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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: Game.

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Speaker 3: So it has been confirmed by Britney herself that a

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Speaker 3: film adaptation of Britney Spears's memoir The Woman and Me

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Speaker 3: is in the works. It is, of course far too

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Speaker 3: early to think about who may play Britney, but of

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Speaker 3: course lots of people are speculating on who could portray

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Speaker 3: Spears and the key players in her life. Sabrina Carpenter,

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Speaker 3: Sidney Sweeney or Julia Garner are a few of the

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Speaker 3: names that have been thrown around. I don't think that

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Speaker 3: Justin Timberlake is going to turn up and play himself, however,

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Speaker 3: So there we go, Britney Spears fans. The movie is

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Speaker 3: coming right, It is time to talk film now, and

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Speaker 3: Chris Schultz joins me.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Chris, Good morning, Francesca. Are you the mode

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Speaker 4: for a bit of horror?

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Speaker 3: I like the fact that we've got a horror horror

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Speaker 3: film thing today. You're going to start off with a

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Speaker 3: film called Long Legs. Let's take a listen.

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Speaker 1: Is it scary being a lady FBI agent?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: The letter was left with the parties.

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Speaker 2: Say one word, Oh okay, that's just not gonna be

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Speaker 2: caught up in that, Chris.

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Speaker 5: It's a reminder about how important the soundtrack is in

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Speaker 5: a horror right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's me Tell's Toe. It's taken me back last

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Speaker 4: weekend when I was in the cinema alone watching this movie.

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Speaker 4: This is long Legs. This is a big horror hit

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Speaker 4: of the year. There always seems to be one of these, right,

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Speaker 4: Like last year we had talked to me that one

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Speaker 4: about the the hand that was conjuring spirits from the

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Speaker 4: the other side. This is this year's big hit. This

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Speaker 4: has been an absolute blockbuster. Everyone's talking about it. It's

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Speaker 4: made more money than anyone ever thought it would. And

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Speaker 4: it's very much indebted to those kind of nineties horror

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Speaker 4: films we grew up on, like Seven. I want to

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Speaker 4: say seven is the big influence here. David Fincher's Brad Pitt,

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Speaker 4: Gwyneth Paltrow heading a box film. It's this is an

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Speaker 4: young FBI agent, a female FBI agent on the hunt

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Speaker 4: of a serial killer in Portland in the nineties. And

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Speaker 4: it's it's grimy, it's grizzly. There's cameras going in the

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Speaker 4: bedrooms that you really kind of don't want them to

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Speaker 4: go in. There's weird symbols, there's puppets, it's all that

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Speaker 4: kind of stuff. But I think the thing that is

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Speaker 4: really driving this over the edge is Nicholas Cage. And

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Speaker 4: let's talk about Nicholas Cage for a minute, because we've

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Speaker 4: seen this guy play heroes and villains and butchers and drunks.

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Speaker 4: And the last thing I saw him and he was

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Speaker 4: turning up in people's dreams. He's played himself in movies

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Speaker 4: like what three times now he's more meta than meta itself.

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Speaker 4: Here he's playing something I've never seen him play though,

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Speaker 4: this complete odd ball, weird. Know, he's not really in

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Speaker 4: the movie March, but when he is, it is absolutely chilling.

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Speaker 4: And so I think it's his performance that sort of

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Speaker 4: has everyone talking about this film. That's why people are

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Speaker 4: going to the cinema to see this. Because he's not

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Speaker 4: in the trailer, you don't get to see anything of

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Speaker 4: him beforehand. It's just that kind of word of mouth

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Speaker 4: suspense that what is he doing here? You've got to

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Speaker 4: kind of see it for yourself to believe it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it cost ten million to make. They spent about

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Speaker 5: ten million on a digital marketing campaign, and it's already

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Speaker 5: pulled fifty eight million in the US alone at cinemas,

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Speaker 5: so this is definitely going to be the hit of

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Speaker 5: the season. Hey, but tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 5: I Saw the TV Glow.

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Speaker 2: We'll have it.

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Speaker 5: Listened to the trailer first. Do you remember a TV

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Speaker 5: show we used to watch together, thank of bat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes the pink opeak feels more real in real life.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it was a TV show? Are you sure that's

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Speaker 4: all it was? So?

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Speaker 5: I Saw the TV Glow is screening in the New

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Speaker 5: Zealand International Film Festival, which of the course runs from

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Speaker 5: has started in some parts of the country, running through

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Speaker 5: until the fourth of September. Tell me about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is part of the Film Festival. It starts

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Speaker 4: this week. There's so much good stuff in the film Festival.

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Speaker 4: Just pick five films at random and you'll have a

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Speaker 4: great time. This is the film, though, that I've chosen

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Speaker 4: because I've just had my eye on it for a while.

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Speaker 4: And again, this is another nineties indebted movie. It's clearly

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Speaker 4: a trend filmmakers a turning to the nineties for inspiration.

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Speaker 4: This is about a couple of kids who fall in

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Speaker 4: love with a TV show they bond over it. They

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Speaker 4: obsess about it. It's called the Pink Opaque. It very

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Speaker 4: much reminded me of when I used to trade X

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Speaker 4: files videotapes of my mates because I missed an episode.

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Speaker 4: It's that kind of obsession, and that's the kind of

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Speaker 4: show they're watching, this kind of weird mystery show, which

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Speaker 4: is in the movie. They do have scenes from the show,

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Speaker 4: so that they have created a TV show within the movie,

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Speaker 4: and then things just kind of spiral from there. I

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Speaker 4: don't want to give too much away, but this reminded

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Speaker 4: me of the great Jake Gallenahll movie Donnie Darko, that

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Speaker 4: weird kind of feeling where it's just unnerving. There's this

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Speaker 4: is kind of creeping sense of a things aren't right here,

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Speaker 4: and it's not necessarily about what happens. It's just that

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Speaker 4: kind of overwhelming sensation that this movie gives you. The

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Speaker 4: other thing I would say about this, and the reason

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Speaker 4: I had my eye on it, is the soundtrack is incredible.

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Speaker 4: It's all original music, and some of the artists perform

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Speaker 4: in the movie Phoebe Bridges, Carolyn Polcheck, that kind of

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Speaker 4: indie rock star but our nineties is this new metal

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Speaker 4: singer Limb Biscuit front man Fred Durst has a role

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Speaker 4: in this movie. So that's what we're talking about. That's

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Speaker 4: how indebted to the nineties this movie is. Can I

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Speaker 4: to say, if we're going to do this ninety thing

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Speaker 4: out once and for all and get it done.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more. Chris Hey, thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for the recommendation us. The Long Legs is

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Speaker 3: playing in cinemas. I saw the TV glow as at

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand International Film Festival, and the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: International Film Festival has already returned. It started on the

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Speaker 3: thirty first of July. It's featuring over one hundred films

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Speaker 3: from over twenty four countries. We've got tickets up for

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Speaker 3: grabs to Never Look Away. It is Lucy Lawless's directorial

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Speaker 3: debut with her documentary exploring the life of Kiwi video

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Speaker 3: journalist Margaret Moth. I spoke to Lucy Lawless about this

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Speaker 3: documentary last week on the Sunday session. You can go

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Speaker 3: back and have listened to that interview. Margaret Moth was

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Speaker 3: an extraordinary woman and Lucy Lawnlas has done a wonderful

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Speaker 3: job of bringing her life to the big screen definitely

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