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
Emma Stone and Ramy Youssef, Poor Things, The Disappearance of Shere Hite & The Boys in the Boat
OK, now we are really back! Mark and Simon are firmly back in their seats and ready to shepherd you through a new year in cinema.
This week, Simon sits down with Emma Stone and Ramy Youssef to discu…
01:15:40 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
James Hawes, One Life, Night Swim & Good Grief
We’re back! Well kind of. This week, Robbie Collin and Rhianna Dhillon are filling in for Mark and Simon, who are still recovering from their completely raucous New Year celebrations.
Rhianna chats …
01:12:45 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Raging Grace, Priscilla & Scala!!!, BEST and WORST films of 2023
This week sees Mark review ‘Raging Grace’, a social issue drama-come-gothic horror about a Filipino single mother working in a sinister British family mansion; ‘Priscilla’, Sofia Coppola’s adaptation…
00:57:59 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Zack Snyder, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, The Boy and the Heron & Ferrari
It’s Christmas! This week, Simon chats to Zack Snyder about his new space opera ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire’, which sees an ex-soldier search for allies to help defend her home when it is…
01:18:58 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Taika Waititi and Jaiyah Saelua, Next Goal Wins, What Happens Later, The Three Musketeers: Milady & Godzilla Minus One
This week sees Mark and Simon chat to director, writer and producer Taika Waititi and American Samoan footballer Jaiyah Saelua about ‘Next Goal Wins’, a sports comedy-drama based on the documentary o…
01:12:34 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Paul King & Simon Farnaby, Wonka, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain & Leave the World Behind
Simon sits down with director and screenwriter Paul King and screenwriter Simon Farnaby to discuss their new Timothée Chalamet-starring Christmas blockbuster, ‘Wonka’, which is a prequel to the Roald…
01:19:47 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
George Mackay, Femme, Jason Isaacs, Archie & Eileen
It’s another bumper week for guests: Simon and Mark chat to their fave “gorgeous George” Mackay about his new psychosexual noir ‘Femme’, which sees a man who is targeted in a horrific homophobic atta…
01:21:02 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, Jodie Whittaker, Napoleon, One Night & The Eternal Daughter
Strap in for a bumper week of interviews: Simon sits down for an entertaining chat with Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby to discuss their turns in Ridley Scott’s new epic, ‘Napoleon’, which looks at…
01:24:29 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Todd Haynes, May December, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels & Saltburn
Simon meets director Todd Haynes to discuss his thorny, new offering ‘May December’, which stars the powerhouse duo of Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, and tells the story of a seemingly perfect m…
01:19:24 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Emerald Fennell, The Automat, Anatomy Of A Fall & Dream Scenario
Simon sits down with actor-writer-director Emerald Fennell to discuss her new, star-studded, class-skewering, psychological thriller ‘Saltburn’, which sees an Oxford scholarship student drawn into th…
01:18:41 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Gabriel Byrne, Dance First, How To Have Sex, Bottoms & The Killer
This week, Simon sits down with the brilliant and always-interesting Gabriel Byrne for a philosophical chat about his turn as the legendary Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in ‘Dance First’, James Mar…
01:17:21 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Thelma Schoonmaker, Peeping Tom, Typist Artist Pirate King, Cat Person & Five Nights at Freddy’s
This week, certified film royalty is in the studio! Mark and Simon sit down with Martin Scorsese’s legendary film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, who is here to discuss restoring her late husband directo…
01:17:44 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
Listen Now: Ghost Story
Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his famil…
00:10:04 |
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel, Foe & Killers of the Flower Moon
Simon may be back in the studio, but this week Mark steps into the interviewer’s chair. He sits down with legendary documentarian Errol Morris to discuss his new film about the storied life and caree…
01:15:16 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Laura Linney, The Miracle Club, Blackberry, Silver Dollar Road & The Fall of the House of Usher
This week, Mark hosts the show alongside Take fave Ben Bailey-Smith. Ben sits down with one of Hollywood’s finest actresses Laura Linney to discuss her sentimental comedy-drama ‘The Miracle Club’, wh…
01:17:10 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Gareth Edwards, The Exorcist: Believer, The Burial, The Great Escaper
This week, Simon sits down with director Gareth Edwards to talk about his new AI-centred sci-fi action thriller epic, ‘The Creator’. Mark reviewed this last week.
Other films Mark gives his takes on…
01:13:05 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money, The Creator & Saw X
This week’s episode sees Simon interview director Craig Gillespie, to discuss his film 'Dumb Money’, which is based on the true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got …
01:18:42 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Introducing… Out To Lunch Season 9 – NEW HOST ALERT
The smash-hit interview podcast Out To Lunch is out now, with a sparkly new host on dining duty: the much loved British actor, comedian and writer Ade Edmondson.
Ade takes guests such as Chrissie Hy…
00:03:15 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Alice Troughton, The Lesson, Dumb Money & Expend4bles
More Mark, more Simon, more mindless natter – and some movie reviews for good measure!
This week’s episode sees Simon sit down with director and Take diehard Alice Troughton, who’s in the studio to …
01:15:19 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Timothy Spall, Bolan's Shoes, A Haunting in Venice & Brother
Don’t worry, Mark and Simon are back for good! This week’s episode sees Simon sit down with the humble and delightful Timothy Spall, who is in the studio to discuss his new film ‘Bolan’s Shoes’, a me…
01:15:28 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
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