Todd Haynes, May December, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels & Saltburn

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Simon meets director Todd Haynes to discuss his thorny, new offering ‘May December’, which stars the powerhouse duo of Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, and tells the story of a seemingly perfect married couple’s marriage buckling under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their notorious tabloid romance twenty years prior. Mark also weighs in on the film, along with giving his thoughts on ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’, the latest instalment of the dystopian kids franchise, which sees Rachel Zegler star as a defiant female tribute from the impoverished District 12; ‘The Marvels’, the second instalment for Brie Larson’s titular superhero Captain, which sees Carol Danvers get her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe; and ‘Saltburn’, Emerald Fennell’s class-skewering psychological thriller, which she was on the show to talk about last week. Plus, Mark and Simon take us through the Box Office Top 10 and the film events worth catching in this week’s What’s On. Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are ad-free!): 09:53 Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Review 21:55 Box Office Top Ten 30:37 The Marvels Review 35:43 Todd Haynes Interview 56:26 Laughter Lift 01:00:15 Salburn Review 01:11:44 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	Looking down the street, have we not got a clock here?
0:09.0	Looking down the street,
0:10.0	have we not got a clock here, look was he counting down and you know how everybody agrees
0:19.2	that Black Friday is ludicrous and only based on the fact that it's the day after
0:26.0	Thanksgiving in America which we don't celebrate I mean it's not a bad festival to
0:30.1	have it seems to me but why why can we have input in Thanksgiving where you to have
0:33.2	input in Thanksgiving where you all sit around and eat
0:36.7	as opposed to the Black Friday thing
0:39.1	which makes no sense.
0:40.3	The sense it makes is that there's a day when the shops are closed and then
0:43.2	afterwards everyone has to go mad and go back to the shops but they're not
0:45.9	closed here because we you know because we don't do Thanksgiving. However having
0:51.0	said that I noticed that our merchandise for next week on the 20 said, 24th and 25th,
0:58.3	COB&MAYO take merch, has 20% off. On Black Friday. On a Black Friday is a marvelous tradition and it's great that we have
1:05.5	hands across the ocean to link up with our transatlantic colleagues. That's right. And I, and just to make me feel
1:11.8	slightly better, I am going to have a Thanksgiving sandwich.
1:15.0	Are you? Next Thursday.
1:16.0	What's that going to consist of?
1:17.0	And I know something for which I'm very thankful.
1:19.0	That's what it has to be.
1:21.0	And I'll go around thanking people people just to make me feel thankful. Yes, there's a very good Eddie Isard sketch
1:28.1	about the about Thanksgiving when they when the pilgrims having said you know they arrive and this marvelous
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