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John Hawkes, Nomadland, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Wild Mountain Thyme

Mark and Simon are joined by John Hawkes, who talks about his new film End of Sentence, about a widower and his estranged son’s journey to honour a last wish.

Mark and Simon are joined by John Hawkes, who talks about his new film End of Sentence.

Plus your essential streaming reviews including big Oscar winner Nomadland, Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as lovers in Ireland who get caught up in a family land dispute, Michael B Jordan as John Clark, a US Navy SEAL, who goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy in Tom Clancy adaptation Without Remorse. We’ll also review The Artist’s Wife, about the wife of a renowned abstract artist who is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a new science fiction comedy produced by Sony Pictures for Netflix.

Our rotating chart this week is the Official Film Chart.

Plus Mark and Simon’s US Movie Road Trip concludes with Alaska and Hawaii.

They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.

Send us your sub 20 second audio review of any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk.

00:25:18 Celebrating Cinema
00:27:14 Current releases
00:29:31 Chart: Official Film Chart
00:36:41 Identifying Features review
00:42:33 Wild Mountain Thyme review
00:48:16 John Hawkes interview
01:03:55 The Mitchells vs. the Machines review
01:08:38 US Movie Road Trip
01:15:29 Nomadland review
01:22:05 Lobbydown Correspondents
01:25:00 Without Remorse review
01:26:34 TV Movies of the Week
01:30:27 The Artist’s Wife review
01:37:11 DVD of the Week

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