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The new home of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. They’re back, and it’s bigger, and better and larger-er and more-er. Film reviews, TV reviews, and all your conversation around movie and non-movie related stuff. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media. As well as the film and TV reviews, Mark and Simon will be talking about anything and everything. Punctuation, Thunderbirds, obscure German pop music, fax machines, subtitles, MRI scans, magic, school assemblies, Scandinavia, and don’t forget the dad jokes. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes for ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show - TAKE TWO, new episodes every Monday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking try free at the top of our show page. If you’re not a fruit-based person, never fear! Subscribe at Extratakes.com to get access on your preferred podcast platform. There's more to discover at kermodeandmayo.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  1. Has Mark changed his mind on the Star Wars prequels?

    23H AGO · BONUS • EXTRA TAKES ONLY

    Has Mark changed his mind on the Star Wars prequels?

    Today’s Take 2 is a bumper reissue special, in a week that sees four classic movies returning to our screens. First up it’s legendary concert film ‘Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii’, now scrubbed up and reissued for 2025 with some extra shiny bits. The 2005 ‘Pride and Prejudice’ starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley is also back on the big screen for its 20th anniversary, as is 00s Sandra Bullock comedy classic ‘Miss Congeniality’. Last but not least, the headliner has got to be Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Love the prequels or hate them, you had plenty to say about them on our socials—but after 20 years, has Mark changed his mind? We asked for your best documentaries about extraordinary lives this week for One Frame Back, and we’ll be keeping the spring streaming recommendations coming for you with Upstream and Downstream for May. Plus, the return of Accents Schmaccents! We play the most woeful efforts at the accents of the world from film history, you guess what they’re actually supposed to be—and who should be ashamed of their attempts at them. Good luck Vanguardistas! Timecodes: Pink Floyd Pompeii review: 03:49 Star Wars Revenge of the Sith review: 21:20 One Frame Back: Pride and Prejudice review: 32:08 Miss Congeniality review: 35:54 Watchlist and Notlist (Upstream Downstream): 41:21 Accents Schmaccents: 46:14 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

    53 min
  2. David Oyelowo on Government Cheese + Mark’s verdict on The Studio

    1D AGO

    David Oyelowo on Government Cheese + Mark’s verdict on The Studio

    Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. It’s time for the Take team to take stock of our first quarter, so this week we’re looking back over the first three or so months and putting our affairs in order: deciding whether to tighten our belts or loosen the purse strings, cut some salaries or dish out a few tasty bonuses. We’re bringing you a Quintessential First Quarter Recap of all the best bits from the year so far—including interviews with Ashley Walters & Erin Doherty, Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin and Brady Corbet—and a chance to hear moments from Mark’s best reviews like the previously Vanguardista-only ‘Santosh’. And there’s still plenty of brand new stuff for you in today’s take too. Our guest is David Oyelowo, who you’ll hear in conversation with Simon about his new Apple TV+ series ‘Government Cheese’. In this surreal 60s-set California comedy-drama, David plays Hampton Chambers, a father and former burglar trying to go straight after his release from prison and make his fortune in a crazy world. By popular demand, Mark and Simon will also be reviewing The Studio—the Hollywood film industry satire starring Seth Rogen as a spineless executive trying to make serious cinema and serious money... and possibly failing to do either. Plus we’ll be ‘treating’ you to the Laughter Lift as usual (you thought you’d managed to avoid that this week didn’t  you? Oh no, the hilarity never stops.) Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Quarter 1 highlights: 05:46 David Oyelowo Interview: 31:07 The Studio Review: 49:10 Laughter Lift: 01:04:33 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 20m
  3. Aubergine Schmaubergine

    APR 17 · BONUS • EXTRA TAKES ONLY

    Aubergine Schmaubergine

    It’s been 20 years since the release of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (no, we can’t believe it either)--and we’re looking back at this beloved stop-motion ‘vegetarian horror’ for its anniversary re-release. A rave review is guaranteed for this Aardman classic—so the only question left is, will Mark make it through the review without collapsing into hysterics? This week we’re switching it up with the Watchlist and Notlist, and bringing you ‘Upstream Downstream’ instead. We’ve surveyed the best and worst streaming movie offerings for April, and Simon and Mark will let you know which movie-watching currents to float along with, and which film most deserves to be swept away. With Warfare in Take 1 this week we’re looking at 21st Century wars on film in One Frame Back, and we’ve got a bumper load of your questions and schmestioons to boot. Timecodes: Wallace and Gromit Review: 04:48 One Frame Back: 14:30 Watchlist and Notlist (Upstream Downstream): 18:37 Questions Schmestions: 23:54 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

    47 min
  4. Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza

    APR 17

    Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza

    Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. ‘Warfare’ co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza join us this week to talk about the astonishing new film that aims to put modern conflict onscreen in the most authentic way possible. With an ensemble cast of soldiers featuring Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, and Joseph Quinn, the film’s events are based on the real wartime experiences of Mendoza (who is played by D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai). He’s a former Navy SEAL and Iraq veteran who has used his expertise to advise filmmakers presenting war onscreen, including Garland on ‘Civil War’. Now he’s collaborating with Garland again to tell his own story and that of his colleagues in this truly powerful film. Plus we’ve got reviews of ‘The Penguin Lessons’—the true story of an English teacher in turbulent 1970s South America who unexpectedly befriends the waddling creature of the film’s title, after rescuing it from an oil slick—and ‘Blue Road’, the literary doc on the colourful life of Irish writer Edna O’Brien. Don’t miss an Easter treat in the Laughter Lift this week too... Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): The Penguin Lessons: 08:54 Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Interview: 29:44 Warfare Review: 43:30 Laughter Lift Easter Special: 57:48 Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story: 1:00:39 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 13m

  5. APR 16

    Now and Ben: Charlie Brooker & Emma Corrin on Black Mirror

    If you’ve managed to watch any of the excellent seventh series of Black Mirror yet, you might have spotted our super sub Ben Bailey Smith popping up there... and just for you he’s collared his fellow dystopians Charlie Brooker and Emma Corrin for a chat about the mind-bending anthology’s latest iteration. Brooker is the writer and creator of the show, which has been sending sci-fi shivers down our spines since it first hit British TV screens in 2011, before going global with Netflix in 2016. So for over a decade, “it’s all a bit Black Mirror” has been the phrase on everyone’s lips whenever real-world technology makes another ever-so-slightly terrifying leap forward. Emma Corrin stars in episode three of the new series, ‘Hotel Reverie’, in which a cutting-edge filmmaking technology called ReDream allows modern day actors to star in high-tech remakes of classic films. Actor Brandy (Issa Rae) steps into the world of a 1940s movie—where she meets Corrin’s golden age star Dorothy. Charlie and Emma chat to Ben about Hotel Reverie and the rest of the brand new series. They talk golden age Hollywood, the shipping forecast, and erm... bowling? It goes places. Listen now for the whole story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    17 min
  6. More Welly and More Willy

    APR 10 · BONUS • EXTRA TAKES ONLY

    More Welly and More Willy

    Bonus review this week of ‘The Return’, the new film from Pasolini (but not that one) about the long-since-departed Odysseus’ return to Ithaca in Homer’s Odyssey. Plenty of capital A Acting going on in this one—Juliette Binoche is giving it some welly as Penelope, and Ralph Fiennes’ Odysseus is giving it some...well, willy. Ever since little-Jason-gate this show is getting more full-frontal by the week. Plus, Mark reviews the return of dystopian anthology Black Mirror in its seventh series—which we should also say features our very own Ben Baby Smith. Keep your eyes peeled for a ‘Now & Ben’ coming up with showrunner Charlie Brooker and Emma Corrin—star of episode 3 ‘Hotel Reverie’. This week’s One Frame Back is on Oscar-winners turned action stars, and we know that sounds a little specific but hey, there are a fair few. Mark reviews your movie picks and selects the smashiest and crashiest of them all. Choice witterings this week as always on how Homer could have saved himself some time by listening to Alice Cooper, what links The Sound of Music and The Hills Have Eyes, and one very Showbiz North London cab journey. Timecodes: The Return Review: 06:41 One Frame Back: 18:04 Black Mirror Series 7 Review: 26:32 Watchlist and Notlist: 39:41 Questions Schmestions: 43:26 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

    53 min
  7. Laurence Fishburne & James Hawes on The Amateur

    APR 10

    Laurence Fishburne & James Hawes on The Amateur

    Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. We have a real treat for you in the guest slot this week—director of ‘The Amateur’ James Hawes, and one of its stars Laurence Fishburne—AKA actual Morpheus from The Matrix. We are not worthy. Laurence plays Colonel Henderson, the grizzled CIA man tasked with training Rami Malek’s geeky decoder Charlie for the fieldwork he insists on undertaking in order to track down his wife’s terrorist killers. Simon chats to the actor and director about this smart action thriller, and its influences from Hawes’ Brit spy series ‘Slow Horses’ to Jason Bourne. We’ll hear stories from the set plus the pair’s thoughts on the theatre, The Matrix and Adolescence. Don’t miss this one. Mark reviews ‘The Amateur’, as well as ‘Drop’--a psycho-thriller wherein a widowed mother’s (Meghann Fahy) first date interrupted by sinister messages threatening to kill her son—unless she kills her dinner companion. Plus, we’ll get the Good Doctors’ verdict on ‘One to One: John & Yoko’, the latest from documentary maestro Kevin Macdonald charting the revolutionary couple’s post-Beatles days in New York. We’ll also be catching up with the movie-going phenomenon that is ‘A Minecraft Movie’, and deciding whether we’re going to let its legions of fans get away with all those code violations... Another week of Top Takes from Simon & Mark and top correspondence from you. Keep it coming! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Drop Review: 08:15 A Minecraft Movie Review: 19:53 Laurence Fishburne & James Hawes Interview: 29:48 The Amateur Review: 44:55 Laughter Lift: 52:43 One to One: John & Yoko Review: 55:24 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 9m
  8. Rammstein + Half Speed Alvin & the Chipmunks

    APR 3 · BONUS • EXTRA TAKES ONLY

    Rammstein + Half Speed Alvin & the Chipmunks

    Some brief musical interludes in Take 2 this week from Rammstein and Alvin and the Chipmunks—appearing on a bill together for almost certainly the first time ever. Plus super special bonus reviews of ‘Last Swim’—a debut coming of age drama set on A Level results day amongst a group of young Londoners on the cusp of their adult lives—and ‘Sebastian’, the story of a young journalist who begins moonlighting as a sex worker to research his new novel on the subject. And, with ‘Adolescence’ still very much on the agenda, the Good Doctors respond to what’s been arriving in our inbox on the viral Netflix drama. We look to the release of A Minecraft Movie for our One Frame Back theme this week, asking for your best and worst videogame films. Which movie will win an extra life—and for which is it game over? Final Boss Mark will choose the winner. Some juicy controversy this week on the Watchlist and Notlist too—and head-scratchy questions and schmestions on everything from screenplays to synth pop. Timecodes: Last Swim Review: 25:11 One Frame Back: 13:36 Watchlist and Notlist: 32:46 Sebastian Review: 38:46 Questions Schmestions: 44:08 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com

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The new home of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. They’re back, and it’s bigger, and better and larger-er and more-er. Film reviews, TV reviews, and all your conversation around movie and non-movie related stuff. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media. As well as the film and TV reviews, Mark and Simon will be talking about anything and everything. Punctuation, Thunderbirds, obscure German pop music, fax machines, subtitles, MRI scans, magic, school assemblies, Scandinavia, and don’t forget the dad jokes. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes for ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show - TAKE TWO, new episodes every Monday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking try free at the top of our show page. If you’re not a fruit-based person, never fear! Subscribe at Extratakes.com to get access on your preferred podcast platform. There's more to discover at kermodeandmayo.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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