Kermode & Mayo’s Take
Essential film reviews, TV reviews, and all conversations around movie and non-movie related stuff brought to you by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 243
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Is Nic Cage still riding the comeback wave in THE SURFER?
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01:09:30 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Another Paul Feig film? Do me a Favor
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01:14:06 |
Thu 01 May 2025
David Oyelowo on Government Cheese + Mark’s verdict on The Studio
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01:16:38 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza
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01:10:06 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
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…
00:14:58 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Laurence Fishburne & James Hawes on The Amateur
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01:05:33 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Death of a Unicorn + Toby Jones
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01:20:02 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Gorgeous George MacKay + Mark vs. The Stath
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01:09:11 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Snow White: Mark’s Verdict
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01:18:02 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Ashley Walters & Erin Doherty on Adolescence
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01:15:59 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Now and Ben: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, British winters & his iPad obsession
It’s ‘Mickey 17’ release day, and Ben is chatting to Director Bong Joon Ho in today’s episode to celebrate.
Starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable worker on a colonized ice planet, the new fil…
00:14:48 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Daisy Ridley’s surprise BAFTA + Mark on Mickey 17
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01:04:31 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Best birdsong ever from Robert Carlyle
Begbie himself, and surely a frontrunner for British cinema’s scariest man (on screen only, we might add), is our guest this week—it’s Robert Carlyle. This time he’s playing staunchly moral councilor…
01:05:11 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Now and Ben: Angela Bassett on Zero Day, Strange Days and The Simpsons
We’ve got a bona fide icon for you in today’s Now & Ben—a movie star of four decades known for tackling tough female characters in films like ‘Boyz n the Hood’, ‘Malcolm X’, ‘What’s Love Got to Do wi…
00:15:56 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
A film of the year already – is it The Monkey?
Welcome to another show jam-packed with top takes from Simon & Mark—which are still eliciting your ‘quiet affirmative noises’...
Reviews this week of The Monkey—a splattery and slanted dark comedy…
01:05:41 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Did Bridget Jones make Mark cry? + Stephen Graham & Malachi Kirby
We hope this week’s podcast will earn your ‘quiet affirmative noises’--whatever they might sound like...??? Listeners to last week’s show may remember one correspondent’s story of a film eliciting th…
01:07:38 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Awards Schmawards
Awards season spinning your head? The Good Doctors have got you covered...
Welcome to our awards special, where we’ll be giving you the lowdown on all the big players in this years awards nominati…
01:18:07 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
We made Mark watch Dog Man – will it be film of the week?
Dogman heads up Mark’s review slate this week--an anarchic animation based on Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel series, where a lifesaving operation sees a police dog and his cop …
01:08:00 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Now and Ben: Chris Sanders on The Wild Robot, hand drawn animation vs. CG, and Lilo & Stitch
In today’s Now & Ben drop, Ben sits down with Chris Sanders—director of the Oscar-nominated animation ‘The Wild Robot’. With a stellar career behind the drawing board that’s taken him from Disney to …
00:20:40 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
Brady Corbet on The Brutalist, Oscars & AI
Brady Corbet, the now-Oscar-nominated director of ‘The Brutalist’, sits down with Simon for an interview this week. His much lauded and lengthy fictional biopic follows the life of László Tóth, a Hun…
01:05:40 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
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