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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?

Has FRANKENSTEIN got Mark (re)animated? + Russell Tovey

TRON: ARES: “It was like my brain was atrophying” + Kathryn Bigelow & Rebecca Ferguson

Aimee Lou Wood on Film Club + a DOUBLE BILL of films of the week

Is ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER film of the year? With Paul Thomas Anderson

Robert Redford remembered + Paul Greengrass on THE LOST BUS

Does SPINAL TAP II turn it up to 11? + the rockin’ Warren Ellis

HONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS

Summer Holiday Highlights of the year so far

Now and Ben: Olivia Colman and Jay Roach on THE ROSES

Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on THE LIFE OF CHUCK

Bob Odenkirk talks NOBODY 2 – will it meet Mark’s expectations?

Is Mark freaked out by FREAKIER FRIDAY? + Celine Song on THE MATERIALISTS

Alien: Earth Bonus Special

Does NAKED GUN even pass the one laugh test? + Guy Pearce on INSIDE

FILM OF THE YEAR ALREADY? Mark on BRING HER BACK

More SALT PATH & Harry Melling + your take on SUPERMAN

THE SALT PATH: Simon and Mark’s reaction. Plus SUPERMAN

Will Jurassic World Rebirth turn Mark into a Rantosaurus? + David Cronenberg

Is F1 in pole position for film of the week?

28 Years Later: Mark’s Verdict + Jodie Comer and (Oh) Danny Boy(le) on the film

Domnhall Gleeson on Echo Valley

Now and Ben: Carey Mulligan and Tim Key

20 Years of Kermode & Mayo

Hello to Jason Isaacs! In The Salt Path

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with Chris McQuarrie

The Last of Us with Craig Mazin

Is Nic Cage still riding the comeback wave in THE SURFER?

Another Paul Feig film? Do me a Favor

David Oyelowo on Government Cheese + Mark’s verdict on The Studio

Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza

Now and Ben: Charlie Brooker & Emma Corrin on Black Mirror

Laurence Fishburne & James Hawes on The Amateur

Death of a Unicorn + Toby Jones

Gorgeous George MacKay + Mark vs. The Stath

Snow White: Mark’s Verdict

Ashley Walters & Erin Doherty on Adolescence

Now and Ben: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, British winters & his iPad obsession

Daisy Ridley’s surprise BAFTA + Mark on Mickey 17

Best birdsong ever from Robert Carlyle

Now and Ben: Angela Bassett on Zero Day, Strange Days and The Simpsons

A film of the year already – is it The Monkey?

Did Bridget Jones make Mark cry? + Stephen Graham & Malachi Kirby

Awards Schmawards

We made Mark watch Dog Man – will it be film of the week?

Now and Ben: Chris Sanders on The Wild Robot, hand drawn animation vs. CG, and Lilo & Stitch

Brady Corbet on The Brutalist, Oscars & AI

Flight Risk embargo special - they tried to stop us...

The Brutalist + Mike Leigh & Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths

A Complete Unknown divides Simon and Mark – with director James Mangold

Now and Ben: Steven Knight on ‘Maria’, his screenwriting secrets, the Peaky Blinders movie & more

Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on ‘A Real Pain’

Nosferatu (or Yesferatu?) with Robert Eggers

Best and Worst Films of the Year & More

Barry Jenkins on Mufasa

NOW AND BEN

Live Christmas Spectacular with Wallce & Gromit, Nick Park, and Merlin Crossingham

Cate Blanchett & Guy Maddin on RUMOURS, bog monsters & a giant brain

Does Conclave get Mark’s blessing? With Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci

Is Wicked Pop-u-lar with Mark?

Sir Ridley Scott on Gladiator II

Red One makes Mark explode in birdsong

When Simon Met Billy (Crystal)...

Emilia Pérez: Have We Found the Film of the Year?

Mark Gets to Legitimately Rant About Donald Trump Because He’s Reviewing a Film About Him

Another Transformers Film? What Will Mark Think?

Your next podcast: Origins with Cush Jumbo, starring David Schwimmer

Joker: Folie à Deux – BETTER THAN JOKER?

Megalopolis: "The Cinematic Equivalent of Toothache”

A big announcement - set your calendars

The Substance: “Everything Cranked Up To Eleven-ty and Then Some”

Do you have a critical inner voice? Ben and Nemone explain why. Also, forgotten actors who are enjoying a renaissance and your questions answered - SHRINK THE INBOX

Mark’s Thoughts on a New Film About a Pompous Critic + Sir Ian McKellen

CARRIE BRADSHAW – How to fight the patriarchy and stop obsessing over relationships – SHRINK THE BOX

What is the best Meryl Streep film of all time?

JACKSON LAMB in SLOW HORSES: Do spies make the best therapists? – SHRINK THE BOX

Cine-world cup, 1984: the BEST film of the best year for cinema, evs

CAPTAIN HOLT of BROOKLYN 99: Neurodiverse, gay and battling racism – SHRINK THE BOX

Is Zoe Kravitz Born to Direct?

SCHITT’S CREEK and Moira Rose: this is narcissism – SHRINK THE BOX

Alien: Romulus – Mess or Masterpiece?

Explaining addicts' behaviour, ‘trapped’ dramas (Handmaid’s Tale) and your questions - SHRINK THE INBOX

M NIGHT SHYAMALAN!! making his Take debut...

THE WIRE’S Bubbles: How do you help an addict? – SHRINK THE BOX

We Made Mark Kermode Watch Sex and the City 2 Again

PEAKY BLINDERS’ Polly Shelby: the silent observer in all of us – SHRINK THE BOX

Deadpool & Wolverine: Top or tiresome?

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S “Taystee”: Adoption, Child States and Attachment Theory – SHRINK THE BOX

Does EVERYONE love Twisters… except Mark?

REESE WITHERSPOON and JENNIFER ANISTON’s Alex and Bradley tackle sexism and false selves on The Morning Show - SHRINK THE BOX

Fly Me to the Moon, Hundreds of Beavers, Longlegs & Despicable Me 4

Addiction in “Euphoria”, Analysis vs. Therapy and Sir Salman Rushdie! - SHRINK THE INBOX

Ti West, Maxxxine, Blue Lock The Movie – Episode Nagi & Kill

TYRION LANNISTER knows how to play the Game...of Thrones SHRINK THE BOX

Jesse Plemons and Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

SYDNEY from THE BEAR: when will she reach her boiling point? SHRINK THE BOX

Asif Kapadia & Joe Sabia, Federer: Twelve Final Days, Green Border, The Exorcism & The Bikeriders

CHANDLER BING: could it BE any more complicated? SHRINK THE BOX

Jeff Nichols, Freud’s Last Session, Arcadian & Inside Out 2

MICHAEL SCOTT invites you into The Office: SHRINK THE BOX

Richard Linklater, Hit Man, The Dead Don’t Hurt & Bad Boys: Ride or Die

SHRINK THE INBOX

Benedict Cumberbatch, Eric, The Beast & Sting

LARRY DAVID: Curb star who falls out with everyone in SHRINK THE BOX

George Miller, Furiosa, In Flames & The Garfield Movie

TOMMY SHELBY: We Peek Behind the Blinders in SHRINK THE BOX

Vicky McClure, If, Two Tickets to Greece & Hoard

CERSEI LANNISTER’s Power Behind the Throne: SHRINK THE BOX

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and John Krasinski, Made in England, La Chimera & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

FRASIER CRANE: Inside the mind of the Seattle psychiatrist on this week’s SHRINK THE BOX

Josh O’Connor, La Chimera, Love Lies Bleeding, The Idea of You & The Fall Guy

Ordinary Angels, Boy Kills World, I.S.S., Challengers & The American Society of Magical Negroes

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Highlights and Lowlights so far this year

Kirsten Dunst & Alex Garland, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, The First Omen & Back to Black

Dev Patel, Monkey Man, Evil Does Not Exist, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Seize Them!

Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow, Mothers’ Instinct & Silver Haze

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Immaculate & Late Night with the Devil

Cate Blanchett, The New Boy, Monster & Drive Away Dolls

Ava DuVernay, Origin, The Inventor & High and Low – John Galliano

Oscars 2024 Best Picture Special

Denis Villeneuve & Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two, Four Daughters & Lisa Frankenstein

Jonathan Glazer, Perfect Days, Madame Web, Shoshana & Wicked Little Letters

Michael Winterbottom, Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son, Bob Marley: One Love & The Taste of Things

Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Occupied City, Your Fat Friend & The Iron Claw

Jeffrey Wright, Cillian Murphy, American Fiction, Oppenheimer Revisited, The Zone of Interest in & Argylle

Andrew Haigh, All Of Us Strangers, Baghead & The Color Purple

Daniel Kaluuya, The Kitchen, The End Where We Start From & The Holdovers

Emma Stone and Ramy Youssef, Poor Things, The Disappearance of Shere Hite & The Boys in the Boat

James Hawes, One Life, Night Swim & Good Grief

Raging Grace, Priscilla & Scala!!!, BEST and WORST films of 2023

Zack Snyder, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, The Boy and the Heron & Ferrari

Taika Waititi and Jaiyah Saelua, Next Goal Wins, What Happens Later, The Three Musketeers: Milady & Godzilla Minus One

Paul King & Simon Farnaby, Wonka, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain & Leave the World Behind

George Mackay, Femme, Jason Isaacs, Archie & Eileen

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, Jodie Whittaker, Napoleon, One Night & The Eternal Daughter

Todd Haynes, May December, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels & Saltburn

Emerald Fennell, The Automat, Anatomy Of A Fall & Dream Scenario

Gabriel Byrne, Dance First, How To Have Sex, Bottoms & The Killer

Thelma Schoonmaker, Peeping Tom, Typist Artist Pirate King, Cat Person & Five Nights at Freddy’s

Listen Now: Ghost Story

Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel, Foe & Killers of the Flower Moon

Laura Linney, The Miracle Club, Blackberry, Silver Dollar Road & The Fall of the House of Usher

Gareth Edwards, The Exorcist: Believer, The Burial, The Great Escaper

Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money, The Creator & Saw X

Introducing… Out To Lunch Season 9 – NEW HOST ALERT

Alice Troughton, The Lesson, Dumb Money & Expend4bles

Timothy Spall, Bolan's Shoes, A Haunting in Venice & Brother

Celine Song, Past Lives, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 & The Nun 2

Ira Sachs, Passages, Antoine Fuqua, The Equalizer 3 & Sound of Freedom

Louis Garrel, Scrapper, The Innocent, Theater Camp

Harris Dickinson, Strays, Lie With Me & Blue Beetle

Neill Blomkamp, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion & Meg 2: The Trench

SHRINK THE BOX: Shrink the Inbox

Nicole Holofcener, Heartstopper S2, You Hurt My Feelings & Joy Ride

SHRINK THE BOX: Shrink the Inbox

Ben Whitehair, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Beanie Bubble & Talk To Me

SHRINK THE BOX: The Bear - Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto

Greta Gerwig, Oppenheimer, Barbie & The Bear

SHRINK THE BOX: Sex Education - Otis, Eric and Adam

Simon Pegg, Medusa, Squaring the Circle & While We Watched

SHRINK THE BOX: Sex Education - Maeve Wiley

Peter Sohn, Elemental, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One & Name Me Lawand

SHRINK THE BOX: Jamie Tovell - Top Boy

James Mangold, Indiana Jones & La Syndicaliste

SHRINK THE BOX: Mitch and Cam - Modern Family

Aisling Bea & Lara McDonnell, No Hard Feelings, Nimona & Asteroid City

SHRINK THE BOX: Wendy Byrde - Ozark

Andy & Barbara Muschietti, The Flash, Extraction 2 & Pretty Red Dress

SHRINK THE BOX: Ghosts - Mike Cooper

Kelvin Harrison Jr. & Lucy Boynton, Chevalier, Medusa Deluxe & Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

SHRINK THE BOX: Seinfeld - George Costanza

Reality, Rob Savage, The Boogeyman, Spider-man: Across The Spider-Verse

SHRINK THE BOX: Happy Valley - Catherine Cawood

Master Gardener, Hypnotic, The Gallows Pole, Shane Meadows + Sophie McShera

SHRINK THE BOX: Schitt’s Creek - David and Alexis Rose

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Fast X, Beau Is Afraid, Louis Leterrier

SHRINK THE BOX: The White Lotus - Tanya McQuoid

Plan 75, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Summer Preview

SHRINK THE BOX: Better Call Saul - Jimmy McGill

Ari Aster, Return to Seoul, Blue Kaftan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

SHRINK THE BOX: Shrink the Inbox

Penelope Wilton, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Polite Society & Top 10 including Pope's Exorcist

SHRINK THE BOX: Shrink the Inbox

Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch, Dead Ringers, Evil Dead Rise & How To Blow Up A Pipeline

SHRINK THE BOX: Succession - Shiv Roy

Nicholas Hoult, Renfield, One Fine Morning, Obsession

SHRINK THE BOX: Friends - Ross & Monica Geller

Mia Hansen-Løve, Lola, Godland, & Air

Bonus Episode: Best Road Trip Films (brought to you by heycar)

SHRINK THE BOX: Killing Eve - Eve Polastri

Emily Watson, God’s Creatures, Dungeons & Dragons, and Law of Tehran

SHRINK THE BOX: Bloodlines - Danny Rayburn

Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Infinity Pool, The Beasts & John Wick: Chapter 4

SHRINK THE BOX: I May Destroy You - Arabella Essiedu

Daveed Diggs, Pearl, Rye Lane, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, 80 for Brady & Extrapolations

SHRINK THE BOX: Wandavision - Wanda Maximoff

Andy Serkis, Luther: The Fallen Sun, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Scream VI, & Champions

SHRINK THE BOX: Mad Men - Don Draper

Michael B. Jordan, Creed III, Close, Project Wolf Hunting and Electric Malady

SHRINK THE BOX: Fleabag - Fleabag

Hugh Jackman, Cocaine Bear, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Independent, Broker

SHRINK THE BOX: The Wire - Omar Little

Michael Douglas, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, The Son & Nostalgia

SHRINK THE BOX: The Queen's Gambit - Beth Harmon

Danielle Deadwyler, Women Talking, Epic Tails, Blue Jean, & Magic Mike’s Last Dance

SHRINK THE BOX: Breaking Bad - Walter White

Brendan Fraser, Darren Aronofsky, The Whale, Knock at the Cabin, EO, & Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

SHRINK THE BOX: The Sopranos - Tony Soprano

Shrink The Box, Plane, Unwelcome, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, & The Fabelmans

Cate Blanchett, Babylon, Holy Spider, More Than Ever & Alice Darling

Sam Mendes, Empire of Light, Enys Men, Tár & M3gan

Mary McCartney, Till, If These Walls Could Sing, Piggy & A Man Called Otto

BEST OF 2022, TOM HANKS AND MARIANA TREVINO, OBITUARY

Daniel Craig and Rian Jonson, The Pale Blue Eye, The Enforcer, I Wanna Dance with Somebody & Corsage

Avatar: The Way of Water, The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute, The Unofficial Science of Home Alone & Le Pupille

Jerry Bruckheimer, Nocebo, The Silent Twins, Rimini, & Anonymous Club

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses, White Noise, Nil By Mouth, Tori & Lokita, & Violent Night

Emma Thompson, Matilda the Musical, Bones and All, She Said & Pinocchio

Paul Mescal, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Menu, Aftersun and Armageddon Time

Florence Pugh, Sebastián Lelio, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Crown, No Bears, A Bunch of Amateurs

Aimee Lou Wood, Lena Dunham, Living, Terrifier 2, Queer for Fear

Harris Dickinson, Triangle of Sadness, The Wonder, Bros, Barbarian

Martin McDonagh, Black Adam, Decision to Leave, Matriarch, The Banshees of Inisherin

Emma Mackey, Frances O'Connor, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Emily, Halloween Ends and All Quiet on the Western Front

Sally Hawkins, The Bear, Amsterdam, Vengeance and The Lost King

Christian Bale, Smile, The Woman King, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and Flux Gourmet

Charlotte Rampling, Blonde, Don’t Worry Darling, Catherine Called Birdy and Juniper

Introducing…This Is History: A Dynasty To Die For, with Dan Jones

Pam Grier, Moonage Daydream, Ticket to Paradise, Pinocchio, and Jackie Brown

Johnny Flynn, See How They Run, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Crimes of the Future and The Score

Timothy Spall, It Snows in Benidorm, The Forgiven, Blackbird and Three Thousand Years of Longing

The Best of TAKE 2, Part I: Volume A

Hugh Bonneville, Bad Sisters, House of the Dragon, My Old School and Fisherman’s Friends: One and All

Jordan Peele, Nope, Eiffel, Five Days at Memorial and Blind Ambition

Alicia Vikander Bullet Train, Irma Vep, The Harder They Come (reissue)

Ron Howard, DC League of Super-Pets, Hit the Road, Thirteen Lives, Fire of Love

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Where the Crawdads Sing, Notre Dame on Fire, She Will, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time

Sheridan Smith, The Railway Children Return, McEnroe, The Gray Man, The Good Boss

Taron Egerton, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles, Black Bird, Futura

Minions: The Rise of Gru, Nitram, and Tigers

Rowan Atkinson, Elvis, The Black Phone, Man vs. Bee, and Wings of Desire

Tom Hanks, Lightyear, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Everything Went Fine, and Spiderhead

Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic World: Dominion, Swan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Reel Britannia

Danny Boyle, Men, Pistol, The Midwich Cuckoos

Rory Kinnear, Top Gun Maverick, Stranger Things and Bob’s Burgers

Miles Teller, Benediction, Emergency, The Innocents

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Gaspar Noé, The Essex Serpent

Introducing: Extra Takes and Take Two

The one with Tom Hiddleston, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Cabaret

Introducing Kermode & Mayo’s Take