Is Nic Cage still riding the comeback wave in THE SURFER?

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 72 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. It’s a bumper review week in Take 1, and first up is the new underwater doc from everyone’s favourite near-centenarian national treasure, ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’. Mark reviews this big-screen voyage for the naturalist, and sticking with the seaside theme we’ve also got a review of Nic Cage’s bonkers beach-set latest, ‘The Surfer’. In it, Cage plays a man who revisits the beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but finds himself locked in a conflict with the locals that escalates to surreal heights. Plus, ‘The Wedding Banquet’—Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romcom, in which two queer couples get mixed up in an unlikely marriage in pursuit of Green Cards and fertility treatment. And finally, ‘The Uninvited’—a Hollywood industry satire featuring two screen stars of the moment, Walton Goggins and Pedro Pascal—alongside Rufus Sewell, Lois Smith, Elizabeth Reaser and more. And in place of a guest this week the Good Doctors will be answering even more of your top correspondence than usual, so don’t miss it. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Ocean with David Attenborough review: 08:23 The Uninvited review: 37:58 Laughter Lift: 43:38 The Surfer review: 49:13 The Wedding Banquet review: 59:26 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey 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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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here. Now, I am a self-diagnosed documentary addict. Unfortunately, Netflix is serving up some serious fare this month.
0:09.0	First up, streaming right now is Diamond Heist, which is a premium doc series produced by the doyen of Geesea pictures, Guy Ritchie.
0:16.4	It's the story of a plan to steal a diamond in a hall worth 350 million pounds but here's the thing it's
0:22.4	all told firsthand by the perpetrators themselves and the squad who foiled them it's presented
0:28.4	with all the trademark crash bang and wallop you'd expect and if you're still hungry for more
0:33.9	there's two other true stories coming to Netflix this month. Bad influence, the dark
0:38.6	side of kid fluencing, which is this doc that tells some unsettling truths about child influences
0:44.1	via the story of viral star named Piper Raquel and Oklahoma City bombing, American Terror,
0:50.6	all about the tragic events in Oklahoma back on April 19, 1995.
0:55.7	Now, you're not going to get this selection anywhere else.
0:57.8	So start streaming today on Netflix.
1:09.9	Is that you?
1:10.8	This is me.
1:11.8	Before we go into anything else, can I just do a very, very quick thing?
1:15.3	I was looking again, and I'm really sorry, I will stop doing this under the comments.
1:19.5	Oh, you're not looking at the underside of the internet, aren't you?
1:21.7	I have a question for you, okay?
1:24.6	Where is Sheffield?
1:27.1	It's in Yorkshire.
1:29.1	And how would you describe the area that it's in?
1:34.6	How would I describe the area that it's in?
1:36.4	Yeah, would you, would you, north, south, east, west, what is it?
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