Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots on ALL OF YOU & Tim Key on THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Five people join Mark in this episode, to talk about two different kinds of rom-coms
First off, Tim Key and James Griffiths come on stage to talk about their heartwarming musical rom-com THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND.
Next Mark talks about the affecting sci-fi inflected romance ALL OF YOU, with stars Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, and director William Bridges who co-wrote it with Brett.
So sit back, relax, and take a front row seat at MK3D at the BFI Southbank.
Enjoy!
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Opening title quotes from:
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
- Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)
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| 0:00.0 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. |
| 0:03.5 | You find the fun and snap. |
| 0:08.4 | 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. |
| 0:20.9 | We want them here and we want them now. |
| 0:24.1 | You really don't want me to play, huh? |
| 0:26.4 | No, I do. |
| 0:27.9 | Captain Hardy said no. |
| 0:29.5 | Captain who? |
| 0:31.9 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. |
| 0:33.3 | Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast, |
| 0:35.6 | which this week is the second half of our |
| 0:37.6 | December 2025 MK3D show recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London. |
| 0:43.8 | Five people join me in this episode. First off, I'm delighted to talk to Tim Key and James |
| 0:48.1 | Griffith to talk about their lovely heartwarming marvel of a movie, The Ballad of Wallace Island. |
| 0:53.3 | Next, I talk about the sci-fi-inflected |
| 0:55.2 | romance, all of you with it stars Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poutes, and with director William Bridges, |
| 1:00.5 | who co-wrote it with Brett. So sit back, relax and take a front row seat at MK3D, recorded live |
| 1:06.6 | at the BFI South Bank in London. Enjoy. Hello everybody. |
| 1:11.0 | I am quite tired because this morning I watched Avatar Fire and Ice. |
| 1:18.3 | And... |
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