Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Director Clio Barnard talks about her new film Ali and Ava, which stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as the titular characters. Mark will also review The Batman, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz as Batman and Catwoman in Matt Reeves’s new story featuring the Bob Kane and Bill Finger-created superhero; documentary Rebel Dread about the filmmaker, DJ, musician and commentator, Don Letts; The Weekend Away, about a weekend getaway to Croatia which goes quite badly wrong; Against the Ice, which stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the story of two explorers fighting to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland and The Sanctity Of Space, a documentary recording the long push to cross a series of Alaskan mountains, and the geographer who first charted them. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00 Podcast starts 00:22:00 Live show recording starts 00:44:21 The Weekend Away 00:48:00 Clio Barnard 01:00:26 Ali and Ava 01:10:18 WTF1 01:12:50 The Batman 01:25:30 Against the Ice 01:28:39 TV Movies 01:31:32 Rebel Dread 01:38:31 Sanctity of Space 01:46:50 DVD of the Week

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.5	So we began this by you due to something which we can't repeat.
0:10.8	We were wondering about you and non-you, okay?
0:14.4	And you said...
0:15.4	Which used to be a...
0:16.4	Which you never hear anymore.
0:17.4	But it's back in the day, people would say.
0:19.7	Oh, that's a bit non-you.
0:21.2	Yeah.
0:22.2	Meaning it's not upperclass.
0:23.2	Well, I didn't know that that's...
0:25.2	I mean, I knew...
0:26.2	Because you said, what does non-you meant?
0:27.7	I said, it means non-posh, doesn't it?
0:29.0	And you're right, I've just looked it up.
0:30.3	You and non-you with the you standing for upperclass.
0:33.6	And non-you representing the aspiring middle class.
0:37.8	So the thing is, it's not just upperclass and everyone else.
0:40.7	What it is is...
0:41.7	Patronizing nonsense.
0:42.7	Patronizing nonsense, yeah.
0:44.1	So let me give you a couple of examples of you.
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