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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Our Christmas Spectacular, recorded live at London’s Prince Edward Theatre is now available in your ears! On our festive guestlist this week we have Wallce & Gromit creator Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, who co-direct the famous plasticine pair’s latest adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They talk us through what happened when Aardman went noir for this festive film treat, share stop motion secrets, and tell us why it was the right time to bring back dastardly glove-headed supervillain Feathers McGraw. Check out our socials for photos of the real A-Listers on the bill though—actual Wallace and actual Gromit, who also joined us onstage. They were a little shy on the mic... but you can watch them in Vengeance Most Fowl on BBC 1 and iPlayer on Christmas Day at 6:10pm, and on Netflix outside of the UK from 3rd January.

Plus a flying visit from someone we’re always happy to being saying hello to—Jason Isaacs himself!

If you were one of our fabulous, talented and exceptionally good-looking live audience members then we’ve got some backstage extras in this episode for you too. London cinema tour guide extraordinaire Nigel Smith gives Simon and Mark the lowdown on our venue the Prince Edward’s history as a Cinerama. Plus a bonus backstage review of ‘The Bibi Files’—Alexis Bloom’s documentary expose on Benajamin Netanyahu and the corruptions scandals surrounding his government.

Hear Mark’s take on ‘Queer’—Luca Guadagnino’s much-anticipated adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel, starring Daniel Craig as the autobiographical lead William Lee. And—from one former Bond to another—he also reviews ‘From Roger Moore With Love’, a charming celebration of the eyebrow-arching national treasure. You listeners bust out your film-buff smarts too, as two of our live audience take to the stage for a game of ‘(Simon and) Markstermind’...

Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free):

Bibi Files Review: 08:32

Queer Review: 24:04

From Roger Moore with Love Review: 39:26

Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham Interview: 48:16

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Live Christmas Spectacular with Wallce & Gromit, Nick Park, and Merlin Crossingham

Presenting a new feature on the Take Channel. 

ANORA has been one of the most talked-about films of 2024 so we sent supersub BEN BAILEY SMITH to speak to director Sean Baker. 

In this interview you can hear Ben talk to Sean about how he judges his own work, his love of Chihuahuas, that home invasion scene, little Orphan Annie, and of course Ben asked him about the Take That needledrop.
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NOW AND BEN

Wassail Wassail Wassail! Christmas is almost upon us, and we’ve got a gift of a guest for you this week: Barry Jenkins, AKA Mr. Moonlight. He chats to Simon about ‘Mufasa’, the origin story for Simba’s father and the long-awaited prequel to 2016’s live action animation Lion King. When a flood washes the cub-Mufasa away from his homeland and parents, he finds himself an outsider in an altogether new territory—where he stumbles across young lion Taka and begins a life-changing new journey to becoming the King of the Pride Lands we all know and love. Simon asks the Oscar winning indie director how he ended up helming this huge Disney musical, and what he’s learned from the four-year journey to its release.

We’ll hear Mark’s take on ‘Mufasa’ too, along with reviews of two more animation releases this week. We’ve got ‘Sonic 3’, where the speedy blue hedgehog and friends face new adversary Shadow—and Aardman’s Christmas gift to us all, the new Wallace & Gromit adventure ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’. The nation’s favourite plasticine pair are up against their old glove-headed adversary Feathers McGraw in this noirish stop-motion treat. You can hear Mark and Simon in conversation with co-directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham in last week’s episode, recorded live at our Christmas Spectacular.

Plus one more review of ‘Alien Onstage’—a gloriously oddball documentary about a group of Dorset bus drivers creating a theatrical version of the 1979 sci-fi film classic. We absolutely promise this is the wholesome if slightly madcap holiday viewing you didn’t know you needed—but you really, really do.

Top correspondence from you all as usual—including this year’s bespoke Christmas wassail number – don’t miss it!

Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free):

Review: Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – 08:13

Review: Alien on Stage – 58:09

Review: Sonic The Hedgehog 3 – 52:59

Interview: Barry Jenkins – 26:10

And normally this is just for the Vanguardistas, but as we’re feeling festive – here are 50 Christmas TV films of the holidays for everyone:

WATCHLIST: FREE FESTIVE FIFTY

1. Easter Parade – December 23, 9.25am BBC TWO

2. Meet Me in St Louis – December 23, 11.05am BBC TWO

3. Coco – December 23, 3.15pm BBC ONE

4. Ghostbusters (1984) – December 23, 4.50pm BBC ONE

5. Chicken Run – December 24, 10am BBC ONE

6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – December 24, 11.25am CHANNEL 4

7. A Christmas Carol (1984) – December 24, 2.10pm CHANNEL 4

8. White Christmas – December 24, 2.15pm BBC TWO

9. Moana – December 24, 2.20pm BBC ONE

10. It's a Wonderful Life – December 24, 2.30pm ITV

11. The Snowman - Christmas Eve – 3pm CHANNEL 4

12. Shrek – December 24, 3.55pm BBC ONE

13. Home Alone – December 24, 6.05pm CHANNEL 4

14. Beetlejuice – December 24, 10.45pm BBC TWO

15. The Rocky Horror Picture Show – December 25, 00.15am BBC TWO

16. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – December 25, 6.10pm BBC ONE

17. Toy Story 3 – December 25, 11.20am BBC ONE

18. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York – December 25, 3.10pm ITV

19. North by Northwest – December 25, 5.05pm BBC TWO

20. On Her Majesty's Secret Service – December 26, 9.25am ITV

For the remaining films on the list, go to 33:10 in Take 2 and listen for Mark's pick and reaction as well!

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Barry Jenkins on Mufasa

It’s Boxing Day, but we’ve got more than just leftovers in today’s show—we're just as stuffed full of gourmet goodies as we hope you are right now...

A fresh new guest interview this week with RaMell Ross, director of the awards-tipped ‘Nickel Boys’. Based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, it follows the growing friendship between two boys in racially segregated 1960s Florida, Ellwood and Turner, who find themselves unwillingly enrolled in an abusive reform school. Simon sits down with RaMell to talk about his innovative filmmaking approach—and we think you’ll be hearing plenty more from him in the future...

Reviews of ‘Better Man’, the Robbie Wiliams biopic from ‘Greatest Showman’ director Michael Gracey that chronicles the pop superstar’s infamous monkeying around by making him an actual chimp; ‘The Order’, the 80s-set thriller starring Jude Law as a neo-Nazi-hunting FBI agent; and ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’, the Thai comedy-drama in which broke university dropout M cozies up to his ailing grandmother in the hope of inheriting her massive fortune.

Plus Mark’s top 5 films of the year—and bottom 5 cinematic stinkers too. (JEM is this correct—these in this episode?)

Merry Christmas one and all—wishing you much festive film-watching...

Review: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies – 08:20

Interview: RaMell Ross – 17:15

Review: The Order – 33:09

Review: Better Man – 40:06

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Best and Worst Films of the Year & More

Happy New Year from Mark, Simon, The Redactor and the rest of us on the Take Team!

We’re kicking off 2025 with a top-drawer guest—’Nosferatu’ director Robert Eggers. He tells Simon about his new remake of the1922 silent classic, originally by German expressionist director F.W. Murnau, in which Bill Skarsgård’s vampire nobleman terrorises a town in pursuit of Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen, the object of his desires. They chat about his longtime fascination with the story, creating a monster for a modern vampire movie, and a sprinkling of the occult...

Will Nosferatu meet Mark’s high standards for horror? Find out if he thinks it has bite—or whether it’s just a little bloodless? More reviews too of ‘‘We Live in Time’, the time slip rom-com starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh that crashes its lovers into each other’s lives (literally)—and ‘Nickel Boys’, a formally innovative new drama charting the friendship of two young inmates at a sinister reform school in Jim Crow era Florida. Listen back to last week’s episode to hear Simon’s interview with its director, RaMell Ross.

Plus another chance to hear the best of our guests from the year behind us, and the best of Mark’s reviews from the drooling raves to the Kermodean rants for the ages. Looking at you ‘Megalopolis’....

Review: Nickel Boys – 03:03

Review: We Live In Time – 49:39

Best of the guests: 09:51

Best of the reviews: 54:14

Interview: Robert Eggers – 23:19

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Nosferatu (or Yesferatu?) with Robert Eggers

The new home of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Coming early May 2022. 

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.

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Introducing Kermode & Mayo’s Take

In this first episode of Kermode and Mayo's Take, Mark and Simon are joined by Tom Hiddleston who talks about his role in The Essex Serpent. Mark reviews new Marvel film ‘Dr Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’, ‘This Much I Know To Be True’ which captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, ‘Cabaret’ 50th Anniversary, new Netflix series ‘Clark’ - the story of Clark Olofsson, the man behind Stockholm syndrome, Danish film ‘Wild Men’/ ‘Vildmænd’ and also ‘Wake Up Punk’ starring Vivienne Westwood.

Plus Mark and Simon recommend the essential week's viewing in a brand new feature: +/- (otherwise known as add / remove).

You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or find us on our social channels.

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The one with Tom Hiddleston, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Cabaret

Once a week with us not enough for you? We have great news - in addition to our regular episodes every Friday, join Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get our subscriber-exclusive show - TAKE TWO.

Every week on TAKE TWO, you’ll get a full extra hour of us diving deeper into topics, discussions (and popcorn) we didn’t have quite enough time for in our regular episode.

Plus, if you want to listen without interruption, subscribers get access to all Kermode & Mayo episodes completely ad-free!

Perfectly happy with one episode a week? No worries - we’re not taking anything way, only adding more.

Subscribe to Kermode and Mayo’s Extra Takes to get access to TAKE TWO every Monday and other fantastic subscriber-exclusive episodes.

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Introducing: Extra Takes and Take Two

In this week's episode of Kermode and Mayo’s Take, Mark and Simon are joined in the studio by Argentinian screenwriter, director, and auteur Gaspar Noé to discuss his latest film Vortex. Mark reviews Apple TV+’s new series ‘The Essex Serpent’, Sci-fi/Action film ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ staring Michelle Yeoh, new drama starring Mark Wahlberg - ‘Father Stu’, ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘The Quiet Girl’ about a 9-year-old girl who discovers a new way of life when she moves in with a middle-aged farm couple for the summer.

Plus, Mark and Simon recommend the essential week’s viewing in a brand-new feature: Take It or Leave It (previously +/-)

You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or find us on our social channels.

Show timings:

7.15 - Father Stu Review

15.04 The Drover’s Wife Review

20.05 The Quiet Girl Review

25.25 Physical Product of the Week

27.53 Gaspar Noé Interview

40.03 Vortex Review

47.04 The Essex Serpent Review

55.29 Take It Or Leave It (previously +/-)

59.10 Everything Everywhere All At Once

01.18.10 Box Office Top 10

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Everything Everywhere All at Once, Gaspar Noé, The Essex Serpent

In this week's episode of Kermode and Mayo’s Take, Mark and Simon are joined in the studio by Tom Cruise’s co-star Miles Teller to discuss his latest role as Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw in ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ Mark reviews Amazon’s college satire ‘Emergency’, Norwegian horror film ‘The Innocents’, Terrence Davies new World War One drama ‘Benediction’ and music documentary ‘A-ha-The Movie’ - about one of 1980’s most popular bands.

Plus, Mark and Simon recommend the essential week’s viewing in Take It or Leave It.

You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or find us on our social channels.

Show timings:

11.16 Last week’s streamers

13.03 What’s On

16.45 Emergency Review

24.53 - Box Office Chart

37.27 Miles Teller interview

52.36 The Innocents Review

58.18 Take It Or Leave It

01.02.47 A-Ha The Movie Review

01.08.43 Physical Product of the Week

01.10.01 Benediction Review

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Miles Teller, Benediction, Emergency, The Innocents

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