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story of British cyclist Vicky

Barnes on the comeback trail after a

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life-threatening crash. That is all

on Sportsday at 6:30pm but now it is

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time for the Film Review.

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Hello and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News.

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To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

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So Mark, what do we have this week?

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A very interesting week. We have

Paddington 2 which you cannot have

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missed the adverts for. We have the

Florida project, a new film by Sean

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Baker. And Professor Marston and the

wonder women -- Professor Marston

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And The Wonder Women.

Soap

Paddington 2, what a great British

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cast.

The first Paddington was

really lovely and charming. It

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really surprised everybody. I went

into Paddington 2 thinking it cannot

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live up to it. It does. The story is

Paddington wants to buy a present

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for his aunt Lucy's birthday. There

is a pop-up book of London but it is

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really expensive and he cannot

afford it. The book business in and

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the finger or poor of suspicion

points at Paddington. Next thing is

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he is wrongly behind bars. Here is a

clip.

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In the past month these three

shadowy individuals have all been

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seen snooping around London

landmarks. Green map the >>

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de do you think they are using the

pop-up book?

Maybe I should have a

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look.

This is my friend Knuckle. The

professor, squeaky Pete, mad jog the

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memory dog, Jeffrey Wilcox and

Charlie Rumble.

It is so wonderful

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to meet you all. It is a relief that

Paddington has made such sweet

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friends.

Would you excuse us for a

moment. What are you doing?

Talking

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to the nice men.

We cannot trust

these men. Look at them, talk about

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a rogues gallery, hideous. As for

that bearded baboon, he has not got

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two brain cells to rub together.

We

can still hear you, Mr Brown. That

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was the light you turned off. The

microphone has the sign microphone

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next to it.

You laughed four times in that clip!

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Before we went on a you said is it

just a family film to sort of

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implied that... The thing is making

a family film is real hard. It made

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me laugh and I am 54. It will make

kids laugh. Ben Whishaw's voice is

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perfect. There is a mixture of

childish and old beyond the years.

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There are lots of slapstick

sequences. Paddington is trying to

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raise money for the book. There is a

scene in the barbers were it all

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goes hideously wrong. Their action

sequences where Paddington is in

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peril. You don't notice the

interaction between the CGI and the

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physical world. It was not until the

end of the film where I thought they

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blended it really well. I think

making a really good family film is

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Rulli hard and I thought this was

really charming. The fact it was the

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second one I expected the law of

diminishing returns to kick him, it

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didn't. The bit where you see the

different characters coming in... I

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think it is really, really funny. I

think you would really like it.

I

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suppose what I meant was it is a

film you would take the kids to but

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if you are not taking the kids?

Go

on your own. After the first film so

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many people said I don't have kids

but I want to see Paddington, is it

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fine? Yes, believe me, the cinema

will be full. It is for all ages and

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I think anyone with a heart and soul

can enjoy it.

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Looking forward to it. The Florida

project, rather different. Tipped

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for Oscars?

I love this. The name

comes from the name that Walt Disney

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developed his community of tomorrow

in Florida which then became what

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Disney World. It is a community of

people living in more rundown motels

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beyond the boundary of the theme

park. It is essentially people

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living on the poverty line. All the

purple paint in the world cannot

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hide the fact they are living in the

red. The central character is moony

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he runs riot while her mother has a

struggles to make ends meet. The

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manager is played by Willem Dafoe.

This film portrays a harsh world of

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economic reality is that you see it

from the kids eyes. It was shot on a

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combination of digital and 35 mil.

It looks beautiful because you see

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the wonder that the kids see. You

see the strange buildings, the

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orange Orange world, the strange

wizard of souvenir shop. Also the

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weird grass and trees and cows which

you don't expect right next to the

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concrete jungle. You get right into

the lives of these people. It is the

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idea that the kids are living in

poverty in hard circumstances but

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you are seeing the world through

their eyes. There is hardship. There

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are real tears in this but as a

portrayal of an innocent view of the

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world, it is also very streetwise

and sassy, it is terrific. He never

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feels like a tourist in this

environment. I thought it was

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touching and moving. It will make

you laugh. Starts with Celebration

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by Kool and the gang. This is a team

unity of today and it has its feet

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in the ground but its head in the

air.

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Film three is really intriguing,

Professor Marston And The Wonder

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Women. It is all about the creator

of the comic book character Wonder

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Woman.

Now writer and director

Angela Robbins goes back to the

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creation of the character. We have

the Professor of the title played by

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Luke Evans. We have his smarter,

sharper wife brilliantly played by

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Rebecca Hall and Belle Heathcote's

all of Berne. They invent the lie

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detector, they start a nonconformist

family unit and they come up with

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the strange, book character who will

go on to make millions. Here is a

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look -- Olive Byrne.

This is perfect. I will inject my

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ideas right into the thumping heart

of America. I will get a real artist

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to draw it properly.

She is an

Amazon princess who lives on an

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island of all women.

Paradise

Island.

And a man crashes onto the

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island.

And she wears a burlesque

outfit.

It is athletic.

And she

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wears a silver bracelet.

It deflect

bullets.

We love you so much but

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nobody, and I say this with all the

compassionate truth in my heart,

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nobody will ever publish this.

The story flips backwards and

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forwards. It starts with the

investigation of the comic strip and

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they saved is all full of spanking

and perversion and bondage, explain

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yourself. The rest of the film looks

back at where this character came

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from, about the alternative family

unit, about the way these people

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become involved in role-playing and

S&M. He is a psychologist who thinks

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everything comes down to dominance,

submission and compliance. The women

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take him with a pinch of salt. But

it becomes a portrait of tolerance

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in intolerant times. At one point

Rebecca Hall says we cannot be in

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love because the world would let us.

He says we have to be what we want

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to be. It is a film about

alternative lifestyles. It is a film

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about tolerance, it is funny and

charming. I did not know any of this

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stuff at all. It makes a very

interesting double bill with Wonder

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Woman who has become such a huge box

office success. I thought it was

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really good and I really enjoyed it.

It has

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been a really good week, you can

tell.

It is, you love everything.

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Best out at the moment?

Killing of

the sacred dear. It starts out as a

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comedy and then turns really

sinister. -- Killing Of A Sacred

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Deer. It starts being strange and

off-kilter and then it moves into

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horror film territory. I have to

say, it is not for everyone. It is a

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Marmite film. I really liked it. I

felt really uncomfortable all the

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way through. I could not quite the

measure of it. And like Mother, I

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thought it was really well done. It

has haunted me and stayed with me.

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OK! I do think you have convinced

anyone with that! Best DVD?

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Sorcerer. 40 years ago this film

tanked. This is a remake of Wages of

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Kay fear. It came back to cinemas

and is still playing in some

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cinemas. It is gruelling, muscular,

visceral, really tense. It is a

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story about trucks filled with very

volatile nitroglycerin being driven

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across treacherous terrain. It has a

celebrated rope bridge sequence. It

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has a score by Tangerine Dream. 40

years ago it opened head-to-head

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with Star Wars and Star Wars one.

People wanted to see light sabres

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and rocket ships and all that stuff.

This was a really tough movie. 40

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years later it is recognised as the

masterpiece it always was. It is a

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work of art. I guarantee you you

will be gripped from beginning to

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end.

You had me at a score by

Tangerine Dream! Mark, thank you

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very much.

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A quick reminder before we go that

you'll find more film news

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and reviews from across the BBC

online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode.

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And you can find all our previous

programmes on the BBC iPlayer.

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That is it for this week. Thank you

for watching. Goodbye from us.

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