Kermode & Mayo’s Take
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.
Episodes
Does RESIDENT EVIL equal WEAPONS? + JULIETTE BINOCHE
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Has PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 got Mark spellbound? + NICOLAS WINDING REFN
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Is this the darkest ROBIN HOOD adaptation ever? + BILL PULLMAN
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THE DOG STARS: Top dog or a dog’s dinner?
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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: The most Mark film evz? + Johnny Flynn
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THE END OF OAK STREET: “Why does it exist?” + SIAN CLIFFORD on LADY
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Is ICE CREAM MAN Eli Roth’s most chilling work or does it need more sprinkles? + Taika Waititi
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Has SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY got Mark’s Spidey senses tingling? + ASA BUTTERFIELD
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Are some ANIMAL FARM adaptations more equal than others? With ANDY SERKIS
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Is THE ODYSSEY truly epic? With SIR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
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Are we in for a MOAN-A from Mark about live action remakes?
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Are the Minions master movie makers? + Edward Norton & Olivia Wilde on THE INVITE
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Jackass: I thought Jonny Knoxville was an a***
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Is playtime finally over for TOY STORY?
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Is DISCLOSURE DAY the best Spielberg in decades? With EMILY BLUNT & COLMAN DOMINGO
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Is SAVAGE HOUSE Richard E. Grant’s most unhinged role yet?
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Does Mark think BACKROOMS is a-maze-ing?
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Is THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU a STAR WARS spin off too far? + Leo Woodall
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THREE FILMS OF THE WEEK? Is that even allowed? + Olivia Colman
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SIR IAN MCKELLEN: Christophers and some unfinished business…
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Does THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 rock the sequel trend? + STEVE COOGAN
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Have we found Mark’s film of the year already?
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John Waters: “I’m so respectable I could puke”
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Brian Cox on GLENROTHAN: will it go down smoothly with Mark?
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Level up or game over for SUPER MARIO GALAXY?
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THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE: Enchanting or just lost in the woods?
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Is Stephen Graham another bad boy in THE GOOD BOY?
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Oscars Schmoscars 2026
In this Oscars special episode of Kermode & Mayo’s Take, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode break down the biggest moments from the 2026 Academy Awards. Mark shares his reactions to the ceremony, from Avatar: Fire and Ash winning Visual Effects to the triumph of Sentimental Value.
Simon and Mark unpack the night’s major wins — including One Battle After Another sweeping six awards and Paul Thomas Ande
Ryan Gosling on PROJECT HAIL MARY
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Take Ultra preview - A look ahead to the Oscars
Here's a cheeky preview of our latest Take Ultra video episode in which Mark and Simon look ahead to this week’s Oscars and assess the state of the race.
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Does THE BRIDE! earn its exclamation mark?
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Celebrating Women in Film with Vanguard
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It’s an International Women’s Day special, and we’ll be celebrating women in film by looking back at some of our favourite interviews with women filmmakers who have joined us on the Take. We’ve got Past Lives director Celine
What did Mark make of the BAFTAs?
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Amanda Seyfried… as a Mancunian?
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Did Mark Fall for Wuthering Heights — or Run Screaming Across the Moors? With Emerald Fennell
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Take 2 taster: why not join us on Patreon?
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Take 2 is where Mark & Simon stretch out, go deeper, get sillier, and answer the questions we simply can’t squeeze into the main show. And that’s just the start. Our Patreon subscribers also get polls, behind‑the‑scenes photos
MELANIA: “A piece of handsomely mounted crypto‑fascist propaganda” + Riz Ahmed
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How did Hollywood turn John Bishop into Will Arnett?
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Can Claire Foy handle a “perfectly evolved psychopath” in H IS FOR HAWK?
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Jack O’Connell on 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
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Does HAMNET deserve the hype?
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Best and Worst Films of the Year
It’s that time of year on the Take when Mark runs down his best and worst films of the year—so get ready for a reminder of 2025’s biggest raves and rants from I’m Still Here to Tron: Ares. It’s all new content as he ranks the big-screen bangers and clangers of the last 12 months and picks the Take’s best picture. We’ll also look at the year’s best small screen releases, revisiting stunning series
Good Kate Winslet (lass) Looks Back on her Feats of Acting
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AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH: “like some nightmare furries convention”
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Live Christmas Spectacular with Nia DaCosta and Jason Isaacs
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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2: “I was struggling to stay awake” + Legendary James L Brooks
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Is CHRISTY a knockout? + Noah Baumbach on JAY KELLY
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Now & Ben: Benedict Cumberbatch on THE THING WITH FEATHERS
Howdy Take listeners—it's about time for another Now & Ben, don’t you think?
This time it’s Benedict Cumberbatch—who chats to our Ben about his new film ‘The Thing With Feathers’, alongside director Dylan Southern. Based on the bestselling Max Porter novel, the movie follows Cumberbatch’s character ‘Dad’ through his grief at the sudden death of his wife, and his efforts to raise their two son
WICKED: Which Witch Wins - Is the Sequel/Prequel Equal?
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Edgar Wright on THE RUNNING MAN
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Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis on ANEMONE
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Is BUGONIA out of this world? + Ruth Wilson on DOWN CEMETERY ROAD
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Did Mark ‘Louvre’ Josh O’Connor’s timely heist movie THE MASTERMIND? + Does SPRINGSTEEN deliver?
This Week on the Show: Josh O’Connor, Kelly Reichardt & the Art of the Heist
Fresh off the headlines of a real-life Louvre robbery, indie auteur Kelly Reichardt and breakout star Josh O’Connor join Simon to talk about their buzzy new film, The Mastermind—a stylish 70s-set art-heist drama that’s suddenly feeling very timely. O’Connor plays JB, a slacker dad whose low-stakes gallery theft spiral
Has FRANKENSTEIN got Mark (re)animated? + Russell Tovey
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TRON: ARES: “It was like my brain was atrophying” + Kathryn Bigelow & Rebecca Ferguson
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Aimee Lou Wood on Film Club + a DOUBLE BILL of films of the week
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Is ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER film of the year? With Paul Thomas Anderson
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Robert Redford remembered + Paul Greengrass on THE LOST BUS
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Does SPINAL TAP II turn it up to 11? + the rockin’ Warren Ellis
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HONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS
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Summer Holiday Highlights of the year so far
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Now and Ben: Olivia Colman and Jay Roach on THE ROSES
Surprise! It’s another tasty nugget of Now & Ben in the Take feed. This time, Ben sits down with Olivia Colman and Jay Roach, star and director of ‘The Roses’--which hits the big screen this Friday.
This grown-up comedy with bite is all about marriage and what happens when it gets rocky. Colman plays one half of a battling couple alongside Bendict Cumberbatch—and although things might look perfe
Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on THE LIFE OF CHUCK
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Bob Odenkirk talks NOBODY 2 – will it meet Mark’s expectations?
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Is Mark freaked out by FREAKIER FRIDAY? + Celine Song on THE MATERIALISTS
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Alien: Earth Bonus Special
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Does NAKED GUN even pass the one laugh test? + Guy Pearce on INSIDE
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FILM OF THE YEAR ALREADY? Mark on BRING HER BACK
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More SALT PATH & Harry Melling + your take on SUPERMAN
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THE SALT PATH: Simon and Mark’s reaction. Plus SUPERMAN
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Will Jurassic World Rebirth turn Mark into a Rantosaurus? + David Cronenberg
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Is F1 in pole position for film of the week?
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28 Years Later: Mark’s Verdict + Jodie Comer and (Oh) Danny Boy(le) on the film
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Domnhall Gleeson on Echo Valley
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Now and Ben: Carey Mulligan and Tim Key
Welcome to another Now & Ben! This little nugget of bonus interview goodness features Carey Mulligan and Tim Key—stars of the new wholesome folk musical The Ballad of Wallis Island—in cinemas now.
Ben sits down with them to talk about this British gem of a film that’s got Richard Curtis cooing. Plus behind the scenes goss on everything from corpsing on camera to sliding into dms.
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20 Years of Kermode & Mayo
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Hello to Jason Isaacs! In The Salt Path
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with Chris McQuarrie
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The Last of Us with Craig Mazin
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Is Nic Cage still riding the comeback wave in THE SURFER?
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