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Mar 2022
1h 51m

Sean Baker, Red Rocket, Turning Red, Wol...

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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Director Sean Baker talks about his new film Red Rocket, about a washed-up adult film actor who returns to his small Texas hometown,

Mark will also review Feast, about the infamous 2007 HIV incident in the Dutch city of Groningen, Turning Red, the latest animation from Disney, about a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited; new horror The Seed, about a girls’ weekend away in the Mojave desert which becomes a tale of horror, death and alien invasion; Great Freedom, set in post-war Germany, when homosexuality was still criminal; The Adam Project, which stars Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, and Walker Scobell in a story about a time-travelling fighter pilot who teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future and Sideshow, about two inept criminals who break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot, and ‘get a lot more than they bargained for’, and Wolf, a drama about a boy who believes he is a wolf, starring Gorgeous George MacKay.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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’.

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00:00:00 Podcast starts 00:23:20 Simon announces that the show will be ending on April 1st 00:27:00 Top Ten 00:51:30 The Seed 00:54:30 Sean Baker interview 01:08:10 Red Rocket interview 01:13:27 WTF1 01:15:12 Turning Red 01:21:20 TV Movies 01:27:38 The Adam Project 01:31:48 Great Freedom

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