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Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, A Journal for Jordan, Memory Box, The King鈥檚 Daughter

Simon talks to director Guillermo del Toro and Jason Isaacs. Reviews of Nightmare Alley, Belfast and Mass. Plus the Box Office Top Ten and TV Movie of the Week.

Guillermo del Toro talks about his new film Nightmare Alley, the second film adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette.

Mark reviews that film along with Sir Ken 鈥楥huckles鈥� Branagh鈥檚 new film Belfast, which he discussed with Simon on last week鈥檚 show, about a young boy and his working-class Belfast family experiencing the tumultuous late 1960s; documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, looking at the career of Brian Wilson; Denzel Washington鈥檚 A Journal for Jordan, about soldier who, before he is killed in action in Iraq, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father; and Mass, about which we talk to star Jason Isaacs.

Plus Simon and Mark talk through all the films on current release.

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