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Essential film reviews, TV reviews, and all conversations around movie and non-movie related stuff brought to you by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media.   Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show, TAKE TWO, with new episodes every Friday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or at extratakes.com to get access on your preferred podcast platform.   There's more to discover at kermodeandmayo.com.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices . EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!

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  1. 16 hr ago ·  Bonus • Extra Takes Only

    Is Mark in a dither with his zither?

    Four reviews in Take 1 and two more bonus reviews in Take 2?! You jammy things. First up we’ve got The Incomer, Domnhall Gleeson’s latest freaky folk comedy-drama about a lone estate agent’s attempt to evict the only two inhabitants of an otherwise uninhabited Hebridean island. Then there’s Gail Daughtrey and the Celebrity Sex Pass, an oddball comedy in which Zoey Deutch’s Gail seeks revenge after her fiancée uses his ‘celebrity sex pass’, by travelling to Hollywood to pursue her own. One Frame Back this week is all about Robin Hood, in honour of Huge Action’s latest onscreen version of the legendary outlaw, so we’ll be hearing about your favourite film versions - from that famous Disney fox to Mel Brooks’ Men In Tights. And your Five Question Film Club choice this week is The Third Man, so Mark will be unpacking this moodiest of all British postwar classics - and the only one with a zither score… Plus questions, schmestions, correspondence, nonsense, and more. Thanks for listening, Vanguardistas! Timecodes: The Incomer review: 12:30 One Frame Back: 21:21 Gail Daughtrey and the Celebrity Sex Pass review: 24:14 Five Question Film Club: 35:00 Questions Schmestions: 45:54

    Is Mark in a dither with his zither?

  2. 1 day ago

    Is this the darkest ROBIN HOOD adaptation ever? + BILL PULLMAN

    The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. This week’s special guest is Hollywood stalwart Bill Pullman, who across the decades has starred in Independence Day, Spaceballs, David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Sleepless in Seattle and many more. This time we see him in Everybody Digs Bill Evans, where he plays the father of the titular jazz legend. He chats to Simon about father-son stories, jazz, and how working in black and white changes his acting. Mark will review Everybody Digs Bill Evans next week, and in the meantime we’ve got a packed show with four big screen releases up for the Good Doctors’ judgement. We’ve got Late Fame, a New York set indie about an aging former poet (Willem Dafoe), who is surprised to find his work reappraised by a group of young bohemians. Then there’s Leviticus, an Australian conversion therapy horror from the producers of The Babadook and Talk To Me, and Supernature, a love letter to nature documentary shot entirely on Super 8. And finally, following our interview with director Michael Sarnoski last week, the wait is over for Mark’s verdict on The Death of Robin Hood. All that plus an especially groan-inducing Laughter Lift, and all your top correspondence, including some great What’s On bulletins this week. You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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 EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Film Suffolk: linktr.ee/ouatis Ikea Knightley https://iwittr.com/wiki/page/Ikea_Knightley Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:06 Late Fame review 00:18:15 Box Office Top Ten 00:30:20 Bill Pullman interview 00:44:54 Supernature review 00:53:25 Laughter Lift 00:55:16 Leviticus review 01:02:36 The Death of Robin Hood review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Is this the darkest ROBIN HOOD adaptation ever? + BILL PULLMAN

  3. 1 day ago ·  Bonus

    Today's Headlines from: Morning Brew Daily

    Introducing NBA Hands Historic Punishment to LA Clippers & AI Food Slop is Disgusting Everyone from Morning Brew Daily. Follow the show: Morning Brew Daily #925: The NBA drops the hammer down on the LA Clippers for circumventing the league’s salary-cap rules. The USS Abraham Lincoln makes a stop at a Thailand resort known for its history in sex tourism after a lengthy deployment. Customers are discovering restaurants are starting to rely on AI-generated images to promote their food…and it’s disturbing. Neal dives into the numbers of the new “working class,” the dying tradition of the 10PM dinner in Spain, and the clever way the New England Patriots to distract their opponents field goal attempts. Finally, Uber lays off 10% of its employees.  Learn more at https://go.amex/morningbrew  If you’re in NYC, come to our run club on 9/16: https://www.morningbrew.com/runclub Come to our trivia night! https://mbdtrivianight-september2026.splashthat.com/  Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

    Today's Headlines from: Morning Brew Daily

  4. 27 Aug ·  Bonus • Extra Takes Only

    Is ONE NIGHT ONLY hot stuff or a cold shower?

    Two bonus reviews for you this week on very different vibes. First up it’s De Gaulle: Résistance, a French mega hit about their former Premiere’s WW2 story and relationship with Britain’s Winston Churchill—now coming to UK cinemas. Then, following I Want Your Sex in Take 1, there’s another saucy comedy on the slate: One Night Only, set in a near-future alternate America where singletons can only have sex on one night of the year. Like The Purge, but for sex… or, as Mark calls it, ‘The Splurge’… Nice. This week’s One Frame Back is all about Olivia Wilde as we hear your takes on her best projects as an actor and director. Then, in Five Question Film Cub, we’ll hear your notes on Mean Streets before diving into this weeks’ poll-winner: Miachel Mann’s epic crime thriller Heat. Thanks for listening Vanguardistas (and Ultras)! Timecodes: De Gaulle Resistance review: 15:06 One Frame Back: 28:49 One Night Only review: 30:53 Five Question Film Club: 40:05 Questions Schmestions: 53:50

    Is ONE NIGHT ONLY hot stuff or a cold shower?

  5. 27 Aug

    THE DOG STARS: Top dog or a dog’s dinner?

    The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. Three more of the week’s big screen offerings reviewed by the Good Doctors on the Take. First up, The Dog Stars—Ridley Scott’s latest post-apocalyptic survival thriller offering starring Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. Then there’s the new drama from our favourite multicoloured Spanish maximalist Pedro Almodóvar, Bitter Christmas, and even more outrageously, Gregg Araki’s kinky comedy I Want Your Sex, starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman. Plus our guest this week is Michael Sarnoski, director of Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One, and now The Death of Robin Hood, Out next week, it shows us a darker side of the folk legend, following Hugh Jackman’s grizzled Robin Hood in later life as he reckons with the legacy of years of violence. No men in tights here, sorry. Michael chats to Simon and Mark about reimagining this famous take and directing Huge Action through some serious Northern Irish mud. Laugther Lift too as usual, plus the best of your excellent correspondence, including some great What’s On info and another entry into our new technophobic feature A, I Don’t Like That. Enjoy! You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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 EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:12:11 The Dog Stars review 00:21:41 Box Office Top Ten 00:30:35 Michael Sarnoski interview 00:45:08 Bitter Christmas review 00:53:37 Laughter Lift 01:01:28 I Want Your Sex review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    THE DOG STARS: Top dog or a dog’s dinner?

  6. 20 Aug ·  Bonus • Extra Takes Only

    What even is a Mook anyway?

    The Stath is back in Mutiny—the first of our bonus reviews in this week’s Take 2. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about does it? There’s lots of Stath being Stath, and a bit where someone harpoons a baddie through the head—so tune in for more on that sort of thing. Plus we’ll get Mark’s verdict on Stop! That! Train!, a drag disaster comedy starring Ru Paul which joins the hallowed halls of films with three exclamation marks in their titles. In Five Question Film Club Mark overrules to popular vote with all the manners of a small-time mobster to give us his thoughts on Mean Streets. But despite the Good Doctor’s excellent answers to those Five Questions, we’re no closer to finding out what a ‘Mook’ actually is… One Frame Back is all about final girls in honour of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and of course we’ll be putting your Questions and Schmestions to the boys too. Thanks for listening Vanguardistas, and as always—we salute you! Timecodes: Mutiny review: 13:56 One Frame Back: 24:35 Stop! That! Train! review: 27:00 Five Question Film Club: 38:44 Questions Schmestions: 52:06

    What even is a Mook anyway?

  7. 20 Aug

    TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: The most Mark film evz? + Johnny Flynn

    The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. Our special guest this week is Johnny Flynn, who stars in & Sons—A dysfunctional family drama with a twist. His character Richard is one of three long suffering sons to Billy Nighy’s A.N. Dyer, a mega-successful novelist turned alcoholic recluse and personal disaster zone. Johnny chats to Simon about the movie, its unusual filmmaking process, and working alongside Nighy, Imelda Staunton, George McKay and Noah Jupe as part of its all-star ensemble cast. Plus we hear a little about his upcoming performances as Paul Simon in South-African-set drama The Road Home, as a beleaguered sheriff in western A Prayer For The Dying, as Dostoevsky in The Idiots, and as Lucuis Malfoy (i.e. Jason Isaacs) in Harry Potter. I do wish someone would give this lad a bit of work, he must be desperate for something to get his teeth into… Mark reviews & Sons, as well as two more of the week’s most exciting titles. First up, Coyote vs Acme, a live action animation hybrid that sees Looney Tunes’ murderous canine Wile E. Coyote return to the screen in a meta legal drama with the suppliers of his ever-malfunctioning gadgets. Plus, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (one film not two), a meta-slasher starring Gillian Anderson in which a film director becomes obsessed with casting her ‘final girl’ in a classic horror sequel. The most Mark film evz? We’ll find out. All that plus the Laughter Lift, the return of Simon after Sanjeev’s super subbing last week, and of course your witty, erudite and delightful correspondence. Keep the postbag full please gang! You can find out more about Medi Cinema and donate here: https://www.medicinema.org.uk You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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 EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: 00:06:25 Coyote vs Acme Review 00:14:25 Box Office Top Ten 00:26:58 Johnny Flynn interview 00:42:43 & Sons review 00:59:09 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: The most Mark film evz? + Johnny Flynn

  8. 13 Aug ·  Bonus • Extra Takes Only

    What’s the secret to NORTH BY NORTHWEST’s most iconic scene?

    The Aardman 50th anniversary reissues are still coming thick and fast, and this week it’s Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! And yes those exclamation points are part of the title! We’ll find out if it’s shivering Mark’s timbers—or making him feel like walking the plank. And our second bonus review of the day is Sunny Dancer, a surprisingly bright indie gem about a summer camp for teens with cancer. Five Question Film Club is serving up a Hitchcock classic this week with North By Northwest, thanks to you voting vanguardistas. We’ll get the Good Doctor’s take on that infamous crop duster scene, and what makes this film a foundational Hollywood thriller. In honour of Sian Clifford in LADY, this week’s One Frame back is all about onscreen Narcissists, and as always we’ll be answering questions and schmestions too, so listen out for yours. Timecodes: Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! Review: 18:07 One Frame Back: 36:13 Sunny Dancer review: 39:25 Five Question Film Club: 53:16 Questions Schmestions: 01:11:20

    What’s the secret to NORTH BY NORTHWEST’s most iconic scene?
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Essential film reviews, TV reviews, and all conversations around movie and non-movie related stuff brought to you by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media.   Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show, TAKE TWO, with new episodes every Friday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or at extratakes.com to get access on your preferred podcast platform.   There's more to discover at kermodeandmayo.com.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices . EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!

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