Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King’s Daughter

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Guillermo del Toro talks about his new film Nightmare Alley, the second film adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette. Mark reviews that film along with Sir Ken ‘Chuckles’ Branagh’s new film Belfast, which he discussed with Simon on last week’s show, about a young boy and his working-class Belfast family experiencing the tumultuous late 1960s; documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, looking at the career of Brian Wilson; Denzel Washington’s A Journal for Jordan, about soldier who, before he is killed in action in Iraq, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father; and Mass, about which we talk to star Jason Isaacs. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. 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.
0:05.0	Bit the magic begin.
0:07.0	And how, is there a moment when the magic actually begins?
0:11.0	Is there like a spell that we can cut?
0:14.0	Maybe you can cast, because I think you come from the Southwest of England.
0:18.8	So you have your closer to all that kind of thing.
0:22.2	Sorry, what?
0:23.2	Is there a spell?
0:24.2	The Southwest of England is closer to all that.
0:27.2	Yeah.
0:28.2	I mean, Cornwall is Arthurian.
0:30.2	The only time I've seen Witches Museums, I think it's in Boscow.
0:33.3	Really?
0:34.3	I think there's a Witches Museum in Boscow.
0:36.6	Yeah, that's the one.
0:37.6	My parents always say, don't go near there.
0:39.8	Don't go near there.
0:40.8	Did you not go near there?
0:41.8	I mean, I've been very fascinating museum.
0:42.8	I know, but when you're growing up in the 70s or whatever,
0:46.1	the idea of a Witches Museum, we don't approve of that kind of thing.
0:50.6	Well, they've got in...
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