John Hawkes, Nomadland, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Wild Mountain Thyme

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Simon are joined by John Hawkes, who talks about his new film End of Sentence. Plus your essential streaming reviews including big Oscar winner Nomadland, Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as lovers in Ireland who get caught up in a family land dispute, Michael B Jordan as John Clark, a US Navy SEAL, who goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy in Tom Clancy adaptation Without Remorse. We’ll also review The Artist’s Wife, about the wife of a renowned abstract artist who is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a new science fiction comedy produced by Sony Pictures for Netflix. Our rotating chart this week is the Official Film Chart. Plus Mark and Simon’s US Movie Road Trip concludes with Alaska and Hawaii. They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to [email protected]. 00:25:18 Celebrating Cinema 00:27:14 Current releases 00:29:31 Chart: Official Film Chart 00:36:41 Identifying Features review 00:42:33 Wild Mountain Thyme review 00:48:16 John Hawkes interview 01:03:55 The Mitchells vs. the Machines review 01:08:38 US Movie Road Trip 01:15:29 Nomadland review 01:22:05 Lobbydown Correspondents 01:25:00 Without Remorse review 01:26:34 TV Movies of the Week 01:30:27 The Artist’s Wife review 01:37:11 DVD of the Week Download our podcast from the BBC Snouds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hey, well the good news is your Whittetame and Podcast begins with your favourite film,
0:12.9	critic, Mark Oos, I can see is looking absolutely ravishing after a fabulous two week break,
0:21.8	looking tip-top and swinging from the rafters.
0:24.6	And after a lovely two week break I'd like to start with the complaint.
0:27.8	So have you heard this thing that Simon Pull, our producer, has done on Radio 4?
0:32.9	I mean, you must have done because he sent you a link to it.
0:35.7	He sent the link but I was a little bit busy.
0:37.4	I was planning to watch it and listen to it a little bit later.
0:40.2	Okay, well here's the thing, you'll love it, right?
0:42.9	Because it's on a BBC programme about podcasts and they interview a bunch of people about podcasts.
0:47.8	And so basically here is Pull, big in up his part in which he talks about our podcast.
0:53.3	And at one point they say, you know, he says, I hate to say this and I really hope Simon Mayo
0:58.5	doesn't listen to this because he is just the best interviewer in the world.
1:02.6	And the way Simon Mayo does interviews is just incredible and it's just, he's so brilliant.
1:06.7	I hope he doesn't hear this because you know, he's got a little bit of insecurity coming.
1:10.3	And then they go, yeah, what about Mark?
1:11.5	He goes, yeah.
1:14.2	I bet he does.
1:15.0	I mean, I was waiting for the adjective.
1:18.8	I was waiting for the bit that you can pull out as a pull quote.
1:22.0	Not just not there.
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