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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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 ...

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review episodes:

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 ...
05.01.2020 Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan, The Assistant, Reborn and Ema 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 ...
04.24.2020 Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal, Extraction, Astronaut, Sea Fever and Moffie 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 ...
04.17.2020 Richard Dreyfuss, Dreamland, Why Don’t You Just Die, and Cuck 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 ...
04.10.2020 Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Sheen, Trolls World Tour and The Grand Bizarre 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 ...
04.03.2020 John Turturro, Four Kids and It and The Whalebone Box 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, ...
03.27.2020 Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots, Vivarium, The Banker, The Perfect Candidate and System Crasher 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 ...
03.20.2020 The Truth, Dogs Don't Wear Pants and Fire Will Come 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 ...
03.16.2020 Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Misbehaviour, The Hunt and My Spy 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 ...
03.06.2020 Onward, Military Wives and The Photograph PART 2 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 ...
03.06.2020 Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Escape from Pretoria PART 1 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 ...
03.06.2020 The lost bit from 28th February Featuring reviews on the Kelly Gang, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Colour Out of Space.
02.28.2020 Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Dark Waters 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 ...
02.21.2020 Steve Coogan, Greed, The Call of the Wild, Little Joe 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. ...
02.14.2020 Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma, Sonic the Hedgehog and Spycies. 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 ...
02.07.2020 Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite, Dolittle and Birds of Prey 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 ...
01.31.2020 Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse, Richard Jewell and A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. 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 ...
01.25.2020 Tom Hanks, The Personal History Of David Copperfield and The Grudge. 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 ...
01.17.2020 Charlize Theron, Bombshell and Just Mercy. 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 ...
01.10.2020 Sam Mendes, The Safdie Brothers, 1917, Uncut Gems and Seberg. 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 ...
01.03.2020 Greta Gerwig, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit and The Gentlemen 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 ...
12.25.2019 Best Of 2019 Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo present their annual festive opportunity to hear the best film reviews and interviews from 2019. With guests including Renée Zellweger, Taron Egerton, and reviews including Holmes and Watson, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Shaun the ...
12.20.2019 JJ Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cats, The Gentlemen and Little Women Director JJ Abrams talks about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Plus film reviews including Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, Guy Ritchie’s latest The Gentlemen and John Cena in Playing with Fire. ...
12.12.2019 Jumanji: The Next Level, QT8: The First Eight and Black Christmas Mark Kermode reviews Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart in Jumanji: The Next Level. Plus reviews including yuletide-themed horror remake Black Christmas, QT8: The First Eight, a documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's directorial ...
12.06.2019 Alex Gibney, Lucy in the Sky, Honey Boy, Ordinary Love, Motherless Brooklyn and Gremlins Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney talks about his new film Citizen K. Plus film reviews including Shia Leboeuf in Honey Boy, Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm in Lucy in the Sky, Edward Norton’s neo-noir Motherless Brooklyn and Liam Neeson and Lesley ...
11.29.2019 Ed Norton, Motherless Brooklyn, Charlie’s Angels, Knives Out, The Two Popes and Atlantics. Ed Norton talks about his film Motherless Brooklyn. Plus film reviews including Rian Johnson’s thriller Knives Out, a reboot of Charlie’s Angels with Kristen Stewart, and biographical drama film The Two Popes directed by Fernando Meirelles. Mark and Simon chat ...
11.22.2019 Chadwick Boseman, 21 Bridges, Judy and Punch, Frozen II and Harriet Chadwick Boseman talks about his film 21 Bridges. Plus film reviews including Suburban soccer moms in Greener Grass, Comedy Crime Drama Judy and Punch, hotly anticipated sequel Frozen II and the tale of a woman’s escape from slavery and transformation ...
11.15.2019 Emilia Clarke, Last Christmas, The Report, Le Mans '66 and Little Monsters Emilia Clarke talks about Last Christmas. Plus film reviews including Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Le Mans ‘66 and Lupita Nyong'o and Josh Gad in comedy horror Little Monsters. Mark Kermode also reviews docudrama The Report, starring Adam Driver, ...
11.08.2019 Helen Mirren, The Irishman, The Good Liar and Driven. Helen Mirren talks about The Good Liar. Plus film reviews including Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer in Luce. Mark Kermode also reviews Nick Hamm’s thriller Driven and Roland Emmerich’s Midway, the story of the World War ...
11.01.2019 Felicity Jones, The Aeronauts, Doctor Sleep and Brittany Runs a Marathon Felicity Jones talks about The Aeronauts. Plus film reviews including The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, comedy Brittany Runs a Marathon and Ken Loach’s new drama Sorry We Missed You. Mark Kermode also reviews mystery Earthquake Bird directed by Wash Westmoreland. ...
10.25.2019 Rebecca Fergsuon, Terminator: Dark Fate, Monos, Black and Blue Rebecca Ferguson talks about Dr. Sleep. Plus film reviews including animation Monos, the next instalment of the Terminator franchise, and drama The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Mark Kermode also reviews war drama film Monos directed by Alejandro Landes ...

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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review episodes:

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

Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan, The Assistant, Reborn and Ema

Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal, Extraction, Astronaut, Sea Fever and Moffie

Richard Dreyfuss, Dreamland, Why Don’t You Just Die, and Cuck

Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Sheen, Trolls World Tour and The Grand Bizarre

John Turturro, Four Kids and It and The Whalebone Box

Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots, Vivarium, The Banker, The Perfect Candidate and System Crasher

The Truth, Dogs Don't Wear Pants and Fire Will Come

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Misbehaviour, The Hunt and My Spy

Onward, Military Wives and The Photograph PART 2

Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Escape from Pretoria PART 1

The lost bit from 28th February

Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Dark Waters

Steve Coogan, Greed, The Call of the Wild, Little Joe

Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma, Sonic the Hedgehog and Spycies.

Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite, Dolittle and Birds of Prey

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse, Richard Jewell and A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood.

Tom Hanks, The Personal History Of David Copperfield and The Grudge.

Charlize Theron, Bombshell and Just Mercy.

Sam Mendes, The Safdie Brothers, 1917, Uncut Gems and Seberg.

Greta Gerwig, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit and The Gentlemen

Best Of 2019

JJ Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cats, The Gentlemen and Little Women

Jumanji: The Next Level, QT8: The First Eight and Black Christmas

Alex Gibney, Lucy in the Sky, Honey Boy, Ordinary Love, Motherless Brooklyn and Gremlins

Ed Norton, Motherless Brooklyn, Charlie’s Angels, Knives Out, The Two Popes and Atlantics.

Chadwick Boseman, 21 Bridges, Judy and Punch, Frozen II and Harriet

Emilia Clarke, Last Christmas, The Report, Le Mans '66 and Little Monsters

Helen Mirren, The Irishman, The Good Liar and Driven.

Felicity Jones, The Aeronauts, Doctor Sleep and Brittany Runs a Marathon

Rebecca Fergsuon, Terminator: Dark Fate, Monos, Black and Blue

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