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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria and Save the Cinema

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his new film Belfast. Mark reviews Scream, set twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro; Joel Coen’s adaptation of Sir William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, about a Scottish lord who becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland; Save the Cinema, which tells the story of Liz Evans, who started a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema; documentary Ascension, which explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream."; Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, about a woman from Scotland, who while traveling in Colombia begins to notice strange sounds; Andrea Arnold’s Cow, a close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows. Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. 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 00:00:00 Podcast starts 00:25:10 Box Office Top ten 00:52:10 Chuckles Branagh 01:11:50 WTF 01:15:04 Save the Cinema 01:20:40 TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK 01:24:15 Ascension 01:29:08 Memoria 01:37:10 Scream 01:48:05 Cow 01:52:15 The Tragedy of Macbeth

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.4

Yeah Mark, shall I read you this?

0:07.7

What's that hang on?

0:08.9

Sorry, can we do the traditional thing?

0:10.7

Oh okay, alright.

0:12.0

It's the first one of the years isn't it I think?

0:13.6

It's our first one of the year, people were being delighted by people other than us

0:17.4

last weekend apparently very good.

0:19.5

No, I mean I think they're not, I mean, possible.

0:23.3

But you know, this is the one I mean.

0:24.7

Didn't get the show taken off here.

0:27.0

That's true.

0:27.6

Which, that's our job.

0:29.0

I would like to say when I started working at five live,

0:32.2

when it was five live, when you were at radio one,

0:34.1

we are going to go back to the, what's up?

0:36.1

The thing that we were told to do was just don't drop off air.

0:40.0

That's true though, we're minimum requirements.

0:41.9

We're minimum requirements.

0:42.6

Anyway, all I'm just going to say is,

0:43.9

Oy Mark, what's up with your bed self?

0:47.2

An happy new year.

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