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Claudia Winkleman and the Film 2016 team take a critical look at the week's latest film releases. Top of the bill is black comedy The Big Short and Sandra Bullock stars in Our Brand is Crisis, plus a look at martial arts thriller The Assassin. In the studio is critic Ellen E Jones.
Claudia Winkleman and the Film 2016 team take a critical look at the week's latest film releases. Camilla Long joins regulars Claudia and Danny Leigh to review Michael Caine's new movie Youth, also starring Harvey Keitel and Jane Fonda. Plus Oscar-tipped Boston child abuse drama Spotlight and Antonio Banderas' latest performance in The 33.
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh are joined by critic Robbie Collin to look at the big screen adaptation of Dad's Army, Bryan Cranston's part in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo, and Ralph Fiennes flamboyant role in A Bigger Splash.
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh are joined by Rhianna Dhillon for a critical look at the return of Derek, Hansel and Mugatu in fashion satire, Zoolander 2. Plus, reviews of the unconventional superhero movie Deadpool, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Antonia Quirke and Danny Leigh are joined by critic Ashley Clark to give their verdicts on heist thriller Triple Nine, starring Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor. They also review horror western Bone Tomahawk and gay rights drama Freeheld, with Julianne Moore.
Zoe Ball and Danny Leigh are joined by Ellen E. Jones to take a critical look at Tom Ford's dark thriller Nocturnal Animals and weepie The Light Between Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Plus young director Damien Chazelle talks about his new film La La Land.
Actor and comedian Ben Bailey Smith is joined by Danny Leigh and Grace Dent to review sci-fi blockbuster Arrival, starring Amy Adams, and British drama A Hundred Streets. Plus screenwriter Paul Schrader remembers Taxi Driver, 40 years on.
Host Mariella Frostrup is joined by critics Danny Leigh and Tim Robey to review the latest JK Rowling adaptation Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, starring Eddie Redmayne, and Dog Eat Dog, a crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe.
Journalist Camilla Long is joined by by Danny Leigh and Rhianna Dhillon to review epic period drama A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, Brad Pitt in wartime thriller Allied, and actor Adam Driver talks about how he had to learn to drive a bus in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson.
Taking charge of Film 2016 this week is comedian and film fan Paul Merton. He is joined by critics Danny Leigh and Kate Muir to review Clint Eastwood's tense plane drama Sully, starring Tom Hanks, Spike Lee's innovative Chi-Raq, and Miles Teller stars as a world champion boxer in Bleed for This. Plus, legendary director Paul Verhoeven talks sex and sci-fi.
Hosting is DJ and film fan extraordinaire Edith Bowman. She is joined by critics Danny Leigh and Peter Bradshaw to chat about Oliver Stone's latest Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the errant cyber leaker, controversial slavery drama The Birth of a Nation and - ready the eggnog - it's the Film Show's first Christmas movie of the season, Office Christmas Party starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.
Antonia Quirke hosts the Christmas edition of Film 2016, ably assisted by critics Danny Leigh and Ashley Clark. Top of their to-do list is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story starring Felicity Jones as a rebellion soldier charged with taking on the Empire. They also take a look at some of the best films coming out over the Christmas break, including Martin Scorsese's Silence starring Adam Driver, modern fairy tale A Monster Calls and Oscar favourites LA musical La La Land and family drama Manchester by the Sea.
