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

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Speaker 2: Be Nobody's promised to Lateady Gaga and Bruno Mars starting

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Speaker 2: your Saturday Morning Thanks for your feedback, Jack. Don't you

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Speaker 2: think the dropping of Finlay Christie Enrico Yowani had something

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Speaker 2: to do with the Leo McDonald Scott Robertson breakdown suspiciously yours? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that could be. That could be one of the factors too,

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Speaker 2: couldn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel like maybe I've just been sucked

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Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel like maybe I've just been a

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Speaker 2: bit naive this morning and thinking, oh, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: just good to see even on front footing this and

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Speaker 2: not coming up with the lame excuse and just saying, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we weren't getting along, we weren't clicking, we were clashing

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Speaker 2: a bit. What did they say that there had been

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Speaker 2: some robust conversations over the last week a few weeks,

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Speaker 2: and so we decided to pop in. Anyway, maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: I have been sucked in. Like you say, I think

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Speaker 2: we need to hear from Leo mctonald at some point

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Speaker 2: if you want to flick us a note ninety two

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Speaker 2: ninety two is the text number. It's twenty two to ten,

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Speaker 2: which means it's time to catch up with our film reviewer,

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Speaker 2: Francesca Rudkin, Kyoda, good morning. Okay, two films to talk

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Speaker 2: to you this morning. The first one is streaming on

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Speaker 2: Netflix and immediately popped up on my algorithm. This is

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Speaker 2: the Union.

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Speaker 1: I am Mikey Brocks.

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Speaker 3: And how often is it that you manage high course?

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Speaker 2: We don't after twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Long years, two shots.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have an Ontario voter to bring in your hair.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to whisk me away with you. Huh something.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to London, Miki Bros. What the hell? Where did

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Speaker 3: Jersey go?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Okay, We've got a down to earth construction worker, Mark

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Speaker 2: Wahlberg thrust into the world of superspies and seek great agents.

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Speaker 2: This feels very likely, Francesca.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so we seem to be having a bit of

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Speaker 3: a space of quite big name driven films being released

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Speaker 3: on screening streaming services. Of course, last week I spoke

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Speaker 3: about The Instigator that tried to do something a little

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Speaker 3: bit different as was a sort of a Boston centric

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Speaker 3: anti heist film. This week I'm going to talk about

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Speaker 3: The Union, which is a little bit more straightforward. It

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Speaker 3: is a spy action comedy stars Halle Berryer and Matt Wolberg,

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Speaker 3: and I was actually really surprised. They had very good chemistry.

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Speaker 3: They worked really well together in this film, which I

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Speaker 3: think is a good thing because the film itself and

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Speaker 3: the plot and everything is a little bit light. It's

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Speaker 3: not really, it's actually more of a reunion. The two

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Speaker 3: of them used to be high school sweethearts. Mike is

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Speaker 3: just kind of still living in the same neighborhood as

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Speaker 3: you say, construction worker, and Roxanne has gone on to

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Speaker 3: become a super spy and she recruits him on a

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Speaker 3: high stakes, intelligent mission. And we're very much relying on

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Speaker 3: that kind of fish out of warm water humor to

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Speaker 3: kind of you kick us off here. So good chemistry,

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Speaker 3: lots of fun, pretty predictable. It kind of hits all

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Speaker 3: those kind of beats you would expect in a bit

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Speaker 3: of an action comedy. Story isn't quite edgy enough to

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Speaker 3: make it stand out, But if you want some really

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Speaker 3: light escapism this weekend, then it will probably hit the

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Speaker 3: mark for you. It has gone number one on Netflix

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Speaker 3: and numerous different countries around the place. So very popular.

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Speaker 2: I think emphasis on really light is that fair?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. And you and I we talk about this

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Speaker 3: quite often.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know a place we need these.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they're done really well. This one is done.

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Speaker 2: Okay, even that line from Mike Warburg, it's not every

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Speaker 2: day you run into your high school sweetheart twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five years later, here we go.

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Speaker 2: Every day your high school sweel looks like Alie Berry

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Mark.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, that is the Union streaming on Netflix. For something

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Speaker 2: completely different, tell us about The Three Musketeers Milady.

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Speaker 3: So I spoke about these films when the French Film

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Speaker 3: Festival is playing much earlier in the year, and they've

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Speaker 3: both come back to play at cinemas, so there's there

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Speaker 3: are obviously adaptations of The Three Musketeers the novel. It's

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Speaker 3: been put into two films, so you might have gone

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Speaker 3: to see The Three Musketeers d'Artagnan. Well, Milady is the

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Speaker 3: second one, and that is just about to be released.

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Speaker 3: And these are actually really well done swashbuckling adventure films.

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Speaker 3: They've got amazing costumes, plenty of actions, some really good

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Speaker 3: fighting scenes, but there's also a touch of romance and

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Speaker 3: a touch of humor. It's almost old fashioned sort of

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Speaker 3: storytelling done really really well. And I didn't realize when

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Speaker 3: I saw the first one that it is a part

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Speaker 3: and so when it ended, I was like, oh, what

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Speaker 3: is another one? But the next year I was really

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Speaker 3: excited because Milady, which is about to come out this week,

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Speaker 3: is also it's just more of the same in this

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Speaker 3: particular one. Either Green plays Malady to Winter and she's

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Speaker 3: involved in a very complex pot to bring France into

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Speaker 3: a war, and they're trying to topple the king, and

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Speaker 3: our Musketeers are once again involved, and off we go

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Speaker 3: on a wonderful adventure. We're seeing on the big screen because,

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Speaker 3: as I say, they put a lot of a lot

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Speaker 3: of effort into the production design and the costumes and

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Speaker 3: everything of these films, so we're seeing on the big screen.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, thanks Franchesca those films again. The Union is

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. It probably comes up as soon as you

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Speaker 2: open Netflix, given it's number one in New Zealand at

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Speaker 2: the moment, and The Three Musketeers Milady is showing in cinemas.

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