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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Tom Hanks, The Personal History Of David Copperfield and The Grudge.

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hanks talks A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. Plus film reviews including Bad Boys for Life, Armando Iannucci’s Dickens adaptation The Personal History Of David Copperfield, psychological horror The Grudge, and supernatural horror The Turning. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten, we tell you the best and worst films on TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. TIMINGS 00:22:52 Top Ten 00:46:05 Tom Hanks interview 01:05:22 No Fathers in Kashmir 01:08:26 The Personal History of David Copperfield 01:17:34 The Man who Killed Don Quixote 01:24:02 Paw Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue! 01:34:27 The Turning 01:40:06 The Grudge

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

Well, welcome to another podcast, but it's not going to get very far because Mark is busy reading a magazine.

0:10.9

One of his favourite magazines.

0:12.9

So let me just see if I can attract his attention.

0:15.0

Say Mark.

0:16.4

Say Simon, sorry, you're just dragging me away from the new issue of film stories.

0:19.7

Film stories.

0:20.5

Now what's interesting about this film stories magazine?

0:24.0

Very fine. Film stories.

0:25.3

A lengthy, I mean, several pages of stuff about whittetayment.

0:30.2

But what's interesting is the sheer level of fiction involved.

0:34.8

It is.

0:35.4

It is eight pages talking about people other than us who are responsible for making the show great.

0:42.0

I've never heard of any of them.

0:43.2

No, I know.

0:44.0

Simon Paul apparently is working on the show all week.

0:47.4

Class used to me.

0:48.6

And you know, it's astonishing.

0:51.3

I mean, it's almost like he's working us with his foot.

0:54.2

Plus, and it makes him sound as though he's actually doing the whole thing.

0:57.2

Yeah. And I never knew he worked very much in the control booth, a carnival of screens,

1:02.5

keyboards and cat five cables.

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