Amma Asante chats to Simon and Mark about the challenges of continuing to work as a film director in lockdown and gives us some tips for some films to watch. Plus your essential streaming film reviews including Eliza Hittman’s drama Never Rarel

With Zac Efron and Lily Collins

Apr 26th, 2019 2h 6m

Zac Efron and Lily Collins talk to Simon about their new film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and Mark reviews the week's new films including Avengers: Endgame, Bel Canto and Eighth Grade. Download th

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1 Mar 15th, 2013 1h 5m

Mark and Simon run down the Box Office Top 10 and review the week's new movies including Welcome To The Punch, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and Red Dawn.

with Will Poulter

Jul 5th, 2019 2h 4m

Will Poulter talks about Midsommar. Plus the Box Office Top Ten and reviews including Spider-Man: From Home, Ibiza: The Silent Movie and Don't Look Now.Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app.Email: [email protected] Text: 8

with Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen

May 3rd, 2019 2h 7m

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen talk to Simon about Long Shot. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and Mark reviews the week's new films including Long Shot; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile; Tolkien and Vox Lux. Download the Kermode and

with Jude Law

Apr 19th, 2019 1h 47m

Edith Bowman and Robbie Collin sit in for Simon and Mark. Jude Law talks about his new film Vox Lux. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and reviews including Greta, Red Joan and Dragged Across Concrete.Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the

With Sophie Okonedo

1 Apr 12th, 2019 1h 47m

Edith Bowman and Robbie Collin sit in for Simon and Mark. Sophie Okonedo talks about her new films Wild Rose and Hellboy. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and reviews including Hellboy, Wild Rose, Little and Wonder Park. Download the Kermode and M

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Oct 19th, 2012 1h 40m

Director Tim Burton talks about his new film Frankenweenie. Plus the Box Office Top 10 and reviews including Paranomal Activity 4 and Madagascar 3:Europe's Most Wanted. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast at bbc.co.uk/podcasts/5live. Text

With Colin Paterson

Aug 5th, 2011 1h 19m

Colin Paterson sits in for Kermode and Mayo with the weekly film review. With Rupert Wyatt, director of the upcoming blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes, on the day of the movie's US release; and actor Dominic Cooper of Mamma Mia! and A

Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus reviews of The Bad Guys, Morbius, True Things & Sonic 2.

Apr 1st, 2022 2h 3m

Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City.Plus Mark reviews Morbius, which features show favourite Jared Leto as Biochemist Michael Morbius; True Things, Harry Wootliff’s drama starring Ruth Wilson as a young woman living on

Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II, Ambulance, The Worst Person in the World, Chopper, Master and Escape from Mogadishu

Mar 25th, 2022 1h 59m

Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul Matten II talk about their roles in Michael Bay’s latest, Ambulance about two robbers who steal an ambulance after a heist. Plus Mark reviews Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, which chronicles four yea

Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open, Paris 13th District, Master, X, Deep Water and Three Floors

Mar 18th, 2022 1h 49m

Simon Farnaby talks about his new film The Phantom of the Open, about Maurice Flitcroft, who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk h

Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wolf, Feast, The Seed, Great Freedom and The Adam Project

Mar 11th, 2022 1h 52m

Director Sean Baker talks about his new film Red Rocket, about a washed-up adult film actor who returns to his small Texas hometown,Mark will also review Feast, about the infamous 2007 HIV incident in the Dutch city of Groningen, Turning Red,

Clio Barnard talks about Ali and Ava. Plus reviews of The Batman, The Weekend Away, Against the Ice and The Sanctity Of Space

Mar 4th, 2022 1h 51m

Director Clio Barnard talks about her new film Ali and Ava, which stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook as the titular characters. Mark will also review The Batman, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz as Batman and Catwoman in Mat

Dave Grohl talks about Studio 666, plus Cyrano, The Duke, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Hellbender and The Godfather

Feb 25th, 2022 2h 22m

Dave Grohl talks about his role in Studio 666, about Foo Fighters moving into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.Mark reviews Cyrano, Joe Wright’s adaptation of the play; The Du

Helen Mirren, Dog, The Real Charlie Chaplin, Here Before, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Act 1), Kimi and Old Henry

Feb 18th, 2022 2h 4m

Dame Helen Mirren talks about her role in The Duke.Mark reviews Dog, The Real Charlie Chaplin, Here Before, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Act 1), Kimi and Old Henry.Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us you

Andrea Riseborough, Death on the Nile, Marry Me, Flee, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Petrov’s Flu.

Feb 11th, 2022 2h 6m

Andrea Riseborough talks about her role in new drama Here Before.Mark reviews Chuckles Branagh’s Death on the Nile, about Hercule Poirot’s investigation of the murder of a young heiress in Egypt; Marry Me, in which musical superstars who are ge

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Souvenir Part II, Moonfall, Belle, Jackass Forever, the reissue of Jules et Jim

Feb 4th, 2022 2h 6m

Jessica Chastain talks about The Eyes of Tammy Faye, an intimate look at the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye BakkerMark reviews The Souvenir Part II, about which its writer director Joanna Hogg spoke to Simon last week; Mo

Joanna Hogg, Sing 2, A Journal for Jordan, The King’s Daughter, Amulet, Taming the Garden, Parallel Mothers and Flag Day.

Jan 28th, 2022 2h 2m

Joanna Hogg talks about her new film The Souvenir Part II. Mark reviews new animation Sing 2, about an anthropomorphic koala called Buster Moon and his friends who must persuade a reclusive rock star lion called Clay Calloway, played by Bono,

Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King’s Daughter

Jan 21st, 2022 2h 5m

Guillermo del Toro talks about his new film Nightmare Alley, the second film adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette. Mark reviews that film along with

Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria and Save the Cinema

Jan 14th, 2022 2h 2m

Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his new film Belfast. Mark reviews Scream, set twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro; Joel Coen’s adaptation of Sir William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, about a Scottish lor

Peter Dinklage, Munich: The Edge of War, Minyan, Ailey, A Hero and Boiling Point

Jan 7th, 2022 1h 55m

Ben Bailey Smith talks to Peter Dinklage about his role in Cyrano. Plus Anna Bogutskaya reviews the new 4k restoration of Truffaut's The 400 Blows; Boiling Point, which stars Stephen Graham as a head chef wrangling his team on the busiest day

Best of 2021

Dec 31st, 2021 1h 52m

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo with their best reviews and interviews from 2021 including their chats with Sigourney Weaver, Emma Stone and Lakeith Stanfield and Mark's reviews of Wild Mountain Thyme, Greenland, Summer of Soul, Godzilla v Kong, No

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss, The Matrix Resurrections, The King’s Man, Titane and Licorice Pizza.

Dec 24th, 2021 2h 11m

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss talk about their new film, The Matrix Resurrections, in which we return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. Mark reviews that film along with The Humans, a horror set

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Nine Days

Dec 17th, 2021 2h 3m

Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about her new film The Lost Daughter. Mark reviews that film plus the rest of the week’s new releases The Tender Bar, about a boy growing up on Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's ba