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 --> 00:00:11,693 Speaker 1: from News Talks A B. 3 00:00:13,533 --> 00:00:17,973 Speaker 2: It's the most beautiful some of them lights, further street spreading, 4 00:00:18,053 --> 00:00:23,813 Speaker 2: so much to plash play in the winter, snow under. 5 00:00:23,573 --> 00:00:29,053 Speaker 3: The mission, So twenty two minutes to ten nine News 6 00:00:29,053 --> 00:00:32,613 Speaker 3: Talks d B. Yes, your Spotify algorithm is probably feeding 7 00:00:32,693 --> 00:00:34,093 Speaker 3: you a whole lot of this sort of stuff at 8 00:00:34,093 --> 00:00:37,213 Speaker 3: the moment. Your Netflix algorithm, your TV and z Plus 9 00:00:37,213 --> 00:00:39,733 Speaker 3: algorithm probably doing the same thing. All the Christmas movies 10 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:41,893 Speaker 3: every week. Time to get your film pics for this week, though, 11 00:00:42,453 --> 00:00:45,053 Speaker 3: And Francesca Rudkin, our movie reviewer. 12 00:00:44,773 --> 00:00:46,973 Speaker 4: Is here a good morning, good morning. 13 00:00:47,493 --> 00:00:50,253 Speaker 3: Are you into the Christmas films? Is that your sort 14 00:00:50,253 --> 00:00:51,613 Speaker 3: of thing? I can't. 15 00:00:51,773 --> 00:00:52,653 Speaker 4: I can't do them. 16 00:00:52,933 --> 00:00:54,653 Speaker 3: Yeah, I look know that. 17 00:00:54,813 --> 00:00:57,453 Speaker 4: Yeah, look I might, but I've got quite a lot 18 00:00:57,453 --> 00:00:59,493 Speaker 4: of other really good stuff to watch at the moment, 19 00:00:59,493 --> 00:01:02,613 Speaker 4: because we're heading into Oscar Territory January with there's all 20 00:01:02,653 --> 00:01:04,693 Speaker 4: these amazing films being released and I'm in the process 21 00:01:04,693 --> 00:01:07,093 Speaker 4: of watching all lows at the moment, and I can't 22 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:09,813 Speaker 4: watch the same Christmas film year after year after year 23 00:01:09,813 --> 00:01:12,973 Speaker 4: after year. And then swimming Services is just filled with nonsense. 24 00:01:13,013 --> 00:01:14,733 Speaker 3: Well, they sort of worked out, haven't they that there 25 00:01:14,813 --> 00:01:19,053 Speaker 3: is a market for the ridiculous, like low budget totally 26 00:01:19,093 --> 00:01:20,573 Speaker 3: silly leads them through itself. 27 00:01:20,653 --> 00:01:22,373 Speaker 4: If you love them, go for it. I have a 28 00:01:22,373 --> 00:01:24,533 Speaker 4: friend who starts at the end of November and every 29 00:01:24,653 --> 00:01:26,373 Speaker 4: night her and her family watch a Christmas movie. 30 00:01:26,453 --> 00:01:28,093 Speaker 3: Wow, she loves them, So go for it. 31 00:01:28,133 --> 00:01:28,653 Speaker 4: That's what thing. 32 00:01:28,693 --> 00:01:31,133 Speaker 3: Go for it, all right, Two non Christmasy films for 33 00:01:31,213 --> 00:01:34,413 Speaker 3: us this morning, and let's begin with Jay Kelly, Jay. 34 00:01:34,333 --> 00:01:37,693 Speaker 1: Kelly, so handsome, the last of the old movies. 35 00:01:37,773 --> 00:01:39,013 Speaker 4: I'm down here. 36 00:01:40,253 --> 00:01:42,373 Speaker 3: Sand I'm believing out a Saturday for Paris. 37 00:01:42,613 --> 00:01:45,373 Speaker 4: This is your last summer. It would be so lonely 38 00:01:45,453 --> 00:01:46,453 Speaker 4: here without you. 39 00:01:46,453 --> 00:01:47,813 Speaker 3: No, You're never alone. 40 00:01:47,973 --> 00:01:50,333 Speaker 4: Really, I think I'm always alone. 41 00:01:50,813 --> 00:01:54,853 Speaker 3: Thanks one, all right. George Clooney and Adam Sandler seeing 42 00:01:54,893 --> 00:01:55,493 Speaker 3: me up on this one. 43 00:01:55,573 --> 00:01:58,533 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is Noah Bomback and Emily 44 00:01:58,533 --> 00:02:02,773 Speaker 4: Moolmer have written this film. Noah also directs. He's good 45 00:02:02,773 --> 00:02:05,413 Speaker 4: to Gourberg's partner. They wrote Barbie and Things. Emily has 46 00:02:05,413 --> 00:02:07,133 Speaker 4: a small role in the film with Well, but George 47 00:02:07,133 --> 00:02:10,493 Speaker 4: Clooney stars and he is pretty much playing himself. He's 48 00:02:10,533 --> 00:02:15,653 Speaker 4: an A list star. He's had a remarkable career, and 49 00:02:15,693 --> 00:02:18,253 Speaker 4: in this film, he takes a moment to reflect on 50 00:02:18,333 --> 00:02:22,813 Speaker 4: that career and his life and the fact that you 51 00:02:22,853 --> 00:02:25,253 Speaker 4: know what it took to make it, but then just 52 00:02:25,293 --> 00:02:28,773 Speaker 4: not even make it stay there as well. And what 53 00:02:28,893 --> 00:02:32,733 Speaker 4: he realizes is that, yes, that's been a huge success 54 00:02:32,733 --> 00:02:34,773 Speaker 4: and he's done very well, but he's kind of lost 55 00:02:34,813 --> 00:02:37,573 Speaker 4: everything else in his life along the way. He has 56 00:02:37,693 --> 00:02:41,253 Speaker 4: sort of nothing solid left in his personal life. He's 57 00:02:41,333 --> 00:02:47,573 Speaker 4: quite a hollowed out man, and he had He's got 58 00:02:47,613 --> 00:02:49,893 Speaker 4: a couple of daughters who are now sort of adults. 59 00:02:49,893 --> 00:02:51,533 Speaker 4: One is about to head off to college. And that's 60 00:02:51,573 --> 00:02:55,133 Speaker 4: what kind of the empty nest is what kind of 61 00:02:55,293 --> 00:02:59,293 Speaker 4: instigates this this self reflection. He always thought he wanted 62 00:02:59,293 --> 00:03:02,573 Speaker 4: to be a good parent. He thought he could postpone 63 00:03:02,613 --> 00:03:04,333 Speaker 4: his parenting a bit though, because he was always away 64 00:03:04,373 --> 00:03:07,053 Speaker 4: on films, making films and things. And when it comes 65 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:08,933 Speaker 4: round to him going, I really want to reconnect with 66 00:03:08,933 --> 00:03:11,613 Speaker 4: my two daughters, unfortunately, he realizes that they don't need 67 00:03:11,693 --> 00:03:14,613 Speaker 4: him anymore and they don't necessarily have the time for 68 00:03:14,693 --> 00:03:17,253 Speaker 4: him and things. Adam Sandler plays his manager, and in 69 00:03:17,293 --> 00:03:21,053 Speaker 4: a sense, he is a very similar character in the 70 00:03:21,053 --> 00:03:24,533 Speaker 4: sense that he is also realizing that he has given 71 00:03:24,613 --> 00:03:29,413 Speaker 4: up his life and sacrificing time with his family all 72 00:03:29,413 --> 00:03:31,973 Speaker 4: to cater to the whims of one man, his client, Jay. 73 00:03:32,573 --> 00:03:33,613 Speaker 4: So the two of them are kind of in the 74 00:03:33,653 --> 00:03:35,813 Speaker 4: same boat. And then it's kind of an insider you know, 75 00:03:36,213 --> 00:03:39,133 Speaker 4: in sort of a Hollywood insider film, whereby it's that 76 00:03:39,253 --> 00:03:41,533 Speaker 4: question if your manager has been with you and help 77 00:03:41,613 --> 00:03:42,853 Speaker 4: you get to where you want to go for twenty 78 00:03:42,853 --> 00:03:44,773 Speaker 4: five years, are you friends or do you have a 79 00:03:44,813 --> 00:03:47,173 Speaker 4: working relationship because you take fifteen percent of their income? 80 00:03:47,653 --> 00:03:49,653 Speaker 4: Where where do the lines lie? So? 81 00:03:49,733 --> 00:03:50,413 Speaker 3: Look, this is great. 82 00:03:50,453 --> 00:03:52,733 Speaker 4: Both Adam Sandler and George Clooney are very good in 83 00:03:52,773 --> 00:03:56,613 Speaker 4: this film. It's beautifully shot. This is a nice little 84 00:03:56,613 --> 00:03:57,813 Speaker 4: distraction on Netflix. 85 00:03:57,853 --> 00:04:01,053 Speaker 3: Yeah nice, Okay, cool. So that is Jay Kelly. Next 86 00:04:01,093 --> 00:04:03,573 Speaker 3: up is a film showing in cinemas. It's a documentary. 87 00:04:03,613 --> 00:04:04,853 Speaker 3: This has Beat the Lotto. 88 00:04:06,453 --> 00:04:09,093 Speaker 1: You have the man who is the author of this book, 89 00:04:09,373 --> 00:04:12,813 Speaker 1: which is called Win the Lot of You're in the 90 00:04:12,893 --> 00:04:14,573 Speaker 1: syndicate yourself, aren't you? Yes? 91 00:04:14,613 --> 00:04:14,933 Speaker 3: Indeed? 92 00:04:14,973 --> 00:04:18,493 Speaker 4: And how many times did you win the jackpot? Well, 93 00:04:18,533 --> 00:04:21,133 Speaker 4: we haven't won the jackpipes. Do you want anything yet? No, 94 00:04:22,973 --> 00:04:24,093 Speaker 4: let's just say down in cork. 95 00:04:24,213 --> 00:04:26,213 Speaker 1: Everything is possible, and of course. 96 00:04:26,053 --> 00:04:29,253 Speaker 3: The rest is history. All right, let's beat the lotto, okay. 97 00:04:29,333 --> 00:04:32,333 Speaker 4: So this is a rather crazy documentary that tells the 98 00:04:32,333 --> 00:04:34,813 Speaker 4: far fetch story of a syndicate who tried to take 99 00:04:34,853 --> 00:04:38,493 Speaker 4: on the establishment and Game Island's national lottery in nineteen 100 00:04:38,573 --> 00:04:41,533 Speaker 4: ninety two. So when their lotto began, it's a bit 101 00:04:41,653 --> 00:04:43,773 Speaker 4: like us here in New Zealand. Yet it's always pitched 102 00:04:43,853 --> 00:04:48,133 Speaker 4: as anyone could win. It's the dream, right, It's this 103 00:04:48,293 --> 00:04:51,213 Speaker 4: big dream, anyone could win it and things, and a 104 00:04:51,293 --> 00:04:53,773 Speaker 4: small time accountant he comes up with this idea that 105 00:04:53,813 --> 00:04:56,173 Speaker 4: he worked out it would cost just under one million 106 00:04:56,213 --> 00:04:59,213 Speaker 4: dollars to buy a ticket for every possible combination of 107 00:04:59,253 --> 00:05:01,773 Speaker 4: the six numbers in the lotto game. It was a 108 00:05:01,853 --> 00:05:04,173 Speaker 4: legal plan, perfectly legal, but it would only work if 109 00:05:04,173 --> 00:05:06,013 Speaker 4: they managed to get all the tickets they needed. And 110 00:05:06,053 --> 00:05:08,893 Speaker 4: so he convinced this group of entrepreneurs and professional gamblers 111 00:05:08,893 --> 00:05:11,013 Speaker 4: to get on board. And it took them ten months 112 00:05:11,533 --> 00:05:15,413 Speaker 4: and eleven million ticks to fill out all the lotto slips, 113 00:05:15,453 --> 00:05:17,333 Speaker 4: you know, to tack all the slips. And then they 114 00:05:17,373 --> 00:05:19,693 Speaker 4: sent all these people off around the countryside to try 115 00:05:19,693 --> 00:05:22,773 Speaker 4: and with these wands of tickets to buy the actual 116 00:05:22,853 --> 00:05:25,413 Speaker 4: larer tickets and things, and so the lottery then go oh, 117 00:05:25,573 --> 00:05:27,133 Speaker 4: someone's trying to gain the system and they're on it. 118 00:05:27,173 --> 00:05:28,853 Speaker 4: They're like, this is unfair, so they try and they 119 00:05:28,893 --> 00:05:32,413 Speaker 4: shut down terminals in the base. Oh and anyway, it's 120 00:05:32,413 --> 00:05:35,093 Speaker 4: all about it's a really clever plan, but had they 121 00:05:35,133 --> 00:05:38,053 Speaker 4: thought it through thoroughly? The mass was good, but was 122 00:05:38,093 --> 00:05:41,333 Speaker 4: the execution perfect? And this is where the fun begins. 123 00:05:41,373 --> 00:05:44,053 Speaker 4: So this is a film by Ross Whitaker, and it's 124 00:05:44,093 --> 00:05:46,173 Speaker 4: filled with a lot of the characters who were part 125 00:05:46,173 --> 00:05:49,013 Speaker 4: of this elaborate scam, as well as journalists who covered 126 00:05:49,053 --> 00:05:51,093 Speaker 4: the story and things, and it just takes you back 127 00:05:51,093 --> 00:05:53,733 Speaker 4: to be very much a particular time and place. And 128 00:05:53,813 --> 00:05:55,773 Speaker 4: it also made me sort of reminisce about our lotto 129 00:05:56,053 --> 00:05:57,493 Speaker 4: and sort of how we feel about it as well. 130 00:05:57,493 --> 00:05:59,413 Speaker 3: It's a good fun Oh nice, Okay, cool. So that's 131 00:05:59,453 --> 00:06:02,093 Speaker 3: Beat the Lotto. That's a documentary's showing in cinemas at 132 00:06:02,133 --> 00:06:05,453 Speaker 3: the moment. Francisca's first film, Jay Kelly, is the one 133 00:06:05,453 --> 00:06:08,813 Speaker 3: with George Clooney Adam Sandler that is screening on Netflix, 134 00:06:08,813 --> 00:06:10,453 Speaker 3: and both of those films will of course be on 135 00:06:10,533 --> 00:06:12,133 Speaker 3: the news Talk's EDB website 136 00:06:12,453 --> 00:06:15,533 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live 137 00:06:15,613 --> 00:06:18,813 Speaker 1: to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow 138 00:06:18,853 --> 00:06:20,413 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio