Pete's Top 10 Movies of 2024

Pete returns with his annual countdown of the top 10 movies that impressed him from 2024.

Will big blockbusters like Wicked, Dune 2 or Furiosa make the cut? What movies fell short?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get a Pete Haller here. Welcome to you Ain't Seen
Nothing Yet? The movie Podcast, where our chat to a
movie lover but a classic, oh beloved the movie they
haven't quite got around to watching until now. And today's
guest comedian podcaster me Pete Hellier.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
All below. I want to stay here with you.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Got little jobber.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Why late snake shucked my hail? They couldn't happening right,
So you ain't seen nothing year? Yes it is me.
It's a different kind of episode again following the Lee

(01:01):
When Now episode last week We're wolf Man, this is
a bit of a different kind of episode. This is
an episode where I will be letting you know my
ten favorite films of two thy and twenty four. That's right,
my ten favorite films of twenty and twenty four. Now,
let's just get this out of the box. Let's just

(01:23):
see the elephant in the room. What's not really the
elephant in the room. I'm not sure if that's quite
the right way of saying it, but I know messages
is going to come forward saying hang on. That film
was released in twenty twenty three or twenty twenty five.
All these films were released in Australia in two thy
and twenty four. So this is not like an Oscar
preview for last year or review or a preview for

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this year. This is my favorite films of last year.
It's possible that there are some films that I've left
out that may have been released in Australia in twenty
twenty four that I hadn't I got around to putting
down my dream scenario. Did they come out in twenty

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four or twenty three, because that was that should be
on the list. Nick Cage, that was great, But you know,
this is all about fun. Obviously, everyone has their own list.
Some people get very passionate about this kind of stuff.
These are the movies that I enjoyed, and I just
want to say, like doing this, What's great about doing
a list like this when I sit down to do
it each year is you kind of have an idea

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whether it was a good year or not in movies.
And I really do believe that twenty twenty four was
a bumper year for movies and a few things stand
out to me in twenty twenty four, two things in particular. One,
it was I think a year for big swings. A

(02:49):
lot of movies just took really big swings, both you know,
smaller independent films and also tent pole films. I mean
Dead Paul and Wolverine was a massive swing, and then
You Have a Better Man was a massive swing. A
small independent one was Kneecap, Big swing, A Different Man,

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Big swing. Big shout out to Australian film Audrey, which
if you didn't see in cinemas, it's playing available I
think in the Foxtell store in Australia. Very dark comedy,
murial wedding kind of vibes such a big swing and
I loved it. I had that at sixteen. When I

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saw it, I thought it'd be top ten. But this
is the thing. My top, my top. My twentieth film
was The Four Guy. When I saw The Four Guy,
I saw it with some cast mates from the Rocky
Horror Rocky Horror, and we all loved it, like for
days afterwards, we were still chatting about it. We saw
it in Sydney, and seeing that movie in Sydney was

(03:57):
shot in Sydney, and because we all kind of worked
in the industry, entertainment industry, there was something cool about
the way we watched it where we watched it, and
we just spoke about it for days. We loved it,
and I was thinking, these are the movies we need
to make more of. Emily Blant, Ryan Gosling, fun funny, popcorn,
flic action awesome. More of this, please, And when I

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do my films for twenty twenty four, it finishes at
twenty So big swings were a big thing. The other
thing is horniness is back in movies. Like I know
in the eighties we often joke about on this podcast
when we talk about movies in the eighties, there's always

(04:43):
his boobs. Just it was always boobs and we kind
of went away from that, and you know, you know
now it's like there are there's more nudity in a
lot of films where they really go for it. But
I will say it feels more linked to the story,
and I think actors are okay with going there these

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days if it's if there's a reason for it, and
some examples the Substance with Demi Moore and Margaret Quayley Kneecap,
there's a lot of it than their Anora Mikey Madison
Challengers saw Zendaya completely going forward with her co stars

(05:28):
as well. I'll never look at Prince Charles the same
way again, but again kinds of kindness. Yogis Lathemos continues
He's worked with Emma Stone, and Emma Stone is completely
going for it in scenes, and again it seems more
or less catuitous than it used to be and more

(05:51):
linked to is this telling a story? And even though
it's telling a story, I still think that sometimes they're
going they're going for it, which some people will love
and some people won't. So I basically wrote down about
fifty films that I saw over the year, and I
feel I want to start off by just giving a

(06:13):
couple of films an apology for various reasons, because we
can't always watch the films we want to watch in
a perfect moment with perfect energy levels, and I do
owe a couple, I think, an apology for maybe not
being in a frame of mine, or like when I
saw Wicked, I had to leave. I'm not sure how

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long before the ending, probably half an hour, I feel
if I was a guest, because I I haven't seen
the ending, so I've got that kind of all the
way down at about thirty nine. And the reason I
still I was enjoying it, but not as much as
I thought I was enjoying surprisingly a while surprised at
how funny I think. Ariana Grunde was beautifully shot, well acted.

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Loved the flying monkeys at the start, who petrified me
as a child flying over and seeing Dorothy and the
and the and the scarecrow and the tin man and
the line walking along the yellow brick road. I thought
that was maybe one of the shots of the year,
and really got excited at that point. And then I
realized that, oh, this is part one. I didn't realize.
I thought, wicked? Is it wicked? The music? Is that

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Part one is that? I don't know. So I kind
of thought that seemed to be money at a little
eye on the wallet or the profit share the profit
sheet very early. So yes, long Legs. A lot of
people love Long Legs. I watched it at home, and
I have to say, probably wasn't in the right frame

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of mind, and I didn't get it. I just got well,
I got it, but I didn't. It didn't work for me.
It kind of felt like it was trying to be
silent to the lambs, and and I thought there were
implausible twists, at least in my eye. But I got
to say it was my tired, like I was not
in the right frame of mind to watch that. Maxine,

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I have pretty low as well, but I here we Go,
I hadn't seen I didn't realize that that was even
part of a trilogy, So it kind of means nothing
that I had it low. Iron Claw, I had very low.
But I know a lot of people love that film,
but I just found it hard and I love a
film that offers a little bit of hope, and I
felt pummeled after seeing that, and not in a good way.

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To be honest. Performances were great, zach Efron, big fan.
But yes, all right, before we get in the top ten,
I want you to give out some I guess, let
you know some of the films were you know, it
might be in the top ten, top five, maybe people's

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favorite films that I've kind of heard on various lists
and where I had them, and maybe the reasons why
I had Challenges which people loved by Luker Guanadino at
twenty five. Again, it sounds really high, and it was
parts of it when I was watching it, going oh,

(09:09):
this is yeah, this is I think one of the
films of the year, and then it just I'm not
sure if it was equal to some of its parts.
I performances were great, sin Days developing into a really
interesting actor. The performances from the boys were great. I

(09:32):
was just fell a bit hollow at the end. I
enjoyed watching it. Luke at Moose, he SIT's a beautiful movie.
I haven't seen Queer with Daniel Craig. That looks amazing,
But the challenges didn't. It's just didn't. I wasn't thinking
about it a lot after I finished watching it. To
be honest, hit Man was really fun. Richard Link later

(09:53):
twenty four you know inside Out too. People have really
just praised that movie as one of Pixar's best, and
maybe I owe that inn apology as well. I'm not
sure if I was in the right frame of mind
to watch it. As far as energy levels, that's a
twenty three. One of my surprise people, I think, is
June two. I have a twenty two, so outside the

(10:14):
top twenty and this I will completely and it's on
my It comes with basically an apology in that I
am holding June. Coming out of COVID and watching June
in cinemas was one of the best movie experiences I
think I've ever had with miss cinemas so much and
to see that film. The first film I saw that
out of COVID was Tenant, and it didn't I found

(10:37):
it too confusing. I wasn't into it. I love Christopher Nolan.
Tenant didn't do it for me. But June two was like,
oh wow. And I had no connection with the past.
For June hadn't seen the original so didn't really know
what it was about, had vague ideas. But June two,

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I think just maybe like The Wicked Part one, Part two,
maybe I know if The Student need to be a trilogy.
I certainly want to see the third one because I
want to. I want to see dene villanev bring it
home and against Zindaya and Chlamy doing great work. Everyone's
doing great work in that movie. So there's a part

(11:19):
of me that I'm certainly open to criticism for having
it that high. But again, just left the movie and
I was chatting with some friends about it. It was
one of those movies that the more I thought about
the less the less it gotten away. Sometimes it's the opposite.
Sometimes you can come out of a movie you start
talking about it happens on this podcast. I will chat
to our guests, and maybe we look warm about the

(11:42):
movie or there look warm, and then the more we
talk about it, the more we get it. Kind of
June two, it kind of happened in the opposite direction.
With that said, I'll be there in the first week
for doing three. If it's happening. I assume it's happening.
I hope it's happening. It should happen. So I'll read
you my top twenty, well twenty into ten before we

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extrapolate a bit more on out my top ten. Okay,
twenty is the four guy great popcorn film. Nineteen is
Lee with Kate Winslet. I'm sure she'll get nominated for
an oscar. I'm not sure if she'll win. I think
there are better performances. But Kate Winslet, like June too,
maybe a victim of her own high standards. I really
enjoyed the film. I thought it was a story I

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hadn't heard, and with a twist I didn't see coming
at the end from a movie that maybe I wasn't
expecting there to be a little twist. A very enjoyable
a film you can see on Netflix. His three daughters,
Connie Kohon and Olsen. I'm trying not to look stuff

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up as much, but I'm going to look this up.
Elizabeth Olsen is the one and Natasha Leone is the
three sisters of a man who's dying, and it's all
basically set in there apart and they are just waiting
for their their father to die. Two of them are
I'm not sure if this is a gross term full

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sisters and one of they're half sisters to another. They
have history baggage and they're working through that whilst they're
waiting for their farther that. It's a beautiful It's a
really beautiful film. It so small, you know, what we
would call a small film, but about big things. I
really will urge you to see it.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
It.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Writer director is Azel Jacobs is behind that. And one
of the themes actually think about the films that I'm
going through is the amount of writer directors there are.
Often there's another co writer, but yeah, it's writers who
or directors who can do both, who can curate their
vision to get the best possible results. So yeah, History Daughters.

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I had there at eighteen a real pain. I saw
it just recently scraped into two thousand and twenty four
was released on Boxing Day. Jesse Eisenberg writes and direct
Kieran Colkin won the recent God and Globe for it
about two cousins, Jewish cousins who go and book a
flight after their grandmother passes away to basically go on

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a Holocaust tour and visit her house where she lived,
which apparently was Jesse Eisenberg's grandmother's real house. When you
see the film, it's quite a sweet, gentle film. And yeah,
it'd be interesting to see that kind of film if
I watch it in a year or two, will it
mean more, all it mean the same or slightly less.
It's one of those films, I think, which will be
interesting to see how that develops over over time. But

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lovely performances. Jesse Eisenberg will no doubt write and direct
more films. Sixteen I had Audrey, So Audrey written by
Lou Sands, and I've declare that Lou wrote some episodes
of How to Stay Married And also the director was
Natalie Bailey, who was a setup director for How to
Stay Married. So I was very keen to see this.

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But all that aside, there's not an NEPO choice. This
is Audry made me laugh a lot. Like I said,
I'm almost surprised it's not higher. It made me laugh
a lot. It's dark. So the premise of Audrey is
that there is a mother who's raising two kids. One

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has cerebral palsy and the other is a like a starlet.
I think she's either from memory on one of the
soaps or it's been on one of the soaps and
has certainly you know, stars in the family's eyes. So
they're all doing the best they can to support Audrey.
It's all about Audrey. And then Audrey has an accident,

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she falls off the roof and she ends up in
a coma. And what the family discover is that their
lives are getting better without Audrey in their lives. How
dark is that? But it is an extraordinary film. It's funny.
Everyone's so good in this film. It's beautifully directed by
Natalie Bailey, really is, and it's so sharply written with

(16:12):
references and this gags, but it just it's got no
fat on it. It really is. I think an extraordinary comedy.
It's got, like I said, Murial Muriel's wedding vibes so
and Jackie van Beek is the mother in the film,
not the titular Audrey. She plays Ronnie, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor

(16:33):
is so good, so good. Josephine Blazier plays Audrey. Hannah
Diviney plays Orgie's other sister, and she's fantastic as well.
It's one It's been invited in the festivals and one
of the wolves all over the world. I really urge you. Yes,
it's not in my top ten, but I think Algie
is one of the breakout films of the year. I

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really believe that. So check out Audrey if you can.
Akay American fiction at fifteen. Really enjoyed that a different man,
Sebastian Stan winning some awards for his performance in that.
Really enjoyed that. Saturday Night Really really enjoyed Saturday Night
about the opening night of Saturday Night Live, the show

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that would become. I mean, very few shows have become
such a staple in American life. And can you think
of one that's had a bigger impact than Saturday Night Live,
the impact that's had on comedy and movies and culture.
I mean, and Tina fays Is, you know, was doing

(17:38):
names of the Alaskan. Was the Alaska or a Canadian? Oh,
Canadian a politician when she was having a moment in
the sun and she was getting mobbed, and it just
becomes yeah, it's a real zeitgeisty kind of show, Saturday Life.
It's not always great, and sometimes you look at sketches
and go really, but I thought Saturday Night so I

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did an amazing job of pulling that off, and all
the performances were great, that the actors looked like who
they were supposed to look like, and the writing was fast.
It kind of felt I had almost like a Sorkin
vibe to it, and a lot of factors I hadn't
seen before either, but they looked like, again, who they
were supposed to look like. Jason Reitman directed it, and yeah,

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I thought, actually punched out, knocked it out of the parking,
can't senate check it out? Seth Rogen how this his
favorite film of the year, So that was Saturday Night.
Moving into this is where we got so close to
So I've got an equal equal ten. I've cheated to
get another movie into my top ten, but basically at twelve,

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I have anur A Nora by Sean Baker. He's become
one of my favorite filmmakers. I love Sean Baker. If
you haven't seen The Florida Project, go and check that out.
And Red Rocket maybe he was my favorite. One's straordinary filmmaker.
Doesn't use a lot of stars as such, use Willie

(19:07):
Dafoe in The Fliidder Project. And I really was excited
to see Anora. And this is a movie that I
might watch in six months time and actually have it
in my top five. I'm not sure it would ever
be my top film of the year, but Mikey Madison
is extraordinary in it. She gives a very brave performance,

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is completely committed to that role. And by the way,
can I just say that Quentin Tarantino, whoever I think
I may have mentioned on this podcast before, but whoever
it casts once upon a time in Hollywood. There is
a scene where they go to the ranch that has
become like the outsiders of the modern era. Just that scene,

(19:53):
that sequence, it's more of a sequence in a scene
because you have Leona Durham's in there, and I think
the coda Fanning's in there, people who we know. But
then you have check this out as far as like
those who are about to become household names in the

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next few years. Up until now. So in that scene
as basically unknowns Margaret Quayley, who are going to talk
about soon, Austin Butler, who just blew up after Elvis,
Sidney Sweeney, what an incredible year she had last year.

(20:33):
Mikey Madison with annoyed. They are potentially I would say
four maybe what Zenda are in there, and that would
be the five hottest actors young actors in Hollywood right now,
and they're all in that one sequence. I'm fascinated to
find out if there's another one or two that come
out of it. I love it. Mikey Madison is the

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actress who or the character who goes to the house
to seek vengeance and ends up I think copping a
dog dog food can to the eye. But she's great.
She's great and much by the time in Hollywood, and
she's really great in Anura. This is a sequence in
Anura that kind of slightly kind of didn't get to me,
but I kind of wanted it to move on where

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there's a lot of yelling and a lot of trying
to find this Russian boy. So Mikey Madison plays a
stripper who has a client, a Russian client. They end
up falling in love, getting married pretty quickly, and then
his caretakers his parents are back in Russia. His caretakers

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decide that this marriage is definitely not going ahead. You
need to get it a n old. He escapes, runs off,
and the movie is about them trying to find him.
I really like it, and on a different day I
might have it much higher than than outside my top ten.
But yes, there's a sequence where it feels like there,
you know, can we moved along a little bit? And boy,
there's a lot of yelling and the odder I get.

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That's why I took me a little bit to get
through the first few episodes of the Bay. I'm like,
oh my god, it's so much yelling. But if you
get through that, Anora is great. Okay. I can't believe
with this far in and we haven't got to my
top ten. These are my top ten, and this we're
starting with equal top ten, equal top ten. Two movies
that are musical and number the first number ten. We

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can call it eleven if you like. Is from Ireland,
written and directed by Rich papiot Is kneecap.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
I tell me who's to play you?

Speaker 6 (22:40):
The Truth was the biggest drug supplier in West Belfast
is called the couchman that wasn't so cool on the
word nickname.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
That was his job fifty two fucking years.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Some people say the World Wide Web is the greatest
invention of the twenty first central those people have never
been on the Dark Web.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
We bought mbm air from Holland Cadaman from India, NAPA
drone from Vietnam, their ab de scarped as bats, flower seeds, DVDs, kads.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Talk here, spaceman, I'm talking to you. What is it
about the Irish when they do a movie about music,
not necessarily music calls in the traditional sense the commitments
once Singh Street and now Kneecap Kneecap, which I only

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caught up to recently. That's why I'm glad. I kind
of held off doing this before Christmas because a lot
of great Boxing Day movies come out in Australia and
there were a few I wanted to see and this
is one of them. And I watched Anecap at home
and I just loved it. I knew nothing about it.
So Mecap are about a group of boys who you know,

(24:09):
I guess let's call them delinquents for the sake of
a shortcut in Northern Ireland, getting into a bit of trouble.
But then they they discus they can they can they
can write hip hop in their native language of Irish,
which I'm not sure if I knew that was a thing,
because I think Irish is different than Gaelic. I knew
Gaelic was a language, but is there a native language Irish.

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And they start getting gigs and finding purpose and hope
through rapping hip hopping in their native Irish, and it
causes some trouble because there are people who don't like
to because they're singing about all the things that sometimes

(24:55):
hip hop sings about, you know, the things that a
lot of people in society, we'll like the sweep under
the car, but they're singing about those things and it
rubs some people up the wrong way. Obviously Belfast can
be a complicated place. But this is also a real band,
by the way, real story, true story. In fact, I
thinkne capturing Australia soon. My son Liam is gonna gonna

(25:19):
go see them. So but it's just it's just a
really it's got a it's fun it's funny, but it's
got a point and it's got a Heart, And yeah,
I think Kneecap is deserving to be alongside an Aussie
film which is also has a music pedigree, how to
make gravy.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
She's telling everyone, you'll be home for his birthday? Will
you be out of you by July? With good behavior?

Speaker 1 (25:48):
How to make gravy. I cannot tell you how much
I love this song by Paul Kelly. Every Christmas it's
on high rotation alongside Fairytale in New York with the Pogues,
and of course the Booble album and the Robber Williams
album Chris album. But I love it, and I don't
just love it at Christmas time. I love it throughout
the year. It is such a beautifully written song from

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a unique perspective, a man in jail writing to his
brother letting him know that he won't be home for Christmas,
and the paranoia and the desire and the regret that
seeps through these lyrics is palpable and it gets me

(26:38):
every single time. When I heard they were doing this movie,
in fact, i'd heard that there was another production company
that we're looking at doing this as a movie. Some
friends of mine and I thought it was a great
idea and then I assume for a while that when
I heard this movie was in production and this was
the movie my friends were making. But it's not. It
was made by Nick Worterman and his creative and life

(27:02):
partner Meg Washington, the amazing singer singer, songwriter, and this
is exciting for both Nick and Meg because I think
they have pulled off something incredible. I was nervous about
watching this because I love the song so much. This
means this song means a lot to Australians, so to

(27:24):
take it on and they get it right, and they
had to make some change. I think there are some
characters reference in the song that aren't seen in the movie,
so they had to make some choices some people might
not have been pleased about. But I think they have
knocked this out of the park. I haven't spoken to
anyone who's watched it who doesn't like it, and I
watched it close to christ. In fact, I watched it

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on the twenty first of December, which is how to
make Gravy Day. That's the day. There is reference in
the song where Joe is writing the letter to his
brother Dan and the reason I refuse to take it
out of my top ten, like whether I'm not sure
if this is a better film than Kneecap. He gets

(28:06):
you're talking about interest here, but the fact is you
can make a case that should be higher on my
list because it made me so emotional. I cried in
this film, like tears streaming down my face, and my
wife was the same. We watched it together, Bridge looked

(28:27):
over and it got us both. It got us both,
and I thought, how can I leave the movie that
I had the biggest emotional response to out of my
top ten? I just can't. The cast is uniformly brilliant.
Daniel Henshaw has been great and everything he's done since

(28:47):
Snowtown when he kind of came to our attention and
shout out to Damon Herriman, who plays Roger. Roger is
the dou Fest of the family, you know, the wanker
of the family, and he plays him. It's funny, but
there's also some moment, just a moment where he has

(29:10):
to this had this kind of it's funny, but it's
also vulnerable and it means something, and it's a phone
call between Damon and Roger and Daniel Henchel Joe, and
they both play it really, really well. Kate Mulveney continues
to amazing run the two in another film that we

(29:30):
might talk about soon as Stella and Brendan Thwaites plays
Dan and there's the thing that gets me about the
song is a bit where Joe gets paranoid and he
says he talks about Dan dancing with the Reader his
wife and he says, please, brother, don't hold her too close,
don't stab in the back. And we see that kind

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of scene play out in the movie, and it's just
they completely nailed this film. How to Make Gravy is
a is a Christmas classic. If you haven't seen, if
you haven't heard the song. I did have a friend
say to me, if you haven't heard the song of
the movie may not make sense. I must say, with
all due respect to my friend, I cannot disagree enough.

(30:13):
There's nothing in this movie if you have not heard
the song that won't make sense. Like this, this just
plays and they played the song at the end. I'll
be interested for those If you if you haven't seen
the you haven't heard the song, what's the film? Let
me know what you think. Number nine a much darker

(30:34):
turn here. Jonathan Glazes the zone of interest, the zone

(31:27):
of interest is filmmaking at its highest peak. I think, yes,
we love popcorn films and we need to make we
need to make our popcorn films, but they also need
to go side by side with films that are teaching

(31:49):
us something about humanity. And that's not say popcorn films
can't do that. But the zone of interest takes us
into a world that I certainly didn't know. Well, I
guess in the back of my brain I knew probably existed,
but we didn't think about which centers. One the Hoss
family in during World War Two and they were in

(32:11):
charge of one of the concentration camps. And what's eerie
and scary and uncomfortable about the zone of interest is
the host family at us living their lives in this

(32:31):
picturesque house with a perfect garden, and there's a stone
wall that runs along one side of the house, and
on the other side of that wall is the concentration camp.
They're running the concentration camp from this house, and it's

(32:53):
literally they're sharing a wall. We never go inside the
concentration camp, and it's so powerful that we don't. It's
all dumby soundscape and visuals. You'll hear screams, bullets being fired,
Smoke dark smoke, and we know what that means as

(33:19):
the host family just enjoy picnics, sorting through clothes like
they've been donated to them, but we know where those
clothes have come from. It's a hard watch. It's done
very naturally. The Jonathan Glazers has and his team had

(33:40):
fixed cameras around the garden, so the actors didn't necessarily
know where the cameras were and just had to act.
And I'm not completely sure if there was a hard
script or not, but it's react to situations and yeah,
it's a really tough watch. I had eight hundred hours
of raw footage to work with. Sandra Hauler has had

(34:04):
an amazing year. We'll talk about her again soon. Yeah,
there's a scene where she gets I think a mink
coat and she finds the lipstick and she tries the
lipstick on, and I don't know, it's just I am,
like many am fascinated by that period of time, and
this was a look into that time from a very

(34:25):
different perspective. And again it's one of those films that
you can watch and then follow that with a lot
of my research, not only about the film, but about
even that family, because I believe very accurate. Zone of
Interest Number nine by Jonathan Glazer. Number eight Civil War
by Alex Garland.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
What about you?

Speaker 8 (34:45):
Where are you from?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Colorado?

Speaker 8 (34:50):
Colorado, Colorado, Missouri. That's what I'm talking mouth, It's American.

(35:11):
We this guy hiding over here, Hey, buddy, what's your deal?

Speaker 7 (35:18):
Where are you from?

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Huh?

Speaker 8 (35:23):
Where are you from?

Speaker 4 (35:26):
What?

Speaker 8 (35:26):
You can't speak? Are you mute? You can't speak English?
Yes you can, Yes you can't. Okay, you open your
mouth and tell me where you're from. Just make sure

(35:47):
it's clear fucking English.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
Where are you from?

Speaker 1 (35:55):
From? Home?

Speaker 5 (35:57):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (35:58):
China?

Speaker 7 (36:01):
China.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
I went to saw The Civil War by myself, and
I was kind of blown away. Didn't know what to expect,
didn't know the kind of I knew roughly what it
was about. I knew it was a dystopian or apocalyptic
or something like that. I knew Alex Gland know ex Macina.
Twenty eight days later, Sunshine Men. So I was confident

(36:23):
it was going to say something is going to be
about something. And the film follows a group of journalists
and a child who are making their way through a
war torn United States to interview the president before he's overthrown,
and it's tense. It's incredible. A film that kind of

(36:45):
maybe it reminds me of in some ways. Not all
of it is Children of Men. There's a scene with
Jesse Plemons that I think if that scene's not in there,
then this film maybe doesn't make my top ten. But
it is the most tense scene I think of the year,

(37:08):
and yes, it's it's incredible. Civil War definitely worth checking out.
I got a message from recent YASNY guest Will McMahon.
He was in Sri Lanka and he just texted me saying, Pete,
I just I'm going to train the Truelanka. I just
watched Civil War. HOI fuck. I really enjoyed it. I've
so to a lot of people who really enjoyed Civil War. Again,

(37:30):
it was a film I had to really think about,
like where they put it. I think it's in the
right spot. It could have been a fraction high, could
have been a fraction lower. So hopefully if it's there
late Okay. Now one of the biggest films of the
year at number seven, Deadpool versus Wolverine.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Can we go maximum happort? I guess forget a team
up that room.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm doing this to.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Night, probably going to.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Notice your day.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Baby, come on.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
Something.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Now it's time to leave.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
And make it no that kissing, no more.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
I don't want to see baby, you.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
Me Lona.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
When the film is written by five writers, it's cause
for concern. And Deadpool has five riders, which doesn't include
the created buys and all that. I think there's thirteen
in total. I was a bit over the superhero universe,
be MCU or DC. I was coming. Yeah, I just

(39:15):
kind of stopped watching the stuff that comes on Disney
and if there wasn't such a love of Ryan Reynolds
and Hugh Jackman, and then watched that kind of romance
develop over the years and the fun they've had online.
And the fact also that I have enjoyed the first
two Deadpool movies, I may not have checked it out. Also,

(39:38):
like many of us, I loved Logan. I thought Logan
had nailed its landing. It's farewell at Swansong for the
much loved Wolverine, So I thought the risk of bringing
him back was dangerous. But then I thought, you know what,

(39:59):
if I've given up on on these movies, you might
as well check it out that you might have a
few laughs. And I thought it was genuinely brilliant from
the get go, from the opening scene of how they
brought the Wolverine back, you know, it was immediately funny
and violent and ridiculous commenting on things that are in

(40:25):
the zeitgeist on pop culture. Great performance is obviously by
the two stars and Emma Corn we recently saw playing
Princess Dyeing the Crown, and Matthew McFadden fresh from Succession
were great and what I also, you can tell these
two have a great friendship and there's a joke about

(40:45):
Hugh Jackman's divorce in this If you haven't seen this film,
and most movie fans have now the box office was
only to passed by Wicked last year. It's phenomenal and
the chemistry is real. The two for Hugh Jackman and
Ryan Reynolds first met on X Men origins. That was
when Royan Reynolds was first doing Deadpool, a different kind

(41:06):
of Deadpool, not the Deadpool he had wanted to play,
but the Deadpool that was forced upon him in the end,
And on his first day of shooting, he shot a
scene in an elevator and Hugh Jackman noticed he didn't
seem happy, and he goes, yeah, okay, he goes, I
just didn't think I nailed that last scene, and obviously

(41:27):
the director thought differently. He was happy to move on,
So Hugh Jackman kind of stopped everything and got all
the cast and crew back at their stations and let
him have another swing at getting that scene right. And
Ryan Reynolds thought that was very sweet, was touched by it,
has never forgotten it, and it is it is a
really cool thing to have done. You're gonna argue that

(41:50):
the director should have done that, but maybe he thought
Ryan had nailed it and was happy enough. It's a
nice story. The other I think the thing I really
loved about the Depot versus Wolverine and skip forward if
you give you that they might spoilers. I loved the
concept of bringing Electra, Jennifer Garner, Blade, Wesley Snipes back

(42:14):
into their world, like these actors, not just the characters,
but the actors who committed to playing superheroes before the
Superhero Universe had been established, before iron Man came out
and became the MCU. There was no MCU pre iron Man,

(42:35):
and these films particularly kind of Electra kind of tanked
and they bring Blade back. Even Henry Cavill's in there,
and Henry Cavell had recently been dropped as Superman in
James Gunn's new version. So I just think there was
a lovely spirit to this film that I really love.

(42:58):
And it's still growing because you know the Blake Lively
and the controversy she's going through with the it ends
with us with the director there, and there's a few
super slews on on online have seen if you follow
she plays Lady Paul. If you follow some of the

(43:19):
dialogue around her scenes, it's very very interesting. But I
thought that Pool and Wolverine was an absolute Yeah. Early
in the year, I thought it might be. It might
be the best film of the year. I have it
at number seven, at number six, A surprise one I
didn't see coming. Love Lies Bleeding, written directed by Rose Glassy.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Okays your one, Yeah, h so it's your place. No,

(44:05):
I just work here. Okay, you're looking pretty good in there.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I get some pretty serious lines going.

Speaker 7 (44:22):
Jackey, but there you are, ladies, that's right with you,
lou Hey, I want to go grab a drink right now.
If you want to come with thanks.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I'm good here.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
Mm hmmm, babe, you know Lou here is a great
ad dig right, so Finny, come on.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Touch me?

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
This movie was inm like Foxtel, you know store you
kept popping up. I didn't necessarily like the name of
the movie didn't grab me. The premise didn't grab me
that much. I didn't really know anyone besides Christian Stewart,
and I like Christian Stewart, you know not. I don't

(45:15):
think I've seen all the Twilight films. I may have
seen the first one, but like her more from Adventureland
with Jesse Eisenberg. And there's nothing really that wrote me in.
The Only thing that really wrote me into watching this
was I just heard enough times the people who I
liked liked this film, and I watched it, and I

(45:41):
loved it so much so. Christians Stuel plays Lou, a
reclusive jim owner who falls in love with this bodybuilder
Jackie played by Katie O'Brien, and Katie Brown's quite ambitious.
You know, she really wants She's got this thing in
Vegas that she's head towards. Christs Stewart maybe starts helping

(46:03):
her with some steroids and then this web of crime
kind of gets untangled from Christmas Stewart's families, and her
father is at Harris. Brilliant performance, great jennlemal alone, and
then she's always great jennmen alone. There's just so much
to love about this. It's women who have been treated

(46:25):
badly taking their revenge, you know, and I think that's
much more interesting than and with no disrespect to a
for example, taken with lean Neeson. This is a different
kind of film, but it has all those beats, I think,
and those those moments of like, fuck yeah, it's I

(46:50):
really love this film. Check it out. Love Lies Bleeding
and number five one of my old faves. Alexander Payne
and Paul G. Marty team up again and for the
hold Ivers.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
There was an incident when I was at Harvard with
my roommate and he accused me of copying from his senior.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Thesis, plagiarizing.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Well, did you know he stole from me?

Speaker 4 (47:18):
The blue blooded Prick's family had allies on the faculty.
I mean, my last name is on a library, for
Christ's sake. So he accused me in order to sanitize
his treachery, and they threw me out.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
So You got kicked out of Harvard for cheating. Nope.
I got kicked out of Harvard for hitting him.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
You hit him?

Speaker 1 (47:35):
What punched him out? Nope?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I hit him with a car. You got kicked out
of Harvard for hitting a guy with a car by accident.
Pint of jim bean.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Please, But he broke three ribs, which was technically his
fault because he shouldn't have been.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
In the road. Two dollars please.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Also, he shot himself, which was the greater indignity.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
There you go kill a okay before you say. The
Holdovers was released in Australia in January last year. I
know because I was waiting for it and waiting for
it and waiting for it. I'm not sure why it
wasn't released pre Christmas. It's set around Christmas. It has
a lovely Christmas feel. I though Alexander Payne doesn't want

(48:20):
it to be known as a Christmas film, but it
ticks all the boxes of a Christmas film, so I
think it's a Christmas film. But with that said, and
I think we are getting to the stage where Christmas
films can stand on their own outside of Christmas. That's
not to say you should release a Christmas film in April.
I think there's still feels seasonal as a way to

(48:43):
release the film. But I really enjoyed the Holdovers, and
my expectations were high. I went in with high expectations.
I probably I'll watched it the second time, and I
enjoyed it even more the second time. Paul G. Marty
plays a crimudgeon teacher at I think in New England
kind of college, a private boys kind of college, a

(49:05):
private school college. And he has a student played by
dominic Ceci first film, Alexander Pyne doing what he does
as finding actors, and he plays Angus, and he's all
set to go on a fun trip, and then his
mother rings up and she's in a new relationship and
she says, no, we're going a change of plans. You're

(49:27):
gonna have to stay at school and basically babysat by
this teacher with the lazy eye. He smells like fish.
There are a few other kids, three other kids I think,
who are also in the same boat. But then in
a plot device that you know, maybe stands out a
little bit, they all get asked to go on a
ski trip with one of the boys parents. A helicopter

(49:49):
comes and picks them up, but Angus can't get onto
his parents in time. He's mum in time to get
the permission to go, so he's left alone with Paul g.
Marty's Paul and also the school lady in charge of
the cafeteria in the cooking Mary Lamb played by Divine

(50:09):
Joy Rudolph, who won the Oscar. Paul Gi Marty also
won the Oscar. Here for that memory, I think. But
it's a really sweet film it has it looks like
a seventies film. We need to keep these movies, these
these movies to just explore characters and people and not

(50:31):
in a rush and don't necessarily have a massive climax
to them, but they have something we see people grow.
Movies still need to be about that, and I think
The Holdovers is one of them. At number four, Furiosa
and Mad Max story by George Miller.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
Hey, that right shot will down my brain into a
pink mythisode fast.

Speaker 7 (50:53):
I won't even hear the sound of the gun.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
I'll remember your face as the slug worms its way
into the soft matter. If you're brain ticking with it,
what you call your muson.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
I'll be dead.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Then you'll still be sorrowing. You'll love a dovey and
your mummy magnificent.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
You can have a balance the scales of the suffering.
What you want, you and my cries of English, English,
without and again. I've got a fendously high paint pressure.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
If you can't do me quick, you have.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
To do me slow.

Speaker 7 (51:22):
Yes, you never, I'm going to go anything close to
what you want. You do this, you do this right.
You become me already dead.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
To feel alive.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
We seek sensation, any sensation, and wash away the cranky,
black sorrow.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Each time we need more, until too much is never enough.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
We are already dead, little d The question is do
you have an Indian to make it epic?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I could not have loved Your Road anymore is my
favorite movie of that year. I love the Mad Max series.
I'm a NAUSI. Chris Hemsworth said, Americans have Star Wars,
Brits Harry Potter, OSSI's have Mad Maas and it's true,
very special, very special films. It felt like it helped well.

(52:10):
As Leewnell said last week, George Miller created that dystopian genre,
and its fingerprints are on so many huge franchises now
in films and moments and what started off as Mel
Gibson and it was then passed on to Tom Hardy,

(52:32):
and now the keys are given to Anya Taylor Joy
and you know via Charlie star on George Miller Caesar
in a rough cut of The Last Night in Soho
Edgar Rut's film and sees I think what the world
is seeing now. It absolutely star in Onya Taylor Joy
carsers Furiosa and I loved it, like said, I couldn't

(52:55):
have loved Fury Wrote anymore. And after I walked out
of it, well, when I was leaving the cinema, I
wasn't sure if I had it as being better as
Fury Road or not like and I must say I
haven't watched it again. I had plans to go see
it in the in the cinema again on Imac's life

(53:16):
got in the way. Didn't get to do it, you know,
shouted ad nauseum with Lucky Hume, good mate, and Yasny
guest who does an amazing job playing in More than
Joe and actually has a couple of roles like a
few of the actors do in this incredible film. And
I think the only reason why I even have it

(53:37):
as four.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
Is.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
I remember when furiy Road came out, and when I
first heard about the Fiery Road, I was like, Oh, really,
you're gonna You're gonna play with the original trilogy, and
but I'll put my big boy pants on. I thought,
you know what I got behind the Star Wars you know, sequels,
and I enjoyed the Star Wars sequels and George Miller
is in trusting George and it blew me away the

(54:04):
aesthetics the story. So we had that, and I think
there was less of a surprise e Furiosa because we
had kind of seen the world. If you swap Furiosa
and Fury Road, I'd probably say that I would have
Furiosa ahead of Fury Road. It's just that that he
just lacked a little bit of that surprise element because

(54:25):
we had seen Fury Road. But everything else Chris Hemsworth
as Dementus I thought was just brilliant. I loved it.
I actually had the opportunity to have a quick chat
with Chris about it and I said to him, I said,
I actually empathized with Dementus, and that's what we love
in a good villain. You know, somebody who you can

(54:46):
kind of see they're not just bloodthirsty and that for
revenge for no reason. There's a reason behind it. And yeah,
I mentioned he had created this really nuanced antagonist and
he kind of said to me, he goes, I I agree,
and that's what he was trying to do. And he said,
is it any less brutal for Furiosa to not share
the green place with the starving maniacs in the wasteland

(55:09):
for herself? And what I love about that is we
can see it from for Eurai's point of view. Of course,
she's not going to share it with his maniactly, you know,
like the war would continue. But from the Mender's aside, Yeah,
why shouldn't we get in on that? Why shouldn't we
have access to this utopia? And I just thought it

(55:33):
was amazing and I might watch it again. When I
do watch it again, I certainly will be watching it again.
It may go up, it may go down, but I
don't think it'll go down. I loved it to the
point where now for your own Furiosa becoming like my
Mad Max, like, you know, even more so than Mad
Max two, and you know, be on Thunderdome, which a
lot of people would see is sacrilege, but there we Are.

(55:57):
Loved it. The next three films top three films could
I think could all be number one. I think there's
a slight gap between this next film and Furiosa. They're very,
very different films. But here we Are I had at
number three again. Probably came out internationally in twenty twenty three,
but definitely was released in Australia in twenty twenty four.

(56:19):
Anatomy of a four, written directed by Justin Intriot.

Speaker 9 (56:23):
You complain about the life that you chose.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
You're not a.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Victim, not at all.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Your generosity concealed something dirtier and meaner. You're incapable of
facing your ambitions, and you resent me for it.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
But I'm not the one who puts you where you are.

Speaker 9 (56:39):
I have nothing to do with it.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
You're not sacrificing.

Speaker 7 (56:43):
Yourself as you say.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
You've choose to sit on the sidelines.

Speaker 9 (56:47):
Because you're afraid, because your pride makes your head explode
before you can even come up with the.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Little sam of an idea.

Speaker 9 (56:53):
And now you wake up and your fortune. You need
someone to blame, and you're the one to blame. You're
petrified by your own fucking standards and your fear of failure.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
This is the truth. What an incredible piece of work.
Wasn't expecting it coming? It won calm so mid twenty
twenty three. I had to wait so long for this
film to come out. It came out and Nausis did
as well. It came out in January of twenty twenty four,
and it's such a unexpected film. Sandra Huler, who is

(57:29):
we saw in the zone of interest is German learnt
French for this film? That is remarkable. It is a
legal thriller. It's a psychological drama. It's about an incident
that happens with Sandra Huler's husband falling from the second
level of their house onto the snow outside and dying.

(57:51):
And she is put under the microscope and she is
really the only only suspect, so it was either her
or was it an accident or was a suicide? And
what's amazing about this it's a not so much a
who done it? It's like did you do it? And

(58:14):
not only that, it's complicated because they have a son
who's visually impaired, played by Milo Mikado Gramer. He plays
Daniel and it is an astonishing performance. Or the performances
in this movie. As far as the ensemble, this may
be the best ensemble film of the year, and there's
probably only about four of them. Even the dog is

(58:36):
amazing in this film. The Dog won the Palm Dog
at Carna Film Festival. I had no idea they had
that award, but genuinely I wouldn't have been against that
dog being nominated against alongside human actors at the Oscars,
at the Golden Globes and Khan wherever, the baftors in

(58:59):
the incredible performance. I don't know how they got it.
I'm not sure if I even want to know. But
he goes through like a drug overdose or an overdose
and then comes back to life and it's like he's acting.
It's incredible. So yeah, Daniel has this kind of moral
con quandary. Does he stand by his mum? Does he

(59:20):
believe his mum? Justin Triatt never told Santral Huller whether
she was guilty or innocent. It's left for us to
decide in the end if that's true or not. Interesting
this film. Justin Triett, when she won the award at Kahn,
made quite a controversial speech about some of the French
protests that were going on at the time, and many

(59:42):
believes the reason why Anatomy of Before was not given
the honor of being France's entry into the Foreign Language
Oscars that was given to the taste of things an
Enemy Before was clearly I think a better movie. Ifact
was nominated in the open category of Best Film alongside
Zone of Interest. Thinks the first time two non English

(01:00:03):
language films have been nominated for Best Film at the Oscars.
So the thing that I really seals the deal for
me was just the insight. This is what I love
about film, particularly someone's foreign language film, but film in general,
when you get a peek into a world that you'd
never thought about, that you haven't had to think about,

(01:00:23):
whether it's a war zone or a line of work.
But this was a look at the French legal system
and to see how it differs from what we have
in Australia. And we all think all our courts are
the same, but the French system is different.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I was really interested. It's more it feels more humane
and real and not bound up by as many protocols
as our system. But that was really fascinating. There are
so many things too, like you'll never listen to fifty
cents Pimp the same again. But yeah, it's a cracking

(01:01:08):
film an enemy before. If you haven't seen it, check
it out. Number two. I really enjoyed. This could have
easily been number one. Better Man by Mark Gracie. I
know what you're thinking, what's with the monkey? I knew
this film was coming from a while a while ago,

(01:01:30):
a while out, and I also knew got the whisper
that the surreal detail that Robbie Williams in his bier
pic was going to be played by cgo monkey. I thought,
what the fuck are they thinking? And then I was
told Mark Gracie is leading it. Mark graci was the
man behind the greatest Showman. Mark Gracie is an Aussie

(01:01:52):
and he needs to be spoken about in the same
league as bas Luhman. Mark Gracy. Now for me appointment viewing.
Tell me what you got, Mark Gracie. I'm coming to
see it. I think Better Man is better than Rocketman,
better than Bohemian Rhapsody. Again, it takes a big swing

(01:02:14):
you didn't need to.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Have.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Robbie wis played by a monkey, and it sounds bizarre,
but when you watch it two things One it makes
sense there's reasons why he's played by a monkey. And two,
it means that we of you kind of are watching
Robbie Williams because they've got his eyes. So you're often
looking into Robbie Williams eyes and it's his voice. Could

(01:02:38):
Robbie Williams play this and go through the aging from
take that into you know, more recent Robbie Williams is
you know, does he have? It wouldn't surprise me if
talent wise, if he could. But could that be weirdly
more distracting than the monkey. That's the weird thing. Robbie
Williams playing Robbie Williams may have been more distracting than

(01:02:58):
a monkey playing It reminded me how much I love
Roby Williams music. When people ask me of my favorite music,
I rarely mentioned Robbie Williams, but I listened to him
quite a bit, and whenever I hear a Robbie Wims song,
it puts me in a good mood. And watching the
doco on Netflix and then this the film, a lot
of the music makes more sense to me. Now there's

(01:03:19):
the fun stuff, you know, let me entertain you, which
made me one of my favorite songs that just that
puts me in a great mood every time I listen
to it. Become undone and better man, I have more
of an appreciation of what those songs actually mean. Sometimes
you can be a bit cynical and think, oh, you
put yourself into the head of somebody going through a
bad time. But when you kind of learn Robbie's story,

(01:03:43):
now the bad time he was going through was all
his really enjoyed this. Took my mum to see it.
Great performances. John o' davies plays obviously, did the stop
motion stuff or the you know is he's the body
that you're seeing. And Robbi Williams the voice and Steve
Pemberton plays Robber Williams' dad. Incredible again, a different kind

(01:04:09):
of look. It doesn't go exactly where you think it's
going to go. I had a tear. I had a tier.
They went maybe streaming down my face like and how
to make gravy, but they I certainly had a tear,
and my mum did as well. My mum had no
real idea what the movie was about when I took her,
and she absolutely loved it. This one. I think he's
good for the soul Alison Steedman is great again. Big

(01:04:31):
shout outs. Damon Herriman playing take that's manager a right
royal prick he is in this but he's great, He's
really great. And Damon Harriman and he's a mate of mine,
and he's a guest recent guest on y hasn't he
But his ability to disappear into somebody evil, somebody who's

(01:04:51):
a bit of a wanker, or somebody vulnerable is it's
hard to say unparallel because there's so many amazing actors,
but it's at the top. He's right at the top
of his game. And Kate Mulveniy again, these two enjoying
a few films together this year. Kate plays Robbie's Mum,
Great Stuff number one, the number one film of the year.

(01:05:15):
This one blew me away from Coraly Vajo. Apologies if
that's a mispronunciation. I haven't looked up all the YouTube
videos on this one yet, but it's a substance.

Speaker 9 (01:05:44):
Hi, Hi, this is an emergency. There's no more stabilizer fluid. Hello,
it's fucking five o three. Yes, I'm telling you this
is urgent. There's no more stabilizer fluid.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
It means you've reached the end. What do you mean
You've drained it all out. If you want more, you
must let the fluid regenerate.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Tell me how to do it. I need to stabilize
myself right now.

Speaker 5 (01:06:15):
You simply have to switch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Excuse me.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
The switch reboots the fluid secretion process so you can
continue to enjoy the experience.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Nope, no, no, no no, I can't switch. I can't,
especially not now.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
There is no other option.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
I love the Substance so much. This was I did
say that one, two or three, either of them could
have been number one, But I do think this I've chosen. Well.
The more I think about. The Substance was the film
that I'd heard about for a while, and I was like,
I will get to it. I will get to it.
I will get to it. The year was closing, I
knew I was gonna have to do a top ten list,

(01:06:58):
and this went was easily like that's the best film
I saw Like it was just like, yep, that's the
best film. That is the best film I've seen this year.
Never have I seen a movie as outrageous as this,
that takes big swings and is wild and ridiculous. It
seems at points, but is so intrinsically and genuinely tied

(01:07:24):
in with the themes and the vision of the writer director.
For those who don't know the substance, a fading actress
who's now doing like exercise videos played by Demi Moore
takes a black market drug to create a younger, better
version of herself. There are rules that go along with

(01:07:48):
how the drug is to be administered and the process
that needs to be followed, and things get ignored. Margaret
Quayley is in this. Margaret Quayley is certainly one of
the actors as the watch. I really I quite enjoyed
Drive Away Dolls, which she was in and once by
the time in Hollywood, which I mentioned earlier. Yes, she

(01:08:10):
is incredible, the daughter of Anna McDowell, and both Demi
Moore and Margaret Quayley together it's perfect casting. Demi Moore
deserves the Oscar for this mad an amazing speech for
the Golden Globes, and I hope she goes on and
wins the Oscar and not out of you know, sometimes
Oscars are given to people because they've achieved this body

(01:08:32):
of work and you know, respect. It is the best
performance of the year. It's one of the bravest performances
of the year. You know, there's very little dialogue that
Demimore has in this, and that makes it hard. That's harder.
There's no emoting in this. It's all seen, it's gory,

(01:08:56):
it's brutal, it's funny. Laughed. I'll watch it by myself,
and I laughed out loud a few times. Doesn't happen
as much as you might think. And the other thing
that I think puts it on the top of my
twenty twenty four lists is when I was watching it,
there were three times that I actually caught myself saying

(01:09:19):
out loud, oh, for Fox's sake. That happened like three times.
There's a scene towards the back end where I'd say,
an earring is trying to an earring is put on,
and that made me go, oh, for fox sake, like
just in awe of the swings that were being taken here.

(01:09:40):
I just think, to get people in cinemas, we need
to take big swings. And the substance did it, I
don't know. I haven't looked up at the box office.
Hopefully Demi Moore winning the Golden Globe and hopefully the
Substance gets nominated. It has appeared on people's best movie
of the year lists. Sometimes it's been ignored. Think it's
one of those movies. It's one of those movies a

(01:10:02):
year sorry, where it's all over the shop. You know,
some people have you know, I saw one that had
the substance in there had no sorry, didn't have the
substance had for EUSA, had Love Lives Bleeding? Had I
think maybe Civil War and then none of the other
films that I've got, And yeah, there are films I'm

(01:10:23):
yet to see, but I'm confident the Substance joins the
likes of recent favorite movies of the year, Past Lives,
Worst Person in the World, Drive for Many Years Ago,
Through Your Road and if you haven't seen it, check
it out. It is available on the streamers. See Better
Man in cinemas while you can. It is a great

(01:10:44):
cinema experience. It's also made in Melbourne. Let's get behind
our industry and if you're listening in Melbourne or Australia,
it's all Aussie filmmakers and Natoma four is available during
through the streaming services, as is few Risa holdovers, Love
Lives Bleeding and only I think Better Man is still

(01:11:05):
available in cinemas from my top ten. Thank you so
much for listening to this. I truly appreciate it. I'd
love to hear your thoughts on what your favorite films?
What did I get right? What did I get wrong?
Like I said, actually I'm not that interesting what I
got wrong because these are my favorites. But what are
your favorites? What did you love? And let me know.

(01:11:27):
Get onto our speak pipe and we'd love to play
some of your reactions to my list or your favorite movies.
I would really enjoy that. That's it. That's it for
this episode. Next week on the show. Also, Yasne podcast
at gmail dot com is where you can also hit
us up. Next week on the show, we have a
man who we've been trying to get on for many years.

(01:11:49):
I feel like the Tony Martin, Lucky Hume, and now
Ed Caveley, the holy trinity of movie beasts. We conclude
next week with Ed Caveley. For so long he's been like, oh,
I think I've seen every film in your list, and
then he finally found one. Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's
last film with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kuban They took

(01:12:12):
two years out of their lives to devote to Stanley
Kubrick to make this movie incredible, absolutely incredible. I have
watched it now in preparation, and in fact we have
recorded the conversation now, and I have to say, this
film spoke to me a lot. This film is alive,
and watching eyes wide shut in the post Epstein PDDY

(01:12:38):
news scandals, whatever you want to call them, is a
different thing. I think there's more to this film than
I certainly saw on first viewing. I just kind of
remember maybe the titillation of the those Orgie scenes and
all of that, and not really knowing what was about.
I thought Stanley Kubrick was just having a bit of
fun on the way out. I think Stanley Kubrick was

(01:12:58):
trying to tell us something and chat about it next week.
We did Cavally, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be funny,
but it's gonna be very interesting next week. And you
mentioned nothing yet at Cavally. I just watched it until
then block them out, and so we leave old Pete

(01:13:22):
Save and Sult and to our friends of the radio audience,
we've been a pleasant good night