Sanjeev Bhaskar talked to Alfre Woodard about her stunning performance in Clemency - which is out next week. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews from Robbie Collin, including Greyhound - the new high seas war film, starring Tom Hanks, Scoob! (Hello to Jason Isaacs), British flick Love Sarah, starring Celia Imrie and The Way Back, which sees Ben Affleck star as an alcoholic ex-high school basketball superstar, returning to the school to coach the team . Sanjeev Bhaskar and Robbie Colli...
Jul 10, 2020•2 hr 51 min
Mark and Simon are joined by Werner Herzog, who talks about his new film Family Romance LLC. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Lost Transmissions, starring Simon Pegg as an acclaimed music producer who goes off his medication for schizophrenia, Lynn + Lucy, about lifelong best friends whose friendship is tested in extreme circumstances. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-free TV...
Jul 03, 2020•2 hr 53 min
Mark and Simon are joined by Simon Pegg who talks about his movie Lost Transmissions. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Eurovision Song COntest: The Story of Fire Saga, starring Will Ferrell and Rachel Rachel McAdams as Iceland’s entry to the EBU pop competition and Fanny Lye Deliver’d, about a 17th century puritan woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streami...
Jun 26, 2020•2 hr 53 min
Mark and Simon are joined by Armando Iannucci, who talks about his movie The Personal History of David Copperfield. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, Jesse Eisenberg in Resistance, The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance during World War II, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pilot whose aircraft is attacked by terrorists and White Riot, about the Rock Against Racism movement. Mark and Simon chat through all the fi...
Jun 19, 2020•2 hr 47 min
Mark and Simon are joined by Sir Ken Branagh and Spike Lee, who talk about their new movies Artemis Fowl and Da 5 Bloods. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Judd Apatow’s latest The King of Staten Island, which stars Pete Davidson in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama. Mark also reviews You Don’t Nomi, a documentary about Showgirls, The Australian Dream, a documentary about the inspirational story of sporting hero Adam Goodes. Mark and Simon chat through all the films ...
Jun 12, 2020•2 hr 59 min
Mark and Edith Bowman, sitting in for Simon, are joined by Judd Apatow, who talks about his new film The King of Staten Island. He also gives some tips for what to watch on Lockdown. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days of the Bagnold Summer, Dating Amber, an Irish film about two school friends who decide to start a relationship in an effort to fit in. They also talk about A Rainy Day in New York, the new Woody Allen film and Echo in the Ca...
Jun 05, 2020•2 hr 48 min
Rosamund Pike joins Simran Hans and Edith Bowman to talk about Radioactive. She also gives some tips for what to watch on Lockdown. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including documentary Mike Wallace is here, about the legendary American reporter, Only the Animals, a French film about a woman who goes missing by director Domink Moll and The High Note, which stars Dakota Johnson as a personal assistant and Tracee Ellis Ross is the pop singer for whom she works. Edith and Simran chat...
May 29, 2020•2 hr 39 min
Marielle Heller drops by to talk It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, which she directed. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including action comedy The Lovebirds, about a couple who are unintentionally wrapped up in a murder mystery, drama Take Me Somewhere Nice and Icelandic comedy, The County, about a widowed farmer beginning a new life, fighting corruption. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on ...
May 22, 2020•2 hr
George McKay drops by to talk Oscar-winning film 1917 and playing Ned Kelly in The True History of the Kelly Gang. He also gives some tips for what to watch on Lockdown. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including documentary Cassandro, The Exotico! About a gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestler who reinvents himself, sci-fi Proximity and The Orphanage, about a 15-year-old ticket scalper in Kabul who dreams of Bollywood until the Soviets force him into a state facility. Mark...
May 15, 2020•2 hr 54 min
Amma Asante chats to Simon and Mark about the challenges of continuing to work as a film director in lockdown and gives us some tips for some films to watch. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Eliza Hittman’s drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always, sports documentary In Search of Greatness and a film about is the journey of six strangers from New Zealand and Australia walking the 800km Camino de Santiago. Mark also reviews Brett Pierce & Drew T. Pierce’s horror The Wretched, C...
May 08, 2020•2 hr 1 min
Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan talk Calm with Horses, their film set in Ireland where lives are torn apart and loyalties tested when choices must be made between drug-dealing and family. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including drama The Assistant starring Julia Garner, horror film Reborn and Pablo Larraín’s Ema, which focuses on a couple dealing with the aftermath of an adoption that goes wrong. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tel...
May 01, 2020•2 hr 56 min
Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal talk Ema, their film set in Chile about a couple dealing with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Chris Hemsworth in actioner Extraction, horror thriller Sea Fever and Moffie, about a young man drafted into South Africa's military who knows he is different and must keep himself hidden. Mark also reviews Richard Dreyfuss in Astronaut. Mark and Simon chat through al...
Apr 24, 2020•2 hr 55 min
Richard Dreyfuss talks Astronaut, his film about a lonely widower who battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Dreamland, about the world of opioids, Why Don’t You Just Die, Kirill Sokolov’s film about Andrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father who brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming s...
Apr 17, 2020•2 hr 3 min
Paul Walter Hauser & Michael Sheen. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00:39:40 Box Office Top 10 (Fastest Digital Downloads) 00:54:04 Michael Sheen interview 01:06:56 Martin Margiela review 01:10:22 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 01:15:47 Paul Walter Hauser interview...
Apr 10, 2020•2 hr 19 min
John Turturro talks Jesus Rolls, which returns to his character Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including the new Andrew Kotting film The Whalebone Box, Nona: If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them, about Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. Michael Caine plays a sand creature in Four Kids and It. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell ...
Apr 03, 2020•2 hr
Another chance to hear Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots talk about Vivarium. Plus all your essential on demand film reviews including the new Apple TV movie The Banker, starring Samuel L Jackson and Nicolas Hoult, System Crasher, about a 9-year-old’s untamed energy which drives everyone around her to despair, and The Perfect Candidate, about a determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. Mark and Simon chat tell you the bes...
Mar 27, 2020•2 hr 9 min
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's essential streaming movies, including the new Hirokazu Koreeda film The Truth, J.-P. Valkeapää's drama Dogs Don't Wear Pants and Fire Will Come, a Galician-language film directed by Oliver Laxe which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. On the podcast, available on the BBC Sounds app, Mark and Simon discuss the work of Lynne Ramsay. Mark also recommends our weekly U certificate cl...
Mar 20, 2020•2 hr 55 min
Gugu Mbatha-Raw talks Misbehaviour, the film of the protests at the 1970 Miss World protests. Plus all your essential film reviews including the new family action-comedy My Spy, horror The Hunt, documentary Cunningham, Barry Keoghan in Calm with Horses and Brazilian thriller Bacurau. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week....
Mar 16, 2020•2 hr 4 min
Reviews on Onward, Military Wives, Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island and The Photograph among others. 00:16:07 Military Wives 00:33:24 Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island 00:35:44 Onward 00:40:30 The Photograph 00:44:23 Sulpher and White 00:47:05 Vitalina Varela Review Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment
Mar 06, 2020•56 min
Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, plus Box Office Top 10 and Escape from Pretoria review. PART 1 00:32:40 Box Office Top 10 00:50:17 Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots Interview 01:06:38 Escape from Pretoria Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Featuring reviews on the Kelly Gang, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Colour Out of Space.
Mar 06, 2020•42 min
Elisabeth Moss talks The Invisible Man. Plus film reviews including Todd Haynes’s Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, Céline Sciamma’s romantic drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire and George MacKay in Justin Kurzel’s True History Of The Kelly Gang. Ben Bailey Smith and Robbie Collin sit in for Mark and Simon, as they chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the W...
Feb 28, 2020•2 hr 8 min
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies. Steve Coogan joins Simon and Mark for a chat about his new film Greed. Plus Mark will review the latest film releases including The Call Of The Wild and Little Joe. 00:18:07 Box Office Top 10 00:38:06 Steve Coogan Interview 00:51:30 Greed Review 01:07:24 The Call of the Wild 01:14:36 Little Joe 01:32:19 The Public 01:37:52 Like a Boss 01:42:00 Midnight Family Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: [email protected]...
Feb 21, 2020•2 hr 51 min
Anya Taylor-Joy talks Emma. Plus film reviews including Jim Carrey in Sonic the Hedgehog and animation Spycies. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00:23:05 Box Office Top 10 00:45:28 Anya Taylor-Joy interview 00:59:46 Emma review 01:20:38 Spycies review 01:24:57 First Love review 01:37:27 Sonic the Hedgehog review 01:...
Feb 14, 2020•2 hr 57 min
Bong Joon-Ho talks Parasite. Plus film reviews including Robert Downey Junior in Dolittle, Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn and Kristen Stewart in Underwater. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00:27:55 Box Office Top 10 00:44:33 Bong Joon Ho Interview 00:59:51 Paras...
Feb 07, 2020•2 hr 56 min
Willem Dafoe talks The Lighthouse. Plus film reviews including Clint Eastwood’s drama Richard Jewell, Daniel Kaluuya in Queen and Slim, and Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00.19.27 Box Office Top 10 00.39.16 Willem Dafoe Interview 00.57.46 The Lighthouse 01.11.14 R...
Jan 31, 2020•2 hr 58 min
Tom Hanks talks A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. Plus film reviews including Bad Boys for Life, Armando Iannucci’s Dickens adaptation The Personal History Of David Copperfield, psychological horror The Grudge, and supernatural horror The Turning. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. Download the Kermode and Mayo po...
Jan 25, 2020•2 hr 59 min
Charlize Theron talks about Bombshell. Plus film reviews including legal drama Just Mercy, buddy cop action comedy Bad Boys for Life starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00.28.08 Box Office Top 10 00.47.08 Charlize Theron interview 01.01.49 Bombshell review 01.17.37 A Hidden Life...
Jan 17, 2020•2 hr 58 min
Director Sam Mendes talks about 1917 and The Safdie Brothers talk about Uncut Gems. Plus film reviews including political thriller Seberg, starring Kristen Stewart and Jack O'Connell and adventure movie The Runaways. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00.16.34 Box Office Top 10 00.36.33 Safdie Brothers Interview 00.59...
Jan 10, 2020•2 hr
Director Greta Gerwig talks about Little Women. Plus film reviews including Taiki Waititi’s wartime comedy drama Jojo Rabbit, Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, and Giancarlo Esposito and Aaron Eckhart in In the Line of Duty. Edith Bowman and Robbie Collin chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00.14.14 Box Office Top 10 00.39.01 Greta Gerwig...
Jan 03, 2020•2 hr 47 min
