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Do you have a critical inner voice? Ben and Nemone explain why. Also, forgotten actors who are enjoying a renaissance and your questions answered - SHRINK THE INBOX
CARRIE BRADSHAW – How to fight the patriarchy and stop obsessing over relationships – SHRINK THE BOX
What is the best Meryl Streep film of all time?
JACKSON LAMB in SLOW HORSES: Do spies make the best therapists? – SHRINK THE BOX
Cine-world cup, 1984: the BEST film of the best year for cinema, evs
Alien: Romulus – Mess or Masterpiece?
THE WIRE’S Bubbles: How do you help an addict? – SHRINK THE BOX
PEAKY BLINDERS’ Polly Shelby: the silent observer in all of us – SHRINK THE BOX
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S “Taystee”: Adoption, Child States and Attachment Theory – SHRINK THE BOX
Does EVERYONE love Twisters… except Mark?
REESE WITHERSPOON and JENNIFER ANISTON’s Alex and Bradley tackle sexism and false selves on The Morning Show - SHRINK THE BOX
TYRION LANNISTER knows how to play the Game...of Thrones SHRINK THE BOX
SYDNEY ADAMU: when will she reach her boiling point?
SYDNEY from THE BEAR: when will she reach her boiling point? SHRINK THE BOX
CHANDLER BING: could it BE any more complicated? SHRINK THE BOX
MICHAEL SCOTT invites you into The Office: SHRINK THE BOX
LARRY DAVID: Curb star who falls out with everyone in SHRINK THE BOX
TOMMY SHELBY: We Peek Behind the Blinders in SHRINK THE BOX
Vicky McClure, If, Two Tickets to Greece & Hoard
CERSEI LANNISTER’s Power Behind the Throne: SHRINK THE BOX
S2,Ep1: SHRINK THE BOX: The hidden story behind Frasier Crane (Frasier)
Dev Patel, Monkey Man, Evil Does Not Exist, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Seize Them!

Accompany a leisurely drive

Emilia Pérez: Have We Found the Film of the Year?
Mark Gets to Legitimately Rant About Donald Trump Because He’s Reviewing a Film About Him
Another Transformers Film? What Will Mark Think?
Joker: Folie à Deux – BETTER THAN JOKER?
Megalopolis: "The Cinematic Equivalent of Toothache”
The Substance: “Everything Cranked Up To Eleven-ty and Then Some”
Mark’s Thoughts on a New Film About a Pompous Critic + Sir Ian McKellen
M NIGHT SHYAMALAN!! making his Take debut...
We Made Mark Kermode Watch Sex and the City 2 Again
Deadpool & Wolverine: Top or tiresome?
SOMETHING ABOUT DEADPOOL OR Should Simon and Mark embrace a Brat Girl summer?
Fly Me to the Moon, Hundreds of Beavers, Longlegs & Despicable Me 4
Ti West, Maxxxine, Blue Lock The Movie – Episode Nagi & Kill
Jesse Plemons and Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Asif Kapadia & Joe Sabia, Federer: Twelve Final Days, Green Border, The Exorcism & The Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols, Freud’s Last Session, Arcadian & Inside Out 2
Richard Linklater, Hit Man, The Dead Don’t Hurt & Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Benedict Cumberbatch, Eric, The Beast & Sting
George Miller, Furiosa, In Flames & The Garfield Movie
John Krasinski and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Made in England, La Chimera & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Josh O’Connor, La Chimera, Love Lies Bleeding, The Idea of You & The Fall Guy
Ordinary Angels, Boy Kills World, I.S.S., Challengers & The American Society of Magical Negroes
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Highlights and Lowlights so far this year
Kirsten Dunst & Alex Garland, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, The First Omen & Back to Black
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow, Mothers’ Instinct & Silver Haze
Oscars 2024 Best Picture Special
Raging Grace, Priscilla & Scala!!!, BEST and WORST films of 2023

Binge during a cross-country road trip

Cate Blanchett, The New Boy, Monster & Drive Away Dolls
Ava DuVernay, Origin, The Inventor & High and Low – John Galliano
Denis Villeneuve & Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two, Four Daughters & Lisa Frankenstein
Denis Villeneuve & Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two, Red Island & Lisa Frankenstein
Jonathan Glazer, Perfect Days, Madame Web, Shoshana & Wicked Little Letters
Michael Winterbottom, Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son, Bob Marley: One Love & The Taste of Things
Jeffrey Wright, Cillian Murphy, American Fiction, Oppenheimer Revisited, The Zone of Interest in & Argylle
Andrew Haigh, All Of Us Strangers, Baghead & The Color Purple
Daniel Kaluuya, The Kitchen, The End Where We Star From & The Holdovers
Emma Stone and Ramy Youssef, Poor Things, The Disappearance of Shere Hite & The Boys in the Boat
James Hawes, One Life, Night Swim & Good Grief
Zack Snyder, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, The Boy and the Heron & Ferrari
Taika Waititi and Jaiyah Saelua, Next Goal Wins, What Happens Later, The Three Musketeers: Milady & Godzilla Minus One
Paul King & Simon Farnaby, Wonka, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain & Leave the World Behind
George Mackay, Femme, Jason Isaacs, Archie & Eileen
Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, Jodie Whittaker, Napoleon, One Night & The Eternal Daughter
Todd Haynes, May December, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels & Saltburn
Emerald Fennell, The Automat, Anatomy Of A Fall & Dream Scenario
Gabriel Byrne, Dance First, How To Have Sex, Bottoms & The Killer
Thelma Schoonmaker, Peeping Tom, Typist Artist Pirate King, Cat Person & Five Nights at Freddy’s
Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel, Foe & Killers of the Flower Moon
Laura Linney, The Miracle Club, Blackberry, Silver Dollar Road & The Fall of the House of Usher
Gareth Edwards, The Exorcist: Believer, The Burial, The Great Escaper
Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money, The Creator & Saw X
Alice Troughton, The Lesson, Dumb Money & Expend4bles
Timothy Spall, Bolan's Shoes, A Haunting in Venice & Brother