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Now on BBC News, it's time for The Film Review. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
So, Mark, what do we have this week? | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
We have The Which, which is possibly a horror story and possibly | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
something else. We have Allegiant, not the most | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
recent clumsy of titles. And Anomalisa, and adult animation. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
Now, the Which. It is very interesting. It was set in the 17th | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
century in New England. We meet a family at the beginning of the film | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
who are being cast out of the New World community, they seem to have | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
some kind of religious disagreement. They go out to live on the edges of | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
civilisation, just in front of a huge wood. They are very | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
God-fearing, they are convinced that evil and Satan and demons lurk | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
everywhere, particularly in the wood. As the movie progresses, we | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
start to wonder whether the evil is coming from without or from within. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Here is a clip. That is scary. Almost nothing | :01:35. | :02:27. | |
happening at all. What follows is like a cross between Arthur Miller's | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
crucible and if it kills brother Graham with a bit more thrawn end. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
What I like about this is that the director is convinced that the devil | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
is in the detail, getting the historical detail right, you can | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
smell the environment that makes you believe in the kinds of things they | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
believed in. Secondly, it is a film that does show its monsters, to some | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
extent, it always acts you to question whether what you have seen | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
is real or part of the general hallucination. The family starts to | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
turn in on itself and there are accusations and counter accusations. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Everyone thinks they can see them everywhere. There is an obsession | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
with some and that brings the very thing it fears upon them. The | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
scariest goat performance I have ever seen. A genuinely scary goat. | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
Is it a Satanic goat or is the idea that it is Satanic within the mind | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
of the family? That is the centre of the film and white it works well. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
You recommended another film, the barber took. It is very scary and | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
this ends like the same kind of territory. Many people have compared | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
it to that film and others, and I can see where that comparison comes | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
from. For me this is a slightly different take. Other films are | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
internal, but this has its feet in history. They are similar because | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
both films asked the audience what they think is going on. If they are | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
scary, and I thought this was scary, it is because the ideas get under | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
your skin because there are images that stay with you at the film has | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
finished. It is not a run of the mill scary film, it wants to give | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
you a bone chilling feeling that all is not well with the world. The | :04:45. | :04:58. | |
Allegiant. You will remember this is another young adult dystopian | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
fantasy and this particular one is about Chicago being divided into | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
factions. Society has been broken up. Now the factions are broken down | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
and are heroin bricks out of the city and goes to Tomorrowland, | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
project Daniels explains the plot at great length while she listens to | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
him. It is the weakest of the series so far. It is not totally without | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
positive points, I do think the heroine is good, but it feels like | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
it was treading water and I never clicked with the idea that society | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
is divided into those people who are giving, those who are fighting, it | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
doesn't make sense. There is a lot of Jeff Daniels saying the reason | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
why never made sense was... It took the central character and gave her a | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
lot of time listening to her but took away the sense of agency that | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
drove the series on. There is nothing here to challenge The Longer | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
Games. -- hunger. They are becoming interchangeable. NEC silly something | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
special. I have not seen Anomalisa but I am fascinated by the idea. The | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
director is normally a writer. It started life as a sound play, which | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
was people sitting on the stage reading the sound and they could see | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
the sound effects being done live. It is now coming to the screen with | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
stop motion animation. It is visually very extraordinary. There | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
is this replacement frame by frame the facial expressions are changed. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
We meet are central character, Michael, who is misanthropic and | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
miserable and having a midlife crisis. As far as he can tell in the | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
world around him, everyone else is the same person. Here is a clip. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to be the first to welcome | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
The local time is 7:43pm and the temperature is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
I laughed. He then tries to seduce a woman who seems to be someone else. | :07:22. | :08:12. | |
She is the Anomalisa of the title. I think the film is visually stunning | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
and there is so much to enjoy as far as the way it is presented. I am | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
less crazy about the play itself. I think he is such a difficult | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
character to get on with. After a while your patience with Michael, at | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
least my patients, we're somewhat thin. I don't think it is his best | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
script, but I do think it is a really interesting animation and an | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
interesting exercise in the disjunct, it is for adults, between | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
the subject matter and how it is presented. It is strangely | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
artificial but realistic. It does have a magical quality. I just wish | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
that I liked it more. It does look like anything I have | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
seen. I think the look is very fascinating. You can absolutely get | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
lost individuals. I just wish that I like the story and the character | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
slightly more. Hail Caesar, your best film of the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
week. It is a pleasure to have a movie that is funny. It is a homage | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
to 50s Hollywood. The central character has to fix problems for | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the stars. Then he gets kidnapped. How will they finish the movie? I | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
just laughed all the way through and it was a pleasure. Generally the | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
director 's best work is shot in the dark, but there is almost no | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
darkness in this film. There are no goats? No scary goats. You should | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
see it because I think you would love it. You either love it or hate | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
it and I think you would love it. Mississippi Grind is your DVD. This | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
is a character piece about two misfits who get together to go on | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
the road in search of gambling big winnings, but that is not what the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
film is about, it is about the fact that they are both lost and looking | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
for something. It is very 1970s style. Many films say they are | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
referring back but they don't, but this film really does. It has | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
texture and the locations are run down and drab yet intimate. Unlike | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the central character in Anomalisa, although both these guys are | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
fundamentally damaged in some way the company is enjoyable. You want | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
things to go right for them. It got overlooked in the cinema but got | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
good notice from the critics, however it and find huge audiences. | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
If you can see it on DVD it is really, it has heart and soul and it | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
is fantastic. I liked it very much. A quick reminder before we go that | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
you'll find more film news and reviews from across the BBC | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
online on our website. And you can catch up | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
with our previous shows on iPlayer. | :11:21. | :11:23. |