Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 72 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. ‘Warfare’ co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza join us this week to talk about the astonishing new film that aims to put modern conflict onscreen in the most authentic way possible. With an ensemble cast of soldiers featuring Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, and Joseph Quinn, the film’s events are based on the real wartime experiences of Mendoza (who is played by D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai). He’s a former Navy SEAL and Iraq veteran who has used his expertise to advise filmmakers presenting war onscreen, including Garland on ‘Civil War’. Now he’s collaborating with Garland again to tell his own story and that of his colleagues in this truly powerful film. Plus we’ve got reviews of ‘The Penguin Lessons’—the true story of an English teacher in turbulent 1970s South America who unexpectedly befriends the waddling creature of the film’s title, after rescuing it from an oil slick—and ‘Blue Road’, the literary doc on the colourful life of Irish writer Edna O’Brien. Don’t miss an Easter treat in the Laughter Lift this week too... Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): The Penguin Lessons: 08:54 Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Interview: 29:44 Warfare Review: 43:30 Laughter Lift Easter Special: 57:48 Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story: 1:00:39 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] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here. Now, I am a self-diagnosed documentary addict. Unfortunately, Netflix is serving up some serious fare this month.
0:09.0	First up, streaming right now is Diamond Heist, which is a premium doc series produced by the doyen of Geesea pictures, Guy Ritchie.
0:16.4	It's the story of a plan to steal a diamond in a hall worth 350 million pounds but here's the thing it's
0:22.4	all told firsthand by the perpetrators themselves and the squad who foiled them it's presented
0:28.4	with all the trademark crash bang and wallop you'd expect and if you're still hungry for more
0:33.9	there's two other true stories coming to Netflix this month. Bad influence, the dark
0:38.6	side of kid fluencing, which is this doc that tells some unsettling truths about child influences
0:44.1	via the story of viral star named Piper Raquel and Oklahoma City bombing, American Terror,
0:50.6	all about the tragic events in Oklahoma back on April 19, 1995. Now, you're not going to get
0:56.3	this selection anywhere else. So start streaming today on Netflix. Hello, Simon Mayo here.
1:02.2	And Mark Herbert here. Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter
1:06.6	and get an extra episode every Thursday. Including bonus reviews.
1:11.2	Extra viewing suggestions.
1:12.8	Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:15.6	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.
1:20.0	You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit
1:26.0	related devices.
1:27.1	There's never been a better time to become a Vanguard Easter.
1:29.9	Free offer, now available wherever you get your podcasts.
1:32.6	And if you're already a Vanguard Easter, we salute you.
1:50.6	If we could get a proper voiceover guide to do previously on COVID-Dameau,
1:51.5	that would be... That's a really, really good idea.
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