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Speaker 3: swift mania that has been unleashed upon the world twenty

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Speaker 3: two to ten on News Talks, you'd be thanks to

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Speaker 3: your text, Jack. I've just sent Slinky Malinky to my

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Speaker 3: It's a real it's like a sign of love. Strangely

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Speaker 3: enough time to get your film picks for this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Francisca Rudkin is our film reviewer. She's got two movies

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Speaker 3: to tell us about More Dinner, Good morning. I'm looking

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Speaker 3: forward to your thoughts on this first one This Morning,

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Speaker 3: starring The Rock. This is something a little bit different

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Speaker 3: from Dwayne Johnson. This is the Smashing Machine.

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Speaker 2: Well, have you ever heard of the Ultimate Fighting Championship

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Speaker 2: the UFC. That's the bloody thing they're trying to ban.

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Speaker 3: Do you hate each other when you fight?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's the Smashing Machine. Tell us about it, Francisca.

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Speaker 2: This is by Bennie Saftie, who often works with his brother.

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Speaker 2: He's a director who is responsible for Uncut Gems, which

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Speaker 2: puts sort of Adam Sandler in a role, but we

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Speaker 2: didn't really kind of expect to see him in as well.

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Speaker 2: So he's very good at kind of doing the unexpected

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Speaker 2: a little bit in films, and this is a sports

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Speaker 2: film which does do things a little bit differently. It's

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Speaker 2: very much an observational film rather than immersive. Like a

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Speaker 2: lot of the times when we have stories about sports people,

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Speaker 2: they want to bring us into their lives, take us

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Speaker 2: into the sport and even just a lot of the

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Speaker 2: time when you're watching the fighting scenes, which are really

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Speaker 2: great in this film, they're from outside of the ring

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Speaker 2: or up above, like we sort of almost view it

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Speaker 2: like a fan really great soundtrack. Film only covers a

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Speaker 2: few years from nineteen ninety seven onwards, and it's a

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Speaker 2: story of Mark Kerr, who is not a very well

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Speaker 2: MMA USC fighters an American. He made this huge contribution

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Speaker 2: kind of to the sport and things. This is actually

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Speaker 2: based on a documentary about Mark Kurd that was released

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and two, something very very close to

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Speaker 2: Danne Johnson's heart. He'd wanted to kind of make this

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Speaker 2: film and it is a big step in a different

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Speaker 2: direction for him. This is very much a dramatic role

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Speaker 2: compared to the normal action comedy films which we see

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Speaker 2: him in often, and he's had a lot of help

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Speaker 2: getting into this character thanks to hair and makeup. They've

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Speaker 2: done twenty two prosthetics. They've kind of changed the way

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Speaker 2: he looks and that's contributed to him, how you know,

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Speaker 2: sort of disappearing into the role of it, because when

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Speaker 2: and of course he's picked a film which is in

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Speaker 2: his wheelhouse. It is about fighting, it's about wrestling. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of the world that he's come from, and I

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Speaker 2: think that that was a really sensible move for him

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Speaker 2: if he wants to step into a dramatic role. There

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Speaker 2: is a lot of hype around this performance about this

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Speaker 2: being a great performance Jack, and I wonder whether people

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Speaker 2: looking at the performance itself, which is good. But I

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Speaker 2: did see him acting at times and I was just like,

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Speaker 2: this is really good. He can do this. He absolutely

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Speaker 2: not sure it's great anyway. Emily Blunt is worth come

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Speaker 2: and she is absolutely fantastic. It's basically the story. This

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Speaker 2: is a period of time when there aren't a lot

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Speaker 2: beaten up quite badly. He takes some opioids to prevent it,

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Speaker 2: gets a bit addicted, has quite a traxit relation with

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Speaker 2: Not actually a hugely complicated sports story. It's quite a

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Speaker 2: when I was watching this was what about Mark Hunt

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Speaker 2: New Zealanders. If you actually do want an MMA, you

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Speaker 2: Zealand and Mark Hunt and the documentary that was made

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Speaker 2: The Fight of his Life. Now, that is a story

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Speaker 2: about overcoming adversity and complexities and things like that, and

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Speaker 2: that was just always in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 2: So look, yep, it's really good. I think. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a huge usc MMA fan. I'm not really

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Speaker 2: interested watching men smack each other in the face and

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Speaker 2: curiosity to see these people in these roles. I think

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Speaker 2: if you're probably interested in the sport, that it might

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Speaker 2: hold a little bit more appeal.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough. Yeah, no, that's that's two of us on

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Speaker 3: that front. That's the Smashing Machine starring the Rock. It

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Speaker 3: does look at the very least looks interesting, and you

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Speaker 3: know what, it's good. I thought Uncut Gems was just

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Speaker 3: like one of the best films of the last few years.

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Speaker 3: So he really difficult to watch. You don't want to

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Speaker 3: watch that? Just before you got to be because it's

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Speaker 3: st of like, oh, I feel really anxious. Great, we've

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Speaker 3: got the film for you.

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Speaker 2: But this is a bit slower.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Yeah, no, I love the way it's been made. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's good. It's good, very good.

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Speaker 3: So that's the smashing Machine that's showing in cinemas right now.

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Speaker 3: Something completely different, The Teacher who Promised the Sea.

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Speaker 2: See. This is a Spanish film and it's based on

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Speaker 2: a true story and it kicks off in the present

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Speaker 2: when a mass grave is discovered from the Spanish Civil War.

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Speaker 2: It's unearthed, and there is a woman who has been

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Speaker 2: trying to find her great grandfather for her grandfather who

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Speaker 2: been on this mission to try and find what happened

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Speaker 2: to him and how he went missing during the war,

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Speaker 2: and he's thought to be in this area. So she's

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Speaker 2: contacted by the team who have unearthed this mass grave

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Speaker 2: and she's brought down to the area and she starts

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Speaker 2: this teacher who came to their small village and took

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Speaker 2: gorgeous man, this teacher who wanted his children to be

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Speaker 2: wanted his students to be curious, and he wanted them

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Speaker 2: to be children in this very difficult time, you know,

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Speaker 2: instead of going with non farms. He wanted them to

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Speaker 2: learn and things. But he was very outspoken about the

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Speaker 2: right wing regime. So look, this is a it's a

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Speaker 2: one of those sort of bit of sweet stories because

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Speaker 2: it's really beautiful and it reflects the country coming to

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Speaker 2: grips with its past. I mean, there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people all over Spain who are still trying to

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Speaker 2: work out what happened to their loved ones. But there

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Speaker 2: it's also got this very respectful it's solemn, and it's

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Speaker 2: got a sadness to it, but it is also lovely

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Speaker 2: to see this impact, how this impact actually lingered on

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Speaker 2: the students, And it's interesting. Some will do not want

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Speaker 2: to hold onto those memories because of guilt and other issues.

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Speaker 2: Other people celebrate and remember him for who he was.

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Speaker 2: So pretty fascinating, lovely little story.

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Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Well, you certainly give us a range this morning.

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Speaker 3: So that's the teacher who promised the sea that's showing

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Speaker 3: and cinemas too, that's a Spanish film, and The Smashing

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Speaker 3: Machine is the one starring The Rock. All of the

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Speaker 3: details for those movies will be up on the News

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