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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Jason Isaacs, Hotel Mumbai, Ad Astra, The Kitchen, The Farewell

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Jason Isaacs talks Hotel Mumbai. Plus the only reviews of the week's films you need including Brad Pitt in Ad Astra, dramedy The Farewell, and crime drama The Kitchen. Mark Kermode also reviews a documentary about KLF frontman Bill Drummond, Best Before Death and drama Tomorrow. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00 Pod begins, Brexitcast chat 05:28 Teacher's email 07:13 Tailenders email 10:41 H2JI in space 15:00 Daniel in Massachusetts 17:14 Radio show begins 25:15 Box office top ten 45:18 Jason Isaacs arrives 01:07:08 Hotel Mumbai Review 01:18:06 Ad Astra review 01:36:37 TV Movie Of The Week 01:42:43The Farewell review 01:48:14 The Kitchen review 01:51:10 Best Before Death review 01:53:40 DVD Of The Week

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome to a very lovely podcast from your friends at BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:10.6

I'm Simon and he's Mark and yet again he's not in the studio, he's on a jolly.

0:15.7

Hello Mark, where are you?

0:18.1

You see, you say jolly and I say actually I'm doing jury duty at the European Fantastic

0:24.4

Film Festival in Strasbourg, which if you remember, I came here a couple of years ago because

0:28.8

I did a non-stage with William Friedkin and so they were kind enough to invite me back.

0:33.2

So I am here in Strasbourg where I've been for most of the week watching a selection of

0:38.7

fantasy films in which I'm part of the jury that I'm officially the International Fantastic

0:43.8

Film Competition Fantasy Strand and it's brilliant.

0:48.9

It is absolutely beautiful.

0:51.9

It is fantastically civilised.

0:53.7

It is chocolate box pretty in certain places.

0:57.0

It has great cinemas with I have to say some of the most code compliant audiences I've

1:01.2

seen in ages and I've been to a lot of film festivals.

1:03.7

They're really, really code compliant and lovely.

1:06.7

It's like a fairy land of cultural civilisation and I'm enjoying every unit of it.

1:12.7

So like I said, on a jolly.

1:14.8

So what we have here is an email.

1:19.1

Yeah.

1:20.1

I don't know if you do remember last week's show, not sure.

1:23.3

Not sure if I did.

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