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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Summer Holiday Highlights of the year so far

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you.  It’s a lovely highlights show for your summer holiday this week, where mark and Simon will be bringing back all the highlights of the year in film so far. You’ll hear all the greatest hits from our guest interviews with Justin Kurzel, Craig Mazin and Domhnall Gleeson.  And reviews of Sinners, Bring Her Back, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Adolescence, Death of a Unicorn (oy!), Jurassic World: Rebirth (yeesh!) and Another Simple Favour.  Reminisce and relive it all with us—and it’s back to school with a brand new pencil case, more new reviews and shiny starry guests next week.      Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free):  Bring Her Back: 03:43  Sinners: 07:45  The Ballad of Wallis Island: 13:17   Justin Kurzel: 18:20  Death of a Unicorn: 25:44  Another Simple Favour: 31:09  Jurassic World: Rebirth: 36:41   Domhnall Gleeson: 41:32  Adolescence: 46:57  Craig Mazin: 58:02      You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo  Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey   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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0:00.0

Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter and get an extra episode every Thursday.

0:06.1

Including bonus reviews.

0:08.0

Extra viewing suggestions.

0:09.6

Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.

0:12.4

Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.

0:16.8

You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit-related devices.

0:23.9

There's never been a better time to become a Vanguard Easter.

0:26.7

Free offer, now available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.4

And if you're already a Vanguard Easter, we salute you.

0:34.8

We salute you.

0:45.4

It's a very boring technology conversation, but we're recording this in a slightly different way,

0:49.4

like on a 15 iPS roll of tape.

0:53.1

15 inches per second for those from a previous physical era.

0:59.7

And we get a 54321 countdown, which is a visual thing, which I think is using exactly the same font as was used for the Thunderbirds TV show.

1:09.2

5.4.3.

1:10.5

It's that. It's that. Definitely. Thunderbirds are go. So anyway, that's what this is. So August, what a great month it's been for me. Has it been a great month for you, Mark? I see you have particularly square glasses on today. You've seen these before. They're different glasses to normal. Yeah, but they're not your normal. Well, I mean, the point is, Simon, I now, I have 10 pairs of glasses.

1:31.6

The only two, three things I change are my glasses, my T-shirt, or my tie.

1:36.9

Everything else I wear is the same.

1:39.0

Week in, week out.

1:41.1

So, underpants, always the same.

2:34.3

No, clean, clean undergarments on, you know, but just in terms of the, you know, the present. So if I'm this, it's always a t-shirt, you know, drill, tradable jeans and a Harrington, but it's a different t-shirt and maybe a different Harrington. And if it's a suit, it's always the same suit, but a different tie and different thing. So I literally wake up in the morning and I have a line of glasses and I choose which pair of glasses I am going to wear on that day. And it makes me happy. Other people would start in showbiz world, I wake up, they would say, I wake up in the morning and I have a line, no, I just have a line. But you have a line of spectacles to choose from. I have one set of spectacles and you're looking at them. And now I'm feeling a little bit nervous that I need at least a few hours. Well, you do need at least a backup pair because what happens if that's, have you got a spare set? Only from about 20 years ago.

2:35.5

How would you feel...

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