Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the week's movies

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04.16.2021

Edith Bowman and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Aubrey Plaza, who talks about her new film Black Bear, in which she plays a filmmaker at a creative impasse seeking solace at a rural retreat. Plus your essential streaming reviews including ...

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review episodes:

04.16.2021 Aubrey Plaza, Promising Young Woman & I Blame Society Edith Bowman and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Aubrey Plaza, who talks about her new film Black Bear, in which she plays a filmmaker at a creative impasse seeking solace at a rural retreat. Plus your essential streaming reviews including ...
04.10.2021 Elizabeth Lo, Sound of Metal, Palm Springs and Assimilate Mark and Simon are joined by Elizabeth Lo, who talks about her new movie Stray about stray dogs in Istanbul. Plus your essential streaming reviews including a 70s-set British supernatural thriller called The Power, Sci-fi horror Assimilate, Cornwall-set drama Wilderness, ...
04.02.2021 Riz Ahmed, Godzilla vs Kong, Antebellum, Minari and The Mauritanian Mark and Simon are joined by Riz Ahmed, who talks about his new movie The Sound of Metal, in which he plays a heavy-metal drummer whose life is thrown into freefall. Plus your essential streaming reviews including: Godzilla vs Kong, ...
03.26.2021 Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell, Tom and Jerry: The Movie Mark and Simon are joined by Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell who talk about their forthcoming film Promising Young Woman, which has been nominated for five Oscars. Plus your essential streaming reviews including the latest cinematic adaptation of the classic ...
03.19.2021 Jodie Foster, Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Silk Road Mark and Simon are joined by Jodie Foster, who talks about her new film The Mauritanian, based on the book Guantánamo Diary. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Amber & Me, a documentary about twin sisters, one of whom has ...
03.12.2021 Liam Neeson & Micheál Richardson, Judas and the Black Messiah, Locked Down and Cherry Mark and Simon are joined by Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson, who talk about their new film Made in Italy, about a bohemian artist who travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house he inherited ...
03.05.2021 Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer, Raya and the Last Dragon, Moxie and Coming 2 America Mark and Simon are joined by Guy Pearce who talks about his new movie The Last Vermeer, in which he stars as "Han" van Meegeren, a Dutch painter and portraitist, one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th ...
02.26.2021 Sienna Miller, Wander Darkly and The United States vs Billie Holiday Mark and Simon are joined by Sienna Miller, star of disorientating new movie Wander Darkly, in which she stars alongside Diego Luna as new parents Adrienne and Matteo who are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship, revisiting ...
02.19.2021 Lakeith Stanfield, I Care a Lot, Zappa and Music Mark and Simon are joined by Lakeith Stanfield, who talks about his new film Judas and the Black Messiah, in which he stars as FBI informant Bill O’Neal, opposite Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of ...
02.12.2021 Paul Greengrass, The News of the World, Barb and Star and Willy’s Wonderland Mark and Simon are joined by Paul Greengrass, who talks about his new western The News of the World, which stars Tom Hanks as a Civil War veteran who agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ...
02.05.2021 Sam Neill, Rams, Malcolm and Marie and Greenland Mark and Simon are joined by Sam Neill, who talks about his new film Rams. Mark reviews of A Glitch in the Matrix which asks if we are living in a simulation, Stewart Lee’s documentary King Rocker, about Robert Lloyd, ...
01.29.2021 Adam Curtis, Synchronic, The Dig and Palmer Mark and Simon are joined by Adam Curtis, who talks about his new film Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World. Mark reviews Synchronic, starring Jamie Dornan as a New Orleans paramedic, Beginning, ...
01.22.2021 Kevin Macdonald, Quo Vadis, Aida? 76 Days and White Tiger Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies, including Quo Vadis, Aida? 76 Days and White Tiger. Plus an interview with director Kevin Macdonald to talk about Life In A Day 2020. 00:22:38 Celebrating Cinema 00:32:13 Algorithm Is Gonna ...
01.15.2021 Ralph Fiennes, Stardust, MLK/FBI, Blithe Spirit and Dear Comrades! Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies, including Stardust, MLK/FBI, Blithe Spirit and Dear Comrades! Plus Ralph Fiennes talks about his new film, The Dig. Also on the programme, interviews with key figures from the world of cinema, ...
01.08.2021 Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman, Sylvie’s Love and Vanguard Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Vanessa Kirby who talks about her new film Pieces of a Woman. Plus your essential streaming reviews including the new Jackie Chan film Vanguard, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha in Sylvie’s ...
01.01.2021 Best of 2020 Simon and Mark present their favourite bits of the show from across the year including reviews of The Ringmaster, Dolittle and I'm Thinking of Ending Things and interviews with Werner Herzog, Charlize Theron and Richard Dreyfuss. Download the Kermode and ...
12.25.2020 Pete Docter, Soul, One Night in Miami and Adoration Mark and Simon are joined by Director Pete Docter who talks about his new film Soul. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including documentaries Mayor and Sing Me a Song, and French drama Adoration. Mark and Simon also ...
12.18.2020 Viola Davis, Wonder Woman 1984, Come Away and Let Him Go Mark and Simon are joined by Viola Davis who talks about her film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman, Kevin Costner in ...
12.11.2020 David Oyelowo, The Midnight Sky, American Utopia and Dreamland Mark and Simon are joined by David Oyelowo who talks about his forthcoming film Come Away. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including David’s other new film, The Midnight Sky, in which he plays the husband of last ...
12.04.2020 Felicity Jones, The Prom, Host and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Mark and Simon are joined by Felicity Jones who talks about her forthcoming film Midnight Sky. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including Ryan Murphy’s The Prom, Zoom-based horror Host and Chadwick Boseman’s last screen appearance in Ma ...
11.27.2020 Viggo Mortensen, Red, White and Blue, Possessor, and The Ringmaster Mark and Simon are joined by Viggo Mortensen who talks about his new film Falling. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including Steve McQueen’s drama Red, White and Blue, starring John Boyega, and new horrors Possessor and The ...
11.20.2020 Peter Strickland, Uncle Frank, The Kid Detective, Patrick and Skyfire Mark and Simon are joined by Peter Strickland who talks about his new film Cold Meridian. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including The Kid Detective, about a once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, who continues to solve the ...
11.13.2020 Jason Isaacs, Skyfire, Jingle Jangle and Hillbilly Elegy Mark and Simon are joined by Jason Isaacs who talks about his new film Skyfire, directed by Simon West, whose previous work includes Con Air. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including Netflix’s Christmas movie Jingle Jangle, Sophia ...
11.06.2020 Tilda Swinton, A Christmas Gift from Bob, About Endlessness and Looted Mark and Simon are joined by Tilda Swinton who talks about her new film The Human Voice, directed by Pedro Almodóvar and adapted from the monodrama written by Jean Cocteau. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including Roy ...
10.30.2020 Elisabeth Moss, Shirley, Relic, The Witches, Mogul Mowgli and Wolfwalkers Mark and Simon are joined by Elisabeth Moss to talk about her new film, Shirley. Elisabeth stars as the writer Shirley Jackson, in this fictionalised account of a time in her life. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews ...
10.23.2020 Colm Meaney, Pixie, Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Honest Thief and The Climb Mark and Simon are joined by Colm Meaney who talks about his new movie Pixie. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Liam Neeson’s new actioner Honest Thief, Sacha Baron Cohen’s return as Borat in Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, new American ...
10.16.2020 Morfydd Clark, Rebecca, I Am Greta, Carmilla Mark and Simon are joined by Morfydd Clark who talks about her new movie Saint Maud. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of Rebecca, I Am Greta, a documentary about the climate activist and Carmilla, ...
10.09.2020 Ben Wheatley, Kajillionaire, Saint Maud and I Am Woman Mark and Simon are joined by Ben Wheatley who talks about his new movie Rebecca. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including highly-rated horror Saint Maud, Miranda July’s new drama Kajillionaire, and a Helen Reddy biopic, I Am Woman. Mark ...
10.02.2020 Sally Hawkins, Eternal Beauty, On the Rocks and The Trial of the Chicago 7 Mark and Simon are joined by Sally Hawkins who talks about her new movie Eternal Beauty. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks, about a ...
09.25.2020 Ron Howard, Rebuilding Paradise, Becky, Monsoon and Miss Juneteenth Mark and Simon are joined by Ron Howard who talks about Rebuilding Paradise. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Channing Godfrey Peoples’ drama Miss Juneteenth about a former beauty queen and single mother preparing her rebellious teenage daughter for ...
09.18.2020 Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Rocks and Tesla Mark and Simon are joined by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter who talk about Bill and Ted Face the Music. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including coming of age drama Rocks about a young teenage girl who finds herself ...
09.11.2020 Peter Bogdanovich, The Roads Not Taken and The Broken Hearts Gallery Mark and Simon are joined by legendary director Peter Bogdanovich who talks about his new Buster Keaton documentary The Great Buster. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including romcom The Broken Hearts Gallery and Sally Potter’s new drama The Roads ...
09.04.2020 Jessie Buckley, Tenet, Mulan and The New Mutants Mark and Simon are joined by Jessie Buckley who talks about her new film I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including long-awaited superhero movie The New Mutants, Disney’s live action remake of Mulan & new ...
08.28.2020 Chris Nolan, Tenet, Hope Gap, Get Duked and Rising Phoenix Edith and Clarisse are joined by internationally renowned director Christopher Nolan, who talks about his new film Tenet. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Tenet, Hope Gap, Get Duked, Rising Phoenix and The Lost Prince. Tenet stars John David ...
08.21.2020 Annette Bening, The One and Only Ivan, Yes, God, Yes and Random Acts of Violence Sanjeev and Robbie are joined by Annette Bening who talks about her new film Hope Gap. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including The One and Only Ivan which stars Sam Rockwell as a gorilla and Chaka Khan as a ...
08.14.2020 Bryan Cranston, Babyteeth, Pinocchio, Spree and Sputnik. Clara Amfo and Rhianna Dhillon are joined by Bryan Cranston who talks about his role in The One and Only Ivan. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Pinocchio, Matteo Garrone’s live-action adaptation of the classic story of a wooden ...
08.07.2020 Seth Rogen, Ben Mendelsohn, An American Pickle, Endings, Beginnings and Perfect 10 Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Seth Rogen and Ben Mendelsohn, who talk about their films An American Pickle and Babyteeth. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Shailene Woodley and Jamie Dornan in Endings, Beginnings and ...
07.31.2020 Gemma Arterton, Summerland, Unhinged and Proxima Simon and Mark are joined by Gemma Arterton who talks about her new movie Summerland. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Russell Crowe in Unhinged, Eva Green in Proxima and Claire Oakley’s mystery drama set on a Cornwall ...
07.24.2020 Lucy Liu, Stage Mother, Saint Frances, How to Build a Girl. Simon and Mark are joined by Lucy Liu, who talks about her new movie Stage Mother. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including big festival comedy/ drama Saint Frances and Beanie Feldstein in the film adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s ...
07.17.2020 Ben Whishaw, Black Water: Abyss, Clemency and Come As You Are Simon and Mark are joined by Ben Whishaw, who talks about his movie Little Joe. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Alfre Woodard in Clemency, comedy Come As You Are, war thriller Ghosts of War and horror Black ...
07.10.2020 Alfre Woodard, Scoob!, Greyhound and The Way Back 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, ...
07.03.2020 Werner Herzog, Family Romance LLC, Lynn + Lucy and Lost Transmissions 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 ...
06.26.2020 Simon Pegg, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga and Irresistible 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 ...
06.19.2020 Armando Iannucci, White Riot, 7500 and Resistance 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 ...
06.12.2020 Sir Kenneth 'Chuckles' Branagh, Spike Lee, Artemis Fowl, Da 5 Bloods and The King of Staten Island 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, ...
06.05.2020 Judd Apatow, Dating Amber and Days of the Bagnold Summer 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 ...
05.29.2020 Rosamund Pike, The High Note, Only the Animals and Krabi, 2562 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 ...
05.22.2020 Marielle Heller, The Lovebirds, Take Me Somewhere Nice, and The County 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, ...
05.15.2020 George McKay, Proximity, Cassandro, The Exotico! and Romantic Comedy 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 ...
05.08.2020 Amma Asante, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, In Search of Greatness and Camino Skies 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 ...

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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review episodes:

Aubrey Plaza, Promising Young Woman & I Blame Society

Elizabeth Lo, Sound of Metal, Palm Springs and Assimilate

Riz Ahmed, Godzilla vs Kong, Antebellum, Minari and The Mauritanian

Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell, Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Jodie Foster, Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Silk Road

Liam Neeson & Micheál Richardson, Judas and the Black Messiah, Locked Down and Cherry

Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer, Raya and the Last Dragon, Moxie and Coming 2 America

Sienna Miller, Wander Darkly and The United States vs Billie Holiday

Lakeith Stanfield, I Care a Lot, Zappa and Music

Paul Greengrass, The News of the World, Barb and Star and Willy’s Wonderland

Sam Neill, Rams, Malcolm and Marie and Greenland

Adam Curtis, Synchronic, The Dig and Palmer

Kevin Macdonald, Quo Vadis, Aida? 76 Days and White Tiger

Ralph Fiennes, Stardust, MLK/FBI, Blithe Spirit and Dear Comrades!

Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman, Sylvie’s Love and Vanguard

Best of 2020

Pete Docter, Soul, One Night in Miami and Adoration

Viola Davis, Wonder Woman 1984, Come Away and Let Him Go

David Oyelowo, The Midnight Sky, American Utopia and Dreamland

Felicity Jones, The Prom, Host and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Viggo Mortensen, Red, White and Blue, Possessor, and The Ringmaster

Peter Strickland, Uncle Frank, The Kid Detective, Patrick and Skyfire

Jason Isaacs, Skyfire, Jingle Jangle and Hillbilly Elegy

Tilda Swinton, A Christmas Gift from Bob, About Endlessness and Looted

Elisabeth Moss, Shirley, Relic, The Witches, Mogul Mowgli and Wolfwalkers

Colm Meaney, Pixie, Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Honest Thief and The Climb

Morfydd Clark, Rebecca, I Am Greta, Carmilla

Ben Wheatley, Kajillionaire, Saint Maud and I Am Woman

Sally Hawkins, Eternal Beauty, On the Rocks and The Trial of the Chicago 7

Ron Howard, Rebuilding Paradise, Becky, Monsoon and Miss Juneteenth

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Rocks and Tesla

Peter Bogdanovich, The Roads Not Taken and The Broken Hearts Gallery

Jessie Buckley, Tenet, Mulan and The New Mutants

Chris Nolan, Tenet, Hope Gap, Get Duked and Rising Phoenix

Annette Bening, The One and Only Ivan, Yes, God, Yes and Random Acts of Violence

Bryan Cranston, Babyteeth, Pinocchio, Spree and Sputnik.

Seth Rogen, Ben Mendelsohn, An American Pickle, Endings, Beginnings and Perfect 10

Gemma Arterton, Summerland, Unhinged and Proxima

Lucy Liu, Stage Mother, Saint Frances, How to Build a Girl.

Ben Whishaw, Black Water: Abyss, Clemency and Come As You Are

Alfre Woodard, Scoob!, Greyhound and The Way Back

Werner Herzog, Family Romance LLC, Lynn + Lucy and Lost Transmissions

Simon Pegg, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga and Irresistible

Armando Iannucci, White Riot, 7500 and Resistance

Sir Kenneth 'Chuckles' Branagh, Spike Lee, Artemis Fowl, Da 5 Bloods and The King of Staten Island

Judd Apatow, Dating Amber and Days of the Bagnold Summer

Rosamund Pike, The High Note, Only the Animals and Krabi, 2562

Marielle Heller, The Lovebirds, Take Me Somewhere Nice, and The County

George McKay, Proximity, Cassandro, The Exotico! and Romantic Comedy

Amma Asante, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, In Search of Greatness and Camino Skies

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