Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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

Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors
18 March 2022
Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors

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’. .

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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

Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project
11 March 2022
Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project

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

Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space
04 March 2022
Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space

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

Andrea Riseborough, Death on the Nile, Marry Me, Flee, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Petrov’s Flu.
11 February 2022
Andrea Riseborough, Death on the Nile, Marry Me, Flee, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Petrov’s Flu.

Andrea Riseborough talks about her role in new drama Here Before.

Mark reviews Chuckles Branagh’s Death on the Nile, about Hercule Poirot’s investigation of the murder of a young heiress in Egypt; Marry Me, in which musical superstars who are getting married before a global audience of fans when one of them learns of their fiance’s unfaithfulness; Flee, the true story of a man on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, about an unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters; Petrov’s Flu, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film about a day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia; mystery The Wanting Mare, directed by Nicholas Ashe Bateman and new A24 film The Sky Is Everywhere, about a shy, teenage musician who tries to keep things together in the aftermath of her older, more outgoing sister's death.

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
00:31:30 Box Office Top Ten
00:53:50 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
00:58:41 The Sky is Everywhere
01:05:25 WTF 1
01:12:53 Petrov's Flu
01:18:20 Andrea Riseborough
01:34:00 Marry Me
01:39:57 Death on the Nile
01:47:54 TV Movie
01:52:28 Flee
01:58:25 The Wanting Mare
02:02:40 DVD of the Week

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Souvenir Part II, Moonfall, Belle,  Jackass Forever, the reissue of Jules et Jim
04 February 2022
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Souvenir Part II, Moonfall, Belle, Jackass Forever, the reissue of Jules et Jim

Jessica Chastain talks about The Eyes of Tammy Faye, an intimate look at the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker

Mark reviews The Souvenir Part II, about which its writer director Joanna Hogg spoke to Simon last week; Moonfall, about a mysterious force that knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life as we know it, directed by Roland Emmerich; The Jackass crew return 11 years later in Jackass Forever; anime Belle about Suzu, a shy high school student living in a rural village whom for years has only been a shadow of herself until she enters "U", a massive virtual world; A Violent Man, about a dangerous prisoner incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison and the reissue of François Truffaut’s tale of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman, Jules et Jim.

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

00:27:32 Box Office Top Ten
00:53:35 Jessica Chastain interview
01:08:00 The Eyes of Tammy Faye
01:21:48 Moonfall
01:35:47 Belle
01:41:34 Souvenir II
01:51:12 TV Movie
01:55:35 Jackass Forever
01:58:40 A Violent Man

Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.
28 January 2022
Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.

Joanna Hogg talks about her new film The Souvenir Part II.

Mark reviews new animation Sing 2, about an anthropomorphic koala called Buster Moon and his friends who must persuade a reclusive rock star lion called Clay Calloway, played by Bono, to join them for the opening of a new show; Pedro Almodóvar directing Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma in Parallel Mothers, the story of two mothers who give birth on the same day; Amulet, about an ex-soldier, living homeless in London, and is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother; Flag Day, Sean Penn’s film about a father who lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter; Taming the Garden, a documentary following trees that are transported from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister; Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan, about a soldier who, before he is killed in action in Iraq, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father; and the long-awaited The King’s Daughter, about King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leading him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force.

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
00:28:00 Top 10
00:53:00 Joanna Hogg
01:06:24 Taming the Garden
01:09:20 Amulet
01:23:02 Parallel Mothers
01:30:11 Flag Day
01:37:07 Sing 2
01:48:20 Journal for Jordan
01:51:46 The King's Daughter