September 5, 2025 • 9 mins
The Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. However, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentments soon emerge when Theo's career nosedives and Ivy's own ambitions take off.
Ice Road: Vengeance
A grieving American ice road trucker, Mike McCann, travels to Nepal to fulfil his late brother's final wish and scatter his ashes on Mt. Everest. There he meets Dhani, a skilled mountaineer, who agrees to guide him along the infamous Road to the.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from news Talks at b Versus. Charlie x CYX. She's
(00:32):
a huge star. She wrote the song for the Barbie movie,
but since kind of taken on a deeper soiree into
the world of film. So this week it was announced
that Charlie x X is doing the soundtrack for the
new Wuthering Heights adaptation starring Margot Robbie and jacober Lordie.
Oh my goodness, I watched the trailer for that. Wowser's
(00:54):
there's nothing there's nothing kind of super explicit. It's just
very suggestive, would be my. There's a lot of like
there's a lot of sound, like a lot of like
quick breath and like you know that sort of thing. Yeah, anyway,
I won't go into too much detail anyway. Charlie xx
has also made her on screen debut at the Toronto
(01:14):
Film Festival in a film called Eruptsia. I've got a
pretty good reaction for a pop star turned actress. And
good thing too, because she has already shot roles in
six other features. So no doubt we're going to be
reviewing some Charlie XCX sometime soon. Twenty two to ten
on news Storks, there'd be time to catch up with
the film reviewer Francisca rud Can Have you seen that trailer, Francisca, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just call it. It's been described as soft porn.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you think I think that's a bit unfair.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I think okay, it's been described as it's been described
as kind of fifty shades of gray.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, you know, there's a lot of sort of vision. Yeah,
it's very suggestive, would be my all right?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Look, I love Mago Robbie and I love Jacob Alordi.
I think they're absolutely fabulous. I understand that people and
I love Emerald film. I think she does brilliant films.
There is some issue around the changes that she's made
to Bronte's novel. I think if you're a huge Bronte fan,
then you are going to have issue with some of
the choices of casting. But hey, why not slap the
(02:18):
hype now?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, you know anyone's talking about maybe and maybe if
you're not a huge Bronte fan, then this could be
the film for you, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, exactly, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, anyway, anyway, I did, Yeah, yeah, I may have
stumbled across that trailer something. Anyway, two different films to
talk about this morning. These ones are actually out at
the moment. I don't think Wuthering Heights comes out until
next year. So let's start off with the film showing
in cinemas at the moment. This is the Roses.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
For you, dear, I do anything. I do.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Believe that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Everybody seems to see we hate each other. Uppost sometimes
I do hate you. Yep, we are done. Say well,
we're done.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just want the house.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, that's the Roses. Couple of big names, Olivia Coleman
and Benedict Gumbabat starring in.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
This one together, and that is the main reason you
should go and see this film. But absolutely, I mean
I just love this too. You know, I watch them,
you know, read the phone book. This is based on
the nineteen eighty one novel The War of the Roses
by Warren Adler. If you're a certain age, you will
remember Danny DeVito directed an adaptation of the starring Kathleen
Turner and Michael Douglas. At the heart of this film,
(03:31):
there is a story about a couple who are madly
in love and then life doesn't go so well, and
they don't cope with it very well as a couple,
and then they grow to despise each other and they
had this full on, all out crazy war, and this
film has been brought into the current day. Benedett Kababatch
and Olivia Coleman star as THEO and Ivy, and they
(03:52):
are both very committed to their roles and they're very
funny and they're very good at it. But there's this
moment at the beginning where they flash back and they
show you their meat cute you know, how they met
and she's a chef in a hotel restaurant and he's
a guest and he stumbles into the kitchen and literally
thirty seconds later they're having sex in the in the fridge,
(04:16):
in the freezer, and I'm like, I'm sorry, but I
don't think Olivia Coleman and Bennett coming back to act
like that. And so from the very I've just had
a little moment of kind of going, oh, it's a
bit of a stretch guard. I'm not sure I believe that,
and the problem with that, and I think that that
is a little bit of a problem with this film. Yes,
I think that there was a point where they love
each other. Yes, they go to despise each other, but
(04:36):
there's too long before we get to the really crazy,
all out war part of this film, which is which
is kind of what we know the story for. Really,
we spend most of the film watching two people whose
lives do change, and we watch them, we follow them
through a decade of dysfunction as they allow resentment and
anger and guilt and success and failure to come between them.
(04:57):
And it's a very slow and toxic decline. And I
think they did that because they were a bit worried
about them going each other too much. And then they
tried to pull it back and they're sort of saying
to us, hey, look they hate each other, but their
love brings them back together. But actually, even their children
in this film and looking at them going please separate.
So I'm not so sure. It kind of convinced me
(05:18):
on the same premise that they loved each other and
then they despise each other. I just yeah, And look,
it really depends on whether it's a different kind of
escape from It really does depend on whether you're in
the mood to sit and watch a couple destroy each other. Look,
there are some amazing observations about relationships. They are on
the money about a lot of that, and there's some
great other costars. Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Alison Janie is
(05:43):
completely under you. She has this one scene which she
completely steals. Would have loved to have seen more than her.
It felt like it was really edgy and it had
a good edge. But then they kind of presented it
to us as a glossy rong com and it didn't
quite work.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, all right, So that is The Roses with Olivia
Coleman and Bennett Cumberbats. Next up streaming on Prime Video,
this is Ice Road Vengeance.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We welcome mable Mount Everest. Here we come, keep driving
kidnappers in Nepal, don't leave witnesses.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay, that's Ice Road Vengeance, starring Liam Neeson. Something about
Liam Neeson that I've started to notice, and I'm not
sure if this has ever come across your mind, Francesca,
is that he needs to start are a lot of
films in which someone is getting kidnapped or taken and
he needs to fight and kill people. That's just a
little bit, you know, you just I don't want to
call me a centophile.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, he has done very well sort of creating this
new career for him, mate knife and look we talk
about we talk about women who are you know of
a certain ager once upon a time she broke a
forty Hollywood and want to pay attention to you. And
we see women in Hollywood have managed to create careers
and interesting characters and have these and so this is
sort of essentially what Li Liam's done as well. Watunately
(07:07):
doesn't quite pull it off in this film. And it's
not his fold. This film just does not have the
money to make it work. It's you might have seen
the original Icerod It was released I think twenty one.
He plays Mike McCann. He is a truck driver. He
goes on this dangerous mission over frozen lakes. So we're
(07:29):
trying to save some miners trapped in the mine. And look,
actually it was okay. It was quite good escapeism and
the idea for this on paper isn't too bad. His
brother has passed away. He really wants Mike to scatter
his ashes at Mount Everest, so off he heads to
do that. He ends up on this bus called the
Key We Express where the driver goes cured it and
then spends the rest of the film talking in Australian slang,
(07:50):
which at that point I went, oh, okay, we've got
a problem here. And then there's a young man on
the bus who is kidnapped because there's a corporate that
wants to build a dam in his village, but his
hand is holding out, and all of a sudden, it
always strangers, for some reason to get behind this young
man and go off on this mission to try and
save him and his family's land and things. It just
(08:13):
none of it really made sense. You don't know why
they were doing. The driving's great, like the driving. I
don't know whether they use cables in Nepal to allow
vehicles to travel down icy roads or whether they use
cranes to get them across gorgeous but look, the driving
was great, but all the special effects are so bad. Look.
I was trying to find a really fun film that
(08:34):
you could sit and watch with dad. You know this,
You know, maybe tomorrow afternoon or on Fatursday, And unless
your dad has really bad taste in films, probably isn't
gonna fly. But but you know, I do love Lambleason,
and I thought i'd give it a whirl. And it's
kind of. I actually sort of found it highly entertaining
for how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, nice going, Okay, there you go, right, that'll be
a special one for dad. Then, thank you, Francisca. We
appreciate it. So that is Ice Road Vengeance. That's the
one starring La and Nis and that's on Prime Video.
The one with Olivia Coleman and Bennedtt Cumberbatches in Cinemas
Now that's called The Roses. We'll have details for both
of those films up on the News Talks. He'd be
website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen
(09:17):
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 b Versus. Charlie x CYX. She's
(00:32):
a huge star. She wrote the song for the Barbie movie,
but since kind of taken on a deeper soiree into
the world of film. So this week it was announced
that Charlie x X is doing the soundtrack for the
new Wuthering Heights adaptation starring Margot Robbie and jacober Lordie.
Oh my goodness, I watched the trailer for that. Wowser's
(00:54):
there's nothing there's nothing kind of super explicit. It's just
very suggestive, would be my. There's a lot of like
there's a lot of sound, like a lot of like
quick breath and like you know that sort of thing. Yeah, anyway,
I won't go into too much detail anyway. Charlie xx
has also made her on screen debut at the Toronto
(01:14):
Film Festival in a film called Eruptsia. I've got a
pretty good reaction for a pop star turned actress. And
good thing too, because she has already shot roles in
six other features. So no doubt we're going to be
reviewing some Charlie XCX sometime soon. Twenty two to ten
on news Storks, there'd be time to catch up with
the film reviewer Francisca rud Can Have you seen that trailer, Francisca, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just call it. It's been described as soft porn.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Do you think I think that's a bit unfair.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I think okay, it's been described as it's been described
as kind of fifty shades of gray.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, you know, there's a lot of sort of vision. Yeah,
it's very suggestive, would be my all right?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Look, I love Mago Robbie and I love Jacob Alordi.
I think they're absolutely fabulous. I understand that people and
I love Emerald film. I think she does brilliant films.
There is some issue around the changes that she's made
to Bronte's novel. I think if you're a huge Bronte fan,
then you are going to have issue with some of
the choices of casting. But hey, why not slap the
(02:18):
hype now?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, you know anyone's talking about maybe and maybe if
you're not a huge Bronte fan, then this could be
the film for you, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, exactly, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, anyway, anyway, I did, Yeah, yeah, I may have
stumbled across that trailer something. Anyway, two different films to
talk about this morning. These ones are actually out at
the moment. I don't think Wuthering Heights comes out until
next year. So let's start off with the film showing
in cinemas at the moment. This is the Roses.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
For you, dear, I do anything. I do.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Believe that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Everybody seems to see we hate each other. Uppost sometimes
I do hate you. Yep, we are done. Say well,
we're done.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just want the house.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, that's the Roses. Couple of big names, Olivia Coleman
and Benedict Gumbabat starring in.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
This one together, and that is the main reason you
should go and see this film. But absolutely, I mean
I just love this too. You know, I watch them,
you know, read the phone book. This is based on
the nineteen eighty one novel The War of the Roses
by Warren Adler. If you're a certain age, you will
remember Danny DeVito directed an adaptation of the starring Kathleen
Turner and Michael Douglas. At the heart of this film,
(03:31):
there is a story about a couple who are madly
in love and then life doesn't go so well, and
they don't cope with it very well as a couple,
and then they grow to despise each other and they
had this full on, all out crazy war, and this
film has been brought into the current day. Benedett Kababatch
and Olivia Coleman star as THEO and Ivy, and they
(03:52):
are both very committed to their roles and they're very
funny and they're very good at it. But there's this
moment at the beginning where they flash back and they
show you their meat cute you know, how they met
and she's a chef in a hotel restaurant and he's
a guest and he stumbles into the kitchen and literally
thirty seconds later they're having sex in the in the fridge,
(04:16):
in the freezer, and I'm like, I'm sorry, but I
don't think Olivia Coleman and Bennett coming back to act
like that. And so from the very I've just had
a little moment of kind of going, oh, it's a
bit of a stretch guard. I'm not sure I believe that,
and the problem with that, and I think that that
is a little bit of a problem with this film. Yes,
I think that there was a point where they love
each other. Yes, they go to despise each other, but
(04:36):
there's too long before we get to the really crazy,
all out war part of this film, which is which
is kind of what we know the story for. Really,
we spend most of the film watching two people whose
lives do change, and we watch them, we follow them
through a decade of dysfunction as they allow resentment and
anger and guilt and success and failure to come between them.
(04:57):
And it's a very slow and toxic decline. And I
think they did that because they were a bit worried
about them going each other too much. And then they
tried to pull it back and they're sort of saying
to us, hey, look they hate each other, but their
love brings them back together. But actually, even their children
in this film and looking at them going please separate.
So I'm not so sure. It kind of convinced me
(05:18):
on the same premise that they loved each other and
then they despise each other. I just yeah, And look,
it really depends on whether it's a different kind of
escape from It really does depend on whether you're in
the mood to sit and watch a couple destroy each other. Look,
there are some amazing observations about relationships. They are on
the money about a lot of that, and there's some
great other costars. Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Alison Janie is
(05:43):
completely under you. She has this one scene which she
completely steals. Would have loved to have seen more than her.
It felt like it was really edgy and it had
a good edge. But then they kind of presented it
to us as a glossy rong com and it didn't
quite work.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay, all right, So that is The Roses with Olivia
Coleman and Bennett Cumberbats. Next up streaming on Prime Video,
this is Ice Road Vengeance.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We welcome mable Mount Everest. Here we come, keep driving
kidnappers in Nepal, don't leave witnesses.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay, that's Ice Road Vengeance, starring Liam Neeson. Something about
Liam Neeson that I've started to notice, and I'm not
sure if this has ever come across your mind, Francesca,
is that he needs to start are a lot of
films in which someone is getting kidnapped or taken and
he needs to fight and kill people. That's just a
little bit, you know, you just I don't want to
call me a centophile.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, he has done very well sort of creating this
new career for him, mate knife and look we talk
about we talk about women who are you know of
a certain ager once upon a time she broke a
forty Hollywood and want to pay attention to you. And
we see women in Hollywood have managed to create careers
and interesting characters and have these and so this is
sort of essentially what Li Liam's done as well. Watunately
(07:07):
doesn't quite pull it off in this film. And it's
not his fold. This film just does not have the
money to make it work. It's you might have seen
the original Icerod It was released I think twenty one.
He plays Mike McCann. He is a truck driver. He
goes on this dangerous mission over frozen lakes. So we're
(07:29):
trying to save some miners trapped in the mine. And look,
actually it was okay. It was quite good escapeism and
the idea for this on paper isn't too bad. His
brother has passed away. He really wants Mike to scatter
his ashes at Mount Everest, so off he heads to
do that. He ends up on this bus called the
Key We Express where the driver goes cured it and
then spends the rest of the film talking in Australian slang,
(07:50):
which at that point I went, oh, okay, we've got
a problem here. And then there's a young man on
the bus who is kidnapped because there's a corporate that
wants to build a dam in his village, but his
hand is holding out, and all of a sudden, it
always strangers, for some reason to get behind this young
man and go off on this mission to try and
save him and his family's land and things. It just
(08:13):
none of it really made sense. You don't know why
they were doing. The driving's great, like the driving. I
don't know whether they use cables in Nepal to allow
vehicles to travel down icy roads or whether they use
cranes to get them across gorgeous but look, the driving
was great, but all the special effects are so bad. Look.
I was trying to find a really fun film that
(08:34):
you could sit and watch with dad. You know this,
You know, maybe tomorrow afternoon or on Fatursday, And unless
your dad has really bad taste in films, probably isn't
gonna fly. But but you know, I do love Lambleason,
and I thought i'd give it a whirl. And it's
kind of. I actually sort of found it highly entertaining
for how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, nice going, Okay, there you go, right, that'll be
a special one for dad. Then, thank you, Francisca. We
appreciate it. So that is Ice Road Vengeance. That's the
one starring La and Nis and that's on Prime Video.
The one with Olivia Coleman and Bennedtt Cumberbatches in Cinemas
Now that's called The Roses. We'll have details for both
of those films up on the News Talks. He'd be
website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen
(09:17):
live to News Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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