Kermode on Film

Mark Kermode and Jack Howard discuss Matt Johnson's Canadian comedy Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie at the Sun pub in London's West End.

Other films mentioned in this episode:
Back To The Future (1985)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
The Hangover (2009)
Borat (2006)
Backrooms (2026)
Obsession (2025)
Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
The Holdovers (2023)
Blackberry (2023)

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production
Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop
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Mark Kermode and Jack Howard talking about Christopher Nolan's films at The Sun Pub on Drury Lane.

Films mentioned in this episode:
The Odyssey
Oppenheimer
The Dark Knight
Inception
Tenet
Interstellar
The Prestige
Dunkirk
Batman Begins
Memento
The Dark Knight Rises
Insomnia
Following

Silent Running
The Exorcist
Knowing

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production
Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop
© HLA Agency
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Kermode On Film, Mark talks to Olivia Cooke about HOUSE OF THE DRAGON series 3, and about working with Steven Spielberg.
Next, he welcomes Ronni Ancona to the stage to talk about comedy, impressions, EASTENDERS and her new feature THINK OF ENGLAND.
Finally, in a special pre-record, Mark talks to Lucy Darwin, founder and curator of the Provence Arts Film Festival.
The festival runs from 29th July - 1st August. Tickets are available now from https://provencearts.com/en/book/

If you missed it, you can hear the other half of June’s MK3D on last week’s Kermode On Film when Mark talked to Ellen E. Jones about radio 4 series BOMBSHELL: FIVE FACES OF MARILYN MONROE (available on BBC Sounds) and to filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her documentary feature ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA, about beleaguered Teesside fishers whose journey through grief to finding power in community, is full of wry humour.

Take a front row seat for the 114th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!

MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:
· Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson,
Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
· Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal
Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
· Withnail & I (Bruce
Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
· The Exorcist (William Friedkin,
Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.

Image by Julie Edwards.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

© HLA Agency
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Kermode On Film, Mark talks to journalist, broadcaster and film critic, Ellen E. Jones about celebrating 100 years of Marilyn Monroe in her radio 4 series BOMBSHELL: FIVE FACES OF MARILYN MONROE (available on BBC Sounds). The series coincides with a BFI Season celebrating Marilyn's centenary, titled MARILYN MONROE: SELF-MADE STAR.

Next, Mark talks to filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her documentary feature ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA, in which Jeanie worked with the beleagured Teeside fishers, charting their journey through grief and wry humour to finding power in community. ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA will screen in cinemas in autumn 2026.

Tune in to next week’s Kermode On Film to hear the other half of June’s MK3D when Mark talks to Olivia Cooke about HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (season 3) and to Ronni Ancona about comedy, impressions, EASTENDERS and her new feature, THINK OF ENGLAND. Plus Mark talks to Lucy Darwin, founder and curator of the Provence Arts Film Festival.

Take a front row seat for the 114th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!

MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:
· Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
· Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
· Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
· The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.

Image by Julie Edwards.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

© HLA Agency
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark and Jack discuss Disclosure Day, the new Spielberg film that raises some big questions. Not least: who's right?

Other films and people mentioned in this episode:

Disclosure Day
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Jurassic World
Indiana Jones
X-Files
Star Wars
Roswell
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Josh O'Connor
Arrival
The Butterfly Effect
Donnie Darko
Kurt Vonnegut
Mission Impossible
Beggars of Life
Wallace Beery
Jodie Foster
Matthew McConaughey
Silent Running
Doug Trumbull

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production
Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop
© HLA Agency
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.