Tomb Raider, The Square, Mary Magdalene The Film Review

That's all coming up

in Six Nations Sportsday at 6:30pm

with me, Olly Foster.

But now on BBC News,

it's time for The Film Review.

Hello, and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Jason Solomons.

Good to see you, Jason. What have

you been watching?

This week, we

will go to raiding, and cliffhanging

with the new Lara Croft in Tomb

Raider. Look at the meaning of art

and find our inner ape in Swedish

satire The Square. And we dip into

biblical times for the real story of

Mary Magdalen, as played out Rooney

Mara opposite Joaquin Phoenix as

Jesus.

What a mixture! Tomb Raider

is back. Did they need to remake

this?

Well, it wasn't very good the

first time! Often they do remakes of

things that are really good and you

think, why have they ruined it? That

they may be trying to get this

right, because Lara Croft has dated

terribly, the effects are bad and it

was never quite right. Tomb Raider

was sort of a teenage fever dream

for many boys who used to play that

has a game when it was early

computer games, and they've now

changed the whole figure of Lara

Croft for this new actress, who I

happen to think is fantastic, she's

beautiful, gorgeous, that she has

got this strength to her and let it

race which she needs, because she

has done a lot of running in this

movie. She is slumming it in

Shoreditch when we doing this, but

then we find out she is the daughter

of a billionaire, who is played in a

flashback. She has to go and sign

the papers which means that she will

inherit his fortune.

That was

that's?

Yes, Miss Croft. According

to his will, I was supposed to give

it to you. And technically speaking,

you are meant to sign the papers

first.

I could never understand your

father's obsession with those

things.

I can't believe how many of

those were lying around the house,

there's got to be some purpose to

it.

The first letter from my final

destination.

But he didn't leave a

letter.

Well, they've got all the great

British act is in there as well,

they've lined them all up!

They are

only in it for a bit, I have to say,

for the money, I think! She goes off

on her quest, this is a quest movie,

she goes hunting with clues that her

father has left her, these riddles,

which you might start of solving

them yourself in your head, but

don't bother, because they don't

make in a sense, really! It's just

another level of the game that she

goes to. She goes to Hong Kong, and

then she is pursued, which is all

very good, then she has to go to a

remote Japanese island on a ship,

and survived a storm, going down a

waterfall and solving another

puzzle. She does a lot of jumping

and then she does a lot of dangling.

LAUGHTER

You know, it's a bit grip on factor!

-- krypton factor. Considering the

indignities heaped upon her and

ridiculous scenario is thrown at

her, I was mesmerised by how

brilliant she is at this. She brings

a politics strength to it. She's got

great apps, fantastic skills with a

bow and arrow when she's far, far

better than the film she is in.

I

wondered whether you were getting to

that. She is great, but is it worth

seeing apart from her? It's very

kinetic, the best I can say for it

is it keeps hurling staff at Paul

Alicia Vikander.

But the climatic

Tomb Raider is almost laughable, it

looks like something that you get on

the back of the cereal packet!

Is

that what this has all been about

with Lexmark

maybe there will be

more Tomb Raiders and maybe they

will get them better! They will keep

trying. I'm loving the sound of the

next one, it sounds intriguing. It

won the Palm d'Or at Cannes and has

taken a year to get here but it was

nominated as best foreign-language

film at the Bass does. -- at the

Baftas, much of it was not in

Swedish. Elisabeth Moss is in this.

It features one of the great scenes

of the year, which we are seeing

here. An American actor comes in as

an artist. It is an art world

satire, this is an art gallery

benefit dinner. He comes in to do a

performance piece but takes it far

too far. Here he is kind of goading

Dominic West. It's about finding our

in that year. It's a satire on the

art world. Alpha can be dated,

what's the point of art, is it

ridiculous? This is about modern

art. It's about the curator of this

gallery that we're seeing here. He

loses his mobile phone, and his life

completely falls apart and unravels.

It really is a sort of film

predicated on that.

Is that in the

category of first world problems?!

It is very much about white male

privilege and what it is to be a man

in the privileged world. Like here

they are in their black ties, and he

is an artist. This scene goes on for

11 minutes and you can't stop

watching, it's extraordinary, but

you don't go how to react to it.

It's all about, what would you do in

that situation? It keeps throwing

moral quandary is accurate. It's

very funny, but also very

thought-provoking, perhaps a bit too

provoking, like the poking Dominic

West in the ear.

You have been to

see Mary Magdalen as well.

It is

Easter coming up, time for a Passion

story. This is reported to tell for

the first time the story of Mary

Magdalen, who has been cast as a

prostitute since Pope Gregory in 591

declared that she was a prostitute,

which is apparently wrong, she

wasn't. This film aims to correct

that and show the Jesus story

through the eyes of the only female

disciple, Mary Magdalen, played by

Rooney Mara who leaves her fishing

village and follows the son of God.

Mary.

Each of you stand that the

threshold. Do you fear that you will

never reach the kingdom?

Whose

kingdom?

You know as only are you

do, there's only one true kingdom.

And that is God. And God's kingdom

has taken root. So we must prepare.

We must wash away the stains of your

corruption. And be born in you. --

born and new. Like children. I have

been hidden for too long.

I'm not

sure what to say about that they!

You can see why her father would be

upset if she went to follow him,

this kind of hairy bloke who's

really boring! Whatever you think

about the Bible, there's no denying

it's got some great lines in it. Why

this film hasn't got any of them is

a mystery to me. It is

extraordinarily dull.

Is it a long

couple of hours?

Absolutely so dull

you would not believe it! It even

looks dull, it has got this Seppi

town tablecloth fashion with the

Stones everywhere in the desert. At

one stage it was the greatest story

ever told, when it was in Hollywood,

now it's just the most boring story

ever told. It's extraordinary what

it does, trying to rectify it and

make it a story for a new age, kind

of a story for everyone, it won't

offend Catholics, Christians,

Muslims or even atheists.

Is it

trying to be too careful, is that

part of the problem?

It is trying to

tiptoe over any heresy. People

boycotted modern course is off --

Martin Scorcese's full. Any film

that makes you cry for Mel Gibson

has got it wrong! It makes you think

of Monty Python all the time! There

are scenes when people are going,

Messiah, Messiah! You know what,

he's not the messiah might

I do wish

you'd say what you really think,

Jason! So that's a long two hours

and will leave it at that!

I don't

think this will make a lot of money

at the box office. I think faith

-based audiences will go and be

completely mystified as to what this

was about. It is a passion of the

Christ without any passion.

What

should we be going to see?

You've

got to see Black Panther, you've got

to see it now at the cinema, it is

becoming a cultural event, people

are seeing it for a five times, it

has broken records at the box

office, it is changing the way that

audiences are going, black audiences

are flocking to it, families are

enjoying the representation. It is a

great superhero movie, it's sexy,

it's it citing, it's funny, -- it's

exciting. People are hollering at it

in the cinema. If you haven't been

to a Marvel movie in the cinema,

this is the one to go and see.

And

DVD of the week is also so lovely. I

will admit, I cried at Paddington 2!

But it's a delight, it's an absolute

sweet, delightful, charming,

sometimes silly but just lovely,

lovely, lovely.

Beautifully done, he

is in his little outfits, wondering

around. Paddington End didn't win

best British film at the Baftas,

that went to three billboards. This

is one of the best British films

we've ever made.

And how good is

Hugh Grant?! Is fantastic!

Sally

Hawkins is great in it, the whole

Brown family, the whole look of it

is perfect, it's a work of genius,

Paddington 2, and when did you cry?!

I cried at the end! I'm not going to

give anything away for anyone who

hasn't been its.

If you want a

marmalade sandwich, you can't have

one!

It's very sweet, wonderful. A

mixed week but an interesting one.

Decent, good to see you, thank you.

That is it for this week. Enjoy your

cinema going android DVD watching.

It's terrific, honestly! Thanks for

being with us, goodbye. -- and your

DVD watching.