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the fallout from a leaked report from British cycling elite

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performance programme. Now it is time for the film review.

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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.

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To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

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A very mixed batch. We have Kong: Skull Island, Love Island and we

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have Elle. Does the world need another King Kong film? Need, not

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necessarily, but once. It is the land that Time forgot meets

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Apocalypse now. John Goodman managed to persuade the US Army to escort

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him to Skull Island, where he thinks something is going on. They arrive

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and they start carpet bombing the island in order to shake up

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everything on the island. A massive aid starts swatting helicopters out

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of the sky. It does have a great sense of fun about it. We have Sam

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Jackson, the soldier, who is not going to lose this battle. John C

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Reilly who has been there since World War II. Tom Huddlestone as a

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tracker, they are trying to get from one side of the island to the other

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and there are major beasties are afoot. Here is a clip.

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I've taken enough photos of mass graves

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The clear site is just on the other side of this

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We'll cross through and make it to the highest point West.

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We need to be going to the north side right

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And you are welcome to do that, my man...

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I love the comment that said it is jolly good fun as long as you check

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your brain at the cloakroom? It is smarter than that. The director made

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this small film called Kings of summer and very much like Gareth

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Edwards who went from monsters to Godzilla. It is like a $200 million

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epic. He has left his fingerprints on it. Yes, it is a huge monster

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franchise movie, it has also got loads of very slight jokes in it. I

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think there are a couple of references to cannibal Holocaust. I

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like the fact that what he does is, he takes just Dean of liberties with

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how far you can push the characters, but also remembers people are there

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to see the monsters. One of the things that is most rewarding, when

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you see King Kong, who is about 100 feet tall, we're not getting the

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edit every quarter second that the Transformers movie does. It is

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genuine beauty in these shots. Iconic image of King Kong rising up

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in front of the sun. Tom Huddlestone with Sammy Rice soared. You can see

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how camera is swelling and we're not getting the stupid fast edits that

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have made this kind of cinema headache. What you always get is a

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battle between the director and what they want, their personal vision and

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what the producers want. It is who wins what battles. I think he won

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more battles and he lost. I enjoyed it. I liked the jukebox soundtrack

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and the other movies it references. I didn't get bored. There were

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moments when I thought, wow, that is an impressive, enormous creature. I

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enjoyed it much more than I expected to and I don't thing you have to

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check your brain in. I didn't get bored, says Mark. The Love Which

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where you board in that? No, the best way of describing this, imagine

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all that haven't allows us directed by Jess Franco. It is in an age

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where mobile phones exist yet it has this late 60s, early 70s theme

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beyond the Valley of the dolls. It is a white which his spell all men

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fall under. It is almost like a magical incantation and

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extraordinary detail. The strange thing about it, a lot of the Wicker

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man going on in the background. It is very funny. It is oddly sincere

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in a way which you don't expect. It is subversive. I really enjoyed it.

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I went in thinking I would be watching a parody and it was so much

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more than that. I have met so many people who felt the same thing. They

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thought it would be a bit camp and fun. It is more than that. Although

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it is all of those things as well. Just looking at the pictures, I am a

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bit worried it is not camp enough! Extraordinary. Interestingly, there

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is a strange sincerity that underlines it. It is a very strange

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movie and I liked it very much. The talking point of the week is Elle.

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As a woman, I feel anxious about going to see it actually? I

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understand that and I feel anxious having seen it. It can be read in

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many different ways and all of them contradictory. It is a film of

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sexual violence and has a track record of overstepping certain

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lines. Isabel a pair, is cinema's most fearless screen presence. She

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plays a businesswoman who is attacked at the beginning of the

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film and an almost doesn't seem to respond. She will go to the police,

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because as a child she was caught up in the arrest of her monstrous

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father and was, in her mind betrayed by the police. Here is a clip.

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She is so watchable, but I don't know if I have the stomach. Is it

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very violent? I am lost for words. The director, based it on a novel.

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It is almost as if the character becomes the author of the film. It

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has been described as a black comedy, a social satire and rape

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revenge movie. It is all and yet none of these things. What is is

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nobody else other than this character could have done that. They

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couldn't get the cast of the financing in America. She went on to

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be nominated for an Oscar. She is brilliant in this and I think she is

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brilliant in almost everything she is in. If it wasn't for the strength

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of her performance, if it wasn't for the extraordinary way in which she

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just dominates the screen, this would be a very different film. That

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said, it is absolutely a film which is designed to wrong-foot you, which

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is designed to make you feel uncomfortable. It has been

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interesting see Billy McClure seemed the many different ways critics have

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responded to it, trying to describe it. The best way to describe it, it

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is an Isabel film, apart from the director. Moonlight, it is back in

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the cinemas? It is back. It is such a marvellous work, a work of art and

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I love it to pieces. DVD for anyone staying in. We have Logan. Doctor

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strange, what would you do with a superhero movie if you make the kind

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of film Ken Russell would make. Watching Doctor strange, Benedict

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Cumberbatch as a neurosurgeon that gets pulled into this strange world.

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Sometimes you think it is an outtake of altered States. I love the

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hallucinogenic weirdness, but in cinemas, they take Logan completely

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the other way. It is almost not a superhero movie. Looking at Doctor

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strange, it is a superhero movie and we can be as psychedelic as we like.

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It is an interesting double bill. Thanks very much, as ever.

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A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news

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and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode

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and you can catch up on our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.

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