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 --> 00:00:35,053 Speaker 1: from news Talks at b Bad. 3 00:00:36,853 --> 00:00:39,933 Speaker 2: That is Alex Warren and Ordinary. That song has just 4 00:00:40,173 --> 00:00:43,853 Speaker 2: topped Spotify's list for the most streamed tracks in New 5 00:00:43,933 --> 00:00:46,373 Speaker 2: Zealand this year. Lab top the local list with their 6 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:49,213 Speaker 2: song in the year not Bad. I don't think I 7 00:00:49,213 --> 00:00:51,293 Speaker 2: would have picked Ordinary. Actually it's been the number one 8 00:00:51,293 --> 00:00:53,893 Speaker 2: stream song, but there you go. I'm always about three 9 00:00:53,973 --> 00:00:56,133 Speaker 2: years behind the behind the times when it comes to 10 00:00:56,133 --> 00:00:58,773 Speaker 2: what's calling the music front. Anyway, twenty two ten, Time 11 00:00:58,813 --> 00:01:01,053 Speaker 2: to get your film picks for this weekend. Francesca Rudkin, 12 00:01:01,133 --> 00:01:04,693 Speaker 2: our movie reviewer, is here with her two picks this weekend. 13 00:01:04,693 --> 00:01:08,533 Speaker 2: Hey Francesca, good morning. Le Ed's begin with a movie 14 00:01:08,573 --> 00:01:11,093 Speaker 2: showing in cinemas. This is Eternity. 15 00:01:14,173 --> 00:01:16,573 Speaker 1: You've passed away? Larry, who are? 16 00:01:17,213 --> 00:01:20,773 Speaker 3: And I'm your after life cording? That's not a job. 17 00:01:21,973 --> 00:01:24,853 Speaker 3: And this is the junction where you choose one place 18 00:01:24,893 --> 00:01:27,413 Speaker 3: to spend eternity and who to spend it with? 19 00:01:28,133 --> 00:01:30,493 Speaker 2: John? 20 00:01:28,893 --> 00:01:31,653 Speaker 1: John you did? 21 00:01:32,373 --> 00:01:35,653 Speaker 2: Oh okay, tell us about Eternity. 22 00:01:36,693 --> 00:01:39,973 Speaker 3: This is just such a fun film. I love the premise. 23 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:43,133 Speaker 3: I think romantic comedies fell into a little bit of 24 00:01:43,173 --> 00:01:46,053 Speaker 3: a trap of becoming these kind of cookie cut of films, 25 00:01:46,093 --> 00:01:49,293 Speaker 3: and they were all sort of the same, and we judged, 26 00:01:50,213 --> 00:01:52,053 Speaker 3: you know, a romantic comedy on whether it was as 27 00:01:52,093 --> 00:01:53,853 Speaker 3: good as the last one we saw. And what we've 28 00:01:53,853 --> 00:01:56,333 Speaker 3: been seeing a little bit recently is some really great 29 00:01:56,333 --> 00:02:00,173 Speaker 3: directors going. Actually, there's so much more to this genre 30 00:02:00,213 --> 00:02:01,933 Speaker 3: and we can have we can have so much more 31 00:02:01,973 --> 00:02:03,893 Speaker 3: fun with it, and we can also have some quite 32 00:02:03,893 --> 00:02:08,213 Speaker 3: good discussions, you know, within a romantic comedy. And this 33 00:02:08,333 --> 00:02:11,413 Speaker 3: film Eternity is by the director David Freen and he 34 00:02:11,653 --> 00:02:16,013 Speaker 3: found it on Blacklist and Blacklist Jack is you probably know, 35 00:02:16,093 --> 00:02:19,253 Speaker 3: it's kind of an annual list of the best unsold 36 00:02:19,293 --> 00:02:21,573 Speaker 3: new screenplays they're available in Hollywood. So these are the 37 00:02:21,613 --> 00:02:23,693 Speaker 3: screenplays that haven't been picked up by a studio or 38 00:02:23,733 --> 00:02:26,853 Speaker 3: an independent studio and things and people go on and 39 00:02:26,853 --> 00:02:28,413 Speaker 3: they find them and then you kind of bid for 40 00:02:28,493 --> 00:02:30,413 Speaker 3: them and you try and get the rights to them. 41 00:02:30,693 --> 00:02:34,253 Speaker 3: And David just love the story and I can completely 42 00:02:34,253 --> 00:02:38,493 Speaker 3: see why. It's just this really original premise. He's cast 43 00:02:38,533 --> 00:02:42,293 Speaker 3: it beautifully, got great performances, it's full of which It's 44 00:02:42,333 --> 00:02:44,693 Speaker 3: got some epic love stories as well, and a little 45 00:02:44,693 --> 00:02:48,933 Speaker 3: bit of an existential crisis, but it's this nice mix 46 00:02:49,093 --> 00:02:52,413 Speaker 3: of both fun and light but as well as being 47 00:02:52,453 --> 00:02:54,773 Speaker 3: sort of moving and a little bit different, so it 48 00:02:54,813 --> 00:02:58,413 Speaker 3: remains a bit more memorable. So basically, when you die, 49 00:02:58,693 --> 00:03:02,733 Speaker 3: you go to a transferred junket in a way, you die, 50 00:03:02,773 --> 00:03:05,253 Speaker 3: you wake up on a train. You get to this 51 00:03:05,373 --> 00:03:09,413 Speaker 3: massive train station and you get to the center and 52 00:03:09,493 --> 00:03:13,133 Speaker 3: your house there for seven days while you decide where 53 00:03:13,173 --> 00:03:17,093 Speaker 3: you were going to spend eternity. And it's very cleverly done. 54 00:03:17,093 --> 00:03:18,453 Speaker 3: It's like a whole lot of hotels. Then in the 55 00:03:18,493 --> 00:03:21,133 Speaker 3: middle it's like a conference. Everyone's got their booths trying 56 00:03:21,173 --> 00:03:23,693 Speaker 3: to sell you on their worlds. You know, there's Beach 57 00:03:23,733 --> 00:03:26,733 Speaker 3: World or Romance World or Studio fifty four World or 58 00:03:26,773 --> 00:03:29,613 Speaker 3: anything goes eternity if you need a safe word. It's 59 00:03:29,653 --> 00:03:32,213 Speaker 3: got amusing the Men Free World, but that was already 60 00:03:32,213 --> 00:03:34,093 Speaker 3: booked up. You could go to Paris in the thirties, 61 00:03:34,093 --> 00:03:35,573 Speaker 3: you could go to Germany in the thirties, but it's 62 00:03:35,613 --> 00:03:38,133 Speaker 3: before the Nazis. There are no Nazis, so they created 63 00:03:38,253 --> 00:03:40,533 Speaker 3: all these worlds that you might want to go and 64 00:03:40,533 --> 00:03:42,853 Speaker 3: spend eternity in. And you've got seven days to choose, 65 00:03:43,653 --> 00:03:48,533 Speaker 3: and when you turn up to this junction, this center, 66 00:03:49,413 --> 00:03:54,733 Speaker 3: you arrive as you were at your most happiest. So 67 00:03:55,573 --> 00:03:59,173 Speaker 3: our two characters here, Larry and Jane. In the nineties, 68 00:03:59,493 --> 00:04:02,293 Speaker 3: Larry dies suddenly he ends up at the junction. He 69 00:04:02,453 --> 00:04:05,093 Speaker 3: knows Joones really sick and that she's going to arrive soon, 70 00:04:05,133 --> 00:04:07,253 Speaker 3: so he gets a job and hang around instead of 71 00:04:07,333 --> 00:04:10,933 Speaker 3: choosing an eternity, waits for her. She arrives. Now they 72 00:04:10,973 --> 00:04:14,373 Speaker 3: both arrived sort of young when they met, so they're 73 00:04:14,373 --> 00:04:19,013 Speaker 3: played by Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Taller. But what and 74 00:04:19,293 --> 00:04:21,693 Speaker 3: Miles Taller? Who is Larry? He's waiting for his wife, 75 00:04:21,773 --> 00:04:24,453 Speaker 3: Joan to come. They've had sixty five years together, they've 76 00:04:24,533 --> 00:04:27,093 Speaker 3: raised kids. Of course they're going to spend a tunaty together. 77 00:04:27,413 --> 00:04:29,173 Speaker 3: But this plan has gone into a little bit of 78 00:04:29,213 --> 00:04:34,413 Speaker 3: disarray because also waiting at the junction is Joan's first 79 00:04:34,453 --> 00:04:39,333 Speaker 3: fiance who died in a war sixty years ago, and 80 00:04:39,373 --> 00:04:42,173 Speaker 3: he has been waiting for her. So all of a 81 00:04:42,213 --> 00:04:45,573 Speaker 3: sudden she has to make this decision. Do I spend 82 00:04:45,653 --> 00:04:49,293 Speaker 3: eternity with this man that I didn't get to live 83 00:04:49,293 --> 00:04:51,933 Speaker 3: a life with that we had this beautiful young romance 84 00:04:51,933 --> 00:04:53,893 Speaker 3: that I didn't get to experience life with Do I 85 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:55,533 Speaker 3: live that with him? Or do I go with the 86 00:04:55,533 --> 00:04:58,133 Speaker 3: man that I've been with for sixty plus odd years 87 00:04:58,133 --> 00:05:00,573 Speaker 3: and we've raised a family and I keep sung. And 88 00:05:00,573 --> 00:05:03,373 Speaker 3: that's the premise of this film. I watched this film 89 00:05:03,373 --> 00:05:04,733 Speaker 3: about a week and a half ago, and I still 90 00:05:04,773 --> 00:05:08,013 Speaker 3: cannot pick what Eternity would go and live in. You 91 00:05:08,053 --> 00:05:10,093 Speaker 3: can't change eternity, so you get stuck in it. If 92 00:05:10,093 --> 00:05:11,893 Speaker 3: you try and escape, you end up in a black void. 93 00:05:12,653 --> 00:05:16,133 Speaker 3: So it's just delightful. There's there's there's lots to ponder. 94 00:05:16,173 --> 00:05:18,973 Speaker 3: It gets very moving. My only complaint with this film, Jack, 95 00:05:19,253 --> 00:05:21,813 Speaker 3: is they just didn't quite know how to wrap it up. 96 00:05:21,853 --> 00:05:24,253 Speaker 3: I don't have an issue with how it ended, how 97 00:05:24,293 --> 00:05:27,493 Speaker 3: the story ended, it just dragged too long and I 98 00:05:27,573 --> 00:05:28,973 Speaker 3: was like, no, no, come on, guys, this is this 99 00:05:29,013 --> 00:05:31,133 Speaker 3: is this is beautiful, this is great. This has been 100 00:05:31,173 --> 00:05:34,013 Speaker 3: such fun, but we're dragging this out now and we 101 00:05:34,173 --> 00:05:35,613 Speaker 3: need to wrap it up. So that would be my 102 00:05:35,653 --> 00:05:38,533 Speaker 3: only complaint. But if you like something about different and 103 00:05:38,573 --> 00:05:40,253 Speaker 3: great performances by everybody. 104 00:05:40,013 --> 00:05:42,973 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool. So that's Eternity that's showing in cinemas. 105 00:05:42,973 --> 00:05:45,933 Speaker 2: Next up, also showing in cinemas, a documentary this is. 106 00:05:46,013 --> 00:05:53,213 Speaker 1: Twiggy, something that we had not ever seen before, and. 107 00:05:53,293 --> 00:05:57,373 Speaker 2: Her name came like a lightning. Tweek, Trigg Twiggy Tweek, 108 00:05:57,653 --> 00:05:58,493 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 109 00:05:58,573 --> 00:06:04,573 Speaker 3: David Bote just sack right name. 110 00:06:05,973 --> 00:06:09,893 Speaker 2: Okay, As the name suggests, this is a documentary about Twiggy. 111 00:06:10,853 --> 00:06:15,333 Speaker 3: Yes, it is a very warm, celebratory documentary. I learned 112 00:06:15,373 --> 00:06:18,013 Speaker 3: a lot about Twiggy. It doesn't matter how old you are. 113 00:06:18,133 --> 00:06:21,053 Speaker 3: Everybody knows that she was this massive fashion disruptor of 114 00:06:21,093 --> 00:06:24,093 Speaker 3: this model that changed the face of fashion, became world 115 00:06:24,133 --> 00:06:27,013 Speaker 3: famous literally in about three to six weeks. It's a 116 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:29,533 Speaker 3: great story. What I didn't know was that she then 117 00:06:29,573 --> 00:06:36,213 Speaker 3: went on to do musical film and TV shows and 118 00:06:36,373 --> 00:06:38,933 Speaker 3: all sorts of things, and it's had this incredible career 119 00:06:39,453 --> 00:06:42,773 Speaker 3: and the attitude that she brings to it is just delightful. 120 00:06:43,133 --> 00:06:45,893 Speaker 3: She didn't really plan any of it. She wasn't hugely ambitious. 121 00:06:46,293 --> 00:06:49,133 Speaker 3: She just kind of took opportunities, worked really hard, took 122 00:06:49,173 --> 00:06:52,773 Speaker 3: everything in her stride. Nothing was a problem. Like It's 123 00:06:52,853 --> 00:06:55,493 Speaker 3: just really refreshing watching this film and I learned an 124 00:06:55,533 --> 00:06:57,573 Speaker 3: awful lot about her as well. It's a film by 125 00:06:57,813 --> 00:07:00,413 Speaker 3: Sadie Frost has put this documentary together excellent. 126 00:07:00,453 --> 00:07:03,773 Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So that's Twiggy that's in cinemas. Francisca's first 127 00:07:03,773 --> 00:07:06,173 Speaker 2: film is Eternity, that's also showing at the movies, and 128 00:07:06,533 --> 00:07:09,373 Speaker 2: all of the details for those films up at NEWSTALKZEDB, 129 00:07:09,493 --> 00:07:10,493 Speaker 2: dot co dot MZ. 130 00:07:11,253 --> 00:07:14,373 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 131 00:07:14,453 --> 00:07:17,613 Speaker 1: to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow 132 00:07:17,693 --> 00:07:19,253 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.