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Mar 2021
1h 42m

Liam Neeson & Micheál Richardson, Judas ...

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About this episode

Mark and Simon are joined by Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson, who talk about their new film Made in Italy, about a bohemian artist who travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house he inherited from his late wife.

Plus your essential streaming reviews including Judas and the Black Messiah, which stars Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, about the FBI’s infiltration of The Black Panthers, crime romance Locked Down, in which a couple, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathway, attempt a high-risk, high-stakes jewellery heist at a department store and Cherry, which stars Tom Holland as an Army medic suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

Plus Mark and Simon’s US Movie Road Trip continues through Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska.

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 audio review of any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

Download our podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment

00:29:46 - CHART 00:37:27 - THE COLLUMIST REVIEW 00:44:45 - LIAM NEESON AND MICHAEL RICHARDSON 01:02:46 - MOUTHPIECE REVIEW 01:08:42 - US MOVIE ROADTRIP 01:15:48 - JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH REVIEW 01:21:11 - TV MOVIES OF THE WEEK 01:24:25 - THE LITTLE THINGS REVIEW 01:26:55 - LOBBYDOWN CORRESPONDENTS 01:30:12 - LOCKED DOWN REVIEW 01:34:30 - DVD OF THE WEEK

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