October 8, 2025 • 6 mins
Our movie reviewer and Barra desk mate at Channel 7, Ben O'Shea came in to review the new Julia Roberts movie called After The Hunt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Ben, Good morning j Meat, Barrow Bara meet
Ben made you guys would know each other out of
it West we do.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We talk philosophy a lot out exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We're going to talk about the desk buddies. We sit
across a cubicle partition. That's all we talk about, Barry.
Isn't it philosophy?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Normally it starts like what am I doing here? Because
Ben's got a desk like that he doesn't use, so
that's how important he is.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We like he's always out on the story.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
He's got the coolest desk too, because he gets all
those giveaways and stuff. So I'm always looking for stuff to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Take a lot of movie memorabilia. I've been wondering where
it's been going. I could tell you what I could
do with I could do with some Julia Roberts merch because,
as you say, Barrett, she is fantastic. And so we're
talking about this new movie after the Hunt. So it's
I guess it's an examination of the me Too movement
and kind of where me too has ended up, because
(00:53):
you know, when it kind of really took off in
sort of you know, twenty fifteen issues, you know, the
thinking of the time was this is going to change everything,
is going to change the entertainment industry, and it certainly
did to some extent, and it certainly did for some people.
But you know, now you could probably make the case
that maybe it didn't quite live up to its potential
as a total game changer, and this film kind of
(01:16):
looks at, you know, where things have ended up and
what happens to people who are accused, and if there's
any long term ramifications. Julia Roberts, who doesn't do a
lot of movies anymore, it plays a Yale professor of philosophy.
She's you know, very well respected within the university. She's
about to get tenure, which is a big deal. Basically
you're set for life if you get tenure, and she's
(01:39):
up against another professor, a younger rock star, kind of
vibe professor played by Andrew Garfield, former Spider Man. But
they're mates, they're good mates. It's kind of a friendly rivalry.
You get the feeling that there's maybe a little chemistry
going on between them as well, which you know is
a bit annoying to Julia Roberts's husband, played by Michael
(02:00):
still Bug, who's a psychiatrist, and he kind of laughs
it off, and he thinks that Andrew Garfield's character is
a bit of a sort of a puppy dog chasing
after Julia Roberts. And they're at a at a party
at the start of the movie at Julia's house and
they all of the students and professors at Yale are
having a few wines talking about philosophy, pretty deep stuff
(02:21):
if I'm being honest, party, and they start talking about
cancel culture and the idea that you know, like Julia
Roberts is going to get tenure because it's an environment
at the moment where you know, maybe women get opportunities
that they haven't had in the past, and if you're
a straight white man like Andrew Garfield, you're going to
miss out.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So it helps.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It helps because what happens next, all the secrets start
coming out. Also, that's got to be if I'm making
this movie, I'm getting some great secrets for Julia Roberts.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So she got some well, so it says she's she's
definitely got some skeletons in the closet, right, But they
save it till right at the end, and so thatstic party,
they have this big party and then and then you
you see Andrew Garfield and Ao at a Berry. So,
people who've watched The Bear, she's Sydney and The Bear,
she's fantastic. She's a young PhD student. She's Julia Roberts's
protege in the film. They walk off together off into
(03:12):
the campus at night, and then the film cuts to
the next morning. All of a sudden, Ao at a
Berry wakes up and you can tell something has happened.
She's shook. She goes to see Julia roberts and says, look,
something happened last night. Andrew Garfield's character has sexually assaulted me, basically,
and Julia Robertson doesn't really react amazingly to this information
(03:33):
because she's good mates with this fellow professor. She doesn't
totally discount the accusation, but she also she's in an
awkward position.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But it's about consent, then, isn't it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, and then Andrew Garfield's character gives you a different
version of the events and said that he was only
there to confront this PhD student about her plagiarism, which
is something that Julia roberts was actually aware of. So
and then she has apparently concocted this story to you know,
kind of get out of this plagiarism scandal, to discredit
the professor that's accused her, and so it creates this
(04:06):
ambiguity that the film kind of explores over about two
hours or so. I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's actually better than what you're saying, though, isn't it,
because that sounds very boring at the moment. Complicated. This is.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This is this is not like, this is not like
you Julia Roberts, John Grisham movies from back in the nineties,
So this is like, it's not the Pelican Brief.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's not the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Do you leave the movie and think I need to
email someone and apologize? Is that the sort of feeling
you get.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I personally know.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
This.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So this is more our house. I think it's important
to remember. So it's directed by this Italian or to
Luca Guardaninho, who do you remember that tennis movie from
a year or so ago Challenges with Zendaya, So he
was behind that movie. He also did Call Me by
Your Name, which is kind of like a culty, kind
of like a gay romance movie from a few years ago.
And so his style is you know, very artistic, it
(05:04):
looks gorgeous, it's very intellectual. So you've got a lot
of that going on as well. It's not it's not
your traditional popcorn movie by all means. Yeah, and so
the film kind of follows, and you have to decide
as an audience member who you believe, where you believe.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How many philosophy doctorates out of five do you give?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How many times do they say truth is complicated?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
If a film screens, if a film screens in a cinema,
and as there's no one in the cinema scream, So
it's a great question. Three and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you're a smart guy, and you're a deep person.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Deep it's not that. But if you're looking to escape
for a while with a bit of popcorn and the baby.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Julia Roberts, Julie Robs, go see this for Julia Roberts.
It's so great to see her back on the big
screen where she belongs.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And if it wins an Oscar, at least you'll be
able to say, I went sawy.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No one is one hundred percent right, but all of
them are one hundred percent smug.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All right, very much, We'll send you off to see
something maybe a little lighter next week and you could
come back Ben and furious something from Marvel. See you guys,
all right, see you mate,
Good morning Ben, Good morning j Meat, Barrow Bara meet
Ben made you guys would know each other out of
it West we do.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We talk philosophy a lot out exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We're going to talk about the desk buddies. We sit
across a cubicle partition. That's all we talk about, Barry.
Isn't it philosophy?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Normally it starts like what am I doing here? Because
Ben's got a desk like that he doesn't use, so
that's how important he is.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We like he's always out on the story.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
He's got the coolest desk too, because he gets all
those giveaways and stuff. So I'm always looking for stuff to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Take a lot of movie memorabilia. I've been wondering where
it's been going. I could tell you what I could
do with I could do with some Julia Roberts merch because,
as you say, Barrett, she is fantastic. And so we're
talking about this new movie after the Hunt. So it's
I guess it's an examination of the me Too movement
and kind of where me too has ended up, because
(00:53):
you know, when it kind of really took off in
sort of you know, twenty fifteen issues, you know, the
thinking of the time was this is going to change everything,
is going to change the entertainment industry, and it certainly
did to some extent, and it certainly did for some people.
But you know, now you could probably make the case
that maybe it didn't quite live up to its potential
as a total game changer, and this film kind of
(01:16):
looks at, you know, where things have ended up and
what happens to people who are accused, and if there's
any long term ramifications. Julia Roberts, who doesn't do a
lot of movies anymore, it plays a Yale professor of philosophy.
She's you know, very well respected within the university. She's
about to get tenure, which is a big deal. Basically
you're set for life if you get tenure, and she's
(01:39):
up against another professor, a younger rock star, kind of
vibe professor played by Andrew Garfield, former Spider Man. But
they're mates, they're good mates. It's kind of a friendly rivalry.
You get the feeling that there's maybe a little chemistry
going on between them as well, which you know is
a bit annoying to Julia Roberts's husband, played by Michael
(02:00):
still Bug, who's a psychiatrist, and he kind of laughs
it off, and he thinks that Andrew Garfield's character is
a bit of a sort of a puppy dog chasing
after Julia Roberts. And they're at a at a party
at the start of the movie at Julia's house and
they all of the students and professors at Yale are
having a few wines talking about philosophy, pretty deep stuff
(02:21):
if I'm being honest, party, and they start talking about
cancel culture and the idea that you know, like Julia
Roberts is going to get tenure because it's an environment
at the moment where you know, maybe women get opportunities
that they haven't had in the past, and if you're
a straight white man like Andrew Garfield, you're going to
miss out.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So it helps.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It helps because what happens next, all the secrets start
coming out. Also, that's got to be if I'm making
this movie, I'm getting some great secrets for Julia Roberts.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So she got some well, so it says she's she's
definitely got some skeletons in the closet, right, But they
save it till right at the end, and so thatstic party,
they have this big party and then and then you
you see Andrew Garfield and Ao at a Berry. So,
people who've watched The Bear, she's Sydney and The Bear,
she's fantastic. She's a young PhD student. She's Julia Roberts's
protege in the film. They walk off together off into
(03:12):
the campus at night, and then the film cuts to
the next morning. All of a sudden, Ao at a
Berry wakes up and you can tell something has happened.
She's shook. She goes to see Julia roberts and says, look,
something happened last night. Andrew Garfield's character has sexually assaulted me, basically,
and Julia Robertson doesn't really react amazingly to this information
(03:33):
because she's good mates with this fellow professor. She doesn't
totally discount the accusation, but she also she's in an
awkward position.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But it's about consent, then, isn't it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, and then Andrew Garfield's character gives you a different
version of the events and said that he was only
there to confront this PhD student about her plagiarism, which
is something that Julia roberts was actually aware of. So
and then she has apparently concocted this story to you know,
kind of get out of this plagiarism scandal, to discredit
the professor that's accused her, and so it creates this
(04:06):
ambiguity that the film kind of explores over about two
hours or so. I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's actually better than what you're saying, though, isn't it,
because that sounds very boring at the moment. Complicated. This is.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This is this is not like, this is not like
you Julia Roberts, John Grisham movies from back in the nineties,
So this is like, it's not the Pelican Brief.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's not the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Do you leave the movie and think I need to
email someone and apologize? Is that the sort of feeling
you get.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I personally know.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
This.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So this is more our house. I think it's important
to remember. So it's directed by this Italian or to
Luca Guardaninho, who do you remember that tennis movie from
a year or so ago Challenges with Zendaya, So he
was behind that movie. He also did Call Me by
Your Name, which is kind of like a culty, kind
of like a gay romance movie from a few years ago.
And so his style is you know, very artistic, it
(05:04):
looks gorgeous, it's very intellectual. So you've got a lot
of that going on as well. It's not it's not
your traditional popcorn movie by all means. Yeah, and so
the film kind of follows, and you have to decide
as an audience member who you believe, where you believe.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How many philosophy doctorates out of five do you give?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How many times do they say truth is complicated?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
If a film screens, if a film screens in a cinema,
and as there's no one in the cinema scream, So
it's a great question. Three and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you're a smart guy, and you're a deep person.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Deep it's not that. But if you're looking to escape
for a while with a bit of popcorn and the baby.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Julia Roberts, Julie Robs, go see this for Julia Roberts.
It's so great to see her back on the big
screen where she belongs.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And if it wins an Oscar, at least you'll be
able to say, I went sawy.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No one is one hundred percent right, but all of
them are one hundred percent smug.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All right, very much, We'll send you off to see
something maybe a little lighter next week and you could
come back Ben and furious something from Marvel. See you guys,
all right, see you mate,
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