《Bullshit about movie history》Invited Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Bay

Philomena Kanker sat in the cinema this time.This serious questioner, played by Diane Morgan, will ask where movies come from, what they have experienced, and where they are going in three episodes of the pseudo-documentary Cunk on Cinema.Netflix has announced that it will be launched on November 15, and a trailer has been released; the program will also be broadcast by the BBC.

After Cunk on Earth, Morgan collaborated again with Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker to turn Cunk's attention to more than a hundred years of film history.This time the content starts from the invention of the camera, through the New Wave movies of the 1960s, to computer-generated images, and then talks about the changes that may occur in the future after artificial intelligence rapidly enters the film industry.

The official synopsis retains Kanker's earnestness and absurdity: She'll sit on a bumpy seat, eat stale popcorn, and try to figure out where the movie comes from, why it's here, what it wants, and why it can't tell us in person.

To answer these questions, the program invited 23 guests.Directors, actors, photographers, composers, film critics, curators and scholars all have to face her questions.

Guests included Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch.Bay is known for his action and science fiction films, and his representative works include the Transformers series, Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon.Cumberbatch is familiar to audiences for his roles as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock and Doctor Strange in Marvel movies, and has also appeared in The Power of the Dog and The Imitation Game.

Also present from behind the scenes were composer Daniel Pemberton, an Oscar nominee whose recent work includes Project Hail Mary; Steven E. de Sousa, who co-wrote Die Hard with Jeb Stewart; and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, also an Oscar nominee for The Avengers.Stuntman Jim Dowdall has participated in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series.

Casting director David Rubin brings experience including The English Patient, Men in Black, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Four Weddings and a Funeral.Documentary director Mark Cousins, who directed 2011's The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

People who talk about and document movies also take up a lot of seats.Mark Kermode is a film critic, musician and co-presenter of BBC Radio 4's Screenshot; Isabel Stevens is executive editor of Sight and Sound, Helen O'Hara is contributing editor of Empire, and Catherine Bray is film critic of Screen International.Karim Aftab is engaged in film criticism and international film festival selections, while Jeff Andrew has experience in film criticism, teaching and writing.

Briony Dixon, curator of silent films at the British Film Institute, and Toni Booth, curator of film at the National Science and Media Museum, will also be interviewed.Mo Mosatti studies the horror genre and serves as the editor-in-chief of NightTide magazine; Professor Shirley Cobb of the University of Southampton specializes in film and feminist media.

Several other guests brought the topic to wider cultural and academic fields: Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream, discusses the history of America First and the American Dream; Harvey G. Cohen of King's College London is a senior lecturer in culture and creative industries; Monica B. Pearl of the University of Manchester is engaged in 20th century American literature, English and American studies.Jim Al-Khalili, a theoretical physicist and popular science communicator who had participated in Cunk on Life, and Ashley Jackson, who had participated in Cunk on Life, also sat in front of Cunk again.

All three episodes were directed by Al Campbell, whose previous works include "The History of Bullshit" and "Inside No. 9".Brooker leads the writing team, which includes Morgan himself, as well as Ben Caudell, Erika Ehler, Eli Goldstone, Jason Hazeley, Dan Maier, Joel Morris, Michael Odewale, Kali Varghese and Sam Ward.