:00:19. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:22. > :00:24.Mark Kermode is here to take us through this week's cinema releases.
:00:25. > :00:35.We have some great stuff. We have Under The Shadow which is a really
:00:36. > :00:40.terrific horror movie, a psychological thriller set in Iran.
:00:41. > :00:47.You have Deepwater Horizon based on a true life disaster. And Miss
:00:48. > :00:51.Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, which is of course the new
:00:52. > :00:57.film by Tim Burton, how could it be anything else? Now, if you were to
:00:58. > :01:01.pick a genre, and Iranians horror movie might not be the one you would
:01:02. > :01:05.leap to. The interesting thing about Under The Shadow is it is set in
:01:06. > :01:12.Iran, filmed in Jordan and made by a British company. The director is
:01:13. > :01:15.born in Arana but lives in Britain. It is the British submission for the
:01:16. > :01:19.foreign language film for the Oscars. It is a genuinely
:01:20. > :01:27.international production. The story is a mother and a apartment in Iran
:01:28. > :01:31.in 1988 during the war. The mother is isolated and cannot continue
:01:32. > :01:35.medical studies owing to some political views she previously
:01:36. > :01:39.expressed. An unexploded missile come through the roof of the
:01:40. > :01:44.apartment and with it, according to the mother's daughter, have come
:01:45. > :01:47.malevolent spirits that she is convinced are now walking around the
:01:48. > :01:53.apartment and attempting to get her and had Dole. What the film does
:01:54. > :01:58.radiantly is it sets these two characters in this scary situation
:01:59. > :02:02.but then asks how much of what is happening is really happening and
:02:03. > :02:04.how much of it are the projections of the anxieties and fears of the
:02:05. > :03:16.mother? Here is a clip. where you can see the Baumbach clip
:03:17. > :03:19.that the way the camera is used is by the very natural and then becomes
:03:20. > :03:23.impressionist. The sound is doing an awful lot of the heavy lifting in
:03:24. > :03:29.terms of the atmosphere. What I love about this film is on the one hand
:03:30. > :03:32.it owes a debt to the Guillermo del Toro fable fantasy genre about
:03:33. > :03:36.warfare. There is a bit of the Babadook in their in as far as how
:03:37. > :03:50.much is the mother projecting this onto the child. The Japanese film
:03:51. > :03:53.called dark water is also similar. Also the Iranian vampire Western
:03:54. > :03:57.film described at the time. It knows all of these references but it does
:03:58. > :04:01.something new with them. It pushes the genre forward. It is really
:04:02. > :04:06.confident. It makes us care about the characters. It has real
:04:07. > :04:09.substance to it. When it needs to be scary, it knows what scares us.
:04:10. > :04:18.Often you get horror films that rely on things going boo loudly. This has
:04:19. > :04:22.moments of shivering. Your skin crawl. The care about the characters
:04:23. > :04:25.and the situation. I want to go and see it again straightaway. It is one
:04:26. > :04:31.of my favourite films of the year so far but stop it is fantastic and I
:04:32. > :04:35.advise everybody to check it out. There is an historical element of
:04:36. > :04:41.films this week. Deepwater Horizon is based on the real-life story of
:04:42. > :04:45.the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion but wiggly enough this is
:04:46. > :04:53.like an old-fashioned disaster movie. Something like the or
:04:54. > :05:00.Towering Inferno. We have cut Russell -- something like Poseidon.
:05:01. > :05:07.We have cut Russell and John Malkovich. We have Mark Wahlberg as
:05:08. > :05:12.the heroic figure. Peter Berg, the director, made a good decision to
:05:13. > :05:16.stay away from CGI and do as many effects as possible physically. They
:05:17. > :05:23.built the replica of the oil rig. Apparently he went oil school to
:05:24. > :05:27.learn how an oil rig works. And you really do feel that. One word of
:05:28. > :05:31.advice. If you are going to see this it is worth seeing it on a big
:05:32. > :05:35.screen. It is a visceral movie. It is about the physicality of the
:05:36. > :05:39.situation. I saw this on a very big screen and I was impressed by it. It
:05:40. > :05:43.is in the tradition of those kind of disaster movies although that is not
:05:44. > :05:50.a bad thing. I have more respect for them than some people do. What we
:05:51. > :05:54.have seen is the gas coming up. Water comes up and mud comes up and
:05:55. > :05:59.you get this sense of a great big beast of a platform that is at
:06:00. > :06:03.rating point for quite a long time. It works very well in building up
:06:04. > :06:12.the tension. I like Tim Burton movie. So delight. I like the two
:06:13. > :06:28.Jews. What about this on? Betelgeuse is such a great film -- Beetlejuice.
:06:29. > :06:33.The story is that Eva Green is the Miss Peregrine who runs this home
:06:34. > :06:37.that exists in a temporal loop and has pupils that include a girl might
:06:38. > :06:44.than air, a girl with teeth in the back of her neck, an invisible boy,
:06:45. > :06:50.boy who is full of these. These are fantastical creatures and the newest
:06:51. > :06:53.arrival is Asa Butterfield's Jake. As a tragedy occurs with his
:06:54. > :07:02.grandfather he is going out to find out about the home. You are what is
:07:03. > :07:09.known in common parlance as wicked. 51 seconds late, Fiona. Sorry, Miss
:07:10. > :07:15.Peregrine. How many carrots do you need for supper? Fine just one will
:07:16. > :07:18.do. They have been persecuted through the ages, hence we live in
:07:19. > :07:29.places like this. I am a type of peculiar. You turn into a bird? Fine
:07:30. > :07:33.I do. Yes. The main skill is the manipulation of time. We choose a
:07:34. > :07:39.safe place and date and create a loop. What do you mean? Fine you
:07:40. > :07:44.reset the loop and the day can be lived again. Reset it daily and you
:07:45. > :07:51.can live there forever. In Thai the outside world. She commits herself
:07:52. > :08:00.to the creation of upkeep of a place like this. A home pork Julia
:08:01. > :08:03.children. That was not an EU approves Carat! This is such a Tim
:08:04. > :08:10.Burton movie. You know where you are. You know from the visual style.
:08:11. > :08:14.My problem is the narrative is not sure-footed. It is a complicated
:08:15. > :08:18.narrative with time loops and different monsters and creatures.
:08:19. > :08:24.Sometimes it is mad, sometimes models. It is a 12 A certificate
:08:25. > :08:29.movie for a reason. Younger children will find some of the monsters scary
:08:30. > :08:34.because there are some creations in there, I am 54 and I found some of
:08:35. > :08:38.them creepy. I like it for the carnivalesque quality of it. I like
:08:39. > :08:44.the fact that it has that Tim Burton embracing difference. That is what
:08:45. > :08:48.he loves. It is just not got the classic narrative thread that I
:08:49. > :08:55.think the best of Tim Burton's works have. You talk about Beetlejuice and
:08:56. > :08:59.you have been talking about it being another sequel to it and that Phil
:09:00. > :09:03.makes sense in its own strange way but this one doesn't in the same
:09:04. > :09:08.way. It is fun and entertaining but it isn't classic Tim Burton. I had a
:09:09. > :09:14.weekend free so what should I see this weekend? A wonderful film out
:09:15. > :09:19.called the Girl with All the Gifts. Another horror film. Directed by
:09:20. > :09:24.Colm McCarthy. Set in the future in which the country is overrun by
:09:25. > :09:29.hungry people, sort of zombies but children may hold the key to a cure.
:09:30. > :09:38.It is really intelligent, really well played. It is made with a
:09:39. > :09:43.limited judge budget -- budget of about ?4 million and it creates a
:09:44. > :09:46.world with its resources. It is not afraid to treat its audience as if
:09:47. > :09:53.they are smart. It says come with us on this journey. It is interesting
:09:54. > :09:57.in terms of its difference with the novel which was written at the same
:09:58. > :10:03.time as the real script. This is out at the same time as Under The Shadow
:10:04. > :10:13.and it is really exciting. Evidence that you can empathise with zombies?
:10:14. > :10:22.Absolutely. Just don't call them zombies, call them hungries. The
:10:23. > :10:25.DVDs out? When Marnie Was There. It received a slightly lukewarm
:10:26. > :10:30.response from critics, I'm fairly so. It transposes the action to
:10:31. > :10:35.Japan. It keeps the central magic of the story about two lost souls
:10:36. > :10:39.finding each other across a temporal divide. The animation is beautiful.
:10:40. > :10:44.The storytelling, I was talking about the storytelling not being
:10:45. > :10:47.that clear in the Tim Burton film but the drawings are not only
:10:48. > :10:52.beautifully done but it is the lines of the narrative. Like best movies,
:10:53. > :10:55.it can be seen by a young or old audience. Everyone will get
:10:56. > :11:00.something out of it and everyone can embrace it. It is superb as mark,
:11:01. > :11:03.we're out of time. Thank you. A reminder before we go you will find
:11:04. > :11:06.and reviews from across the BBC online, at bbc.co.uk/markkermode.
:11:07. > :11:10.And you can catch up on our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.
:11:11. > :11:32.well, the weather has been hit and miss today for most of us, not too
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