Gareth Edwards, The Exorcist: Believer, The Burial, The Great Escaper

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This week, Simon sits down with director Gareth Edwards to talk about his new AI-centred sci-fi action thriller epic, ‘The Creator’. Mark reviewed this last week. Other films Mark gives his takes on include ‘The Exorcist: Believer’, the sixth instalment of the horror franchise, which sees Hollywood icon Ellen Burstyn reprise her role from the original film; ‘The Burial’, a Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones-helmed legal drama about a lawyer who helps a funeral home-owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth; and ‘The Great Escaper’, which sees a World War 2 veteran, played by Michael Caine, escape from his care home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France. Our dynamic duo also takes us through the Box Office Top 10 and the film events worth catching in this week’s What’s On. Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are ad-free!): 09:59 The Great Escaper Review 20:59 Box Office Top Ten 30:50 Gareth Edwards Interview 49:00 The Burial Review 52:59 Laughter Lift 56:53 The Exorcist: Believer Review 01:06:06 What's On You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo 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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0:32.2	How did you sleep last night? Well till four I think and then that's not bad
0:38.0	Well, I don't think anyone unless if you're doing the breakfast show sleeping till four is a good thing
0:42.9	But for normal civilians, I think sleeping till six is like a minimum
0:48.9	I woke up a weirdly around about 4 4 30 which I often do just because of you know because it's an age thing
0:55.6	I'm looking forward to them vendors new film. Oh, yeah, which is called perfect days, right?
1:01.8	And it's about a Japanese sanitary worker. I read this in the economist
1:06.6	You know the economist the ones that don't advertise ones that don't advertise with us
1:10.0	And ever but they're used to yeah back in the day they listen to the show and thought we don't want to be associated with that
1:15.6	Anyway, so it's about this guy goes around cleaning toilets, which is not quite the same job in Japan
1:21.8	No, because Japanese toilets are extraordinary
1:25.0	You know, they're they're amazing things. Have you ever if you have a usage Japanese toilet? I have never been to Japan
1:30.4	So unless there's a Japanese toilet somewhere else
1:32.9	Anyway, London has 14 public toilets per 100,000 residents in Tokyo. Tokyo has 53. Yeah, so they're really into their
1:43.0	Fantastic public convenience. There's a friend of mine who who's an actor who lived in
1:48.5	Up in Nichols Canyon and they had a Japanese toilet in Los Angeles and they had a Japanese toilet in their house
1:58.4	And it was all singing all dancing and I mean singing it was the seat would be warmed by electricity
2:05.9	When you went anywhere near it, it would start running water so that there would be no sounds of whatever you were doing
2:11.2	Would escape out of the room because there was already a sense of running water
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