Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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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 extratakes.c...

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Episodes (300)

Now and Ben: Steven Knight on ‘Maria’, his screenwriting secrets, the Peaky Blin...

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Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on ‘A Real Pain’

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Nosferatu (or Yesferatu?) with Robert Eggers

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Best and Worst Films of the Year & More

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Barry Jenkins on Mufasa

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NOW AND BEN

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

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

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

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Is Wicked Pop-u-lar with Mark?

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Sir Ridley Scott on Gladiator II

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Red One makes Mark explode in birdsong

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When Simon Met Billy (Crystal)...

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

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

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Another Transformers Film? What Will Mark Think?

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

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Joker: Folie à Deux – BETTER THAN JOKER?

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Megalopolis: "The Cinematic Equivalent of Toothache”

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A big announcement - set your calendars

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

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Do you have a critical inner voice? Ben and Nemone explain why. Also, forgotten...

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

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CARRIE BRADSHAW – How to fight the patriarchy and stop obsessing over relationsh...

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What is the best Meryl Streep film of all time?

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

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Sep 3, 202447:55pending

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

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Aug 29, 202454:27pending

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

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Is Zoe Kravitz Born to Direct?

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Aug 22, 202451:55pending

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

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Aug 20, 202448:09pending

Alien: Romulus – Mess or Masterpiece?

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Aug 15, 202457:39pending

Explaining addicts' behaviour, ‘trapped’ dramas (Handmaid’s Tale) and your quest...

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Aug 13, 202448:37pending

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

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

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We Made Mark Kermode Watch Sex and the City 2 Again

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

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Deadpool & Wolverine: Top or tiresome?

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S “Taystee”: Adoption, Child States and Attachment Theor...

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Jul 23, 202447:23pending

Does EVERYONE love Twisters… except Mark?

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REESE WITHERSPOON and JENNIFER ANISTON’s Alex and Bradley tackle sexism and fals...

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

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Jul 11, 202459:30pending

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

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

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

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Jesse Plemons and Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, A Quiet Place: Day One, H...

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

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

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

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

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MICHAEL SCOTT invites you into The Office: SHRINK THE BOX

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