friend. It's evident he's an

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old friend from eight heart of the husband's pass that the wife doesn't

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know about it. Slowly, the film reveals its secrets. What I liked

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about it was it's a movie in which the story is not told through what

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he will say that through what they do, through their actions, the way

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they stand and behave. He immediately get to see with this

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character, he has been possibly in confinement. The journey sleep of

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the light on, he eats food fast, you know more about these characters

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than they tell you. The films and moves from something that seems to

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be understated and low-key to something that is actually quite

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tragic and dramatic. The change happens almost imperceptibly. It's a

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film that wrong-footed me several times I didn't know whether it was

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going, but I found myself gripped. When the big revelations occur, they

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are also more powerful. It's cold Harmonium because doing it, the

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young daughter is learning to play the instrument. The stranger

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actually starts to teach her how to play an instrument, which seems to

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be partly innocent but also seems oddly threatening. That is pretty

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much the tone of the whole film. I have read the word leak in relation

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many times. People have suddenly, it is bleak but it is also very human.

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It's not just bleak. It's engaging in the way it makes its dramatic

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punch work even better. That is moved to Sleepless. This is a Jamie

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Foxx vehicle? What's your take? From a film in which violence is

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everything to one where noise is everything. Jamie Foxx is a cop who,

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very early on, we see him get a large staff of drugs with his

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partner. If you have a large stash of drugs they belonged to somebody.

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They belong to a casino owner who wants the back and decides he will

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kidnap Jamie Foxx's sun. Meanwhile, Rachelle Monaghan is a internal

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affairs agent on the trail of Babcock. Another criminal, all of

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whom end up in this casino Golding double-crossing, chasing each other

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and fighting each other. His eclipse. -- here is a clip.

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RAP MUSIC Stay right there! The Kop's sun, we have him! He will

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bring the dope. I take? -- OK? No! That's pretty much the tone of the

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film all the way through. The thing is, that idea of the single

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location, if you think about a thing like die hard, or snake eyes, maybe

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this is tapping income but doesn't have the punch or panache of either

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of those phone. A bunch of people chase each other around a confined

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space and it's lots of running, jumping, Ponting, shooting. It never

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engages I dramatic level. There are some good performances in it but you

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keep thinking, it is OK, I quite like watching this, but it never

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actually gets under your skin and use, grow its ironic it's cold

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Sleepless, but does it's not a movie that engages keeps you awake. The

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whole whole sections on it that you think, yeah, I have been here

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before. As seen this done better. I'm not particularly gripped this

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time round. Is it a remake of a French film? Apparently the original

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is very good. I wonder why films that were made a few years ago need

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to be remade another language. There is no reason. On that note, let's

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talk about Lady Macbeth. If there wasn't a general election, I would

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have seen. I'm looking forward to it. It's really good. Firstly, the

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director has come out of theatre. I think he made one short film before.

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This is a really good piece of thin. Fantastic central performance by

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Florence Pusey will huge. She will clearly be a major star. -- Florence

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Pugh. The director did Siberian Lady Macbeth, it takes the action to

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Victorian north-east England and it is a really engaging story with a

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great central performance and one of those soundscapes that draws you in,

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tells the story again more through the whistling of the wind and the

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creaking of the chairs than it does to the dialogue. We would love it.

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It is worth seeing but see it in this cinema, don't wait for the DVD.

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OK, good tip. Talking of DVDs, for someone who doesn't have, in this

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week 's case, a lot of time in our hands, for the Scorsese. I was

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ambivalent about silence when it came out in the cinema. This is a

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project that Scorsese wanted to do for decades and decades. Based on

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the 1966 historical novel on persecution in the 17th century

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Japan. It is a film made in integrity and honesty. I think

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doesn't dramatic failings in it, but it looks absolutely beautiful and

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Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam driver are normally the stars but

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the Japanese car still the show. One of its stars was an Harmonium. Fix

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either the Japanese stars Perhaps you underestimated at first

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time round. Although it's often not perfect, it was interesting watching

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it again and seeing it is deeper and more resonant than first time round.

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So worth having a go although it is a tough watch. No question, it's a

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tough watch. Mark, thanks as ever. See you next week, a quick reminder

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before we doubt that you can find all the film News and reviews from

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across the BBC online. I'm sure you know the address by now. You'll find

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all our previous programmes on the BBC I play. That is it for this week

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from both of us. Thanks for watching, happy cinema going.

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Goodbye. It's been lovely in western Scotland

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for days now. Plenty of sunshine and some warmth and we got it again

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