hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. what have you been seeing? an interesting week. we have breaking in, a home invasion thriller with a twist. we have revenge — about which there's been a lot of press — a gruelling thriller. and the cured, a new look at the old zombie formula. new zombies! oh, it's a dark week, mr kermode, it really is! yes, the cannes film festival is on, it's a strange week. ok, let's start with breaking in. this is a home invasion thriller with a maternal twist. the tagline is "payback is a mother." gabrielle is shaun, who inherits a house basically like a fortress, she goes there with her children and it is immediately broken into by thieves. then her children are held captive in the house, the thieves try to find a safe, and she is outside. they have said to her, "you are a woman at the mercy of strangers, you have no chance," but they have seriously misjudged her desire to prove that,

in her own words, mums don't run. here's the clip... you've got to be kidding me. yo, eddie! was that mom? those weren't gunshots...

here she comes. that is billy burke from the twilight movies, who plays the father in the twilight films. i loved them and loved his character. don't mess with her. i get that! i like that — that's a positive. that is pretty much the interesting thing about the movie. very much a nuts and bolts b—movie thriller. i like that idea she is outside the house and they are inside, that kind of turned it around. i like the idea that theyjust completely underestimate her, just imagine she is a mother, and actually she proves more than a match for them. she doesn't need a man to come in and save her, and it is a great performance and i think she makes the most of it. that said, it is not a movie that will change the world. very much, as i said, very nuts and bolts b—movie. which under other circumstances you might see going straight to dvd, but it's short, cuts to the chase, i was never bored. if it's not remarkable, it's impressively solid,

with a nice central twist. i liked it more than i thought i was going to. i love it when i can pick out your little phrases i know that they want on a poster, "impressively solid." a good one. we like her. so that's good. take us through the next of your challenging week... this is breaking in, this attention grabbing movie from french directorjames mcteigue. a young woman takes revenge on men who assaulted her and left her for dead. taken as a feminist take on the rape—revenge genre, often quite a misogynist genre. this has a garish visual style, almost a day glow look to it. sometimes a comic book sensibility. mad max fury road cited as one of the inspirations. it is very stylish, very well done, very efficiently done. i'm not sure it's as ground—breaking as some critics think. people have been saying it's

the first of this genre of movie done with a feminist line, but that is not true. but what it is is a very good calling card, a film which announces itself with its style. it's very gory, and speaking as a horrorfan i like that, that when it goes into that generic stuff it does it properly. i know that you are not a horror movie fan. there were reports of some people finding it too gory and not able to get through the screenings. you get reports of people practically needing an ambulance and so on and you never know whether the distributors have said, well, let's talk that up because it will attract attention, but it sounds pretty grim. i remember at the edinburgh film festival when somebody in front of me passed out during a screening of irreversible and all i thought, that will go on the posters! i will never be able to judge that one for you, as you know, because i simply can't face it, i'm afraid. the cured? not a big zombie fan, i understand? this is a curious week!

laughter set in a world after an outbreak of a virus which has turned people effectively into zombies, they have done terrible things. but then they find a cure, and the cured people are now sent back into the community as the cured. an irish horrorfilm, with a political slant. it's about how do we reintegrate these people who have done terrible things but are now apparently different. this is a clip. the cure was supposed to be some sort of great hope but things are just getting worse. that's not fair — my daughter was released. she can't hurt anyone any more. people need to give them a second chance. we have given them every chance. they have not integrated. they are not like us... have you seen the news, the violence ? there is something wrong with them. voices talk over each other they are just scum. left is home.

what i like about this film, the best of these movies, they are based on ideas. fairly low—budget, ellen page plays the woman accepting her brother—in—law back into the house, he has been cured, and no one is quite sure what he's done. it's about ideas, reintegration, about how you deal with the aftermath of strife. and if you look at george romero's zombie movies, night of the living dead,

it's about racism, dawn of the dead, consumerism, vivisection, they are all really about something else. this is really brief, before it goes to dvd. that is where might find its main audience but it is a film of ideas, and sometimes they are not perfectly expressed but at least it has them, and i thought it was kind of intriguing. i am interested in whether it is about discrimination, and interesting that it is set in ireland, about two sides violently set apart from each other... i think it is kind of more universal than that, i think it is very much about what you do in post—conflict situations, but absolutely, discrimination, it is a theme of it, because although with the people who are cured or saying, we are being discriminated against, and we have rights like everybody else and people are saying, no, you don't, because you were these terrible things in the past. i think you can read all these different interpretations into it and that for me is an indication of a good film, that afterward you can say, what do you think it was about? i think the ideas in it are valuable and interesting,

even if sometimes you can see the limitations of the film itself. idon‘t mind. i'd rather have a film that raised questions than one thatjust solved it all and was perfectly put together but didn't really raise any difficult questions. mm. best out... lean on pete. there were things about this i loved. the performances, the central thrust of the story, a young man, hisjourney, shall we call it? is is, yeah. through life, through wild deserts? yes, the andrew haigh adaptation about the story of a boy and his horse. what i liked about it... on the one hand i thought it was a coming—of—age story but, yes, i think it is more universal. i thought it looked beautiful, and i thought charlie plummer was fantastic. so much about him reminded me ofjames dean, so vulnerable, so fragile, but a real sturdiness, and the scenes with just him and the horse, and the scenes with him and steve buscemi, who i know you...

they were an absolute highlight of the film. i watched it as someone who knew nothing about horses and you don't really need that. no, you just need to know about loneliness and growing up and i think most people know about at least one if not two of those things. and steve buscemi is great. the movie is kind, nobody is two—dimensional or thrown away. beautiful landscapes as well, if you want that as a bonus. what about anyone who might want to watch a dvd? well, previous palm d'or winner, the square. klaus is the creator of this museum, who seems to be terribly right on, terribly, you know, thinking about equal rights and everything, but actually due to the theft of his mobile phone, he's in torment. it's a very interesting piece. at times it's darkly satirical,

there is a scene in it about a piece of performance art that is one of the creepiest things i have ever seen, but, and i say this, it is not a horrorfilm! laughter ok? you are a good man, you brought me something! curious week but an interesting one. thank you very much. dr kermode, i should get it right! i will get told off otherwise. 0k, see you next week. a quick reminder before we go, all the film news and reviews from across the bbc at bbc.co.uk/markkermode, and our previous shows are on the iplayer of course. that's it for this week. goodbye. good evening, we have a bit of everything this weekend, sunshine, rain and even a dollop of

uncertainty, and be temperatures, remember last weekend? how could you for —— forget? this weekend will be a bit cooler, about normalfor for —— forget? this weekend will be a bit cooler, about normal for the time of year. the uncertainty is around this area cloud which is juicing rain, it is moving slowly —— producing rain, it is moving slowly east and at some stage it will come toa east and at some stage it will come to a stop. even that is turning light and patchy, most of it heading to the north—east and into the north sea, behind that we have clearer skies arriving, it will be quite cold tonight over northern ireland and wales especially. as we head into the weekend this every low— pressure into the weekend this every low—pressure looks like it will remain into the north west rather than heading into the south—west, and this weather front, this is the problem, grinding to a halt but we're not sure where, but it will produce areas of rain. we start the weekend with what is left of it, the

rain in the north west of scotland, which moves away, it is quite rosy for a while, and then we have to look back at the cloud thickening up, heading into the south—east, rain arriving, pushing into lincolnshire, but otherwise a lot of dry weather, also sunshine, and the south west with a top temperature of i6. south west with a top temperature of 16. through the evening the rain could be a bit heavy, it will head north, but we are not certain about the position. it could be out into the position. it could be out into the north sea orfurther west the position. it could be out into the north sea or further west but this is what we are expecting so far. by the morning another area of heavy rain in the south—east following asymmetry rack on sunday. —— a similar track. it should improve through sunday in the south and midlands. not as many showers for northern ireland and wales and the south—west as we were thinking

yesterday. sunshine to come but also spells of rain, but things calm down for the end of the weekend as we head into next week. high pressure building into the system and that means dry weather and spells of sunshine and for a while it could be a little bit warmer, as well. we have got to get over the weekend and there might be changes in the detail so there might be changes in the detail so keep watching the forecast. us and south korean officials meet to discuss the summit with the north. the us secretary of state suggests that pyongyang could get financial help — if it gives up nuclear weapons. if chairman kim chooses the right path, there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for north korea and the north korean people. the french economy minister says european nations should not allow the us to police the world's economy. kenyan authorities say a dam which burst earlier this week, killing at least 45 people,

was illegally built. and banned from showing eurovision — a chinese tv network is stopped from broadcasting the contest after a censorship row.