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

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review: Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria  and Save the Cinema

Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria  and Save the Cinema

BBC Radio 5 Live - Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream, Ascension, Memoria  and Save the Cinema

Sir Kenneth Branagh, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Scream, Ascension, Memoria & Save the Cinema

Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about Belfast. Mark reviews The Tragedy of Macbeth, Cow, Scream and Save the Cinema. Plus the Box Office Top 10, WTF? and TV Movie of the Week.

Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his new film Belfast. 

Mark reviews Scream, set twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro; Joel Coen’s adaptation of Sir William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, about a Scottish lord who becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland; Save the Cinema, which tells the story of Liz Evans, who started a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema; documentary Ascension, which explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream."; Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, about a woman from Scotland, who while traveling in Colombia begins to notice strange sounds; Andrea Arnold’s Cow, a close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release. 

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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We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment

00:00:00  Podcast starts
00:25:10   Box Office Top ten
00:52:10   Chuckles Branagh
01:11:50   WTF
01:15:04   Save the Cinema
01:20:40   TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK
01:24:15   Ascension
01:29:08   Memoria
01:37:10   Scream
01:48:05   Cow
01:52:15   The Tragedy of Macbeth

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