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Jul 2021
1h 38m

Jungle Cruise, Old, Vivo, Space Jam, The...

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Mark reviews musical animation Vivo, which features all-new original songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright’s documentary about the seminal band, who were our guests last week; James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, the ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 2016 film, in which a team of dysfunctional heroes are sent on a dangerous mission; equestrian animation Spirit Untamed, in which a girl goes to live with her father over the summer in a small town, where she befriends a wild mustang stallion; Jungle Cruise, which stars The Rock and Emily Blunt in a film based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travellers through a jungle; Limbo, a British comedy drama in which a Syrian musician awaits the result of his asylum application on a remote Scottish island and The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a documentary about the Swedish actor Björn Andrésen who achieved instant stardom as a teenager in the 1971 film Death in Venice. Plus Mark finally reviews Space Jam and M. Night Shyamalan’s Old.

And Mark and Simon’s North American Movie Road Trip concludes with films that best represent Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

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’.

00:11:46 Celebrating Cinema 00:15:09 Box Office Top 10 00:24:21 Old review 00:30:02 Space Jam: A New Legacy review 00:36:27 Ordering Food Scene 00:38:32 Jungle Cruise review 00:43:03 WTF? (What’s That Film?) 00:50:33 Limbo review 00:53:41 Vivo review 00:57:10 Spirit Untamed review 01:01:43 North American Movie Road Trip 01:07:46 The Sparks Brothers review 01:16:10 TV Movies of the Week 01:20:36 The Suicide Squad review 01:26:58 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review 01:30:08 DVD of the Week

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