Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett and Christos Nikou, who talk about their new film Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia. Plus your essential streaming reviews including Black Bear, which stars Aubrey Plaza, documentary Sisters with Transistors which tells the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, House of Cardin, a documentary about designer Pierre Cardin which gives exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and new Homeward, in which a father and a son from a Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea, and Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, about Alan Ladd Junior, the man who greenlit some of cinema's greatest hits including Star Wars, Alien, Chariots of Fire and Thelma & Louise. Our rotating chart this week is Top Fives of Your Life, in which wittertainees share their five most treasured movies. Plus Ben and Anna will be looking forward to the Oscars. They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 00:13:40 Oscars look ahead 00:20:08 Celebrating Cinema 00:26:09 Current releases 00:31:07 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life 00:36:40 Black Bear review 00:42:28 Cate Blanchett & Nichos Kristou interview 01:04:15 Sisters with Transistors review 01:08:27 Oscars look ahead part 2 01:15:12 House of Cardin review 01:20:18 Stowaway review 01:23:32 TV Movies of the Week 01:33:57 The Race to Save the World review 01:36:23 Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies review 01:39:39 Homeward review 01:44:22 DVD of the Week Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to [email protected]. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. . We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:06.4	All right, so this is it. This is the beginning.
0:09.6	This is the... Yes, this is the beginning of the end.
0:13.5	No, this is the beginning of another fantastic week.
0:17.6	I'm sure about that.
0:19.4	You know, Anna, a little bird told me
0:22.2	that you might be a negrony fan.
0:26.0	Not to kick off entertainment here
0:29.8	with talk about alcohol.
0:31.0	That's how Mark and Simon tend to finish off the entertainment
0:34.3	by discussing various alcoholic beverages,
0:38.4	normally Japanese whiskey.
0:40.3	But I heard that on the grapevine.
0:42.4	Is there any truth in it?
0:45.0	I am a very big negrony fan.
0:47.4	Because that's my favourite cocktail. That's why I'm asked.
0:49.4	Is it really? Yeah.
0:50.6	And were you also converted by a certain Mr Stanley Tucci
0:55.5	to the... I was not...
0:57.4	No, it's not. It's delicious. That's something to get rid of.
0:59.6	Reference what's that from?
1:01.6	To be honest, this is not a big-night reference.
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