Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots, Vivarium, The Banker, The Perfect Candidate and System Crasher

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Another chance to hear Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots talk about Vivarium. Plus all your essential on demand film reviews including the new Apple TV movie The Banker, starring Samuel L Jackson and Nicolas Hoult, System Crasher, about a 9-year-old’s untamed energy which drives everyone around her to despair, and The Perfect Candidate, about a determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. Mark and Simon chat tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. 35.34.05 Box Office Top 10 48.40.40 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 57.39.17 The Banker review 01:06:42 Lockdown Correspondents 01:13:27 System Crasher review 01:20:15 Poots and Eisenburg interview 01:27.19 Vivarium review 01:33:29 The Perfect Candidate review 01:48:20 Director of the Week 02:02:57 DVD(s) OF THE WEEK Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Yeah, Mark, this is really odd. What is up and where are you?
0:12.0	Well, do you want the honest answer to that?
0:15.4	Well, the first thing to say is thank heavens that you're not in the big chair this week,
0:21.0	because I couldn't have stood you saying about how great it is to sit in the big chair.
0:25.5	So tell us where you are.
0:26.8	Well, okay, firstly, in response to that, you know, I had more than one email saying,
0:32.4	you know, it's amazing. Mark was right when he was sitting in the big chair. He did indeed sound
0:37.9	butch and authoritative, whereas Simon sounded Weedy and Winnie. So actually, Mark was correct.
0:44.4	There is an actually...
0:45.4	Actually, I got quite a few emails from people saying, did he not go on and on and on in such a boring
0:51.2	manner? Did you?
0:51.8	It made me wish Simon was in the big chair, yeah.
0:54.5	Okay, well, no way. Here's the thing, you know, in elections, when politicians say,
1:01.4	I spent the weekend knocking on doors and you know what, the message I'm getting from the
1:05.6	doorstep is and then they just insert whatever they think, whatever it is they thought beforehand,
1:10.8	they insert. That's what we've just done. You've inserted emails to justify your position.
1:15.1	I've inserted comments to justify my position and now you tell me where you are and what you're
1:20.0	looking at. So here's... I'm currently sitting in... Well, what I refer to as my office,
1:26.6	although let's be honest about this, it's not an office. It's a shoe cupboard in our house
1:31.8	and it's about, you know, it's about a 10 foot by 10 foot. So either a big shoe cupboard or a
1:37.2	very small room and I am looking out of the window. We can't see fully out the window because
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