Daniel Kaluuya, The Kitchen, The End Where We Start From & The Holdovers

This week, the one and only Daniel Kaluuya is in the studio and ready to chat with Mark and Simon about his dystopian directorial debut – co-directed with his longtime friend and collaborator Kibwe Tavares - ‘The Kitchen’, which sees a funeral-service worker looking for a way out of the chaotic housing block of the title.

Mark also offers up his critical perspective on the film, as well as reviewing ‘The End Where We Start From’, a Jodie Comer-starring drama about a woman trying to find her way home with her newborn as an environmental crisis submerges London in floodwaters; and ‘The Holdovers’, Alexander Payne’s latest, which sees Paul Giamatti play a curmudgeonly teacher at a New England school, who remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students only to form an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker and the school’s head cook.

Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are also ad-free!):

09:50 The End We Start From review

21:13 Box Office Top 10

38:28 Daniel Kaluuya interview

57:32 The Kitchen review

01:00:32 The Laughter Lift

01:03:15 The Holdovers review

01:09:43 What’s On

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Release date

Lydbog: 19. januar 2024