Kermode & Mayo’s Take The Take

It’s all about endurance this week, with bonus reviews including ‘Young Woman and the Sea’, a Daisy Ridley-starring biographical drama which tells the story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel; and ‘Hard Miles’, a sports drama about a social worker at a youth facility who assembles an unlikely cycling team of juvenile convicts for a transformative 1,000-mile bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon.
This week’s One Frame Back is films and TV shows featuring puppets to coincide with the release of Benedict Cumberbatch’s new show ‘Eric’.

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 their thoughts on inappropriate couple’s songs to how much of cinemas’ revenue actually comes from film tickets as opposed to food and drink.

Timecodes:
15.51 Young Woman and the Sea Review
??? Hard Miles Review
29.02 One Frame Back: Films and TV Shows Featuring Puppets
34.25 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist
47.04 Questions Schmestions

Watchlist films this week:
Dunkirk – BBC1 – Friday, 11.40pm
A Cock and Bull Story – BBC2 – Saturday, 1am
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse – E4 – Saturday, 12pm
Notorious – Talking Pictures TV – Sunday, 7pm
Catch Me If You Can – Film4 – Friday, 7.15pm

Notlist films this week:
Bicentennial Man – GREAT! Movies – Saturday, 6pm
Angel Has Fallen – Film4 – Saturday, 10pm
Look Who’s Talking Too – GREAT! Movies – Saturday, 6pm

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This week, Take fave Benedict Cumberbatch tells Simon all about his psychological miniseries ‘Eric’, which sees him play troubled puppeteer Vincent, who clings to his missing son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV then his son will come home.
Mark also gives his take on the show, as well as reviewing ‘Sting’, which sees a 12-year-old's pet spider rapidly transform into a giant flesh-eating monster, forcing the young girl to fight for her family’s survival.
This week’s big review is ‘The Beast’, a science fiction romantic drama loosely based on Henry James’ novella ‘The Beast in the Jungle’, which imagines a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone’s lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat. Lea Seydoux and ‘Gorgeous George’ Mackay star.

Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!):
08:14 – Sting Review
12:03– Box Office Top Ten
24:44 – Benedict Cumberbatch Interview
39:15 – Eric Review
45:42 – What's On June
49:06 – The Beast Review

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He’s grumpy, belligerent, stubborn, filterless and has to win every single argument. We ask how Larry David has any friends left and why he is so concerned with manners, yet is rude to virtually everyone he meets. Plus, Ben and Nemone look at why some people find Curb Your Enthusiasm excruciating whilst others just can’t get enough of the hit show.  

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Michael, Office (USA. Season 1) 

Chandler, Friends (selected episodes) 

Sydney, The Bear (season 2) 

Tyrion, Game of Thrones (seasons 1&2). 

Alex and Bradley, The Morning Show (Season 1)  



CREDITS 

We used clips from Season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Episodes 1,4,5,7,10.   

Starring (in the clips we used):  

Larry David as Larry David,  

Jeff Garlin as Jeff Greene 

Cheryl Hines as Cheryl David 

Susie Essman as Susie Greene 

Jason Alexander as Jason Alexander 

Bob Einstein as Marty Funkhouser 

Catherine O'Hara as Bam Bam 

Anita Barone, as Denise 

Peter Mackenzie as Man in Shorts 

Paul Webster as Larry's Friend Jim 

 

Created and written by: Larry David. Directed by Larry Charles, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Bryan Gordon, Jeff Schaffer and Andy Ackerman, 

 

Produced by: Linda Balaban, associate producer 

Alec Berg, executive producer 

Larry Charles, executive producer 

Larry David, executive producer (showrunner) / executive producer 

Jeff Garlin, executive producer 

Tim Gibbons, executive producer 

David Mandel, executive producer 

Megan Murphy, co-producer 

Erin O'Malley, executive producer 

Gavin Polone, executive producer 

Jeff Schaffer, executive producer (showrunner) 

Laura Streicher, producer 

 

Produced by HBO and Production Partners.  

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Having had Vicky McClure on the show last week to talk about her new limited series ‘Insomnia’, this week, Mark gives his thoughts on the series.
This week’s One Frame Back is the best Anya Taylor performances to coincide with the release of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’.
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 whether Mark likes being contrarian in his film criticism to recommendations for D-day movies.

Timecodes:
15.51 Insomnia Review
34.00 One Frame Back: Best Anya Taylor Joy Performances
43.19 Weekend Watchlist / Weekend Notlist
47.04 Questions Schmestions

Watchlist films this week:
Memento – BBC Two, Mon 27 May, 12.20am
The Handmaiden – Film4, Sat 25 May, 1.05am
The Great Dictator – Sky Arts, Sat 25 May, 1pm
Close – BBC Four, Sat 25 May, 9pm
Do the Right Thing – BBC Two, Sun 26 May, 12.20am

Notlist films this week:
Dragonball Evolution – Film4, Sun 26 May, 2.50pm
Street Fighter – GREAT! Movies, Fri 24 May, 6.55pm
Rambo: Last Blood – Fri 24 May, 9pm

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This week, director George Miller sits down with Simon to chat all things ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’, the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and team-up with Mad Max.

Mark also gives his take on the film, as well as reviewing ‘In Flames’, a Pakastani-Canadian supernatural drama, which sees a mother and daughter’s precarious existence ripped apart after the death of the family patriarch.

The big review of the week is ‘The Garfield Movie’, which sees Chris Patt voice the iconic, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving cat, who finds himself unexpectedly reunited with his long-lost father, a scruffy street cat who draws him into a high-stakes heist.

Timecodes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!):

08:18 – In Flames Review

12:04 – Box Office Top Ten

24:48 – George Miller Interview

39:29 - Furiosa Review

51:25 – The Garfield Movie Review

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Gang dynamics, whether you can escape a criminal heritage and the physiological cause and effect of PTSD. Plus, race rigging, opium smoking and casual violence - all in a day's work for The Peaky Blinders.

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NEXT CLIENTS ON THE COUCH. Find out how to view here

Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 7)

Michael, Office (USA. Season 1)

Chandler, Friends (selected episodes)

Sydney, The Bear (season 2)

Tyrion, Game of Thrones (seasons 1&2).

CREDITS

We used clips from Season 1 of Peaky Blinders.

Starring:

Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby), Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby), Sophie Rundle (Ada Shelby) Helen McCrory (Polly Gray) and Samuel Edward Cook (Danny Whizz-bang).

Created by: D Steven Knight Written by D Steven Knight, Toby Finlay and Stephen Russell.

Directed by: Otto Bathurst and Tom Harper.

Produced by: Caryn Mandabach Productions, Tiger Aspect Productions and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).



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