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FILM OF THE YEAR ALREADY? Mark on BRING HER BACK

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Thursday, 24 July 2025 - 1 hour 5 minutes

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Could we have found the film of the year already? ‘Bring Her Back’ looks like it’s got a fighting chance. Mark reviews this brilliantly unsettling new horror from The Philippou brothers, who last freaked us all out with ‘Talk To Me’ in 2022. We’ve got the Good Doctor’s verdict on ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ too—plus the box office top 10 and all your top-quality correspondence.  

Our guest this week is the fascinating Justin Kurzel. You know him as director of 2015’s ‘Macbeth’ with Michael Fassbender, 2021’s ‘Nitram’, and last year’s Nazi-hunting thriller ‘The Order’--and now of his first TV project, ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’, which hits British screens this week. He chats to Mark and Simon all about the visceral new series, which follows a group of Australian prisoners of war working on the Burma railway in the 1940s, and stars Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds. Plus there’s a bit of chat about Nina Simone’s chewing gum, and a little teaser for his next project with the guardian of this strange and sticky piece of music ephemera, Warren Ellis. 

 

Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): 

Bring Her Back Review: 08:36 

BO10: 15:50 

Justin Kurzel Interview: 21:55 

The Narrow Road to the Deep North Review: 38:20 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review: 51:16 

 

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