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

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Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I like a little bit of europop from time to time.

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Speaker 3: That's Robin the Swedish pop legend. It's a new song

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Speaker 3: called Dopamine. I like it, but of fun. Just coming

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Speaker 3: up to twenty to ten on News Talks ed B,

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Speaker 3: which means it's time to get your film picks for

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Speaker 3: the weekend. Francesca Rudkin as our film reviewer. Of course,

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Speaker 3: she's here with her two films for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Killed her.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Let's begin this morning with the remake of The Running Man, Ben.

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Speaker 2: Richard's thirty five Marry one child in medical crisis. We

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Speaker 2: need money for a doctor now, but there's still a

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Speaker 2: way out for you. I think it's the biggest show

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Speaker 2: in the country. Welcome to The Running Man.

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Speaker 3: Right over Glenn Glenn Powell. Not to be confused with

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Speaker 3: Glenn Close, of course, although that would have that really

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Speaker 3: would have been a remake, wouldn't that. Yeah, yees ye's

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Speaker 3: guilty as charge.

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 5: Look, he is the man in a moment, isn't he.

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Speaker 5: He kind of He's been around for a long time.

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Speaker 5: I think it was twenty twenty two his top Gun Maverick,

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Speaker 5: which kind of showcased his charisma and his star power.

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Speaker 5: And since then he's kind of been unstoppable. There's been

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Speaker 5: anyone but you and hit Man and.

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Speaker 4: Twister, and he's on fire.

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Speaker 5: If you remember, if you remember the eighties, if you

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Speaker 5: were going to the rooms in the eighties, you remember

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Speaker 5: that I was thought to make a start of the original,

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Speaker 5: and this is an adaptation of Seven Kings dystopian novel,

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Speaker 5: and they're quite different films in the sense that in

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Speaker 5: this film, the director Edgar Wright, who is responsible for

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Speaker 5: things like Shawn.

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Speaker 4: Of the Dead and Hot Fas and Baby Driver.

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Speaker 5: He's stuck a little bit more closely to the book

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Speaker 5: as opposed to the original adaptation, and instead of Ben

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Speaker 5: Richards being a falsely and prisoned convict, he's.

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Speaker 4: Kind of an ordinary unemployed father.

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Speaker 5: Struggling to look after his family. And they've created, I think,

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Speaker 5: this character so that we get behind him a little

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Speaker 5: bit more. We can relate to him and have sympathy

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Speaker 5: with him in things. But you know, this is a

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Speaker 5: pretty violent film. I mean, it's everyone for themselves. We're

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Speaker 5: set in this very, as a said, dystopian world where

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Speaker 5: there's just a few who are in control, and they

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Speaker 5: manipulate and they're corrupt, and you know, they run.

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Speaker 4: Things for themselves.

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Speaker 5: And Ben Richards is unemployed because he tried to stick

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Speaker 5: up for his fellow workers who were suffering from radiation

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Speaker 5: poisoning and things, and so he's been blacklisted.

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Speaker 4: He can't work. His daughter is sick, she has the

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Speaker 4: flu and saying she is going to.

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Speaker 5: Die of the flu because I can't we can't afford medication.

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Speaker 4: So he goes off in auditions.

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Speaker 5: For these TV shows and get selected for The Running Man,

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Speaker 5: which is a little bit like Hungry Games for adults

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Speaker 5: in the sense that you've got thirty days to try

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Speaker 5: and outwit an outlast some hunters who are after you,

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Speaker 5: and if your last thirty days you win one billion

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Speaker 5: new dollars. If you don't, you killed. So yeah, a

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Speaker 5: bit on the line there, jack, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And so off we go. Lots of really great action scenes.

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Speaker 4: It's fun.

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Speaker 5: Michael Sarah and William H. Macy also Appira's Allies. It's

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Speaker 5: got a great cast. I think they struggled a little

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Speaker 5: bit to keep the pace consistent. It fell a bit

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Speaker 5: flat at times, and it led to a little bit

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Speaker 5: of an underwhelming final act. I can't going.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it wasn't quite what I was hoping it would be.

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Speaker 5: But look, if you're after a popcorn movie, then of

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Speaker 5: course Glenn Powell dressed and only a towel, some great

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Speaker 5: action scenes and if you last, what more do you want?

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Speaker 4: There? You go?

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Speaker 2: Very good?

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that sound like a bit of fun, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: pretty violent as well. Okay, so that's The Running Man,

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Speaker 3: the remake of The Running Man that's showing in cinemas

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Speaker 3: at the moment. Also showing in cinemas this is keeper?

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Speaker 4: Can I trust this man?

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Speaker 2: Can I trust this one?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 1: I was just I was.

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Speaker 3: I was letting the hang there for a moment. I

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Speaker 3: can tell already just from the audio.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, so I did have a giggle when

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Speaker 5: I just went, I'll just leap jet No, this is

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Speaker 5: he can miss this one. He really wouldn't with this

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Speaker 5: one at all.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 4: Osgard Perkins is the director.

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Speaker 5: He brought us Long Legs, which was the big breaker

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Speaker 5: hit last year maybe and The Monkey.

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Speaker 4: He's very prolific when it comes to releasing films at

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Speaker 4: the moment. He's a horror master.

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Speaker 5: And he really does try and provide us with something

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Speaker 5: different but unique. We have a couple who go to

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Speaker 5: a cabin in the woods and then and then off

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Speaker 5: we go, and the whole time we're a little bit

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Speaker 5: confused as to whether this is sort of one of those,

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Speaker 5: you know, relationship horrors, whether it is actually all a dream,

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Speaker 5: or whether it's you know, it's very eerie, it's very creepy.

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Speaker 5: It's very understated, but the jump frights in there. There's

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Speaker 5: a lot of wonderful confusion. This house, which is really awesome,

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Speaker 5: Cavin in the woods, very understated architectural gym.

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Speaker 4: Can I just say I love looking at that. It

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Speaker 4: kind of breathe with the woods. You don't quite know

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Speaker 4: what's going on or who to trust all what's happening.

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Speaker 4: It's actually quite a simple story.

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Speaker 5: But the way he shoots them, and the angles he

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Speaker 5: chooses and the shots and the sounds that he uses

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Speaker 5: just does it takes you on a really nice horror ride.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, it's a bit I feel like that in itself.

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Speaker 3: It's just like a bit of an oxymoron, a really

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Speaker 3: nice horror ride. It takes you on a really nice

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Speaker 3: horror ride, you know, it's just satisfactory horror. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 3: yeah yeah, okay, cool, So that's keeper. Francisca's first film was,

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Speaker 3: of course, The Running Man, and both of those will

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Speaker 3: be up on the News Talks Hibi website. Thank you

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Speaker 3: so much, Francisca. We will catch you again very soon.

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