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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Sir Michael Caine, Halloween Kills, Venom, Ron’s Gone Wrong, The Last Duel and The Velvet Underground

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Sir Michael Caine talks about his new movie Best Sellers, about a cranky, retired author who reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher. Plus we have reviews of Halloween Kills, starring Jamie Lee Curtis in the continuing saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode; The Last Duel, Sir Ridley Scott’s film about King Charles VI declaring that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and starring Jodie Comer; Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Andy Serkis’s sequel starring Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Williams; The Velvet Underground, Todd Hayne’s documentary about the seminal sixties band; Ron's Gone Wrong, the story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device; and Ear for Eye, Debbie Tucker Green’s film following British and American Black characters of different generations navigating their way through today's society, offering a critical perspective on the state of the nation. Mark and Simon 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. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment 03.00: CORRESPONDENCE 20.24: CELEBRATING CINEMA 24.05: BOX OFFICE TOP TEN 48.40: HALLOWEEN KILLS 56.28: GUEST: SIR MICHAEL CAINE 01.15.24: RON’S GONE WRONG 01.20.40: WTF 1 01.26.00: TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK 01.31.10: THE LAST DUEL 01.42.42: EAR FOR EYE 01.47.79: NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN 01.51.40: WTF 2 01.55.59: VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE 02.02.25: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 02.10.35: DVD OF THE WEEK

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Can I just say, in my headphones, Simon is very loud and I'm very quiet.

0:11.0

Not this again.

0:12.0

I mean, I'm sorry.

0:13.0

I hear it half way down.

0:14.0

Literally.

0:15.0

And we're back.

0:16.0

Are we recording?

0:18.0

Okay.

0:19.0

So essentially, I'm getting like quadrasonic mayo, but I am quiet.

0:24.3

So either it's all the same.

0:27.0

It's not all the same.

0:28.0

It's like you're really loud and I'm really...

0:29.8

They've given me the weedy one again.

0:31.9

You know.

0:32.9

Some things don't change.

0:34.3

No, but when I was at home, some things did change because I had the microphone that

0:38.1

had whatever it was and I could adjust my own volume.

0:42.6

Yeah.

0:44.6

No, I know.

0:45.6

I know.

0:46.6

He's the...

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