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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Greta Gerwig, Oppenheimer, Barbie & The Bear

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The humanity in growing old. Mattel's uncomfortable history. The undeniability of Ryan Gosling. This week’s episode sees Simon discuss all things ‘Barbie’, already one of the hottest – and pinkest – films of the year, with its wonderfully thoughtful co-writer and director Greta Gerwig. And if that’s not enough, Mark reviews the other big-hitter of the summer, ‘Oppenheimer’, Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller about the scientist who developed the atomic bomb; and the second season of ‘The Bear’, Christopher Storer’s dynamic, heart-filled kitchen comedy, which sees the chefs at The Beef prepare to reopen as a high-end restaurant. Time Codes (relevant only when you are part of the Vanguard): 13:58 The Bear Season 2 Review 23:14 Box Office Top 10 38:19 Greta Gerwig Interview 53:10 Barbie Review 01:01:42 Laughter Lift 01:03:32 Oppenheimer Review 01:14:05 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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0:00.0

What is up? What is up? This is Simon Mayo. I'd just like to say that this show would

0:14.7

be nothing without the production team who worked day and night to give you the best

0:19.2

listener experience possible. All I do is just turn up and read this script. Word for

0:24.4

word, so all hail the magnificent red actor and his minions. I'd also just like to say

0:29.5

I've spent the whole weekend watching the film mother, which I really enjoyed. I've

0:34.3

decided that I'd really like to watch the tip-top movies, Jeremy and the ex-assisted

0:39.5

some point. Mark, perhaps you can arrange some screenings. I'd like to watch Jeremy

0:43.9

on repeat perhaps next weekend. Could probably squeeze in five or six showings in a day.

0:50.9

What do you reckon? That's not me. No, but actually what's weird is it's

0:54.9

quite obviously not you. Yes, I've heard much, I mean, I've heard AI is in which you think

1:01.2

well, you know, that is for a casual listener. I don't know. I think that's close enough.

1:07.2

That's AI generated me, isn't it? Yes. So nods from the production team. Interesting

1:11.6

how when they wrote the script, the first thing that they put was praise for themselves.

1:15.7

I think that is extremely, extremely concerning because this is early days. It's going to

1:23.6

get better. That's close enough. So if that voice did an advert, for example, for, let's

1:30.1

say, GB news, I can imagine people going, really? Why advertising? That's right. That's

1:38.8

terrible. OK, let's see what they did. Is it one of me? OK, let's see what I've done

1:43.4

with you. Thanks, Simon. I just like to get a few things off my chest. First of all, a

1:48.1

big apology to Charlie Kaufman, who is a genius and should definitely direct more of his own

1:54.4

screenplays and sex and the city too is one of the greatest. And I mean, it better than

2:00.6

pan's labyrinth, better than a matter of life and death, the devils in the film. It's

2:06.0

a wonderful life. I'd also like to admit that the exorcist is so overrated. I actually

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