Mark Kermode

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9,969 appearances 19 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard today

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

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Kermode & Mayo’s Take · Has PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 got Mark spellbound? + NICOLAS WINDING REFN · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

And Evans is left traumatized because this lightning in a bottle partnership between him and this perfect musical partner is interesting.

Bill Pullman said, you know, one of them was very confrontational.

The other didn't like confrontation, but somehow between them, they had this synthesis.

But that partnership has now been extinguished with devastating results.

Here is a clip from the trailer.

I love the sound of his voice when he says that.

Yeah, the great Bill Evans, isn't that?

He has got an amazing voice, hasn't he?

I mean, he is a real proper presence.

Anyway, so what then happens is that Evans retreats into solitude, into heroin addiction, briefly moves in with his brother before being sent to Florida to the home of his parents, played by Laurie Metcalf and Bill Pullman, who you heard there as the father.

And most of the film then plays out there in this remote location away from New York City, away from his life.

And as I said, the source novel is called Intermission.

I haven't read this.

Have you read the source novel?

I have not.

Okay.

But Bill Pullman talks about...

how it's about an intermission in a musician's life.

And the quote that Pullman said to you is, sometimes an intermission is part of the music, which I thought was a lovely phrase.

And so just as the relationship between those two players was the heart of the music,

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