Marseillaise when its on. With a glass of french red wine, of course. Thats it for the papers tonight. Dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you, seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. If you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. Thank you, henry and benedicte. Next on bbc news, its the film review. Hello, a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. And as ever, mark kermode is with me and has had his fill of films. What have you been watching this week, mark . Its a week of sequels this week. Yes. We have maleficent mistress of evil. Poor thing. Hell recover. Zombieland double tap. And a shaun the sheep movie, farmageddon. Oh, i love shaun the sheep i cant even pronounce the title of the angelina jolie. I dont know why i struggle with it so much but there we go. This is why you are here. Maleficent mistress of evil. In the first maleficent, which kind of revisited Sleeping Beauty as a mother daughter tale seen from the point of view of Angelina Jolies key character who, we learn through the course of the movie, is not actually evil but has a whole bunch of other things going on. She is notjust evil. At the beginning of this, a voice over says, well, yes, but people still thought she was evil. And so now, we start the new movie many years later. Elle fannings aurora is set to marry her handsome prince, to the disdain of her mother, played by michelle pfeiffer. Heres a clip. I remember the story of a baby, a baby cursed to sleep and neverwake up. Really . Who would do such a terrible thing to an innocent child . Well, there are many who prey on the innocent. Im sure your kind would agree. What do you mean my kind . She means humans. There are fairies missing from the moors. What im missing is some wine. Stolen by human poachers. Thats the first ive heard of it. Someone gave the order. I wouldnt mess with her i know that already it is definitely battle of the cheekbones going on there heres the weird thing. This was kind of the sequel nobody was really asking for but itjust happened anyway because the numbers seemed to add up. So if the other one was a sort of sympathy for the devil story, this is building up to a great big battle which, i have to say, comes on a little bit like lord of the rings lite. The script is all over the place. Literally, it looks like somebody took a whole bunch of plot elements, threw them on the floor and went, just arrange them in a fashion that looks. Have a bit with a castle and an attack and have the thing where the fairies are in danger and theres some magic powder and some stuff going on, and then undo all the stuff from the first movie but then put it all back together again. There is. I mean, the biggest battle of the film, honestly, is the battle of the accents. It does sounds like they are gargling the english language. Its like somebody swallowed a bunch of rolls royce parts. Feeamily. Feeeamily is everything. And the other thing which really bothered me is this kind of story, you know, tale as old as time, needs to have magic, and there is a stunning lack of magic. There is a lot of cgi, theres a lot of effects, a lot of zip, zang, boom stuff going on, but no magic. And i have to say no soul, which is a real shame because there was a lot of talent on screen and a lot of talent behind the screen and very, very little magic. Oh, that is properly disappointing, isnt it . Sorry properly disappointing. Does it get any better with our next sequel . Well, zombieland double tap. Again, another sequel, which i dont remember waking up every morning and thinking, you know, i wonder what happened to the characters from zombieland. I think its about time we caught up with them. So this was pretty much a decade in development hell. The first film was fine, notable primarily for a cameo role by bill murray, which passed into legend. So this picks up some years afterwards. Weve got the survivors, theyve now moved into the white house. Theyre generally living the dysfunctional family life, then Abigail Breslin goes awol, she runs off with a hippie, so the guys have to go back on the road again and its more of the same. It all sort of pootles around with a passable sense of fun. Theres a lot of messing around in the white house, theres a lot of dysfunctional family stuff. The problem with it is this it plays like a series of set pieces which, individually, are quite entertaining. Theres some quite good zombie carnage stuff. There is a couple of funny new characters, but theres nothing that makes you think, we wrote this because it really needed to bring the story on. Also, one of the real shames of it is that towards the end of the film, there is what absolutely should have been im not going to reveal it what absolutely should have been a completely secret surprise which absolutely is neither secret nor a surprise, thanks to the publicity in the film. Im not going to be any part of telling you what it is, but its one of those moments when you just think, remember when it was possible to watch a movie without knowing a whole bunch of stuff about it in advance . That, ithink, would improve this. Again, its not terrible. Because its quite a cast we are looking at. Yes, quite a cast, and many who you think theyre probably doing it as a bit of light relief. Im just not sure why. Im not sure why we needed to come back. Its fine i chuckled a few times, i giggled a few times. Not enough to justify a sequel, though. Better than maleficent, though. Made more sense. 0k wow we can Say Something good about shaun the sheep, right . We can. Farmageddon. Who doesnt love aardman . 0h ok, i think aardman are like one of the absolute Gold Standard names in entertainment. They never put a plasticine foot wrong. And in the case of this, this isjust wonderful. I started smiling and believe me, its been quite a hard week i started smiling the minutes the title credits came on and then i laughed, i giggled, i guffawed, i chuckled and ijust beamed my whole way through the movie. So the story is spaceship comes down, blue alien stranded shades of et, shades of x files, references to jaws and things and our heroes have to help the alien on earth and to reunite with his fellow aliens. No words, lots of noises, and a huge amount of fun. Heres a clip. Clang. Laughter. Groaning. You laughed all the way through we both laughed all the way through. And ive seen that clip three orfour times. Its that level of laughter all the way through. The thing i love about it is this on the one hand, its a throwback, although it is very noisy, its a throwback to silent cinema. Its a throwback to the universality of silent cinema, when it wasnt to do with language, it was all to do with the universal language of cinema. Yes, theres no voices in it, theres no. Well, theres voices but there is. Exactly. Theres that. It has a brilliant sense of slapstick. Its absolutely full of very silly literary references but theyre not sort of coy and postmodern and winking. Theyre just there because of the joy of them being there. Its really touching, its really funny, the characters are more three dimensional than the human characters that weve seen in the other films on offer at the minute, even though it is largely plasticine sheep and space aliens. There is a scene in zombieland with a combine harvester and a scene in shaun the sheep with a combine harvester, and shaun the sheep is much, much, much funnier than the scene in zombieland. Laughs. I just. Honestly, you could take anyone to see it, it doesnt matter how old you are, as long as you have a fundamental love of cinema. And i love slapstick. Slapstick to me is like dance its like a really high art form. I just think its wonderful and i enjoyed it so much. And particularly in what has not been a vintage week, this just stood out like a shining beacon ofjoy. This is what cinema should be about, and i just loved it. And perhaps if any of us notjust children, well, particularly adults are feeling a little worn down by current events. Yes, the world has been a bit tough recently. Go see farmageddon. Laughs. Wonderful, wonderful. Oh, my god might have to see it several times in the next weekend its lovely, its just lovely. And in terms of best out . Ive let you down. Because you know, ijust, i didnt have the i wasnt brave enough. I wasnt brave enough i thought you were going to go and seejoker you see, heres the thing i want you to see it because it has divided people so much. In fact, the reason i chose it is to slightly play devils advocate. I know so many people who love it. I know an equal number of people who absolutely hate it and i really want to know what you think of it. So go and see it. I wasnt quite ready. I know everyone i know whos seen it says he is outstanding. Hes great. Its a remarkable performance. Yes, and i think there are some very, very interesting things about the film itself not least the fact that its divided people so furiously. There are film critic friends of mine who say its the worst film theyve seen this year, and who there are plenty of other friends who say its the best film theyve seen all year. Its a real kind of marmite film. Marmite, yes, yes. And i like it. I think it has flaws, but, yes actually, the real star of this film is hildur gudnadottirs score, because she has done the most brilliantjob of scoring the film. His performance is great, but if it wasnt for that score, it wouldnt have the depth that it has. Inhales. All right. Well see where we are this time next week with that one. And a quick thought about dvd . Theres a blu ray release of angel heart. I know youre not a big horrorfan, but you must have seen angel heart, right . 30 years old, isnt it . Did you love it when it first. . I was 20 when it came out, so i would have been way too chicken to watch it then. Think how bad i am now ok, but it is brilliant. It reminds you how brilliant Mickey Rourke was when he was really brilliant. Yeah. It has Robert De Niro as the sinister louis cyphre. It is based on a novel by William Hjortsberg called falling angel. I think it is one of the few cases in which the film is better than the novel. And it really stands the test of time. The time when it first came out, people were slightly dismissive of it because it is a horror film, therefore, they didnt take it seriously. It is a really, really brilliantly told, sort of steel trap of a film, with two great performances actually, three great performances. Brilliant soundtrack, really atmospheric, and Robert De Niro eating a boiled egg in the most threatening way you have ever seen. Well, on that note, im looking forward to shaun the sheep. Thanks very much. Probably so is half the nation, given whats ahead thank you very much, mark. Well see you next time. Thank you. That is it for this week. Enjoy your cinema going, whatever you choose to see perhaps all of them. Have a good weekend. Thanks. Bye bye. With High Pressure close by, lots of dry weather in the next few days. Monday will start with frost in parts of scotland, especially aberdeenshire, and a lot of cloud down towards east anglia and south east england, where we have some outbreaks of rain, especially the further east you are. One or two showers elsewhere in england and wales, but most places will be staying dry. Sunshine in the afternoon, although there will be some rain to end the day bearing down on shetland. Through the night and into Tuesday Morning, england and into Tuesday Morning, england and wales will see lower temperatures with some clear spells and light winds. Quite breezy in scotla nd and light winds. Quite breezy in scotland and Northern Ireland. Some fog patches developing, which could be dense in parts of england and wales, and only slowly clearing on Tuesday Morning to sunny spells and a dry day. Scotland and Northern Ireland have a bit of cloud, some rain in the far north of scotland, but dry elsewhere. Im sharon in singapore, the headlines another weekend the 20th of protests in hong kong as demonstrators defy the ban on marches. And no sign of either side backing down the question is the one weve been asking for five months now when does this end, how does this end . We return to sri lanka and meet the community trying to re build after the suicide bombings six months ago im Samantha Simmonds in london. Also in the programme. The dream may be over butjapans rugby romance blossoms as the hosts bow out of the world cup. An ancient role in modern times