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

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review BBC Radio 5 Live

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

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

    Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus reviews of The Bad Guys, Morbius, True Things & Sonic 2.

    Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus reviews of The Bad Guys, Morbius, True Things & Sonic 2.

    Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City.
    Plus Mark reviews Morbius, which features show favourite Jared Leto as Biochemist Michael Morbius; True Things, Harry Wootliff’s drama starring Ruth Wilson as a young woman living on the fringes of society; Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Jim Carrey; animation The Bad Guys, about several reformed yet misunderstood criminal animals who attempt to become good; and The Novice, about a college freshman’s obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it in rowing, no matter the cost. And we have a very fine pair of special guests.
    Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release in the UK box office top 10.
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    • 2 hrs 3 min
    Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II, Ambulance, The Worst Person in the World, Chopper, Master and Escape from Mogadishu

    Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II, Ambulance, The Worst Person in the World, Chopper, Master and Escape from Mogadishu

    Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II talk about their roles in Michael Bay’s latest, Ambulance about two robbers who steal an ambulance after a heist.
    Plus Mark reviews Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, which chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman navigating the troubled waters of her love life and struggling to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is, plus new Amazon film Master, horror The Spine of the Night, Chopper and Escape from Mogadishu.
    Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release in the UK box office top 10.
    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 PODCAST STARTS
    00:24:33 BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
    00:44:07 Master review
    00:48:29 Jake and Yahya interview
    01:03:54 Ambulance review
    01:11:27 Oscars chat
    01:15:20 WTF 1
    01:17:18 The Worst Person in the World
    01:24:00 TV Movie
    01:27:37 Escape from Mogadishu
    01:35:50 The Spine of Night
    01:42:58 Chopper
    01:53:50 DVD of the Week

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors

    Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors

    Simon Farnaby talks about his new film The Phantom of the Open, about Maurice Flitcroft, who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
    Mark also reviews Paris 13th District, starring Noémie Merlant in Jacques Audiard’s latest; Amazon Prime’s Master, starring Regina Hall, about two African American women who begin to share disturbing experiences at a predominantly white college in New England; Ti West’s X, about a group of young filmmakers in 1979 who set out to make an adult film in rural Texas; Deep Water, about a well-to-do husband, played by Ben Affleck, who allows his wife, played by Ana de Armas, to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce and becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers; and Nanni Moretti’s Three Floors, the story of three families living in three apartments in the same development.
    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
    00:00:00 Pod starts
    00:06:36 WTF 1
    00:26:50 X Review
    00:34:36 TV Movie
    00:38:52 Three Floors review
    00:42:45 WTF 2
    00:46:36 Deep Water
    00:58:30 Live show begins
    01:20:30 Paris 13th District
    01:23:10 Simon Farnaby
    01:38:00 Phantom of the Open
    01:43:30 DVD of the Week

    • 1 hr 49 min
    Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project

    Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project

    Director Sean Baker talks about his new film Red Rocket, about a washed-up adult film actor who returns to his small Texas hometown,
    Mark will also review Feast, about the infamous 2007 HIV incident in the Dutch city of Groningen, Turning Red, the latest animation from Disney, about a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited; new horror The Seed, about a girls’ weekend away in the Mojave desert which becomes a tale of horror, death and alien invasion; Great Freedom, set in post-war Germany, when homosexuality was still criminal; The Adam Project, which stars Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, and Walker Scobell in a story about a time-travelling fighter pilot who teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future and Sideshow, about two inept criminals who break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot, and ‘get a lot more than they bargained for’, and Wolf, a drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf, starring Gorgeous George MacKay.
    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
    00:00:00 Podcast starts
    00:23:20 Simon announces that the show will be ending on April 1st
    00:27:00 Top Ten
    00:51:30 The Seed
    00:54:30 Sean Baker interview
    01:08:10 Red Rocket interview
    01:13:27 WTF1
    01:15:12 Turning Red
    01:21:20 TV Movies
    01:27:38 The Adam Project
    01:31:48 Great Freedom

    • 1 hr 51 min
    Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space

    Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space

    Director Clio Barnard talks about her new film Ali and Ava, which stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as the titular characters.

    Mark will also review The Batman, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz as Batman and Catwoman in Matt Reeves’s new story featuring the Bob Kane and Bill Finger-created superhero; documentary Rebel Dread about the filmmaker, DJ, musician and commentator, Don Letts; The Weekend Away, about a weekend getaway to Croatia which goes quite badly wrong; Against the Ice, which stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the story of two explorers fighting to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland and The Sanctity Of Space, a documentary recording the long push to cross a series of Alaskan mountains, and the geographer who first charted them.
    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
    00:00:00 Podcast starts
    00:22:00 Live show recording starts
    00:44:21 The Weekend Away
    00:48:00 Clio Barnard
    01:00:26 Ali and Ava
    01:10:18 WTF1
    01:12:50 The Batman
    01:25:30 Against the Ice
    01:28:39 TV Movies
    01:31:32 Rebel Dread
    01:38:31 Sanctity of Space
    01:46:50 DVD of the Week

    • 1 hr 51 min
    Dave Grohl talks about Studio 666, plus Cyrano, The Duke, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Hellbender and The Godfather

    Dave Grohl talks about Studio 666, plus Cyrano, The Duke, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Hellbender and The Godfather

    Dave Grohl talks about his role in Studio 666, about Foo Fighters moving into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.
    Mark reviews Cyrano, Joe Wright’s adaptation of the play; The Duke, about Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver who steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London; Gangubai Kathiawadi, about a woman who becomes a powerful underworld figure; the re-release of The Godfather, about the ageing patriarch of an organised crime dynasty in postwar New York City who transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son; and new horror Hellbender, about a lonely teenager who discovers her family's ties to witchcraft.
    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
    00:00:00 POD STARTS
    00:30:40 Celebrating Cinema
    00:37:58 Top Ten
    01:01:30 The Duke
    01:09:17 Dave Grohl
    01:34:10 WTF 1
    01:36:25 Gangubai Kathiawadi
    01:41:12 TV Movies
    01:47:40 Cyrano
    01:57:35 WTF 2
    02:00:48 HELLBENDER
    02:09:10 The Godfather
    02:18:18 DVD of the Week

    • 2 hrs 22 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
7.4K Ratings

7.4K Ratings

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Best of all time

Nothing better in terms of movie reviews out there. Kermode already has his Oscar statue but they should make it real life size

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Easily the best pod of all time

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Bye Bye Channel

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