Mark Kermode Live in 3D | Show 31 | June 2018

In last night’s MK3D, first off, comic genius and delightful person Richard Ayoade graced the stage to talk about one of his all-time favourite films Road House (1989), which he introduced at the Prince Charles Cinema later that evening. Mark and he talked about the two films he directed, Submarine (2010) and The Double (2013), and about Garth Marenghi, the spoof pulp horror author Richard developed for the TV series with Matthew Holness. We were tickled to hear the look of the character was based on William Friedkin.

Fenella Fielding, who has just been awarded an OBE for services to the arts and to charity, was due to join us next but was not well enough to come. Mark wished her well and we hope to welcome her on a next show.

Cult hit Hackers (1995) releases on Blu-Ray soon, featuring a commentary by Mark and director Iain Softly. One audience member said: Hackers is a cult film to everyone in computer science, so Iain Softley is pretty much God to us.” Mark and Iain talked about the computers, the aesthetic, and the sparks that flew on set between Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller, and the film’s fantastic soundtrack – which, we found out, features an uncredited David Gilmour. Another of Mark’s favourite Softley films is Inkheart (2008) starring Paul Bettany, and we had the joy of watching some of it.

In the news section Mark highlighted the reports that last month’s guest Terry Gilliam is being sued, and he might end up losing the rights to his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) – as yet to be settled. It inspired this month’s List-O-Mania of Mark’s Top Ten films involving Legal Battles. This was a great opportunity to watch a couple of pivotal scenes from Philadelphia (1993) with Denzel Washington and Legally Blonde (2001).with Reese Witherspoon.

Our final guest was Rob Brydon, who is in the upcoming Swimming with Men (2018), which was a chance to share some stories about The Trip (2010) and Cock and Bull Story (2005). His Guilty Pleasure was Superman 2 (1980), for the exquisite cool of Christopher Reeves and Margot Kidder.

Explaining why he chose this film – and that it wasn’t actually ‘guilty’ – he said to Mark: “Your people asked me to choose a film that…” To which Mark exclaimed: “People? People? I have one Person! That’s Hedda – she’s over there!”

Ace Producer Hedda Archbold – that’s me.

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