Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett and Christos Nikou, who talk about their new film Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia.

Plus your essential streaming reviews including Black Bear, which stars Aubrey Plaza, documentary Sisters with Transistors which tells the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, House of Cardin, a documentary about designer Pierre Cardin which gives exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and new Homeward, in which a father and a son from a Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea, and Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, about Alan Ladd Junior, the man who greenlit some of cinema's greatest hits including Star Wars, Alien, Chariots of Fire and Thelma & Louise.

Our rotating chart this week is Top Fives of Your Life, in which wittertainees share their five most treasured movies.

Plus Ben and Anna will be looking forward to the Oscars.

They 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.

00:13:40 Oscars look ahead 00:20:08 Celebrating Cinema 00:26:09 Current releases 00:31:07 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life 00:36:40 Black Bear review 00:42:28 Cate Blanchett & Nichos Kristou interview 01:04:15 Sisters with Transistors review 01:08:27 Oscars look ahead part 2 01:15:12 House of Cardin review 01:20:18 Stowaway review 01:23:32 TV Movies of the Week 01:33:57 The Race to Save the World review 01:36:23 Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies review 01:39:39 Homeward review 01:44:22 DVD of the Week

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