About this episode

The episode discusses the release of Toy Story 5 and features an interview with actor Timothy Spall.

The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member-only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show—a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. The box office big beast this week is Toy Story 5, and we’re bringing you Mark’s verdict on this fifth instalment of the beloved Pixar franchise. It’s been a Take favourite since it first hit screens in the 90s and has never let us down so far, but can it really live up to the hype for the fifth film in a row? Plus we’ve got two more reviews from this weekend’s cinema slate. First up, Welsh language drama Effi o Blaenau, which recasts a Greek tragedy plot in working-class Cardiff. And from gritty modern drama to glossy period drama, there’s Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day - an ‘unromantic comedy’ based on a comic novel by modernist literature’s most famous feminist. It also…

People in this episode

Hosts: Simon Mayo, Mark Kermode

Guest: Timothy Spall

Topics covered

• Toy Story 5
• film reviews
• Pixar franchise
• Welsh language drama
• Virginia Woolf
• interviews

Keywords

• Toy Story 5
• Timothy Spall
• film reviews
• Pixar
• Effi o Blaenau
• Night and Day

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pixar

Books & works: Toy Story 5, Effi o Blaenau, Night and Day

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