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May 2021
1h 51m

Emma Stone, Cruella, First Cow, The Conj...

Bbc Radio 5 Live
About this episode

Mark and Simon are joined by Emma Stone, who talks about her role in Disney’s Cruella, along with director Craig Gillespie.

Plus your essential cinematic and streaming reviews including; frontier drama First Cow, which stars last week’s guest Toby Jones; Surge, in which Ben Whishaw plays a man who goes on a 24 hour bold and reckless journey of self-liberation; new animations Earwig And The Witch, about an orphan girl who is adopted by a witch and comes home to a house filled with mystery and magic and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train; Dinner in America, a romcom about a disaffected punk and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly falling in love; Ira Sach’s Frankie, in which three generations grapple with a life-changing experience during one day of a holiday in Portugal; and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest in the horror franchise starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Alberta.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’.

00:14:48 Celebrating Cinema 00:17:22 Digital releases 00:19:34 Box Office Top Ten 00:30:50 Director of Peter Rabbit 2, Will Gluck interview 00:52:36 First Cow review 00:54:48 Dinner In America review 00:57:58 Emma Stone and Craig Gillespie interview 01:13:04 Cruella review 01:16:21 Frankie review 01:18:23 North American Movie Road Trip 01:23:35 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It review 01:27:48 Earwig and the Witch review 01:29:49 Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train review 01:31:30 TV Movies of the Week 01:36:36 Surge review 01:45:43 DVD of the Week

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