More SALT PATH & Harry Melling + your take on SUPERMAN

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 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. Our guest this week is Harry Melling—all grown up after first hitting the big screen as Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. He’s here to chat about the latest in a hit parade of pleasingly weird and wonderful post-Potter projects, ‘Harvest’. This trippy period piece sees a mysterious feudal society in an unspecified place and time fall apart after crops fail and sinister strangers arrive. Simon unpacks this unique film with Harry—plus a bit of Potter chat since the HBO reboot has put the wizarding world back in the spotlight. Mark reviews Harvest too—along with two more of this week’s biggest cinema releases: ‘Friendship’--a black comedy about male bonding starring Paul Rudd as the new-best-pal-next-door, and ‘Smurfs’--the latest big-screen outing for the little blue fellas. If that didn’t sound like a bit of Mark-bait already, it also stars James Corden. Odds on Kermode going full ‘Grouchy Smurf’ on this one? Plus we revisit the Salt Path controversy, including some of your excellent correspondence, run down the Box Office Top 10 and serve up sizeable portions of delectable daftness as always. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Friendship Review: 10:25 BO10: 18:16 Harry Melling Interview: 26:50 Harvest Review: 42:09 Smurfs Review: 56:18 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] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there everybody, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode here to tell you about EETV.
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0:25.8	Run back through award-winning shows such as The Crown, Baby Rainier or All Quiet on the Western Front.
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0:56.0	Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter and get an extra episode every Thursday, including bonus reviews, extra viewing suggestions, viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:10.4	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestian.
1:14.8	You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit-related devices.
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1:27.4	And if you're already a Vanguard Easter. Free offer, now available, wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're
1:28.0	already a Vanguard Easter, we salute you. You're right, Mark, have you come back from your travels? Yes, I have. I'm back in Cornwall, as you can see, because I have my guitar hanging by me. I have my Tom Robinson record and my Gang of Four record hanging behind me. How are you? How's things in Showbys, North London? It's cooled down, right? It has cooled down. I'm sitting at my desk, the desk I've sat in for all of these shows, and I was rummaging around in the drawer, which is just, just below this table. And I came across something, you said showbiz, North London, and I came across this, holds up piece of card. CMB. Yes. What's that? Oh, call my bluff. Yes, it's a card from when I was on Call My Bluff.
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