March 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Mickey 17 - (in cinemas) Starring Robert Pattinson. Directed by Bong Joon-ho of Parasite & Snowpiercer. A disposable employee is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact.
Spit- (in cinemas) David Wenham returns as John “Spit” Spitieri, the iconic crim of Australian cinema, in this sequel to Gettin' Square.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
SUN and you know weeble.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
You want me to say?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I want you stays problems.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Tell you what the key we love affair with country
music is just going from strength to strength at the moment. No,
he Luke Holme's here a few weeks ago. Well, Chris
Stapleton's in the country for the first time ever. He
performed his first show last night at Auckland Spark Arena
and he is on again tonight. This is you should
probably leave by Chris Stapleton. Anyway, Right now, it's twenty
(00:52):
three minutes to ten. Time to get your film picks
for this week. Francesca rud Can, our film reviewer, is
here with a snack elder morning. Okay, we've got a
couple of different movies showing in cinemas at the moment,
so let's begin with a listen to Mickey seventeen.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Something was working out and I wanted to get the
hell out of there.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You're planning to be inexplondable.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He read through the paper. Yeah, I should have read
through it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You Okay, some big names with Mickey seventeen stars Robert Pattinson.
It's directed by the guy who directed Parasite and Snow PIERSA.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yes Boon Drew Hoe, and he stunned everybody at the
twenty twenty Oscars with his film Paradise Parasite. Sorry, he
made history by winning Best Picture, and that was the
first time a non English language film had one Best Picture.
He won Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
An extraordinary film.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you haven't seen it, you should definitely see Parasite.
But this is his first film since Parasite, and he
probably had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted. I'm
sure that studios were probably handing him large franchise films
on a plate, telling him he could do whatever he
wanted to do, and instead he's made the sort of wonderfully.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Bondering whole film. It's nutty.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's this comical sci fi. It's a satire about sort
of the state of humanity. He always likes to focus
on the themes that he often reverts back to, all
about class and power and exploitation, and he very much
does that again with this film. Robert Pattinson, who you
mentioned there from Twilight, and of course Batman he really
(02:43):
drops his sort of A list star quality for this
film and plays this wonderful, meek, quite goofy character Mickey,
and he's really keen to get off planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
This is set in the future.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
He owes some money to a loan shark and things
who likes to chop people up as a hobby. So
he's very keen to get off Earth. But everybody's keen
to get out of off Earth at this point in
the future is the competition is fierce to join a
colonial worde to a new planet.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
So he signs up as an expendable.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And in the future, we have worked out how to
print people.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We're no longer allowed to do it on Earth, but
you can do it off Earth.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
And he doesn't quite know what it means, but he
signs up to be this expendable, which means like he's
the canary in the mind.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
He is the guy who can die.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For whatever reason they need him to because they can
then immediately reprint.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Him and he is back the next day.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So when we meet Mickey, he's on version number seventeen.
And so this is very much a film that looks
at humans. It looks at how they're expendable. It's how
we're all expendable in the workplace. This is a film,
even though it's set in the future, is very much
about the present.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
As you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Great cast also starts Tony collect and Mark Ruffalo. I
really loved this premise and I think it starts out
very strong.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It gets a little lost in the middle, but it
does finish well.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I love the fact that as far as this is
a considering that this is a sci fi film, it's
very low fi.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's almost retro futuristic. The spaceship they go on looks
like a cargo ship. You know, it's not it's not
just because we're in the future. We've sort of everything
out and everything's slick and flashing. Great. Actually it's still
all a bit rough. Yeah, I think this is going
to be quite polarizing, this film.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I think you're either going to fall in love with
its quirkiness and enjoy its sense of humor, or you'll
think what, yeah, what is he doing?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But you should never miss a bong during hohe film.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, that sounds great, well, sounds interesting. Mickey seventeen and
would you believe Francisca that yes, I have seen Parasite
and wonderful. I know. I mean, it would just be
so mean not to have seen Parasite, But I have
seen Parasite, and yeah, share in all of the adoration
that has been expressed by so many or a really
such a good film. So I'll definitely be seeing Mickey seventeen.
(05:10):
Next up, let's have a listen to Spit.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
International feature Money and honor criminal mastermind John Francis Spettieri.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Who lock him up. This is Australia.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's still a free country, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That is Friend of the show. David Wenham, returning as
Spit twenty years since the film Getting Square, tell us
about Spit.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yes, so this is I love it when a sort
of a side character suddenly becomes a lead. And as
you say, that's very much what's happened here. And David Wenham,
he just does such a beautiful job of stepping into
this character. He's just the quintessential Australian bogan and he's
got the flip flops and he's got the mullet, and
he's got this, and he's he he Kay's dumb and
(06:03):
sometimes he is dumb, but he always has a bit
of a because he's a he's a former krim and
heroin addict, and he's returning to Australia after being after
being overseas for a very long time, and he tries
to get it on a fake passport and he gets
picked up and he gets blocked in the detention center
and then off he goes, just beautifully kind of trying
to man you you know, sort of get himself out
(06:25):
of there and sort of, you know, and cause a
little bit more trouble. He's he's such an infuriating character
for those around him, but he's sort of so good
and natured about it. He's such a good natured guy,
sort of goofy guy. You can't help but kind of
get drawn in to this little journey that he goes on.
(06:46):
And he might always be thinking about himself and how
to help himself in a situation, but.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
He does sort of take other people along on the way.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So look a lot of laughs in here, But for
all the laughs in the mad cap scenario, it's a
bit of slapstick kind of comedy as well.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There are some sort of pointed political.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Barbs, especially around issues such as the brief Jess and
migrants and things, so it certainly doesn't hesitate to also
kind of make if you make comments about Australia today
and things like that. Yeah, I don't think you don't
need to have seen Getting Square to enjoy this film
and this character, because he really does.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He really does owner it. So yeah, good fun another
are contrived at times, but good fun is. David Wnham
is absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, no, he really is. Thank you so much, Frantasica.
In case you missed it last week, of course David
Whnham was on the show. He was our feature interview
on News Talk's EDB last Saturday morning, So if you
didn't hear that interview, go to newstalkszb dot co dot
m zed Ford slash Jack and you'll be able to
listen to it. David Wenham is just fantastic. So Francisca's
film pics for us this week spit that's the Australian
(07:51):
one with David Wenham and Mickey seventeen is the latest
from Bong ju Ho. Both of those will be on
the website as well.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on Radio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
SUN and you know weeble.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
You want me to say?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I want you stays problems.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Tell you what the key we love affair with country
music is just going from strength to strength at the moment. No,
he Luke Holme's here a few weeks ago. Well, Chris
Stapleton's in the country for the first time ever. He
performed his first show last night at Auckland Spark Arena
and he is on again tonight. This is you should
probably leave by Chris Stapleton. Anyway, Right now, it's twenty
(00:52):
three minutes to ten. Time to get your film picks
for this week. Francesca rud Can, our film reviewer, is
here with a snack elder morning. Okay, we've got a
couple of different movies showing in cinemas at the moment,
so let's begin with a listen to Mickey seventeen.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Something was working out and I wanted to get the
hell out of there.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You're planning to be inexplondable.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He read through the paper. Yeah, I should have read
through it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You Okay, some big names with Mickey seventeen stars Robert Pattinson.
It's directed by the guy who directed Parasite and Snow PIERSA.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yes Boon Drew Hoe, and he stunned everybody at the
twenty twenty Oscars with his film Paradise Parasite. Sorry, he
made history by winning Best Picture, and that was the
first time a non English language film had one Best Picture.
He won Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
An extraordinary film.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
If you haven't seen it, you should definitely see Parasite.
But this is his first film since Parasite, and he
probably had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted. I'm
sure that studios were probably handing him large franchise films
on a plate, telling him he could do whatever he
wanted to do, and instead he's made the sort of wonderfully.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Bondering whole film. It's nutty.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's this comical sci fi. It's a satire about sort
of the state of humanity. He always likes to focus
on the themes that he often reverts back to, all
about class and power and exploitation, and he very much
does that again with this film. Robert Pattinson, who you
mentioned there from Twilight, and of course Batman he really
(02:43):
drops his sort of A list star quality for this
film and plays this wonderful, meek, quite goofy character Mickey,
and he's really keen to get off planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
This is set in the future.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
He owes some money to a loan shark and things
who likes to chop people up as a hobby. So
he's very keen to get off Earth. But everybody's keen
to get out of off Earth at this point in
the future is the competition is fierce to join a
colonial worde to a new planet.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
So he signs up as an expendable.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And in the future, we have worked out how to
print people.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We're no longer allowed to do it on Earth, but
you can do it off Earth.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
And he doesn't quite know what it means, but he
signs up to be this expendable, which means like he's
the canary in the mind.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
He is the guy who can die.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For whatever reason they need him to because they can
then immediately reprint.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Him and he is back the next day.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So when we meet Mickey, he's on version number seventeen.
And so this is very much a film that looks
at humans. It looks at how they're expendable. It's how
we're all expendable in the workplace. This is a film,
even though it's set in the future, is very much
about the present.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
As you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Great cast also starts Tony collect and Mark Ruffalo. I
really loved this premise and I think it starts out
very strong.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It gets a little lost in the middle, but it
does finish well.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I love the fact that as far as this is
a considering that this is a sci fi film, it's
very low fi.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's almost retro futuristic. The spaceship they go on looks
like a cargo ship. You know, it's not it's not
just because we're in the future. We've sort of everything
out and everything's slick and flashing. Great. Actually it's still
all a bit rough. Yeah, I think this is going
to be quite polarizing, this film.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I think you're either going to fall in love with
its quirkiness and enjoy its sense of humor, or you'll
think what, yeah, what is he doing?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But you should never miss a bong during hohe film.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, that sounds great, well, sounds interesting. Mickey seventeen and
would you believe Francisca that yes, I have seen Parasite
and wonderful. I know. I mean, it would just be
so mean not to have seen Parasite, But I have
seen Parasite, and yeah, share in all of the adoration
that has been expressed by so many or a really
such a good film. So I'll definitely be seeing Mickey seventeen.
(05:10):
Next up, let's have a listen to Spit.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
International feature Money and honor criminal mastermind John Francis Spettieri.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Who lock him up. This is Australia.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's still a free country, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That is Friend of the show. David Wenham, returning as
Spit twenty years since the film Getting Square, tell us
about Spit.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yes, so this is I love it when a sort
of a side character suddenly becomes a lead. And as
you say, that's very much what's happened here. And David Wenham,
he just does such a beautiful job of stepping into
this character. He's just the quintessential Australian bogan and he's
got the flip flops and he's got the mullet, and
he's got this, and he's he he Kay's dumb and
(06:03):
sometimes he is dumb, but he always has a bit
of a because he's a he's a former krim and
heroin addict, and he's returning to Australia after being after
being overseas for a very long time, and he tries
to get it on a fake passport and he gets
picked up and he gets blocked in the detention center
and then off he goes, just beautifully kind of trying
to man you you know, sort of get himself out
(06:25):
of there and sort of, you know, and cause a
little bit more trouble. He's he's such an infuriating character
for those around him, but he's sort of so good
and natured about it. He's such a good natured guy,
sort of goofy guy. You can't help but kind of
get drawn in to this little journey that he goes on.
(06:46):
And he might always be thinking about himself and how
to help himself in a situation, but.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
He does sort of take other people along on the way.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So look a lot of laughs in here, But for
all the laughs in the mad cap scenario, it's a
bit of slapstick kind of comedy as well.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There are some sort of pointed political.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Barbs, especially around issues such as the brief Jess and
migrants and things, so it certainly doesn't hesitate to also
kind of make if you make comments about Australia today
and things like that. Yeah, I don't think you don't
need to have seen Getting Square to enjoy this film
and this character, because he really does.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
He really does owner it. So yeah, good fun another
are contrived at times, but good fun is. David Wnham
is absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, no, he really is. Thank you so much, Frantasica.
In case you missed it last week, of course David
Whnham was on the show. He was our feature interview
on News Talk's EDB last Saturday morning, So if you
didn't hear that interview, go to newstalkszb dot co dot
m zed Ford slash Jack and you'll be able to
listen to it. David Wenham is just fantastic. So Francisca's
film pics for us this week spit that's the Australian
(07:51):
one with David Wenham and Mickey seventeen is the latest
from Bong ju Ho. Both of those will be on
the website as well.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on Radio
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