George McKay, Proximity, Cassandro, The Exotico! and Romantic Comedy

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

George McKay drops by to talk Oscar-winning film 1917 and playing Ned Kelly in The True History of the Kelly Gang. He also gives some tips for what to watch on Lockdown. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including documentary Cassandro, The Exotico! About a gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestler who reinvents himself, sci-fi Proximity and The Orphanage, about a 15-year-old ticket scalper in Kabul who dreams of Bollywood until the Soviets force him into a state facility. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week, and Hanks for Listening features an inspiring Tom Hanks speech. 00:33:57 Top 10 ‘single location movies’ 00:45:03 Proximity review 00:49:43 The Orphanage review 00:53:40 Lockdown Correspondents 01:02:39 Cassandro, The Exotico! review 01:07:08 George MacKay interview 01:25:42 Romantic Comedy review 01:28:13 The Atom: A Love Affair review 01:31:58 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK 01:42:02 Director of the week 01:46:24 DVD OF THE WEEK Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0	VBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.1	So very quickly. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Nina, happy birthday to you.
0:11.9	Happy birthday Nina, friend of Mickey.
0:15.4	Earmark. Earmark. Ear. Ear.
0:21.7	You know what this sounds like? You're saying earmark.
0:24.9	As in, you know, earmark something. I must earmark that.
0:28.8	That's very important. I must earmark it.
0:30.8	Is what it sounds like. Are you there? Are you there?
0:34.4	Is that you? Yeah, just checking. Is that you?
0:37.1	I can't wait to see you. Well, I love everything.
0:39.1	Well, I love everything. Welcome to another podcast from your friends at the BBC.
0:42.7	Mark, what's that t-shirt you've got on? I can't see it from here.
0:46.2	Where's the railtop? Railtown.
0:48.5	We've got busking where the rhythm fl-
0:50.5	Yeah, one of the modernization.
0:52.6	It's just because I'm not- it's because people are all the Simon.
0:55.1	I'm wearing it on the radio. It's hard that you know it's-
0:57.2	I'm wearing a t-shirt with one of my bands.
0:59.7	Are you going? What's it?
1:03.7	You know, you weren't in the Ramones. I was. Yeah.
1:07.2	Were you okay? Yeah, I know. They called me D-D, but that was actually me.
1:13.8	You were D-D-Mayo. It's an interesting thing though because
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