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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Episodes

THE DOG STARS: Top dog or a dog’s dinner?

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: The most Mark film evz? + Johnny Flynn

THE END OF OAK STREET: “Why does it exist?” + SIAN CLIFFORD on LADY

Is ICE CREAM MAN Eli Roth’s most chilling work or does it need more sprinkles? + Taika Waititi

Has SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY got Mark’s Spidey senses tingling? + ASA BUTTERFIELD

Are some ANIMAL FARM adaptations more equal than others? With ANDY SERKIS

Is THE ODYSSEY truly epic? With SIR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Are we in for a MOAN-A from Mark about live action remakes?

Are the Minions master movie makers? + Edward Norton & Olivia Wilde on THE INVITE

Jackass: I thought Jonny Knoxville was an a***

Is playtime finally over for TOY STORY?

Is DISCLOSURE DAY the best Spielberg in decades? With EMILY BLUNT & COLMAN DOMINGO

Is SAVAGE HOUSE Richard E. Grant’s most unhinged role yet?

Does Mark think BACKROOMS is a-maze-ing?

Is THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU a STAR WARS spin off too far? + Leo Woodall

THREE FILMS OF THE WEEK? Is that even allowed? + Olivia Colman

SIR IAN MCKELLEN: Christophers and some unfinished business…

Does THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 rock the sequel trend? + STEVE COOGAN

Have we found Mark’s film of the year already?

John Waters: “I’m so respectable I could puke”

Brian Cox on GLENROTHAN: will it go down smoothly with Mark?

Level up or game over for SUPER MARIO GALAXY?

THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE: Enchanting or just lost in the woods?

Is Stephen Graham another bad boy in THE GOOD BOY?

Oscars Schmoscars 2026

Ryan Gosling on PROJECT HAIL MARY

Take Ultra preview - A look ahead to the Oscars

Does THE BRIDE! earn its exclamation mark?

Celebrating Women in Film with Vanguard

What did Mark make of the BAFTAs?

Amanda Seyfried… as a Mancunian?

Did Mark Fall for Wuthering Heights — or Run Screaming Across the Moors? With Emerald Fennell

Take 2 taster: why not join us on Patreon?

MELANIA: “A piece of handsomely mounted crypto‑fascist propaganda” + Riz Ahmed

How did Hollywood turn John Bishop into Will Arnett?

Can Claire Foy handle a “perfectly evolved psychopath” in H IS FOR HAWK?

Jack O’Connell on 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE

Does HAMNET deserve the hype?

Best and Worst Films of the Year

Good Kate Winslet (lass) Looks Back on her Feats of Acting

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH: “like some nightmare furries convention”

Live Christmas Spectacular with Nia DaCosta and Jason Isaacs

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2: “I was struggling to stay awake” + Legendary James L Brooks

Is CHRISTY a knockout? + Noah Baumbach on JAY KELLY

Now & Ben: Benedict Cumberbatch on THE THING WITH FEATHERS

WICKED: Which Witch Wins - Is the Sequel/Prequel Equal?

Edgar Wright on THE RUNNING MAN

Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis on ANEMONE

Is BUGONIA out of this world? + Ruth Wilson on DOWN CEMETERY ROAD

Did Mark ‘Louvre’ Josh O’Connor’s timely heist movie THE MASTERMIND? + Does SPRINGSTEEN deliver?