Kermode Uncut

Ahead of his new Radio 2 series Celluloid Jukebox, Mark

looks at pop music in films.

Mark highlights the release of a 4K restoration of Akira

Kurosawa’s 1985 masterpiece Ran.

Mark picks out some of the suggestions on how to improve

the marketing campaign for The Witch

I talk to fellow journalist Tim Robey about the recent

disagreements by filmmakers Ben Wheatley and Alex Proyas with critics

and ask if they have a point…

I recently reviewed the terrible Keanu Reeves cop movie

Exposed which turned out to be a savage re-cut of a a very different

film called Daughter Of God. I’ve now seen the original and here is what

I think...

I really like The Witch but the way it has been marketed

is causing confusion about what kind of film it is. What is the

answer?

There’s been a lot of talk about Screening Room - a new

initiative in the US to release movies in theatres and at home at the

same time. What makes this different and will it work?

The new Ben Wheatley film High-Rise is dividing critics

- I don’t necessarily see that as a bad thing...

Goodnight Mommy is a strange and unsettling new horror

movie shot on 35mm - further proof that in the digital age, film is very

much alive and kicking

There’s a new documentary out today based on the famous

interviews between Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut - it’s a

fascinating and revealing piece of filmmaking.