FILM OF THE YEAR ALREADY? Mark on BRING HER BACK

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. Could we have found the film of the year already? ‘Bring Her Back’ looks like it’s got a fighting chance. Mark reviews this brilliantly unsettling new horror from The Philippou brothers, who last freaked us all out with ‘Talk To Me’ in 2022. We’ve got the Good Doctor’s verdict on ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ too—plus the box office top 10 and all your top-quality correspondence. Our guest this week is the fascinating Justin Kurzel. You know him as director of 2015’s ‘Macbeth’ with Michael Fassbender, 2021’s ‘Nitram’, and last year’s Nazi-hunting thriller ‘The Order’--and now of his first TV project, ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’, which hits British screens this week. He chats to Mark and Simon all about the visceral new series, which follows a group of Australian prisoners of war working on the Burma railway in the 1940s, and stars Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds. Plus there’s a bit of chat about Nina Simone’s chewing gum, and a little teaser for his next project with the guardian of this strange and sticky piece of music ephemera, Warren Ellis. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Bring Her Back Review: 08:36 BO10: 15:50 Justin Kurzel Interview: 21:55 The Narrow Road to the Deep North Review: 38:20 The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review: 51:16 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Netflix. Hello, Tate listeners. It's Ben Bailey Smith here. I've been watching some of the new docks. Netflix are dropping this month. Netflix is the place for fascinating true stories. This month is no different. We've got attack on London hunting the 7-7 bombers. This drops on the 1st of July. It is, of course, about one of the most devastating terror attacks on British soil and
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1:31.3	And if you're already a vanguard Easter, we salute you.
1:49.2	Mark, you're wearing the same t-shirt as last week?
1:52.2	Well, it's been washed, but I was wearing it again because I'm really fond of it.
1:54.3	This is my, thank you for calling Knox Oil and Gas.
1:56.2	Thank you for calling Knox Oil and Gas.
1:57.5	Local hero.
2:00.1	I was so pleased when I got given this.
2:19.8	I was so pleased about it. I'm really, I love this T-shirt. Go on. How many times would you wear it without washing it? Once. Just the once. Just one. You wear a t-shirt once and then you wash it because there's nothing stinkier than the, you know, T-shirt that you've worn already. And anyway, as you know, I have an extensive archive of... You do. Of what the good lady refers to as Mark's annoying t-shirts, many of which she has bought for me. So, you know, well, we should also let people
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