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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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Emma Stone, Cruella, First Cow, The Conjuring III and Demon Slayer

May 28, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Mark and Simon are joined by Emma Stone, who talks about her role in Disney’s Cruella, along with director Craig Gillespie. Plus your essential cinematic and streaming reviews including; frontier drama First Cow, which stars last week’s guest Toby Jones; Surge, in which Ben Whishaw plays a man who goes on a 24 hour bold and reckless journey of self-liberation; new animations Earwig And The Witch, about an orphan girl who is adopted by a witch and comes home to a house filled with mystery a...

Toby Jones, Peter Rabbit 2, Army of the Dead, My New York Year & Rare Beasts

May 21, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.2 MB

In the first show back after some UK cinemas reopened, Mark and Simon are joined by Toby Jones, who talks about his new film First Cow. Plus your essential cinematic and streaming reviews including Irritating Rabbit 2, Billie Piper’s ‘anti romcom’ Rare Beasts, which she wrote, directed and starred in, Sigourney Weaver in My New York Year, about a graduate who takes a job working for reclusive writer J.D. Salinger’s agent, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead about a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas,...

Sigourney Weaver, Tilda Swinton, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Oxygen

May 14, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 97 MB

In the last show back before cinemas reopen, Mark and Simon are joined by Sigourney Weaver, who talks about her new film My New York Year. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Taylor Sheridan’s action drama Those Who Wish Me Dead, which stars Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult, Lance Oppenheim’s intriguing documentary Some Kind of Heaven, about the lives of people in a Floridian retirement village, Undergods, Oxygen (Oxygène), Alexandre Aja’s film about a woman who wakes in a cryo...

Steve Zahn, Cowboys, End of Sentence, Mortal Kombat and Fried Barry

May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MB

Mark and Simon are joined by Steve Zahn, who talks about his new film Cowboys, about a father and son’s journey through the Montana wilderness. Plus your essential streaming reviews including martial arts actioner Mortal Kombat, Christos Nikou’s Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, End of Sentence, with last week’s guest John Hawkes starring alongside Logan Lerman, Agnieszka Holland’s latest, Charlatan, and Fried Barry, a Shudder Original, about a drug-addled Sou...

John Hawkes, Nomadland, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Wild Mountain Thyme

April 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB

Mark and Simon are joined by John Hawkes, who talks about his new film End of Sentence. Plus your essential streaming reviews including big Oscar winner Nomadland, Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as lovers in Ireland who get caught up in a family land dispute, Michael B Jordan as John Clark, a US Navy SEAL, who goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy in Tom Clancy adaptation Without Remorse. We’ll also review The Artist’s Wife, about the w...

Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear

April 23, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett and Christos Nikou, who talk about their new film Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Black Bear, which stars Aubrey Plaza, documentary Sisters with Transistors which tells the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, House of Cardin, a documentary about designer Pierre Cardin which gives exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and ...

Aubrey Plaza, Promising Young Woman & I Blame Society

April 16, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

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 the new Neil Marshall film The Reckoning, about a young widow haunted by the recent suicide of her husband, The Sound of Scars, a documentary about the influential metal band Life of Agony, Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman and Gillian Wallace Horvat’...

Elizabeth Lo, Sound of Metal, Palm Springs and Assimilate

April 10, 2021 08:50 - 1 hour - 91.8 MB

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, Andy Samberg in time-loop comedy/ fantasy Palm Springs and Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal, who was interviewed on the show last week. Our rotating chart this week is the Official Film Chart. Plus Mark and Simon’s US Mov...

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

April 02, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB

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, which pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another, Antebellum, in which a successful author finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality, Minari, nominated for six Oscars, about a Korean family who start a farm in 1980s Kansas,...

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

March 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 94.5 MB

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 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Ammonite, starring Saorise Ronan and Kate Winslet in a romantic drama set in 1840s England, Stray, a documentary about the world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Is...

26/03/2021

March 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 94.5 MB

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's movies. Also on the programme, interviews with key figures from the world of cinema, as well as your emails, and the latest Box Office top ten. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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

March 19, 2021 13:25 - 1 hour - 109 MB

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 Down's Syndrome, as they navigate through their first 4 years of primary school, Creation Stories, about the influential record label, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a longer cut of 2017’s Justice League. Our rotating chart this week is the box office top ...

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

March 12, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.9 MB

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 from his late wife. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Judas and the Black Messiah, which stars Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, about the FBI’s infiltration of The Black Panthers, crime romance Locked Down, in which a couple, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor a...

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

March 05, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 93 MB

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 century. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Raya and the Last Dragon, the new Disney animation starring Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina and Gemma Chan, Moxie, directed by Amy Poehler about a shy 16-year-old finding inspiration from her mother's rebellious past, and Coming...

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

February 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MB

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 the memories of their past and unravelling haunting truths. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Lee Daniels’ biopic The United States vs Billie Holiday, the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché about the singer of X-Ray Spex, ho...

Lakeith Stanfield, I Care a Lot, Zappa and Music

February 19, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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 the Black Panther Party, Plus your essential streaming reviews including Alex Winter’s documentary Zappa, Rosamund Pike as a crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards in I Care a Lot and Sia’s directorial debut Music, about newly sober Z...

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

February 12, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 99.3 MB

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 ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. Plus your essential streaming and cinema reviews including Kristen Wiig in new comedy Barb and Star and Nicolas Cage in horror thriller Willy’s Wonderland. Plus Mark and Simon’s US Movie Road Trip continues through Connecticut, New Jersey,...

Sam Neill, Rams, Malcolm and Marie and Greenland

February 05, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB

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, the lead singer of Birmingham post-punk band The Nightingales, new Netflix drama Malcolm and Marie, and Gerard Butler in actioner Greenland. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purcha...

Adam Curtis, Synchronic, The Dig and Palmer

January 29, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

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, which is Georgia’s submission for 'Best International Feature Film' at this year’s Oscars, Apple TV’s Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake as an ex-convict who strikes up a friendship with a boy from a troubled home and The Dig, which stars Ralph Fiennes as a self-tau...

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

January 22, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 97.7 MB

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 Get You 00:39:28 Quo Vadis, Aida? review 00:44:02 The White Tiger review 00:48:34 Kevin Macdonald interview 01:05:26 Persian Lessons review 01:10:06 US Movie Road Trip 01:16:42 Baby Done review 01:21:32 Lobbydown Correspondents 01:26:07 Are We Lost Fo...

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

January 15, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MB

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, as well as your emails, and the latest Box Office top ten. 00:22:37 Virtual American road trip films 00:29:28 Rotating charts 00:31:21 Pieces of a Woman correspondence 00:32:43 Top 10 Digital Downloads 00:39:06 Blithe Spirit review 00:42:25 Arc...

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

January 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 92 MB

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 Love and drama documentary Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, about the last days of a Las Vegas dive bar. Ben and Anna also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the ...

Best of 2020

January 01, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 70 MB

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 Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

Pete Docter, Soul, One Night in Miami and Adoration

December 25, 2020 21:00 - 2 hours - 133 MB

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 talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top ten films in UK cinemas. Podcast timings: 00:47:47 Box Office Top 10 Of the Year 00:55:55 One ...

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

December 18, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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 thriller Let Him Go and David Oyelowo in Come Away. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top ten films in UK cin...

David Oyelowo, The Midnight Sky, American Utopia and Dreamland

December 11, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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 week’s guest, Felicity Jones, the new Spike Lee and David Byrne film American Utopia and Margot Robbie in Dreamland. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purchase in D...

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

December 04, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MB

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 Rainey’s Black Bottom. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top ten films in UK cinemas. 00:2...

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

November 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 98.7 MB

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 Ringmaster. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and will recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top ten films from November 2001. 00:34:53 Box Of...

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

November 20, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MB

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 same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, Skyfire, starring Jason Isaacs in a disaster movie about volcanoes. And Uncle Frank, starring Paul Bettany. Mark and Simon a...

Jason Isaacs, Skyfire, Jingle Jangle and Hillbilly Elegy

November 13, 2020 16:07 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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 Loren in The Life Ahead and Amy Adams and Glenn Close in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, adapted from the J.D.Vance memoir by Vanessa Taylor. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week an...

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

November 06, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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 Andersson’s About Endlessness, Andrea Riseborough in drama Luxor, Thomas Turgoose in Looted and Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, the sequel to the acclaimed 2016 south Korean action horror. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst fi...

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

October 30, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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 including Robert Zemeckis’ new adaptation of The Witches, Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed and new horror, Relic. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and will recommend a home entertainment purchase ...

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

October 23, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 98.9 MB

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 comedy The Climb and François Ozon’s latest drama Summer of 85. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week. They also recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and co...

Morfydd Clark, Rebecca, I Am Greta, Carmilla

October 16, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 96.7 MB

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, Directed by Emily Harris and starring Tobias Menzies, Greg Wise and Jessica Raine. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week. They also recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the...

Ben Wheatley, Kajillionaire, Saint Maud and I Am Woman

October 09, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 98.5 MB

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 and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week. They also recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top 10 films at the UK box office. 00:28:28 Box Office T...

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

October 02, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 94 MB

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 young mother reconnecting with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York, starring Bill Murray, Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next wee...

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

September 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.8 MB

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 the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant, Henry Golding as Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returning to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War in Monsoon, and Becky, an action drama abou...

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

September 18, 2020 15:02 - 1 hour - 96.9 MB

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 struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother and Tesla, a freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in tra...

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

September 11, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 96.4 MB

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 Not Taken. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week. They also recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top 10 films at the UK box office....

Jessie Buckley, Tenet, Mulan and The New Mutants

September 04, 2020 14:50 - 1 hour - 95.2 MB

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 French film Les Miserables. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week. They also recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top 10 films at the UK box offic...

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

August 28, 2020 15:57 - 1 hour - 78.3 MB

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 Washington as a secret agent who embarks on a dangerous, time-bending mission to prevent the start of World War III. Edith and Clarisse chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services - as well as those with cinema rel...

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

August 21, 2020 20:02 - 1 hour - 83 MB

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 chicken. Yes, God, Yes stars Natalia Dyer as a Catholic teenager who struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation, and Random Acts of Violence, in which a pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they create...

Bryan Cranston, Babyteeth, Pinocchio, Spree and Sputnik.

August 14, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB

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 puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life, Spree, starring Stranger Things’ Joe Keery as a rideshare driver who has figured out a deadly plan to go viral, Babyteeth, about a seriously ill teenager who falls in love with a drug dealer, and My Rembr...

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

August 07, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 99.4 MB

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 new British drama Perfect 10. Ben and Anna chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the W...

Gemma Arterton, Summerland, Unhinged and Proxima

July 31, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB

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 holiday park, Make Up. 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 and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week, plus we count ...

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

July 24, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB

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 novel of the same name. 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 and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week, plus we cou...

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

July 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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 Water: Abyss. 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 and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week, plus we count down the best uncom...

Alfre Woodard, Scoob!, Greyhound and The Way Back

July 10, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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, Scoob! (Hello to Jason Isaacs), British flick Love Sarah, starring Celia Imrie and The Way Back, which sees Ben Affleck star as an alcoholic ex-high school basketball superstar, returning to the school to coach the team . Sanjeev Bhaskar and Robbie...

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

July 03, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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 for schizophrenia, Lynn + Lucy, about lifelong best friends whose friendship is tested in extreme circumstances. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-...

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

June 26, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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 entry to the EBU pop competition and Fanny Lye Deliver’d, about a 17th century puritan woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on...

Guests

Tom Hanks
6 Episodes
Ron Howard
4 Episodes
Kenneth Branagh
3 Episodes
chris evans
2 Episodes
Chris Evans
2 Episodes
Darren Aronofsky
2 Episodes
Ethan Hawke
2 Episodes
Ian McKellen
2 Episodes
Paul Greengrass
2 Episodes
Adam Driver
1 Episode
Bill Hader
1 Episode
Emma Thompson
1 Episode
Hugh Grant
1 Episode
Jamie Lee Curtis
1 Episode
Jane Fonda
1 Episode
Jeremy Piven
1 Episode
John Slattery
1 Episode
Jon Favreau
1 Episode
Jon Stewart
1 Episode
Josh Hutcherson
1 Episode
Rian Johnson
1 Episode
Ridley Scott
1 Episode
Robert Zemeckis
1 Episode
Roger Allam
1 Episode
Stephen Fry
1 Episode
Stephen Mangan
1 Episode
Stephen Merchant
1 Episode
Terry Gilliam
1 Episode