Bond, Box Office and Burning Questions with Mark Kermode and Jack Howard
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark is joined by longtime collaborator and filmmaker Jack Howard for a live conversation recorded at Latitude Festival 2025.
Mark and Jack return to the Latitude stage to explore the current state of cinema, offering their perspectives on everything from Hollywood blockbusters to indie gems. With plenty of humour, insight, and disagreement along the way, the pair debate the highs and lows of modern filmmaking, reflect on recent releases and, with the audience, hazard a guess at who will be the next Bond.
Films mentioned
- 28 Years Later
- A Complete Unknown
- A Minecraft Movie
- A Real Pain
- Arrival
- Avatar
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Avengers: Endgame
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Babygirl
- Blade Runner 2049
- Casino Royale
- Clown in a Cornfield
- Companion
- Dangerous Animals
- Dune
- Flow
- Friendship
- Godzilla
- Happy Gilmore (1 & 2)
- Hard Truths
- Harvest
- Hallow Road
- Heaven’s Gate
- Hot Milk
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010 & 2025)
- I Think You Should Leave
- I’m Still Here
- Jurassic World: Rebirth
- Last Swim
- Lilo & Stitch (2002 & 2025)
- Lollipop
- Longlegs
- M3GAN 2.0
- Memoir of a Snail
- Megalopolis
- Mickey 17
- Monsters
- Ne Zha 2
- Never Say Never Again
- Nickel Boys
- No Time to Die
- Nosferatu
- On Falling
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- One Battle After Another
- Protein
- Restless
- Santosh
- The Second Time Around
- Sinners
- Sister Midnight
- Superboys of Malegaon
- Superman
- The Brown Bunny
- The Brutalist
- The Cable Guy
- The Creator
- The End
- The Fall Guy
- The Last Showgirl
- The Lion King (1994 & 2019)
- The Marching Band
- The Monkey
- The Phoenician Scheme
- The Return
- The Seed of a Sacred Fig
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Shrouds
- The Stimming Pool
- The Surfer
- Titanic
- Tornado
- Warfare
- Wicked
- When the Light Breaks
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| 0:33.5 | Do we think that Bond has to be a man? Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks for downloading this Come On Film Podcast. We're joined once again this week by Jack Howard. Hello there. And if you're watching us on YouTube, thanks for clicking on our faces on YouTube. As you can see, we're... In front of a tent. Camping together, mark and i sharing why are we camping together because |
| 0:56.0 | you know we just thought we'd make a weekend up it was it just like we do it's like friday yeah okay |
| 1:00.1 | we're here at the latitude festival one of the country's premier festivals we are here for our |
| 1:05.9 | it's our third year doing this third year that i've asked us back yeah we just did a live show that |
| 1:09.9 | which is what you're about to hear we had the the prime 3.30 slots. 3.30 on a Friday afternoon. It was us or Billy Bragg, and I could tell that many of the audience were convicted. Billy Bragg is still playing incidentally. He's got a lot of songs. So it's a big sort of open-sided tense. You may hear sounds the festival drifting in and out what subjects are |
| 1:28.2 | going to be covering jack yeah so what you're about to hear is discussing the what did you call the |
| 1:32.3 | midterm report midterm report for films for 2025 yeah and we're discussing our favorites the |
| 1:37.7 | biggest uh earners of the year the highest grossing films with a surprise number one real surprise at |
| 1:43.1 | number one i didn't know i thought i knew what number one was going to be i did not know no you got number with a surprise number one. Real surprise at number one. I didn't know. |
| 1:44.6 | I thought I knew what number one was going to be. |
| 1:46.2 | I did not know. |
| 1:47.1 | No, you got number two, but not number one. |
| 1:48.5 | We're also going to be discussing Bond, the future of Bond, how Amazon now own it. Denevel Knove has been named as director. We talk about that and who will be the new Bond. And there's lots of audience interaction |
| 1:41.4 | and we take audience questions at the end |
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