Eagerly awaited sequel to blade runner. The glass castle, starring brie larsen. And the mountain between us with idris elba and kate winslet. Blade runner 2049, the replicants are back. People are saying this is as much a classic as the original. How do you see it . I went in with a state of extreme trepidation because i love blade runner, the final cut, the proper version. I went into this very worried about it. Its set 30 yea rs very worried about it. Its set 30 years after the first film, in the first film Harrison Ford was a blade runner, hunting down and retiring replicants. Now runner, hunting down and retiring replica nts. Now ryan runner, hunting down and retiring replicants. Now ryan gosling is carrying on that profession. Early on in carrying on that profession. Early onina carrying on that profession. Early on in a film one of his targets says, you can only do it because he has never seen america, a phrase he doesnt understand, but he comes to during the course of the movie. As he does so, he starts to wonder about his profession, hisjob, his past and identity. Inevitably, his assignment leads him on the trail of Harrison Fords rick deckard. Heres a clip. What are you doing here . I heard the piano. Dont lie. Its rude. Youre a cop. Im not here to take you in. Oh, yeah . Then what . Ijust have some questions. A lot of praise for Harrison Fords performance. I think Harrison Ford is great, but the Key Performance is Denis Villeneuve, the director, who has done a brilliantjob of following on the themes of the original blade runner. Ridley scotts blade runner had visual or, and thanks to some fantastic cinematography from roger deakins, this takes your breath away visually. Its spectacular, depicting a world that goes on for ever, completely immersive, you can totally believe in it. It also has a groaning, roaring soundtrack that dances around, memories of the original vangelis score. Most importantly, it has the confidence to ta ke importantly, it has the confidence to take its time telling the story. The original story, although it was Science Fiction, it was about what it meant to be human and what the memories do in the formation of our personality. How do we define our identity . Big Science Fiction ideas. Blade runner 2049 says these are the ideas that matter and we will run with them. 30 minutes into the film when i realised it really did have the confidence to take its time and place itself, i heaved a sigh of relief because i was so glad that Denis Villeneuve had taken the spirit of the original. I have seen it twice now. The first time i was knocked out by the way it looks and sounds, the way it was as a cinema experience. The second time around, what was fascinating was the weight became a melancholy experience. Its a film became a melancholy experience. Its afilm in became a melancholy experience. Its a film in sadness, the tears in rain, the key element of the original blade runner. If you are a fan, a genre movie fan, and blade runner is important to you, as it is to me and a lot of people, we really wa nted to me and a lot of people, we really wanted the sequel to be good, but eve ryo ne wanted the sequel to be good, but everyone was scared because where we ta ke everyone was scared because where we take the story and how will you not to trip up. That sense of palpable relief and ecstatic excitement that not only has Denis Villeneuve understood, loved and paid homage to the original, he has also moved it on and made our modern Science Fiction classic, looking back to metropolis, taking its place in the pantheon alongside films like 2001, andi in the pantheon alongside films like 2001, and i dont say this lightly, its a film that blade runner deserved to have come after it. I just thought it was wonderful. We have seen the original, we are that age. Do you have to have seen the original to enjoy this . My own feeling would be, if you havent seen feeling would be, if you havent seen the original, go and see it because its a really important film. I think you do have to see the original. Heaven knows its available in enough different versions. Seven versions, ive read. You have to see Ridley Scotts final version that sorts out all the problems. Because then the experience of seeing 2049 will be so much richer because you will understand the resonance of things that happen in the latter third of the film. And who wouldnt want to see blade runner again . The glass castle, brie larsen and Woody Harrelson. Based on a memoir. She is a successful gossip columnist, brie larsen, engaged to a financial adviser. Going home in a taxi she sees her parents, Woody Harrelson and naomi watts, crawling around in dumpsters looking for trash. It flashes back to her itinerant upbringing. Her mother was an artist more interest in paintings than cooking food for the kids. Her father was a rebel, believing in building the glass castle, but also belligerent bully and drunk. The film flips backwards and forwards between the present day story and the past. Its not an entirely happy marriage. Its directed by Destin Daniel cretton, who worked with brie larsen on the independent hit short term 12, which announced brie larsen to the world. She is very good, but not in the most important part of the film. The most important part of the film. The most important part of the film. The most important part of the film is the story of the character when she is much younger, growing up with these parents who are totally reckless in their parenting and have this hippy ideal of how you should raise kids, but the kids are in danger, bullied, deprived in some ways. I kept wanting the film to come together more than it does, but it has solid performances. Its directed with heart, but its not quite dramatically pulling itself together for me. The mountain between us, kate winslet and idris elba. A survival story and love story. Two for the price of one. A snowstorm, they both need to get somewhere so they both need to get somewhere so they charter a small plane that goes into the side of the mountain. They are stranded there, no record of theirflights, no are stranded there, no record of their flights, no food are stranded there, no record of theirflights, no food or phone signal. Apparently they have nothing in common. Are you 0k . Bruises and scratches. Cracked ribs, i got lucky. You didnt file a flight plan . No. How long has it been . 36 hours. Weve got plenty of water, as long as we can melt show. Weve got plenty of water, as long as we can melt snow. Four packets of arm and is, a couple of candy bars, half eaten sandwich and some cookies. What kind of cookies . What . Joke. Cookies. What kind of cookies . What . Joke. Did it grab you . The problem, will they survive, will they run out of food or will the relationship develop . The plane crash reminded me of the film alive, as did the setup, but it turns into alive actually. It has two very solid performances from idris elba and kate winslet, but it never convinces me of their circumstances. I never felt never convinces me of their circumstances. I neverfelt they we re circumstances. I neverfelt they were genuinely endangered. It walked a very strange path between being one kind of movie and another kind of movie. Directed by hany abu assad, some individual scenes work well, but it is at its strongest when it deals with the idea of what will people do when they are in isolation, trying to survive, when they will not be going back to the real world. It works less well when its dealing with other things and trying to be something that is closer to a disaster movie, survival movie and romance movie. 0ne disaster movie, survival movie and romance movie. One of those three elements will not necessarily gel with the rest. Its not bad, but its not convincing. With the rest. Its not bad, but its not convincing. Alive actually, im sure movie producers are thinking of that concept and drawing up thinking of that concept and drawing upa thinking of that concept and drawing up a script as we speak. Maybe that was it. What is best out at the moment . They have rereleased the coen brothers film blood simple from the early 1980s. The coen brothers did a director s cut that are shorter than the original, which iam all are shorter than the original, which i am all in favour of. Its been reissued in a four k transfer, and its every bit as thrilling as it was when it first came out. Its me lark, double crossing, dirty thriller, and i first lark, double crossing, dirty thriller, and ifirst saw it lark, double crossing, dirty thriller, and i first saw it in a double bill with sam rainsys evil dead film. The coen brothers went on to make fargo dead film. The coen brothers went on to make far go and no country for old men. You remember how thrilling, dark and strange this was when it first came out. And knowing what the coen brothers went on to do, its interesting to see the seeds of those ideas in blood simple. Its worth seeing in the cinema. And on dvd . Wonder woman. For me, its that rarest of things, a modern superhero movie that i really had fun with and enjoyed. I think pattyjenkinson did a terrificjob of taking this character and giving her a whole new screen character and giving her a whole new screen life. Pattyjenkins. When you think of how dreary and boring batman versus superman was, this feels lively and vibrant and different. It feels like its taking an idea and running with it in a way that opens it up to a whole new audience. I remember sitting that opens it up to a whole new audience. I remembersitting in that opens it up to a whole new audience. I remember sitting in the cinema when i first saw this and you could feel people enjoying the movie. There was none of that ponderous chin stroking. The movie wasjumping ponderous chin stroking. The movie was jumping off the screen and i felt it was really good, wonder woman. I missed it at the cinema so im looking forward to it. Woman. I missed it at the cinema so im looking forward to it. You have to see it on a Big Television screen. To see it on a Big Television screen. I will come round your place a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews across the bbc. Thats it for this week, thank you very much for watching and goodbye from us. If our weekend where there was a movie script, i think you would probably agree its much of a thriller. Thing is not looking too exciting over the next couple of days. Things are fairly mixed, sunshine through the first part of today and then particularly up to the north west thing is clouding over. That from one of our weather watchers in argyll and bute. You can see on the weather picture, this lump of cloud piling in from the north west, turning the sunshine hazy. With the thicker cloud you will start to see outbreaks of rain pushing southward through the evening and overnight. Initially in Northern Ireland and scotland, moving into Northern England and wales. Heavier bursts for hills in the west, the rain east is like an apache with some spots staying dry. It will be breezy. Temperatures of 912d. The it will be breezy. Temperatures of 9 12d. The rain to the east is light and patchy. Starting with some outbreaks of rain, and i think we will keep rain for a good part of the day. The rain towards the south east, very light and patchy, but a lot of cloud around. Bit brighter in the midlands and north wales. Across Northern Ireland, north west england, western and northern scotland, here we will see showery rain feeding in a lot of cloud just to the south east of scotland, perhaps getting away with it, and seeing some early brightness. I think eastern scotland and Northern England will see some sunshine through the day. South wales and central and southern england will brighten up through the afternoon. Elsewhere, a generally cloudy day tomorrow with some outbreaks of rain, a breezy day with highs of 14 17. After the super league final at old trafford, some outbreaks of rain and temperatures around the mid teens at best. Going through saturday night into sunday, this area of High Pressure trying to build in through the country. It doesnt have total success. 0n sunday it will bring us a dry day, not much rain around but still a fairamount of not much rain around but still a fair amount of cloud. The best we can say is it will be a little brighter, particularly in central and eastern areas. Further west we will continue to see more cloud, some drizzly showers here and there, but the wind will be lighter with temperatures getting up to 17 or possibly 18 degrees. If you do get some brightness with those light winds, it will not feel too bad. Full details for the weekend outlook where you are always available at the bbc weather website and app. The Prime Minister says the cabinet is fully behind her, as a former Tory Party Chairman calls for a leadership contest. Mrs may sought to quash speculation over her position after a Conference Speech full of mishaps. What i think is necessary for the country now, what the country needs, is calm leadership, thats exactly what im providing and im providing that with the full support of my cabinet. Thank you. But grant shapps said there were 30 tory mps who wanted a leadership election, and that some in the cabinet back them. Also tonight the fragile state of the economy, new productivity figures show britain is falling further behind other leading nations. Warnings about babies at bedtime, a series of positioning products are withdrawn after theyre linked to infant deaths. Vigils in vegas for the victims of this weeks mass shooting,
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