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

1 april 2022 · 2 uur 4 min
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Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Lees meer

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

25 maart 2022 · 2 uur
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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. Lees meer

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.

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

18 maart 2022 · 1 uur 49 min
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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. Lees meer

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.

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

11 maart 2022 · 1 uur 51 min
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Director Sean Baker talks about his new film Red Rocket, about a washed-up adult film actor who returns to his small Texas hometown, Lees meer

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.

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

4 maart 2022 · 1 uur 51 min
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Director Clio Barnard talks about her new film Ali and Ava, which stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as the titular characters. Lees meer

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.

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

25 februari 2022 · 2 uur 22 min
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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. Lees meer

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’.

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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
Helen Mirren, Dog, The Real Charlie Chaplin, Here Before, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Act 1), Kimi and Old Henry

18 februari 2022 · 2 uur 4 min
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Dame Helen Mirren talks about her role in The Duke. Lees meer

Mark reviews Dog, The Real Charlie Chaplin, Here Before, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Act 1), Kimi and Old Henry.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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00:27:17 Box Office Top 10
00:45:29 The Real Charlie Chaplin review
00:52:41 Helen Mirren interview
01:09:03 Dog review
01:14:49 Here Before review
01:20:04 WTF
01:21:33 Kimi review
01:27:38 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK
01:32:46 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
01:44:16 Old Henry review
01:49:40 WTF
01:51:13 jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Act 1)
01:51:40 DVD OF THE WEEK

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Andrea Riseborough, Death on the Nile, Marry Me, Flee, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Petrov’s Flu.

11 februari 2022 · 2 uur 6 min
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Andrea Riseborough talks about her role in new drama Here Before. Lees meer

Mark reviews Chuckles Branagh’s Death on the Nile, about Hercule Poirot’s investigation of the murder of a young heiress in Egypt; Marry Me, in which musical superstars who are getting married before a global audience of fans when one of them learns of their fiance’s unfaithfulness; Flee, the true story of a man on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, about an unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters; Petrov’s Flu, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film about a day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia; mystery The Wanting Mare, directed by Nicholas Ashe Bateman and new A24 film The Sky Is Everywhere, about a shy, teenage musician who tries to keep things together in the aftermath of her older, more outgoing sister's death.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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00:00:00 Podcast starts
00:31:30 Box Office Top Ten
00:53:50 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
00:58:41 The Sky is Everywhere
01:05:25 WTF 1
01:12:53 Petrov's Flu
01:18:20 Andrea Riseborough
01:34:00 Marry Me
01:39:57 Death on the Nile
01:47:54 TV Movie
01:52:28 Flee
01:58:25 The Wanting Mare
02:02:40 DVD of the Week
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Souvenir Part II, Moonfall, Belle, Jackass Forever, the reissue of Jules et Jim

4 februari 2022 · 2 uur 7 min
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Jessica Chastain talks about The Eyes of Tammy Faye, an intimate look at the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Lees meer

Mark reviews The Souvenir Part II, about which its writer director Joanna Hogg spoke to Simon last week; Moonfall, about a mysterious force that knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life as we know it, directed by Roland Emmerich; The Jackass crew return 11 years later in Jackass Forever; anime Belle about Suzu, a shy high school student living in a rural village whom for years has only been a shadow of herself until she enters "U", a massive virtual world; A Violent Man, about a dangerous prisoner incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison and the reissue of François Truffaut’s tale of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman, Jules et Jim.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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00:27:32 Box Office Top Ten
00:53:35 Jessica Chastain interview
01:08:00 The Eyes of Tammy Faye
01:21:48 Moonfall
01:35:47 Belle
01:41:34 Souvenir II
01:51:12 TV Movie
01:55:35 Jackass Forever
01:58:40 A Violent Man
Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.

28 januari 2022 · 2 uur 3 min
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Joanna Hogg talks about her new film The Souvenir Part II. Lees meer

Mark reviews new animation Sing 2, about an anthropomorphic koala called Buster Moon and his friends who must persuade a reclusive rock star lion called Clay Calloway, played by Bono, to join them for the opening of a new show; Pedro Almodóvar directing Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma in Parallel Mothers, the story of two mothers who give birth on the same day; Amulet, about an ex-soldier, living homeless in London, and is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother; Flag Day, Sean Penn’s film about a father who lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter; Taming the Garden, a documentary following trees that are transported from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister; Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan, about a 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 the long-awaited The King’s Daughter, about King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leading him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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00:00:00 Podcast starts
00:28:00 Top 10
00:53:00 Joanna Hogg
01:06:24 Taming the Garden
01:09:20 Amulet
01:23:02 Parallel Mothers
01:30:11 Flag Day
01:37:07 Sing 2
01:48:20 Journal for Jordan
01:51:46 The King's Daughter
Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King’s Daughter

21 januari 2022 · 2 uur 6 min
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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. Lees meer

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.

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

14 januari 2022 · 2 uur 3 min
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Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his new film Belfast. Lees meer

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.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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00:00:00 Podcast starts
00:25:10 Box Office Top ten
00:52:10 Chuckles Branagh
01:11:50 WTF
01:15:04 Save the Cinema
01:20:40 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK
01:24:15 Ascension
01:29:08 Memoria
01:37:10 Scream
01:48:05 Cow
01:52:15 The Tragedy of Macbeth
Peter Dinklage, Munich: The Edge of War, Minyan, Ailey, A Hero and Boiling Point

7 januari 2022 · 1 uur 56 min
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Ben Bailey Smith talks to Peter Dinklage about his role in Cyrano. Lees meer

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.

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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
Best of 2021

31 december 2021 · 1 uur 53 min
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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. Lees meer

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

24 december 2021 · 2 uur 11 min
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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss talk about their new film, The Matrix Resurrections, in which we return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. Lees meer

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.

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

17 december 2021 · 2 uur 4 min
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Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about her new film The Lost Daughter. Lees meer

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.

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00:00:00 PODCAST STARTS
00:26:52 Box Office Top Ten
00:49:55 Lola and the Sea
00:53:40 Maggie Gyllenhaal interview
01:07:24 The Lost Daughter review
01:25:30 The tender Bar
01:33:00 TV Movie
01:37:20 Nine Days
01:44:25 Spider-Man: No Way Home
01:53:24 The Amazing Mr Blunden
Steven Spielberg, Ariana DeBose, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up and Being the Ricardos

10 december 2021 · 2 uur 3 min
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Steven Spielberg and Ariana DeBose talk to Simon about West Side Story. Lees meer

Mark reviews that film, along with Don’t Look Up, which stars Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth; Clifford the Big Red Dog, about a big red dog; Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin’s film about American comic actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, about H, a cold and mysterious character working at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week; Hope, about the relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja and Lamb, in which a childless couple discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

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00:00:00 Pod start
00:24:50 Box Office Top Ten
00:47:16 Lamb review
00:54:20 Steven Spielberg and Ariana DeBose interview
01:09:40 West Side Story review
01:17:17 WTF 1
01:20:39 Clifford the Big Red Dog
01:25:54 TV Movie
01:30:08 Don't Look Up
Riz Ahmed, Encounter, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and C'mon C'mon

3 december 2021 · 1 uur 55 min
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Riz Ahmed talks to Simon about his role as Malik Khan in Michael Pearce’s Encounter. Lees meer

Mark reviews that film, along with Silent Night, the horror/comedy Keira Knightley came on the show to talk about last week; Mike Mills’s C’Mon C’Mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist embarking on a cross-country trip with his young nephew; Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, set in 1998, an origin story which explores the secrets of the mysterious Spencer Mansion and the ill-fated Raccoon City; Blue Bayou, about a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou who works hard to make a life for his family; documentary Final Account, at portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews; and The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino’s personal story of a boy in the Naples of the 1980s.

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00:00:00 PODCAST STARTS
00:17:40 BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
00:39:26 HAND OF GOD REVIEW
00:44:10 RIZ AHMED INTERVIEW
01:02:55 WTF
01:08:00 C'Mon C'Mon
01:16:00 TV MOVIE
01:20:27 Silent Night
01:30:29 Blue Bayou
01:38:20 Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
01:42:19 WTF
01:44:30 Final Account
01:51:30 DVD of the Week

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Keira Knightley, Encanto, House of Gucci and Pirates

26 november 2021 · 1 uur 56 min
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Keira Knightley talks to Simon about her role as Nell in Silent Night. Lees meer

Plus reviews of new Disney animation Encanto, about a young Colombian girl who has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers; House of Gucci, which features last week’s guest Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci, and tells the story of Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, who marries into the Gucci family; Pirates, written and directed by Reggie Yates, and tells the story of three eighteen-year-old friends on their journey from North to south London on New Year's Eve 1999; documentary First Wave, which follows nurses, doctors, and administrators as they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic; historical drama Lapwing, about an isolated group of salt farmers who arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Indian Gypsy family in hiding; horror Shepherd, and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, about a school teacher who finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet.

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00:00:00 Podcast starts
00:18:50 Box Office Top Ten
00:43:18 Pirates
00:49:25 Keira Knightley
01:02:56 First Wave
01:04:54 WTF 1
01:10:04 Lapwing
01:25:04 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
01:33:06 House of Gucci
01:42:03 Shepherd
01:49:44 DVD of the Week
Adam Driver talks about his role as Mauricio Gucci in House of Gucci, plus film reviews.

19 november 2021 · 2 uur 4 min
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Adam Driver talks about his role as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci. Lees meer

Plus reviews of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, with Benedict Cumberbatch as charismatic rancher Phil Burbank; Ghostbusters Afterlife, about a single mother and her two kids who arrive in a small town and begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind; Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman, about a girl called Nelly who has just lost her grandmother and one day meets a girl her same age building a treehouse; Halle Berry stars and directs in Bruised, about a disgraced MMA fighter who finds redemption in the cage and the courage to face her demons when the son she had given up as an infant unexpectedly reenters her life; KIng Richard, which stars Will Smith as Richard Williams, father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams; Drive My Car, about a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife who one day she disappears and documentary Dear Future Children, about three young female activists in Hong Kong, Chile, and Uganda coping with the staggering personal impacts of their activism.

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00:00:00 Pod starts
00:25:00 Top Ten
00:49:10 Petite Maman review
00:53:40 Adam Driver
01:11:40 Bruised review
01:31:26 King Richard Review
01:36:40 Drive my car review
01:46:10 Ghostbusters Afterlife
01:54:37 Dear Future Children
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick... Boom!, Mothering Sunday and Cry Macho

12 november 2021 · 2 uur
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Andrew Garfield talks about his role in Tick, Tick… Boom!, about a promising young theatre composer who on the cusp of his 30th birthday navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City. Lees meer

Plus reviews of Clint Eastwood’s neo-Western Cry Macho, about a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who takes a job to bring a man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mother; Mothering Sunday, starring Olivia Colman and Colin Firth in a film about a maid living in post-World War I England who secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman; Keyboard Fantasies, about Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a Black transgender musician, who becomes a cult icon three decades after the release of his album Keyboard Fantasies; documentary Becoming Cousteau, which takes a look at the life, passions, achievements and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist; Hungarian war drama Natural Light and documentary Procession, about a group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests who battle for justice.

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00:25:10 Top ten
00:52:28 Andrew Garfield
01:07:72 Tick Tick Boom review
01:14:23 Cry Macho
01:25:09 Procession
01:33:49 Mothering Sunday
01:41:54 Natural Light
01:46:20 Keyboard Fantasies
01:49:47 Dettori
Kristen Stewart, Spencer, The Card Counter, Eternals and Finch

5 november 2021 · 2 uur 1 min
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Kristen Stewart talks to Simon about her role as Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, which Mark also reviews. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Paul Schrader’s The Card COunter, which tells the story of Oscar Isaac’s ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past; Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, the latest Marvel film about a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations, starring Richard Madden, Gemma Chan and Angelina Jolie; Red Notice, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot; thriller Bull, about a man who mysteriously returns home after a 10 year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him years ago; western Old Henry, starring Tim Blake Nelson as a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash and Tom Hanks in sci-fi drama Finch.

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Chloe Zhao, Thomasin McKenzie, Last Night in Soho and Antlers

29 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 46 min
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Chloe Zhao talks about her new film Eternals, Thomasin McKenzie tells us about starring in Edgar Wright’s new film. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone on its 20th Anniversary re-release; Antlers, set in an isolated Oregon town, about a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother who become embroiled with her enigmatic student, starring Jesse Plemons; Last Night In Soho, Edgar Wright’s film about an aspiring fashion designer who is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer; Azor, about a private banker from Geneva who goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, who disappeared overnight; Sadie Frost’s documentary Quant, about the life and legacy of 1960s fashion icon, Mary Quant, which features Kate Moss and Vivienne Westwood; Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa’s seminal film about a poor village attacked by bandits; The Nowhere Inn, St. Vincent’s film in which she sets out to make a documentary about her music, but when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre; and the reissue of Blade, which stars Wesley Snipes as a half-vampire, half-mortal man who becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.

Edith and Anna also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall and The Boss Baby 2: Family Business

22 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 20 min
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Simon and Mark’s guest is Denis Villeneuve, who talks about his film Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of The Boss Baby 2: Family Business, in which the grown Templeton brothers have become and drifted away from each other; The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel’s Western starring Regina King; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city, starring Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet and Christoph Waltz; Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate; Bigfoot Hunters, in which a clickbait journalist is sent to the Appalachian foothills to cover a Bigfoot Convention and discovers there's more to this listicle than meets the eye; The Bacchus Lady, which deals with the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea and Lucky Chan-sil, about a film producer who finds herself unemployed with the sudden death of her long-time collaborated director.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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Sir Michael Caine, Halloween Kills, Venom, Ron’s Gone Wrong, The Last Duel and The Velvet Underground

15 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 16 min
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Sir Michael Caine talks about his new movie Best Sellers, about a cranky, retired author who reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Halloween Kills, starring Jamie Lee Curtis in the continuing saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode; The Last Duel, Sir Ridley Scott’s film about King Charles VI declaring that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and starring Jodie Comer; Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Andy Serkis’s sequel starring Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Williams; The Velvet Underground, Todd Hayne’s documentary about the seminal sixties band; Ron's Gone Wrong, the story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device; and Ear for Eye, Debbie Tucker Green’s film following British and American Black characters of different generations navigating their way through today's society, offering a critical perspective on the state of the nation.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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03.00: CORRESPONDENCE
20.24: CELEBRATING CINEMA
24.05: BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
48.40: HALLOWEEN KILLS
56.28: GUEST: SIR MICHAEL CAINE
01.15.24: RON’S GONE WRONG
01.20.40: WTF 1
01.26.00: TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK
01.31.10: THE LAST DUEL
01.42.42: EAR FOR EYE
01.47.79: NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN
01.51.40: WTF 2
01.55.59: VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE
02.02.25: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
02.10.35: DVD OF THE WEEK
Jeymes Samuels & Regina King, No Sudden Move, The Addams Family 2 and Deadly Cuts.

8 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 14 min
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Jeymes Samuel and Regina King talk about their new Western, The Harder They Fall. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Claudia Llosa’s Fever Dream; animation The Addams Family 2, a sequel to the 2019 animated film, in which The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters; John and the Hole, a coming-of-age psychological thriller; black comedy Deadly Cuts, set in a working-class Dublin hair salon; drama My Little Sister; Romantic Road, a documentary about a leading London lawyer and his wife who motor across rural India in their battered 1936 Rolls-Royce; documentary Pier Kids, about about the gay and transgender youth who congregate around Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers; and Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, which stars Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro and David Harbour, about a group of criminals who are brought together under mysterious circumstances.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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09.42: CORRESPONDENCE
31.26: CELEBRATING CINEMA
34.00: BOX OFFICE TOP TEN / LAST WEEK
53.11: John and the Hole
57.56: Jeymes and Regina
01.14.45: No Sudden Move
01.18.56: Bond emails
01.26.55: WTF 1
01.33.03: Deadly Cuts
01.36.22: TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK
01.40.50: My Little Sister
01.43.17: WTF 2
01.44.57: The Addams Family 2
01.49.00: Fever Dream
01.51.36: LAST EVER FOOD AND DRINK IN FILMS
01.57.13: Pier Kids
02.05.36: Romantic Road
02.09.25: DVD OF THE WEEK
Ridley Scott and Jodie Comer, Anne at 13000 ft, Next Door and No Time to Die

1 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 21 min
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Ridley Scott and Jodie Comer talk about their new film The Last Duel , about King Charles VI declaring that Knight Jean de Carrouges should settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Next Door, Daniel Brühl’s film exploring the subject of gentrification and social inequality in Berlin; Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr., which tells the story of one of the most influential bands on the American East Coast, who inspired the rock scene; Redemption of a Rogue, a black comedy about a prodigal son returning to his hometown to seek salvation for his sins; Christopher Walken in Percy v Goliath, about a Canadian farmer who takes on a giant corporation after their GMOs interfere with his crops; Anne at 13000 ft, about a volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters; No Time to Die, about a retired secret service agent who is called back into action; Freshman, about a lonely college fresher who forges a strong connection with his resident assistant during a fraternity party; and European animation Even Mice Belong in Heaven, about two mortal enemies - a little Mouse and a Fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven.

And we’ll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What’s That Film.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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Michael Gandolfini, The Many Saints of Newark

24 september 2021 · 2 uur 10 min
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Mark and Simon’s guest is Michael Gandolfini, who’s talking about his film The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of The Green Knight, David Lowery’s fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander; The Alpinist, about the climber Marc-André Leclerc; documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996, about the band’s two concerts in August 1996, when 250,000 fans converged on Knebworth Park ; Balloon, about a family’s struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will; Sweetheart, about a socially awkward, environmentally conscious teenager who is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla; Gagarine, about a boy who fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition; and Mark takes another look at David Lynch’s 1984 film Dune.

And we’ll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What’s That Film.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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05.00: Correspondence
19.53: Welcome
27.17: Celebrating Cinema
29.04: Box Office Top Ten
44.57: The Alpinist review
49.58: Michael Gandolfini interview
01.03.19: The Many Saints of Newark review
01.09.55: WTF 1
01.14.35: Oasis Knebworth 1996
01.21.32: TV Movie of the Week
01.26.30: The Green Knight review
01.32.10: Balloon review
01.34.39: WTF 2
01.41.00: Sweetheart
01.45.07: Food and Drink in film
01.50.14: Gagarine
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Luke Wilson, 12 Mighty Orphans, Gunpowder Milkshake, The Starling and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

17 september 2021 · 2 uur 11 min
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Mark and Simon’s guest is Luke Wilson, who stars in depression-era sports drama 12 Mighty Orphans. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Mandibles, about simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu who find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, and decide to train it in the hope of making their fortune; Fauci, a glimpse into the life of infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola, and of course COVID-19; Gunpowder Milkshake, about three generations of women who fight back against those who could take everything from them, starring Karen Gillan and Lena Headey; The Starling, starring Melissa McCarthy and Timothy Olyphant; musical adaptation Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, about a teenager from Sheffield who wants to be a drag queen; Nic Cage’s Prisoners of the Ghostland about a sadistic gang leader who is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment; and Mark reviews Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, which is re-released this week.

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00:25:31 Box Office Top 10
00:46:14 Gunpowder Milkshake Review
00:53:09 12 Mighty Orphans Luke Wilson Interview
01:07:16 12 Mighty Orphans Review
01:11:23 WTF
01:15:55 Rose Plays Julie Review
01:25:52 The Starling Interview
01:29:13 Mandibles Review
01:32:02 A Clockwork Orange Reissue Review
01:43:34 Prisoners of the Ghostland
01:51:03 Fauci Review
01:56:00 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Review
Jennifer Hudson, Respect, Herself, Copshop and The Voyeurs

10 september 2021 · 2 uur 8 min
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Mark and Simon’s guest is Jennifer Hudson, who talks to us about her role as Aretha Franklin in Respect, which tells the story of the icon’s career from a child singing in her father's church's choir, to her international superstardom. Lees meer

Plus we have reviews of Herself, Phyllida Lloyd’s film about a young mother who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system; First World War drama The War Below about a group of British miners who are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land in the hope of breaking a deadly stalemate; The Collini Case, about a young lawyer who stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case; Copshop, about a cunning con artist on the run from a lethal assassin; The Voyeurs, starring Sydney Sweeney; Sweet Thing, about two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. And classic drama The Servant is reissued.

Plus we’ll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What’s That Film.

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00:22:13 Box Office Top 10
00:46:11 The Collini Case Review
00:49:32 Respect Clip / Jennifer Hudson Interview
01:02:48 Respect Review
01:18:49 Herself Review
01:24:30 TV Movie of the Week
01:29:20 The Voyeurs Review
01:32:53 Ninjababy Review
01:35:38 The War Below Review
01:44:54 Copshop Review
01:55:08 The Servant Review
Phyllida Lloyd, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Here Today

3 september 2021 · 2 uur 3 min
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Mark and Simon’s guests are director Phyllida Lloyd and producer Sharon Horgan, who talk about their new film Herself, about a young mother who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. Lees meer

Mark reviews Leos Carax’s collaboration with Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, Annette; Misha and the Wolves, the story of a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm; Marvel’s Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, about the master of unarmed weaponry-based Kung Fu, who is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization; drama The Champion of Auschwitz, the story of the pre-war boxing champion Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created concentration camp; Here Today, Billy Crystal’s comedy drama about a veteran comedy writer who meets a New York street singer; Wildfire, the story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border; and Kay Cannon’s modern take on Cinderella.

Plus we’ll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What’s That Film.

Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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03.44- Correspondence
16.34- Welcome
20.20- Celebrating Cinema
24.36- Box Office Top Ten
37.10- WTF
43.45- Shang-Chi review
49.33- Herself, interview with Phyllida Lloyd
1.02.01- Cinderella review
1.08.10- WTF
1.11.30- Annette
1.18.30- TV Movies of the Week
1.22.50- Here Today review
1.28.35- Correspondence
1.33.00- WTF
1.34.35- Wildfire review
1.44.10- Misha and the Wolves review
1.49.37- Champion of Auschwitz review
1.53.30…
Timothy Spall, The Last Bus, Candyman, The Toll and Our Ladies

27 augustus 2021 · 2 uur 11 min
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Actor Rufus Jones guest presents this week alongside regular supersub Anna Bogutskaya. Lees meer

Anna reviews Candyman, which is a direct sequel to the 1992 horror Candyman; Our Ladies, about a group of Catholic schoolgirls in 1990s Scotland; The Nest, starring Jude’Law, about an entrepreneur and his American family whose life begins to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor; darkly comic thriller The Toll, which stars Michael Smiley and Iwan Rheon; Souad, Ayten Amin’s film about two teenage sisters in Egypt's Nile Delta; Demonic, which is about a young woman who unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces are ruthlessly revealed, and The Last bus, which stars this week’s guest Timothy Spall.

Plus we’ll be attempting to solve those maddening movies you half-remember from years ago in WTF - What’s That Film.

Rufus and Anna also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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27th August:
12.10- Correspondence
25.15- Welcome
29.30- Box Office top ten
51.40- Soad Review
1.00.01- Tim Spall and The Last Bus review
1.16.16- Our Ladies Review
1.24.52- TV Movie of the Week
1.30.16- TV Movies of the Week, so bad it’s bad!
1.34.53- The Toll review
1.41.23- Candyman review
1.52.13- Demonic review
1.58.30- The Nest
2.05.25- DVD of the Week
Kurupt FM, Niamh Algar and Prano Bailey-Bond

20 augustus 2021 · 2 uur
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Ali and Robbie interview the cast of Kurupt FM about the new documentary, following their ill-fated trip to Tokyo - People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan. Ali also talks to the star and director of new horror chiller, Censor - Niamh Algar and Prano Bailey-Bond. The film follows the story of Enid, a British film censor, who links a disturbing horror movie to the mysterious disappearance of her sister. Lees meer

Robbie and Ali also review Nicolas Cage in Pig, about a truffle hunter who returns home looking for his beloved pig; Reminiscence , about a scientist who discovers a way to relive the past using technology to search for his long lost love; David Bruckner's The Night House, a spooky new horror starring Rebecca Hall; and Henry Golding in Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins, the latest of this superhero franchise.

What’s That Film continues, in which your mysterious half-remembered films are (hopefully) identified.

Ali and Robbie also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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Ryan Reynolds, Free Guy, The Courier, Wendy and I’m Your Man

13 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 58 min
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Ali and Robbie’s guest this week is Ryan Reynolds, who talks about his role as a bank cashier who discovers that he's actually inside a brutal, open world video game in Free Guy. Lees meer

Robbie and Ali also review Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier, about Cold War spy Greville Wynne trying to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis; Coda, about Ruby, who is the only hearing person in her deaf family; Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin’s film Wendy, a reimagining of Peter Pan; Minamata, which stars Johnny Depp as war photographer W. Eugene Smith who travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities; WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, Jed Rothstein’s documentary about the collapse of the office space company; and Dan Stevens in I’m Your Man, about a scientist who in order to obtain research funds for her studies, accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment.

What’s That Film continues, in which your mysterious half-remembered films are (hopefully) identified.

Ali and Robbie also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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00:15:34 Box Office Top 10
00:35:03 Minamata review
00:43:54 Ryan Reynolds interview
00:55:38 Free Guy review
00:59:45 The Courier review
01:08:53 TV Movie of the Week
01:12:57 Wendy review
01:18:15 WeWork review
01:33:47 I'm Your Man review
01:41:46 Coda Review
Felicity Jones, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Zola and Stillwater

6 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 33 min
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Edith Bowman and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Felicity Jones, who talks about her new film, romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover, in which she stars alongside Shailene Woodley. Lees meer

Anna reviews drama Profile, in which an undercover journalist infiltrates the online propaganda channels of the so-called Islamic State; Stillwater, which stars Matt Damon as a dad who travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit; Zola, a black comedy film based on a viral Twitter thread, in which Taylour Paige plays the titular stripper who is convinced by her new friend (Riley Keough) to travel to Tampa, Florida, in order to earn money, only to get in over her head; Beasts Clawing At Straws, a crime drama in which a struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mother, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker; and reissue Now, Voyager, which stars Bette Davis as a frumpy spinster who blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman; and Boys From County Hell, about a crew of hardy road workers who must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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00:13:04 WTF?
00:23:40 Box Office Top 10
00:37:27 Profile review
00:42:55 Now, Voyager review
00:47:19 Zola review
00:52:15 Felicity Jones interview
01:06:29 The Last Letter From Your Lover review
01:08:24 Stillwater review
01:12:45 Beasts Clutching at Straws review
01:15:51 Boys From County Hell review
01:22:42 TV Movies of the Week
01:28:25 DVD of the Week

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Jungle Cruise, Old, Vivo, Space Jam, The Sparks Brothers, The Suicide Squad

30 juli 2021 · 1 uur 38 min
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Mark reviews musical animation Vivo, which features all-new original songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright’s documentary about the seminal band, who were our guests last week; James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, the ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 2016 film, in which a team of dysfunctional heroes are sent on a dangerous mission; equestrian animation Spirit Untamed, in which a girl goes to live with her father over the summer in a small town, where she befriends a wild mustang stallion; Jungle Cruise, which stars The Rock and Emily Blunt in a film based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travellers through a jungle; Limbo, a British comedy drama in which a Syrian musician awaits the result of his asylum application on a remote Scottish island and The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a documentary about the Swedish actor Björn Andrésen who achieved instant stardom as a teenager in the 1971 film Death in Venice. Lees meer

Plus Mark finally reviews Space Jam and M. Night Shyamalan’s Old.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip concludes with films that best represent Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:11:46 Celebrating Cinema
00:15:09 Box Office Top 10
00:24:21 Old review
00:30:02 Space Jam: A New Legacy review
00:36:27 Ordering Food Scene
00:38:32 Jungle Cruise review
00:43:03 WTF? (What’s That Film?)
00:50:33 Limbo review
00:53:41 Vivo review
00:57:10 Spirit Untamed review
01:01:43 North American Movie Road Trip
01:07:46 The Sparks Brothers review
01:16:10 TV Movies of the Week
01:20:36 The Suicide Squad review
01:26:58 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review
01:30:08 DVD of the Week

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Edgar Wright & Sparks, The World to Come, Riders of Justice and Off the Rails

23 juli 2021 · 1 uur 39 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Edgar Wright & Sparks, who talk about The Sparks Brothers. Lees meer

Mark reviews Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston in period romance The World to Come, about two neighbouring couples along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier; action drama Riders of Justice, in which Mads Mikklesen plays Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident; Night of the Kings, about a young man sent to ‘La Maca’, a prison in the Ivory Coast; Werewolves Within, an adaptation of the video game; British comedy Off the Rails; and Bye Bye Morons, Albert Dupontel’s comedy drama about a seriously ill woman who tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist. Plus Mark will give his verdict on Space Jam 2: A New Legacy.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip continues into New Brunswick.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

00:16:21 Celebrating Cinema
00:18:02 Box Office Top 10
00:25:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (non) review
00:33:41 Werewolves Within review
00:39:12 Ordering Food Scene
00:41:17 Off The Rails review
00:45:12 Edgar Wright and Sparks interview
01:01:36 Here We Are review
01:05:43 North American Movie Road Trip
01:08:33 Riders of Justice review
01:12:43 Night of the Kings review
01:14:57 TV Movies of the Week
01:18:43 The World to Come review
01:23:20 Bye Bye Morons review
01:31:00 DVD of the Week

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Vanessa Kirby, The Croods 2: A New Age, The Forever Purge and Summer of Soul

16 juli 2021 · 1 uur 54 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Vanessa Kirby who talks about her film The World to Come. Lees meer

Mark reviews animated sequel The Croods 2: A New Age; The Forever Purge, the fifth film in the American anthology media franchise; Nowhere Special, which stars James Norton as a young father searching for the perfect replacement family when he learns he only has months left to live; Questlove’s concert documentary Summer of Soul; Jean Dujardin in Deerskin and Two of Us, a drama about two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, who have been secretly in love for decades.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip continues into Newfoundland and Labrador.

Plus for one week only, a quiz called ‘Where’s Ray?’

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:17:49 Box Office Top 10
00:42:18 Nowhere Special review
00:46:46 Vanessa Kirby interview
01:04:52 Two Of Us review
01:07:08 Ordering Food Scene
01:10:40 The Forever Purge review
01:15:21 North American Movie Road Trip
01:22:49 Summer of Soul review
01:28:02 TV Movies of the Week
01:33:24 Deerskin review
01:36:51 Where’s Ray?
01:43:29 The Croods: A New Age review
01:50:05 DVD of the Week

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Eddie Izzard, Black Widow, Tove, Truffle Hunters

9 juli 2021 · 1 uur 51 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Eddie Izzard, who talks about her film Six Minutes to Midnight. Lees meer

Mark reviews The Truffle Hunters, about older Italian men who hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle; Jason Isaacs in action sci-fi Occupation: Rainfall about survivors of an alien invasion; David Oyelowo’s The Water Man, about a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers, To Be Someone, a drama set in the world of the mods; Tove, about the life of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomin books; drama Jumbo, which stars Noemie Merlant as Jeanne, a shy young woman who works in an amusement park; and the latest Marvel film Black Widow.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip continues into Québec.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:13:23 Celebrating Cinema
00:16:27 Digital releases
00:18:08 Box Office Top 10
00:35:27 The Truffle Hunters review
00:41:46 Tove review
00:44:04 Eddie Izzard interview
00:59:36 Jumbo review
01:04:22 To Be Someone review
01:09:25 North American Movie Road Trip
01:15:01 Occupation: Rainfall review
01:21:14 The Water Man review
01:28:03 TV Movies of the Week
01:32:55 Black Widow review
01:44:52 DVD of the Week

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Vin Diesel, FF9, Freaky, Fear Street, Another Round & Cannes preview

2 juli 2021 · 2 uur 7 min
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Ali and Robbie are joined by Vin Diesel who talks about his new film Fast and Furious 9. Lees meer

They will also review Nick Broomfield’s examination of the unsolved murders of hip-hop artists Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur; Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning story of four secondary school teachers who consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives; Michelle Pfieffer as an ageing Manhattan socialite in French Exit; Vince Vaughn & Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and a schoolgirl who swap bodies; Chris Pratt in actioner The Tomorrow War; Fear Street Part 1: 1994, the first in a trilogy based on the books by R.L.Stine about a circle of teenage friends who accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years; and Robbie will also preview the Cannes Film Festival and they’ll briefly review Fast and Furious 9.

Ali and Robbie will also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week which this week features a Dad Joke Battle.

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’.

00:07:28 French Exit review
00:17:18 Celebrating Cinema
00:20:26 Digital Releases
00:25:55 Box Office Top 10
00:43:45 Last Man Standing review
00:53:51 Another Round review
01:08:42 Vin Diesel interview
01:18:11 F9 review
01:23:52 Fear Street Part 1: 1994 review
01:29:53 Cannes preview
01:34:52 Freaky review
01:41:48 TV Movies of the Week
01:46:54 The Tomorrow War review
01:56:16 DVD of the Week

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David Oyelowo, Fast and Furious 9, Supernova and Sweat

25 juni 2021 · 1 uur 51 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by David Oyelowo who talks about his forthcoming film The Water Man. Lees meer

Mark also reviews the latest in the automotive action series Fast and Furious 9, in which Cipher enlists the help of Jakob, Dom's younger brother, to take revenge on Dom and his team; Supernova, which stars Colin Firth as Sam, and Stanley Tucci Tusker, who has been diagnosed with dementia; The Man Standing Next, a thriller set in 1970s Korea which is under the absolute control of the president Park; Sweat, Magnus von Horn’s drama about three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac; Kindred, a horror/ thriller about a pregnant woman who suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has intentions for her unborn child; plus in the return of much loved feature Cream of the Streams, Mark reviews Fatherhood with Kevin Hart.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip continues into Ontario.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:22:28 Celebrating Cinema
00:25:43 Digital Releases
00:27:06 Box Office Top 10
00:42:13 Kindred review
00:46:12 David Oyelowo interview
01:04:45 The Man Standing Next review
01:08:11 Fast and Furious 9 review
01:14:47 North American Movie Road Trip
01:20:42 Sweat review
01:23:52 Supernova review
01:28:33 TV Movies of the Week
01:35:35 Fatherhood review
01:41:47 DVD of the Week

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Ben Wheatley, In the Earth, Luca, Monster Hunter and The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

18 juni 2021 · 2 uur 4 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Ben Wheatley who talks about his new film In the Earth. Lees meer

Mark also reviews new Disney animation Luca, about an unlikely but strong friendship between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human on the Italian riviera; Monster Hunter from director: Paul W.S. Anderson, based on the CapCom computer game; The Reason I Jump, based on the book by Naoki Higashida, which explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world; It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman; In The Heights, Jon M. Chu‘s film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life; and Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson in action crime comedy The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Manitoba.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:26:48 Celebrating Cinema
00:30:33 Digital Releases
00:32:25 Box Office Top 10
00:46:37 Ben Wheatley interview
01:06:20 In The Earth review
01:13:14 In The Heights review
01:20:00 Monster Hunter review
01:26:03 North American Movie Road Trip
01:30:52 The Reason I Jump review
01:37:28 Luca review
01:42:55 The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard review
01:48:28 TV Movies of the Week
01:51:55 It Must Be Heaven review
01:59:13 DVD of the Week

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Olivia Colman and Florian Zeller, The Father and Ellie and Abby and Ellie's Dead Aunt.

11 juni 2021 · 1 uur 50 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Olivia Colman and Florian Zeller, star and director respectively of Oscar-winning drama The Father. Lees meer

Mark also reviews Bob Odenkirk’s new action thriller Nobody, about a mild-mannered bystander who intervenes in a crime; Ellie and Abby and Ellie's Dead Aunt, about a 17 year old who is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate to an event; 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez, a documentary about the ne'er-do-well rapper, Tekashi69, sci-fi Parallel, Ethiopian drama Running Against the Wind and another re-release of the classic Fargo.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Nunavut.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:23:58 Celebrating Cinema
00:28:24 Digital releases
00:29:34 Box Office Top Ten
00:43:11 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez review
00:48:02 Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) review
00:51:51 Olivia Colman and Florian Zeller interview
01:07:42 The Father review
01:13:52 North American Movie Road Trip
01:20:22 Nobody review
01:25:39 Parallel review
01:27:57 Running Against The Wind review
01:29:03 TV Movies of the Week
01:34:52 Fargo review
01:40:50 DVD of the Week

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John Krasinski, A Quiet Place Part II, Land, After Love and Gunda.

4 juni 2021 · 1 uur 44 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by John Krasinski, who talks about his new film A Quiet Place Part II, about the Abbott family’s continued fight for survival. Lees meer

Other reviews include; Land, Robin Wright’s film about a bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming; Flashback, starring Dylan O'Brien, about a man who both literally and metaphorically journeys into his past; After Love, which stars Joanna Scanlan as Mary Hussain, who suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband; Gunda, a documentary looking at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken, The Killing Of Two Lovers, about a man desperately trying to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife and Shiva Baby, about a student who runs into her sugar daddy at a Jewish funeral service with her parents.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Saskatchewan.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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00:26:47 - TOP TEN
00:39:00 - LAND REVIEW
00:44:15 - AFTER LOVE REVIEW
00:49:12 - JOHN KRASINSKI INTERVIEW
01:03:23 - A QUIET PLACE PART II REVIEW
01:10:18 - CANADIAN ROADTRIP
01:15:21 - FLASHBACK REVIEW
01:20:36 - GUNDA REVIEW
01:23:57 - KILLING OF TWO LOVERS REVIEW
01:25:54 - TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK
01:30:32 - SHIVA BABY
01:38:33 - DVD OF THE WEEK
Emma Stone, Cruella, First Cow, The Conjuring III and Demon Slayer

28 mei 2021 · 1 uur 51 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Emma Stone, who talks about her role in Disney’s Cruella, along with director Craig Gillespie. Lees meer

Plus your essential cinematic and streaming reviews including; frontier drama First Cow, which stars last week’s guest Toby Jones; Surge, in which Ben Whishaw plays a man who goes on a 24 hour bold and reckless journey of self-liberation; new animations Earwig And The Witch, about an orphan girl who is adopted by a witch and comes home to a house filled with mystery and magic and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train; Dinner in America, a romcom about a disaffected punk and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly falling in love; Ira Sach’s Frankie, in which three generations grapple with a life-changing experience during one day of a holiday in Portugal; and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest in the horror franchise starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Alberta.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

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’.

00:14:48 Celebrating Cinema
00:17:22 Digital releases
00:19:34 Box Office Top Ten
00:30:50 Director of Peter Rabbit 2, Will Gluck interview
00:52:36 First Cow review
00:54:48 Dinner In America review
00:57:58 Emma Stone and Craig Gillespie interview
01:13:04 Cruella review
01:16:21 Frankie review
01:18:23 North American Movie Road Trip
01:23:35 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It review
01:27:48 Earwig and the Witch review
01:29:49 Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train review
01:31:30 TV Movies of the Week
01:36:36 Surge review
01:45:43 DVD of the Week

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Toby Jones, Peter Rabbit 2, Army of the Dead, My New York Year & Rare Beasts

21 mei 2021 · 1 uur 43 min
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In the first show back after some UK cinemas reopened, Mark and Simon are joined by Toby Jones, who talks about his new film First Cow. Lees meer

Plus your essential cinematic and streaming reviews including Irritating Rabbit 2, Billie Piper’s ‘anti romcom’ Rare Beasts, which she wrote, directed and starred in, Sigourney Weaver in My New York Year, about a graduate who takes a job working for reclusive writer J.D. Salinger’s agent, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead about a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, documentary The 8th, about the fight to repeal Ireland’s 8th Amendment, The Human Factor, which tells the behind-the-scenes story of America’s thirty year battle to secure peace in the Middle East and The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet.

As audiences return to some UK cinemas we’ll take another look at the films that are available theatrically.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Northwest Territories.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

00:19:36 Celebrating Cinema
00:20:51 Current releases
00:23:22 Box Office Top Ten!
00:31:35 Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway review
00:40:13 The 8th review
00:42:53 My New York Year review
00:47:09 Toby Jones interview
01:03:40 Rare Beasts review
01:08:32 North American Movie Trip
01:12:05 Army of the Dead review
01:18:01 The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet review
01:20:48 TV Movies of the Week
01:24:39 The Human Factor review
01:36:09 DVD of the Week

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Sigourney Weaver, Tilda Swinton, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Oxygen

14 mei 2021 · 1 uur 46 min
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In the last show back before cinemas reopen, Mark and Simon are joined by Sigourney Weaver, who talks about her new film My New York Year. Lees meer

Plus your essential streaming reviews including Taylor Sheridan’s action drama Those Who Wish Me Dead, which stars Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult, Lance Oppenheim’s intriguing documentary Some Kind of Heaven, about the lives of people in a Floridian retirement village, Undergods, Oxygen (Oxygène), Alexandre Aja’s film about a woman who wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and Servants, about two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.

Plus there’s another chance to hear from Tilda Swinton about her new film, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, a reworking of Jean Cocteau’s play of the same name.

Our rotating and final chart is Top Five of Your Life, in which listeners share their five most treasured films.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Yukon.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

00:28:06 Celebrating Cinema
00:31:58 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life
00:37:35 Current releases
00:41:05 Servants review
00:43:30 Sigourney Weaver interview
00:58:31 Those Who Wish Me Dead review
01:03:21 Tilda Swinton interview
01:06:00 The Human Voice review
01:09:05 North American Movie Road Trip
01:13:00 Spiral: From the Book of Saw review
01:21:01 Lobbydown Correspondents
01:25:35 Undergods review
01:28:35 TV Movies of the Week
01:30:53 Some Kind of Heaven review
01:32:30 Oxygen review
01:37:42 DVD of the Week

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Steve Zahn, Cowboys, End of Sentence, Mortal Kombat and Fried Barry

7 mei 2021 · 1 uur 46 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by Steve Zahn, who talks about his new film Cowboys, about a father and son’s journey through the Montana wilderness. Lees meer

Plus your essential streaming reviews including martial arts actioner Mortal Kombat, Christos Nikou’s Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, End of Sentence, with last week’s guest John Hawkes starring alongside Logan Lerman, Agnieszka Holland’s latest, Charlatan, and Fried Barry, a Shudder Original, about a drug-addled South African who is abducted by aliens.

And we hear from cinema expert David Hancock about the future of movies.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip heads over the border into Canada.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

00:31:31 Celebrating Cinema
00:32:14 David Hancock interview
00:43:24 Current releases
00:46:46 Apples review
00:50:49 Fried Barry review
00:53:59 Steve Zahn interview
01:08:45 Cowboys review
01:11:47 Charlatan review
01:15:45 North American Movie Road Trip
01:22:52 Mortal Kombat review
01:27:37 Lobbydown Correspondents
01:32:19 TV Movies of the Week
01:35:43 End of Sentence review
01:41:14 DVD of the Week

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John Hawkes, Nomadland, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Wild Mountain Thyme

30 april 2021 · 1 uur 43 min
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Mark and Simon are joined by John Hawkes, who talks about his new film End of Sentence. Lees meer

Plus your essential streaming reviews including big Oscar winner Nomadland, Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as lovers in Ireland who get caught up in a family land dispute, Michael B Jordan as John Clark, a US Navy SEAL, who goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy in Tom Clancy adaptation Without Remorse. We’ll also review The Artist’s Wife, about the wife of a renowned abstract artist who is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a new science fiction comedy produced by Sony Pictures for Netflix.

Our rotating chart this week is the Official Film Chart.

Plus Mark and Simon’s US Movie Road Trip concludes with Alaska and Hawaii.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

00:25:18 Celebrating Cinema
00:27:14 Current releases
00:29:31 Chart: Official Film Chart
00:36:41 Identifying Features review
00:42:33 Wild Mountain Thyme review
00:48:16 John Hawkes interview
01:03:55 The Mitchells vs. the Machines review
01:08:38 US Movie Road Trip
01:15:29 Nomadland review
01:22:05 Lobbydown Correspondents
01:25:00 Without Remorse review
01:26:34 TV Movies of the Week
01:30:27 The Artist’s Wife review
01:37:11 DVD of the Week

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Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear

23 april 2021 · 1 uur 52 min
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Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett and Christos Nikou, who talk about their new film Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia. Lees meer

Plus your essential streaming reviews including Black Bear, which stars Aubrey Plaza, documentary Sisters with Transistors which tells the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, House of Cardin, a documentary about designer Pierre Cardin which gives exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and new Homeward, in which a father and a son from a Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea, and Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, about Alan Ladd Junior, the man who greenlit some of cinema's greatest hits including Star Wars, Alien, Chariots of Fire and Thelma & Louise.

Our rotating chart this week is Top Fives of Your Life, in which wittertainees share their five most treasured movies.

Plus Ben and Anna will be looking forward to the Oscars.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

00:13:40 Oscars look ahead
00:20:08 Celebrating Cinema
00:26:09 Current releases
00:31:07 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life
00:36:40 Black Bear review
00:42:28 Cate Blanchett & Nichos Kristou interview
01:04:15 Sisters with Transistors review
01:08:27 Oscars look ahead part 2
01:15:12 House of Cardin review
01:20:18 Stowaway review
01:23:32 TV Movies of the Week
01:33:57 The Race to Save the World review
01:36:23 Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies review
01:39:39 Homeward review
01:44:22 DVD of the Week

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Andrea Riseborough, Death on the Nile, Marry Me, Flee, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Petrov’s Flu.

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Souvenir Part II, Moonfall, Belle, Jackass Forever, the reissue of Jules et Jim

Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.

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

Keira Knightley, Encanto, House of Gucci and Pirates

Adam Driver talks about his role as Mauricio Gucci in House of Gucci, plus film reviews.

Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick... Boom!, Mothering Sunday and Cry Macho

Kristen Stewart, Spencer, The Card Counter, Eternals and Finch

Chloe Zhao, Thomasin McKenzie, Last Night in Soho and Antlers

Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall and The Boss Baby 2: Family Business

Sir Michael Caine, Halloween Kills, Venom, Ron’s Gone Wrong, The Last Duel and The Velvet Underground

Jeymes Samuels & Regina King, No Sudden Move, The Addams Family 2 and Deadly Cuts.

Ridley Scott and Jodie Comer, Anne at 13000 ft, Next Door and No Time to Die

Michael Gandolfini, The Many Saints of Newark

Luke Wilson, 12 Mighty Orphans, Gunpowder Milkshake, The Starling and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

Jennifer Hudson, Respect, Herself, Copshop and The Voyeurs

Phyllida Lloyd, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Here Today

Timothy Spall, The Last Bus, Candyman, The Toll and Our Ladies

Kurupt FM, Niamh Algar and Prano Bailey-Bond

Ryan Reynolds, Free Guy, The Courier, Wendy and I’m Your Man

Felicity Jones, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Zola and Stillwater

Jungle Cruise, Old, Vivo, Space Jam, The Sparks Brothers, The Suicide Squad

Edgar Wright & Sparks, The World to Come, Riders of Justice and Off the Rails

Vanessa Kirby, The Croods 2: A New Age, The Forever Purge and Summer of Soul

Eddie Izzard, Black Widow, Tove, Truffle Hunters

Vin Diesel, FF9, Freaky, Fear Street, Another Round & Cannes preview

David Oyelowo, Fast and Furious 9, Supernova and Sweat

Ben Wheatley, In the Earth, Luca, Monster Hunter and The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Olivia Colman and Florian Zeller, The Father and Ellie and Abby and Ellie's Dead Aunt.

John Krasinski, A Quiet Place Part II, Land, After Love and Gunda.

Emma Stone, Cruella, First Cow, The Conjuring III and Demon Slayer

Toby Jones, Peter Rabbit 2, Army of the Dead, My New York Year & Rare Beasts

Sigourney Weaver, Tilda Swinton, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Oxygen

Steve Zahn, Cowboys, End of Sentence, Mortal Kombat and Fried Barry

John Hawkes, Nomadland, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Wild Mountain Thyme

Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear