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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Simon Pegg, Medusa, Squaring the Circle & While We Watched

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The terror of wondering whether Tom Cruise has died. Writing the rulebook for shooting in a pandemic. The artistic mediocrity of AI. Even more Tom Cruise! This week’s episode sees Simon sit down for a chat with another iconic Simon, the brilliant Simon Pegg, who has once again strapped on his harness to join the Mission Impossible crew for its seventh stunt-filled, death-defying outing. Mark reviews ‘Medusa’, a drama about a young woman who leads a vigilante girl gang enforcing Christian standards in Brazil; ‘Squaring the Circle’, a documentary about the creative team responsible for some of the most iconic album artwork of all time; and ‘While We Watched’, a turbulent newsroom documentary that intimately chronicles the working life of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar, who risks his life to tell the truth about India today. Time Codes (relevant only when you are part of the Vanguard): 10:05 Name me Lawand review 23:41 Box Office Top 10 38:38 Peter Sohn interview 53:25 Elemental review 57:29 Laughter Lift 00:31 Mission Impossible review 01:14:22 What’s on You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo 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: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I just got a message from the company who were responsible for our taxi drive in.

0:46.8

Okay. Did we want to tip the taxi driver?

0:51.2

Yeah, he's my tip. Get a map. Yeah. So, cab driver today arrived at my house where

1:01.8

Mark has been living in the caravan for a while, as you know, and his opening words were,

1:07.0

where is this? Sorry. He said, where are we? And it sort of went downhill from there.

1:17.0

The weird thing was, he had a satnav, but it appeared not to know where it was. Yeah.

1:23.9

It was like, it was as confused as anyone else. I'd said, cab from, I got horrendously lost

1:31.5

and had got on the wrong train out of Houston and ended up in Cheltenham when I should have been

1:35.4

in Exeter. And through a long convoluted thing, I ended up in like in a mini cab going from

1:42.7

Cheltenham to Exeter, which is quite a long journey. And as we set off having given all the

1:47.8

instructions to the correct place to take me, taxi driver said, is this near London?

1:55.5

I said, sorry, he said, is Exeter near London? So, that was, I had been planning to sleep because

2:03.0

it was like one in the morning. Yeah. But I decided I should probably stay awake.

2:06.6

When we used to broadcast out of White City, remember back up in the day. And if you come out of

2:15.1

White City, there's a road called the Westway, which connects that part of London with central London.

2:20.4

You literally go on to it and you drive in a straight line and it's always a traffic jam,

2:23.1

but it's a straight line into the central London. The Westway is my favourite road because it goes

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