Snow White: Mark’s Verdict
Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole e...
20 Mar 20251h 18min
Ashley Walters & Erin Doherty on Adolescence
Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole e...
13 Mar 20251h 15min
Now and Ben: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, British winters & his iPad obsession
It’s ‘Mickey 17’ release day, and Ben is chatting to Director Bong Joon Ho in today’s episode to celebrate. Starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable worker on a colonized ice planet, the new film...
7 Mar 202514min
Daisy Ridley’s surprise BAFTA + Mark on Mickey 17
Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole e...
6 Mar 20251h 4min
Best birdsong ever from Robert Carlyle
Begbie himself, and surely a frontrunner for British cinema’s scariest man (on screen only, we might add), is our guest this week—it’s Robert Carlyle. This time he’s playing staunchly moral councilor ...
27 Feb 20251h 5min
Now and Ben: Angela Bassett on Zero Day, Strange Days and The Simpsons
We’ve got a bona fide icon for you in today’s Now & Ben—a movie star of four decades known for tackling tough female characters in films like ‘Boyz n the Hood’, ‘Malcolm X’, ‘What’s Love Got to Do wit...
21 Feb 202515min
A film of the year already – is it The Monkey?
Welcome to another show jam-packed with top takes from Simon & Mark—which are still eliciting your ‘quiet affirmative noises’... Reviews this week of The Monkey—a splattery and slanted dark comedy ...
20 Feb 20251h 5min
Did Bridget Jones make Mark cry? + Stephen Graham & Malachi Kirby
We hope this week’s podcast will earn your ‘quiet affirmative noises’--whatever they might sound like...??? Listeners to last week’s show may remember one correspondent’s story of a film eliciting thi...
13 Feb 20251h 7min
