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Jul 2021
1h 54m

Vanessa Kirby, The Croods 2: A New Age, ...

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About this episode

Mark and Simon are joined by Vanessa Kirby who talks about her film The World to Come.

Mark reviews animated sequel The Croods 2: A New Age; The Forever Purge, the fifth film in the American anthology media franchise; Nowhere Special, which stars James Norton as a young father searching for the perfect replacement family when he learns he only has months left to live; Questlove’s concert documentary Summer of Soul; Jean Dujardin in Deerskin and Two of Us, a drama about two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, who have been secretly in love for decades.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip continues into Newfoundland and Labrador.

Plus for one week only, a quiz called ‘Where’s Ray?’

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’.

00:17:49 Box Office Top 10 00:42:18 Nowhere Special review 00:46:46 Vanessa Kirby interview 01:04:52 Two Of Us review 01:07:08 Ordering Food Scene 01:10:40 The Forever Purge review 01:15:21 North American Movie Road Trip 01:22:49 Summer of Soul review 01:28:02 TV Movies of the Week 01:33:24 Deerskin review 01:36:51 Where’s Ray? 01:43:29 The Croods: A New Age review 01:50:05 DVD of the Week

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