June 6, 2025 • 9 mins
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death.
How To Make a Killing
Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two drug dealers and revealing a €2 million loot in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money! But their plan leads them to stumble upon an unexplained trail of dead bodies. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon put an interfering inspector hot on their trail.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your face, your heart exploding like that sco.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Don't you win anybody? I can do this song Bolly
down to do the Morning The baby Bons seem not
sure about this one, not totally convinced. If from one
hundreds and honist and songs called Sapphire. It's a brand
new track from d Shear and so he's closed his
book or closed our book on his decades long mathematics albums,
(00:48):
and it's entering a new era with his upcoming album.
It's called Play. It's going to come out in September.
So I'm sure we're going to be hearing a whole
lot more about that. Getting text from all around the country.
This morning turns out is not very warm anywhere. Moses
and Hawks Bay says, Jet, You're not gonna believe that.
It's just started sleeping here and I'm working in the US.
Good luck, Mars, keep warm, cold Air's and wanaka perfect
(01:11):
for snowmaking today good to hear right now is twenty
four to ten on News. To talk to, he'd be
Francesca Rudkin is our film reviewer and she's here with
this week's pickscy out of Francisca.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay, let's start off. Where the movie is showing in
cinema is at the moment, from the world of John Wick.
This is Ballerina in Slavic mythology.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
The Kikima is a spirit that exists in these shadows.
To those with darkness in their hearts, she can be
vengeful to the inno sector, she can be a protector.
It's up to you the juice dun dun d.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tell us about Ballerina.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, so the full title of this film is from
the world of John Wick Bellerina. She could get a
little a bit bit of an idea about what you're
four here. So this is the fifth installment of the
John Wick franchise. It is a spin off that sits
between the events of John Wick Chapter three and Chapter four.
Doesn't matter. You don't really need to know that. If
(02:19):
you're really into John Wick, you'll love seeing sort of
reoccurring characters and all that kind of thing. But if
you're not hugely familiar with all the films, it does
not matter. The original John Wick film was released in
twenty fourteen. It was made on about a thirty million
dollar budget. Of course, starring Kountter Reeves. No one kind
of thought it was going to be hugely successful. These
films are no one for being ultraviolent and very entertaining
(02:44):
along with it. But it became a bit of a
cult classic. And next thing you know, they're making films
on a hundred million dollar budget and this is now
everyone is a little bit surprised. It's turned into a
billion dollar box off this franchise. So this is very
much more of the same. But there's two things that
make this film work. The first thing is they've kind
(03:07):
of given up pretending that these films are anything more
than just a gun fight from the beginning to the end.
You know, they've been there have been films where they've
tried to kind of do world building and create kind
of you know, some intrigued we go to this film
purely for entertainment. It is like a first person shoot
(03:27):
a video game. I suppose on the big screen that's
what it's about. And in this one, they go, that's
what we're about, let's just get on with it, and
my goodness, they this is not the most relaxing film
I've seen. Well. The second thing that they've got that
they did right, was they got Amada Amas to start
as our lead assassin Eve and she is just fantastic
(03:48):
in this revenge plot. So she's a ballerina. She trained
with the assassin tribe the Ruskioma run by Angelica Houston,
and she was she's a young assassin who's sort of
been allowed to get on with her work. She comes
(04:08):
across the tribe of assassins who killed her father when
she was a child, and she decides to go off
on her own on this very ultra violent sort of
vengeance sort of mission. Really simple plot, really simple idea,
we've seen it all before, but she is just she's
something else. When she's training, she's told, you need to
(04:29):
fight like a girl, because yeah, you're going to come
across people who are stronger than you, so you're gonna
have to do whatever it takes. I'll tell you what,
this woman does not fight like a girl. She doesn't
fight like a man. She just fights like the best
fighting you're ever going to come across. Like what she
can do yet with a gun, a knife, with your
hand combat is hugely impressive. What she can do with
(04:50):
ice skates is terrifying and also flamethrowers. I mean there
is not there is not an instrument she cannot wield
with great power. It was full of As I said,
this is not relaxing. But if this, if you love
the John Work films and you want ridiculous action from
beginning to end, you're going to get into this. You
(05:13):
just buy into it and you go along for the
ride that never lives up and Ciano Reads makes a
little appearance as well.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh good, Okay, see I can tell now why they've
made the made the title from the world of John
Wick Ballerina as opposed to just ballerina. If they call
it Ballerina and then there's a film like this, there
might be a few people who got a bit of
a rough surprasses. Absolutely, yeah, okay. Now screening as part
(05:41):
of the French Film Festival is a black comedy called
How to Make a Killing. So tell us about how
to make a killing?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay. So my theme today with both these films is
that they involve criminal gangs, but they deal with them
in very different kinds of way. Way. So the French
Film Festival is traveling the country. It goes everywhere. It's fantastic,
it's onto the end of June, and I really love
law Calameck. She's an actress who was an antoinette in
The sevent which is a film I just loved, and
(06:08):
she is back in this black crime comedy and she
starts along. She's part of a lovely couple. They're just
very ordinary rural people in a mountain sort of area
in France. They grow pine trees and have a pretty
simple life. Anyway, her husband, Michelle, he swerves one day
to avoid a bear on the road. They don't of
(06:29):
forget bears where they are, and then he sort of
accidentally hits another car and there's some consequences from that
where a couple die. And he's a very sort of calm, relaxed,
understated gentleman, so he kind of looks at what's happened
and he goes home and he tells his wife and
his son, his young son, I killed a couple today.
(06:52):
And so she's a big reader of crime books and
so she's like, Okay, we've got to sort this out.
We've got to remove you from the picture. And she
comes up with this idea that if they get rid
of the bodies, if there's no bodies and there's no crime,
and they'll be there if they go back to this
cash try and tidy out this mess, and all they
do is just create another big mess, but they also
(07:13):
find a bag of money, and off we go on
this kind of crazy adventure in this small town where
you can kind of see people's logic. But what happens
is they just create this really nutty scenario. And I
love the fact because it's just everybody, it's just ordinary
everyday people die worth a situation they're not used to.
We've got we've got drug dealers, we've got you know,
(07:36):
drug mules, we've got gang members, and then we've just
got this lovely police force. And I did. I really
enjoyed the police force. Who they're not. They're smart people.
They don't live in this world, right, The safe they don't.
No one can remember what the code is for the safe.
The cell doesn't lock because the lock broke and they
never used need to use it, so that doesn't lock.
(07:57):
It's just it's just gorgeous. So it's just this kind
of you know, this high brow kind of gang thing
that sort of takes place in this very low key,
little all fringed chown. Quite delightful loved it.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, okay, that sounds like a lot of fun. That's
how to make a killing at screening is part of
the French Film Festival, and hey, I see that the
Oscar winning film I think I won on Oscar y
an Aura is now on me on a yes.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So look, if you missed it when it was out
at the movies at Christmas time and you have me
on it as free to get onto it and enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think we're going to do this every week. Well
every week, that's something good. Any of that time there's
been a really good little you know, like an Oscar
winner of film that's really taking your attention that you've
fancied and it's heading the streaming services for the first time,
then we can lead everyone know in case they've missed
it in cinemas.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yep, exactly, so you know when it's available on a
streaming service for free. I'm going to let you know
when the films that you should have seen this here
that you have missed are available.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Hey, thanks Rachis good, have a great weekend and we
will see you again very soon. So French Exis Film
picks this weekend from the world of John Wick Ballerina.
That's the one that's showing in cinemas at the moment,
the hyper violent one, the one at the French Film
Festival is how to Make a Killing.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks that'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. Ad B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your face, your heart exploding like that sco.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Don't you win anybody? I can do this song Bolly
down to do the Morning The baby Bons seem not
sure about this one, not totally convinced. If from one
hundreds and honist and songs called Sapphire. It's a brand
new track from d Shear and so he's closed his
book or closed our book on his decades long mathematics albums,
(00:48):
and it's entering a new era with his upcoming album.
It's called Play. It's going to come out in September.
So I'm sure we're going to be hearing a whole
lot more about that. Getting text from all around the country.
This morning turns out is not very warm anywhere. Moses
and Hawks Bay says, Jet, You're not gonna believe that.
It's just started sleeping here and I'm working in the US.
Good luck, Mars, keep warm, cold Air's and wanaka perfect
(01:11):
for snowmaking today good to hear right now is twenty
four to ten on News. To talk to, he'd be
Francesca Rudkin is our film reviewer and she's here with
this week's pickscy out of Francisca.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay, let's start off. Where the movie is showing in
cinema is at the moment, from the world of John Wick.
This is Ballerina in Slavic mythology.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
The Kikima is a spirit that exists in these shadows.
To those with darkness in their hearts, she can be
vengeful to the inno sector, she can be a protector.
It's up to you the juice dun dun d.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tell us about Ballerina.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, so the full title of this film is from
the world of John Wick Bellerina. She could get a
little a bit bit of an idea about what you're
four here. So this is the fifth installment of the
John Wick franchise. It is a spin off that sits
between the events of John Wick Chapter three and Chapter four.
Doesn't matter. You don't really need to know that. If
(02:19):
you're really into John Wick, you'll love seeing sort of
reoccurring characters and all that kind of thing. But if
you're not hugely familiar with all the films, it does
not matter. The original John Wick film was released in
twenty fourteen. It was made on about a thirty million
dollar budget. Of course, starring Kountter Reeves. No one kind
of thought it was going to be hugely successful. These
films are no one for being ultraviolent and very entertaining
(02:44):
along with it. But it became a bit of a
cult classic. And next thing you know, they're making films
on a hundred million dollar budget and this is now
everyone is a little bit surprised. It's turned into a
billion dollar box off this franchise. So this is very
much more of the same. But there's two things that
make this film work. The first thing is they've kind
(03:07):
of given up pretending that these films are anything more
than just a gun fight from the beginning to the end.
You know, they've been there have been films where they've
tried to kind of do world building and create kind
of you know, some intrigued we go to this film
purely for entertainment. It is like a first person shoot
(03:27):
a video game. I suppose on the big screen that's
what it's about. And in this one, they go, that's
what we're about, let's just get on with it, and
my goodness, they this is not the most relaxing film
I've seen. Well. The second thing that they've got that
they did right, was they got Amada Amas to start
as our lead assassin Eve and she is just fantastic
(03:48):
in this revenge plot. So she's a ballerina. She trained
with the assassin tribe the Ruskioma run by Angelica Houston,
and she was she's a young assassin who's sort of
been allowed to get on with her work. She comes
(04:08):
across the tribe of assassins who killed her father when
she was a child, and she decides to go off
on her own on this very ultra violent sort of
vengeance sort of mission. Really simple plot, really simple idea,
we've seen it all before, but she is just she's
something else. When she's training, she's told, you need to
(04:29):
fight like a girl, because yeah, you're going to come
across people who are stronger than you, so you're gonna
have to do whatever it takes. I'll tell you what,
this woman does not fight like a girl. She doesn't
fight like a man. She just fights like the best
fighting you're ever going to come across. Like what she
can do yet with a gun, a knife, with your
hand combat is hugely impressive. What she can do with
(04:50):
ice skates is terrifying and also flamethrowers. I mean there
is not there is not an instrument she cannot wield
with great power. It was full of As I said,
this is not relaxing. But if this, if you love
the John Work films and you want ridiculous action from
beginning to end, you're going to get into this. You
(05:13):
just buy into it and you go along for the
ride that never lives up and Ciano Reads makes a
little appearance as well.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh good, Okay, see I can tell now why they've
made the made the title from the world of John
Wick Ballerina as opposed to just ballerina. If they call
it Ballerina and then there's a film like this, there
might be a few people who got a bit of
a rough surprasses. Absolutely, yeah, okay. Now screening as part
(05:41):
of the French Film Festival is a black comedy called
How to Make a Killing. So tell us about how
to make a killing?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay. So my theme today with both these films is
that they involve criminal gangs, but they deal with them
in very different kinds of way. Way. So the French
Film Festival is traveling the country. It goes everywhere. It's fantastic,
it's onto the end of June, and I really love
law Calameck. She's an actress who was an antoinette in
The sevent which is a film I just loved, and
(06:08):
she is back in this black crime comedy and she
starts along. She's part of a lovely couple. They're just
very ordinary rural people in a mountain sort of area
in France. They grow pine trees and have a pretty
simple life. Anyway, her husband, Michelle, he swerves one day
to avoid a bear on the road. They don't of
(06:29):
forget bears where they are, and then he sort of
accidentally hits another car and there's some consequences from that
where a couple die. And he's a very sort of calm, relaxed,
understated gentleman, so he kind of looks at what's happened
and he goes home and he tells his wife and
his son, his young son, I killed a couple today.
(06:52):
And so she's a big reader of crime books and
so she's like, Okay, we've got to sort this out.
We've got to remove you from the picture. And she
comes up with this idea that if they get rid
of the bodies, if there's no bodies and there's no crime,
and they'll be there if they go back to this
cash try and tidy out this mess, and all they
do is just create another big mess, but they also
(07:13):
find a bag of money, and off we go on
this kind of crazy adventure in this small town where
you can kind of see people's logic. But what happens
is they just create this really nutty scenario. And I
love the fact because it's just everybody, it's just ordinary
everyday people die worth a situation they're not used to.
We've got we've got drug dealers, we've got you know,
(07:36):
drug mules, we've got gang members, and then we've just
got this lovely police force. And I did. I really
enjoyed the police force. Who they're not. They're smart people.
They don't live in this world, right, The safe they don't.
No one can remember what the code is for the safe.
The cell doesn't lock because the lock broke and they
never used need to use it, so that doesn't lock.
(07:57):
It's just it's just gorgeous. So it's just this kind
of you know, this high brow kind of gang thing
that sort of takes place in this very low key,
little all fringed chown. Quite delightful loved it.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, okay, that sounds like a lot of fun. That's
how to make a killing at screening is part of
the French Film Festival, and hey, I see that the
Oscar winning film I think I won on Oscar y
an Aura is now on me on a yes.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So look, if you missed it when it was out
at the movies at Christmas time and you have me
on it as free to get onto it and enjoy.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think we're going to do this every week. Well
every week, that's something good. Any of that time there's
been a really good little you know, like an Oscar
winner of film that's really taking your attention that you've
fancied and it's heading the streaming services for the first time,
then we can lead everyone know in case they've missed
it in cinemas.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yep, exactly, so you know when it's available on a
streaming service for free. I'm going to let you know
when the films that you should have seen this here
that you have missed are available.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Hey, thanks Rachis good, have a great weekend and we
will see you again very soon. So French Exis Film
picks this weekend from the world of John Wick Ballerina.
That's the one that's showing in cinemas at the moment,
the hyper violent one, the one at the French Film
Festival is how to Make a Killing.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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