March 28, 2025 • 7 mins
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - (in cinemas) Judge Iman, paranoid amid Tehran's unrest, loses his gun. Suspecting family, he imposes harsh rules, straining relationships as society destabilizes.
A Working Man - (in cinemas) Jason Statham stars as Levon Cade, a man who left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life of working construction. However, when human traffickers kidnap his boss's daughter, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at Me.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Lady six. She's performing at Symphony in the Auckland
Domain last night. Oh my gosh, I was just driving
past the Domain before. It looks amazing. It's gonna be
a huge event. These symphony events just seem to get
bigger and bigger and bigger and more popular. Feels like
half a country is going to be going to Synthhony.
So if you don't know synthony, it's basically a blend
of you have or an orchestra playing dance music and
(00:50):
it's outdoors. Everyone gets together. It's really it's yeah. It
kind of brings in people from all different kind of
generations and music tastes and everyone just has a really
good spirited dance in the Domain. So it's gonna be
pretty epic at Auckland Domain when that kicks off tonight.
Right now, it is twenty one minutes to ten on
news Stork. He'd be time to catch up with our
film reviewer Francesca Rudkin for her picks this weekend. Good morning,
(01:16):
Let's start off with a film that is showing in
cinemas at the moment tell us about the seed of
the sacred fig right.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So this is just under three hours long. It was
nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It
won their Can't Special Dury Prize last year. It's from
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Russeloff and in completing this film, which
was shot entirely in secret and Iran, he was sentenced
(01:46):
to eight years jail and a flogging. He managed to
leave the country and we think now resides in Germany.
And if you go and watch this film, it's absolutely
no surprise really that has happened to him. So it's
a story about an investigating judge and the revolutionary court
(02:06):
in Tehran. It's a very stressful job. He's just had
a promotion, which is very excited about. It means that
the family gets to move to a bigger apartment, but
it also puts an awful lot of pressure on his
home life, on his wife and his two daughters, one
who is at high school and one who was just
starting college, because all eyes are on them and they
(02:28):
need to make sure that they behave perfectly and are
not seen to step out of line in any way.
And this is difficult because at this particular time, there
is an awful lot of protests going on, and of
course a lot of women, in particular at demanding more
human rights, have been able to live their lives the
way they want to. And during this time, the judge's
(02:51):
gun disappears and he's left to suspect that his wife
or his daughter's have something to do with it, causing
this terrible tension in the house. It's the sort of
psychological portrayal of living under a theocracy in a run
and the paranoia, the violence, and the tension that kind
of comes with it. It's a story of oppression and
(03:13):
resilience and hope, and I think a very brave film
considering the very serious consequences which had been imposed upon
the director. I believe other members too who were involved
in the making of this film have also had to
leave the country as well. Look if you want, it's
a very taut film. The pressure really builds, it kind
of unfolds slowly, but you really do feel the fear
(03:35):
of these people and what it must be like to
live in a press of society like this. Yeah, yeah, no,
quite remarkable.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sounds incredible. Yeah, Okay, so that's the seed of the
Sacred fig that's showing in cinemas at the moment. Next up,
something completely different. Let's have a listen to a working
man on my life's past, and I love the Royal Marines.
A lot of people would came it up on't they
You gave me a job, you were pleasing with me,
You color, Jenny, you're my family. Excuse me, it's not
(04:05):
your business. That is, of course, Jason Statham and what
I would describe as a not particularly convincing American accent.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh my gosh, okay, this is a working man. Look.
I actually was looking forward to this because last year
Jason Staffham and David Eir, the director on this film,
they teamed up together to create a film called The Beekeeper.
People might remember it. He played this character Adam Clay,
who single handedly sort of set out to destroy a
scammering that had taken advantage of a lovely old woman
(04:48):
that Adam knew. And it was great fun and it
was a really good action thriller. So I was like, yay, okay,
tour back together again. This is awesome. Let's see what
they produced this time. Well, criikey okay. It's produced and
written by Sylvester Stallone and it it's got his sort
of name all over it in the field of it.
(05:09):
The music, the soundtrack is ridiculously epic and over the top.
It's really earnest and a very far fetched story. And
we know that Jason stephan one of the great things
is he is a brilliant action guy, but he also
can throw the humor into things as well. There is
nothing subtle about this film. It's all laid out for
(05:29):
you through sort of pretty simple dialogue. The wardrobe, oh
my goodness, the cliched way that people addressed. I mean,
I started laughing when I don't think I was supposed
to be laughing. But look, there is always room for
an over the top take itself too seriously, escapism, piece
of action thriller. It's just unfortunately, you know, the director
(05:53):
and the actor did such a good job last year.
My hopes were raised, and you know, I mean, this
is their wheelhouse. This is what Jason Stressor does so well,
and I think that him and David Air could have
done a really good job of this. But it's just yeah, anyway,
there we go. I'll leave it a bit.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, yeah, if that acting does anything to go
by I mean if we all love a just Stathan
being like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm just in every
man who happens to be alsome at killing people, but like,
I just don't know why you trust me.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, at least you have to worry about what the
way they've dressed everybody to make them so clearly obvious,
like you're the bad guy. Oh, you're the you know yeah,
and then the sort of the gangsters all dressed in
these ridiculously over the top sort of tracks outfits, which
makes me so stand out, like you know that they wouldn't.
Oh I can't. I just don't get you know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sometimes they say they say that there's some study it
says that your your brain in watching TV or movies
sometimes your brain can be less active than when it's sleeping.
It sounds like one of those films. It sounds like
one of those films if you're just sit in front
of it and the film happens to you for anything
else and going very good, Okay, that's thank you. That
is a working man that's showing in cinemas now. Francesca
(07:09):
brings us a variety. That's why we love talking with
her on Saturday mornings. The Seed of the Sacred fig
is the nearly three hour film in Pharsei, the first
one that she shared with us. We'll put both of
those films and all the details for them up on
the News Talks. He'db website for more from Saturday Morning
with Jack Tame.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
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 Team podcast
from News Talks at Me.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Lady six. She's performing at Symphony in the Auckland
Domain last night. Oh my gosh, I was just driving
past the Domain before. It looks amazing. It's gonna be
a huge event. These symphony events just seem to get
bigger and bigger and bigger and more popular. Feels like
half a country is going to be going to Synthhony.
So if you don't know synthony, it's basically a blend
of you have or an orchestra playing dance music and
(00:50):
it's outdoors. Everyone gets together. It's really it's yeah. It
kind of brings in people from all different kind of
generations and music tastes and everyone just has a really
good spirited dance in the Domain. So it's gonna be
pretty epic at Auckland Domain when that kicks off tonight.
Right now, it is twenty one minutes to ten on
news Stork. He'd be time to catch up with our
film reviewer Francesca Rudkin for her picks this weekend. Good morning,
(01:16):
Let's start off with a film that is showing in
cinemas at the moment tell us about the seed of
the sacred fig right.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So this is just under three hours long. It was
nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It
won their Can't Special Dury Prize last year. It's from
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Russeloff and in completing this film, which
was shot entirely in secret and Iran, he was sentenced
(01:46):
to eight years jail and a flogging. He managed to
leave the country and we think now resides in Germany.
And if you go and watch this film, it's absolutely
no surprise really that has happened to him. So it's
a story about an investigating judge and the revolutionary court
(02:06):
in Tehran. It's a very stressful job. He's just had
a promotion, which is very excited about. It means that
the family gets to move to a bigger apartment, but
it also puts an awful lot of pressure on his
home life, on his wife and his two daughters, one
who is at high school and one who was just
starting college, because all eyes are on them and they
(02:28):
need to make sure that they behave perfectly and are
not seen to step out of line in any way.
And this is difficult because at this particular time, there
is an awful lot of protests going on, and of
course a lot of women, in particular at demanding more
human rights, have been able to live their lives the
way they want to. And during this time, the judge's
(02:51):
gun disappears and he's left to suspect that his wife
or his daughter's have something to do with it, causing
this terrible tension in the house. It's the sort of
psychological portrayal of living under a theocracy in a run
and the paranoia, the violence, and the tension that kind
of comes with it. It's a story of oppression and
(03:13):
resilience and hope, and I think a very brave film
considering the very serious consequences which had been imposed upon
the director. I believe other members too who were involved
in the making of this film have also had to
leave the country as well. Look if you want, it's
a very taut film. The pressure really builds, it kind
of unfolds slowly, but you really do feel the fear
(03:35):
of these people and what it must be like to
live in a press of society like this. Yeah, yeah, no,
quite remarkable.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sounds incredible. Yeah, Okay, so that's the seed of the
Sacred fig that's showing in cinemas at the moment. Next up,
something completely different. Let's have a listen to a working
man on my life's past, and I love the Royal Marines.
A lot of people would came it up on't they
You gave me a job, you were pleasing with me,
You color, Jenny, you're my family. Excuse me, it's not
(04:05):
your business. That is, of course, Jason Statham and what
I would describe as a not particularly convincing American accent.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh my gosh, okay, this is a working man. Look.
I actually was looking forward to this because last year
Jason Staffham and David Eir, the director on this film,
they teamed up together to create a film called The Beekeeper.
People might remember it. He played this character Adam Clay,
who single handedly sort of set out to destroy a
scammering that had taken advantage of a lovely old woman
(04:48):
that Adam knew. And it was great fun and it
was a really good action thriller. So I was like, yay, okay,
tour back together again. This is awesome. Let's see what
they produced this time. Well, criikey okay. It's produced and
written by Sylvester Stallone and it it's got his sort
of name all over it in the field of it.
(05:09):
The music, the soundtrack is ridiculously epic and over the top.
It's really earnest and a very far fetched story. And
we know that Jason stephan one of the great things
is he is a brilliant action guy, but he also
can throw the humor into things as well. There is
nothing subtle about this film. It's all laid out for
(05:29):
you through sort of pretty simple dialogue. The wardrobe, oh
my goodness, the cliched way that people addressed. I mean,
I started laughing when I don't think I was supposed
to be laughing. But look, there is always room for
an over the top take itself too seriously, escapism, piece
of action thriller. It's just unfortunately, you know, the director
(05:53):
and the actor did such a good job last year.
My hopes were raised, and you know, I mean, this
is their wheelhouse. This is what Jason Stressor does so well,
and I think that him and David Air could have
done a really good job of this. But it's just yeah, anyway,
there we go. I'll leave it a bit.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, yeah, if that acting does anything to go
by I mean if we all love a just Stathan
being like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm just in every
man who happens to be alsome at killing people, but like,
I just don't know why you trust me.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, at least you have to worry about what the
way they've dressed everybody to make them so clearly obvious,
like you're the bad guy. Oh, you're the you know yeah,
and then the sort of the gangsters all dressed in
these ridiculously over the top sort of tracks outfits, which
makes me so stand out, like you know that they wouldn't.
Oh I can't. I just don't get you know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sometimes they say they say that there's some study it
says that your your brain in watching TV or movies
sometimes your brain can be less active than when it's sleeping.
It sounds like one of those films. It sounds like
one of those films if you're just sit in front
of it and the film happens to you for anything
else and going very good, Okay, that's thank you. That
is a working man that's showing in cinemas now. Francesca
(07:09):
brings us a variety. That's why we love talking with
her on Saturday mornings. The Seed of the Sacred fig
is the nearly three hour film in Pharsei, the first
one that she shared with us. We'll put both of
those films and all the details for them up on
the News Talks. He'db website for more from Saturday Morning
with Jack Tame.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Listen live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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