Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan, The Assistant, Reborn and Ema May 01, 2020

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Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan talk Calm with Horses, their film set in Ireland where lives are torn apart and loyalties tested when choices must be made between drug-dealing and family. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including drama The Assistant starring Julia Garner, horror film Reborn and Pablo Larraín’s Ema, which focuses on a couple dealing with the aftermath of an adoption that goes wrong. 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. 00:36:48 Top 10 - film set in Yorkshire 00:50:05 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 00:55:20 The Assistant review 01:01:01 Lockdown correspondents 01:06:29 Reborn review 01:09:35 Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan interview 01:24:07 Ema review 01:31:02 Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy review 01:35:50 Can You Keep a Secret review 01:39:02 Tom Hanks Moment 01:46:11 Director of the Week 01:51:48 DVD OF THE WEEK

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Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal, Extraction, Astronaut, Sea Fever and Moffie Apr 24, 2020

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Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal talk Ema, their film set in Chile about a couple dealing with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.

Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Chris Hemsworth in actioner Extraction, horror thriller Sea Fever and Moffie, about a young man drafted into South Africa's military who knows he is different and must keep himself hidden. Mark also reviews Richard Dreyfuss in Astronaut.

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.

00:34:07 New to Streaming: Calm with Horses 00:35:26 Top Ten - Mark’s Scary Films 00:53:44 Astronaut review 01:00:33 We Summon The Darkness review 01:02:54 Sea Fever review 01:07:28 Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal interview 01:26:01 Moffie review 01:28:26 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK 01:32:45 Extraction review 01:35:56 Lockdown Correspondents 01:45:48 Ghost Town Anthology 01:48:18 Well Done U 01:50:51 DVD OF THE WEEK

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Richard Dreyfuss, Dreamland, Why Don’t You Just Die, and Cuck Apr 17, 2020

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Richard Dreyfuss talks Astronaut, his film about a lonely widower who battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.

Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Dreamland, about the world of opioids, Why Don’t You Just Die, Kirill Sokolov’s film about Andrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father who brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment.

00:47:17 The Top 10 (Ashley Mowat’s favourite Billy Wilder films) 00:54:38 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 01:00:42 Richard Dreyfuss interview 01:20:03 Dreamland review 01:22:43 Why Don’t You Just Die review 01:33:14 Selah and the Spades review 01:37:13 The Host review 01:39:41 Cuck review 01:44:53 The Tom Hanks moment 01:48:07 Director of the Week 01:56:07 DVD(s) OF THE WEEK

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Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Sheen, Trolls World Tour and The Grand Bizarre Apr 10, 2020

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Paul Walter Hauser & Michael Sheen.

Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including

00:39:40 Box Office Top 10 (Fastest Digital Downloads) 00:54:04 Michael Sheen interview 01:06:56 Martin Margiela review 01:10:22 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 01:15:47 Paul Walter Hauser interview 01:36:33 Trolls World Tour 01:42:36 Who You Think I Am review 01:54:23 The Iron Mask 01:57:32 The Grand Bizarre 02:00:37 I Am Pilate 02:01:32 Director of the Week 02:13:22 DVD OF THE WEEK

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John Turturro, Four Kids and It and The Whalebone Box Apr 03, 2020

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John Turturro talks Jesus Rolls, which returns to his character Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski.

Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including the new Andrew Kotting film The Whalebone Box, Nona: If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them, about Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. Michael Caine plays a sand creature in Four Kids and It.

00:34:33 Box Office Top 10 (in which Keanu Reeves plays a character called John) 00:46:40 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 00:54:03 Four Kids and IT Review 00:59:43 The Whalebone Box Review 01:13:50 John Turturro Interview 01:32:16 DVD(s) OF THE WEEK 01:35:33 Nona: If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them Review 01:45:20 Director of the Week: Kathryn Bigelow 01:55:49 Well Done U: The Red Balloon

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Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots, Vivarium, The Banker, The Perfect Candidate and System Crasher Mar 27, 2020

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Another chance to hear Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots talk about Vivarium.

Plus all your essential on demand film reviews including the new Apple TV movie The Banker, starring Samuel L Jackson and Nicolas Hoult, System Crasher, about a 9-year-old’s untamed energy which drives everyone around her to despair, and The Perfect Candidate, about a determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour.

Mark and Simon chat tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

35.34.05 Box Office Top 10 48.40.40 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 57.39.17 The Banker review 01:06:42 Lockdown Correspondents 01:13:27 System Crasher review 01:20:15 Poots and Eisenburg interview 01:27.19 Vivarium review 01:33:29 The Perfect Candidate review 01:48:20 Director of the Week 02:02:57 DVD(s) OF THE WEEK

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The Truth, Dogs Don't Wear Pants and Fire Will Come Mar 20, 2020

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Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's essential streaming movies, including the new Hirokazu Koreeda film The Truth, J.-P. Valkeapää's drama Dogs Don't Wear Pants and Fire Will Come, a Galician-language film directed by Oliver Laxe which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.

On the podcast, available on the BBC Sounds app, Mark and Simon discuss the work of Lynne Ramsay. Mark also recommends our weekly U certificate classic The Amazing Mr. Blunden. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services and discuss the best and worst films on TV next week. They also recommend home entertainment purchases in DVDs of the Week.

00:44:26 Box Office Top 10 01:00:33 The Truth 01:05:33 Dogs Don’t Wear Pants 01:11:29 TV Movies Of The Week 01:26:24 Fire Will Come 01:33:22 Director Of The Week 01:44:02 DVD OF THE WEEK

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Misbehaviour, The Hunt and My Spy Mar 16, 2020

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw talks Misbehaviour, the film of the protests at the 1970 Miss World protests.

Plus all your essential film reviews including the new family action-comedy My Spy, horror The Hunt, documentary Cunningham, Barry Keoghan in Calm with Horses and Brazilian thriller Bacurau.

Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

00:24:21 Box Office Top 10 00:53:38 And Then We Danced Review 00:59:30 Bacurau Review 01:05:01 Run Review 01:11:23 Gugu Mbatha-Raw Interview 01:24:34 Misbehaviour Review 01:33:16 My Spy Review 01:37:15 The Hunt 01:46:05 Calm With Horses

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Onward, Military Wives and The Photograph PART 2 Mar 06, 2020

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Reviews on Onward, Military Wives, Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island and The Photograph among others.

00:16:07 Military Wives 00:33:24 Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island 00:35:44 Onward 00:40:30 The Photograph 00:44:23 Sulpher and White 00:47:05 Vitalina Varela Review

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Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Escape from Pretoria PART 1 Mar 06, 2020

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Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, plus Box Office Top 10 and Escape from Pretoria review.

PART 1 00:32:40 Box Office Top 10 00:50:17 Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots Interview 01:06:38 Escape from Pretoria

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