Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews

• Updated:
  Weekly
• Average duration:
  40 minutes

Recent episodes (9)

• Paranormal Activity, 27 Nov 09

  Fri, 27 Nov 09

  Duration:
  41 mins

  The Good Doctor, Mark Kermode, discusses the supposedly terrifying Paranormal Activity, made on a tiny budget but with big scares. He also looks at Law Abiding Citizen and The Nativity Story, as well as more chat about Twilight.

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• The Twilight Saga: New Moon, 20 Nov 09

  Fri, 20 Nov 09

  Duration:
  28 mins

  Mark and Simon review this week's big movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon as well as the latest from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man, and Matt Damon in The Informant. Plus the UK Box Office Top Ten and all the other essential ingredients that make for wittertainment.

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• 2012, 13 Nov 09

  Fri, 13 Nov 09

  Duration:
  49 mins

  The Good Doctor Kermode tears into Roland Emmerich's latest CGI offering, as well as casting his critical eye over Michael Caine in Harry Brown and the unnerving thriller White Ribbon.

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• The Men Who Stare At Goats, 06 Nov 09

  Fri, 6 Nov 09

  Duration:
  45 mins

  Author Jon Ronson is in the studio for the review of the film version of The Men Who Stare At Goats. Also reviewed are Jennifer's Body; Fourth Kind; Christmas Carol; Bright Star; and Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno.

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• Michael Jackson's This Is It, 30 Oct 09

  Fri, 30 Oct 09

  Duration:
  28 mins

  Floyd and Boyd are reunited to review this week's movies as Mark is away for half term. Reviewed this week are: 9, Michael Jackson's This Is It; An Education. Plus the Box Office Top Ten and your emails, texts and tweets.

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• Fantastic Mr. Fox, 23 Oct 09

  Fri, 23 Oct 09

  Duration:
  43 mins

  As part of 5 live's Octoberfest, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode broadcast live from Screen 10 of the Vue cinema in Hull. The Good Doctor reviews Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep, and wonders what Roald Dahl would have made of it.

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• The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, 16 Oct 09

  Fri, 16 Oct 09

  Duration:
  47 mins

  Mark returns from sick leave to review this week's big movies, including Heath Ledger's final performance in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Also under review are: Pontypool; Couples Retreat; Thirst; Triangle.

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• Up, 09 Oct 09

  Fri, 9 Oct 09

  Duration:
  53 mins

  With the Good Doctor downed by swine flu, Nigel Floyd and Boyd Hilton review Up in 3D, Zombieland and Love Happens. Simon also speaks to Kevin Smith, director of Clerks and now author of books and podcasts.

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• The Invention of Lying, 02 Oct 09

  Fri, 2 Oct 09

  Duration:
  47 mins

  Mark and Simon tackle Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying, Pandorum, Army of Crime and Driving Aphrodite in this week's wittertainment. And they try to find an answer to the all important question "would you electrocute a prawn with a ray gun?"

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