"I know it's a slightly eccentric list..." 🥁 🥇 Don't miss Mark's top 10 films of 2025 in the latest Take 🎬 Did your favorite make the cut? 🤔 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/36b26b FULL SHOW on YT 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI2e8fmx40

⭐ Don't miss the best TV of the year in the latest Take 🎬 Here's Mark on one of his top picks of 2025 on the small screen 📡 Hear this and the Good Doctors' other faves of the year ranked in the full show 🤩 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/36b26b FULL SHOW on YT 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI2e8fmx40

🎬 Best & worst films of the year episode out now! 👍🍿👎 Get the Good Doctors' verdict on the cinematic bangers & clangers of 2025 📽️ Here's Mark on one of his worst of the year... hear it named & shamed in the full pod 😬 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/36b26b FULL SHOW on YT 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI2e8fmx40

"This is like some nightmare furries convention" 🫣 💙 We all know how much Mark loves the AVATAR films... Check out his full review in the latest Take 🎬 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3693f5 FULL SHOW on YT 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCr...

Paul Bettany talks AMADEUS on the Take 🎬 🎼 But can he impress Simon the Mozart superfan? 🤔 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3693f5 📺 FULL SHOW on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCrWXfyq7w + Don't miss our KATE WINSLET Christmas ep out now 🎁

Is your name Graham? Did you come to the Prince Edward? Is this your signed pic? Let us know and we’ll send it on

🎥 We seek your epistles please on new theatrical releases: 🍿 Home Alone 2: Lost In New York 🍿 The Polar Express (20th Anniversary, 4K Restoration) 🍿 The Shining (45th Anniversary) 🍿 Home Alone 🍿 Silent Night, Deadly Night 🍿 Fackham Hall

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ With Paul Bettany on the show this week we'd love to know your top career perforances please, film OR TV Give us your suggestions please ⤵️ and Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

All I want for Christmas is a cure for the Rage Virus 🧟🎁 Nia DaCosta reacts to festive Fiennes and gives us the lowdown on 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE in the latest Take 🎬 In cinemas Jan 🍿 + JASON ISAACS and loads more seasonal goodies from our Christmas live show! 🎄 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/364505

🔔!Wassail wassail wassail!🔔 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 🎧Listen pod.fo/e/364505

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.

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.

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ 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 ⭐

🗳️ 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

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

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🚐 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35fcce 📺 Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDNNluTyxY

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!

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ 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 ⭐

❌ 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 📽️ 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35b389 FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfY...

🎬 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)

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ 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 🍿 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35b389 FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfY...

🚨 Take Ultra is happening today at 12:30 🚨 Ultra Vanguardistas can join us here ⬇️ www.patreon.com/kermodeandma... 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... 😳 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35694c FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Wg...

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ 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 ⭐

❌ 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)

🎬 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 🍿 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35694c 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 ⛓️🏍️ 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/35694c FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Wg...

❌ 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)

🎬 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)

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙‼️ 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 ⭐

🫣 Which film is making Mark want to "beat his face against a wall"? 😬 Check out the latest Take to find out 🎬 + Edgar Wright on THE RUNNING MAN 🤩🏃‍♂️ & The week's biggest movies reviewed 🍿 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3523b0 FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxRzwqbNH8

"It's very nerve-wracking handing in your homework to the world's most famous English teacher" 😰 🤩 Edgar Wright joins Simon in this week's new pod to talk about his fresh adaptation of Stephen King's THE RUNNING MAN 🏃‍♂️ 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3523b0 FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxR...

TAKE ULTRA number 2 is now ready to view over on Patreon.

Nominate a UK cinema for induction into the Kermode and Mayo Movie Hall of Fame here: www.patreon.com/posts/hall-o...

1️⃣ ONE 🎞️ FRAME 🔙 With this week seeing the release of psychological thriller historical drama NUREMBERG, which features Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, we want to know your TOP RUSSELL CROWE PERFORMANCES... Give us your suggestions ⤵️ Mark will pick his favourite ⭐

❌ 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... 💩 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) 💩 Men in Black 2 (2002) 💩 Last Christmas (2019)

🎬 Only Monday but 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 Running Man (1987) ⭐ Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) ⭐ Compartment No. 6 (2021) ⭐ Infinity Pool (2023) ⭐ Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

🎬 Brand new Take out now—and it's IRL! Don't miss the Good Doctors in the flesh 👓👓 +Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and his son & director Ronan Day-Lewis on ANEMONE 🌼 Reviews🍿 👶 DIE MY LOVE 🎼 THE CHORAL 💥 PREDATOR: BADLANDS 🎧Listen pod.fo/e/34ca6a FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWdAeoKJhA

Over on Patreon, it's a @simonmayo.bsky.social photodump!

We're bringing our cinematic festive witterings to the Prince Edward Theatre in London at 2.30pm on Sunday December 7th. It's a Christmas matinee you won't want to miss! Guests confirmed so far are GURINDER CHADHA, OBE and JASON ISAACS (live from the US). Join us! www.fane.co.uk/kermode-mayo

The boys are back in town

Has Mark been banged up?! 🔒🗝️ Find out why he's seen the inside of the slammer in the latest Take 🎬 + Reviews of 👽 BUGONIA ☎️ RELAY 🕵️‍♂️ DOWN CEMETERY ROAD with special guest Ruth Wilson 🤩 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3475da Watch the FULL SHOW on YouTube 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRM...

❌ 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... 💩 Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) 💩 The Sweeney (2012) 💩 The Italian Job (2003)