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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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It’s Boxing Day, but we’ve got more than just leftovers in today’s show—we're just as stuffed full of gourmet goodies as we hope you are right now... A fresh new guest interview this week with RaMell Ross, director of the awards-tipped ‘Nickel Boys’. Based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, it follows the growing friendship between two boys in racially segregated 1960s Florida, Ellwood and Turner, who find themselves unwillingly enrolled in an abusive reform school. Simon sits down with RaMell to talk about his innovative filmmaking approach—and we think you’ll be hearing plenty more from him in the future... Reviews of ‘Better Man’, the Robbie Wiliams biopic from ‘Greatest Showman’ director Michael Gracey that chronicles the pop superstar’s infamous monkeying around by making him an actual chimp; ‘The Order’, the 80s-set thriller starring Jude Law as a neo-Nazi-hunting FBI agent; and ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’, the Thai comedy-drama in which broke university dropout M cozies up to his ailing grandmother in the hope of inheriting her massive fortune. Plus Mark’s top 5 films of the year—and bottom 5 cinematic stinkers too. (JEM is this correct—these in this episode?) Merry Christmas one and all—wishing you much festive film-watching... Review: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies – 08:20 Interview: RaMell Ross – 17:15 Review: The Order – 33:09 Review: Better Man – 40:06 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! 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] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here. This episode is brought to you by Netflix, and right now you can watch some of this year's most critically acclaimed films on the service like Emilia Perez, the piano lesson, and a powerful documentary called The Remarkable Life of Ibelene.
0:12.9	Amelia Perez is an audacious genre-defying film directed by the two-time BAFTA award-winning French Oter, Jacques Odiard, and stars Zoe Saldania,
0:22.1	Carla Sophia Gascone and Selena Gomez. It won the jury prize and best actress awards at the
0:27.8	Cannes Film Festival. And it's an electrifying odyssey that boasts tour de force performances,
0:33.3	liberating song and dance and bold visuals. You've never seen a film like it. Then we have
0:37.2	the piano lesson from director and writer Malcolm Washington in his feature debut, adapted from the
0:42.7	Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson. It's a lesson in love, friendship and family, featuring
0:47.9	a magnetic performance by Danielle Deadweiler. Then there's the Remarkable Life of Ibelene, a two-time
0:53.8	Sundance Award-winning Norwegian documentary that vividly's the remarkable life of Ibelene, a two-time Sundance Award-winning
0:54.9	Norwegian documentary that vividly tells the life story of a gamer who died at young age
0:59.5	due to a degenerative neuromuscular disease, but left a lasting and positive impact on the world
1:04.7	and those around him. You can watch all these incredible films right now, only on Netflix.
1:22.2	And a very happy boxing day to you, young fella malad down there in Narnia. Did you have a lovely Christmas?
1:30.8	Yeah. How was yours? Well, I can't remember any of it. Which is strange. It's almost as though it hasn't happened yet.
1:39.7	Did you find that there was a moment that you stopped everything and watched Wallace and
1:45.1	Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl? Of course. That is what everyone has done. It's the family.
1:50.4	You can bring, you know, hopefully grandparents, parents, kids of all ages were all gathered there.
1:56.2	And it is fantastic, just reflecting on all of that, that there are still films being made that
2:04.2	everybody can watch together.
2:05.8	Because I'm sure that you used to all gather around and watch Top of the Pops, that
2:10.8	kind of thing.
2:11.6	But that kind of media world has disappeared.
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