In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark is joined by longtime collaborator and filmmaker Jack Howard for a live conversation recorded at Latitude Festival 2025.
Mark and Jack return to the Latitude stage to explore the current state of cinema, offering their perspectives on everything from Hollywood blockbusters to indie gems. With plenty of humour, insight, and disagreement along the way, the pair debate the highs and lows of modern filmmaking, reflect on recent releases and, with the audience, hazard a guess at who will be the next Bond.
Films mentioned
- 28 Years Later
- A Complete Unknown
- A Minecraft Movie
- A Real Pain
- Arrival
- Avatar
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Avengers: Endgame
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Babygirl
- Blade Runner 2049
- Casino Royale
- Clown in a Cornfield
- Companion
- Dangerous Animals
- Dune
- Flow
- Friendship
- Godzilla
- Happy Gilmore (1 & 2)
- Hard Truths
- Harvest
- Hallow Road
- Heaven’s Gate
- Hot Milk
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010 & 2025)
- I Think You Should Leave
- I’m Still Here
- Jurassic World: Rebirth
- Last Swim
- Lilo & Stitch (2002 & 2025)
- Lollipop
- Longlegs
- M3GAN 2.0
- Memoir of a Snail
- Megalopolis
- Mickey 17
- Monsters
- Ne Zha 2
- Never Say Never Again
- Nickel Boys
- No Time to Die
- Nosferatu
- On Falling
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- One Battle After Another
- Protein
- Restless
- Santosh
- The Second Time Around
- Sinners
- Sister Midnight
- Superboys of Malegaon
- Superman
- The Brown Bunny
- The Brutalist
- The Cable Guy
- The Creator
- The End
- The Fall Guy
- The Last Showgirl
- The Lion King (1994 & 2019)
- The Marching Band
- The Monkey
- The Phoenician Scheme
- The Return
- The Seed of a Sacred Fig
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Shrouds
- The Stimming Pool
- The Surfer
- Titanic
- Tornado
- Warfare
- Wicked
- When the Light Breaks
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