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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. Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show, TAKE TWO, with new episodes every Friday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or at…
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeTRON: ARES: “It was like my brain was atrophying” + Kathryn Bigelow & Rebecca Ferguson
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeAimee Lou Wood on Film Club + a DOUBLE BILL of films of the week
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeIs ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER film of the year? With Paul Thomas Anderson
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeRobert Redford remembered + Paul Greengrass on THE LOST BUS
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDoes SPINAL TAP II turn it up to 11? + the rockin’ Warren Ellis
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeHONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeSummer Holiday Highlights of the year so far
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Now and Ben: Olivia Colman and Jay Roach on THE ROSES
Surprise! It’s another tasty nugget of Now & Ben in the Take feed. This time, Ben sits down with Olivia Colman and Jay Roach, star and director of ‘The…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeTom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on THE LIFE OF CHUCK
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeBob Odenkirk talks NOBODY 2 – will it meet Mark’s expectations?
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeIs Mark freaked out by FREAKIER FRIDAY? + Celine Song on THE MATERIALISTS
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeAlien: Earth Bonus Special
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDoes NAKED GUN even pass the one laugh test? + Guy Pearce on INSIDE
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeFILM OF THE YEAR ALREADY? Mark on BRING HER BACK
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeMore SALT PATH & Harry Melling + your take on SUPERMAN
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeTHE SALT PATH: Simon and Mark’s reaction. Plus SUPERMAN
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeWill Jurassic World Rebirth turn Mark into a Rantosaurus? + David Cronenberg
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeIs F1 in pole position for film of the week?
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Kermode & Mayo’s Take28 Years Later: Mark’s Verdict + Jodie Comer and (Oh) Danny Boy(le) on the film
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDomnhall Gleeson on Echo Valley
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Now and Ben: Carey Mulligan and Tim Key
Welcome to another Now & Ben! This little nugget of bonus interview goodness features Carey Mulligan and Tim Key—stars of the new wholesome folk musical The…
Kermode & Mayo’s Take20 Years of Kermode & Mayo
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeHello to Jason Isaacs! In The Salt Path
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with Chris McQuarrie
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeThe Last of Us with Craig Mazin
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeIs Nic Cage still riding the comeback wave in THE SURFER?
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeAnother Paul Feig film? Do me a Favor
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDavid Oyelowo on Government Cheese + Mark’s verdict on The Studio
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeWarfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza
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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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeLaurence Fishburne & James Hawes on The Amateur
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDeath of a Unicorn + Toby Jones
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeGorgeous George MacKay + Mark vs. The Stath
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeSnow White: Mark’s Verdict
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeAshley Walters & Erin Doherty on Adolescence
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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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDaisy Ridley’s surprise BAFTA + Mark on Mickey 17
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Kermode & Mayo’s TakeBest 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…
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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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeA 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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDid 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…
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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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeWe 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…
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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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeBrady 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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeFlight Risk embargo special - they tried to stop us...
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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeThe Brutalist + Mike Leigh & Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths
‘The Brutalist’ is the epic structure on the horizon of this week’s movie releases; Mark reviews this fictional biopic of Hungarian architect László Tóth…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeA Complete Unknown divides Simon and Mark – with director James Mangold
The big movie release this week is ‘A Complete Unknown’, but our guest is actually pretty famous... James Mangold, director of the much-anticipated Bob Dylan…
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Now and Ben: Steven Knight on ‘Maria’, his screenwriting secrets, the Peaky Blinders movie & more
In this latest bonus nugget of ‘Now and Ben’ goodness, our sometime super sub Ben Bailey Smith chats to legendary film & TV writer Stephen Knight. He’s penned…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeJesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on ‘A Real Pain’
Our guests this week were ‘A Real Pain’...just joking, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin were actually really nice... They sit down with Simon to discuss the…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeNosferatu (or Yesferatu?) with Robert Eggers
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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeBest and Worst Films of the Year & More
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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeBarry Jenkins on Mufasa
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…
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NOW AND BEN
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…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeLive Christmas Spectacular with Wallce & Gromit, Nick Park, and Merlin Crossingham
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 &…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeCate Blanchett & Guy Maddin on RUMOURS, bog monsters & a giant brain
The ‘Rumours’ are true... screen superstar Cate Blanchett and director Guy Maddin are joining Simon this week to give us the gossip on their surreal new…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeDoes Conclave get Mark’s blessing? With Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci
Two divine guests this week as Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci join Simon to discuss ‘Conclave’, the papal political thriller from ‘All Quiet on the Western…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeIs Wicked Pop-u-lar with Mark?
Thomasin McKenzie is this week’s guest—star of Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’, Mark’s film of the year 2018 ‘Leave No Trace’—and now ‘Joy’, a new Netflix…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeSir Ridley Scott on Gladiator II
‘Gladiator II’ director and legendary one-man blockbuster factory Ridley Scott is our guest this week. He joins Simon to discuss the long-awaited sequel to…
Kermode & Mayo’s TakeRed One makes Mark explode in birdsong
Simon goes on a leafy adventure with Hugh Bonneville to talk ‘Paddington In Peru’, the latest addition to the most kind and polite of all cinematic…