Kermode and Mayo's Film Review · BBC Radio 5 Live

Steve Zahn, Cowboys, End of Sentence, Mortal Kombat and Fried Barry

·1 hr 46 min·5 clips
Steve Zahn explains why his bipolar father character kidnaps his transgender son in a desperate escape to Canada.
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo review films like Cowboys, Apples, and Mortal Kombat, featuring an interview with Steve Zahn about his role as a father in a transgender story. They also discuss cinema's future post-pandemic with analyst David Hancock and cover quirky listener emails on fonts and statues.

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A lively film-talk episode where the jokes, corrections, and detours are half the point.

This episode does what the show does best: film talk, listener mail, and the kind of side roads that keep it moving. A T-shirt joke turns into a running thread, a pronunciation fix becomes a small standoff, and the talk about cinema, streaming, and the post-lockdown future of…

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For when you want a lively film review that wanders from cinema-versus-streaming chatter to a very specific T-shirt argument.

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