Have we found Mark’s film of the year already?
4/23/20261 hr 33 min
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First 90 secondsSimon Mayo· Host0:00
Hey, Mark. You know I'm a really massive techie, right?
Mark Kermode· Host0:03
No.
Simon Mayo· Host0:03
If you saw me at my local coffee shop in, uh, Showbiz, North London, you'd probably mistake me for Neo from The Matrix, without the illegal hacking or sunglasses indoors, obviously.
Mark Kermode· Host0:14
What are you talking about? Are you having some sort of breakdown? Do, do you actually even own a computer?
Simon Mayo· Host0:18
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Mark Kermode· Host0:40
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Simon Mayo· Host0:49
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Molly Sims1:03
Hey, guys. This is Molly Sims, host of Lipstick on the Rim. So I have a little bit of a pet peeve that I think you're going to relate to this. I'll be having a great day, feeling good, and someone will say to me, "You look tired." And I'm like, "I promise you, I'm, I'm not really tired." But here's what I've learned. My eyelids, they do sit a little low. And once my doctor explained that to me, it actually kind of made a lot of sense. She prescribed me Upneeq, the first and only FDA-approved