to millionaires, 1?,000 men, comes to millionaires, 17,000 men, 2000 women. the trouble is if you drill down into those figures and find out what it actually means, i do think it gives you a picture of a gender pay gap. and surely, where the gap exists is where you have men and women to bring exactly the same job and the women are paid less. that is patently wrong, it is different from those figures to say that this is. it is also, it doesn't put it in any context because if you go in that sort of money the chances are you are not in your 20s and what would be more interesting... not in an averagejob. would be more interesting... not in an average job. it would be would be more interesting... not in an averagejob. it would be more interesting to look people in their 30s where we will be in 20 years time. let's go very quickly, i don't no if we 50s in in about 90 seconds, back to the sunday times. let's talk about general newton —— gender neutral cards. it is a marketing ploy. neutral cards. it is a marketing ploy, honestly. we stay with the

sunday times, zooming in here, i love this. i love this because i love this. i love this because i love the film three billboards outside adding ms lawrie which frances mcdormand obviously won the oscar for. you haven't frances mcdormand obviously won the oscarfor. you haven't seen it, i thoroughly recommend it, but this is a wonderful cartoon. —— three billboards ourside ebbing, missouri. we are all asking that question. nigel and we are all asking that question. nigelandjo, it we are all asking that question. nigel and jo, it has been a pleasure. thank you for watching. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. goodbye. hello there, welcome to the film review here on bbc news.

and taking us through this week's cinema releases is, who else, but mark kermode. so mark, 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 nic cage. ok, so let's kick off with gringo. this is about a businessman who becomes a kind of wanted criminal? yeah, so the story is, david oyelowo is a sort of 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 his job, 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. there it is again. what is that smell? barbecue — ialways bring it for angel. angel, buenos dias. 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's 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 at the wall

and see what sticks, and only some of them do. 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 deville, 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. and it's one of those weirdly surreal moments that works. 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 oyelowo is absolutely brilliant, and he kind of holds the whole thing together. is sergeant pepper

the best beatles album? no. no, 0k. 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 is someone who makes films entirely on her own terms. this is based on a 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 really 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, 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, "oh, he's norman bates. " but he's not norman bates. later on, shawshank redemption comes on the television, which is very significant 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 it. 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. so 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 kind of 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, mr ryan. what are you doing in my house? is my daughter here? carly? joshua?

is that dad? iwant dad. we need to leave god damn it. i want to get my backpack. fine just get it. we need to talk. oh, 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...what‘s happening. it's called hormones. now, this is one of those films in which nic cage goes full nic cage. there is a sequence in which he attacks a pool table, and it ranks alongside, you know, nic 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 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, nic 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, you know, whether it's village of the dammed, or the exorcist. this is the other way round. and it works, up to a point. it's 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. well, i can imagine as a parent you might find it pretty uncomfortable kind of viewing. yeah, and the moments that it works 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's, you know, as i said, not for everybody, but if you're a horrorfan, 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 is just 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 musicalfantasia, 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. i mean, 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, 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, and obviously... 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. and people started saying it wasn't a horror movie when it got nominated for oscars, because that's 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. you know, 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 is it for this week. thank you very much for watching, and from us, goodbye. as the rain band cleared northwards

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