Kermode and Mayo's Take

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Tis the season Take fans—and this week's pod brings our LIVE Christmas Spectacular straight to your ears👂🎁

Featuring 🥁
🧟‍♂️ Nia DaCosta on January's 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
🤩 Jason Isaacs saying HELLO! from the US
+ Reviews & onstage antics

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Hat ✅ Pipe ✅ Sunglasses ✅ Horse's Head ✅ Take Ultra at 12.30 today ✅

🌟 As is traditional, we'll be remembering those we have lost this year in our end of year show. Please share your memories either here, or email them to the normal address.

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The live recording of our fortnightly extra show TAKE ULTRA is happening tomorrow: Join us for Box Office chat in GROSSLY REMARKABLE. We'll reveal our INDEPENDENT CINEMA
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE and we'll begin our regular awards chat in AWARDS SCHMAWARDS... and of course HOT TAKES AND COLD COMFORT.

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With the 23rd of December seeing the release of our KATE WINSLET CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, we'd like to know your top Winslet roles please - FILM OR TV!

Give us your suggestions please ⤵️ and Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

Free members can also vote

[VOTE NOW] HALL OF FAME: INDEPENDENT CINEMA | Kermode & Mayo's Take Get more from Kermode & Mayo's Take on Patreon

🗳️ Vote now for induction into the Kermode and Mayo Hall of Fame: Independent Cinema
✒️ The 5 finalists are:
🎬 @princecharlescinema.com
🎬 HEBDEN BRIDGE PICTURE HOUSE
🎬 SHOWROOM CINEMA
🎬 HOME, MANCHESTER
🎬 UPP, OXFORD

Winner will be announced on our fortnightly extra show, TAKE ULTRA, this week

me, in a theatre bar in London, with a plastic gold trophy reading "WINNER", which I won

delighted to have won the inaugural Wittertainment Peace Prize tonight, ty @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social truly honoured beyond words

Me and Kerry in front of the stage at Prince Edward theatre for the live Kermode and Mayo event.

We went to the @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Live Take and my wife Kerry was the loudest, most shameless and frankly dishonest, and hence won a Peace Prize. Well deserved!

⏱️ It's that time of year again
⬆️⬇️ Mark will be picking his best and worst films of 2025
🎥 We'd love your top and bottom 5 lists please
📲 Reply below or email the normal address!

"How can you mess this up?! And the answer is, so many ways..." 🫣

Spoilers for this week's brand new Take: Mark does not love FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 😡

🎬 Full review in the pod +
ETERNITY😇
JAY KELLY🎭
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT🚐

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📺 Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDNNluTyxY

OK you're in - can you please email the normal address with your seat number, a couple of interesting things about yourself and your top 3 films please? Thanks and see you on Sunday

We've had a drop out for our SIMON AND MARKSTERMIND film quiz at the live show on Sunday. If you'd like to enter then please let us know below. AMAZING PRIZES AT STAKE!

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With this week seeing the release of KNIVES OUT: WAKE UP DEAD MAN, we'd like to know your top Daniel Craig roles (Ads, TV appearances, TV dramas and film) that AREN'T James Bond.

Give us your suggestions please ⤵️ and Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

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❌ And... It's WEEKEND NOTLIST time
📝 Which of these is to be MOST avoided and why?
🎥 Anything that DOESN'T deserve to be on the list?
👇 Let us know below...

💩 JAWS THE REVENGE (1987)
💩 SNATCH (2000)
💩 HOME ALONE 3 (1997)

🤩 Noah Baumbach joins us to talk JAY KELLY in the latest Take 🎬
Here he is on his writing partnership with Emily Mortimer ✍️

+ Reviews of 🍿
🥊 CHRISTY
🏍️ PILLION
🐍 ZOOTROPOLIS 2
& more 📽️

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FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfY...

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🎬 It's already WEEKEND WATCHLIST time
🥇Pick your fave from these 5 films on free TV next weekend - and predict kermodemovie.bsky.social 's choice...

⭐ The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
⭐ You Were Never Really Here (2017)
⭐ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
⭐ Knives Out (2019)
⭐ King Richard (2021)

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With this week seeing the Netflix release of JAY KELLY, we'd like to know your top top ADAM SANDLER DRAMATIC ROLES...

Give us your suggestions please ⤵️ and Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

🏍️ ⛓️ PILLION: everyone's favourite new Dom-Com classic?

Check out Mark's full review in the latest Take 🎬

+ CHRISTY 🥊
ZOOTROPLOLIS 2 🐰🐍
NOAH BAUMBACH on JAY KELLY 🤩
& more 🍿

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FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfY...

🚨 Take Ultra is happening today at 12:30 🚨

Ultra Vanguardistas can join us here ⬇️
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Join the Ultra Vanguard to get in on it 🙌

🚨 New TAKE ULTRA live tomorrow 26th November at 12:30 🚨

⏰ Set your alarms, Ultra Vanguardistas!

And the rest of you—sign up on our Patreon page to get in on it ➡️ www.patreon.com/c/kermodeand...

See you there 🫡

Alexander Skarsgård says his new movie PILLION is a "classic Dom-Com" 😂

⛓️🏍️ Hear him unpack the spicy BDSM biker comedy drama with Simon in the latest Take 🎬

We guarantee you've never seen anything like it before... 😳

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FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Wg...

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With this week seeing the release of CHRISTY, we'd like to know the Best Boxing Movies... That Aren't Rocky.

Give us your suggestions ⤵️ Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

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❌ And... It's WEEKEND NOTLIST time
📝 Which of these is to be MOST avoided and why?
🎥 Anything that DOESN'T deserve to be on the list?
👇 Let us know below...

💩 Jaws 2 (1978)
💩 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
💩 Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

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🎬 It's already WEEKEND WATCHLIST time
🥇Pick your fave from these 5 films on free TV next weekend - and predict kermodemovie.bsky.social 's choice...

⭐ The Mouse That Roared (1959)
⭐ Flash Gordon (1980)
⭐ The Northman (2022)
⭐ Apocalypse Now (1979)
⭐ The Impossible (2011)

"He's the man who refuses to die" 💪

🙌 SISU fans rejoice—SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is here 💥

Catch Mark's review in the latest Take 🎬

+ WICKED: FOR GOOD, THE CARPENTER'S SON & Alexander Skarsgård on PILLION 🍿

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FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Wg...

WICKED double bill anyone? 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️

🍿 Don't miss Mark's verdict on the musical smash sequel + SISU, THE CARPENTER'S SON & more in this week's new Take 🎬

+ 🤩 Alexander Skarsgård on PILLON ⛓️🏍️

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FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Wg...

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❌ And... It's WEEKEND NOTLIST time
📝 Which of these is to be MOST avoided and why?
🎥 Anything that DOESN'T deserve to be on the list?
👇 Let us know below...

💩 PS I Love You (2007)
💩 The Holiday (2006)
💩 Dolittle (2019)

Mark Kermode (@kermodemovie.bsky.social) LAST aisle seat on the left. Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.

🎬 It's already WEEKEND WATCHLIST time
🥇Pick your fave from these 5 films on free TV next weekend - and predict kermodemovie.bsky.social 's choice...

⭐ The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
⭐ The Creator (2023)
⭐ Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
⭐ No Bears (2022)
⭐ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

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With this week seeing the release of SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, we want to hear your FAVOURITE REVENGE MOVIES.

Give us your suggestions ⤵️ Mark will pick his favourite ⭐