THE SALT PATH: Simon and Mark’s reaction. Plus SUPERMAN

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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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. The wonderful Mark Gatiss is our guest this week. He joins Simon and Mark to talk ‘Bookish’—his new crime comedy passion project that sees him play a bookseller-turned-detective in postwar London. Plenty of whimsy, history, detective-fiction geekery and big love for weird archaic vocabulary in this chat, so don’t miss it—he's always a delight. Our Mark reviews the series, as well as the week’s big cinema releases. First up, ‘Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness’--a whirlwind imagining of three days in the life of bohemian artist Modigliani, directed by Johnny Depp and (briefly) featuring Al Pacino. And, of course, we’ll get the lowdown on the super-size blockbuster of this week: is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s ‘Superman’! We’ll also address this week’s ‘Salt Path’ news, with Mark and Simon reacting to the controversy surrounding the author of the original memoir, Raynor Winn. Since recording, Winn has published her response to the allegations which can be found here: https://www.raynorwinn.co.uk/ Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Salt Path discussion: 02:36 Modì: Three Days on the Wing of Madness Review: 11:54 BO10: 18:04 Mark Gatiss Interview: 27:37 Bookish Review: 42:19 Superman Review: 49:59 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] 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: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Netflix. Hello, Tate listeners. It's Ben Bailey Smith here. I've been watching some of the new docks. Netflix are dropping this month. Netflix is the place for fascinating true stories. This month is no different. We've got attack on London hunting the 7-7 bombers. This drops on the 1st of July. It is, of course, about one of the most devastating terror attacks on British soil and
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1:01.6	Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter and get an extra episode
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1:11.5	Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:14.2	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.
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1:40.7	A movie reviews and streaming too. Well, now here we go with you
1:45.9	And stream in too, it's Kermode-Mayor's text
1:51.0	With Mark Herbert and Simon Mayo
1:56.0	Well, now here we go with another take.
1:58.9	Thank you very much indeed for downloading us.
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