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What are the highlights of Spielberg's Disclosure Day?
okay and last but not least time for the watch list our recommendations for the best tv and cinema for the week ahead and i'm joined today by author henrietta mccurvey and tv and radio producer owen sweeney hi guys how's it going owen steven spielberg's disclosure day big cinema release of the week they're saying spielbergian you're saying close encounters yeah yeah is it classic spielberg it's classic spielberg i think that's
sum it up how did Spielberg make a movie that's so Spielberg well he makes Disclosure Day it has so many Spielbergian tropes involved in it the characters are kind of cartoonishly evil when they're evil and they're kind of naively sympathetic when they're the good people lost in this conspiracy theory the cast is great Emily Blunt is in it Joshua Connor is in it Colin Firth is in it Eve Hewson is in it and Colman Domingo and they are the headline cast members Essentially, it's a cyber security specialist, steals stuff from a secretive quasi-government agency headed by Colin Firth, who is Mr. Evil. I think the best description I heard of him is that his management style is best described as somewhat toxic.
He chases them as terrorists. Your man goes on the run with his girlfriend, played by Eve Hughes, and she's actually more compelling than he is. The chemistry between the leads isn't great necessarily. It's all very broad. There are evil government agencies. There are very pleasant aliens that come in peace. There is debate about the faith in humanity and whether we're innately good and whether we can deal with close encounter stuff.
All the big questions.
All the big questions.
How does Disclosure Day compare to classic Spielberg films?
The world is on the edge of extinction. Spielberg, there's lots of kind of all this covert footage, which is very Spielberg, all this kind of retro kind of various film stocks and, you know, kind of Roswell landings in 1947 and then various encounters over the years. The aliens are good.
She's crammed a lot in there. Is it worth going to the cinema for a person who doesn't go to the cinema a lot?
If you're bringing young teenagers, I'd say so. It's one for all the family. It didn't stay with, it's very well made, but it's very broad.
Okay, I hope Mr. Spielberg isn't listening there. That's disclosure and that is in cinemas now. Henrietta, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day feels a bit kind of stuffy and old-fashioned next to that.
Yeah, or just a fantastic period drama, I suppose, as well. It's one of her early novels, so it's not really Virginia Woolf's signature style, which doesn't really matter that much because the film plays fast and loose with the plot anyway. It's set in 1910 in London when this very independent minded character called Catherine Hilbury... who's played by Hayley Bennett, lovely performance, defies her family's expectations of marriage to pursue a career in astronomy. So she's self-taught. She wants to go to Cambridge, where even if they were taking women then, but you still couldn't get a degree. You could do the course and not get a degree. So it's a sort of challenge to Edwardian patriarchy, but as the suffragette movement advances in science and technology, and a great cast like Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall,
who plays a chump who writes tedious essays about Elizabethan poetry, which you can perfectly see.
Yeah, and fantastic.
Solid period drama.
It looks beautiful. In cinemas from Friday, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day. OK, so on TV then. Bad, the song that saved my life, is on RT1 tomorrow night at 9.35. And this looks great. It's a U2 adjacent story.
Yes, it's a non-rock rock doc in some ways. This is all about Andy Guck Rowan. And that is, if you've listened to U2 songs, you've seen U2, he's been referred to as Guck Pants Delaney. He grew up on Cedarwood Road, cheek to jowl with Bono and Bono's family. He was one of 10, his brother's Googie, his brother's Strongman, both of the Virgin Prunes, his younger brother's Paul, who was the... There's a great bit actually describes in the movie, kind of wandering down into Leicester Square and suddenly he sees this massive poster in 1979, 1980 of a boy and realises that's my brother, who was the front cover of the debut U2 album, Boy.
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