This week sees Mark holding down the fort with fellow professional film watcher Robbie Collin.  

In a special twist, both Mark and Robbie sit down for a brilliant conversation with British-acting-legend-in-the-making Harris Dickinson to discuss his sunny, new, kitchen-sink drama, ‘Scrapper’. 

They also debate the merits of ‘Strays’, an R-rated comedy featuring the voices of Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Will Ferrell, who play a motley crew of stray dogs, who team up to get revenge on one of their owners; ‘Lie With Me’, a thoughtful French film about an author who, on returning to his hometown for the first time in decades, meets the son of his first love; and ‘Blue Beetle’, DC’s latest offering, which sees an alien scarab choose a young, college graduate to be its symbiotic host, bestowing him with a suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers.  

Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are ad-free!): 

06:46 Lie With Me Review 

15:44 Box Office Top 10 

33:33 Harris Dickinson Interview 

52:47 Strays Review 

58:32 Laughter Lift 

01:02:44 Blue Beetle Review 

01:09:08 What's On 

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