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 --> 00:00:11,973 Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB. 3 00:00:26,573 --> 00:00:28,813 Speaker 2: News Talks V. You were Jack Tame through the Midday. 4 00:00:28,853 --> 00:00:30,933 Speaker 2: That's a new song from Yumi Zuma. The song is 5 00:00:31,013 --> 00:00:34,373 Speaker 2: called Drag. They've just announced the name of their new album. 6 00:00:34,373 --> 00:00:37,213 Speaker 2: It's going to be called No Love Lost to Kindness 7 00:00:37,653 --> 00:00:40,613 Speaker 2: twenty two to ten. Just so you know, the huge 8 00:00:40,613 --> 00:00:43,613 Speaker 2: march in Auckland has kicked off today, the pro Palestine 9 00:00:43,613 --> 00:00:46,093 Speaker 2: march that was supposed to go over the Auckland Harbor Bridge, 10 00:00:46,093 --> 00:00:47,813 Speaker 2: but then they were concerned about high winds, so they've 11 00:00:47,853 --> 00:00:50,293 Speaker 2: moved it to healthier square. That's just kicked off. There 12 00:00:50,293 --> 00:00:52,493 Speaker 2: are photos up at Insied Herald dot co dot inzed 13 00:00:52,533 --> 00:00:54,693 Speaker 2: and we'll be following that progress over the next couple 14 00:00:54,733 --> 00:00:57,093 Speaker 2: of hours on News Talks. He'd be time now to 15 00:00:57,093 --> 00:00:59,973 Speaker 2: catch up with our film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin is here 16 00:01:00,013 --> 00:01:04,293 Speaker 2: this morning. Good morning, good morning. Okay, two films to 17 00:01:05,373 --> 00:01:07,213 Speaker 2: talk to you this morning, both of them are showing 18 00:01:07,253 --> 00:01:10,133 Speaker 2: in cinemas. We'd better start off with the keenly eagerly 19 00:01:10,413 --> 00:01:15,653 Speaker 2: anticipated by millions of people worldwide, Downtown Abbey, the Grand Finale. 20 00:01:17,173 --> 00:01:20,093 Speaker 3: It's hard to accept so if it's time to go, 21 00:01:22,733 --> 00:01:27,253 Speaker 3: but the future of Downtown Abbey is now in Mary's hands. 22 00:01:28,893 --> 00:01:35,933 Speaker 2: He will be a sensation, a last hurrah from the 23 00:01:35,973 --> 00:01:39,613 Speaker 2: Downtown Abbey team. Tell us about the grand finale, Francesca. 24 00:01:39,933 --> 00:01:42,453 Speaker 4: So this is the third and the final film, and look, 25 00:01:42,653 --> 00:01:45,693 Speaker 4: to be honest with you, I'm always very suspect when 26 00:01:45,693 --> 00:01:48,213 Speaker 4: someone says this will be it, this is the grand finale, 27 00:01:48,893 --> 00:01:51,613 Speaker 4: because you know what the entertainment world's like. They're always 28 00:01:52,293 --> 00:01:54,933 Speaker 4: out at some point. But look, to be honest with you, 29 00:01:54,973 --> 00:01:58,613 Speaker 4: they very much treated this as the grand finale. They 30 00:01:58,813 --> 00:02:02,213 Speaker 4: wrapped up for all the storylines. All the characters kind 31 00:02:02,213 --> 00:02:04,973 Speaker 4: of had their moment, you know. They made sure that 32 00:02:05,053 --> 00:02:07,133 Speaker 4: everybody kind of had a moment, and all the different 33 00:02:07,173 --> 00:02:11,093 Speaker 4: subplots and storylines kind of got wrapped up nicely. It 34 00:02:11,213 --> 00:02:15,053 Speaker 4: had a very sentimental feel. I was actually quite surprised 35 00:02:15,053 --> 00:02:18,333 Speaker 4: when I kind of left. I felt quite emotional and 36 00:02:18,373 --> 00:02:20,413 Speaker 4: sort of sad that it was all over, which took 37 00:02:20,413 --> 00:02:22,013 Speaker 4: me a little bit by surprise, because, to be honest 38 00:02:22,013 --> 00:02:24,133 Speaker 4: with you, I felt like after fifteen years had dragged. 39 00:02:23,853 --> 00:02:24,213 Speaker 5: On a bit. 40 00:02:24,733 --> 00:02:27,333 Speaker 4: So I think they've done a really nice job here. 41 00:02:27,373 --> 00:02:28,973 Speaker 4: I think if you have been a fan and watched 42 00:02:29,053 --> 00:02:31,973 Speaker 4: over the years like I have. You'll be very satisfied 43 00:02:32,013 --> 00:02:35,053 Speaker 4: with this film. They've done everything which we know Downton 44 00:02:35,093 --> 00:02:37,573 Speaker 4: to be. You know, it's always been a film where 45 00:02:37,573 --> 00:02:41,813 Speaker 4: they've kind of been your characters have always had their 46 00:02:41,853 --> 00:02:45,573 Speaker 4: own personal dramas, but it's always been a franchise. That is, 47 00:02:45,813 --> 00:02:47,973 Speaker 4: some characters will always be looking to the past, while 48 00:02:48,013 --> 00:02:50,693 Speaker 4: some will be looking to the future, and that trying 49 00:02:50,733 --> 00:02:54,413 Speaker 4: to work out how we move forward and how generations 50 00:02:54,533 --> 00:02:56,133 Speaker 4: pass on legacies to other generations. 51 00:02:56,173 --> 00:02:57,853 Speaker 5: So all those kind of things are all in here. 52 00:02:58,213 --> 00:03:00,293 Speaker 4: It's stepped it up a notch. I think it's even 53 00:03:00,453 --> 00:03:03,493 Speaker 4: more lavish than we've seen before. The costumes are amazing, 54 00:03:03,853 --> 00:03:07,733 Speaker 4: the sweeping shots of downtown Abbia many and you know, 55 00:03:08,533 --> 00:03:11,013 Speaker 4: and so I think they've really gone. Actually, this is 56 00:03:11,013 --> 00:03:13,253 Speaker 4: the finality. Let's go out on a bang next, give 57 00:03:13,293 --> 00:03:16,053 Speaker 4: the fans what they want and what they love about 58 00:03:16,133 --> 00:03:18,333 Speaker 4: down to Abbey and we'll wrap it up and everyone 59 00:03:18,373 --> 00:03:20,173 Speaker 4: will need happy. And look, it's got all the width 60 00:03:20,213 --> 00:03:23,013 Speaker 4: that you expect. But actually also it's quite moving at times, 61 00:03:23,053 --> 00:03:25,573 Speaker 4: and that's largely because of course Dave Maggie Smith isn't 62 00:03:25,573 --> 00:03:28,173 Speaker 4: there to wrap up this franchise that she was such 63 00:03:28,213 --> 00:03:31,333 Speaker 4: a big part of, so it's also quite emotional. 64 00:03:31,573 --> 00:03:35,133 Speaker 5: They pay very much tribute to her in this film. 65 00:03:35,173 --> 00:03:39,453 Speaker 4: So look, if you've loved down to Abbey. It's very satisfying, sentimental, 66 00:03:39,653 --> 00:03:42,373 Speaker 4: still sort of slightly sweet and of certain ridiculous. We 67 00:03:42,413 --> 00:03:46,053 Speaker 4: don't this is not a pretty realistic look at class 68 00:03:46,453 --> 00:03:47,773 Speaker 4: in society and things. 69 00:03:48,533 --> 00:03:50,693 Speaker 5: It's set in the nineteen thirties, this one, but it 70 00:03:50,813 --> 00:03:55,493 Speaker 5: is wonderful, pleasant, lovely entertainment. It's a great film to 71 00:03:55,533 --> 00:03:57,493 Speaker 5: take your mom to. Friend of mine got. 72 00:03:57,533 --> 00:03:59,413 Speaker 4: Invited into the screening and she said, oh, I've never 73 00:03:59,453 --> 00:04:00,533 Speaker 4: watched any down there before. 74 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:02,053 Speaker 5: My mom loves it. Took her mom. 75 00:04:02,413 --> 00:04:03,893 Speaker 4: Not only did mum love it, but she fell in 76 00:04:03,893 --> 00:04:05,093 Speaker 4: love with it as well and was gone back to 77 00:04:05,093 --> 00:04:06,173 Speaker 4: start watching from the beginning. 78 00:04:06,453 --> 00:04:09,053 Speaker 2: There you go, oh, there you go. Oh that is great. Okay, 79 00:04:09,253 --> 00:04:12,133 Speaker 2: So that's down to Navy the Grand Finale next up, 80 00:04:12,133 --> 00:04:15,013 Speaker 2: also showing in cinemas. This is sketch. 81 00:04:18,973 --> 00:04:20,973 Speaker 4: It's always kind of been her thing, right, trying. 82 00:04:21,613 --> 00:04:24,053 Speaker 5: Oh, kids like to draw, but has she always been so. 83 00:04:27,813 --> 00:04:28,693 Speaker 3: She's working through some. 84 00:04:29,653 --> 00:04:32,253 Speaker 2: H Okay, that's sketch. So it's a family film, but 85 00:04:32,253 --> 00:04:34,773 Speaker 2: it's a little bit of a dark edge, doesn't it. 86 00:04:35,053 --> 00:04:37,853 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of a gentle kid's horror if you 87 00:04:37,893 --> 00:04:41,173 Speaker 4: can have that. I this came to my attention and 88 00:04:41,213 --> 00:04:43,893 Speaker 4: I quite liked it because it's just a little bit different. 89 00:04:43,933 --> 00:04:46,413 Speaker 4: It's not what we're used to. And I'm also a 90 00:04:46,493 --> 00:04:49,733 Speaker 4: huge fan of all the adventure sort of family films 91 00:04:49,733 --> 00:04:51,773 Speaker 4: that I grew up with, whether it was Et or 92 00:04:51,773 --> 00:04:53,573 Speaker 4: The Gremlins and things like that. You know, a lot 93 00:04:53,613 --> 00:04:56,773 Speaker 4: of the family entertainment moved to animation, and they are 94 00:04:56,813 --> 00:04:58,893 Speaker 4: amazing and wonderful in their own right as well. But 95 00:04:58,973 --> 00:05:01,213 Speaker 4: I do love it when we have when you've got 96 00:05:01,213 --> 00:05:03,693 Speaker 4: a family film which is live action and things. But 97 00:05:04,013 --> 00:05:08,813 Speaker 4: the visual effects here are also really quite neat as well. 98 00:05:09,693 --> 00:05:11,533 Speaker 4: And I also like the fact this one doesn't shy 99 00:05:11,613 --> 00:05:16,093 Speaker 4: away from thinking that, you know, kids can deal. 100 00:05:16,093 --> 00:05:18,493 Speaker 5: With quite hard, difficult stuff. I mean, this is a 101 00:05:18,493 --> 00:05:19,773 Speaker 5: film about grief and. 102 00:05:19,733 --> 00:05:22,053 Speaker 4: Pain and how we deal with it and how it manifests. 103 00:05:22,613 --> 00:05:25,573 Speaker 4: So we've got Amber and Jack, two siblings. Their mother 104 00:05:25,653 --> 00:05:28,493 Speaker 4: has died their sort of elementary sort of primary school 105 00:05:28,533 --> 00:05:31,813 Speaker 4: age and their father, played by Tony Hale, is doing 106 00:05:31,853 --> 00:05:35,133 Speaker 4: his best. He adds a nice comedic element to things 107 00:05:35,533 --> 00:05:38,653 Speaker 4: but Amber really takes out her anger and her grief 108 00:05:38,853 --> 00:05:42,413 Speaker 4: and things by drawing, and she draws these very dark 109 00:05:43,533 --> 00:05:48,053 Speaker 4: pictures monsters, and she disturbingly, she draws these pictures of 110 00:05:48,173 --> 00:05:50,773 Speaker 4: sort of quite violent scenes, often including her classmates, which 111 00:05:50,813 --> 00:05:52,973 Speaker 4: is a bit of a concern. Her brother's really worried 112 00:05:52,973 --> 00:05:56,293 Speaker 4: about her, and her brother finds in the backyard they 113 00:05:56,373 --> 00:05:57,453 Speaker 4: sort of live semi rurally. 114 00:05:57,933 --> 00:05:59,333 Speaker 5: He finds is an American film. 115 00:05:59,333 --> 00:06:02,053 Speaker 4: He finds in the backyard this magic pond and if 116 00:06:02,053 --> 00:06:05,053 Speaker 4: we throw something in it, like his phone. Somehow it 117 00:06:05,093 --> 00:06:08,613 Speaker 4: gets fixed about throwing his mother's ashes in this pond 118 00:06:08,973 --> 00:06:11,213 Speaker 4: to maybe she will come back and it will heal 119 00:06:11,293 --> 00:06:14,093 Speaker 4: their family. But instead him and Amber have a bit 120 00:06:14,093 --> 00:06:16,293 Speaker 4: of a fight, and Amber's drawing book goes in so 121 00:06:16,453 --> 00:06:19,853 Speaker 4: all these mondifying ways to kind of defeat these monsters 122 00:06:19,853 --> 00:06:20,973 Speaker 4: and overcome them and things. 123 00:06:20,973 --> 00:06:22,653 Speaker 5: So look, watch the trailer. 124 00:06:24,133 --> 00:06:25,933 Speaker 4: It will kind of depend on your kid and what 125 00:06:25,973 --> 00:06:27,893 Speaker 4: they're used to whether they will find some of this 126 00:06:27,973 --> 00:06:29,213 Speaker 4: a little bit scary or not. 127 00:06:30,173 --> 00:06:31,493 Speaker 5: Watch the trailer, work it out. 128 00:06:31,533 --> 00:06:34,693 Speaker 4: But I like the creativity and the original thought, especially 129 00:06:34,733 --> 00:06:37,253 Speaker 4: with these monsters coming to life as if there's sketches 130 00:06:37,653 --> 00:06:40,853 Speaker 4: sort of the visual effects and things, and I just 131 00:06:40,973 --> 00:06:44,013 Speaker 4: like the fact that, yeah, there's sort of training children 132 00:06:44,213 --> 00:06:47,493 Speaker 4: with a little bit of respect with the heaviness. 133 00:06:46,933 --> 00:06:48,653 Speaker 5: Of the topics. So it may or may not be 134 00:06:48,733 --> 00:06:48,933 Speaker 5: for you. 135 00:06:49,053 --> 00:06:52,093 Speaker 4: It's a bit like Inside Out, I suppose, right where 136 00:06:52,093 --> 00:06:54,533 Speaker 4: it talks about real emotions and real things that can 137 00:06:54,573 --> 00:06:57,893 Speaker 4: potentially happen, but in a live action format. 138 00:06:58,053 --> 00:07:00,613 Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, cool, that sounds really interesting. So that sketch 139 00:07:00,813 --> 00:07:02,733 Speaker 2: that showing cinemas at the moment so is down to 140 00:07:02,773 --> 00:07:04,933 Speaker 2: maybe the grand finale in both of those films and 141 00:07:05,013 --> 00:07:07,973 Speaker 2: all of their details will be for the News website. 142 00:07:08,213 --> 00:07:11,293 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 143 00:07:11,413 --> 00:07:14,573 Speaker 1: to News talks 'B from nine am Saturday, or follow 144 00:07:14,613 --> 00:07:16,173 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.