Mark Kermode Live in 3D | Show 25 | December 2017

In Here’s the Thing, Neil Brand came to talk about the Cinema Museum, formerly the workhouse where Charlie Chaplin lived and currently under threat of closure. Neil stayed on to play the piano throughout the show. Mark and Neil played the Get Carter (1971) theme tune on the piano and double bass, to introduce our next guest, director Mike Hodges, here to talk about Get Carter, Flash Gordon (1980), and about Nick Triplow’s book Getting Carter. In List-O-Mania Mark gave us a list of Christmas Movies That You Don’t Think Are Christmas Films. Gemma Arterton joined us to talk about her Guilty Pleasure, the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, a childhood favourite. She also talked about her upcoming projects, Vita and Virginia (2019) and The Escape (2017). She closed the show by singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as a homage to Judy Garland in Meet Me In St Louis (1944), accompanied by Neil Brand on the grand piano.

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