Has A24 gone too far with Death of a Unicorn? + Toby Jones

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 81 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. Well hurrah hooray because this week it’s a Toby Jones show (not a Noby Jones show) and he joins Simon to chat about ‘Mr. Burton’. In this true story Toby plays the title character, schoolteacher Philip Burton, who spots the talent of young pupil Richie Jenkins in the Welsh mining town of his birth. Burton nurtures Jenkins’ acting flair as he becomes Richard Burton—taking his guardian’s name as the stage name by which he became internationally famous. The erudite everyman as always, Toby chats to Simon about accents, pyjamas, and the future of TV drama. Mark reviews ‘Mr. Burton’ too, as well as ‘Restless’, a psychological thriller about nightmare-inducing noisy neighbours—or at least they would be nightmare-inducing if Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) could get any sleep. Plus, A24’s ‘Death of a Unicorn’—the starry satire where Paul Rudd & Jenna Ortega’s father and daughter accidentally run over a unicorn on the way to visit the billionaire Leopold family (Richard E Grant, Téa Leoni and Will Poulter). Mark’s verdict on all these, plus your correspondence on everything from search engines to The Stath—and memories of the late Val Kilmer. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Restless Review: 09:35 Toby Jones interview: 31:28 Mr Burton review: 46:11 Laughter Lift: 56:14 Death of a Unicorn review: 01:03:11 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] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.1	Hey, Ben Bailey Smith here. I just want to tell you about some of the amazing stories that are coming to Netflix this month. All of them based on real-life events, each of them unique in different ways. I mean, you literally couldn't make them up. First, chaos Charles Manson, which is available now for streaming. This is a doc from Academy Award winner Errol Morris, who made the thin blue line in the fog of war. It's got really striking individual style and look to his work. And here, he investigates the story of Charles Manson and his cult in a totally fresh way that challenges everything you thought
0:25.1	you knew. That's what got me with this doc. I mean, we often hear the story of the Manson murders
0:29.2	themselves retold, but this is the first time I've seen a deep dive, not just into the origins
0:32.9	of the event itself, but also what part of the CIA, mental health services, probation services, even the
0:37.6	music industry had to play in this thing. It's genuinely eye-opening, even jaw-dropping at times.
0:41.9	It's a crazy, riveting, frankly haunting watch. And if that's not enough for you, it's three
0:45.9	other true stories coming to Netflix this month. Gong Girls, the Long Island serial killer,
0:50.1	Golden Greed, the Hunt for Fens Treasure, and Com Mum, which is a doc about a chef whose life
0:54.7	gets upended when this woman walks into his life claiming to be his mother. So start streaming
0:59.8	today for unmissable true stories, only on Netflix. Hello, Simon Mayo here. And Mark
1:05.6	Herbert here. Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter and get an
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1:11.6	Thursday. Including bonus reviews. Extra viewing suggestions. Viewing recommendations at home and in
1:17.9	cinemas. Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions,
1:22.3	Schmestians. You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit-related devices.
1:29.9	There's never been a better time to become a Vanguard Easter. Free offer, now available,
1:34.1	wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're already a Vanguard Easter, we salute you. You.
1:53.7	Now, I know I said I haven't got any banned t-shirts.
1:54.5	Hello, Simon.
1:55.1	Hi.
1:57.5	And that was true until yesterday.
1:58.0	Right. And I can see you're in a black and white t-shirt, Ganga-Four.
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