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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Timothy Spall, Bolan's Shoes, A Haunting in Venice & Brother

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Don’t worry, Mark and Simon are back for good! This week’s episode sees Simon sit down with the humble and delightful Timothy Spall, who is in the studio to discuss his new film ‘Bolan’s Shoes’, a melodrama about the enduring legacy of childhood trauma and the deep bonds of sibling love set to the music of the film’s namesake, T-Rex's Mark Bolan. Our own iconic Mark also offers his thoughts on the film, along with reviewing ‘A Haunting in Venice’, Kenneth Brannagh’s stab at a Poirot murder-mystery, which sees the famous detective investigating a murder while attending a Halloween séance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, and ‘Brother’, a Canadian drama about the sons of Caribbean immigrants dealing with issues of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto’s early hip-hop scene. The Box Office Top 10 and What’s On are covered as usual. Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are ad-free!): 08:54 Brother Review 21:31 Box Office Top Ten 35:22 Timothy Spall Interview 50:30 Bolan’s Shoes Review 58:27 Laughter Lift 01:01:05 Haunting in Venice Review 01:08:39 What's On You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] 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: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Dr. Karen from the referral podcast here just dropping in to bust yet another myth,

0:04.7

but this time it's not medical. Now it's a common misconception that a TV licence is just

0:10.0

for watching stuff on a TV, rather than a laptop or a phone, and you only need it if you're watching

0:15.0

BBC content. This is false information. The licence gives you access to over 400 live TV channels too,

0:22.4

for around 44p a day. You can get your licence and find out more info at www.tvl.co.uk slash pod.

0:39.6

Maybe the start of this podcast is the right place to mention. If there are any involuntary

0:46.0

gasps or Billy Bunt has started Yarros or Oofs or owls, they're all coming from Mark and his

0:58.0

general state of health. I put my back out, but it's just to be clear as to how this happened.

1:05.7

So it was Sunday and the good lady professor was just doing a bit of gardening and she said,

1:13.1

could you just pull out that small tree? But she's doing the gardening, so why didn't she pull out

1:19.0

this? Obviously, she's not butch enough for that. So she turns to her now 60-year-old husband

1:28.4

whom in a wonderfully loving way, she still views as someone who can do that kind of thing.

1:33.6

And I, of course, being asked, can you do this? My answer is always yes. Like if you said, could

1:38.8

you lift that car up? I would say yes, you know, could you? Of course, exactly. So I go over,

1:44.0

this is quite small tree, like a mere stripling of a thing. So it's like a sapling.

1:50.6

That's sapling. It's like a plant, really. And I put both my manly hands around it,

1:56.7

and I have big hands. Yes, and I yank, and then I, oh, and then I remember that when I had

2:02.8

back surgery, remember when you and I were working together and I had back surgery because I

2:06.3

collapsed because two of my discs exploded. And all the insides of them went inside. It was

2:12.4

all very bad. And I was in hospital for a while. You came and visited me. I remember this.

2:17.0

And I was told, be very careful with your back. I forget that people told me that. And so now it's

2:23.9

several days later, and I am still walking on the squiff and going, oh, you need to remember that

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