:00:00. > :00:00.the fallout from a leaked report from British cycling elite
:00:00. > :00:18.performance programme. Now it is time for the film review.
:00:19. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:23. > :00:26.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:27. > :00:55.A very mixed batch. We have Kong: Skull Island, Love Island and we
:00:56. > :01:05.have Elle. Does the world need another King Kong film? Need, not
:01:06. > :01:09.necessarily, but once. It is the land that Time forgot meets
:01:10. > :01:15.Apocalypse now. John Goodman managed to persuade the US Army to escort
:01:16. > :01:19.him to Skull Island, where he thinks something is going on. They arrive
:01:20. > :01:25.and they start carpet bombing the island in order to shake up
:01:26. > :01:29.everything on the island. A massive aid starts swatting helicopters out
:01:30. > :01:34.of the sky. It does have a great sense of fun about it. We have Sam
:01:35. > :01:39.Jackson, the soldier, who is not going to lose this battle. John C
:01:40. > :01:44.Reilly who has been there since World War II. Tom Huddlestone as a
:01:45. > :01:48.tracker, they are trying to get from one side of the island to the other
:01:49. > :01:53.and there are major beasties are afoot. Here is a clip.
:01:54. > :02:07.I've taken enough photos of mass graves
:02:08. > :02:14.The clear site is just on the other side of this
:02:15. > :02:17.We'll cross through and make it to the highest point West.
:02:18. > :02:21.We need to be going to the north side right
:02:22. > :02:25.And you are welcome to do that, my man...
:02:26. > :02:45.I love the comment that said it is jolly good fun as long as you check
:02:46. > :02:50.your brain at the cloakroom? It is smarter than that. The director made
:02:51. > :02:53.this small film called Kings of summer and very much like Gareth
:02:54. > :03:00.Edwards who went from monsters to Godzilla. It is like a $200 million
:03:01. > :03:05.epic. He has left his fingerprints on it. Yes, it is a huge monster
:03:06. > :03:12.franchise movie, it has also got loads of very slight jokes in it. I
:03:13. > :03:19.think there are a couple of references to cannibal Holocaust. I
:03:20. > :03:22.like the fact that what he does is, he takes just Dean of liberties with
:03:23. > :03:29.how far you can push the characters, but also remembers people are there
:03:30. > :03:35.to see the monsters. One of the things that is most rewarding, when
:03:36. > :03:40.you see King Kong, who is about 100 feet tall, we're not getting the
:03:41. > :03:45.edit every quarter second that the Transformers movie does. It is
:03:46. > :03:50.genuine beauty in these shots. Iconic image of King Kong rising up
:03:51. > :03:57.in front of the sun. Tom Huddlestone with Sammy Rice soared. You can see
:03:58. > :04:01.how camera is swelling and we're not getting the stupid fast edits that
:04:02. > :04:06.have made this kind of cinema headache. What you always get is a
:04:07. > :04:12.battle between the director and what they want, their personal vision and
:04:13. > :04:17.what the producers want. It is who wins what battles. I think he won
:04:18. > :04:21.more battles and he lost. I enjoyed it. I liked the jukebox soundtrack
:04:22. > :04:28.and the other movies it references. I didn't get bored. There were
:04:29. > :04:32.moments when I thought, wow, that is an impressive, enormous creature. I
:04:33. > :04:37.enjoyed it much more than I expected to and I don't thing you have to
:04:38. > :04:49.check your brain in. I didn't get bored, says Mark. The Love Which
:04:50. > :04:53.where you board in that? No, the best way of describing this, imagine
:04:54. > :04:59.all that haven't allows us directed by Jess Franco. It is in an age
:05:00. > :05:05.where mobile phones exist yet it has this late 60s, early 70s theme
:05:06. > :05:15.beyond the Valley of the dolls. It is a white which his spell all men
:05:16. > :05:25.fall under. It is almost like a magical incantation and
:05:26. > :05:31.extraordinary detail. The strange thing about it, a lot of the Wicker
:05:32. > :05:38.man going on in the background. It is very funny. It is oddly sincere
:05:39. > :05:42.in a way which you don't expect. It is subversive. I really enjoyed it.
:05:43. > :05:48.I went in thinking I would be watching a parody and it was so much
:05:49. > :05:53.more than that. I have met so many people who felt the same thing. They
:05:54. > :05:59.thought it would be a bit camp and fun. It is more than that. Although
:06:00. > :06:04.it is all of those things as well. Just looking at the pictures, I am a
:06:05. > :06:12.bit worried it is not camp enough! Extraordinary. Interestingly, there
:06:13. > :06:18.is a strange sincerity that underlines it. It is a very strange
:06:19. > :06:23.movie and I liked it very much. The talking point of the week is Elle.
:06:24. > :06:29.As a woman, I feel anxious about going to see it actually? I
:06:30. > :06:34.understand that and I feel anxious having seen it. It can be read in
:06:35. > :06:42.many different ways and all of them contradictory. It is a film of
:06:43. > :06:49.sexual violence and has a track record of overstepping certain
:06:50. > :06:56.lines. Isabel a pair, is cinema's most fearless screen presence. She
:06:57. > :07:00.plays a businesswoman who is attacked at the beginning of the
:07:01. > :07:05.film and an almost doesn't seem to respond. She will go to the police,
:07:06. > :07:09.because as a child she was caught up in the arrest of her monstrous
:07:10. > :07:59.father and was, in her mind betrayed by the police. Here is a clip.
:08:00. > :08:08.She is so watchable, but I don't know if I have the stomach. Is it
:08:09. > :08:17.very violent? I am lost for words. The director, based it on a novel.
:08:18. > :08:21.It is almost as if the character becomes the author of the film. It
:08:22. > :08:27.has been described as a black comedy, a social satire and rape
:08:28. > :08:34.revenge movie. It is all and yet none of these things. What is is
:08:35. > :08:40.nobody else other than this character could have done that. They
:08:41. > :08:45.couldn't get the cast of the financing in America. She went on to
:08:46. > :08:49.be nominated for an Oscar. She is brilliant in this and I think she is
:08:50. > :08:54.brilliant in almost everything she is in. If it wasn't for the strength
:08:55. > :09:00.of her performance, if it wasn't for the extraordinary way in which she
:09:01. > :09:04.just dominates the screen, this would be a very different film. That
:09:05. > :09:09.said, it is absolutely a film which is designed to wrong-foot you, which
:09:10. > :09:13.is designed to make you feel uncomfortable. It has been
:09:14. > :09:17.interesting see Billy McClure seemed the many different ways critics have
:09:18. > :09:23.responded to it, trying to describe it. The best way to describe it, it
:09:24. > :09:34.is an Isabel film, apart from the director. Moonlight, it is back in
:09:35. > :09:42.the cinemas? It is back. It is such a marvellous work, a work of art and
:09:43. > :09:50.I love it to pieces. DVD for anyone staying in. We have Logan. Doctor
:09:51. > :09:55.strange, what would you do with a superhero movie if you make the kind
:09:56. > :10:00.of film Ken Russell would make. Watching Doctor strange, Benedict
:10:01. > :10:07.Cumberbatch as a neurosurgeon that gets pulled into this strange world.
:10:08. > :10:12.Sometimes you think it is an outtake of altered States. I love the
:10:13. > :10:16.hallucinogenic weirdness, but in cinemas, they take Logan completely
:10:17. > :10:24.the other way. It is almost not a superhero movie. Looking at Doctor
:10:25. > :10:29.strange, it is a superhero movie and we can be as psychedelic as we like.
:10:30. > :10:32.It is an interesting double bill. Thanks very much, as ever.
:10:33. > :10:35.A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
:10:36. > :10:37.and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode
:10:38. > :10:43.and you can catch up on our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.