THE MOVIE DOCTORS. With additional material by Martin Toseland and Simon Toseland.

Mayo, Simon and Kermode, Mark.

ISBN 10: 1782116621 / ISBN 13: 9781782116622

Published by Canongate, Edinburgh 2015., 2015

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1st edition. Small 4to. [336pp.] Colour and b/w. illustrations. Original pictorial white boards with black lettering to spine. ISBN 9781782116622 US$10.

Seller Inventory # 188523

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MOVIE DOCTORS. With additional material by Martin Toseland and Simon Toseland.
• Publisher: Canongate, Edinburgh 2015.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782116621
• ISBN 13: 9781782116622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

The surgery is now open . . . For over a decade, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have been sharing their film expertise with each other (and occasionally the odd listener) on the airwaves. Now they are donning their surgical scrubs and bringing their unique blend of deep movie knowledge and medical ignorance to their new guise as the Movie Doctors. Mayo and Kermode are armed and ready to offer improbable cinematic cures for the dilemmas of modern life. Suffering with insomnia and need a cinematic alternative to counting sheep? The Movie Doctors prescribe The Piano. Tinnitus driving you up the wall? A dose of Interstellar can help. Stressed and anxious? The Big Lebowski is what you need. If you're feeling your age, look no further than The Godfather. And what about movies themselves? Doctors Mayo and Kermode are also taking their scalpel to 'sick' movies, dissecting the perils of excessive length, the ill effects of glowing praise and warning how cosmetic surgery can change the face of a film. Celluloid or humanoid, the Movie Doctors are here to help.

About the Authors

Simon Mayo is one of Britain's best-loved radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1982 and is the presenter of Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, which features the regular Radio 2 Book Club. He is also the co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. He is the author of three successful children's books, Itch, Itch Rocks and Itchcraft with many more to come, as well as a number of books based on his radio series.

Mark Kermode is the UK's most trusted film critic. He is the film critic for the Observer, and the resident film reviewer of BBC Radio 5 Live's Sony award-winning Kermode and Mayo's Film Review. He also co-presents The Film Review on the BBC News Channel, and hosts the bi-weekly video-blog Kermode Uncut. He has written several books on cinema including It's Only a Movie, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex and Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics. He plays double-bass in The Dodge Brothers.