and elle, stays —— says on the tin. and elle, a very controversial film. does the world need another king kong film? need or want? this is essentially the land that time forgot meets apocalypse now. they set at the end of the vietnam war, and john goodman persuades the us army to escort him to school island where he thinks there's something going on. he says if we don't get the first, somebody else will. they arrive in carpet bomb the island to shake up the stuff there and a massive eight sta rts stuff there and a massive eight starts swatting helicopters out of the sky. he does have a great sense of fun. then we have samueljackson who is a soldier and john c reilly as the lost pilot who has been there since world war ii. they're all trying to get from one side and of the island to the other and there are major beasts afoot. can you smell that? that's the smell

of death. what the hell is this place? i've taken enough voters of mass graves to recognise one. the this place is a real no no. we need to go to the north side. you are welcome to do that alone. i think it is smarter than people think. the director made a small

film called kings of summer, wonderful indie fulham —— film. what he has managed to do is leave his fingerprints on it. so although is a huge franchise film, it's got lows of jokes huge franchise film, it's got lows ofjokes in it. i think there are even ofjokes in it. i think there are eve n refe re nces to ofjokes in it. i think there are even references to various cult horror forms. even references to various cult horrorforms. he even references to various cult horror forms. he takes just ten of liberties with how far you can push the characters, but also remembers that people are there to see the monsters. what's most rewarding is when you see kong, what we are not getting is that it every quarter second. there is genuine but in some showers. —— there is genuine beauty

in some showers. what he has managed to do would and you always get a battle between the director and what the producers want, and it's always who winds what. i think as one of more than he has lost. i enjoyed it. i like the soundtrack and the movies it references. i did not get bored. i don't think you have to check your rain before you watch it. —— your regime. imagine all that heaven allows as

director byjess franco. it has the early 70s look about it. it's about a white which under whose spell all men are for. it's a bit like one of kenneth anger‘s inca ntations. it's a bit like one of kenneth anger‘s incantations. a lot of attention to detail and makes reference to everyone from hitchcock to dario argento. it is quite like an oddly sincere film, and it's also subversive. i really enjoyed it. i thought it was going to be a parody oi’ thought it was going to be a parody ora thought it was going to be a parody or a pastiche. but it was so much more. i've met some of the people

who thought the same thing, they thought it would be a bit camp or kitsch and it is much more than that. though it is all of those things as well. just looking at the poster, i'm thinking isjust not camp enough. kitsch is the word, isn't it? there's also a strange sincerity underlying giver makes in just pastiche. it's a strange movie andi just pastiche. it's a strange movie and i light it very much. now the talking point of the week is elle. and as a woman, i feel almost anxious about seeing it. it can be read in many ways and them contradictory. on the one hand, it isa contradictory. on the one hand, it is a boundary crossing tale of sexual violence. on the other, it is a showcase for isabel huppert, who is sin are's most fearlessly

independent screen presence. she is utterly magnetic in aberdeen. she plays the title character is a businesswoman who was attacked at the start of the film and then almost does not seem to respond. she will go to the police, not least because as a child, she was caught up because as a child, she was caught up in the arrest of her monstrous father and was in her mind betrayed by the police. she is so watchable, but i don't know if i have the stomach for it. if you very violent? —— on the ballot is almost as if she becomes the author of the film. on the one hand, is being described as a black comedy oi’ is being described as a black comedy or even a social satire or even a rate revenge movie, but it is all in all of these things. what's extraordinary is that nobody else

other than huppert could have done it. it was originally going to be made in hollywood, but he could not get the cast or the financing. as you know, huppert went on to be nominated for an oscar and she's brilliant in this and almost everything she is in. i can remember a role in which she has not been great. if it wasn't for her performance and the extraordinary way in which she just dominates the screen, this will be a different film. it is absolutely a film designed to wrong—foot you and make you feel uncomfortable and awkward. it has been interesting scene are many ways in which critics have responded to it, almost trying to describe it and i think the best way is is it is an isabel huppert form. —— film. moonlight is back in

cinemas as a result of the oscar and it is wonderful, such a marvellous work and an absolute work of art and i love it to pieces. doctor strange, we have a and it shows what you can do with a soupy burro —— superhero movie. there are moments when you are watching it when you think, that is an outtake from altered states. i love ken russell and love his work, but what is interesting is seeing incentive as... thank you. all our previous programmes are on

the i play. goodbye. for much of her career, lionel shriver scribbled in obscurity. then her seventh novel hit the big—time. we need to talk about kevin won the orange prize for fiction we need to talk about kevin won the orange prize forfiction in her latest book is called the mandibles and is set in a financial crisis in the states in the near future. it's about a wealthy family who must deal with the loss of their wealth and learn to survive as the duller

colla pses learn to survive as the duller collapses and inflation soars. you wrote this novel in 2015 and the picture you paint of america is pretty bleak. revisiting it now as it comes out in paperback, what are your thoughts? bred well, it comes out in paperback, what are yourthoughts? bred well, it it comes out in paperback, what are your thoughts? bred well, it is bleaker now. one of the striking things about revisiting this book after the release in hardback is obviously that we now have a new president and not the president we expected. there is a feeling of not quite being overtaken by events, because what happens in the books has not happened yet, we haven't yet

faced economic collapse, quite the contrary in fact, the stock market is going through the roof, though i'm not convinced it will stay like that, but certainly interests and dystopias has picked up enormously. i think the entire landscape of reality has changed, if that's not being a little overdramatic in that what we consider possible has changed. donald trump was initially not going to get elected and the idea of his being president was farcical and now look at him. similar with brexit. is a dystopian novel set in 2029, but this isn't a future of lizards running down fifth ave and zombies and flying cars, is a world in many ways that's very recognisable to others. all deliberate was that? very deliberate. in fact i kept the

technological innovation to a minimum. idid technological innovation to a minimum. i did not want the readers to focus on gadgets. i try to keep the changes between now and then quite modest. i did insert things, there was a major cyber catastrophe in 2024, which i think it's highly likely. but i wanted you to be able to walk into this book as if from the next room. is see what happens to one particular family, the next room. is see what happens to one particularfamily, the the next room. is see what happens to one particular family, the title family, and what they take for granted and perhaps what many of us ta ke granted and perhaps what many of us take for granted is gradually eroded. the cabbage suddenly costs $20, you can't get hold of olive oil... by the end of the book a cabbage costs $40. i wanted to go on that nitty—gritty household level. so there's more than one scene in

this book that takes place in a supermarket. and it becomes a strangely political plays. which it is, rather. because it has to do with our primitive survival and what people regard as necessary to the primitive survival varies according to income level so that most middle to income level so that most middle to upper middle class people would consider having to live without olive oil and absolute outrage. one of the things people start hoarding and therefore becomes unavailable is toilet roll. this is a major crisis. indeed, and what you examine in the book. you explore america's collapse through this one family and it is not the first in you've explored the big issues and what the family. why

do you do that? i think it is a good path into an issue and one of the things that happens when an economy brea ks things that happens when an economy breaks down is that civil structures breaks down is that civil structures break down and relationships between people break down. as a nation, you can stop functioning, but as a city neighbourhood, you can stop functioning and as a family you can stop functioning. if you put enough stressors on people, and i do design the plot is so that everyone ends up in the same house, and they don't get along, right? so that is a festival for fiction. there is one character in this book who is a bestselling writer like yourself and has lived away from the united states for several decades and indeed her name is an anagram of

line a lot. why did you want to insert yourself into the novel? partly for fun. i had written enough by then, i enjoyed a little self reference. did you enjoy it?