Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the week's movies

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2022
Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King’s Daughter
Guillermo del Toro talks about his new film Nightmare Alley, the second film adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette. Mark reviews that film along with Sir Ken ‘Chuckles’ Branagh’s new film Belfast, which he discussed with Simon on last week’s show, about a young boy and his working-class Belfast family experiencing the tumultuous late 1960s; documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, looking at the career of Brian Wilson; Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan, about soldier who, before he is killed in action in Iraq, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father; and Mass, about which we talk to star Jason Isaacs. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
January 21, 2022
126 min
Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria and Save the Cinema
Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his new film Belfast. Mark reviews Scream, set twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro; Joel Coen’s adaptation of Sir William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, about a Scottish lord who becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland; Save the Cinema, which tells the story of Liz Evans, who started a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema; documentary Ascension, which explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream."; Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, about a woman from Scotland, who while traveling in Colombia begins to notice strange sounds; Andrea Arnold’s Cow, a close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows. And the long-awaited The King’s Daughter, about King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
January 14, 2022
123 min
Peter Dinklage, Munich: The Edge of War, Minyan, Ailey, A Hero and Boiling Point
Ben Bailey Smith talks to Peter Dinklage about his role in Cyrano. Plus Anna Bogutskaya reviews the new 4k restoration of Truffaut's The 400 Blows; Boiling Point, which stars Stephen Graham as a head chef wrangling his team on the busiest day of the year; Ailey, an immersive portrait of dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, told through his own words and a new dance inspired by his life; American Siege, Bruce Willis's latest actioner; A Hero, Asghar Farhadi’s film about a man who is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay; Munich - The Edge of War about a British diplomat who travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II; and Minyan, about a young Jewish man caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family in 1980s Brooklyn. Plus Ben and Anna talk through all the films on current release in the box office top ten. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. . Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:19:20 Box Office Top Ten 00:55:00 Munich: The Edge of War 00:59:28 American Siege 01:04:10 Peter Dinklage 01:22:40 Boiling Point 01:29:20 Ailey 01:34:00 A Hero 01:37:42 Minyan 01:43:10 The 400 Blows 01:49:10 DVD of the Week
January 7, 2022
116 min
2021
Best of 2021
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo with their best reviews and interviews from 2021 including their chats with Sigourney Weaver, Emma Stone and Lakeith Stanfield and Mark's reviews of Wild Mountain Thyme, Greenland, Summer of Soul, Godzilla v Kong, Nomadland and No Time to Die. Plus the best dad jokes of the year. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
December 31, 2021
113 min
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss, The Matrix Resurrections, The King’s Man, Titane and Licorice Pizza.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss talk about their new films, The Matrix Resurrections, in which we return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. Mark reviews that film along with The Humans, a horror set in a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan; The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman movies starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton and Rhys Ifans; Julia Ducornau’s Titane; Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain about the English artist Louis Wain who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings; Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, which tells the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in 1973. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release in the box office top ten. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00 Pod starts 00:29:00 Top Ten 00:45:20 Titane review 00:51:38 Keanu and Carrie-Ann Moss 01:06:00 The Matrix: Resurrections review 01:23:00 The Humans review 01:27:58 TV Movie of the Week 01:33:04 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 01:39:26 The King's Man review 01:52:20 Licorice Pizza review 02:54:00 DVD of the Week
December 24, 2021
132 min
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Nine Days
Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about her new film The Lost Daughter. Mark reviews that film plus the rest of the week’s new releases The Tender Bar, about a boy growing up on Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar; Lola and the Sea, about an eighteen-year-old who lives in a foster home; Nine Days, about a reclusive man who conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born; Mark Gatiss’s new version of The Amazing Mr Blunden, about modern teenagers Lucy and Jamie, for whom adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man with a job offer; Spider-Man: No Way Home, with Tom Holland as the Marvel superhero. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
December 17, 2021
124 min
Steven Spielberg, Ariana DeBose, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up and Being the Ricardos
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies. Also on the programme, interviews with key figures from the world of cinema, as well as your emails and the latest Box Office top ten. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
December 10, 2021
123 min
Riz Ahmed, Encounter, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and C'mon C'mon
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies. Also on the programme, interviews with key figures from the world of cinema, as well as your emails and the latest Box Office top ten. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment
December 3, 2021
116 min

About the podcast Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the week's movies

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

About the podcast Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King’s Daughter

Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria and Save the Cinema

Peter Dinklage, Munich: The Edge of War, Minyan, Ailey, A Hero and Boiling Point

Best of 2021

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss, The Matrix Resurrections, The King’s Man, Titane and Licorice Pizza.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Nine Days

Steven Spielberg, Ariana DeBose, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up and Being the Ricardos

Riz Ahmed, Encounter, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and C'mon C'mon

About the podcast Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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