1 hour 25 minutes | Thursday, 17 September 2026
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Legendary French actress Juliette Binoche is our special guest this week. She’ll be talking to Simon about her new film Queen at Sea, a hard-hitting drama examining the tensions and taboos of caring for a family member with Alzheimer’s. Plus we’ll hear a little about her dance documentary directorial debut In-I in Motion - which is also released in the UK this week. She even challenges Simon to get on the dancefloor…now that we would like to see…
Mark reviews Queen at Sea, as well as three more big screen releases - it is, as they say, a packed show. We’ll get his verdicts on Resident Evil - an adaptation of the hugely popular videogame from Weapons director Zach Cregger - as well as dark classroom satire Bad Apples, starring Saoirse Ronan, and the latest Aardman animated treat, Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.
Plus an uncharacteristically quite-funny Laughter Lift (which we really did need this week…), and all your excellent correspondence. Keep it coming please!
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Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:09:51 Resident Evil review
00:20:20 Box Office Top Ten
00:31:52 Juliette Binoche interview
00:48:02 Queen at Sea review
01:00:04 Laughter Lift
01:03:12 Bad Apples review
01:12:38 Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review
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