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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 film from Korean cinema’s modern master sees protagonist Mickey ‘re-printed’ over and over again. Frequently killed in his dangerous daily tasks, ‘human printing technology’ allows Mickey to be simply reborn, with his memories intact. But when he makes it back to base unexpectedly alive one day, he finds he’s already been reprinted—coming face to face with his latest iteration. His girlfriend may be loving it, but the law, upheld by Mark Ruffalo’s villainous Marshall, is not. Ben sits down with the ‘Parasite’ Oscar winner, and his legendary translator Sharon Choi, to unpack this dark comedy sci-fi satire... to name some of the genres this madcap movie might be. Nobody makes them like Director Bong. He reveals the secret real-life location of his ice-planet (complete with mountains of salt standing in for snow), the challenges of working with two Robert Pattinsons, and his obsession with his comfort-blanket iPad. Check out the ‘Now and Ben’ back catalogue for more conversations with cinema’s most exciting creative talents, including four-time Oscar winning director of ‘Anora’, Sean Baker, ‘Peaky Blinders’ writer Steven Knight, and Hollywood royalty Angela Bassett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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More correspondence in this week’s Take 2 about the curtainless land of Scandinavia (which as we all know, still includes the Netherlands). And are freshly baked intermission cookies a code-compliant cinema snack? We’re tackling the big issues as always here on the Take. Bonus review of ‘On Falling’, the hard-hitting social realist drama tracking the everyday drudgery of a warehouse picker from Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films production company—and Mark & Simon revisit the 2000 Julia Roberts hit Erin Brockovich for its 25th anniversary too. Plus we’re doing the Lambeth walk into One Frame Back as we have a butcher’s hook back through the archives for the best Cockney Geezers on film. More of your top questions and schmestions too on fantasy podcast pairings and road trip soundtracks—and keep an ear out for some Jason Isaacs content. Timecodes: Om Falling Review: 08:24 One Frame Back: 16:00 Erin Brockovich Review: 22:41 Watchlist and Notlist: 32:31 Questions Schmestions: 36:11 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. In this week’s Take we’re travelling back into the past and looking to the future with VR. Yes, we made Simon put on a VR headset thingy—and yes, we did laugh at him whilst he wandered blindly around the room thinking he was in 19th century Germany. That’s because he was experiencing ‘Trailblazer’, a VR experience telling the forgotten story of Bertha Benz, the woman behind the wheel of the world’s first automobile in the first road trip ever taken. Simon chats to the voice of Trailblazer, Star-Wars star Daisy Ridely and creator Eloise Singer. They talk about history’s forgotten women, Daisy’s forgotten BAFTA (surprise!), and whether we’ll all be swapping cinema tickets for VR goggles in the future... Plus reviews this week of ‘Twiggy’, Sadie Frost’s doc about the titular teenage model sensation and 60s icon; ‘One Of Them Days’—a comedy caper starring Keke Palmer and SZA as two broke best friends trying to raise a month’s rent after losing it to a deadbeat boyfriend—and Bong Joon Ho’s big follow-up to ‘Parasite’, ‘Mickey 17’. Starring Robert Pattinson as an ‘expendable’ worker in a barren ice colony, Director Bong’s latest sci-fi flick sees protagonist Mickey ‘reprinted’ over and over again each time he dies—until a duplicate begins to cause trouble. Find out if Mark thinks you should be heading to the cinema on the double! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Twiggy Review: 10:24 Daisy Ridley & Eloise Singer Interview: 25:19 One of Them Days Review: 43:28 Laughter Lift: 47:31 Mickey 17 Review: 52:37 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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It’s the morning after the biggest, razzliest and dazzliest night of the year in Hollywood, and Simon and Mark are here bleary eyed and ready to relive it all in podcast form—but don’t worry, they won’t go on and on until the orchestra drowns them out (looking at you, Adrien Brody). They’ll revisit all the big moments from this year’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony: Anora’s five-Oscar clean up and Mikey Madison’s surprise Best Actress win, the bizarre Bond tribute sending 007 off into the depths of the Amazon... and Timothée Chalamet’s sartorial tribute to the canary. Those of you who did put an accumulator bet on Mark’s predictions, commiserations to you—but take heart in the knowledge that you aren’t as disappointed as Demi Moore is this morning. The production team cannot be held liable for any financial consequences incurred. As the velvet curtain falls on this awards season, listen in for the only digest you need while you digest your breakfast. Meanwhile, Mark’s off to get some kip... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 Sam Hagen in new Netflix drama ‘Toxic Town’. Penned by Jack Thorne (of course), and with a cracking cast of Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Rory Kinnear and more alongside Carlyle, it tells the true story of the Corby poisonings. Following the closure of the town’s steelworks, mismanagement of toxic waste begins to affect the health of local mothers and their babies—who are dismissed by the council and must fight for justice. Robert unpacks his character, and gives us the screen zinger of the year that had us reaching for the birdsong button... Mark reviews ‘Toxic Town’, as well as Indian feelgood flick ‘Superboys of Malegaon’. The Hindi language film follows a gang of amateur filmmakers whose shoestring budget spoofs of their favourite Bollywood hits become a cult phenomenon. Plus, Gia Coppola’s ‘The Last Showgirl’--the story of a Las Vegas dancer’s fading glamour, starring Pamela Anderson in a critically acclaimed comeback performance. All the usual box office madness and top takes from our emergency mailers too. Don’t miss it! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Superboys of Malegaon Review: 09:24 Toxic Town Review: 44:10 Robert Carlyle Interview: 30:19 Laughter Lift: 49:30 The Last Showgirl Review: 55:53 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Take 2! Not one but two bonus reviews this week. First up, ‘The Summer With Carmen’, a wry Greek indie set in Athens’ queer scene that sees two friends make an autobiographical movie about a fun, flirty summer when one of them adopts a cute dog. Plus, a reissue of the Cohen Brothers cult classic ‘The Big Lebowski’—it really ties the show together. Mark gives, like, his opinion, man. One Frame Back this week is all about comeback roles, inspired by Pamela Anderson’s critically acclaimed turn in ‘The Last Showgirl’. You share your career reboot picks from ‘The Wrestler’ to ‘Pulp Fiction’--and Mark crowns the comeback king or queen. Great questions and schmestions on dream interviewees, pop records that would make great movies, and ‘never go back’ films that you love but would never rewatch. Mark shares his Oscars predictions too—and don’t forget to keep an ear out for our Oscars Schmoscars post-ceremony special on Monday morning bright and early. Mark might have a hat to eat, so don’t miss it! Timecodes: The Summer with Carmen Review: 09:50 One Frame Back: 19:50 Watchlist and Notlist: 37:59 The Big Lebowski Review: 28:40 Questions Schmestions: 43:10 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Another breakfast appointment for Vanguardistas with Mark and Simon to debrief last night’s Screen Actors Guild awards. The Good Doctors talk ensemble casts, Showbiz COVID, Jamie Lee Curtis flying the flag for horror, and Jeremy Strong’s leprechaun costume—plus we’ll take a look at the TV categories too. We’ll bring you all the winners, the speeches, the leather suits, and chew over who’s locked in for an Oscar and where it’s still all to play for. Will Mark eat his words on the Best Picture winner? It might take a divine intervention... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 with It?’ and ‘Black Panther’. She is the one and only Angela Bassett. This time, she plays US president Evelyn Mitchell in ‘Zero Day’, the new Netflix thriller series in which America is struck by a cyber attack. Managing the crisis, Bassett’s president re-enlists beloved ex-President Geroge Mullen (Robert De Niro) to help still the public panic and discover the mysterious perpetrators. Angela talks to Ben about the role and her longstanding talent for playing powerful women onscreen—including Michelle Obama in ‘The Simpsons’, of course. She tells Ben about the real women who have inspired her, plus we get the lowdown on working with De Niro—and fans of Kathryn Bigelow’s undersung millennium tech thriller ‘Strange Days’, listen up: we’ve got a treat for you... Listen out for more of Ben’s conversations with cinema’s most exciting creative talents dropping into the feed every ‘Now and Ben’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We revisit Picnic at Hanging Rock for its 50th anniversary reissue this week—the mesmerizing Peter Weir classic that’s inspired five decades of movies from The Virgin Suicides to The Falling. Plus one more bonus review of I Am Martin Parr—a new doc about the photographer who captured the colourful tragicomedy of British working-class life. We’re digging in the back of the movie-cupboard for cursed toys on One Frame Back this week, inspired by the The Monkey’s bloodthirsty clockwork killer. Mark will choose the creepiest of your picks—from Magic’s ventriloquist’s dummy Corky to Chucky and more. More correspondence too on the apparently curtainless land of Skandinavia, following Simon’s Skandi-noir queries lasty week—and some righteous code-breaker shaming too. Timecodes: I Am Martin Parr Review: 09:33 One Frame Back: 22:19 Picnic at Hanging Rock Review: 31:57 Watchlist and Notlist: 41:52 Questions Schmestions: 47:38 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 horror about a murderous wind-up toy from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, and I’m Still Here—the Brazilian drama about ‘the disappeared’ under the military dictatorship in the 1970s that has taken the Oscar nominations by storm. Plus September Says, an unsettling drama of sisterly bonds, and a little bit of Captain America: Brave New World, since we were foiled by the screening schedule last week. This week’s guest is 90s New Black Realist cinema’s MVP—that’s Mario Van Peebles. Possibly our smoothest, coolest guest evs, he directed 90s classics New Jack City, Panther, Posse—and now Outlaw Posse. With it, he’s pushing the frontier in more ways than one, bringing us a classic western without the whitewashing as he follows a gang of black cowboys who have rejected the unjust laws of their time to become outlaws. He talks to Simon about Black Westerns, ‘Black Rodeo’—the BFI season celebrating the genre that launched earlier this month—and being part of an indie filmmaking dynasty with his father Melvin and son Mandela. Your verdicts from our inbox on all the big releases too—keep them coming! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): September Says Review: 08:46 Captain America: Brave New World Review: 19:24 Mario Van Peebles Interview: 27:02 I’m Still Here Review: 46:11 Laughter lift: 52:53 The Monkey Review: 55:22 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Debrief the BAFTAs with Mark and Simon in this morning-after Take—the first of not one, not two, but three awards specials for the Vanguard. Who were the worthy winners, and who was robbed? Was David Tennant’s tartan-clad hosting gong-worthy, or were his jokes just clangers? Did Stephen Merchant steal the show? Your glamourous bespectacled hosts wrap it all, from Mikey Madison’s surprise win to that Warwick Davis speech—and some of you lot have chipped in with your two cents on the socials too. Join the Good Doctors to chew over the evening’s big moments, big winners, and what it all means for the Oscars... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This edition of Take 2 is also available on Ceefax... Just joking, but if you want to a) nostalgically re-live its golden era, or b) find out what on earth that is (delete as applicable depending on your age), here you go: https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/#id=WyJubXMtY2VlZmF4IiwiaW50ZXJuYWwubmF0aGFubWVkaWFzZXJ2aWNlcy5jby51ayIsIi93ZWJzb2NrZXRzL2NlZWZheCJd:page=100 Bonus reviews of ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’—the long-awaited authorized doc following the rise of the pioneering rock band—and ‘Cottontail’, a tender-hearted family drama about man who travels haplessly from Japan to rural England in order to fulfil his late-wife's last wish. Plus, a Valentine’s Day treat—the 1945 David Lean classic ’Brief Encounter’ gets an 80th anniversary re-release to bring some silver screen romance to your weekend. Inspired by Bridget Jones’ dastardly but dashing Daniel Cleaver, One Frame Back this week is all about your favourite screen cads; Mark ranks your rundown of all the sleaziest scoundrels on screen, from Michael Cain’s archetypal Alfie to his modern day womanizing cousins. Questions and Schmestions and Watchlist and Notlist for you as usual, and a little controversy about what’s ended up on the latter this week... Thanks to the emailer who brought this wonderful website Cinema Guide to our attention: https://cinemaguide.co.uk/ Timecodes: Becoming Led Zeppelin Review: 08:27 One Frame Back: 24:01 Cottontail Review: 34:10 Brief Encounter Review: 41:11 Watchlist and Notlist: 47:20 Questions Schmestions: 52:05 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 this mysterious and elusive sound—and you’ve kindly sent in some examples to clear up this crucial matter for us. Mmhmm. Grown-up Aussie animation ‘Memoir of a Snail’ is first on Mark’s review slate this week--starring Sarah Snook and with a voice cast including Nick Cave and Jacki Weaver, the crafted stop-motion story follows the melancholic life of a reclusive, snail collecting misfit in 1970s Canberra. On a lighter note, to solve all your lovers’ tiffs about what genre to go for this Valentine’s Day movie night, a review of the romcom-slasher hybrid ‘Heart Eyes’. And last but certainly not least—’Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’, fourth instalment of the British romcom institution starring Renée Zellweger in which Bridget gets back to dating for the first time after the death of Mark (Colin Firth). Our guests this week are Stephen Graham and Malchi Kirby—who star in the Steven Knight-penned Victorian boxing drama ‘A Thousand Blows’, out next week. In it, a bulked-up Graham plays Henry ‘Sugar’ Goodson—the fearsome East End boxer and adversary of Kirby’s Hezekiah Moscow. Hezekiah arrives in 1800s London from Jamaica, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a lion tamer at the zoo—but finds himself at the heart of the city’s criminal underworld, orchestrated by Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), ‘Queen’ of the all-female crime gang The Forty Elephants. Simon chats to the stars about getting into the ring together in this gritty drama based on real historical figures, getting ripped, Jamaican heritage and more. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Memoir of a Snail Review: 09:54 Stephen Graham & Malachi Kirby Interview: 26:19 Heart Eyes Review: 41:37 Laughter lift: 47:37 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Review: 52:44 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 nominations, all in one super-Take from Simon & Mark. We’ve brought together reviews of the titles everyone’s talking about—like Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, Nosferatu and more—and interviews with the filmmaking & acting talents behind them. Sean Baker, James Mangold, Robert Eggers, RaMell Ross, Ralph Fiennes & Stanley Tucci... we’ve got a list of names longer than a yawn-inducing acceptance speech. From the bottom of our hearts, thanks to our agent, our mums, God, and you loyal Wittertainees. Now go forth and impress your pals at the Oscars watch-party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bonus reviews this week of The Fire Inside, a punchy boxing biopic of Claressa ‘T. Rex’ Shields, the real-life underdog fighter who became the first woman to win an Olympic gold in the sport for the USA—and Bring Them Down, a tough rural drama of old wounds and farming feuds in the West of Ireland, starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. And, this just in—One Frame Back this week is all about newsdesk dramas. We hear your favourite films to deal with all things print & broadcast from newsroom romances to tense procedurals. Which movie will grab the headline? More on that story later. Meanwhile we’ll be bringing you the highlights of the weekend’s TV movies on the Watchlist—and don’t miss a classic bit of Deer Hunter bashing on the Notlist too. Our ongoing search for the world’s worst drivers continues in your correspondence, taking us to the faraway land of.... Croydon??? Plus questions schmestions on awards snubs for horror movies, interview walkouts, and who deserves a biopic. Timecodes: The Fire Inside Review: 08:59 One Frame Back: 17:57 Bring Them Down Review: 29:58 Watchlist and Notlist: 42:50 Questions Schmestions: 48:39 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 handler become one crime-busting half-canine hero. Plus, The Seed of the Sacred Fig—a courageous political drama about Iran’s authoritarian government from exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. And last but not least, September 5--the tense newsroom drama starring Peter Sarsgaard, who is our guest this week... Peter sits down with Simon to discuss the Oscar-nominated drama, based on the true events of the 1972 Munich massacre, the first act of terrorism to be broadcast live on television. During the Munich Olympics of that year, the Palestinian militant group Black September infiltrated the athletes village, killing two Israeli athletes and taking nine more hostage. Taking place entirely within the newsroom, the film follows the efforts of the ABC sports broadcasting team, led by producer Roone Arledge (Sarsgaard), to cover the story as it unfolds in real time—and navigate the many practical and moral issues this entails. Sarsgaard tells Simon all about the unique production—plus working with his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Bride!, and why he’s given up correcting people when they think he’s a Skarsgård. It’s a great week for cinema—get the Good Doctors’ takes here, and don’t forget to send them yours! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Dog Man Review: 04:38 Peter Sarsgaard Interview: 25:44 September 5 Review: 42:01 Laughter lift: 53:11 Seed of the Sacred Fig Review: 54:34 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 DreamWorks, he’s the man behind ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, ‘The Croods’ and ‘Lilo and Stich’—so Ben had plenty to quiz him on. ‘The Wild Robot’ takes us on an unexpected adventure through nature with Roz, a human assistance robot who finds herself shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Uninhabited, that is, by humans—but she soon discovers a host of animal companions, including an orphaned gosling who needs her help. Becoming the adopted mother of this strange creature is a challenge that her programming hasn’t prepared her for. Ben & Chris chat about the film’s beautiful blend of hand-drawn and CG animation, why movie robots can teach us so much about being human, and what it’s like to be beloved to a generation of Disney kids as the voice of Stitch. Listen out for more of Ben’s conversations with cinema’s most exciting creative talents dropping into the feed every ‘Now and Ben’… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Two musical bonus reviews this week: first, Luther Van Dross doc ‘Luther: Never Too Much’, charting the soul legend’s rise to fame via record label rejection, tabloid scrutiny, Nile Rogers and David Bowie. And there’s a new band on the block in ‘The Colours Within’ too, an anime release following a synaesthetic teen who sees the colours of others’ emotions. One Frame Back is all about Mike Leigh films (because we still love him even though he’s a grump). We’ll hear your picks from the stark misanthropy of ‘Naked’ to the bright and breezy ‘Happy Go Lucky’, and Mark decides which gets top billing. Some treats on the Weekend Watchlist for all your screen-based needs, and we’ve got a feeling ‘Peter Rabbit’ will take some beating on the Notlist... Questions Schmestions too on intermissions in movies, protest music, and censoring 65-year-old buttocks. Timecodes: Luther: Never Too Much review: 04:12 One Frame Back: 19:27 The Colours Within review: 31:52 Watchlist and Notlist: 45:09 Questions Schmestions: 51:06 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] --- Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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 Hungarian architect who arrives in late-1940s America having survived the Holocaust, and finds his life changed once again when he picks up a commission from a wealthy industrialist. Brady chats to Simon about all those awards nominations, the empathy generating machine that is Adrien Brody, and the future of AI in the movie business. Reviews this week of ‘Companion’, a smart sci-fi horror about a holiday weekend gone awry for a couple who seem a little uncanny—and ‘Saturday Night’, Jason Reitman’s 70s-set tale of the origins of America’s now legendary Saturday Night Live comedy show. Plus ‘Hard Truths’, Mike Leigh’s family drama following Marianne Jean-Baptiste's scathing Pansy, an emotionally volatile woman grieving her mother and navigating wounded relationships with her sister, husband and son. Check out last week’s show to hear Simon’s interview with Marianne and Mike, who some of you may have noticed was feeling a tad grumpy at the beginning of the interview... Top takes from you too on what’s been on your screens this week, and of course, Mark’s Prime Ministerial quiff. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Hard Truths Review: 09:40 Brady Corbet Interview: 26:27 Saturday Night Review: 45:52 Laughter lift: 51:53 Companion Review: 54:29 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Coming hot off the podcast press, we’ve got Mark’s review of ‘Flight Risk’ - under embargo until now. The Mel Gibson directed thriller sees a US Marshal escort a government witness via plane across the Alaskan wilderness to testify against a mob boss in Manhattan. Mark Wahlberg’s pilot is in charge of their safe passage, but things get turbulent when it turns out not everyone is who they seem to be. Don’t miss Mark’s verdict in this embargo special... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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