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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review: Keira Knightley, Encanto, House of Gucci and Pirates

Keira Knightley, Encanto, House of Gucci and Pirates

BBC Radio 5 Live - Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, Keira Knightley, Encanto, House of Gucci and Pirates

Keira Knightley talks to Simon about her role in Silent Night. Plus film reviews.

Keira Knightley talks to Simon about Silent Night. Plus reviews of Encanto, House of Gucci, Pirates, First Wave, Lapwing, A Boy Called Christmas and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.

Keira Knightley talks to Simon about her role as Nell in Silent Night. 

Plus reviews of new Disney animation Encanto, about a young Colombian girl who has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers;  House of Gucci, which features last week’s guest Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci, and tells the story of Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, who marries into the Gucci family; Pirates, written and directed by Reggie Yates, and tells the story of three eighteen-year-old friends on their journey from North to south London on New Year's Eve 1999; documentary  First Wave, which follows nurses, doctors, and administrators as they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic; historical drama Lapwing, about an isolated group of salt farmers who arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Indian Gypsy family in hiding; A Boy Called Christmas and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn;father Christmas origin story A Boy Called Christmas and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, about a school teacher who  finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. 

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