Edith Bowman and Clarisse Loughrey sit in for Simon and Mark. Felicity Jones talks about her new film On The Basis Of Sex. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and reviews including On The Basis Of Sex, Cold Pursuit and Capernaum.  Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk  Text: 85058 (charged at your standard network rate)  Twitter: @wittertainment A Somethin' Else production.

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

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Places & Travel

Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus Mark reviews Morbius, which features show favourite Jared Leto as Biochemist Michael Morbius; True Things, Harry Wootliff’s drama starring Ruth Wilson as a young woman living on the fringes of society; Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Jim Carrey; animation The Bad Guys, about several reformed yet misunderstood criminal animals who attempt to become good; and The Novice, about a college freshman’s obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it in rowing, no matter the cost. And we have a very fine pair of special guests.  Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release in the UK box office top 10.  Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.

Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus reviews of The Bad Guys, Morbius, True Things &  Sonic 2.

Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II talk about their roles in Michael Bay’s latest, Ambulance about two robbers who steal an ambulance after a heist.  Plus Mark reviews Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, which chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman navigating the troubled waters of her love life and struggling to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is, plus new Amazon film Master, horror The Spine of the Night, Chopper and Escape from Mogadishu. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release in the UK box office top 10.  Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’.  Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.
 
We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00   PODCAST STARTS
00:24:33   BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
00:44:07   Master review
00:48:29   Jake and Yahya interview
01:03:54   Ambulance review
01:11:27   Oscars chat
01:15:20   WTF 1
01:17:18   The Worst Person in the World
01:24:00   TV Movie
01:27:37   Escape from Mogadishu
01:35:50    The Spine of Night
01:42:58   Chopper
01:53:50   DVD of the Week

Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II, Ambulance, The Worst Person in the World, Chopper, Master and Escape from Mogadishu

Simon Farnaby talks about his new film The Phantom of the Open, about Maurice Flitcroft, who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process. Mark also reviews Paris 13th District, starring Noémie Merlant in Jacques Audiard’s latest; Amazon Prime’s Master, starring Regina Hall, about two African American women who begin to share disturbing experiences at a predominantly white college in New England; Ti West’s X, about a group of young filmmakers in 1979 who set out to make an adult film in rural Texas; Deep Water, about a  well-to-do husband, played by Ben Affleck, who allows his wife, played by Ana de Armas,  to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce and becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers; and Nanni Moretti’s Three Floors, the story of three families living in three apartments in the same development.  Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.  Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. .  Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.
 
We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00   Pod starts
00:06:36   WTF 1
00:26:50   X Review
00:34:36   TV Movie
00:38:52   Three Floors review
00:42:45   WTF 2
00:46:36   Deep Water
00:58:30   Live show begins
01:20:30  Paris 13th District
01:23:10  Simon Farnaby
01:38:00  Phantom of the Open
01:43:30  DVD of the Week

Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors

Director Sean Baker talks about his new film Red Rocket, about a washed-up adult film actor  who returns to his small Texas hometown, Mark will also review Feast, about the infamous 2007 HIV incident  in the Dutch city of Groningen, Turning Red, the latest animation from Disney, about a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited; new horror The Seed, about a  girls’ weekend away in the Mojave desert which becomes a tale of horror, death and alien invasion; Great Freedom, set in post-war Germany, when homosexuality was still criminal; The Adam Project, which stars Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, and Walker Scobell in a story about a time-travelling fighter pilot who  teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future and Sideshow, about two inept criminals who break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot,  and ‘get a lot more than they bargained for’, and Wolf, a drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf, starring Gorgeous George MacKay. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.  Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’.  Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.
 
We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00   Podcast starts
00:23:20   Simon announces that the show will be ending on April 1st
00:27:00   Top Ten
00:51:30   The Seed
00:54:30   Sean Baker interview
01:08:10   Red Rocket interview
01:13:27   WTF1
01:15:12   Turning Red
01:21:20   TV Movies
01:27:38   The Adam Project
01:31:48   Great Freedom

Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project

Director Clio Barnard talks about her new film Ali and Ava, which stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as the titular characters. 
 
Mark will also review The Batman, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz as Batman and Catwoman in Matt Reeves’s new story featuring the Bob Kane and Bill Finger-created superhero; documentary Rebel Dread about the filmmaker, DJ, musician and commentator, Don Letts; The Weekend Away, about a weekend getaway to Croatia which goes quite badly wrong; Against the Ice, which stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the story of  two explorers fighting to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland and The Sanctity Of Space, a documentary recording the long push to cross a series of Alaskan mountains, and the geographer who first charted them.   Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.  Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app.
 
We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00:00   Podcast starts
00:22:00   Live show recording starts
00:44:21   The Weekend Away
00:48:00   Clio Barnard
01:00:26   Ali and Ava
01:10:18   WTF1
01:12:50   The Batman
01:25:30   Against the Ice
01:28:39   TV Movies
01:31:32   Rebel Dread
01:38:31   Sanctity of Space
01:46:50   DVD of the Week

With Felicity Jones

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