in response to further questions, he said there might be a few grams of the explosive, tatp, at his home address. hassan‘s device created a fireball when it partially exploded on an underground train at parsons green station in west london. the jury was told today the bomb was packed with shrapnel, including nuts, bolts, screws, drill bits and knives. and it contained 400 grams of the explosive tatp. it would have been lethal if it had fully detonated. this was the evidence from an explosives expert, who went on to the train. the prosecution evidence at his trial is now drawing to a close and hassan‘s defence case is due to start next week. june kelly, bbc news, at the old bailey. now, on bbc news it is time for the film review ben brown. hello there and welcome

to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases is, who else, but mark kermode. what have you got for us this week? very mixed bag — we have gringo, which is a kind of caper movie starring david oyelowo. we have you were never really here, which is the new film by lynne ramsay, whose work i love. and mom and dad, a sort of satirical horror film starring mick cage. ok, so let's kick off with gringo. this is about a businessman who becomes a kind of wanted criminal? yeah, the story is, david oyelowo is a fairly hapless character working for a drug company. and he ends up faking his own kidnapping in mexico because he discovers essentially that he's going to lose hisjob, it looks like he's going to lose his wife, he hasn't got anything else to lose, so he fakes his own kidnapping. it starts off with him

going on the trip to mexico with joel edgerton and charlize theron, both of whom are chewing the scenery as his evil superiors. here's a clip. what is that smell? a barbecue — i always bring it for angel. angel! there you go. gracias. hello. new app. amazing. knew what else is amazing is actually learning a foreign language. that's sensational. i mean, as i said, chewing the scenery — here is the thing with this film. in terms of the plot, it is all over the place, it's one where the writers have clearly decided to throw a bunch

of ideas that the wall and only some of them stick. it gets by, however, largely on the fact that you like the cast. so, david oyelowo is a very likeable antihero figure. they are very dislikeable villains in a real... she's basically playing cruella daville and they're enjoying themselves. there are entire character threads... sharlto copley turns up halfway through suddenly, and the film takes an entire different direction. there are entire sections of it that don't hang together and at the end you go, none of it added up. but whilst watching it, i enjoyed it much more than i thought was going to because the individual set pieces... there is one set piece in which a drug lord demands to know from the people who he's holding hostage whether or not they agree that sergeant pepper is the best beatles album. it's one of those weirdly surreal moments which work. others don't. the film could have lost 20 or 30 minutes, it could have lost one entire thread. it's shambolic, no question, and it's a mess, no question. but it's an entertaining mess, largely because i like the central characters.

david 0yelowo is absolutely brilliant and he kind of holds the whole thing together. is sergeant pepper the best beatles album? no. 0k! glad we got a verdict of there! glad we got a verdict there! now, next, you were never really here, this is a kind of vigilante thriller? well, it looks like that but it isn't. it's a lynne ramsay film. lynne ramsay made rat catcher, we need to talk about kevin. she's someone who makes films entirely on her own terms. this is based on novella, byjonathan ames. and the story is that joaquin phoenix is an enforcer, somebody who is a hired gun, who specialises in retrieving lost kids, lost teenagers. he is sent at the beginning of the film to get back a senator's missing daughter. that's the mechanics of the plot. however, lynne ramsay isn't that interested in plot mechanics, what she's interested in is the fact that he's a very damaged character. she described him as somebody who's got what is like a head full of broken glass. and what the film does is, it gives you this nominal thriller narrative but actually it's a very poetic portrait of somebody who's life is falling apart and who's haunted by the ghosts of the past, who's haunted

by past abusive traumas. plus, it upends your expectation because you know at the beginning that he's a kind of... he's a hired enforcer, his weapon of choice is a hammer. and yet he loves his mother, he looks after his mother, when they're at home psycho comes on the television, so you think, "0h, he's norman bates." but he's not norman bates. later on, shawshank redemption comes on the television, which is very significant if you are a shawshank if you're a shawshank fan, which i am. the score is byjohnny greenwood, whose work is brilliant. the whole film has this really overwhelming sensory experience, it's got a brilliant sound design. see it in a cinema that's playing it loud. and i've now seen it a couple of times and the first time i found it elliptical, almost hard to follow the plot but you don't care because what you're following is the characters. second time around i thought, this is proper cinema making. lynne ramsay is an absolute genius, nobody makes films like her. she makes few films and when she does they are always worth... as far as i'm concerned she has a perfect strike rate, and this is already one of my favourite films of the year and we're only in march. wow. yes. now, mom and dad, which sounds very nice, with nicholas cage, but it's actually parents turning

quite nasty on their children? yeah. it's one of those what if horror movies, what if parents suddenly decided to turn on their kids, because they've been in this case we think infected either by a virus or perhaps by a signal which is coming through the television...? it seems to be sort of sent through television distortion. the film is directed by the guy who is one half of neveldine and taylor, who made films like crank, who are not known for understatement. so, at the very beginning of the film, it starts as a standard thing, a mother and father and they're resentful of their children's freedoms but they're also very protective. and then this strange horrific outbreak happens and the parents turn on their children but also at the same time remain weirdly, satirically protective. here's a clip. it's not what you think. what are you doing in my house? is my daughter here? joshua. is that dad?

iwant dad. we need to leave god damn it. i want to get my backpack. why? fine just get it. we need to talk. 0h, do we need to talk? yeah, we do need to talk you can't be hit. it's not about me and carly, it's about what's happening. i get exactly... it's called hormones. now, this is one of those films in which nick cage goes full nick cage. there is a sequence in which he attacks a pool table in it ranks alongside, you know, nick cage‘s craziest moments. the reason it works is this... if you have a horror film like this it has to have a central truth truth at the heart of it. and the central truth is, these parents basically resent the fact that they... they were once young, crazy, free—spirited, nick cage and some kind of... and now their lives have changed because they've dedicated themselves to looking after the children. so, although what happens is a sort of supernatural manifestation, it's sort of clawing away at that

idea that these resentments are actually real things. it's a really odd film, it's definitely not for everybody. it's very taboo breaking. it's dealing with a very taboo issue, which is parents turning on children. we've seen plenty of movies with scary children, whether it's village of the dammed or the excorcist. this is the other way round. and it works, up to a point. it is completely bonkers. there are several moments in it when you think, this is just preposterous. but it works because it's got a central core idea, and it's not afraid, you know, to over crank itself. and i enjoyed it, but i was very aware after watching it, i'm enjoying it as a horrorfan. it's not for everybody. i can imagine as a parent you might find it pretty uncomfortable viewing. yeah, and the moments that it works the best are exactly that moments, the best are exactly those moments, when it taps into the idea that this is outrageous, this is terrible, but it's tapping into a sort of parental resentment idea, which is a very, very taboo idea. so it is as i said not for everybody but if you're a horror fan if you like films like teeth,

if you like films like american mary, if you like offbeat, strange, quirky american horror movies that dare to go into fairly dark places, then i think it's an interesting film. and it is genuinely horrifying, is it? it's genuinely satirically nasty, which is slightly different. 0k. all right! i think we get the distinction. you're not going, i can tell. i'm not going, you're absolutely right! what is best out at the moment? fantastic woman which just won to the oscar for best foreign language film is a wonderful story about a transgender woman who finds herself shut out of her life when her lover dies and the family descend, it has a brilliant performance by daniela vega, who isjust wonderful, really mesmerising, a great screen presence and really carries the movie. sebastian lelio, who directed it, i think does a wonderfuljob of mixing on the one hand, you know, realist, gritty story elements with moments of fantasy. at one point it turns into a sort of musical fantasia in which she levitates. there's another moment when she's walking down the street and the wind is blowing and it's almost like a supernatural wind. and the film is about, you know,

finding your identity, finding your place, asserting your name, you know, saying, "i am marina, this is who i am." i've seen it a few times now, and every time i've seen i've seen more in it. it's really well worth watching and it was a deserved oscar winner. so, your recommendation. absolutely. all right and the best dvd. killing of a sacred deer. killing of a sacred deer is the new film by yorgos lanthimos. it's interesting because it was at cannes the same time the lynne ramsay film was at cannes, and they shared the prize for best screenwriting. this is a very, very odd story about a medic who has a secret in his past. it starts off looking like it's a kind of strange social satire and then it turns into a full—blooded horror movie. it's more horrifying than anything that's in mom and dad. it's genuinely disturbing at the end. but it's a film again in which it's all to do with the way in which the story is told rather than the story itself. it makes a very, very interesting double bill with the lynne ramsay movie, and i don't want to say it again but the lynne ramsay movie is one

which everybody has to go and see. there is quite a lot around which blurs horror and social satire. horror is in a fantastic period at the moment, horror is in a period in which it doesn't look like a single genre. we are seeing horror inflecting a whole lot of other areas. that was my i grew up on movies. that was my i grew up on horror movies. get out is a movie i absolutely love — if you call that a horror movie. it is absolutely a horror movie. people started saying it wasn't a horror movie when it got nominated for 0scars because that is always the thing which scares people off. but it is a horror movie, it's in the tradition of ira levin, but it's also a social satire, it has elements of comedy in it. horror can inflect absolutely everything. it is the genre to end all genres. well, it's your favourite genre. it is absolutely. fair enough. mark, thank you very much indeed. thank you. just a quick reminder before you go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer as well. but that's it for this week. thank you very much for watching, and from us, goodbye.

0n the face of it the weather has been going downhill during today. many places got to see some brightness but from the south we've been watching the approach of some cloud. so, things certainly turn 30 grey and damp across parts of devon to end the day—to—day. you can see the way the cloud spread its way northwards. we have got an area of low pressure spinning down towards the south—west. underneath the cloud we're seeing quite a lot of rain. this is the radar picture as we headed through the second half of the day. the darker colours are indicating some really heavy bursts of rain. some hefty showers still working into the south—west. washing northwards during the night. perhaps some wet snow over the pennines

during the night. in scotland temperatures are being down below freezing under the clear skies. by the end of the niger towards the south we're looking at temperatures of ii south we're looking at temperatures of 11 degrees, so, a very mild start to saturday and a mild start to what is going to be a mild weekend. there will be spells of rain have to low pressure still in charge during saturday. as we go on through the day on saturday we see this wet weather moving across northern england, northern ireland and into scotland, where over higher ground there will still be a bit of snow, but at lower levels mostly rain. milder conditions spreading up from the south. tomorrow you can see the hill snow drifting northwards across scotland. across northern ireland into northern england and the midlands, we will see some outbreaks

of rain at times. some of that spreading further east as well. away from the rain bands, that's where your temperatures could get up to 15-16 your temperatures could get up to 15—16 degrees in the middle of the afternoon. heading through the night, we will see these outbreaks of rain continuing to trundle northwards with some clear spells further southbridge will allow some mist and fog patches to form. some hefty showers creeping into parts of the south, perhaps with the odd rumble of thunder. and still relatively mild. so, something milderfor relatively mild. so, something milder for the relatively mild. so, something milderfor the weekend, but relatively mild. so, something milder for the weekend, but the price you pay for that is some u nsettled price you pay for that is some unsettled weather with rain at times. this is bbc world news today. our

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