26/11/2010

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2010

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo welcome Gareth Edwards who talks about his debut feature Monsters, a sci-fi documentary hybrid similar to District 9. Also on the programme, an astonishing story from listener Grace, who explains how a "supreme rant" by the good doctor about a Vatican-baiting Tom Hanks blockbuster saved her friend's life. In a coma for days at University College Hospital after a cardiac arrest, Grace knew there was only one thing that could get her friend Andrew to respond. She played him a recording of Dr Kermode's review of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons - and Andrew "moved his head towards the Doctor's splennetic outburst". Andrew is now awake, walking - and getting married. As Grace neatly sums it up: "Good news is hard to find sometimes - but at last we've found a reason for the making of Angels and Demons". Mark and Kermode's latest possibly life-saving reviews include Unstoppable, The American, Leap Year, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, London Boulevard and Machete. Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Text: 85058 (charged at your standard network rate) Twitter: @wittertainment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for taking the time to download this BBC Radio 5 Live podcast.
0:06.4	Kermode and Mayo's film review.
0:08.7	To find other programs you might be interested in, click bbc.co.uk slash 5 live,
0:14.5	where you'll also find our terms of use.
0:21.2	Hello and welcome to a witter-taining podcast,
0:24.2	which you can listen to over the next few hours, hopefully fully relaxed.
0:28.6	And it's a pretty good show, actually.
0:30.3	We have reviews of Machete, the girl who kicked the hall its nest,
0:33.2	Leopie Ear, Unstoppable, The American,
0:36.2	and we are joining the studio by,
0:38.9	Gentleman by the name of Gareth Edwards, not the rugby legend,
0:41.5	but a probably a new name to you.
0:44.1	He is a director, he has made a movie called Monsters,
0:47.4	he's made it for about three and six months,
0:50.0	and it's quite extraordinary, because it really,
0:52.7	correct me if I'm wrong, it doesn't feel as though it's made for three and six weeks.
0:55.4	It really doesn't, it feels like a proper big budget movie that actually
1:00.2	could have as many special effects as it wants, it just doesn't want that many.
1:03.7	Also, you should know, and just a little bit of warning,
1:06.8	the program does contain a miracle.
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