Kermode on Film

Mark and Jack discuss Disclosure Day, the new Spielberg film that raises some big questions. Not least: who's right?

Other films and people mentioned in this episode:

Disclosure Day
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Jurassic World
Indiana Jones
X-Files
Star Wars
Roswell
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Josh O'Connor
Arrival
The Butterfly Effect
Donnie Darko
Kurt Vonnegut
Mission Impossible
Beggars of Life
Wallace Beery
Jodie Foster
Matthew McConaughey
Silent Running
Doug Trumbull

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

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Mark Kermode and Jack Howard talk about indie horror movies BACKROOMS and OBSESSION taking the box office by storm.

Other films mentioned in this episode:
Together
Keeper
Hellraiser
Nightbreed
Citizen Kane
Evil Dead
Booksmart
Superbad
The Drama
Videodrome
The Exorcist
Hereditary
Weapons
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

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Part 2 of Mark Kermode and Jack Howard talking about Christopher Nolan's films at The Sun Pub on Drury Lane.

Films and books mentioned in this episode:
Tenet
The Prestige
Interstellar
The Odyssey
Inception
Oppenheimer
Insomnia
Batman Trilogy
Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad Movies
The Devils
Metropolis
Trainspotting
The Passion of Christ
The Death of Stalin
Troy
Minions

Books:
A Hard Day's Night by Samira Ahmed
Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music by Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson

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Part one of who-knows-how-many on Christopher Nolan's films.

Mark and Jack chat at their regular pub.

Other films and people mentioned in this episode:

Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Pirates of the Caribbean
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Following
Knowing
Nicolas Cage
Memento
Bait
Mark Jenkin
Insomnia
Erik Skjoldbjærg
The Prestige
Interstellar
Tenet
Back to the Future
Ludwig Göransson
Stanley Kubrick
2001 a Space Odysset
Doug Trumbull
Silent Running

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In this episode of Kermode On Film, Mark talks to journalist, writer and award-winning radio presenter, Samira Ahmed about her newly published BFI Classics book on The Beatles’ 1964 movie, A HARD DAY’S NIGHT.

Next, he talks to actress, Leisa Gwenllian and director, Marc Evans about their upcoming Welsh language feature, EFFI O BLAENAU. In cinemas from Friday 19th June 2026.

If you missed it, you can hear the other half of May’s MK3D on last week’s Kermode On Film, when Mark talked to Bob Odenkirk about his career including BREAKING BAD, BETTER CALL SAUL and his latest feature, NORMAL. Mark was also joined by NORMAL’s director and MK3D regular, Ben Wheatley.

Take a front row seat at the 113th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!
The MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:
Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.

Image by Julie Edwards.

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