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May 2021
1h 45m

Sigourney Weaver, Tilda Swinton, Those W...

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In the last show back before cinemas reopen, Mark and Simon are joined by Sigourney Weaver, who talks about her new film My New York Year.

Plus your essential streaming reviews including Taylor Sheridan’s action drama Those Who Wish Me Dead, which stars Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult, Lance Oppenheim’s intriguing documentary Some Kind of Heaven, about the lives of people in a Floridian retirement village, Undergods, Oxygen (Oxygène), Alexandre Aja’s film about a woman who wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and Servants, about two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.

Plus there’s another chance to hear from Tilda Swinton about her new film, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, a reworking of Jean Cocteau’s play of the same name.

Our rotating and final chart is Top Five of Your Life, in which listeners share their five most treasured films.

Plus Mark and Simon’s Movie Road Trip continues into Yukon.

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.

00:28:06 Celebrating Cinema 00:31:58 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life 00:37:35 Current releases 00:41:05 Servants review 00:43:30 Sigourney Weaver interview 00:58:31 Those Who Wish Me Dead review 01:03:21 Tilda Swinton interview 01:06:00 The Human Voice review 01:09:05 North American Movie Road Trip 01:13:00 Spiral: From the Book of Saw review 01:21:01 Lobbydown Correspondents 01:25:35 Undergods review 01:28:35 TV Movies of the Week 01:30:53 Some Kind of Heaven review 01:32:30 Oxygen review 01:37:42 DVD of the Week

Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

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