Peter Strickland, Uncle Frank, The Kid Detective, Patrick and Skyfire

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Simon are joined by Peter Strickland who talks about his new film Cold Meridian. We’ll also have your essential streaming film reviews including The Kid Detective, about a once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, who continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, Skyfire, starring Jason Isaacs in a disaster movie about volcanoes. And Uncle Frank, starring Paul Bettany. Mark and Simon also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and will recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week and count down the top 10 digital films in the Official Film Chart. 00:33:44 The Australian Box Office Top 10 00:48:48 Peter Strickland Interview 01:06:21 Skyfire 01:16:23 Patrick 01:25:13 Uncle Frank 01:30:16 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK 01:33:31 Kid Detective 01:39:32 DVD OF THE WEEK Download our 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
0:04.4	Well, let's start this podcast and if I just don't want to have crackle all the time,
0:12.8	Mark, is it crackle coming through?
0:14.2	Have you got crackle?
0:15.2	No, I feel like I've got snap and pop, but I haven't got crackle.
0:19.3	Anyway, golly, golly just...
0:21.8	Do you get crackle now?
0:24.4	Yeah, absolutely.
0:25.4	Okay, that's no good.
0:26.6	That's your end.
0:28.4	There's a bit in the new Netflix drama, The Queen's Gambit, which is all about chess,
0:35.1	where Anja Taylor Joy is who is our star, who is our chess player, is sort of working
0:45.6	her way through a very kind of sexist crowd of 1950s to 1960s chess players.
0:52.3	And she's playing this one particular arse, basically.
0:55.6	And he shows how his disrespect by getting out his comb and combing his hair halfway through
1:03.0	the game, he's just combing his hair and everyone just wants to punch his face.
1:07.7	Anyway, it was interesting to know you've got a comb in your back pocket and you were just
1:13.4	combing your hair just now.
1:15.0	No, okay.
1:16.5	So let's be clear about this.
1:17.9	Firstly, thank you for referring to me as an arse.
1:20.7	No, I wasn't.
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