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BBC Radio 5 Live


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


Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode return for their film review. Mark is at the Shetland Film Festival and is joined by film, music and documentary director Julien Temple and Jason Isaacs.

There's the week's top ten movies and Simon and Mark review the week's top films. This week it's Dinner for Schmucks, The Switch, Last Exorcism, Cherry Tree Lane, Jonah Hex and Certified Copy.

03/09/2010

Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the latest movies. 
On this week's show, Oscar winning Atonement screenwriter Christopher Hampton, on why he's giving a lecture on London's South Bank. Legendary director of Gremlins, Joe Dante, previews his new 3D thriller, The Hole.

Plus reviews of Alamar; Cyrus; Going The Distance; My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done; Resident Evil: Afterlife; and Tamara Drewe. 

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10/09/2010

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode's Film Review comes live from the Centre for Life in Newcastle as part of 5 live's Septemberfest

In the first hour, Simon and Mark take questions from the audience in a special 'Wittertainment Q & A.' 

Later, there's a look at the week's top ten movies, and reviews of the latest new releases: The Other Guys, I'm Still Here, Winter's Bone, F, and The Horde.

17/09/2010

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review the week's films.

24/09/2010

Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo with this week's box office top ten and reviews of the week's new film releases including: Made in Dagenham, Buried, Takers, Little Big Soldier and The First Movie.

The special guest is veteran film producer Stephen Woolley, who's enjoyed box office success including Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves and The Crying Game. His latest film is Made in Dagenham, about the industrial action by female workers at Ford's Dagenham plant in the 1960s

He tells Mark and Simon about his concerns over the British Board of Film Classification's decision to give the film a 15 certificate because of swearing, while other films with more graphic violent content have been granted 12A certificates.

Plus updates from Celtic Manor on the rain-affected Ryder Cup.

01/10/2010

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode present Wittertainment at its most Wittertaining, from the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London in front of a 5 live audience. The Phoenix is the oldest purpose built cinema in Britain, and has just been extensively refurbished.

Aaron Sorkin, the creator of The West Wing, talks about the reaction to his new movie about the birth of Facebook, The Social Network. There are also reviews of movies including Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and The Death And Life Of Charlie St Cloud.

08/10/2010

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are joined by Anton Corbijn, the director of George Clooney's new film The American, and Bond movie composer David Arnold, and introduce their new Wittertainment Code of Conduct.

Grammy Award winning composer David Arnold has written the film scores for several Bond films, as well as Independence Day and Stargate. Along with singer Tommy Pearson, he joins Mark and Simon in the studio ahead of a charity concert of movie themes and songs. He also performs Only Myself to Blame, which was originally scored for the movie The World Is Not Enough.

Anton Corbijn is a leading Dutch film director, photographer, and music video director who's worked with artists including U2, Depeche Mode and Nirvana. He made his feature directorial debut with Control, a biopic on Joy Division's Ian Curtis. His follow-up is The American, a stylish thriller starring George Clooney as a jaded hit man. He tells Simon and Mark all about it.

As always there's a countdown of the top ten films at the cinema, and reviews of the week's new releases, including Despicable Me, Vampires Suck and The Social Network, Mark's movie of the week.

15/10/2010

Screenwriter and novelist Rhidian Brook joins Simon and Mark at the start of the programme to talk about 'Africa United'. He wrote the screenplay to the film, which tells the story of a group of young football fans trying to walk thousands of miles to South Africa for the opening ceremony of the World Cup.

The actress Lesley Manville talks to Mark and Simon about her new movie Another Year. It's directed by Mike Leigh and goes on general release in a couple of weeks' time - it's been showing at this week's London Film Festival

Mark and Simon run through the week's top ten films. The producer of Made in Dagenham, Stephen Woolley, joins them for a chat about his issue with the '15' certificate given to the film.

In hour two, Mark and Simon review the week's big films which include Paranormal Activity 2, Red, The Arbor, Easy A, Legends of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and Mary and Max.

You can email your comments on the show to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

22/10/2010

Colin Paterson is joined by Nigel Floyd and Boyd Hilton to review the week's films. 

With Burke And Hare one of the big movies out this week Colin speaks to its director, John Landis, the man also behind the video for Michael Jackson's Thriller, and asks how he got involved in a movie about grave robbers in Edinburgh during the 1820s. Landis talks also about his love of the UK, and The Two Ronnies - Ronnie Corbett appears in the film.

Guests also include Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, who are starring in a new comedy The Kids Are All Right. The film - about two children conceived by artificial insemination who decide to bring their birth father into their lives - has generated some Oscar buzz, but Julianne reveals it almost didn't get funding. She also explains how she recruited Annette Bening by email, and talks about getting intimate with her good friend, Mark Ruffalo.

And Colin is joined by Sabrina Broadbent, the director of schools support for Filmclub, a movie education programme for schools all over the UK, which gives kids access to DVDs, screenings and other events. The award winning director of Monsters Gareth Edwards also joins in, along with Nathan Rimmer and Lewis Rogers, two young ambassadors for Filmclub.

29/10/2010

It's hello to Jason Isaacs - as Mark and Simon's favourite listener Jason Isaacs chats about his role as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

Plus, Colin Farrell on playing an ex-con opposite Ray Winstone and Keira Knightley in new gangster thriller London Boulevard. 

Listeners offer more suggestions for Mark and Simon's Wittertainment Cinema Code of Conduct, which will be finalised in next week's programme.

There's the UK box office Top Ten, plus the week's new releases reviewed - this week: Let Me In, Skyline, We Are What We Are and You Again.

12/11/2010

Director Gareth Evans is in the studio with Simon and Mark to talk about his new film The Raid. Plus the Box Office Top 10 and Mark's reviews of the week's new releases including The Dictator, The Raid and 2 Days in New York.

18/05/2012

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