Mark Kermode

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9,389 appearances 18 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Mark Kermode’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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Old secrets must be outed.

All of which involves a trip to merry England, first to London, and then to the rural countryside in search of a way to break the curse again.

Also back are Diane.

I always get this wrong.

Is she Weist, Weist, Weist, Weist?

Has she ever starred in a film by Nick Vinding Refn?

No, anyway, her and Stockard Channing with Rachel Weisz.

That's right, yeah.

And none of them had vertigo.

As lovable aunts Jet and Frances, who appear to have wandered in from a remake of Hocus Pocus.

So, look, it took nearly three decades to get this sequel.

Honestly, watching it felt like it was taking three decades to watch it.

I mean, it's 130 minutes long.

It should have been 89 minutes long maximum.

It is lumbering, contrived, inert.

It is a sort of hodgepodge cross between The Witches of Eastwick and Harry Potter.

without the subversive energy of the former or the playful magic fun of the latter.

And the main problem is the writing.

It is written like an accountant's log of mechanical plot points and contrived character machinations.

I mean, it is like watching a group of writers writing

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