hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week? a very mixed batch. we have kong: skull island. and we have elle. does the world need another king kong film? it is the land that time forgot meets apocalypse now. john goodman managed to persuade the us army to escort him to skull island, where he thinks something is going on. they arrive and they start carpet bombing the island in order to shake up everything on the island.

a massive ape starts swatting helicopters out of the sky. iam i am probably not meant to laugh. it does have a great sense of fun about it. we have sam jackson, the soldier, who is not going to lose this battle. john c reilly who has been there since world war ii. tom hiddlestone as a tracker, they are trying to get from one side of the island to the other and there are major beasties afoot. here is a clip. can you smell that? it's death. this is what's left of kong's pants. i've taken enough photos of mass graves to recognise one. the clear site isjust on the other side of this valley. we'll cross through and make it to the highest point west. this place is a real no—no, sir. we need to be going to the north side right now.

and you are welcome to do that, my man... by yourself. i'm not leaving jack out there. now who's with me? we can make it. mighty right, we can make it. stay sharp, keep an eye out. i love the comment that said it is jolly good fun as long as you check your brain at the cloakroom ? it is smarter than that. the director made this small film called kings of summer and very much like gareth edwards who went from monsters to godzilla. he has gone from bad to this. it is like a $200 million epic. —— from fact to this. he has left his fingerprints on it. yes, it is a huge monsterfranchise movie, it has also got loads of very slightjokes in it. i like the fact that what he does is, he takes just enough liberties

with how far you can push the characters, but also remembers people are there to see the monsters. one of the things that is most rewarding, when you see king kong, who is about 100 feet tall, we're not getting the edit every quarter second that the transformers movie does. it is like there is genuine beauty in these shots. iconic image of king kong rising up in front of the sun. tom hiddlestone with a sword. we're not getting the stupid fast edits that have made this kind of cinema headache. what you always get is a battle between the director and what they want, their personal vision and what the producers want. it is who wins what battles. i think he won more battles than he lost. i enjoyed it. i liked the jukebox soundtrack and the other movies it references.

i didn't get bored. there were moments when i thought, wow, that is an impressive, enormous creature. i enjoyed it much more than i expected to and i don't think you have to check your brain in. i didn't get bored, says mark. the love which were you bored in that? a strange movie. all that heaven allows as no, the best way of describing this, imagine all that heaven allows as directed byjess franco. it is in an age where mobile phones exist yet it has this late 60s, early 70s theme beyond the valley of the dolls. it is a white witch whose spell all men fall under. it is almost like

a magical incantation and extraordinary detail. the strange thing about it, a lot of the wicker man going on in the background. it is very funny. it is oddly sincere in a way which you don't expect. it is subversive. i really enjoyed it. i went in thinking i would be watching a parody and it was so much more than that. i have met so many people who felt the same thing. they thought it would be a bit camp and fun. it is more than that. although it is all of those things as well. just looking at the pictures, i am a bit worried it is not camp enough! extraordinary. interestingly, there is a strange sincerity that underlines it. it is a very strange movie and i liked it very much. the talking point of the week is elle. as a woman, i feel anxious

about going to see it actually. i understand that and i feel anxious having seen it. it can be read in many different ways and all of them contradictory. it is a tale of sexual violence by a director with a track record of overstepping certain lines. isabelle huppert is cinema's most fearless screen presence. she plays a businesswoman who is attacked at the beginning of the film and then almost doesn't seem to respond. she will not go to the police, because as a child she was caught up in the arrest of her monstrous father and was, in her mind, betrayed by the police. here is a clip. she is so watchable, but i don't know if i have the stomach. is it very violent? i am lost for words. paul verhoeven is the director and

it is based on a novel. it is almost as if huuppert becomes the auteur of the film. it has been described as a black comedy, a social satire and rape revenge movie. it is all and yet none of these things. what is is nobody else other than this character could have done that. they couldn't get the financing in america. she went on to be nominated for an oscar. she is brilliant in this and i think she is brilliant in almost everything she is in. if it wasn't for the strength of her performance, if it wasn't for the extraordinary way in which she just dominates the screen, this would be a very different film. that said, it is absolutely a film which is designed to wrong—foot you, which is designed to make you feel uncomfortable.

it has been interesting to see the many different ways critics have responded to it, trying to describe it. the best way to describe it, it is an huppert film, rather than a paul verhoeven film. moonlight, it is back in the cinemas? it is back. it is such a marvellous work, a work of art and i love it to pieces. dvd for anyone staying in. we have logan. doctor strange, what would you do with a superhero movie if you make the kind of film ken russell would make? watching doctor strange, benedict cumberbatch as a neurosurgeon that gets pulled into this strange world. sometimes you think it is an outtake

from altered states. i am a huge ken russell fan. but in cinema is, taking logo on the other way. all those not a superhero movie. looking at doctor strange and thinking it is at doctor strange and thinking it is a superhero movie, we can be as psychedelic as we like. mark, thanks as ever. you can find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc on this special section of the website. all our previous programmes are on the eye player, as well. goodbye. good evening, a mixed day today and for many cloudy skies with damp weather. clear skies moving in from

the west and, through this evening, as the clear skies move across the country, it will turn quite cold with temperatures dropping quickly through the remainder of this evening. this front will keep the weather fronts at day. clearing showers tonight. cloud and spots of rain in northern ireland and scotland. with clear skies, over and —— overnight lows of 5—6 in the cities. but elsewhere, close to freezing. there could be a touch of frost around across parts of wales and the midlands tomorrow morning but sunshine in the south. for the bulk of england and wales, a fresh start, dry with some sunshine. perhaps the odd shower in cumbria and lancashire and heading to

northern ireland and scotland, variable amounts of cloud but there will be sunny spells and the odd shower, particularly towards the northern isles. breezy in the far north but most have liked wins with the dry weather and sunshine. the sun will feel warm where we see longer spells and sunshine. where you keep the cloudy skies in central parts, more typically in 11—12. monday evening, we start to see a front approaching from the north west bringing cloud and breeze to parts of northern ireland and scotland. we have high pressure not far away. during the day on tuesday, a breezy, cloudy spell of weather in the north and it will be windy in the north and it will be windy in the northern isles of scotland. 60-70 the northern isles of scotland. 60—70 mph in the far north. showers drifting south and slightly cloudier than monday. temperature is not as

high. largely dry on wednesday with high. largely dry on wednesday with high pressure in charge and variable amounts of cloud but decent spells of sunshine. breezy in the far north—west. you can find more details on the weather through the week ahead when you live on the website. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7:00pm. the brexit secretary urges mps to back the bill for exiting the eu, to pave the way for the triggering of article 50. what we can't have is either house of parliament reversing the decision of the british people. the iraqi army continues to make gains against so—called islamic state. we've heard three car bombs going on in the distance, we've also had a lot incoming mortar fire, you can hear now the sounds of battle. following a night of violence in rotterdam, turkey's president warns the netherlands it will "pay

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