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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Brendan Fraser, Darren Aronofsky, The Whale, Knock at the Cabin, EO, & Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Telegraph critic Robbie Collin stands in for Simon this week as he’s unwell. Mark reviews ‘EO,’ Jerzy Skolimowski’s harrowing new film about a donkey that encounters happiness and sorrow along his journey through life, ‘Knock at the Cabin’ - M Night Shyamalan’s apocalyptic film – which tells the story of a same sex couple who are held hostage and asked to make an unthinkable choice, from the Shrek family ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,’ starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Florence Pugh, and ‘The Whale’ - adapted from stage to screen, the film tells the sad tale of a reclusive and obese man named Charlie who wishes to reconnect with his estranged daughter. You can also hear Simon’s interview with The Whale actor, Brendan Fraser, and director, Darren Aronofsky, with more from them both in Take 2. Mark and Robbie go through this week’s Top 10 and your correspondence. Time Codes (relevant only when you are part of the Vanguard): 10:55 EO Review 18:00 Box Office Top 10 36:20 Darren Aronofsky and Brendan Fraser 48:29 The Whale Review 57:44 Laughter Lift 01:00:28 Knock at the Cabin Review 01:07:43 What’s On 01:09:09 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production.    Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts   To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?

0:06.0

Stream everything from the galaxy's greatest adventures like the Mandalorian.

0:10.0

Oh, may the force be with you!

0:15.0

This is the way...

0:16.0

To the darkest biographical dramas like Welcome to Chippendales.

0:20.0

You're a bare man, Mr. Bermany.

0:22.0

You're 18-mutter yet.

0:23.0

Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?

0:26.0

18-plus subscription-required, season-sees-apply.

0:30.0

Something else.

0:44.0

Hello there. You might have been expecting Simon Mayo, but this is not he.

0:48.0

Simon's been taken ill this week with the nasty doors of the Andromeda strain.

0:52.0

So while he's recuperating and get well soon, Simon, you've got me instead.

0:56.0

I'm Robbie Colin, Chief Film Critic at the Telegraph, and occasionally of this parish in a contributor role,

1:01.0

although never before seen on this side of the desk, so Mark, this is the gentle.

1:06.0

This isn't it?

1:07.0

Essentially what we've got is too critical, as opposed to a presenter in a critic.

1:12.0

Obviously you are a presenter and I in other roles have been a presenter, but on this show,

1:17.0

you and I have only ever been critics.

1:19.0

That's right. So we have two critics.

1:21.0

I feel like I should treat you like a supply teacher.

1:24.0

I should hold things out of you from, you know, right,

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