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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Bond, Box Office and Burning Questions with Mark Kermode and Jack Howard

Films mentioned