Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mom with mea podcast from Mamma Mia.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this bill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Speaker 1: Laura Broadney and I'm and welcome to Weekend Watch, our
Speaker 1: weekly episode where we talk about the best new TV
Speaker 1: shows and movies that have just come out so you
Speaker 1: know what to watch it for the weekend. And this
Speaker 1: is a jam packed episode.
Speaker 2: A lot of things happen several weeks.
Speaker 1: We are looking through the depths of streaming services to
Speaker 1: find some good new stuff to recommend to you guys.
Speaker 1: And sometimes, like today, the docket is so full with
Speaker 1: stuff that we could do a whole episode on each
Speaker 1: that we're going to try and squeeze it all in
Speaker 1: before we get into two movies that are very highly
Speaker 1: anticipated and that we're going to talk a lot about.
Speaker 1: Can I quickly give you a recommendation for the weekend
Speaker 1: for a new show that has just dropped on Netflix?
Speaker 1: It is my brilliant career love that. Have you read
Speaker 1: the book I haven't reader? I think you woud actually
Speaker 1: love the book Can I Tell You? Written by Miles Franklin.
Speaker 1: Might have heard him one of the most famous authors.
Speaker 1: The book came out one hundred and twenty five years
Speaker 1: ago really holds up.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: It just goes to show that really girls have just
Speaker 1: been going through the same thing. I'm seeing their whole lives.
Speaker 1: So this is an adaptation, a TV series adaptation of
Speaker 1: the iconic book. It was made into a movie many
Speaker 1: many years ago, but this has kind of put a
Speaker 1: different spin on it. And it's about a young woman
Speaker 1: called Sabella played by Australian actress philipp And Northeast. So
Speaker 1: Sybylla is that classic thing of like she wants a
Speaker 1: big life, she wants to be a writer, she wants
Speaker 1: to explore and see the world, very kind of Joe
Speaker 1: March of her Anne of green Gables, all my favorite
Speaker 1: literary girls. But of course she lives in a time
Speaker 1: where her only job is to get married well and
Speaker 1: get married young and be a wife and have a family.
Speaker 1: And she lives in this like tiny little rural place
Speaker 1: called Possum Gully, and she moves to this big, lavish
Speaker 1: estate to live with her aunt with the hopes that
Speaker 1: she will find a rich and suitable high husband. But
Speaker 1: of course she sees it as a way to like
Speaker 1: see the world, and she's like, I'm going to write
Speaker 1: about the world. I need to see it.
Speaker 2: There's always like a flamboyant rich aunt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that's literally my dream to be. My whole
Speaker 1: life has been building up with me to being the rich,
Speaker 1: crazy aunt, and I feel like I'm well on my way.
Speaker 1: Maybe not the rich part, the crazy aunt part on
Speaker 1: we'll get there. But of course her story kind of
Speaker 1: takes a bit of a twist because there is a
Speaker 1: love story involved and things get a little bit complicated.
Speaker 2: So it's a series.
Speaker 1: It's a series. It's a six part series, which is
Speaker 1: really interesting way to do anything because it really fleshes
Speaker 1: out the book and the story and an Australia in Australia. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a strange story and filmed in Australia. Actually, Chelsea
Speaker 1: Hoy from our entertainment team, who's often we often pull
Speaker 1: her onto the spill, went to the set when they
Speaker 1: were filming My Brilliant Career, so she got to see
Speaker 1: the lavish estate and they wear a bus and all
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 2: I don't think she did, Chelsea.
Speaker 1: I should have sent her in him on it. That's
Speaker 1: a hr call waiting to happen. Chelsea just wrote her
Speaker 1: behind the scenes piece about going to the set of
Speaker 1: My Brilliant Career this week, and there was a part
Speaker 1: in it they thought was really lovely because she talks
Speaker 1: about it being on the set, and then later on
Speaker 1: she interviewed Philippa, who plays the lead role, and Philippa
Speaker 1: said that because it was like an all female production team,
Speaker 1: like how often does that happen? Like female writers, directors, producers.
Speaker 1: She said she walked into a room during pre production
Speaker 1: and she just saw all the women who were making
Speaker 1: the TV show crying together, and she was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're all crying, like I don't even know
Speaker 1: these people. And then when she realized that it was
Speaker 1: the emotion hitting them of like a group of women
Speaker 1: together being able to tell this story and how often
Speaker 1: like there's no women in the room or there's one,
Speaker 1: So the fact they were all together was huge and
Speaker 1: then she started crying. So that was really beautiful. Chelsea's
Speaker 1: piece in our show notes it's worth reading, and I
Speaker 1: just thought that was a really important part of the
Speaker 1: story to sort of no, don't watch this now, I
Speaker 1: think you'll really like it.
Speaker 2: I already know my story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a few reviews be like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: like it's a chiconic story, and they've made it a
Speaker 1: bit like wishy washy, a bit Mills and boom like
Speaker 1: they've into the romance, and I was like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do that. I really liked I've watched the first
Speaker 1: couple of episodes. I really liked it. And I have
Speaker 1: read the book before and I've seen the movie, so
Speaker 1: I'm well versed in it. But I really liked this
Speaker 1: interpretation of the story, and I think it's one of
Speaker 1: those stories you could one hundred percent easily go into
Speaker 1: with no idea what it's about. Actually, sometimes that's better
Speaker 1: not reading the book, not knowing the characters, because then you'll,
Speaker 1: you know, really become invested in the story. So it's
Speaker 1: six episodes. It's out on Netflix now, my brilliant career.
Speaker 2: Make sure you watch it. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Okay me again, So I'm back. We've had a full
Speaker 1: week of movie premieres. I know, I literally got off
Speaker 1: a flight from being away in Queensland for like twelve days,
Speaker 1: and can I tell you, I have not done grocery shopping,
Speaker 1: I have not washed my clothes. I'm not unpacked a suitcase.
Speaker 1: I'm a shell of a human being.
Speaker 2: But I feel like you basically live out a suitcase.
Speaker 1: Now I know, well I will once I unpack it.
Speaker 1: I had, let me say tell you. Coming to work today,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm down to like I nearly wore
Speaker 1: like an old ball gown bridesmaid's dress. That's how deep
Speaker 1: I had to reach into my cover to find things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's all been worth it because we've had a really
Speaker 1: good run of movies this week, so it's been worth it.
Speaker 1: So this is a movie premiere that I went to
Speaker 1: this week that unfortunately you can attend, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you about it. It is a movie that
Speaker 1: we have been talking about on this podcast since the
Speaker 1: trailer was released. I know, and that trailer was insane
Speaker 1: and the movie is one night only, unofficially known as
Speaker 1: a sex purge movie.
Speaker 2: Finding love is hard enough. Tried doing it on the
Speaker 2: one night a year single people were legally allowed to
Speaker 2: have sex.
Speaker 1: This night's insane. I just want to find like a
Speaker 1: good guy.
Speaker 2: To finding true love on the least romantic night of
Speaker 2: the year. Nights almost over and we're running out of time.
Speaker 2: We're all just trying to find someone who makes going
Speaker 2: through it worth it.
Speaker 1: It's called the sex Purge movie, because when the trailer
Speaker 1: came out, remember I should it cheer on the podd
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is the Purge, but as
Speaker 1: a rom com. So first of all, if you're not
Speaker 1: across the Purge, it's a movie franchise. The sequels are questionable.
Speaker 1: The original movie is great in America. Of course, in
Speaker 1: modern day times, in order to stop crime, all crime
Speaker 1: is like highly illegal as it is most of the
Speaker 1: time in real life, except for one night a year
Speaker 1: where you can commit any crime you on, murder, theft, anything,
Speaker 1: and get away with it. Yeah, and it's like, how
Speaker 1: does society deal with that one night? Only? While they
Speaker 1: say has nothing to do with the Purge has a
Speaker 1: sort of similar premise in this movie. Pre marital sex
Speaker 1: has been outlawed in the US, and in the movie
Speaker 1: they do explain exactly how that happened. It's the same
Speaker 1: way all these things happen in real life, is that
Speaker 1: a group of politicians were voted in, they got into
Speaker 1: a room and they decided to push this through and
Speaker 1: they're in power, so it just happens.
Speaker 2: It also seems like something that could potentially happen.
Speaker 1: It did not seem that wild. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: when Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale and people were like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, and she said, there's nothing in this
Speaker 1: book that hasn't happened in history at some point and
Speaker 1: in society.
Speaker 2: And like she read that in like the forties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's crazy and it doesn't seem that out of
Speaker 1: place now. So yeah, so in One Night only pre
Speaker 1: mar all sex has been outlawed, and they do have
Speaker 1: a way to track it, which is crazy. They have
Speaker 1: like a thing on their wrist. I won't go into it,
Speaker 1: but they have.
Speaker 2: All they're masturbating.
Speaker 1: No, there's ways to kind of know what kind of
Speaker 1: I do believe, So yes, interesting, are you making a continuity?
Speaker 1: More like they have these senses on their wrist and
Speaker 1: if you're single, they're red, and if you're married, they're green,
Speaker 1: which means that you can have sex. And it sends
Speaker 1: up if.
Speaker 2: You have sex with another married person and you're married
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: I actually think that might be a loophole. WHOA can
Speaker 1: I say the movie did not dive into this. It
Speaker 1: the movie didn't like they explain how it happened. That
Speaker 1: it's a mandate. A lot of people don't like the
Speaker 1: mandate but they obviously have to sort of adhere to it.
Speaker 1: There's a scene whether they're like saying to police officers,
Speaker 1: is this what you want to spend your time doing,
Speaker 1: Like why you're resting people for having pre marital sex?
Speaker 1: And the police officers like, well, I have a pension
Speaker 1: to protect, like and this is the law. I have
Speaker 1: to uphold it. So there is that, But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it's not that type of movie. They're not delving
Speaker 1: into like the legalities of the mandate that much. They're
Speaker 1: not delving into the repercussions or anything. It's a rock
Speaker 1: com Okay, So yeah, no pre marital sex for anyone.
Speaker 1: You have a scanner on your wrist, and if you
Speaker 1: start to have sex, it like triggers something in the
Speaker 1: sensor that then the police will be called and they'll
Speaker 1: comes to your home, they'll arrest you, and people go
Speaker 1: to jail for going against the band aid, which brings
Speaker 1: us to it's coming up to the one night of
Speaker 1: the year where pre marital sex is allowed, and there's
Speaker 1: like a government thing where they're explaining like, see, we
Speaker 1: can meet people in the middle, we can come to
Speaker 1: a compromise, so we meet our leading Lady Ali played
Speaker 1: by Monica Babaro Oscar nominee. Love her. A lot of
Speaker 1: people know her from Top Gun Madreak. She was also
Speaker 1: in that Timothy Shallame movie that I can never say
Speaker 1: the name of.
Speaker 2: A completely unknown Yeah. She was also in Remember I
Speaker 2: recommended this really niche TV show starring Arnold Schwarzenegger called Fuber.
Speaker 1: She was in that. Wow, good job Monica.
Speaker 2: She I think I'd have gone too famous for now.
Speaker 2: She's probably won't be the next season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say so. She's great. So she plays Allie.
Speaker 1: So Alie is a single woman in her mid thirties
Speaker 1: living in New York, and she wants to be a singer,
Speaker 1: and she's got a beautiful voice, which is lovely because
Speaker 1: Monica Babara also has a beautiful voice and is a singer.
Speaker 1: But she can't sing in front of crowds that old chestnut.
Speaker 1: It's th very high school musical gens and so instead
Speaker 1: she sings like commercial jingles. So like she she sings
Speaker 1: like famous songs, but like re sings them to promote products.
Speaker 1: So she and her friend have this whole plan that
Speaker 1: they're going out to find the love of their life.
Speaker 1: Everyone just calls it the night. Everyone knows what the
Speaker 1: night means. So she dresses up and she finishes work.
Speaker 1: She's like all like the nights, starting goes home, puts
Speaker 1: on like a beautiful classy dress because her and a
Speaker 1: friend just neim to have like we're gonna just classy.
Speaker 1: They go to their first bar and they're like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our time this year. We're gonna go slow.
Speaker 1: We're not just gonna hook up with anyone. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: our prince charming. Her friend just meets a guy in
Speaker 1: a bathroom line within ten minutes and they look up
Speaker 1: and leave. So then Allie's left by herself and she
Speaker 1: ends up going home and through like her roommate restyles
Speaker 1: her into like this crazy sequined Vinnie dress, which is
Speaker 1: the dressy wear star at the movie is probably what
Speaker 1: you've seen the post. Then also we have Owen played
Speaker 1: by Callum Turner.
Speaker 2: Who was at the premiere.
Speaker 1: He was at the premiere. He came to Australia. People
Speaker 1: call him mister doua leaper because he've married do a
Speaker 1: lipa there. Well, here's the thing she's on officially in Australia.
Speaker 1: She hasn't been pitched or seen. I have heard on
Speaker 1: the grape vine that she is here interesting, but I
Speaker 1: also that girl loves a restaurant, she loves a cute cafe,
Speaker 1: she loves a bookstore. I just don't think that. I
Speaker 1: don't personally think that doua Leaper's in Sydney and has
Speaker 1: not been seen at a restaurant having like a an entreere.
Speaker 1: So he plays Owen and he has this whole night
Speaker 1: prepared where he is taking his girlfriend played by Maya Hawk,
Speaker 1: out to dinner and he thinks that they're gonna like
Speaker 1: this is going to cement their relationship. At the dinner,
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, I want to sleep with someone else tonight.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, this is all in the first like three
Speaker 1: seconds of the movie. This is a yeah, this is
Speaker 1: not a okay. And so she goes off to sleep
Speaker 1: with someone else that she's pre set up at their
Speaker 1: apartment so we can't go there. She's year they can
Speaker 1: do it sex crazy. He goes to his mom's house
Speaker 1: and when the door opens, you see his mom. I
Speaker 1: gasped out loud, like I can't. I knew she's in
Speaker 1: the movie, but it's just such a moment. It's Molly Ringwold.
Speaker 1: Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like why she was in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she plays his mom.
Speaker 2: She's so good his mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his mom. No, that's age appropriate, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, sure.
Speaker 1: I think they're about twenty years apart. Molly Ringwold, for
Speaker 1: anyone who doesn't know, was the girl of like teen
Speaker 1: rom coms in the eighties, pretty in pink, all those
Speaker 1: kind of and she has gone on to be in
Speaker 1: a lot of rom com teen things since then. Like
Speaker 1: she I can't remember.
Speaker 2: The last time I really saw her. I feel like,
Speaker 2: like in my head, she's only a person I see,
Speaker 2: like on a red carpet. But I haven't like she was.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's been a lot. She often pops up
Speaker 1: in a movie, like if it's a true homage to
Speaker 1: rom coms, Molly Ringwoll be in it. But she like
Speaker 1: played Archie's mum in Riverdale. Yeah, she that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So then you have you, Well, then you have Owen
Speaker 1: and Alle out on the street to New York and
Speaker 1: the night starts and they have a meet keit. They
Speaker 1: meet on the street and you think, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're instantly attracted to each other. This is it, and
Speaker 1: then something happens where she's disgusted by him, and then
Speaker 1: the night just turns into this craziness of just everything
Speaker 1: that could go wrong goes wrong for both of them,
Speaker 1: and they keep being drawn back together. They keep trying
Speaker 1: to separate Ali and Owen, but they keep being drawn
Speaker 1: back together. The thing is like, you also will go
Speaker 1: to jail if you have unprotected sex. This is the thing.
Speaker 1: No one of this movie had good planning. A lot
Speaker 1: of people go out to find the person they want
Speaker 1: to have sex with that night. To me, that's very
Speaker 1: high stakes crunch and some point this is meant to
Speaker 1: be a comedy. My heart was beating so fast as
Speaker 1: like time is running out. Why didn't you have some
Speaker 1: people lined i'p to have sex with, which some people do,
Speaker 1: but also you kind of have sex with that protection,
Speaker 1: like that's against the law and they will know so
Speaker 1: then on that night, No, that night, Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the whole thing. You can have sex as a person,
Speaker 1: but you must have a condom? Can anyone finelon? No?
Speaker 1: Do they have to steal one from a store? Do
Speaker 1: it then go down and drain and they have to
Speaker 1: get it out and all this kind of stuff happens.
Speaker 2: Then they have to all the stores to put their
Speaker 2: prices really hard.
Speaker 1: Oh they do. They go to buy the one that's
Speaker 1: left and she's like, that'll be two hundred dollars, and
Speaker 1: everyone's trying to pay for it. Everyone wants to Everyone's
Speaker 1: like three hundred day take it. We just need that
Speaker 1: one condom. And I'm also just like, guys, preparation. I
Speaker 1: know this is bad. You shouldn't have to do this.
Speaker 1: The government is evil, but also preparation for the night.
Speaker 1: So as it goes on, Ali and Omen keep trying
Speaker 1: to hook up with other people but keep being thrown
Speaker 1: back together. And at first they really dislike each other,
Speaker 1: but then obviously as the night goes on, I fall
Speaker 1: in love. Well, I won't spoil the ending.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: So it's directed also by Will Glock, who it does
Speaker 1: a lot of rom comms, including Anyone but You.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He has always said that his whole thing about a
Speaker 1: rom com. He's like, you can leave or take anything else,
Speaker 1: set script anything if the leads are good and you
Speaker 1: believe that they're falling in love. And I really respect
Speaker 1: him for that because I also believe that is the
Speaker 1: key to good rom com. Can I say in this
Speaker 1: Monica Barbaro is she's a movie star. She is great,
Speaker 1: she's got a good leading lady. And Callum Turner is fine.
Speaker 1: He's not a movie star, but he's a solid actor.
Speaker 1: Loved him an eternity. He's a solid actor. He doesn't
Speaker 1: like doing Red car but you can tell he's very
Speaker 1: He's very wooden, end just but sweet, but sweet lovely
Speaker 1: to everyone who interviewed him. That's a huge plus, not
Speaker 1: a Hollywood big head kind of thing. Like they are
Speaker 1: very British. He's very British. So the thing is all
Speaker 1: through the movie. Monica is great in every seat, and
Speaker 1: he's great when he's with her. Yeah, okay, so they
Speaker 1: do work together, and I fully I loved their chemistry.
Speaker 1: I wanted them to kiss so badly. That's all I
Speaker 1: care about. Now. This has been called the sex purge movie,
Speaker 1: and I just need to warn you because I want
Speaker 1: you to hear it in a safe I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, there's not really any sex in it.
Speaker 2: What's the point?
Speaker 1: Well, Will Gluck thinks that sex takes people out of
Speaker 1: the movie, and I'm like, Will, I was on your side.
Speaker 1: I was rooting for you. You care about chemistry. I
Speaker 1: came about chemistry. You care about actors. I came about actors.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, oh, sex text people are the story.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, if it has no place.
Speaker 2: I bet they had the same test audience as people
Speaker 2: meet them.
Speaker 1: I do think a test audience was involved in some
Speaker 1: of this. So don't go into this movie thinking that
Speaker 1: you'll see any sexy time. Maybe you won't even see
Speaker 1: a real kiss. Oh no, it's not that type of movie.
Speaker 1: But it's really fun and I really liked it. The
Speaker 1: only thing is, like I'm out there searching my everywhere,
Speaker 1: searching and just willing to give all my own for
Speaker 1: a rom com to come into my life that I
Speaker 1: love so much that I want to watch over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. Some people that I saw this
Speaker 1: movie with so they will watch it over and over again. Personally,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I'm a bit one and done with it.
Speaker 1: Like it was great to watch, highly recommend also watching
Speaker 1: it in a cinema because people around us were screaming
Speaker 1: and laughing and like, it's a fun cinema watch. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a classic rom com. But it's
Speaker 1: really good. Okay, and you need to watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really and I actually want to watch your face
Speaker 1: watching it. Okay, it'll be so fun.
Speaker 2: I really want to take your parents. I've just been
Speaker 2: spending so much money the cinema. I think I'm just
Speaker 2: wait till streaming.
Speaker 1: Well, someone said, Emma, free ticket to go and see
Speaker 1: because she missed the premier lead and they were serving
Speaker 1: pizza because he makes pizza in the movie. It's a
Speaker 1: whole thing. So one night only and cinemas now highly
Speaker 1: recommend you see. Okay, just no sex, sex sad.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now I want to talk about a movie that
Speaker 2: we both recently watched together. We went to this early
Speaker 2: screening for it in Sydney. It's called The End of
Speaker 2: Oak Street. Looks like the whole neighborhood's lost power. That's that.
Speaker 1: I think that our neighborhood, our whole street. No, the
Speaker 1: hell is not even possible. And just to preface this, guys,
Speaker 1: just so you know, one a momentous occasion you're about
Speaker 1: to experience, is that we have been looking for to
Speaker 1: this movie for so long. Out of all the Anne
Speaker 1: Hathaway movies coming out this year, and there are a lot,
Speaker 1: this is the top of our list, but also very
Speaker 1: special for you because you love dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: I love dinosaurs, and this is a dinosaur movie. I'van Hathaway,
Speaker 2: I love you and McGregor like, this was a good good.
Speaker 1: The stakes could not have been higher. And also, just
Speaker 1: to preface what you're about to hear, we both went
Speaker 1: to the screening. We sat separately, and we have not
Speaker 1: disgusted for you guys for the listeners. We have not
Speaker 1: talked about it. So what you're about to hear is
Speaker 1: our unfiltered thoughts.
Speaker 2: I thought wholeheartedly this was the perfect movie.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, oh my god. I was Actually I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you liked it because as we were watching the movie,
Speaker 1: I didn't know where you were in the cinema, and
Speaker 1: it was a pack cinema, a huge one, and I
Speaker 1: kept looking around and be like, oh, I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope Emily is liking this because the stakes could not
Speaker 1: be high.
Speaker 2: Like, I love this movie so much.
Speaker 1: It is such an incredible movie to watch with the crowd.
Speaker 1: I cannot remember when is the last time we went
Speaker 1: and sat in the cinema and people were screaming, clapping, cheering, laughing.
Speaker 2: It was like the last Deadpool movie. Which was like
Speaker 2: years ago, and I was leading that yield understanding of
Speaker 2: action from LB and it's.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, it was such an it was such an
Speaker 1: incredible not only movie, but this movie experience. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I do think you have to watch it in the cinema.
Speaker 1: If you could have to watch it with the crowd
Speaker 1: we watched it with, all the better. But if you
Speaker 1: can't really create that, it's so bizarre.
Speaker 2: I feel like the Jurassic Park enterprise has really honed
Speaker 2: in on like where the ones doing dinosaurs. No one
Speaker 2: else can touch dinosaurs. And to be fair, every other
Speaker 2: movie that tried to show dinosaurs in it just didn't
Speaker 2: hit the mark. We had that weird movie called sixty three.
Speaker 1: I think it was also I'm not as up on dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: They start like Adam Driver, where he's like on this
Speaker 2: prehistoric planet battling dinosaurs. Lame. Then so many other dinosaur
Speaker 2: movies come up lame, and then Jurassic Park has just
Speaker 2: been like, let's she going with this Jurassic World after
Speaker 2: world after world after world, to the point where I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to say the last Jurassic World, it Scarla Johansen,
Speaker 2: was so subper.
Speaker 1: And it had the most incredible cast. It is the
Speaker 1: most incredible cart and it had the best idea, budget, everything,
Speaker 1: but it just didn't work. Infact, all of the Jurassic
Speaker 1: World movies have left me cold. Yeah, And I was
Speaker 1: just like, I'm not the dinosaur fan that you are,
Speaker 1: but I love the original Jurassic Park. Obviously, we did
Speaker 1: a whole episode recently, and then I went and watched
Speaker 1: all the other Jurassic Park movies again and I was
Speaker 1: like to me, I actually said, as we came out
Speaker 1: of the cinema last night, I said, for me, in
Speaker 1: order of dinosaur movies, it's the original Jurassic Park. Then
Speaker 1: it's the end of Oak Street.
Speaker 2: That's the end of Oak Street.
Speaker 1: That's how high this movie is in a dinosaur.
Speaker 2: Movies, the dinosaurs in the end of Oak Street are
Speaker 2: accurately depicted.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can I tell you because in our
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park episode, you were telling me and I had
Speaker 1: no idea you knew this much about dinosaurs. It's like
Speaker 1: your special interest area. You were telling me about the
Speaker 1: colours they should be and like the texture of their skin.
Speaker 1: And as we were watching this movie this week and
Speaker 1: hath always running from a dinosaur, I was like, I
Speaker 1: do think that that's accurate. Like I think Emily would
Speaker 1: think that this is Yeah, it.
Speaker 2: Was quite accurate, and actually, you know it was the
Speaker 2: most accurate.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How like they also like played with like some of
Speaker 2: the inaccuracies of like dinosaurs just constantly trying to chase people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like most dinosaurs, if you know, would like eat
Speaker 2: their prey and then literally fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Well they're normal animals, reah, They're.
Speaker 2: Like a cyclops. Yeah, like eat and then sleep, that's
Speaker 2: their pattern. And then it's all these movies.
Speaker 1: That's a reference that Emily is not saying cyclops is real.
Speaker 1: You're like, it's like Cyclops is dinosaurs, lions.
Speaker 2: Firstly, dinosaurs are here, and then cyclops are real no sorry,
Speaker 2: from the Odyssey, and then every dinosaur movie well because
Speaker 2: it has to be tension, right, so the dinosaurs are
Speaker 2: always a bad guy. So I'm like that's fair. But
Speaker 2: what was really accurate with this is that they had
Speaker 2: a spinosaurus, which is more aggressive and more dangerous than
Speaker 2: a t rex.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I did not pick up on that.
Speaker 2: The one that's like leaning against the house and the
Speaker 2: one that first chases the yeah, with the big like
Speaker 2: spine thing on, so much more scary than t Rex.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, crazy, tell people the premise of the movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, sorry, end of Oak Street. It's about this
Speaker 2: little family I think they called the Platte family, living
Speaker 2: on the street called Oak Street. It's set in the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties. I actually didn't know it was set in
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties until right at the end of the
Speaker 2: movie where they addressed it, when they actually said the
Speaker 2: date of the movie.
Speaker 1: She's on a typewriter. Yeah, she said, I'll go to
Speaker 1: the library, and she takes a photo on all cameras, like,
Speaker 1: I'll go to the library. Look this up.
Speaker 2: So I bought my friend and I was like, what
Speaker 2: year do you think this movie set in? And I
Speaker 2: was like, you're gonna hate me. I was like, maybe
Speaker 2: early two thousands.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Emily, that's crazy. It's so clearly the eighties.
Speaker 1: Can I actually think they say it's nineteen eighty one
Speaker 1: or something like that, So that's before I was born. Well,
Speaker 1: if it's the early two thousands, why weren't they googling
Speaker 1: what was happening when the Oh.
Speaker 2: The internet wasn't like that in the early two thousand.
Speaker 1: No, But like when the weird plant. This is before
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs come, when weird stuff's happening. She's golding downstairs
Speaker 1: to type on a typewriter. It that's where they're analog
Speaker 1: activity and they have like a corded analogue old school phone.
Speaker 1: So true, no one has a phone. They're also wearing
Speaker 1: eighties clothing and they have eighties haircuts. It could not
Speaker 1: be Okay, we can't talk about that. Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, it could be the early two thousands.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why they dressed you when McGregor.
Speaker 1: Are so badly Okay. It's a huge plot point that
Speaker 1: it's in that it's a suburban Middle America, suburban family
Speaker 1: in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, starring obviously Anne Hathaway, you and McGregor. They play
Speaker 2: a married couple with two kids. Mazie Stella, who I
Speaker 2: didn't really recognize until halfway through the movie. She's in
Speaker 2: one of our favorite movies WI Old Ass Yeah, with
Speaker 2: Aubrey Plasen. She's amazing in that she plays the daughter
Speaker 2: and then they have a youngest son as well, Brian Brian.
Speaker 2: They're a really tight knit family. They live on one
Speaker 2: of those streets where the streets have its own fairs
Speaker 2: and fats, and everyone every party, everyone knows everyone in
Speaker 2: the neighborhood and the suburb. And also, while this whole
Speaker 2: movie is going on, the two of them have relationship issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so she's secretly writing a book that's like a
Speaker 1: thinly veiled account of her own life where it's a
Speaker 1: better a woman who wants to leave her family. And
Speaker 1: he's hiding a bit of a secret that you find
Speaker 1: out later why he's always having to go out of
Speaker 1: the house and do things. And they're just having this
Speaker 1: like marital situation where she's like, you gloss over all
Speaker 1: our problems and you're he's like, you're making the problems.
Speaker 1: And the kids are very aware watching them five that
Speaker 1: something's wrong.
Speaker 2: Then one night, at around eleven PM, all their power
Speaker 2: shuts off and their neighborhood is transported to a different
Speaker 2: time in history. And because we talked about dinosaurs before,
Speaker 2: I guess you can guess what time period.
Speaker 1: What time period do you think it is? Officially you're
Speaker 1: a dinosaur girl, it would be the Jurassic It would
Speaker 1: be okay, because I have no way to fact check
Speaker 1: that I think there was a t rex from what
Speaker 1: I think, and there was also stegosauruses, and there were
Speaker 1: no triceratops because tri seratops are actually from a different period.
Speaker 2: My mind sometimes which Jurassic Park, which Jurassic Park didn't
Speaker 2: got wrong because everyone loves try Yeah Jackie right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're so cute.
Speaker 1: So yes, this family, like they think a storm has
Speaker 1: just knocked out all the power and everything which has happened,
Speaker 1: not realizing that because of these portal things that have opened,
Speaker 1: that their street has been just dropped in the middle
Speaker 1: of this dinosaur time and some of their neighbors just
Speaker 1: get ripped apart. They have to figure out how to survive.
Speaker 2: Yes, and how scary were the raptors, Oh, my god, terrifying.
Speaker 2: They always make raptors the scary dinosaur, which they are
Speaker 2: because they they're.
Speaker 1: So fast and because they're they're the same like kind
Speaker 1: of height as the human so like with some of
Speaker 1: the bigger dinosaurs that are chasing them, they could jump
Speaker 1: into a house or something and get away from they
Speaker 1: can't be seen, but.
Speaker 2: A very aggressive and like mischievous like they're always like
Speaker 2: ye work in packs. To me, they're like the prehistoric
Speaker 2: version of chihuahuas.
Speaker 1: Annoying and always there into any space so they can
Speaker 1: kill you. And they look small, but they're aggressive. What
Speaker 1: I loved about this movie it's like, obviously, the performances
Speaker 1: are great and Hathaway is great, and the idea is
Speaker 1: very good. Like drop a suburban street from the eighties
Speaker 1: in dinosaur time and see what happens. That would have
Speaker 1: been enough, and it could have just been people running
Speaker 1: from dinosaurs. The story beats and the creativity of the
Speaker 1: situations they get into with the dinosaurs is so incredible.
Speaker 1: People were literally like gasping at moments. It's also like
Speaker 1: you're on the edge of your seat because the stakes
Speaker 1: feel so high and like the dinosaurs are like chasing
Speaker 1: people and people actually do die. And it's also funny
Speaker 1: as hell.
Speaker 2: It has so many like dark comedic elements that are
Speaker 2: just like mind blowingly funny, Like the whole cinema were
Speaker 2: like cry laughing during some of the scenes. And I love,
Speaker 2: I absolutely love Anne Hathaway doing physical comedy like that
Speaker 2: and doing like physical action like that. She gives it
Speaker 2: her all, and she's been having such a good run
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, She's had a lot of movies come out
Speaker 1: and she's been. Actually, this is so hard. She's been
Speaker 1: in all of them. Yeah, because it's easy. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're a good actor, you can be in a
Speaker 1: not good movie, like the direction and the editing can
Speaker 1: be really bad. But she's had this incredible run where
Speaker 1: she's been great in every role.
Speaker 2: I reckon she should be nominated for every movie.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks she's gonna win an oscar for the Odyssey,
Speaker 1: but then she wins at the end of Oakue Street,
Speaker 1: which she actually don't.
Speaker 2: She should just.
Speaker 1: Also felt so fresh this movie and so just unlike
Speaker 1: anything I'd seen before. But it also felt like those
Speaker 1: classic like family and venture movies from the eighties. Like again,
Speaker 1: it also it felt Jurassic Park esque. It also felt
Speaker 1: like et It felt a bit like the It felt
Speaker 1: like that sort of place.
Speaker 2: I think what's different about this as like a modern
Speaker 2: action movie, which it definitely was, was that they gave
Speaker 2: room for the character arcs to also happen. Like each
Speaker 2: character like Ewan McGregor's character is like pretty much a
Speaker 2: wet blanket until he does something really drastic that like
Speaker 2: redeems his whole character and and had the way it
Speaker 2: goes from being like this writer who's like one job
Speaker 2: is to like care for her family and like figure
Speaker 2: out what's going on and deal with everything. And then
Speaker 2: she's put into like the such powerful position of like
Speaker 2: literally physically protecting their children, and then their children are shit,
Speaker 2: which they always are. And these Anamal.
Speaker 1: Movies, I know, everyone was like, I hate those kids.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but guys, kids would just be annoying and
Speaker 1: upset and scared at the end of the world, like
Speaker 1: they just would be. We've been lulled into a false
Speaker 1: sense of security because we grew up watching all these
Speaker 1: movies where something bad happens and the kids save the world,
Speaker 1: and that's just not historically accurate.
Speaker 2: And the star of the movie Starbuck or the dog
Speaker 2: the dog I want okay, like before this is a spoiler,
Speaker 2: but you need to know the dog doesn't die.
Speaker 1: People have googled that, Yeah, everywhere. People are so worried.
Speaker 1: I personally don't care in a movie if a dog dies,
Speaker 1: but in a movie I have to stress that, but
Speaker 1: people get really upset about that. I know there's a
Speaker 1: website called does the Dog Die that will tell you
Speaker 1: in every movie or TV shows the dog die.
Speaker 2: To the point where I need a sequel to this
Speaker 2: movie from the dog's perspective, because I just know that
Speaker 2: dog had the best time.
Speaker 1: And when the dog was out there saving lives getting things,
Speaker 1: he knew what was happening before anyone else did. He's
Speaker 1: the real hero of this movie. It also has I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm mosteening to see again. There's so many
Speaker 1: hidden moments which I'm going to say that maybe you
Speaker 1: missed if you didn't know if it was in the eighties.
Speaker 1: There's so many hidden moments at the start, there's all
Speaker 1: hidden east strokes at the end, all these little kind
Speaker 1: of plot twists and stuff. But it's so good.
Speaker 2: It's so good. So the whole premise of the movie
Speaker 2: is they're in this like big like time period and
Speaker 2: then they just have to find their way back to
Speaker 2: their house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: So it's like a fun adventure. Exactly what you said.
Speaker 2: But end of Oak Street, Adam Tinus highly recommend you
Speaker 2: watch this one.
Speaker 1: Watch it with an audience.
Speaker 2: Get it's so much fun. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for listening to the spiel today. Do not forget that
Speaker 2: we have our Friday episode coming up later this afternoon.
Speaker 2: We're doing a very special movie round up based on
Speaker 2: one of our weekend watches. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 2: you which one. It's going to be a surprised but
Speaker 2: it is so so good, So make sure you tune
Speaker 2: back in and we will see you then.
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