Bold Samurai Western TORNADO by John Maclean, the provocative DYING FOR SEX with director Shannon Murphy, and blockbuster insights from editor Eddie Hamilton

Kermode on Film

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this second part of Mark Kermode Live in 3D, Mark is joined by director Shannon Murphy, who discusses Dying For Sex—a powerful and provocative television series based on a true story, starring Michelle Williams.

Mark also talks with filmmaker John Maclean about Tornado, a bold and genre-defying Samurai western set in 18th Century Scotland, and with acclaimed editor Eddie Hamilton, who shares behind-the-scenes insights from cutting high-octane blockbusters like the Mission: Impossible films.

This episode was recorded live at BFI Southbank on 19 May 2025 as the second half of that evening’s Mark Kermode Live in 3D show.

Thanks for listening!

Films and shows mentioned in this episode:

Dying For Sex
Tornado
Mission: Impossible series
Top Gun: Maverick
Locke
Slow West

People featured in this episode:

Shannon Murphy
John Maclean
Eddie Hamilton
Michelle Williams
George Miller
Tom Cruise
Steven Knight
Kodi Smit-McPhee

The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film features quotes from:

Mary Poppins – Julie Andrews
Nope – Keke Palmer
Withnail & I – Richard E. Grant
The Exorcist – Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out and watch them—again and again. They are masterpieces.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

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0:00.0	In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
0:03.6	You find the fun and snap!
0:08.5	Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs and sequential order to create a motion picture
0:13.8	was a two-second clip of a black man on horse?
0:17.8	We want the finest wines available to humanity.
0:21.0	We want them here and we want them now.
0:24.2	You really don't want me to play, huh?
0:26.5	No, I do.
0:27.9	Captain Hardy said no.
0:29.6	Captain who?
0:32.1	Hi, welcome back to Kermodon Film,
0:34.5	and thanks for downloading this episode,
0:36.7	which is part two of the
0:38.0	MK3D show I recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London on the 19th of May 2025.
0:44.5	In this episode, I'm thrilled to talk to Shannon Murphy, director of the TV series Dying for
0:49.2	Sex, which stars Michelle Williams, and streaming now. I also talk to director John McLean, whose feature Tornado,
0:55.4	releases in UK cinemas on the 13th of June and features a brilliant ensemble cast,
0:59.9	including Tim Roth, Jack Loudon and Japanese rising star Koki. And I talk to Eddie Hamilton,
1:05.6	the gifted editor whose work includes Kickass, X-Men and the Mission Impossible films, who gives us the inside
1:11.9	track on editing action movies.
1:14.2	So sit back and enjoy a front row seat at MK3D.
1:21.3	Now, you may have noticed that my horizons have broadened enormously recently, well,
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