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And the kingmaker, a documentary about Imelda Marcos. So, sons of denmark. Its a danish drama. Interesting . Its an interesting film, not necessarily entirely successful, but interesting. So feature debut of ulaa salim, a danish director whose parents are iraqi. Set in denmark four years in the future. There is a populist politician on the rise, and there is an election during which he appears to be doing quite well. Behind him are the titular group the sons of denmark, who are basically a kind of white supremacist nationalist group who were behind a whole bunch of islamophobic attacks in copenhagen. As a result of those attacks, young muslims are being radicalised at the same time. Lets see a clip. So you can see from that clip, its kind of gritty but has a thriller undercurrent. What then happens is we follow an undercover agent who is infiltrating that cell, but who becomes absolutely convinced that the greater threat is being posed by these kind of white nationalists. On the one hand, i mean, it takes a real life situation, it kind of imagines it four years in the future, so theres an element of, you know, fantastical imagination about it. And at times, its really gritty and really convincing and does a very interesting job of wrong footing the audience about their expectations about where the drama is going. At other times, i have to say, it does tip over into rather crass melodrama. So you end up with a film that is intriguing and i do think that ulaa salim is an interesting film maker and i think that we will see better work in the future. The thing with this is that its fine, but its not great because it does have a tendency to slip into melodrama, when actually, what it needs is to keep the downbeat tone that characterises the best scenes. Its set in 2025 i wonder why. Because its basically extrapolating from the present situation and saying, well, lets see. If we imagine these trends, lets put it. So, its near enough future to be present, but far enough away to not actually be whats happening right now. Yeah. 0k, thank you for that. And jumanji the next level. The same but more, you say . You could say that about any sequel, couldnt you 7 well, no, because its quite often the same, but less. So nobody thought thatjumanji welcome to thejungle would be any good, because thejumanji original movie i know people like it, i was never a big fan of it. But in welcome to thejungle, they essentially rather than the things coming out of the board game, our heroes go into the video game. This time, we get the same crew back again of the in game avatars dwaynejohnson, jack black, kevin hart and karen gillan. We also add a couple of new characters, these old codgers played by danny devito and danny glover, who accidentally get sucked into the game with our young heroes. And all the things that made the original film work really well which is this central body swap idea, that these people get sucked into the game and then they have avatars of different one becomes heroic, one then becomes the rock, one becomes jack black. Its like that, but everything is turned up to ii. So theres more body swapping, theres more identities, theres more mixing and matching. Theres some really good fun special effects sequences. Theres a giant ostrich chasing a dune buggy sequence which made me think, wow cg has really come on since the days ofjurassic park and, i mean, when as long as we assume ok, its not looking to be a masterpiece, its not looking to redefine the boundaries of cinema but as a good piece of solid entertainment i was going to say Family Entertainment with the exception of the fact there are there are a couple of i sound really prudish saying this there are a couple of off colour gags that i thought didnt need to be in there. There was a couple of unnecessarily bawdy gags. But those aside, i actually thought it was much better than we had any right to expect for the second time or third time, if you count the third orfourth if you count zathura, which i dont. 0h, right. Good to know very good to know right, now we have the kingmaker which is about mrs marcos a documentary about Imelda Marcos. Who had 3,000 shoes, famously . 1,200, according to this, but reports vary. Ah it is made by Lauren Greenfield who made queen of versailles and generation wealth, so she knows how to do documentaries of extravagant wealth. We see Imelda Marcos interviewed. She proclaims herself to be the mother of the nation. She claims herself to be this great, healing person who was driven out unfairly and who is the only person who could possibly reunify her people. We hear about her saying that all the extravagances that she had, they were all there in order to offer a shining star to the poor, who need somebody to look up to. And, as we see in this clip here, she drives around handing out money, because she has some. She has a lot i read she had a fortune of 24 billion, so she certainly had a bit to give away. Yeah, and one of the things that this documentary is about is how much of the money that she still has is now being used to attempt to reintroduce the marcos dynasty. And we follow her as she promotes her son, who is known affectionately as bongbong, in the elections. The really interesting thing about this documentary is that on the one hand, you have this character, this ludicrous character, who speaks ridiculously about herself and about her situation. But behind it is something much, much darker somebody who talks about martial law as being a golden age. Somebody who talks about gaddafi as being a friend. Somebody who turns their noses up at any suggestion of reports of torture and incarceration and killings. Somebody who basically has still has a huge amount of wealth that nobodys entirely sure where it came from. Peter bradshaw in the guardian i hate to quote another critic but this case, i should said rather brilliantly that this was an exquisitely horrible portrait and i think thats exactly what it is. And what i think the triumph of what Lauren Greenfield does is she draws you in just enough to the ridiculousness of the situation, this character who does look ridiculous. And then you see behind that something really, really dark. And i think the film does a very good job of balancing, you know, what will interest an audience the stories about the shoes, the stories about all that stuff and actually, the horrible reality behind it. I thought it was a very interesting piece of work. I mean, shes an extraordinary figure. I think she has the Guinness World record for the amount stolen from a government, basically. Yes. And at one point, she is heard to say well, you know, if i was running this now, i could have sorted out all the worlds problems, because all the World Leaders love me. And as soon as they meet me, they smile, and that will be it. And you think, you might actually believe that to be true. But it isnt well, evidently, its not true, no. Alright, best out . 0rdinary love. And i cant recommend this highly enough. So this is liam neeson and Lesley Manville as a couple facing a diagnosis of breast cancer, and its a year in their life. It is written by owen mccafferty, who is a really well known belfast playwright. It is directed by lisa barros dsa and glenn leyburn, who made good vibrations, which is a film about the Northern Ireland punk scene. And i think this is a great movie. I think that it has got fantastic performances. Its despite the subject matter, its very funny, its very human, its very much about their relationship. Its really honest its written, to some extent, from personal experience. And i have now seen it three times and every time i have seen it, ive liked it more, and i really want people to go and see it. Its a hard sell, i know, but its a really good movie. High praise indeed. And best dvd . Well, a bit of nonsense angel has fallen, which i had chosen because i think the first two in this series 0lympus has fallen and london has fallen i thought were rubbish. And then now, Gerard Butler teams up with nick nolte and suddenly, it becomes funny. And this was the first in the series when i thought, actually, youve got the measure of this now. This is deliberately ridiculous and i enjoyed it. Gerard butler is back in my good books. Yeah, hes a bodyguard whos protecting the president . Yeah, hes a sort of secret Service Agent who how do we get up to speed . Everywhere he goes, chaos seems to follow. But in this one, he has basically hes got to go, you know, off on his own because he is because he is suspected of being the bad of course, hes not bad. Hes Gerard Butler. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love ive got to say i love films about american president s and their bodyguards. There was that one with with clint eastwood, wasnt there . I cant remember the name of it. Yeah, but 0lympus has fallen started off with kind of, you know, a premise that was done almost at the same time by white house down. And of the two movies, white house down was was the better one. 0lympus has fallen was the less good one, yet thats the one thats produced the two sequels. And, you know, Gerard Butler nobody chews the scenery like Gerard Butler and him and nick nolte together. Nick nolte plays his father his gruff, survivalist father from who he is completely estranged. Their scenes together are a joy. And then theres all the other stuff. Yep, other stuff which kind of goes with it. Yes. Mark, thank you very much. Thank you. Very good to see you. And you. That it is for this week, though. 0nce once again, this evening, the showers are developing quite widely, some heavy with hail, thundery i do gusty winds. Wintry over higher ground, a covering of snow for some. They shall was could hear overnight, increasing ice risk towards dawn as well. Here is the big picture is the showers develop more widely, it is a literary wales, northern england, southern scotland, most likely to see a coating of snow. While we still have gales across the west, slightly lighter winds further east, temperatures widely down into single figures, if not below freezing, as we start the new week. Itjust figures, if not below freezing, as we start the new week. It just that ona we start the new week. It just that on a chilling out, a lot of dry weather around to begin with, temperatures rise through the week, it turns wetter and windier more widely once again. Into monday morning, we will see ice riskjust about anywhere, if you shower still dotted around in the morning, a few showers for west of scotland and Northern Ireland. Still pretty gusty winds up towards the west. A few morning showers for england and wales, few overall compared to today, the wind here will be much lighter as well, but it is still going to be a pretty chilly day, by and large my chance of 10 celsius in the south. Sunshine turned hazy later, when gets towards the Channel Islands as we finish the afternoon. Rain was that you advance out of france, the question is, how quickly it does so. The rain arrives on the monday evening, then it should hopefully clear a little bit earlier as we head into tuesday. Either way, it will still be a fairly cloudy at a damp start across east anglia at the south east, then, elsewhere, for the south east, then, elsewhere, for the north and west, some breaks develop, sunny spells throughout the day, still a fairly chilly day, temperatures in single figures for many. A fog is that for many to wednesday, through the day, while many area stayed dry and sunny, it will turn and windier towards the west, heavy rain at times, the temperatures was that to arise that debate, eastern area still only around 3 orfour debate, eastern area still only around 3 or four celsius. Wetter weather pushes northwards, becoming more extensive through thursday and friday fizzed up with it, we will see strengthening winds across the board too. This is bbc news with martine croxall. 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