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Ich got some issues mit Brüno's ichssues

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000

After the success of Ali Gi and Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen had a good run as a sideshow in Talladega Nights, Sweeney Todd, and those Madagascar cartoons. Now he is back doing what he does best with Brüno - but has staying true to his original principles also become a little bit 2006?

Blog reply replies: A matter of opinions

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Never let it be said that there is no freedom of speech on Kermode Uncut: you can be as totally wrong as you like. And in other news, how does a person pronounce the surname "Bowie." Is it possible to be apsolutist about it?

Review: PUBLIC ENEMIES

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0000

So after a summer of horrible giant robots it's fantastic news that Michael Mann, the genius auteur behind Manhunter, The Insider, and Heat is back with a new movie, the story of John Dillinger, the most famous bank robber in American history. Brilliant news, isn't it? Isn't it?

Doctors at Large

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000

After years of bickering about movies on the radio, Doctor Simon Mayo has agreed to join me for a televisual feast of Wittertainment in the shape of 'The Screening Room'. Recorded for the Culture Show, this mini series will be appearing on your televisions and iPlayers next month. Here's a little behind the scenes preview.

Five Live in Edinburgh: the Best Bits

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:18:29 +0000

Over the weekend, Mark joined Simon Mayo and a live audience at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with guests including Jimi Mistry, Alan Cumming, Ian Hart, Andrew McDonald, Duncan Jones and Bill Forsyth.

Go to Mark on Five Live for more reviews and film debate.

(Please note this content is only available to UK viewers).

Edinburgh versus Cannes: No Contest

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:14:36 +0000

Great films, great people and moderate weather are all you need for a happy film festival and this year's EIFF scored highly on all of the above counts. I also got to share a stage with Sam Mendes and if you tuned into Five Live last week you'll know we did the Friday Simon Mayo show live too. Here's a little taster before we put up the edited highlights later on...

Terminator Redemption?

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:36:00 +0000

In your replies to my review of Terminator Salvation some of you felt my analysis was compromised. You were all wrong. I see everything.

Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, The Rock, Pearl Harbor... in a way, this is a review of all of Michael Bay's work.

Kermode Uncut 2.0: Public Service Announcement

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000

The powers that be have had a look at Kermode Uncut and elected to spruce us up a bit. I must say I'm jolly delighted and here is a short introduction to the important changes that will affect you the blogging viewer.

Can movies still cause a moral panic?

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Horror movies Child's Play, Severance, the Evil Dead, video games such as Grand Theft Auto, and even old action movies like Die Hard and the Towering Inferno can be identified as potential triggers for properly anti-social behaviour and worse... at least according to your blogs this week they all can.

5 Live Review: The Last House On The Left

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000

The Last House On The Left, a remake of the controversial 1972 horror movie of the same name.

Also watch previous blog entry The Last House on the Left but one.

Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate.

(Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)

Silent Movie Special

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0000

With my band The Dodge Brothers I recently got to play along to a live screening of a silent movie. With us was Neil Brand, whose mellifluous skills as a silent movie accompanist have been widely celebrated by Paul Merton among others, and a jolly and rather revelatory time was had by all.

Review: Terminator Salvation

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:51:41 +0000

Me and bloody McG.

This is not the future your mother told you about. It is so much worse than anything Terminators 1, 2 and even the reviled 3 could possibly have prepared you for. It is a dystopic nightmare of unimaginably bad film making, where Christian Bale loses the will to act, and every special effect is all the less special for being in this film. It is the future world of McG, and I for one have some key advice for the director behind the Charlie's Angels movies and this unmitigated disaster of a sequel.

Tab me to hell

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:40:24 +0000

A recent tragic murder in an English woodland was accompanied by a brief yet fervid surge of tabloid outrage that pointed the finger of blame at British horror farce Severance. But as it's ages since the original Evil Dead video nasty saga and more than a decade and a half since the furore surrounding the Child's Play movies, is it not time we moved on?

Tautou Blues

Mark Kermode Mark Kermode — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:00:00 +0000

My recent suggestion that Audrey Tautou may not be the greatest actress France has ever produced (if not, indeed, the least), was met with a wall of blogger chivalry that revealed just how deep the cordial of entente continues to run in the hearts of so many of you, so deep in fact that even her work in Amelie escapes censure...