April 25, 2025 • 7 mins
The Correspondent
The story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste, who while reporting on the Arab Spring uprising becomes entangled in a deadly game of rivalries.
Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at b shere.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
In a sandstorm and and knocks me out.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I didn't know them. It's never been enough since I
was seventeen, I gave you everything. Now we wake up
from a dream. Well, baby, what burst down?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I know you're thinking, you're thinking, hang on, what what
was it?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What was it? That was Lord? Yeah? And that song
was called what was that?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What was that? What was that was that?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Francisca right get Our film reviewer is here with her
movie pics for us this weekend.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Hey Francisca, you are such a booner sometimes, I know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I know the thing is what I'm I'm I mean,
I'm late late thirties, but like deep down and actually
just like a seventy five year old man.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'm very excited to have new music yeah over the winter.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, so am I I'm really looking forward to it. It
was interesting she you know, for anyone who missed it.
The other day, she tried to do a bit of
a pop up concert in Washington Square Park in this
cool part.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Of New York, but it didn't go very well.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The authorities basically shadowed down, so you just had like
thousands and you know, thousands of people turned up expecting
to see Lord, and then she wasn't glad to perform,
which is funny because Washington Square Park always has lots
of randos performing. I guess, yeah, yeah, I know. She
went back and dance, but she was quite fun.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, yeah, to get up and just dance on a
you know, I feel.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Like she kind of embraces her dancing as well. You know,
she brings the kind of different style which I love. Anyway,
I'm glad that you're excited because I'm really looking forward
to new music from Lords. So yeah, it's great to
see them. Anyway, our two picks for us this weekend.
Really looking forward to your take on both of these films.
So both of these are showing in cinemas at the moment.
Let's start off with a little bit of Listen to
the trailer for The Correspondent.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The rochesters are making it very clear how willing they are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To by the government Al Jazeera. Who is it?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Are you police?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Starting to go?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Okay, this is the story of the arrest, the trial,
and imprisonment of an Australian journalist.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, it's a really fascinating story and it probably people
will remember this. So it's twenty and thirteen and Peter Grest,
he's the Nairobi foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera. He's asked, Hey,
could you just go to Cairo and we've got someone
going away for a couple of weeks over Christmas on holiday?
Would you mind covering? And he's like, you no, that's
no worries. So he heads there and of course there's
a lot of unrest at that particular time. And after
(02:48):
reporting for about two days, just going about doing his job,
as you heard in the trailer, there's a knock on
the door and some people come in and then they
want to take him down to sort of a police
station or something, and he's like, that's fine, that's okay.
I can get this all cleared up. And I quite
know what's going on here, but I know how these
things kind of work. And he ends uping arrested with
two other journalists and it becomes apparent quite quickly that
(03:12):
this isn't something that he's going to be able to
clear up. He had a bit of cash in his
hotel suite, which was for his expenses and who perdems
while he was there, and they accuse him of financially
aiding and being part of a terrorist organization. And it
becomes pretty clear, as I said, becomes clear quite quickly
when the Australian sort of embassy visit him and go
(03:34):
there's a process we have.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
To go through.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
He's given a lawyer who is to represent him, who
was then arrested and charged with treason. It becomes clear
to him that this is not going to be straightforward.
That you know what is seemingly straightforward. Hello, I'm a journalist.
I work with this organization. He just reporting is not
going to be a straightforward process. So we follow him
as he realizes that he is going to ends up
(03:56):
in solitary confinement. He meets some other pretty interesting people,
political prisoners who sort of help him adjust to his
new situation, and along with these two other prisoners, goes
through the courts and spends a lot of time in
prison and things. Look, if you're not familiar with the story,
I'm not going to give away the result sort of
how it all unfolds, you can enjoy watching that. In
(04:16):
the film, Richard Roxburgh plays Peter Grestor. He does an
absolutely fantastic job. He's in every scene in this film,
and you really do get a sense of the journey
that he went through and just that whole trying to
adapt to finding yourself and such an extreme situation with
no hope. So it's really great. I actually spoke to
(04:39):
Peter Grestor and Richard Rocksborogh on the Sunway Session a
couple of weeks ago. It's worth having a listen to
the interview, especially actually if you've been and seeing the film,
because they talk about the making of it and behind
the scenes, and Peter Grestor sort of talks a little
bit about his career since and he is still a
convicted terrorist and or regarded as a terrorist and is
doing a lot of work to bring attention to the
(05:02):
fact that, you know, journalists just going about their daily
jobs can find themselves in some pretty difficult positions. Yeah.
Really fascinating story.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, So that's the correspondent that's showing in cinemas at
the moment. Next up, another movie at the movies, This
is Sinners.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There are legends of people with the gift of making music,
so true sicking conscious spirits from the path and the future.
This gift can bring fame and fortune, but it also
compiers the veil between life and there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There's a lot of heart about this film.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, and not to be honest with you, I sort
of saw the trial. I went, oh, it's another set
of vampire horror film. Oh yeah, okay, and headed along.
Ryan Coogler has directed this. He did Black Panther and Creed,
and he's teamed up here with Michael B. Jordan, who
he has worked with a lot since they're since his
debut film, fruit Vale Station. They work together on that
and in this film, Jordan plays these twins, Smoke and Stack,
(06:10):
and we're in the nineteen early nineteen thirties in Mississippi.
It's a really bold, ambitious mix this film. It's a
period piece. It's part gangster flick. Smoke and Stack of
just returned from Chicago where they were sort of moving
in the mobster world, and it's also a vampire horror
and it really kind of shouldn't work Jack, but it
(06:30):
all comes together and it does. And so what they've
done here is is sort of taken a popcorn film,
a mainstream sort of vampire film, and it's wonderfully over
the top, but it's got kind of some heart and
soul and all these messages and while messages goalore because
it sort of focuses on race and history and religion
and repression and sin and redemption and freedom and what
(06:53):
is freedom and all these things. It's a film really
about the Black American experience. Look, it's long, it's two
hours and seventeen and actually, to be honest with you,
it might have all been a bit much to throw
all that in there, but I didn't mind. I love
being part of this world because the cinematography is fantastic.
There's some wonderful one shot scenes. The music is wonderful.
(07:16):
The blues it's so soulful, and there's this great scenehe
Kogler reminds us how timeless music is, and he shows
how the blues is have had of so much more
even music today, and the tone. It isn't afraid to
be gory and be great and have lots of fun
with these vampires and things so very central as well, steamy.
It's full of life. It's not perfect, but there's lots
to like.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That sounds great. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing this
one I reckon. This is one I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Deliberately going to carve out a bit of space to
go and see it at the see it at the
movies as well. Thanks Francisca. So that's Sinners and Francisca's
first film is The Correspondent. Both of those movies, all
the details of them will of course be on the
News Talks.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He'd be website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame.
Listen live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at b shere.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
In a sandstorm and and knocks me out.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I didn't know them. It's never been enough since I
was seventeen, I gave you everything. Now we wake up
from a dream. Well, baby, what burst down?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I know you're thinking, you're thinking, hang on, what what
was it?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What was it? That was Lord? Yeah? And that song
was called what was that?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What was that? What was that was that?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Francisca right get Our film reviewer is here with her
movie pics for us this weekend.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Hey Francisca, you are such a booner sometimes, I know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I know the thing is what I'm I'm I mean,
I'm late late thirties, but like deep down and actually
just like a seventy five year old man.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'm very excited to have new music yeah over the winter.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, so am I I'm really looking forward to it. It
was interesting she you know, for anyone who missed it.
The other day, she tried to do a bit of
a pop up concert in Washington Square Park in this
cool part.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Of New York, but it didn't go very well.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The authorities basically shadowed down, so you just had like
thousands and you know, thousands of people turned up expecting
to see Lord, and then she wasn't glad to perform,
which is funny because Washington Square Park always has lots
of randos performing. I guess, yeah, yeah, I know. She
went back and dance, but she was quite fun.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, yeah, to get up and just dance on a
you know, I feel.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Like she kind of embraces her dancing as well. You know,
she brings the kind of different style which I love. Anyway,
I'm glad that you're excited because I'm really looking forward
to new music from Lords. So yeah, it's great to
see them. Anyway, our two picks for us this weekend.
Really looking forward to your take on both of these films.
So both of these are showing in cinemas at the moment.
Let's start off with a little bit of Listen to
the trailer for The Correspondent.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The rochesters are making it very clear how willing they are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To by the government Al Jazeera. Who is it?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Are you police?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Starting to go?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Okay, this is the story of the arrest, the trial,
and imprisonment of an Australian journalist.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, it's a really fascinating story and it probably people
will remember this. So it's twenty and thirteen and Peter Grest,
he's the Nairobi foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera. He's asked, Hey,
could you just go to Cairo and we've got someone
going away for a couple of weeks over Christmas on holiday?
Would you mind covering? And he's like, you no, that's
no worries. So he heads there and of course there's
a lot of unrest at that particular time. And after
(02:48):
reporting for about two days, just going about doing his job,
as you heard in the trailer, there's a knock on
the door and some people come in and then they
want to take him down to sort of a police
station or something, and he's like, that's fine, that's okay.
I can get this all cleared up. And I quite
know what's going on here, but I know how these
things kind of work. And he ends uping arrested with
two other journalists and it becomes apparent quite quickly that
(03:12):
this isn't something that he's going to be able to
clear up. He had a bit of cash in his
hotel suite, which was for his expenses and who perdems
while he was there, and they accuse him of financially
aiding and being part of a terrorist organization. And it
becomes pretty clear, as I said, becomes clear quite quickly
when the Australian sort of embassy visit him and go
(03:34):
there's a process we have.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
To go through.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
He's given a lawyer who is to represent him, who
was then arrested and charged with treason. It becomes clear
to him that this is not going to be straightforward.
That you know what is seemingly straightforward. Hello, I'm a journalist.
I work with this organization. He just reporting is not
going to be a straightforward process. So we follow him
as he realizes that he is going to ends up
(03:56):
in solitary confinement. He meets some other pretty interesting people,
political prisoners who sort of help him adjust to his
new situation, and along with these two other prisoners, goes
through the courts and spends a lot of time in
prison and things. Look, if you're not familiar with the story,
I'm not going to give away the result sort of
how it all unfolds, you can enjoy watching that. In
(04:16):
the film, Richard Roxburgh plays Peter Grestor. He does an
absolutely fantastic job. He's in every scene in this film,
and you really do get a sense of the journey
that he went through and just that whole trying to
adapt to finding yourself and such an extreme situation with
no hope. So it's really great. I actually spoke to
(04:39):
Peter Grestor and Richard Rocksborogh on the Sunway Session a
couple of weeks ago. It's worth having a listen to
the interview, especially actually if you've been and seeing the film,
because they talk about the making of it and behind
the scenes, and Peter Grestor sort of talks a little
bit about his career since and he is still a
convicted terrorist and or regarded as a terrorist and is
doing a lot of work to bring attention to the
(05:02):
fact that, you know, journalists just going about their daily
jobs can find themselves in some pretty difficult positions. Yeah.
Really fascinating story.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, So that's the correspondent that's showing in cinemas at
the moment. Next up, another movie at the movies, This
is Sinners.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There are legends of people with the gift of making music,
so true sicking conscious spirits from the path and the future.
This gift can bring fame and fortune, but it also
compiers the veil between life and there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There's a lot of heart about this film.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, and not to be honest with you, I sort
of saw the trial. I went, oh, it's another set
of vampire horror film. Oh yeah, okay, and headed along.
Ryan Coogler has directed this. He did Black Panther and Creed,
and he's teamed up here with Michael B. Jordan, who
he has worked with a lot since they're since his
debut film, fruit Vale Station. They work together on that
and in this film, Jordan plays these twins, Smoke and Stack,
(06:10):
and we're in the nineteen early nineteen thirties in Mississippi.
It's a really bold, ambitious mix this film. It's a
period piece. It's part gangster flick. Smoke and Stack of
just returned from Chicago where they were sort of moving
in the mobster world, and it's also a vampire horror
and it really kind of shouldn't work Jack, but it
(06:30):
all comes together and it does. And so what they've
done here is is sort of taken a popcorn film,
a mainstream sort of vampire film, and it's wonderfully over
the top, but it's got kind of some heart and
soul and all these messages and while messages goalore because
it sort of focuses on race and history and religion
and repression and sin and redemption and freedom and what
(06:53):
is freedom and all these things. It's a film really
about the Black American experience. Look, it's long, it's two
hours and seventeen and actually, to be honest with you,
it might have all been a bit much to throw
all that in there, but I didn't mind. I love
being part of this world because the cinematography is fantastic.
There's some wonderful one shot scenes. The music is wonderful.
(07:16):
The blues it's so soulful, and there's this great scenehe
Kogler reminds us how timeless music is, and he shows
how the blues is have had of so much more
even music today, and the tone. It isn't afraid to
be gory and be great and have lots of fun
with these vampires and things so very central as well, steamy.
It's full of life. It's not perfect, but there's lots
to like.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That sounds great. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing this
one I reckon. This is one I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Deliberately going to carve out a bit of space to
go and see it at the see it at the
movies as well. Thanks Francisca. So that's Sinners and Francisca's
first film is The Correspondent. Both of those movies, all
the details of them will of course be on the
News Talks.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He'd be website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame.
Listen live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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