1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks. Ad B. 3 00:00:13,773 --> 00:00:21,893 Speaker 2: Your face, your heart exploding like that sco. 4 00:00:25,413 --> 00:00:27,973 Speaker 3: Don't you win anybody? I can do this song Bolly 5 00:00:28,053 --> 00:00:33,773 Speaker 3: down to do the Morning The baby Bons seem not 6 00:00:33,813 --> 00:00:37,573 Speaker 3: sure about this one, not totally convinced. If from one 7 00:00:37,653 --> 00:00:40,453 Speaker 3: hundreds and honist and songs called Sapphire. It's a brand 8 00:00:40,453 --> 00:00:42,373 Speaker 3: new track from d Shear and so he's closed his 9 00:00:42,373 --> 00:00:48,253 Speaker 3: book or closed our book on his decades long mathematics albums, 10 00:00:48,333 --> 00:00:51,053 Speaker 3: and it's entering a new era with his upcoming album. 11 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:53,133 Speaker 3: It's called Play. 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To talk to, he'd be 20 00:01:15,453 --> 00:01:18,213 Speaker 3: Francesca Rudkin is our film reviewer and she's here with 21 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:20,253 Speaker 3: this week's pickscy out of Francisca. 22 00:01:20,853 --> 00:01:21,373 Speaker 2: Good morning. 23 00:01:21,733 --> 00:01:24,133 Speaker 3: Okay, let's start off. Where the movie is showing in 24 00:01:24,173 --> 00:01:26,573 Speaker 3: cinema is at the moment, from the world of John Wick. 25 00:01:26,733 --> 00:01:31,973 Speaker 3: This is Ballerina in Slavic mythology. 26 00:01:34,213 --> 00:01:40,293 Speaker 4: The Kikima is a spirit that exists in these shadows. 27 00:01:41,373 --> 00:01:44,013 Speaker 4: To those with darkness in their hearts, she can be 28 00:01:44,133 --> 00:01:48,613 Speaker 4: vengeful to the inno sector, she can be a protector. 29 00:01:51,773 --> 00:01:54,933 Speaker 4: It's up to you the juice dun dun d. 30 00:01:56,413 --> 00:01:57,533 Speaker 3: Tell us about Ballerina. 31 00:01:58,293 --> 00:02:01,733 Speaker 2: Okay, so the full title of this film is from 32 00:02:01,773 --> 00:02:04,613 Speaker 2: the world of John Wick Bellerina. She could get a 33 00:02:04,613 --> 00:02:06,133 Speaker 2: little a bit bit of an idea about what you're 34 00:02:06,453 --> 00:02:09,653 Speaker 2: four here. So this is the fifth installment of the 35 00:02:09,773 --> 00:02:13,573 Speaker 2: John Wick franchise. It is a spin off that sits 36 00:02:13,653 --> 00:02:16,893 Speaker 2: between the events of John Wick Chapter three and Chapter four. 37 00:02:17,693 --> 00:02:19,653 Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. You don't really need to know that. If 38 00:02:19,653 --> 00:02:23,133 Speaker 2: you're really into John Wick, you'll love seeing sort of 39 00:02:23,173 --> 00:02:25,933 Speaker 2: reoccurring characters and all that kind of thing. But if 40 00:02:25,933 --> 00:02:28,133 Speaker 2: you're not hugely familiar with all the films, it does 41 00:02:28,213 --> 00:02:31,093 Speaker 2: not matter. The original John Wick film was released in 42 00:02:31,133 --> 00:02:33,453 Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. It was made on about a thirty million 43 00:02:34,093 --> 00:02:37,333 Speaker 2: dollar budget. Of course, starring Kountter Reeves. No one kind 44 00:02:37,373 --> 00:02:39,533 Speaker 2: of thought it was going to be hugely successful. These 45 00:02:39,533 --> 00:02:43,893 Speaker 2: films are no one for being ultraviolent and very entertaining 46 00:02:44,213 --> 00:02:46,453 Speaker 2: along with it. But it became a bit of a 47 00:02:46,493 --> 00:02:50,373 Speaker 2: cult classic. And next thing you know, they're making films 48 00:02:50,453 --> 00:02:52,973 Speaker 2: on a hundred million dollar budget and this is now 49 00:02:53,573 --> 00:02:56,093 Speaker 2: everyone is a little bit surprised. It's turned into a 50 00:02:56,133 --> 00:03:00,413 Speaker 2: billion dollar box off this franchise. So this is very 51 00:03:00,573 --> 00:03:03,693 Speaker 2: much more of the same. But there's two things that 52 00:03:03,773 --> 00:03:07,413 Speaker 2: make this film work. The first thing is they've kind 53 00:03:07,413 --> 00:03:10,973 Speaker 2: of given up pretending that these films are anything more 54 00:03:11,173 --> 00:03:13,493 Speaker 2: than just a gun fight from the beginning to the end. 55 00:03:13,533 --> 00:03:15,213 Speaker 2: You know, they've been there have been films where they've 56 00:03:15,213 --> 00:03:17,733 Speaker 2: tried to kind of do world building and create kind 57 00:03:17,773 --> 00:03:23,253 Speaker 2: of you know, some intrigued we go to this film 58 00:03:23,373 --> 00:03:27,493 Speaker 2: purely for entertainment. It is like a first person shoot 59 00:03:27,493 --> 00:03:29,773 Speaker 2: a video game. I suppose on the big screen that's 60 00:03:29,813 --> 00:03:31,733 Speaker 2: what it's about. And in this one, they go, that's 61 00:03:31,773 --> 00:03:34,293 Speaker 2: what we're about, let's just get on with it, and 62 00:03:34,453 --> 00:03:37,173 Speaker 2: my goodness, they this is not the most relaxing film 63 00:03:37,173 --> 00:03:39,893 Speaker 2: I've seen. Well. The second thing that they've got that 64 00:03:39,973 --> 00:03:43,053 Speaker 2: they did right, was they got Amada Amas to start 65 00:03:43,293 --> 00:03:48,773 Speaker 2: as our lead assassin Eve and she is just fantastic 66 00:03:48,813 --> 00:03:52,213 Speaker 2: in this revenge plot. So she's a ballerina. She trained 67 00:03:52,253 --> 00:03:56,853 Speaker 2: with the assassin tribe the Ruskioma run by Angelica Houston, 68 00:03:58,333 --> 00:04:04,813 Speaker 2: and she was she's a young assassin who's sort of 69 00:04:05,413 --> 00:04:08,813 Speaker 2: been allowed to get on with her work. She comes 70 00:04:08,853 --> 00:04:12,693 Speaker 2: across the tribe of assassins who killed her father when 71 00:04:12,693 --> 00:04:15,093 Speaker 2: she was a child, and she decides to go off 72 00:04:15,133 --> 00:04:18,293 Speaker 2: on her own on this very ultra violent sort of 73 00:04:18,413 --> 00:04:23,213 Speaker 2: vengeance sort of mission. Really simple plot, really simple idea, 74 00:04:23,293 --> 00:04:26,853 Speaker 2: we've seen it all before, but she is just she's 75 00:04:26,853 --> 00:04:29,733 Speaker 2: something else. When she's training, she's told, you need to 76 00:04:29,773 --> 00:04:31,933 Speaker 2: fight like a girl, because yeah, you're going to come 77 00:04:31,933 --> 00:04:33,693 Speaker 2: across people who are stronger than you, so you're gonna 78 00:04:33,693 --> 00:04:36,453 Speaker 2: have to do whatever it takes. I'll tell you what, 79 00:04:36,693 --> 00:04:38,333 Speaker 2: this woman does not fight like a girl. She doesn't 80 00:04:38,373 --> 00:04:39,973 Speaker 2: fight like a man. She just fights like the best 81 00:04:40,013 --> 00:04:41,893 Speaker 2: fighting you're ever going to come across. Like what she 82 00:04:41,933 --> 00:04:47,093 Speaker 2: can do yet with a gun, a knife, with your 83 00:04:47,133 --> 00:04:50,733 Speaker 2: hand combat is hugely impressive. What she can do with 84 00:04:50,853 --> 00:04:55,893 Speaker 2: ice skates is terrifying and also flamethrowers. I mean there 85 00:04:55,933 --> 00:05:01,013 Speaker 2: is not there is not an instrument she cannot wield 86 00:05:01,493 --> 00:05:04,693 Speaker 2: with great power. It was full of As I said, 87 00:05:04,853 --> 00:05:07,733 Speaker 2: this is not relaxing. But if this, if you love 88 00:05:07,773 --> 00:05:10,773 Speaker 2: the John Work films and you want ridiculous action from 89 00:05:10,813 --> 00:05:13,133 Speaker 2: beginning to end, you're going to get into this. You 90 00:05:13,253 --> 00:05:14,893 Speaker 2: just buy into it and you go along for the 91 00:05:14,973 --> 00:05:18,933 Speaker 2: ride that never lives up and Ciano Reads makes a 92 00:05:18,933 --> 00:05:19,973 Speaker 2: little appearance as well. 93 00:05:20,133 --> 00:05:23,053 Speaker 3: Oh good, Okay, see I can tell now why they've 94 00:05:23,093 --> 00:05:25,253 Speaker 3: made the made the title from the world of John 95 00:05:25,293 --> 00:05:28,573 Speaker 3: Wick Ballerina as opposed to just ballerina. If they call 96 00:05:28,613 --> 00:05:30,893 Speaker 3: it Ballerina and then there's a film like this, there 97 00:05:30,973 --> 00:05:34,693 Speaker 3: might be a few people who got a bit of 98 00:05:34,733 --> 00:05:41,053 Speaker 3: a rough surprasses. Absolutely, yeah, okay. Now screening as part 99 00:05:41,093 --> 00:05:43,893 Speaker 3: of the French Film Festival is a black comedy called 100 00:05:43,933 --> 00:05:46,133 Speaker 3: How to Make a Killing. So tell us about how 101 00:05:46,173 --> 00:05:46,773 Speaker 3: to make a killing? 102 00:05:47,413 --> 00:05:50,613 Speaker 2: Okay. So my theme today with both these films is 103 00:05:50,613 --> 00:05:53,053 Speaker 2: that they involve criminal gangs, but they deal with them 104 00:05:53,053 --> 00:05:55,853 Speaker 2: in very different kinds of way. Way. So the French 105 00:05:55,893 --> 00:05:59,093 Speaker 2: Film Festival is traveling the country. It goes everywhere. It's fantastic, 106 00:05:59,133 --> 00:06:02,573 Speaker 2: it's onto the end of June, and I really love 107 00:06:03,013 --> 00:06:05,733 Speaker 2: law Calameck. She's an actress who was an antoinette in 108 00:06:05,773 --> 00:06:08,453 Speaker 2: The sevent which is a film I just loved, and 109 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:12,053 Speaker 2: she is back in this black crime comedy and she 110 00:06:12,133 --> 00:06:16,333 Speaker 2: starts along. She's part of a lovely couple. They're just 111 00:06:16,493 --> 00:06:19,453 Speaker 2: very ordinary rural people in a mountain sort of area 112 00:06:19,533 --> 00:06:22,733 Speaker 2: in France. They grow pine trees and have a pretty 113 00:06:22,773 --> 00:06:26,773 Speaker 2: simple life. Anyway, her husband, Michelle, he swerves one day 114 00:06:26,813 --> 00:06:29,293 Speaker 2: to avoid a bear on the road. They don't of 115 00:06:29,293 --> 00:06:32,133 Speaker 2: forget bears where they are, and then he sort of 116 00:06:32,173 --> 00:06:37,533 Speaker 2: accidentally hits another car and there's some consequences from that 117 00:06:37,573 --> 00:06:43,333 Speaker 2: where a couple die. And he's a very sort of calm, relaxed, 118 00:06:43,533 --> 00:06:46,893 Speaker 2: understated gentleman, so he kind of looks at what's happened 119 00:06:46,933 --> 00:06:48,933 Speaker 2: and he goes home and he tells his wife and 120 00:06:48,973 --> 00:06:51,893 Speaker 2: his son, his young son, I killed a couple today. 121 00:06:52,653 --> 00:06:56,013 Speaker 2: And so she's a big reader of crime books and 122 00:06:56,093 --> 00:06:58,333 Speaker 2: so she's like, Okay, we've got to sort this out. 123 00:06:58,373 --> 00:07:00,173 Speaker 2: We've got to remove you from the picture. And she 124 00:07:00,213 --> 00:07:01,853 Speaker 2: comes up with this idea that if they get rid 125 00:07:01,893 --> 00:07:05,293 Speaker 2: of the bodies, if there's no bodies and there's no crime, 126 00:07:05,333 --> 00:07:07,213 Speaker 2: and they'll be there if they go back to this 127 00:07:07,333 --> 00:07:10,413 Speaker 2: cash try and tidy out this mess, and all they 128 00:07:10,453 --> 00:07:13,773 Speaker 2: do is just create another big mess, but they also 129 00:07:13,853 --> 00:07:16,613 Speaker 2: find a bag of money, and off we go on 130 00:07:16,733 --> 00:07:20,773 Speaker 2: this kind of crazy adventure in this small town where 131 00:07:21,093 --> 00:07:23,773 Speaker 2: you can kind of see people's logic. But what happens 132 00:07:23,813 --> 00:07:27,093 Speaker 2: is they just create this really nutty scenario. And I 133 00:07:27,133 --> 00:07:30,333 Speaker 2: love the fact because it's just everybody, it's just ordinary 134 00:07:30,333 --> 00:07:33,333 Speaker 2: everyday people die worth a situation they're not used to. 135 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:35,933 Speaker 2: We've got we've got drug dealers, we've got you know, 136 00:07:36,613 --> 00:07:39,973 Speaker 2: drug mules, we've got gang members, and then we've just 137 00:07:40,013 --> 00:07:42,693 Speaker 2: got this lovely police force. And I did. I really 138 00:07:42,813 --> 00:07:47,493 Speaker 2: enjoyed the police force. Who they're not. They're smart people. 139 00:07:47,893 --> 00:07:50,373 Speaker 2: They don't live in this world, right, The safe they don't. 140 00:07:50,413 --> 00:07:52,653 Speaker 2: No one can remember what the code is for the safe. 141 00:07:52,773 --> 00:07:54,973 Speaker 2: The cell doesn't lock because the lock broke and they 142 00:07:55,013 --> 00:07:56,853 Speaker 2: never used need to use it, so that doesn't lock. 143 00:07:57,013 --> 00:07:59,653 Speaker 2: It's just it's just gorgeous. So it's just this kind 144 00:07:59,733 --> 00:08:02,613 Speaker 2: of you know, this high brow kind of gang thing 145 00:08:02,853 --> 00:08:05,853 Speaker 2: that sort of takes place in this very low key, 146 00:08:05,933 --> 00:08:08,693 Speaker 2: little all fringed chown. Quite delightful loved it. 147 00:08:08,853 --> 00:08:10,733 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that sounds like a lot of fun. That's 148 00:08:10,773 --> 00:08:12,333 Speaker 3: how to make a killing at screening is part of 149 00:08:12,373 --> 00:08:14,933 Speaker 3: the French Film Festival, and hey, I see that the 150 00:08:15,293 --> 00:08:16,933 Speaker 3: Oscar winning film I think I won on Oscar y 151 00:08:16,973 --> 00:08:19,533 Speaker 3: an Aura is now on me on a yes. 152 00:08:19,613 --> 00:08:21,413 Speaker 2: So look, if you missed it when it was out 153 00:08:21,493 --> 00:08:23,533 Speaker 2: at the movies at Christmas time and you have me 154 00:08:23,693 --> 00:08:25,493 Speaker 2: on it as free to get onto it and enjoy. 155 00:08:25,613 --> 00:08:27,213 Speaker 3: I think we're going to do this every week. Well 156 00:08:27,373 --> 00:08:29,573 Speaker 3: every week, that's something good. Any of that time there's 157 00:08:29,573 --> 00:08:31,893 Speaker 3: been a really good little you know, like an Oscar 158 00:08:31,893 --> 00:08:34,213 Speaker 3: winner of film that's really taking your attention that you've 159 00:08:34,253 --> 00:08:36,493 Speaker 3: fancied and it's heading the streaming services for the first time, 160 00:08:36,493 --> 00:08:38,093 Speaker 3: then we can lead everyone know in case they've missed 161 00:08:38,133 --> 00:08:38,693 Speaker 3: it in cinemas. 162 00:08:38,813 --> 00:08:41,133 Speaker 2: Yep, exactly, so you know when it's available on a 163 00:08:41,133 --> 00:08:42,933 Speaker 2: streaming service for free. I'm going to let you know 164 00:08:42,973 --> 00:08:44,533 Speaker 2: when the films that you should have seen this here 165 00:08:44,573 --> 00:08:46,133 Speaker 2: that you have missed are available. 166 00:08:46,253 --> 00:08:46,533 Speaker 4: Love it. 167 00:08:46,613 --> 00:08:48,773 Speaker 3: Hey, thanks Rachis good, have a great weekend and we 168 00:08:48,773 --> 00:08:50,773 Speaker 3: will see you again very soon. So French Exis Film 169 00:08:50,813 --> 00:08:54,373 Speaker 3: picks this weekend from the world of John Wick Ballerina. 170 00:08:54,693 --> 00:08:56,533 Speaker 3: That's the one that's showing in cinemas at the moment, 171 00:08:56,573 --> 00:08:58,813 Speaker 3: the hyper violent one, the one at the French Film 172 00:08:58,813 --> 00:09:01,093 Speaker 3: Festival is how to Make a Killing. 173 00:09:02,013 --> 00:09:05,133 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 174 00:09:05,213 --> 00:09:08,053 Speaker 1: to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or 175 00:09:08,093 --> 00:09:10,013 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.