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Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the week's movies

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review: Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall  and The Boss Baby 2: Family Business

Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall  and The Boss Baby 2: Family Business

BBC Radio 5 Live - Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall  and The Boss Baby 2: Family Business

Denis Villeneuve, Dune, The French Dispatch and The  Boss Baby 2.

Denis Villeneuve joins Simon and Mark to talk about his new film Dune. Plus reviews of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, The Boss Baby 2, Dear Evan Hansen and The Bacchus Lady.

Simon and Mark’s guest is Denis Villeneuve, who talks about his film Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya. 

Plus we have reviews of The Boss Baby 2: Family Business, in which the grown Templeton brothers have become  and drifted away from each other; The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel’s Western starring Regina King; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city, starring Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet and Christoph Waltz; Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate; Bigfoot Hunters, in which a  clickbait journalist is sent to the Appalachian foothills to cover a Bigfoot Convention and discovers there's more to this listicle than meets the eye; The Bacchus Lady, which deals with  the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea and Lucky Chan-sil, about a film producer who finds herself unemployed with the sudden death of her long-time collaborated director. 

Mark and Simon 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 instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. . 

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