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Speaker 2: B Someone someone is weird and conction and just cram

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Speaker 3: Chaste.

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Speaker 4: That's Georgia Lines and the guest House. God, she does

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Speaker 4: such an amazing voice. She had that great interview with

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Speaker 4: Hosking this week. She's confirmed she's moving over to Nashville

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Speaker 4: to chase your dreams. So good for her, certainly one

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Speaker 4: to watch and yeah, keep playing. My goodness, she's so

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Speaker 4: talent today, Steve says, Jack Rugby League, what a joke.

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Speaker 4: You might as well call it Ossie rules. When are

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Speaker 4: where Steve stands on the knock on call last night.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for that. Right now is twenty three to ten,

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Speaker 4: which means it's time to keep your movie picks for

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Speaker 4: this weekend. Francesca Rudkin is our film reviewers. She's here

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Speaker 4: this morning. Killed her.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's kick things off with a movie showing in

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Speaker 4: cinemas at the moment. This is court stealing.

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Speaker 3: I've got a fly back to London.

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Speaker 1: I need you to take Care of My Cat.

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Speaker 3: I like Dora.

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Speaker 2: Hey's Russholm. Oh were you?

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Speaker 1: What's the.

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Speaker 4: Okay? That's court stealing? Tell us about it, Francisca.

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Speaker 3: This is a film by Darren Aronofsky, who I really love.

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Speaker 3: He made films like Rick Raem for a Dream, Black Swan,

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Speaker 3: The Whale, The Wrestler, and it sounds often Butler and

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Speaker 3: I love his performance in this film. Apparently he went

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Speaker 3: quite method. This is quite a violent, black humored crime caper,

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Speaker 3: and he took a few beatings in it. But and

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Speaker 3: that's not why I love him, that he went method.

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Speaker 3: But he plays this very complex, flawed but likable guy.

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Speaker 3: And he's got rid of the Elvis voice, like I

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Speaker 3: felt like for a while after the Elvis film with Baz,

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Speaker 3: but every time I saw him he was still stuck

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Speaker 3: in Elvis land. And that's gone now and there's a

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Speaker 3: different character in front of you. And actually he's very

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Speaker 3: charismatic as Hank. I also loved the late nineties setting

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Speaker 3: that resonated with me a little bit. Hank lives in

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Speaker 3: New York. He's a former baseball star, or you could

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Speaker 3: actually say he was an almost.

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Speaker 2: A star.

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Speaker 3: There's a bit of a backstory there. He had a

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Speaker 3: car crash when he was in high school and that

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Speaker 3: sort of ruined his chances. Anyway, he likes his booze.

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Speaker 3: He's working in a bar, he's dating this paramedic played

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Speaker 3: by Zoe Kravitz, and he's got this neighbor, this punk

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Speaker 3: Russ and played by Matt Smith. And suddenly Russ says,

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Speaker 3: I've got to go away family issue. Can you look

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Speaker 3: after the cat? And he did, he said, yet no worries.

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Speaker 3: But then these Russians.

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Speaker 5: Appear and.

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Speaker 3: They kind of get the feeling that Hank knows Russ,

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Speaker 3: so maybe they can help him find the money that

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Speaker 3: russo's them. And then and then suddenly some pasidic Jews

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Speaker 3: played by Leed Schreider and Vincent donoughnrio are also after him.

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Speaker 3: And then there's this cop played by Regina King who

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Speaker 3: comes in to try and help him out and everything.

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Speaker 3: So there is lots of happening, and this is kind

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Speaker 3: of one of those films filled with miscommunications, bad timing,

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Speaker 3: bad choices. It's got a pulpy feel to it, it's

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Speaker 3: got a Quentin Tarantino feel to it, but it doesn't

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Speaker 3: have the energy. It's kind of a little bit too understated.

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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it, but the pacing didn't quite work.

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Speaker 3: And actually it's quite funny. I was just going, this

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Speaker 3: is really funny, but it just didn't quite because they

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Speaker 3: weren't trying quit lady. The company didn't quite land right.

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Speaker 3: So it doesn't quite hit. But there is a lot

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Speaker 3: to like about it. It put a smile on my face.

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Speaker 3: I just wish it had kind of hit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, very good.

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Speaker 4: So there's cord stealing that is showing in cinemas right now,

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Speaker 4: mixed up something completely different. This is on Netflix. It's

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Speaker 4: called The Thursday Murder Club.

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Speaker 3: There is Joyce.

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Speaker 2: Are you with us?

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Speaker 4: Bang on Target?

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Speaker 3: I'm Elizabeth. Would you take a look at that for me?

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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 3: God, TI's a lot of blood. Would you care to

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Speaker 3: join us to discuss things further? Who is uske? I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: how rude of you. We're the Thursday Murder.

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Speaker 4: Club, don't dann. That's Helen Mirran alongside ps Brosnan, directed

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Speaker 4: by Christopher Columbus. Not to be confused with the Explorer.

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Speaker 4: Tell us about the Thursday Murder Club.

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Speaker 3: So this is a cool space on the best selling

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Speaker 3: books by Richard Osmond and Richard Osmond is an absolute delight.

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Speaker 3: I have been fortunate enough to interview him, and he's

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Speaker 3: a delightful man and his books are an absolute delight.

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Speaker 3: And the cast in this film is an absolute delight,

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Speaker 3: a very impressive cast, and as you mentioned, directed by

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Speaker 3: Chris Columbus, who's done Home Alone and Harry Potter films

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Speaker 3: and things. So it feels like it would be really

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Speaker 3: hard to make a mess of this, and they don't

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Speaker 3: make a mess of it. It did have a bit

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Speaker 3: of a difficult start, this film that got caught up

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Speaker 3: in the Hollywood labor dispute, so there were some sort

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Speaker 3: of personnel changes behind the scenes, and it has gone

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Speaker 3: into cinema in some places, but here in New Zealand

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Speaker 3: it is playing on Netflix and it's really good fun.

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Speaker 3: It's very likable, which is probably what you'd expect if

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Speaker 3: you've read the books, but I actually think it could

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Speaker 3: have been more. Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth. She's a former

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Speaker 3: am I six chief. You've got Pias Brosmin's as you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: he's a x Traye unionist. Ben Kingsley joins the team.

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Speaker 3: He's a retired psychiatrist and Senior Imri is the trauma

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Speaker 3: nurse that you heard in the trailer, and they live

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Speaker 3: at this rather wonderful Cooper's Chases retirement home, a very grand,

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Speaker 3: stately home. And of course the idea is it, even

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Speaker 3: if you're retired, you're more than capable of contributing and

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Speaker 3: being useful and pushing back against sort of ageist condescension.

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Speaker 3: I think you need to engage with the suspension of

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Speaker 3: disbelief with this film, Jack the retirement Villages.

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Speaker 5: The retirement village happens to be owned by three kind

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Speaker 5: of wanted known criminal gang leaders, which is probably the

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Speaker 5: first stretch you hit. But look, there's the lovely twists

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Speaker 3: I mean, this cast has the comedic timing down pat

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Speaker 3: so there's lots of lovely life. Hannah Murrin at one

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Speaker 3: point even sort of dresses up like the Queen, and

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Speaker 3: of course she was, she played the Queen in a film.

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Speaker 3: But I think if there was a little bit more

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Speaker 3: depth to some of these characters that would have helped

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Speaker 3: witness a little bit more internal life with them would

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Speaker 3: have contributed to drawing us. But you can't go wrong

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Speaker 3: with it. Jonathan Price also starts David Tennant, bridget E Grant.

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Speaker 3: I mean the cast is absolutely fantastic, so it's very

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Speaker 3: pleasant and good fuck.

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Speaker 4: Nice, nothing wrong with that too. Okay, now that is

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Speaker 4: the Thursday Murder Club that's streaming on Netflix. You can

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Speaker 4: see Court stealing Francisca's first film pick for us this

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Speaker 4: week in cinemas. We'll make sure all of the information

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Speaker 4: about those movies is up on the News Talks dB

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Speaker 4: website and we will talking in very soon. Thank you, Francisca.

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