Ryan Reynolds, Free Guy, The Courier, Wendy and I’m Your Man

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Ali and Robbie’s guest this week is Ryan Reynolds, who talks about his role as a bank cashier who discovers that he's actually inside a brutal, open world video game in Free Guy. Robbie and Ali also review Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier, about Cold War spy Greville Wynne trying to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis; Coda, about Ruby, who is the only hearing person in her deaf family; Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin’s film Wendy, a reimagining of Peter Pan; Minamata, which stars Johnny Depp as war photographer W. Eugene Smith who travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities; WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, Jed Rothstein’s documentary about the collapse of the office space company; and Dan Stevens in I’m Your Man, about a scientist who in order to obtain research funds for her studies, accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. What’s That Film continues, in which your mysterious half-remembered films are (hopefully) identified. Ali and Robbie 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 instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 00:15:34 Box Office Top 10 00:35:03 Minamata review 00:43:54 Ryan Reynolds interview 00:55:38 Free Guy review 00:59:45 The Courier review 01:08:53 TV Movie of the Week 01:12:57 Wendy review 01:18:15 WeWork review 01:33:47 I'm Your Man review 01:41:46 Coda Review

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.3	So Robbie, I know you saw this on Twitter.
0:07.5	Hello, I'm Ali, by the way.
0:09.1	This is Robbie Collin.
0:10.1	Hello Ali.
0:11.1	I tweeted these words in this order.
0:13.4	What are your favourite, least favourite movie-reviewing clichés?
0:16.7	And my example for this was New York is a character in its own right.
0:22.1	You know, that sort of thing.
0:23.4	And I was wondering because we are the double critic, double header here on our
0:27.2	entertainment. It might be fun to just talk around that because everyone
0:31.9	love hates things like, it's like insert other movie title here on insert
0:39.0	recreational drug here.
0:41.0	It's like gladiator on ketamine.
0:44.4	Is it like, is it though?
0:46.4	What was like gladiator on ketamine?
0:49.4	Try.
0:50.4	There you go.
0:51.4	That really was like gladiator on ketamine as well.
0:53.2	That just came out of my head, but that really is a great description of it.
0:56.6	Maybe in that case, the cliché holds.
0:58.4	Yep, you know what, I take it all back.
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