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Jun 2020
1h 47m

Armando Iannucci, White Riot, 7500 and R...

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Mark and Simon are joined by Armando Iannucci, who talks about his movie The Personal History of David Copperfield. Plus all your essential streaming film reviews including Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, Jesse Eisenberg in Resistance, The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance during World War II, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pilot whose aircraft is attacked by terrorists and White Riot, about the Rock Against Racism movement.

Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing on streaming services, we tell you the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week, and Hanks for Listening features an inspiring Tom Hanks speech, plus we count down the best hiking and trekking movies.

00:29:00 Top 10 - Hiking and Walking Movies 00:46:42 Joan of Arc 00:53:24 Lockdown Correspondents 00:58:42 On A Magical Night 01:02:55 White Riot 01:08:55 Armando Iannucci 01:25:53 7500 01:28:40 TV MOVIE(s) OF THE WEEK 01:33:02 Resistance 01:36:46 Hanks for Listening 01:41:47 DVD OF THE WEEK

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