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
CERSEI LANNISTER’s Power Behind the Throne: SHRINK THE BOX
As Cersei says: ‘power is power’ and she’s got it in spades. We investigate how she becomes a master manipulator, and we take an honest objective look at her over-familiar relations with her brother …
00:45:39 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and John Krasinski, Made in England, La Chimera & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
This week, Simon’s fave John Krasinski, along with Ms Fleabag herself, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, are on the show to discuss their new film ‘If’, which sees a 12-year-old girl who can see everyone’s imagi…
00:59:04 |
Fri 10 May 2024
FRASIER CRANE: Inside the mind of the Seattle psychiatrist on this week’s SHRINK THE BOX
Where does Frasier’s snobbery originate from? Why does he revert to his ‘child state’ when around his father? And... the hidden story behind Frasier being a Freudian analyst and Niles (his brother) b…
00:49:02 |
Tue 07 May 2024
Josh O’Connor, La Chimera, Love Lies Bleeding, The Idea of You & The Fall Guy
This week, man of the moment Josh O’Connor is in the studio to chat to Simon about his leading role in ‘La Chimera’, Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s period fantasy drama about a British archaeologi…
01:04:33 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Ordinary Angels, Boy Kills World, I.S.S., Challengers & The American Society of Magical Negroes
This week there’s no guest, but lots more witterings from the good doctors to make up for it.
Mark gives his take on a swathe of new films, including ‘Ordinary Angels’, a Hilary Swank-starring e…
00:59:44 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Highlights and Lowlights so far this year
This week Simon and Mark are away so instead we have a clip episode for your viewing pleasure featuring interviews with the likes of Ramy Youssef and Emma Stone, Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer; and…
01:01:08 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Kirsten Dunst & Alex Garland, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, The First Omen & Back to Black
This week, Kirsten Dunst and Alex Garland sit down to chat with Simon about their new film ‘Civil War’, which sees Dunst star as a photojournalist travelling with her team across a dystopian United S…
00:58:09 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Dev Patel, Monkey Man, Evil Does Not Exist, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Seize Them!
This week, the lovely Dev Patel is on the show to chat all things ‘Monkey Man’, his (co) writing and directorial debut, which sees a young man hunt down the group of corrupt leaders responsible for h…
00:55:58 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow, Mothers’ Instinct & Silver Haze
This week, Obi Wan Kenobi himself, aka Ewan McGregor, sits down with Simon to discuss his new miniseries ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, which sees a Russian aristocrat spared from death and placed under ho…
00:58:53 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Immaculate & Late Night with the Devil
No interview this week, but even more witterings from your favourite duo for your trouble.
Mark gives his thoughts on new releases, including ‘Late Night with the Devil’, a found footage horror, whi…
01:06:02 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Cate Blanchett, The New Boy, Monster & Drive Away Dolls
This week, the one and only Cate Blanchett joins Mark and Simon for a chat about her drama ‘The New Boy’, which follows a young Aboriginal Australia orphan, who is brought into a Christian monastery,…
01:15:19 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Ava DuVernay, Origin, The Inventor & High and Low – John Galliano
This week, acclaimed director Ava DuVernay chats to Simon and Mark about ‘Origin’, her new biographical drama based on the life of the author Isabel Wilkerson who wrote the seminal book ‘Caste: The O…
01:17:52 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Oscars 2024 Best Picture Special
With the 2024 Academy Awards taking place on Sunday, the most trusted voices in film Mark and Simon are here to guide you through the 10 films in the running for Best Picture.
Featuring highlights…
01:06:56 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Denis Villeneuve & Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two, Four Daughters & Lisa Frankenstein
This week, acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve and renowned composer Hans Zimmer join Simon for a chat about their hotly-anticipated project, ‘Dune: Part Two’ - the next chapter in their adaptation o…
01:16:11 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Jonathan Glazer, Perfect Days, Madame Web, Shoshana & Wicked Little Letters
This week, director Jonathan Glazer talks to Simon about his Bafta award-winning and Oscar-nominated historical drama ‘The Zone of Interest, which follows the commandant of Auschwitz and his wife, as…
01:17:59 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Michael Winterbottom, Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son, Bob Marley: One Love & The Taste of Things
Happy Valentine’s! Sit back and enjoy our latest episode – a gift to all film lovers. This week, director Michael Winterbottom talks to Simon about his new biographical thriller ‘Shoshana’, which fol…
01:16:01 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Occupied City, Your Fat Friend & The Iron Claw
This week, Steve McQueen and his wife, historian, filmmaker and producer Bianca Stigter, are in the studio to chat with Simon about ‘Occupied City’, their four-hour documentary about the Nazi occupat…
01:16:03 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Jeffrey Wright, Cillian Murphy, American Fiction, Oppenheimer Revisited, The Zone of Interest in & Argylle
It’s a bumper week for (lauded) guests! Simon chats to Jeffrey Wright about his Oscar-nominated role in ‘American Fiction’, which tells the story of a Black novelist, frustrated with the establishmen…
01:18:32 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Andrew Haigh, All Of Us Strangers, Baghead & The Color Purple
This week, Simon sits down for a thoughtful and moving chat with director Andrew Haigh about his new Bafta-nominated drama ‘All of Us Strangers’, which sees Andrew Scott play a lonely screenwriter dr…
01:13:21 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
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 T…
01:16:23 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
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