May 30, 2025 • 9 mins
Mountainhead
A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.
Captain America: Brave New World
Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at bas.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Last Me. Taylor Swift has brought the original recordings to
her first six albums. This is ending years long legal
saga that you remember. She started re recording all her
old work because she no longer owned it, and then
so she re recorded it, so she owned those recordings
and actually the fans were loving it because she'd changed
(00:47):
the songs a little bird or strow in an extra track,
or do things a little bit differently, and the Swifties
would sit and then compare it and all. It's very exciting. Anyway,
She's just of course finished the Eras tour around the world,
but she has finally been able to buy back those
original recordings, which is really good for her. Although a
(01:09):
lot of Swifties we're expecting her to now release Reputation
as a rerecorded album and we're very much looking forward
to it, and she probably won't do that now she
doesn't need to. She owns it, so good honor. That
was quite a long battle for her and she has
won it right film time now and I'm joined by
writer of weekly film and TV Substack Screen crack Kyl
(01:30):
Pushman is worth me. Good morning, Carl, Hi Patrisco. Good
to talk to you. We've got a couple of films
to discuss today. Let's start with Mountain Head and have
a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I hope you rich folks don't mind slumming it and
the humble abode of the poorest billionaire in the gang.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
All right, your platform.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is a flamed Voldel situations.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Weapons start piling, some bank fronts, violence, chaos, and people
are dying. Not real, and don't explode like that, and don't.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Explode like that. You know how to heads explode.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It seems to me, Karl, that only Jessy Armstrong could
pull something like this together.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, yes, you find yourself watching a movie with four
extremely unlikable lead characters, which might be a cinema first
I think normally there's someone to get behind and root for,
but here you don't like anyone. It's quite unusual in
that regard. There the four main characters are tech billionaires,
tech brollionaiers, if i'd like to call them, and they're
(02:32):
all sort of based on that they've got familiarities with
our actual real world current crop of billionaires. You know,
there's that same arrogance, hubrious abhorrence, but it doesn't copy
their direct persona. So there's no Elon Musk, but there are,
but one of the characters has a lot of Elon
Musk characteristics if you sort of follow me. And it's
(02:54):
all about one of them unleashing a genitor of generative
AI onto their social network, which is capable of producing
photorealistic movies. Predictably, this lead to instant chaos with no
guardrails implemented around its usage, and the world falls into
quite a lot of global conflict happening, which they see
(03:18):
as an opportunity to exert their digital influence and implement
their sort of tech pro philosophies, which all will be
familiar to those that sort of follow the news. And
what these people do actually.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Believe they speak their own language, don't they, Carl And,
to be honest with you, when the film began, I thought,
I'm not sure I can keep up with this. You know,
they have their own language, they have their own philosophies
and moral compass and just way of talking about the
world which takes a little happened. I don't know if
you noticed this. There is a point in the film
where Sev Carrel, who is playing one of these tech bros.
(03:48):
He runs into a glass door in this sutom monste
a house that they're living in that they're all staying
for a weekend, and up in the mountains he runs
into a glass door and it's like the film switches
from a satire to a black comedy, and all of
a sudden, I was all in.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That is exactly my experience the first heart. I can
use a sports analogy for a second. The first half
it's a movie of two halves. In the first half
I've found quite boring, and there were zings flying, but
they weren't landing, and I was thinking this should be
way funnier than it is. I recognize that they're saying jokes,
but they're just it's just not fun. It's just not
that funny at that point that you've just mentioned, the
(04:24):
film does the second half so worth it? It is
just like laugh out loud hilarious, And there's sort of
a mix between the witty zingers and one liners and
that little bit of physical comedy as well in there,
which just elevates the whole thing. So it's quite Yeah,
it's another strange part of the film where the first
half is a drag and the second half it is
(04:46):
quite brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I thought, No, I completely agreed, and just that the
arrogance and the greed of these men is just extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And so timely, Like I think it's quite possibly the
most timely film ever released, Like they only finished shooting
it last month, so it's got out blisteringly quick due
to a quirk and timing. It's so timely and so relevant,
but also a little bit outdated because they're dealing with
this catastrophe about Photorealistic AI being released, and a few
(05:18):
days ago Google did release the three, which is capable
of doing exactly what they're talking about in the movie,
which kind of makes it from a slightly futuristic satire
to almost an episode of Black Mirror where you're like, oh,
this is reality that we're actually now living in. So
I hadn't been released last week, it would have been
a different story. But it's just so strange. Well, that's
how fast tech moves.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's amazing, isn't it. I mean, this is how horrible
these people are. Right, So they call their host and
they call him Super, which is short for Soup Kitchen
because he's only worth five hundred and thirty million and
the rest of them worth billions.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean he's the paupa of the group the
podcast to be that poor.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah yeah, OK. Let's talk about another film. And I'm
really pleased that you're talking about this because Captain America
Brave World was released early on in the cinemas, but
it kind of just was released with no hype. No
one really knew it was out, and it's now being
released on Disney. Let's have a listen. I was wartime general,
now I'm a wartime president. Your inner circle's been compromised.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Let me fix it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Wash yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're not Steve Rogers, You're right, I'm no. So that
was Captain America Brave New World out now on Disney Plus.
Carlor is Marvel losing its magic.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's I think it lost its magic for a little
while there, and it's in course correction mode. And this
is part of the course correction. It's you know, it's
a it's a massive ship. This is like the thirty
fifth film in the series, which is just bananas when
you stop and think about it. So it's a it's
a slow shift, but I think they are talking about
(07:01):
they went through that period where there was just too many.
It was an overwhelming amount of films. You just, unless
you would die hard, it was impossible to keep up.
So they're in this tricky place now where they're trying
to balance those die hard fans and bringing people sort
of like me that dipped out of the franchise bring
them back. And it's a hard balance, and yeah, how
(07:23):
much you buy into it, They've got to make it
so it appeals to someone just casually watching. And this
is a political action thriller at its heart, with a giant,
big Red Hulk running around smashing them things up. But
it does do what it sets out to do quite well.
There's a lot of fan stuff that they'll be into,
but you can sit down and understand what's going on
(07:46):
without needing the prior knowledge of the thirty five films.
You know, the big drawers. Harrison Ford playing the President,
who has anger management problems that lead them to becoming
Red Hulk, which is obviously a problem for the President
of the United States of America. And then there's America
played by Anthony Mackie, who's really great. He's the new
Captain and he's trying to work out why this is
(08:07):
happening and prevent it from happening. So there's a lot
going on, but there's enough there for both camps to enjoy.
I don't think it's a solid home run for the MCU,
but it's a it's a decent watch on streaming for
say a Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, so you said this is a gentle reboot almost, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Don't know if I've done that far.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I just think it's a it's like it is continuing
things on, like there's references to everything. It has that
same Marvel problem where a problem for casual people like me,
but what the fans are into where it's setting up
things for the next film, So you kind of feel
like you're in that cycle of I'm watching this film,
but it's kind of set up for the next film,
(08:50):
and then you watch that next film and it's kind
of sitting up for the next door. That might be
familiar to anyone who's sort of spent some time around
the MCU. So it's definitely got that aspect to it
where things are being set up. I would have liked
to see a little bit more Red Hulk in it,
because you know that's obviously her going help rage is
quite a quite a slight, but yeah, it was. It
(09:13):
was all right. It's not going to convince anyone unconvinced.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And Carl, are we expecting the Avengers to come back?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well, that's we're not going to spoil the territory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay, right right right, no.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Fan, no, no, no, no no, we don't want to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I do not want to have the Avengers dance on
the text machine for the rest of the morning. So
let's just leave it there. Cal Pushman, thank you so
much for your thoughts this morning. That was Cal Pushman,
writer of weekly film and TV Substack Scream Craig for.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
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 at bas.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Last Me. Taylor Swift has brought the original recordings to
her first six albums. This is ending years long legal
saga that you remember. She started re recording all her
old work because she no longer owned it, and then
so she re recorded it, so she owned those recordings
and actually the fans were loving it because she'd changed
(00:47):
the songs a little bird or strow in an extra track,
or do things a little bit differently, and the Swifties
would sit and then compare it and all. It's very exciting. Anyway,
She's just of course finished the Eras tour around the world,
but she has finally been able to buy back those
original recordings, which is really good for her. Although a
(01:09):
lot of Swifties we're expecting her to now release Reputation
as a rerecorded album and we're very much looking forward
to it, and she probably won't do that now she
doesn't need to. She owns it, so good honor. That
was quite a long battle for her and she has
won it right film time now and I'm joined by
writer of weekly film and TV Substack Screen crack Kyl
(01:30):
Pushman is worth me. Good morning, Carl, Hi Patrisco. Good
to talk to you. We've got a couple of films
to discuss today. Let's start with Mountain Head and have
a listen to this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I hope you rich folks don't mind slumming it and
the humble abode of the poorest billionaire in the gang.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
All right, your platform.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is a flamed Voldel situations.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Weapons start piling, some bank fronts, violence, chaos, and people
are dying. Not real, and don't explode like that, and don't.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Explode like that. You know how to heads explode.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It seems to me, Karl, that only Jessy Armstrong could
pull something like this together.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, yes, you find yourself watching a movie with four
extremely unlikable lead characters, which might be a cinema first
I think normally there's someone to get behind and root for,
but here you don't like anyone. It's quite unusual in
that regard. There the four main characters are tech billionaires,
tech brollionaiers, if i'd like to call them, and they're
(02:32):
all sort of based on that they've got familiarities with
our actual real world current crop of billionaires. You know,
there's that same arrogance, hubrious abhorrence, but it doesn't copy
their direct persona. So there's no Elon Musk, but there are,
but one of the characters has a lot of Elon
Musk characteristics if you sort of follow me. And it's
(02:54):
all about one of them unleashing a genitor of generative
AI onto their social network, which is capable of producing
photorealistic movies. Predictably, this lead to instant chaos with no
guardrails implemented around its usage, and the world falls into
quite a lot of global conflict happening, which they see
(03:18):
as an opportunity to exert their digital influence and implement
their sort of tech pro philosophies, which all will be
familiar to those that sort of follow the news. And
what these people do actually.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Believe they speak their own language, don't they, Carl And,
to be honest with you, when the film began, I thought,
I'm not sure I can keep up with this. You know,
they have their own language, they have their own philosophies
and moral compass and just way of talking about the
world which takes a little happened. I don't know if
you noticed this. There is a point in the film
where Sev Carrel, who is playing one of these tech bros.
(03:48):
He runs into a glass door in this sutom monste
a house that they're living in that they're all staying
for a weekend, and up in the mountains he runs
into a glass door and it's like the film switches
from a satire to a black comedy, and all of
a sudden, I was all in.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That is exactly my experience the first heart. I can
use a sports analogy for a second. The first half
it's a movie of two halves. In the first half
I've found quite boring, and there were zings flying, but
they weren't landing, and I was thinking this should be
way funnier than it is. I recognize that they're saying jokes,
but they're just it's just not fun. It's just not
that funny at that point that you've just mentioned, the
(04:24):
film does the second half so worth it? It is
just like laugh out loud hilarious, And there's sort of
a mix between the witty zingers and one liners and
that little bit of physical comedy as well in there,
which just elevates the whole thing. So it's quite Yeah,
it's another strange part of the film where the first
half is a drag and the second half it is
(04:46):
quite brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I thought, No, I completely agreed, and just that the
arrogance and the greed of these men is just extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And so timely, Like I think it's quite possibly the
most timely film ever released, Like they only finished shooting
it last month, so it's got out blisteringly quick due
to a quirk and timing. It's so timely and so relevant,
but also a little bit outdated because they're dealing with
this catastrophe about Photorealistic AI being released, and a few
(05:18):
days ago Google did release the three, which is capable
of doing exactly what they're talking about in the movie,
which kind of makes it from a slightly futuristic satire
to almost an episode of Black Mirror where you're like, oh,
this is reality that we're actually now living in. So
I hadn't been released last week, it would have been
a different story. But it's just so strange. Well, that's
how fast tech moves.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's amazing, isn't it. I mean, this is how horrible
these people are. Right, So they call their host and
they call him Super, which is short for Soup Kitchen
because he's only worth five hundred and thirty million and
the rest of them worth billions.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean he's the paupa of the group the
podcast to be that poor.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah yeah, OK. Let's talk about another film. And I'm
really pleased that you're talking about this because Captain America
Brave World was released early on in the cinemas, but
it kind of just was released with no hype. No
one really knew it was out, and it's now being
released on Disney. Let's have a listen. I was wartime general,
now I'm a wartime president. Your inner circle's been compromised.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Let me fix it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Wash yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're not Steve Rogers, You're right, I'm no. So that
was Captain America Brave New World out now on Disney Plus.
Carlor is Marvel losing its magic.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's I think it lost its magic for a little
while there, and it's in course correction mode. And this
is part of the course correction. It's you know, it's
a it's a massive ship. This is like the thirty
fifth film in the series, which is just bananas when
you stop and think about it. So it's a it's
a slow shift, but I think they are talking about
(07:01):
they went through that period where there was just too many.
It was an overwhelming amount of films. You just, unless
you would die hard, it was impossible to keep up.
So they're in this tricky place now where they're trying
to balance those die hard fans and bringing people sort
of like me that dipped out of the franchise bring
them back. And it's a hard balance, and yeah, how
(07:23):
much you buy into it, They've got to make it
so it appeals to someone just casually watching. And this
is a political action thriller at its heart, with a giant,
big Red Hulk running around smashing them things up. But
it does do what it sets out to do quite well.
There's a lot of fan stuff that they'll be into,
but you can sit down and understand what's going on
(07:46):
without needing the prior knowledge of the thirty five films.
You know, the big drawers. Harrison Ford playing the President,
who has anger management problems that lead them to becoming
Red Hulk, which is obviously a problem for the President
of the United States of America. And then there's America
played by Anthony Mackie, who's really great. He's the new
Captain and he's trying to work out why this is
(08:07):
happening and prevent it from happening. So there's a lot
going on, but there's enough there for both camps to enjoy.
I don't think it's a solid home run for the MCU,
but it's a it's a decent watch on streaming for
say a Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, so you said this is a gentle reboot almost, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Don't know if I've done that far.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I just think it's a it's like it is continuing
things on, like there's references to everything. It has that
same Marvel problem where a problem for casual people like me,
but what the fans are into where it's setting up
things for the next film, So you kind of feel
like you're in that cycle of I'm watching this film,
but it's kind of set up for the next film,
(08:50):
and then you watch that next film and it's kind
of sitting up for the next door. That might be
familiar to anyone who's sort of spent some time around
the MCU. So it's definitely got that aspect to it
where things are being set up. I would have liked
to see a little bit more Red Hulk in it,
because you know that's obviously her going help rage is
quite a quite a slight, but yeah, it was. It
(09:13):
was all right. It's not going to convince anyone unconvinced.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And Carl, are we expecting the Avengers to come back?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well, that's we're not going to spoil the territory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay, right right right, no.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Fan, no, no, no, no no, we don't want to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I do not want to have the Avengers dance on
the text machine for the rest of the morning. So
let's just leave it there. Cal Pushman, thank you so
much for your thoughts this morning. That was Cal Pushman,
writer of weekly film and TV Substack Scream Craig for.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
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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