April 11, 2025 • 8 mins
G20
When terrorists take over the G20 summit, US President Danielle Sutton uses her governing and military experience to defend her family, fellow leaders, and the world.
Crossing
Lia, a retired teacher, has vowed to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets the lawyer Evrim.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The song is called Cherry Pie. Cherry Pie.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's by Phaser Days, whose real name is Amelia Murray,
and Phaser Days is nominated for the Tate Music Prize,
which is going to be announced on Tuesday. Her album
that is nominated is called Soft Power and it was
Rolling Stone's number one key we album of twenty twenty four.
Ain't no thing anyway, we're kind of getting into awards.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mode this morning on News Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He'd be because before ten o'clock we're talking about the
Outstanding Food Producer Awards, and then a little later in
the show we're going to look at the Tate Music Prize.
Who's likely to take out the top gong? This week
we're going to play some of the music that has
been nominated.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
As well for the Tape Music Prize. So yeah, looking
forward to that right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Though it is twenty four to ten on New Stalks,
he'd be in our film review of Francesca Rudkin is
here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
KIELDA good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So a Minecraft movie for anyone who thinks that people
don't go to the movies anymore. Has just completely smashed
all the records this week, right, so you were telling
us about it last week. It's probably a movie that's
going to, you know, get the kids, rows of the excited.
It's not necessarily for all of us, but it has
broken all sorts of records. It's become the highest opening
video game movie of all time. It made three hundred
(01:43):
million US dollars and it's opening weekend, so more than
half a billion New Zealand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's crazy what a big business movie still are like.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That is extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, no, it's awesome, and it's really great. I mean
we've heard we heard the cry talking about awards. We
heard the cry from filmmakers at the Oscars and various
other awards at the beginning of the year, going hey,
we make movies for the big screen. It is this
experience we had. But we've also seen it with Tina,
you know, which until Line Straft came along. And I'm
still talking to people who say to me, I went
(02:17):
to the movie. I went to the cinema and saw it,
and I laughed with everybody else, and I cried with
everybody else, And I get it. It's this communal we're
all in it together. You get something, it goes to
a whole other level when you share it with other people,
regardless of whether you know them or not. And that's
the wonderful thing about seeing a movie in a cinema.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh so good. All right, we have a couple of
options this week.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Only one of them is showing in cinema, So let's
start off with the one that is showing at home
this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Let's have it listened to G twenty. Madam President, we
have a situation. I implore all world leaders to join me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
At the G twenty summit, the twenty most powerful world
leaders together going dark in three two.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Why Bam Bam star in Viola Davis and of course
Kee We star Anthonista tell us about G twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So Viola Davis, who has won an Oscar, a Tony
and Emmy, Abafta, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy would
probably hate me making this comparison, but she's almost becoming
the female Liam Nixon of action films. She's fifteen, she's
fifty nine years old, and she is totally kicking butt
in this action for a G twenty screening on Prime
(03:42):
Video and you may remember the last film that she
kind of played in lead in was The Woman King,
which also another very sort of full on action fleck.
As well. She plays President Sutton, the President of the
United States. She also happens to be a former soldier.
She uses her brains and her brawn to overcome a
(04:03):
terrorist attack on a G twenty summit. Leading the attack
is the Boys Baddie Kiwi actor Anthony Starr, and he
plans to use deep fakes to convince the world that
all these leaders at the G twenty are going to
take control of some other countries finances and everybody must
turnto crypto and he's trying to collapse kind of the
(04:24):
world financial order. To be honest with you, this is
probably you know what. You just kind of let the
premise go. It's all quite lovely and ridiculous. I wouldn't
worry about it too much. It's all far fetched, but
it's really fun watching Davis and Stargo head to head.
As always, Anthony Starr is completely committed to his character.
(04:44):
He manages to bring a range of emotions to a
pretty simple villain role. He really is fabulous, and Davis
is much like she was in previous films we've seeing her.
She is very good at being you know, she has
a commanding present. She convinces us she's a leader, but
she's also a very good physical adversary. And these two
(05:06):
work really well together, and I think it's almost a
little bit of a slight waste of talent. There's a
couple of scenes where they kind of spar with each
other with words as opposed to action, and they're great together.
And I think they're both pretty intelligent actors and could
have handled a little bit more of that. But the
film is like, hey, we're going to keep this pacy,
We're going to keep this all about the action. We're
going to keep this moving along. So they haven't really
(05:28):
focused a huge amount on the script. So it's a
bit of a shame because I think the two of
them could have really sparked this, you know, spacked up
even further. And there's some quite fun, nice sort of
side performances here. Douglas Hodge plays a British PM who's
sort of a bit bumbling and quite funny, and there's
a couple of nice sort of side performances and things.
But look, this Sunday afternoon, if you need. If you're
(05:50):
having some couch time and you're looking for a little
bit of escapism, then you might want to try G twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, okay, I mean it sounds a little bit ridiculous
before asked it is a little bit ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit of escapism on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now we're into that, Francisca. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're not too snobby if you are like something a
little bit different. Showing cinemas at the moment is a
film called Crossing, and this is.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A beautiful piece of world cinema. It's a Georgian Turkish drama.
It's by Levan Unkin, who directed And Then We Danced,
which maybe some people might be familiar with. It follows
a Georgian woman. She is a retired teacher. She is
a single, kind of slightly unhappy, quite grumpy, slightly stern woman.
(06:36):
And she has made a promise, She made a promise
to her dying sister that she would find her estranged
trans niece. And she goes off on this journey and
she gets someone says to her that Tecla has moved
to Istanbul, and so she heads off on this journey
to Istanbul. She's accompanied by a young man who is
(06:58):
also a little bit lost in life, but claims to
have an address for Tecler and the two of them
head off to Istanbul. They don't have a huge amount
of they kind of find themselves in the trans community
and they kind of meet some very welcoming people who
try and help them along the way. And at the
same time we're also introduced to this trans woman who
is a lawyer who works within this community as well,
(07:19):
and we almost led to believe the director almost says
this really that maybe this is techler, but it's not.
But they come together and help each other along the way.
But this obviously the film is called Crossing. It is
a film about crossings and transitions, but more mental and
emotional than physical ones. This is a story about, you know,
a woman having a change of heart. And also, I
(07:40):
think in this film there's the realization that maybe this
young woman, Tecla, doesn't need to be found, doesn't need
to be saved. It's more about this retired teacher doing
what she needs to do for herself and to kind of,
you know, find some redemption and things there. So look,
it's a beautifully moving film superbly acted. And what I
(08:03):
love about this film is that they don't wrap everything
up and a nice both for you, because life is messy, Jack,
and this film kind of celebrates that.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And what we love about you is that you bring
us a range of films.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Friendchessa something for everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
G twenty two, Crossing, Yeah, very good at George and
Turkish Crossover. Hey, thank you so much for that, really
appreciate it. We're going to make sure both of those
films all the details are where you can see them
are up and available on the News Talk Z'B website.
So G twenty is screening on Prime Video. Crossing is
in select cinemas now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News talks 'B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The song is called Cherry Pie. Cherry Pie.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's by Phaser Days, whose real name is Amelia Murray,
and Phaser Days is nominated for the Tate Music Prize,
which is going to be announced on Tuesday. Her album
that is nominated is called Soft Power and it was
Rolling Stone's number one key we album of twenty twenty four.
Ain't no thing anyway, we're kind of getting into awards.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mode this morning on News Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He'd be because before ten o'clock we're talking about the
Outstanding Food Producer Awards, and then a little later in
the show we're going to look at the Tate Music Prize.
Who's likely to take out the top gong? This week
we're going to play some of the music that has
been nominated.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
As well for the Tape Music Prize. So yeah, looking
forward to that right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Though it is twenty four to ten on New Stalks,
he'd be in our film review of Francesca Rudkin is
here with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
KIELDA good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So a Minecraft movie for anyone who thinks that people
don't go to the movies anymore. Has just completely smashed
all the records this week, right, so you were telling
us about it last week. It's probably a movie that's
going to, you know, get the kids, rows of the excited.
It's not necessarily for all of us, but it has
broken all sorts of records. It's become the highest opening
video game movie of all time. It made three hundred
(01:43):
million US dollars and it's opening weekend, so more than
half a billion New Zealand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's crazy what a big business movie still are like.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That is extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, no, it's awesome, and it's really great. I mean
we've heard we heard the cry talking about awards. We
heard the cry from filmmakers at the Oscars and various
other awards at the beginning of the year, going hey,
we make movies for the big screen. It is this
experience we had. But we've also seen it with Tina,
you know, which until Line Straft came along. And I'm
still talking to people who say to me, I went
(02:17):
to the movie. I went to the cinema and saw it,
and I laughed with everybody else, and I cried with
everybody else, And I get it. It's this communal we're
all in it together. You get something, it goes to
a whole other level when you share it with other people,
regardless of whether you know them or not. And that's
the wonderful thing about seeing a movie in a cinema.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh so good. All right, we have a couple of
options this week.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Only one of them is showing in cinema, So let's
start off with the one that is showing at home
this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Let's have it listened to G twenty. Madam President, we
have a situation. I implore all world leaders to join me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
At the G twenty summit, the twenty most powerful world
leaders together going dark in three two.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Why Bam Bam star in Viola Davis and of course
Kee We star Anthonista tell us about G twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So Viola Davis, who has won an Oscar, a Tony
and Emmy, Abafta, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy would
probably hate me making this comparison, but she's almost becoming
the female Liam Nixon of action films. She's fifteen, she's
fifty nine years old, and she is totally kicking butt
in this action for a G twenty screening on Prime
(03:42):
Video and you may remember the last film that she
kind of played in lead in was The Woman King,
which also another very sort of full on action fleck.
As well. She plays President Sutton, the President of the
United States. She also happens to be a former soldier.
She uses her brains and her brawn to overcome a
(04:03):
terrorist attack on a G twenty summit. Leading the attack
is the Boys Baddie Kiwi actor Anthony Starr, and he
plans to use deep fakes to convince the world that
all these leaders at the G twenty are going to
take control of some other countries finances and everybody must
turnto crypto and he's trying to collapse kind of the
(04:24):
world financial order. To be honest with you, this is
probably you know what. You just kind of let the
premise go. It's all quite lovely and ridiculous. I wouldn't
worry about it too much. It's all far fetched, but
it's really fun watching Davis and Stargo head to head.
As always, Anthony Starr is completely committed to his character.
(04:44):
He manages to bring a range of emotions to a
pretty simple villain role. He really is fabulous, and Davis
is much like she was in previous films we've seeing her.
She is very good at being you know, she has
a commanding present. She convinces us she's a leader, but
she's also a very good physical adversary. And these two
(05:06):
work really well together, and I think it's almost a
little bit of a slight waste of talent. There's a
couple of scenes where they kind of spar with each
other with words as opposed to action, and they're great together.
And I think they're both pretty intelligent actors and could
have handled a little bit more of that. But the
film is like, hey, we're going to keep this pacy,
We're going to keep this all about the action. We're
going to keep this moving along. So they haven't really
(05:28):
focused a huge amount on the script. So it's a
bit of a shame because I think the two of
them could have really sparked this, you know, spacked up
even further. And there's some quite fun, nice sort of
side performances here. Douglas Hodge plays a British PM who's
sort of a bit bumbling and quite funny, and there's
a couple of nice sort of side performances and things.
But look, this Sunday afternoon, if you need. If you're
(05:50):
having some couch time and you're looking for a little
bit of escapism, then you might want to try G twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, okay, I mean it sounds a little bit ridiculous
before asked it is a little bit ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit of escapism on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now we're into that, Francisca. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're not too snobby if you are like something a
little bit different. Showing cinemas at the moment is a
film called Crossing, and this is.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A beautiful piece of world cinema. It's a Georgian Turkish drama.
It's by Levan Unkin, who directed And Then We Danced,
which maybe some people might be familiar with. It follows
a Georgian woman. She is a retired teacher. She is
a single, kind of slightly unhappy, quite grumpy, slightly stern woman.
(06:36):
And she has made a promise, She made a promise
to her dying sister that she would find her estranged
trans niece. And she goes off on this journey and
she gets someone says to her that Tecla has moved
to Istanbul, and so she heads off on this journey
to Istanbul. She's accompanied by a young man who is
(06:58):
also a little bit lost in life, but claims to
have an address for Tecler and the two of them
head off to Istanbul. They don't have a huge amount
of they kind of find themselves in the trans community
and they kind of meet some very welcoming people who
try and help them along the way. And at the
same time we're also introduced to this trans woman who
is a lawyer who works within this community as well,
(07:19):
and we almost led to believe the director almost says
this really that maybe this is techler, but it's not.
But they come together and help each other along the way.
But this obviously the film is called Crossing. It is
a film about crossings and transitions, but more mental and
emotional than physical ones. This is a story about, you know,
a woman having a change of heart. And also, I
(07:40):
think in this film there's the realization that maybe this
young woman, Tecla, doesn't need to be found, doesn't need
to be saved. It's more about this retired teacher doing
what she needs to do for herself and to kind of,
you know, find some redemption and things there. So look,
it's a beautifully moving film superbly acted. And what I
(08:03):
love about this film is that they don't wrap everything
up and a nice both for you, because life is messy, Jack,
and this film kind of celebrates that.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And what we love about you is that you bring
us a range of films.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Friendchessa something for everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
G twenty two, Crossing, Yeah, very good at George and
Turkish Crossover. Hey, thank you so much for that, really
appreciate it. We're going to make sure both of those
films all the details are where you can see them
are up and available on the News Talk Z'B website.
So G twenty is screening on Prime Video. Crossing is
in select cinemas now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News talks 'B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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