Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Schmestions Josh O’Connor and Simon’s chat was so good that we had to include more of it in Take 2 – you're welcome! Mark espouses his critical wisdom on ‘Red Herring’, an autobiographical documentary, which sees filmmaker Kit Vincent faced with a terminal diagnosis, leading him to enlist his family on an intimate and darkly funny journey to help them come to terms with his illness; ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’, the (chronologically) first instalment of George Lucas’ legendary sci-fi saga, which follows the first fateful steps in the journey of Anakin Skywalker; and ‘Baby Reindeer’, the unexpected smash hit Netflix series which is based on writer and comedian Richard Gadd’s real-life experience of being stalked and sexually assaulted in his twenties. This week’s One Frame Back is the best stunt performances to coincide with the release of ‘The Fall Guy’. Our bespectacled duo help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. Plus, they answer a few of your Questions (film-related) and Schmestions (non-film related), from what happens when a director realises that an actor has been hopelessly miscast to the popular consumer products they think are giant rip-offs. Timecodes: 8:36 Red Herring Review 18:43 Phantom Menace Review 30:08 One Frame Back: Best Stunt Performances 33:16 More Josh O’Connor 41:57 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist 46:14 Baby Reindeer Review 54:15 Questions Schmestions Watchlist films this week: By the Grace of God – BBC Two, Sun 5 May, 1.45am We Need to Talk About Kevin – BBC Two, Sun 5 May, 12am Saint Maud – Film4, Fri 3 May, 10.50pm Senna – Channel 4, Sun 5 May, 11.20pm The Road – GREAT! Movies, Sun 5 May, 11.05pm Notlist films this week: London Has Fallen – Film4, Sat 4 May, 9pm SPYkids 3-D: Game Over – ITV2, Sat 4 May, 3.35pm Salt – Film4, Sat 4 May, 2am You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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This week, man of the moment Josh O’Connor is in the studio to chat to Simon about his leading role in ‘La Chimera’, Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s period fantasy drama about a British archaeologist who becomes involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s. Mark gives his take on various new releases including ‘Love Lies Bleeding’, the latest offering from Kermode fave Rose Glass, which sees Kristen Stewart play a reclusive gym manager who falls for an ambitious bodybuilder only for the pair to become embroiled in the former’s violent criminal family; and ‘The Idea of You’, an Anne Hathaway-starring romcom that sees a 40-year-old single mum begin an unexpected romance with the 24-year-old leader singer of the biggest boy band on the planet. The big review of the week is 'The Fall Guy’, a Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt-starring action comedy, which sees a battle-scarred stuntman spring back into action when the star of a big studio movie suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): 06:20 – Love Lies Bleeding Review 12:36 – Box Office Top Ten 25:02 – Josh O’Connor Interview 42:24 – The Idea of You 48:46 – What's On May 55:23 – The Fall Guy You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Mark and Simon answer a host of listener questions. This week’s One Frame Back is the best films set on or featuring space stations to coincide with the release of ‘I.S.S.’ Our bespectacled duo help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. Plus, they answer a few of your Questions (film-related) and Schmestions (non-film related), from how they feel about Paul Atreides to their thoughts on the most overhyped skills people boast about having. Timecodes: 14:59 One Frame Back: Best Kirsten Dunst films 31:21 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist 34:36 Questions Schmestions Watchlist films this week: X – Channel 4, Sat 27 April, 1.10am I Am Not a Witch – Film4, Sat 27 April, 1.45am Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse – Channel 4, Sat 27 April, 11.35am Hereditary – Film4, Sat 27 April, 11.20pm AI: Artificial Intelligence – Film4, Sun 28 April, 11.20pm Notlist films this week: American Reunion – Channel 4, Fri 26 April, 11.05pm Hitman – Film4, Mon 29 April, 11.05pm Mile 22, Film4, Mon 29 April, 10.50pm You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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This week there’s no guest, but lots more witterings from the good doctors to make up for it.   Mark gives his take on a swathe of new films, including ‘Ordinary Angels’, a Hilary Swank-starring emotional drama about a hairdresser who rallies an entire community to help a widowed father get his critically ill youngest daughter a liver transplant; ‘Boy Kills World’, an action thriller about a martial arts expert who goes on a campaign of vengeance after he is rendered deaf-mute by an attack that killed his entire family; ‘I.S.S.’, a science fiction thriller, which sees tensions flare aboard the International Space Station when a worldwide conflict breaks out on earth; and ‘Challengers’, Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which sees Zendaya star as a former-tennis-prodigy-turned-coach who transforms her husband into a world-famous grand slam champion only to become embroiled in a love triangle when he competes against his former best friend – and her former lover.   The big review of the week is ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’, a comedy-drama, which sees a young man join a clandestine group of magical African Americans committed to enhancing the lives of white individuals, satirising the Magical Negro trope.   Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): 09:39 – Orindary Angels 16:42 – Boy Kills World 20:45 – Box Office Top Ten 35:19 – I.S.S. 43:33 – Challengers 50:27 – American Society of Magical Negroes You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo   EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!  A Sony Music Entertainment production.     Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts    To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week Simon and Mark are away so instead we have a clip episode for your viewing pleasure featuring interviews with the likes of Ramy Youssef and Emma Stone, Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer; and reviews of everything from ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ to Madame Web. Enjoy listening to some of the best The Take has had to offer these past few months! Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): 2:08 The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, Universal) 4:57  Scala!!! (Jane Giles, Ali Catterall, BFI) 8:35 Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, A24) 12:19 All of us strangers (Andrew Haigh, Disney) 15:42 Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, Disney) 21:19 Ramy Youssef and Emma Stone 25:21 Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer 31:02 Cate Blanchett 35:12 Cillian Murphy 42:13 Kung Fu Panda (Mike Mitchell, Universal) 45:42 Godzilla x Kong The New Empire ( Adam Wingard, Warner Bros) 47:11 Madame Web (SJ Clarkson, Columbia Pictures) 50:49 Driveaway Dolls (Ethan Coen, Universal) 53:59 Ghostbusters Frozen Empire (Gil Kenan, Columbia) You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bonus reviews include ‘Opponent’, a drama about an Iranian wrestling champion’s complex battle for asylum for him and his family in Sweden; ‘Ratcatcher’, Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay’s now-classic debut feature, which has been restored in 4K to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and follows a young boy’s life on a derelict Glaswegian council estate where killing rats has become a sport for local children; and ‘All You Need is Death’, which sees a young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past. This week’s One Frame Back is the best Kirsten Dunst performances to celebrate the release of her new film ‘Civil War’. Mark and Simon help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. Plus, they answer a few of your Questions (film-related) and Schmestions (non-film related), from the terrible movies they still love because they loved them as a kid to how they feel about using nuclear energy as a power source. Timecodes: 03:43 Opponent review 13:27 Ratcatcher review 17:10: All You Need is Death review 20:33 One Frame Back: Best Kirsten Dunst films 25:12 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist 27:43 Questions Schmestions Watchlist films this week: The Power of the Dog – BBC Two, Fri 12 April, 11.05pm Hombre – Talking Pictures TV, Sat 13 April, 3.35pm Bridesmaids – itv2, Sat 13 April, 9pm Inglorious Basterds – 5Star, Sat 13 April, 9pm Sorry to Bother You – BBC Two, Sun 14 April, 11.40pm You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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This week, Kirsten Dunst and Alex Garland sit down to chat with Simon about their new film ‘Civil War’, which sees Dunst star as a photojournalist travelling with her team across a dystopian United States, engulfed by a second civil war, in a bid to interview and photograph the president. Mark also gives his take on the film, as well as reviewing ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’, a drama in which a teacher decides to step in when one of her students is suspected of theft, finding herself caught between her ideals and the school system in the process; and ‘The First Omen’, which sees a young American nun start to question her own faith when she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate in Rome. The big review of the week is ‘Back to Black’, a musical biopic about singer Amy Winehouse’s tumultuous relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil inspires her to write and record the groundbreaking album ‘Back to Black’. Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): The Teachers’ Lounge – 6:58 Box Office Top Ten – 10:55 The First Omen – 13:16 Kirsten Dunst & Alex Garland Interview – 25:32 Civil War Review – 37:45 Back to Black Review – 46:11 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bonus reviews include ‘Scoop’, a Gillian Anderson and Billie Piper-starring biographical drama, which explores how the women of “Newsnight” secured the infamous interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; and ‘The Trouble with Jessica’, a satirical black comedy, which follows a London couple in deep financial trouble, whose situation takes a terrifying nosedive with the shocking behaviour of an uninvited dinner guest. This week’s One Frame Back is the best revenge films to coincide with the release of Dev Patel’s directorial debut ‘Monkey Man’. Plus, Mark and Simon help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. They also answer a few of your Questions (film-related) and Schmestions (non-film related), from whether there is a name for when a line from a song directly corresponds to the action on screen to their recommendations for album of the week. Timecodes: 10:51 Scoop review 23:20 The Trouble with Jessica review 30:38 One Frame Back: Best Revenge Films 38:49 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist 43:06 Questions Schmestions Watchlist films this week: Nobody – Film4, Fri 5 April, 9pm I, Tonya – BBC Two, Fri 5 April, 11.05pm Gloria – Talking Pictures TV, Sat 6 April, 12.55am The Blair Witch Project – BBC Three, Sat 6 April, 10pm Blood Simple – Film4, Sun 7 April, 1.50am You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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This week, the lovely Dev Patel is on the show to chat all things ‘Monkey Man’, his (co) writing and directorial debut, which sees a young man hunt down the group of corrupt leaders responsible for his mother’s death. Mark also gives his thoughts on the film, as well as reviewing ‘Evil Does Not Exist’, an enigmatic eco-parable, which sees a Tokyo company buy up land near a pristine lake in a bid to turn it into a glamping site; and ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’, a Rebecca Hall-starring follow-up to the 2021 monster film, which sees Godzilla and the almighty Kong face a colossal threat hidden deep within the planet that challenges their very existence and the survival of the human race. The big review of the week is ‘Seize Them!’, a Dark Ages-set comedy romp, which sees a queen, played by Aimee Lou Wood, forced to endure hardship and danger as she embarks on a voyage to win back her throne. Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): Evil Does Not Exist – 7:05 Box Office Top Ten – 12:45 Godzilla x Kong – 16:54 Dev Patel Interview – 25:49 Monkey Man Review – 40:17 Seize Them! Review – 47:43 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bonus reviews include ‘The Persian Version’, a comedy drama about the reunion of a large Iranian American family, which catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, allowing them to discover they are more alike than they know; and ‘The Delinquents’, a Spanish language comedy-drama about a bank employee who steals enough money to never work again, and offers his colleague a cut if he hides the cash while he serves his prison sentence. This week’s One Frame Back is best nun-based horrors to coincide with the release of ‘Immaculate’. Plus, Mark and Simon are on hand to help us decide what to watch, and what to avoid, this weekend. Timecodes: 10:57 The Persian Version review 30:05 The Delinquents review 43:52 Plot Smash 48:22 One Frame Back: Best Nun-Based Horrors 51:41 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist Watchlist films this week: Border – Film4, Sun 24 March, 1.20am When Harry Met Sally... – BBC One, Sun 24 March, 10.30pm What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – BBC Two, Sun 24 March, 11.50pm Pain and Glory – BBC Two, Sat 23 March, 12.10am Top Gun: Maverick – Channel 4, Sat 23 March, 9.10pm You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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No interview this week, but even more witterings from your favourite duo for your trouble. Mark gives his thoughts on new releases, including ‘Late Night with the Devil’, a found footage horror, which sees a 1977 live television broadcast go horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms; ‘Immaculate’, a Sydney Sweeney-starring horror about an American nun who heads to a convent in Italy only to discover that her new home harbours a sinister secret; and ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’, the latest instalment in the supernatural comedy franchise, which sees Ghostbusters new and old join forces to protect their home against evil forces and save the world from a second ice age. Plus, Mark and Simon keep us abreast of the cinematic events happening around the country. Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!): 08:38 Late Night with the Devil review 19:25 Box Office Top 10 39:08 Immaculate review 45:56 Laughter Lift 52:01 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review 01:00:13 What’s On You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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