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Speaker 3: Twenty five to ten on News talks 'b So. The

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Speaker 3: short lists just been released for twelve categories at the Oscars,

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Speaker 3: and that song Drive by Ed Sheeran made it into

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Speaker 3: the shortlist for Best Original Song. It's from that if

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Speaker 3: One movie. Ryan Coogler's film Sinners was dominant in the

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Speaker 3: yearly shortlist with seven recognitions. Time now to get your

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Speaker 3: film picks for the weekend. Francesca Rudkin is here with

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Speaker 3: us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, it's good morning.

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Speaker 3: So our first film this morning. I doesn't actually hit

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Speaker 3: cinemas until January first, but I know a lot of

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Speaker 3: people have been waiting for this one. So let's have

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Speaker 3: a little listen to songs sung blue.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a songwriter, I'm not a sex symbol. We

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Speaker 2: just want to entertain people. I don't want to be

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Speaker 2: a hairdresser. I want to sing, I want to dance.

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Speaker 2: I want a garden, I want a cat. What do

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Speaker 2: you think?

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Speaker 3: You don't want to be a Neil Diamond impersonator.

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Speaker 2: You want to be a Neil Diamond interpreter. I was

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Speaker 2: looking for the right way to see and you just

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Speaker 2: came right out and said.

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Speaker 3: That is Hugh Jackman. Kate Hudson stars and songs sung

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Speaker 3: Blue as well. Tell us about it, Franzi ski.

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Speaker 2: Okate, how since she has been nominated for Best Performance

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Speaker 2: by a Female and Emotion Picture Musical or Comedy at

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Speaker 2: the Golden Globes. And I'm really excited about this because

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Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman, we know that he's a showman, right, we

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Speaker 2: know he can sing and dance and act, and that

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Speaker 2: if you if you gave him a role as an impersonator,

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Speaker 2: he'd absolutely nail it. So here's exactly what we expect.

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Speaker 2: But Kate Hudson, she is a real revelation in this

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Speaker 2: film and it sort of takes me back to almost famous.

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Speaker 2: This is probably my next favorite role she's had. And

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Speaker 2: she is just divine. She is so charismatic. She's a

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Speaker 2: charismatic performer. She actually has released an album. She can sing,

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Speaker 2: She has released an album which a lot of people

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Speaker 2: might not know and not too long ago, yeah, not

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Speaker 2: too long ago. But look, she she just takes on

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Speaker 2: this character of clear she's a hairdress or a divorcee

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Speaker 2: and mother of two. She's prone to about some depression.

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Speaker 2: It's music that keeps her grounded and happy. And this

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Speaker 2: is actually based on a true story. So it's based

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Speaker 2: on a true story of there's two people who meet

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Speaker 2: at the Wisconsin State Fair in the in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: The costumes are fantastic and the hairstyles are fantastic. They

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Speaker 2: meet and they're both performers. They kind of work. They

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Speaker 2: do the circuit, you know, performing as different artists and things,

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Speaker 2: sort of the impersonation sort of set up. They meet

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Speaker 2: and they fall in love, and they've both got a

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Speaker 2: lot of baggage there, you know, I don't know, late forties,

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Speaker 2: thirty fifties or something, and they've got their baggage in

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Speaker 2: their lives and they come together and it's this beautiful

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Speaker 2: love story and they decide to sort of create the

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Speaker 2: Neo Diamond experience and they start to really take off

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Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, and they even are asked to open for

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Speaker 2: Pearl Jam, which is hilarious because they you know, Jetman's

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Speaker 2: character doesn't make you know who pel Jam is. Mike

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Speaker 2: doesn't know who pel Jam is anyway. So that's this

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Speaker 2: wonderful story. But they deal with a lot of tragedy.

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Speaker 2: They deal with some crazy things which happened, which you

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Speaker 2: kind of watching the film going really did this happen?

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Speaker 2: But it did all happen, and so they have a

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Speaker 2: follow this love story as an unfold. This is a

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Speaker 2: film that will have you laughing, it will have you singing,

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Speaker 2: It will probably have you crying. But at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, they do a really nice job of

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Speaker 2: making it a rousing crowd pleaser as well as a

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Speaker 2: help but sing along. I took my sixteen year old daughter,

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Speaker 2: who told tolerated the Neil Diamond and loved it and

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Speaker 2: has probably aimed more at my mother's generation like that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that was my question, because if I'm one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent honest with you, I'm not a huge Neil Diamond fan.

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Speaker 3: It's just a bit on the nose for me, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, just a little bit on the nose

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Speaker 3: for me. But look each to their own, you know.

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Speaker 2: I kind of grew hot. August Night was kind of

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Speaker 2: the background to my very early childhood, so I've kind

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Speaker 2: you are, Like there's a lot more to it, so

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Speaker 2: you know, but there is a lot of Neil Diamond.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very good, okay this morning, No, But I mean,

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Speaker 3: like I can, I can lean into the feel good

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Speaker 3: side of things as well. But good to know, thank you.

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Speaker 3: So that song sung Blue that hits cinemas on January first,

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Speaker 3: stars Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman. Next up hitting cinemas

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Speaker 3: I think on Boxing Day this year the twenty sixth

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Speaker 3: tell us about my brother's band.

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Speaker 2: So this is a French film. It was a huge

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Speaker 2: hit in France. It was nominated for seven ces Our Awards.

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Speaker 2: It follows two brothers who were separated when they were

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Speaker 2: just babies and they're reunited as adults and they kind

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Speaker 2: of managed to reunite for music. There's a bit of

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Speaker 2: a theme with my films today. This is also a

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Speaker 2: very charming, crowd pleaser. It does deal with some quite

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Speaker 2: deep themes, but look, the film doesn't delve into them.

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Speaker 2: Really deeply enough to turn this into a heavy experience.

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Speaker 2: Director Emmanuel Cocole has very much kind of tried to

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Speaker 2: We have this wonderful character, Tibo, and here's a world

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Speaker 2: famous conductor. He comes from a very well to do family.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning of the film, he discovers he has leukemia.

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Speaker 2: He needs a bone marrow transplant. Then he discovers his

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Speaker 2: He discovers he has a younger brother, Jimmy, and he

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Speaker 2: accepting their fate. So tip he ended up in a

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Speaker 2: very well to do family, he had all the opportunities

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Speaker 2: in the world, and he's now the well famous director.

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Speaker 2: His brother, who also has pitch perfect hearing and is

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Speaker 2: also very musical, lives in this very small industrial town

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Speaker 2: and has quite a different life, and so the two

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Speaker 2: made a decision which impacted their lives so differently. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of a little bit. It's been described a little

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Speaker 2: bit as a French as a French version of brass Off.

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Speaker 2: It's a film about how music unites us some things,

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Speaker 2: but it's another crowd pleaser that might just bring a

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Speaker 3: Very good.

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Speaker 2: Cool.

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Speaker 3: So that's my brother's band that hits cinemas on December

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Speaker 3: twenty sixth. Francisca's first pick for us this weekend. It

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Speaker 3: was song Sung Blue that is in cinemas on January first.

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Speaker 3: All of the details for those movies will be on

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Speaker 3: the News talksb website. Have a fantastic summer, Francisco. You're

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Speaker 3: going to be going on some ridiculous ultra marathon or something.

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Speaker 2: Knowing you no, Jack got the dodgy n oh. I'm

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Speaker 2: living the adventures till a little later in next year.

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Speaker 2: So no, but Merry Christmas to you. I hope you

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Speaker 2: have a lovely time. It's your family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you too, Thank you so much, Francisca. Francisca Rudkin

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Speaker 3: with her film picks for us this weekend.

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