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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Vin Diesel, FF9, Freaky, Fear Street, Another Round & Cannes preview

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Ali and Robbie are joined by Vin Diesel who talks about his new film Fast and Furious 9. They will also review Nick Broomfield’s examination of the unsolved murders of hip-hop artists Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur; Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning story of four secondary school teachers who consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives; Michelle Pfieffer as an ageing Manhattan socialite in French Exit; Vince Vaughn & Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and a schoolgirl who swap bodies; Chris Pratt in actioner The Tomorrow War; Fear Street Part 1: 1994, the first in a trilogy based on the books by R.L.Stine about a circle of teenage friends who accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years; and Robbie will also preview the Cannes Film Festival and they’ll briefly review Fast and Furious 9. Ali and Robbie will also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week which this week features a Dad Joke Battle. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to [email protected] for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. 00:07:28 French Exit review 00:17:18 Celebrating Cinema 00:20:26 Digital Releases 00:25:55 Box Office Top 10 00:43:45 Last Man Standing review 00:53:51 Another Round review 01:08:42 Vin Diesel interview 01:18:11 F9 review 01:23:52 Fear Street Part 1: 1994 review 01:29:53 Cannes preview 01:34:52 Freaky review 01:41:48 TV Movies of the Week 01:46:54 The Tomorrow War review 01:56:16 DVD of the Week Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.4

Hello everyone, my name is Ali Plum. I may be an unfamiliar voice to many. I am a film critic.

0:11.6

Hello, Ali. Yeah, it's nice to say that loud. I am a film critic. You may have heard me on

0:16.9

Radio One and One Extra or seen me on Radio One's iPlayer channel where you can find all of my

0:22.0

interviews with a great and good of Hollywood or perhaps you've heard me on my podcast, which

0:26.0

is called Amazingly Radio One Screen Time where you can wait for it. Join Radio One's resident

0:31.7

film buff, Ali Plum, me for movie news, reviews and extra behind the scenes fun.

0:38.4

Now look, I know your buffery by reputation of course, but we should never assume that the

0:43.6

witter team and audience know who you are, new boy. So I've taken the trouble to do a little bit of

0:49.2

digging and by that I mean copied and pasted out your agent's description. So here is,

0:54.1

Ali Plum is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and one of the most-haired movie critics in the UK.

1:00.2

A five-year Empire magazine veteran and former Digital Spy movies editor,

1:04.4

Ali is now BBC Radio One and One Extra's in-house film critic, appearing weekly on Greg James's

1:10.0

Breakfast Show and Nick Grimshaw's Drive Time Show. His iPlayer interview series movies with

1:15.8

Ali Plum sees him speaking to A-Listers, such as Jennifer Lawrence, Steven Spielberg, Emma Stone

1:21.3

and Tom Cruise with numbers on YouTube hitting as high as the 9 million mark. He's hosted press

1:28.0

conferences for blockbusters like Star Wars The Force Awakens, I remember that was a good one,

1:31.6

and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as Q&As and fan events with the likes of Skyluch

1:35.4

Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and John Boyega. Does that about coverage? We do your top five

1:41.9

top five all-time performances, best film score, as best something else, what do you think?

1:46.6

Just quick moment to acknowledge that I'm dying because I like a lot of English and British

1:50.7

people cannot abide compliments and that was hell, but also thank you that was lovely.

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