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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: The song is called Cherry Pie. Cherry Pie.

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Speaker 3: That's by Phaser Days, whose real name is Amelia Murray,

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Speaker 3: and Phaser Days is nominated for the Tate Music Prize,

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Speaker 3: which is going to be announced on Tuesday. Her album

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Speaker 3: that is nominated is called Soft Power and it was

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Speaker 3: Rolling Stone's number one key we album of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Ain't no thing anyway, we're kind of getting into awards.

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Speaker 2: Mode this morning on News Talks.

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Speaker 3: He'd be because before ten o'clock we're talking about the

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Speaker 3: Outstanding Food Producer Awards, and then a little later in

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Speaker 3: the show we're going to look at the Tate Music Prize.

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Speaker 3: Who's likely to take out the top gong? This week

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Speaker 3: we're going to play some of the music that has

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Speaker 3: been nominated.

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Speaker 2: As well for the Tape Music Prize. So yeah, looking

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Speaker 2: forward to that right now.

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Speaker 3: Though it is twenty four to ten on New Stalks,

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Speaker 3: he'd be in our film review of Francesca Rudkin is

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Speaker 3: here with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: KIELDA good morning.

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Speaker 3: So a Minecraft movie for anyone who thinks that people

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Speaker 3: don't go to the movies anymore. Has just completely smashed

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Speaker 3: all the records this week, right, so you were telling

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Speaker 3: us about it last week. It's probably a movie that's

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Speaker 3: going to, you know, get the kids, rows of the excited.

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Speaker 3: It's not necessarily for all of us, but it has

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Speaker 3: broken all sorts of records. It's become the highest opening

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Speaker 3: video game movie of all time. It made three hundred

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Speaker 3: million US dollars and it's opening weekend, so more than

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Speaker 3: half a billion New Zealand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy what a big business movie still are like.

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Speaker 2: That is extraordinary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's awesome, and it's really great. I mean

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Speaker 4: we've heard we heard the cry talking about awards. We

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Speaker 4: heard the cry from filmmakers at the Oscars and various

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Speaker 4: other awards at the beginning of the year, going hey,

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Speaker 4: we make movies for the big screen. It is this

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Speaker 4: experience we had. But we've also seen it with Tina,

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Speaker 4: you know, which until Line Straft came along. And I'm

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Speaker 4: still talking to people who say to me, I went

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Speaker 4: to the movie. I went to the cinema and saw it,

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Speaker 4: and I laughed with everybody else, and I cried with

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Speaker 4: everybody else, And I get it. It's this communal we're

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Speaker 4: all in it together. You get something, it goes to

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Speaker 4: a whole other level when you share it with other people,

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Speaker 4: regardless of whether you know them or not. And that's

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Speaker 4: the wonderful thing about seeing a movie in a cinema.

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Speaker 2: Oh so good. All right, we have a couple of

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Speaker 2: options this week.

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Speaker 3: Only one of them is showing in cinema, So let's

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Speaker 3: start off with the one that is showing at home

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's have it listened to G twenty. Madam President, we

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Speaker 2: have a situation. I implore all world leaders to join me.

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Speaker 1: At the G twenty summit, the twenty most powerful world

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Speaker 1: leaders together going dark in three two.

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Speaker 3: Why Bam Bam star in Viola Davis and of course

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Speaker 3: Kee We star Anthonista tell us about G twenty.

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Speaker 4: So Viola Davis, who has won an Oscar, a Tony

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Speaker 4: and Emmy, Abafta, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy would

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Speaker 4: probably hate me making this comparison, but she's almost becoming

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Speaker 4: the female Liam Nixon of action films. She's fifteen, she's

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Speaker 4: fifty nine years old, and she is totally kicking butt

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Speaker 4: in this action for a G twenty screening on Prime

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Speaker 4: Video and you may remember the last film that she

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Speaker 4: which also another very sort of full on action fleck.

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Speaker 4: As well. She plays President Sutton, the President of the

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Speaker 4: United States. She also happens to be a former soldier.

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Speaker 4: She uses her brains and her brawn to overcome a

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Speaker 4: terrorist attack on a G twenty summit. Leading the attack

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Speaker 4: is the Boys Baddie Kiwi actor Anthony Starr, and he

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Speaker 4: plans to use deep fakes to convince the world that

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Speaker 4: all these leaders at the G twenty are going to

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Speaker 4: take control of some other countries finances and everybody must

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Speaker 4: turnto crypto and he's trying to collapse kind of the

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Speaker 4: world financial order. To be honest with you, this is

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Speaker 4: probably you know what. You just kind of let the

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Speaker 4: premise go. It's all quite lovely and ridiculous. I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: worry about it too much. It's all far fetched, but

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Speaker 4: it's really fun watching Davis and Stargo head to head.

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Speaker 4: As always, Anthony Starr is completely committed to his character.

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Speaker 4: He manages to bring a range of emotions to a

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Speaker 4: pretty simple villain role. He really is fabulous, and Davis

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Speaker 4: is much like she was in previous films we've seeing her.

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Speaker 4: She is very good at being you know, she has

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Speaker 4: she's also a very good physical adversary. And these two

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Speaker 4: little bit of a slight waste of talent. There's a

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Speaker 4: And I think they're both pretty intelligent actors and could

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Speaker 4: We're going to keep this all about the action. We're

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Speaker 4: going to keep this moving along. So they haven't really

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Speaker 4: focused a huge amount on the script. So it's a

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Speaker 4: bit of a shame because I think the two of

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Speaker 4: even further. And there's some quite fun, nice sort of

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Speaker 4: side performances here. Douglas Hodge plays a British PM who's

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Speaker 4: sort of a bit bumbling and quite funny, and there's

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Speaker 4: a couple of nice sort of side performances and things.

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Speaker 4: But look, this Sunday afternoon, if you need. If you're

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Speaker 4: having some couch time and you're looking for a little

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Speaker 4: bit of escapism, then you might want to try G twenty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I mean it sounds a little bit ridiculous

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Speaker 3: before asked it is a little bit ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of escapism on a Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Now we're into that, Francisca. That's all right.

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Speaker 3: We're not too snobby if you are like something a

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Speaker 3: little bit different. Showing cinemas at the moment is a

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Speaker 3: film called Crossing, and this is.

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Speaker 4: A beautiful piece of world cinema. It's a Georgian Turkish drama.

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Speaker 4: It's by Levan Unkin, who directed And Then We Danced,

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Speaker 4: which maybe some people might be familiar with. It follows

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Speaker 4: a Georgian woman. She is a retired teacher. She is

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Speaker 4: a single, kind of slightly unhappy, quite grumpy, slightly stern woman.

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Speaker 4: And she has made a promise, She made a promise

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Speaker 4: to her dying sister that she would find her estranged

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Speaker 4: she gets someone says to her that Tecla has moved

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Speaker 4: same time we're also introduced to this trans woman who

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Speaker 4: and we almost led to believe the director almost says

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Speaker 4: But they come together and help each other along the way.

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Speaker 4: But this obviously the film is called Crossing. It is

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Speaker 4: a film about crossings and transitions, but more mental and

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Speaker 4: emotional than physical ones. This is a story about, you know,

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Speaker 4: a woman having a change of heart. And also, I

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Speaker 4: think in this film there's the realization that maybe this

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Speaker 4: young woman, Tecla, doesn't need to be found, doesn't need

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Speaker 4: to be saved. It's more about this retired teacher doing

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Speaker 4: what she needs to do for herself and to kind of,

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Speaker 4: you know, find some redemption and things there. So look,

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Speaker 4: it's a beautifully moving film superbly acted. And what I

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Speaker 4: love about this film is that they don't wrap everything

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Speaker 4: up and a nice both for you, because life is messy, Jack,

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Speaker 4: and this film kind of celebrates that.

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Speaker 2: And what we love about you is that you bring

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Speaker 2: us a range of films.

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Speaker 4: Friendchessa something for everybody.

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Speaker 3: G twenty two, Crossing, Yeah, very good at George and

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Speaker 3: Turkish Crossover. Hey, thank you so much for that, really

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Speaker 3: appreciate it. We're going to make sure both of those

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Speaker 3: So G twenty is screening on Prime Video. Crossing is

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Speaker 3: in select cinemas now.

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