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Simon Poole, AKA The Redactor continues his reign over Take 2 this week—and he’s bringing you two juicy bonus reviews. First up, The Influencer Project, an algorithm horror examining the dark side of social media. And we’ve got another spooky pick for you with The Others, a haunting psychological thriller starring Nicole Kidman, back on the big screen for its 25th anniversary. In celebration of Simon Poole’s glorious takeover, we’re taking a look at film’s best usurpers in One Frame Back, and this week’s Five Question Film Club has an offbeat 60s gem in store for you with Věra Chytilová’s Daisies. There’ll be plenty of correspondence from your good selves too, and Mark and Simon (not that one) will be answering a smattering of your questions and schmestions as always. Cheers Vanguardistas! Timecodes: The Influencer Project review: 10:08 One Frame Back: 25:21 The Others 25th anniversary reissue review: 27:15 Five Question Film Club: 38:27 Questions Schmestions: 46:18

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. With Simon Mayo off on the Marrakech Express, Simon Poole, AKA The Redactor is stepping into the breach to host the Take this week. After 15 long years his moment in the limelight has finally come, and by God is he milking it for all it’s worth. How will he measure up to Mayo? There’s only one way to find out… Simon Poole also interviews our special guests this week: Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams. They talk Whalefall, a new survival drama adapted from Daniel Kraus’s acclaimed novel about—yes—accidentally falling inside a whale. Come on, we’ve all done it. They discuss the film’s stomach-churning underwater peril, plus we hear some on-set anecdotes about Josh’s literally churning stomach whilst filming No Country For Old Men. And, of course, Simon couldn’t let the interview go by without a question or two about The Goonies… We’ll get Mark’s verdict on Whalefall too, alongside two more new releases: Forgotten Island, an animated adventure about lifelong friendship and unquiet spirits, and Street Fighter, which brings the iconic video game franchise back to the big screen. Plus, we’ll take our customary spin through the Box Office Top 10, sample a healthy serving of your correspondence, and collapse with pure hilarity once again in the Laughter Lift. Will Simon Poole hand back the keys when Mayo returns? Only time will tell. Thanks for listening to another top Take. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: Forgotten Island review 00:12:09 Box Office Top Ten 00:18:36 Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams interview 00:39:10 Whalefall review 00:53:46 Laughter Lift 01:01:28 Street Fighter review 01:04:06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You’re in for a second helping of Paul Greengrass in this week’s Take 2, so enjoy the second half of his extended conversation with Simon, Vanguardistas. Plus we’re looking back at the film that asks the question in our title for this week’s Five Question Film Club: When Harry Met Sally. We’ll find out what makes this Nora Ephron-penned all-time classic romcom so special. Bonus reviews too of Knife, the unflinching documentary recording author Salman Rushdie’s remarkable recovery from the brutal attack he suffered in 2022, and a reissue of Nicolas Roeg’s cult classic The Man Who Fell To Earth. Plenty of Bowie chat in store. All your questions and schmestions answered too, along with more emergency mails from the Take’s overflowing inbox. Cheers Vanguardistas! Timecodes Knife Review: 16:33 The Man Who Fell to Earth reissue review: 28:33 Paul Greengrass Interview Part 2: 39:23 Five Question Film Club: 01:00:44 Questions Schmestions: 01:13:07

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. Paul Greengrass is our special guest this week, and he’s talking to Simon about The Uprising—his new medieval thriller set at the time of the peasants revolt. It stars Andrew Garfield as ‘Ploughman’, who’s violent rebuttal to one tax collection too many provides the spark for the historic revolution, alongside Wat Tyler (Cosmo Jarvis) and John Ball (Jamie Bell). Paul chats to Simon about the film’s political echoes today and more. Mark reviews it too, plus two more enticing titles coming up on the big and small screen. First up it’s The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network from last week’s guest Aaron Sorkin, tackling the Facebook Files scandal. Then there’s Mike Flanagan’s series adaptation of Carrie, which translates Stephen King’s classic into the modern day. Plus we’ll get the Good Doctors’ usual rundown through the Box Office Top 10, hear a delightful smattering of your correspondence, and all groan through the laughter lift together. Thanks for listening to another top Take. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:05 The Social Reckoning 00:24:37 Box Office Top Ten 00:38:09 Paul Greengrass interview 00:51:10 The Uprising review 01:03:01 Laughter Lift 01:06:43 Carrie review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s Five Question Film Club choice is one of the most famous cowboy movies of all time… but is it more of a countercultural buddy movie than a real western? Listen for Mark’s take on those famous five questions (three questions, your majesty). Plus two bonus reviews: we’ll find out if Mark thinks Ethan Hawke adventure thriller The Weight is gold or dross, and get his verdict on new Blade-Runner-esque sci-fi April X. Plus all your questions and schmestions answered, including the really big ones, like why on earth packets of bacon are so difficult to open??? Keep the conundrums coming, Vanguardistas—and we salute you! Timecodes: The Weight Review: 09:22 One Frame Back: 19:03 April X Review: 23:18 Five Question Film Club: 33:25 Questions Schmestions: 48:19

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. Three more big screen big hitters are getting the Take treatment this week. First up, the British boarding school answer to Booksmart, Extra Geography, which follows the offbeat romantic quest of two Oxbridge hopefuls with an unlikely love interest. Next up, Verity: an Anne Hathaway led horror with a dash of the erotic thriller. And last but not least, we’ll get the Good Doctors’ verdict on Tom Cruise’s latest and quite possibly maddest movie yet, Digger. Our special guest is Oscar-winning writer and director Aaron Sorkin, who chats to Simon about his new film The Social Reckoning, out next week. In this companion piece to The Social Network, he revisits the theme of social media with a focus on The Facebook Files, the expose on the link between facebook’s algorithm and political radicalisation in the run up to the Capitol Riots of 2021. It’s a meaty conversation with one of our greatest living screenwriters, not to be missed. Plus the box office top 10, and top tips from your correspondence about how to beat bladder-bursting movie runtimes and more in another top-drawer Take. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes:    00:09:38 Extra Geography review  00:17:07 Box office top ten  00:29:07 Aaron Sorkin interview  00:46:31 Verity review  00:55:14 Laughter Lift  01:00:21 Digger review  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your Take 2 bonus review this week is Babystar—a German family drama through a digital lense, following the life of a child social media star made famous from birth by her influencer family. And from the smartphone age to regency era romance, we’ll be looking at the best Austen adaptations in One Frame Back. In this week’s Five Question Film Club, Scum is ‘The Daddy’. Mark unpacks the gritty Brit flick that casts its unflinching gaze on the 1970s borstal system—starring a teenage Ray Winstone in his breakout role (no pun intended). Plus the Good Doctors will answer all your questions, and indeed your schmestions. Cheers Vangaurdistas! Timecodes: Babystar Review: 22:40 One Frame Back: 36:47 Five Question Film Club: 42:58 Questions Schmestions: 56:42

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. George MacKay is our special guest this week, and he’s in full dashing Austenian gentleman mode to tell Simon all about Sense and Sensibility. He plays Edward Ferrars, the handsome and thoroughly upstanding chap who catches the eye of Daisy Edgar-Jones’ Elinor Dashwood. He talks about bringing this Austen classic up to date, three decades on from Ang Lee’s classic screen version starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. Mark reviews the film, plus another three big movies hitting cinema screens this week. There’s Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as an ex-special forces soldier living on society’s inhospitable margins alongside his ex-service dog. Plus we’ll finally get Mark’s verdict on Her Private Hell, the latest neon-soaked feature from recent Take guest Nicolas Winding Refn. Last but certainly not least, Boorman and the Devil - a documentary about the making of the colossally unsuccessful sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic. Surely this one is Kermode catnip. Plus the weekly joy (and/or pain) of the Laughter Lift, and of your consistently excellent correspondence. Keep it coming! You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:10:15 Her Private Hell review 00:19:29 Box Office Top Ten 00:31:46 George McKay interview 00:47:24 Sense and Sensibility review 00:56:40 Laughter Lift 00:59:20 Boorman and the Devil review 01:08:29 Heart of the Beast review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our Bonus review this week is 50 Years of Punk—a new doc celebrating the half century(!) since music’s spikiest subculture came spitting and pogo-ing into the world. Sticking with the anarchic vibe through to Five Question Film Club, Mark overturns the vote to spotlight Imitation of Life, a 50s Douglas Sirk melodrama that took aim at the American dream and tackled issues of belonging, race and identity in the mid-century US. One Frame Back sends us back to school as we study cinema’s best teachers, from School of Rock’s Mr. Schneebly to Robin Williams’ showstopping Dead Poets Society turn. But who will be top of the class? Plus all your Questions, Schmestions, and top correspondence. Cheers Vanguardistas! Timecodes: 50 Years of Punk review: 23:36 One Frame Back: 39:28 Five Question Film Club: 44:32 Questions Schmestions: 56:23

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. Legendary French actress Juliette Binoche is our special guest this week. She’ll be talking to Simon about her new film Queen at Sea, a hard-hitting drama examining the tensions and taboos of caring for a family member with Alzheimer’s. Plus we’ll hear a little about her dance documentary directorial debut In-I in Motion - which is also released in the UK this week. She even challenges Simon to get on the dancefloor…now that we would like to see… Mark reviews Queen at Sea, as well as three more big screen releases - it is, as they say, a packed show. We’ll get his verdicts on Resident Evil - an adaptation of the hugely popular videogame from Weapons director Zach Cregger - as well as dark classroom satire Bad Apples, starring Saoirse Ronan, and the latest Aardman animated treat, Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. Plus an uncharacteristically quite-funny Laughter Lift (which we really did need this week…), and all your excellent correspondence. Keep it coming please! You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:51 Resident Evil review 00:20:20 Box Office Top Ten 00:31:52 Juliette Binoche interview 00:48:02 Queen at Sea review 01:00:04 Laughter Lift 01:03:12 Bad Apples review 01:12:38 Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're talking about Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger, the new documentary charting the highs, lows, fallouts and unlikely reunions of Britain's most famously combustible rock'n'roll brothers. Is it a revealing portrait of a cultural phenomenon, a nostalgia trip, or something in between? Mark gives his verdict. One Frame Back this week is all about witches in cinema, inspired by the return of Practical Magic. From wicked enchantresses and misunderstood spellcasters to family favourites and fantasy icons, we'll be hearing about your favourite big-screen witches and the performances that cast the strongest spell. And your Five Question Film Club choice is The Graduate, meaning Mark will be unpacking Mike Nichols' enduring coming-of-age classic, exploring its lasting influence, unforgettable soundtrack, and why Dustin Hoffman's breakthrough role still resonates nearly sixty years on. Plus questions, schmestions, correspondence, nonsense, and more. Thanks for listening, Vanguardistas! Timecodes: Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger Review: 18:25 One Frame Back: 39:43 Five Question Film Club: 47:01 Questions Schmestions: 01:00:42

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo    Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time.    On this week's Take, Simon and Mark are back in the booth and diving into a packed slate of new releases. From the spellbinding return of Practical Magic 2 to the vertigo-inducing thrills of Fall 2, they weigh up the latest sequels hoping to recapture cinematic lightning in a bottle. There's also a look at the tense wartime-weather-system drama Pressure and jazz biopic Everybody Digs Bill Evans, exploring the life and legacy of one of the genre’s most influential musicians and featuring last week’s guest Bill Pullman.     Plus, director Nicolas Winding Refn joins Simon for a conversation about coming back from the dead (for real), and Her Private Hell—his first film in a decade, out on September 25th. Keep your eyes peeled for Mark’s review then too.     Along the way there's the usual mix of film news, recommendations, correspondence, and of course the Laughter Lift. Time to settle in, press play, and enjoy another trip to the cinema with Mark and Simon.     You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo.    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]    EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!    Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it!     Here’s the link for tickets:  https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo   Timecodes:  00:00:00 Introduction 00:13:23 Pressure review  00:23:25 Box Office Top Ten  00:35:21 Nicholas Winding Refn interview  00:49:01 Everybody Digs Bill Evans  00:59:05 Laughter Lift  01:01:31 Fall 2  01:12:01 Practical Magic 2  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four reviews in Take 1 and two more bonus reviews in Take 2?! You jammy things. First up we’ve got The Incomer, Domnhall Gleeson’s latest freaky folk comedy-drama about a lone estate agent’s attempt to evict the only two inhabitants of an otherwise uninhabited Hebridean island. Then there’s Gail Daughtrey and the Celebrity Sex Pass, an oddball comedy in which Zoey Deutch’s Gail seeks revenge after her fiancée uses his ‘celebrity sex pass’, by travelling to Hollywood to pursue her own. One Frame Back this week is all about Robin Hood, in honour of Huge Action’s latest onscreen version of the legendary outlaw, so we’ll be hearing about your favourite film versions - from that famous Disney fox to Mel Brooks’ Men In Tights. And your Five Question Film Club choice this week is The Third Man, so Mark will be unpacking this moodiest of all British postwar classics - and the only one with a zither score… Plus questions, schmestions, correspondence, nonsense, and more. Thanks for listening, Vanguardistas! Timecodes: The Incomer review: 12:30 One Frame Back: 21:21 Gail Daughtrey and the Celebrity Sex Pass review: 24:14 Five Question Film Club: 35:00 Questions Schmestions: 45:54

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show - a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. This week’s special guest is Hollywood stalwart Bill Pullman, who across the decades has starred in Independence Day, Spaceballs, David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Sleepless in Seattle and many more. This time we see him in Everybody Digs Bill Evans, where he plays the father of the titular jazz legend. He chats to Simon about father-son stories, jazz, and how working in black and white changes his acting. Mark will review Everybody Digs Bill Evans next week, and in the meantime we’ve got a packed show with four big screen releases up for the Good Doctors’ judgement. We’ve got Late Fame, a New York set indie about an aging former poet (Willem Dafoe), who is surprised to find his work reappraised by a group of young bohemians. Then there’s Leviticus, an Australian conversion therapy horror from the producers of The Babadook and Talk To Me, and Supernature, a love letter to nature documentary shot entirely on Super 8. And finally, following our interview with director Michael Sarnoski last week, the wait is over for Mark’s verdict on The Death of Robin Hood. All that plus an especially groan-inducing Laughter Lift, and all your top correspondence, including some great What’s On bulletins this week. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo. 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] EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Our Christmas Movie Spectacular is back! It’s in Bristol this year on Sunday 6th December. Don’t miss it! Here’s the link for tickets: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Film Suffolk: linktr.ee/ouatis Ikea Knightley https://iwittr.com/wiki/page/Ikea_Knightley Timecodes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:06 Late Fame review 00:18:15 Box Office Top Ten 00:30:20 Bill Pullman interview 00:44:54 Supernature review 00:53:25 Laughter Lift 00:55:16 Leviticus review 01:02:36 The Death of Robin Hood review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two bonus reviews for you this week on very different vibes. First up it’s De Gaulle: Résistance, a French mega hit about their former Premiere’s WW2 story and relationship with Britain’s Winston Churchill—now coming to UK cinemas. Then, following I Want Your Sex in Take 1, there’s another saucy comedy on the slate: One Night Only, set in a near-future alternate America where singletons can only have sex on one night of the year. Like The Purge, but for sex… or, as Mark calls it, ‘The Splurge’… Nice. This week’s One Frame Back is all about Olivia Wilde as we hear your takes on her best projects as an actor and director. Then, in Five Question Film Cub, we’ll hear your notes on Mean Streets before diving into this weeks’ poll-winner: Miachel Mann’s epic crime thriller Heat. Thanks for listening Vanguardistas (and Ultras)! Timecodes: De Gaulle Resistance review: 15:06 One Frame Back: 28:49 One Night Only review: 30:53 Five Question Film Club: 40:05 Questions Schmestions: 53:50