Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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

08.13.2021 - By BBC Radio 5 livePlay

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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. 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. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.

We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 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

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