April 17, 2025 • 25 mins
As we head into the Easter long weekend, we've compiled the ultimate watch guide to see you through those blissful days off.
First up, the apocalyptic drama everyone's talking about returns for a second season with a shocking time jump, while the ultimate eye candy offering hits cinemas this weekend with not one but TWO Michael B. Jordans (Em is in heaven).
We're diving into the superhero series for people who don’t like superhero series - it’s more Suits meets Succession and it’s so bingeable. Plus we’ll tell you about a new edge-of-your-seat thriller that drops this weekend starring everyone's favourite White Lotus breakout in a game of digital cat and mouse - it'll have you second-guessing your next dinner reservation.
And if you’re seeking prestige drama, there's a beautifully crafted Australian war series featuring television's favourite brooding heartthrob in some rather... intimate scenes. Based on a prize-winning novel, it's the perfect emotional journey to justify that second (or third) chocolate egg.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome
to the Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodney and my gosh, Grace by the presence of Emily
Verner miss missed you too. The amount of times in
(00:35):
my day and night when I'm watching things, I'm talking
to people and I think I gotta tell Emily that
is quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And it's not keeping a note in my phone that
says things to tell Emily, and it'll be movies to watch,
how to live alone, how to grocery shop, or.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'd taken up your photo album, so well I'll take
up your note tap as well.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I showed some on my phone the other day to
get a screenshot and they're like, your photo's just a
bunch of kids, which is all my nephews and nieces
and Emily because I take photos of univents anyway. And
we're a bit zany because we're heading into long weekend,
the East Long weekend, and we're very excited and that
is exactly the energy we're looking for and we have
had previews of so many amazing things that are coming
(01:14):
out this week. TV shows, movies, a lot of cinema,
a lot of cinema. Cinema is back, as they say
it back before. Wait to hear the movie I'm talking about,
You'll be like, hm, is it? So we decided to
do instead of our normal Friday morning drop, We're going
to do an extra long weekend watch today because we
have so many recommendations to pass on to you and
maybe you want to get away from your family for
(01:35):
the weekend and go watch movies or watch a TV
show and this is your avenue to do that. So
first of all, we have to do a little PSA
just in case the Spillers are not across. So the
last of Us season two came out this week. Have
you watched the first episode?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I have not as yet. I've been saving it for
the long weekend. But I also didn't really know where
to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It, okay, exactly. Yeah. So a few weeks or maybe
two weeks ago now, we talked about the launch of
Max in Australia. That's why they had the white Lotus
cast here who we had on the spill They had
the Last of Us cast here. They did this huge,
big premiere where they did it the State Theater like
you were in the Last of Us, which was both
beautiful and alone settling because I would die instantly in
that show.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's very scary.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And Bella Ramsey was there, and this is this whole
big thing. So I watched the first episode in a
cinema with the cast of The Last of Us, not
Pedro because it was his birthday and he didn't want
to come, which is fair enough.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's too busy reaping the benefits of that Apple commercial.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Exactly every time that flashes up with a little you're perfect.
That's it, right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I watch it every single really and it's popped up
like TikTok knows I want that ad.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I feel like it emotionally hurts me. It's like, Pedro,
you don't mean that whatever, You're just doing it for
the money. Whatever. Anyway, So the first episode is excellent.
Pedro is excellent in it. Bella Ramsey is just top
tier back as Ellie. There's a whole new cast. What
I will say it. I know we banged on about
this last time, is it? The Last of Us is
just more than a zombie show or an apocalyptic show. Like,
(02:59):
it's an incredibly crafted drama. And I find I've only
seen the first episode obviously of season two, but the
world building is so intense. There's all these great characters,
and there's a lot of humor in the first episode.
It's quite a bit of rhromance. There's also some bloody
death and murder, and you know, people surviving in an
apocalyptic wasteland.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is it a time jump or are they kicking?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There's quite a big time exactly. So when you come
into that first episode, they like it flashes up on
the screen how many years have passed, and people in
the cinema literally gas, but they're like, oh my god,
like really yeah, Like so the whole story has reset
a different way and you just kind of pick up, yeah,
where these characters are, but so much has happened that
their whole kind of world has changed. And I would
(03:40):
say that the first episode very heavily features Catherine O'Hara
as in Moira Rose from Ship's Creek. She's firing on
all this sworders so good. I can't wait for you
to watch so we can chat about it. So it's
on max Is where you have.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
To watch once a whole day, one hundred percent. My god,
we could dress as clickers.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've always carried that, which one would you be? I
would be my favorite clicker. If you don't watch the show,
and again please do you all should? My favorite clicker
is the one who's the huge, big clicker who's under
the cars and rubble in one in one of the
episode that Melanie Linski's in, and the bulbous clicker who
comes out of the ground. I loved him.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, it was really cute.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What's your favorite click A little girl clicker in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The one that acrobat that was just really good, a gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That could be you. I could try. Okay, I'm a
best Well, last time we did more of like a
deep dive. On the last of US, I dressed as Joel,
which I did. I was spending all my money on props.
I wasn't making any money in this job, so this
time just as a clicker.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The last of US season two episodes out weekly, which
is exactly the way she was doing it on Max.
Now you have another recommendation to throw into the mix.
I do have afore we get into any stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, so I was grateful, not grateful. I was privisioned
enough to see an early screening of a movie that
has come out now on Thursday, so you can watch
it in cinemas right now. It's called Sinners.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can I just Ever since I saw the first clips
of this movie, since was announced, since the trailer came out,
this movie has been my entire life. I couldn't go
to the premiere. I couldn't watch you experience because watching
you experience movies is my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Whole bunch of us that mum mail went to the
cinema and the IMAX.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, you and I have a very treacherous past with
the IBAX.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you know, you know, if you don't know, you'll
figure it out. But firstly, I get I love horror movies. Ye,
but I am one of those people that get so
immersed in horror movies and I genuinely get terrified.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Which I do. I mean, it's doing what it needs
to do. I also love that you get so into it,
because not just because I love to watch you, just
sometimes you I'll just be sitting next to you, just
in a cinema, watching a horror movie, and all of
a sudden, you'll disappear and I realize you've sunk, just
slunk onto the floor in a little ball and you're shaking,
which I feel bad about it, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It was so in the story, and we were in
the IVY, so I felt like, as you know, when
we talk about IMAX, you're in the movie.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, you want to say too much, but vampires Michael B.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jordan, Mike just think, Okay, think Michael B.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Jordan. I'm already there times that by two, oh, stop it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But he plays twin brothers. It's about like these twin
brothers and names of Smoke and Stack, great names names,
and they go back to their hometown to kind of,
like I guess, like relive this new life of theirs.
It is a horror movie. It is mystery. It's like
horror adventure, which is the best genre, best genre, and
there's something really fucking weird about their hometown.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Again, I'm just guessing about a few things from the trailer.
I actually I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Steinfeel's in it as well.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, apparently she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
She's amazing. And have you been watching their interviews together?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes, so flirty, having a real I mean, she's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
No he's day. I think, Okay, look, I don't want
to disappoint anyone here, but I'm pretty sure he's in
a relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What I mean, that's the only thing. Standy for team
him and asks nothing else.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Nothing else. That was it. But I do love the promo,
like they've been doing really clever stuff with his promo
where they're kind of like he's wearing two different outfits
and red carpet so it looks like he's the Twins.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So good.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
This movie is so so good, fucking terrifying. But you know,
do it. You have to imax. It is out now
in cinemas.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So it's very sad you're away last week, Emily, not
just because I always miss you, but because you missed
my very theatrical and somewhat over the top retelling of
being at the premiere of the TV show Narrow Road
to the Deep North.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm so upset I miss that premiere because I'm so
good and you saw my boyfriend Jacob ELORDI.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well I did again, we'll link that episode which.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm not allowed to date because he's too tall for me.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Apparently, yes, thank you for that. Please, short or medium
height women do.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Not date toll me, I'm not allowed to date over
five to ten. I've been yelled, which I've stuck to.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, you're a girl girl.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If anything, I'm a girl's girl.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I won't go into the whole story now, mostly
because I might get arrested if I keep bringing it up.
But I'll link at that podcast. I'll link that podcast
episode in the show notes. Because I got there late.
Don't say anything. I was working, you know what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know if I was there, you wouldn't have been late.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I know, because if we're in the office, I leave. Yeah,
Emily walks off my desk because I'm leaving, and I
was like, I don't know where you're going because they're
my tickets and you need me to get in.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And get there, and I'm like, hellower Broad I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
A few times I have got to red carpets and
they're just like, oh, you're already inside. I'm like, Emily,
I'm not, it's Emily. Anyway, I got their lates. I
accidentally arrived at the exact same time as Jacob e LORDI,
So I'm trying to go down the Red Carpet's late.
His security had to like push me oy the way,
and I had to walk behind him up the red
carpet waiting to like get past him. It was a
whole situation where we'll look at the show notes because
(08:38):
there more stuff happened once we got inside.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I can't wait to see that photo.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I put some of my instincts. So he was going
along and like pulling his pen out and like pulding
the penlan in his mouth while he signed fans books.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I couldn't rab that penlet out of his mouth.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I would have so many people messaged me that it
was actually quite upsetting.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Anyway, wait, show how what was his height like from
your point of view?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I've met him briefly before, but I would say I
was wearing like a low a medium heel, and I'm
very tall and he's a lot taller than me. Whoa yeah,
And he was slinking about with his head down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Did he pull out a novel from his pocket?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He likes that. No, but we did that in now
social videos. The social did that. Poor man. He was
just walking in there and everyone was just like Jacob,
I love youel and he's like, hey, that's so him,
that's oh Jacob, so Jacob. Anyway, the TV show. This
is the second time I try to tell the port
of this TV show and every time I talk about
this pot we just derail over Jacob. But it is
(09:30):
a very important series, really beautifully done, like very brutal
to watch, watch the first two episodes, but really beautifully done.
I highly highly recommend that everyone watch it as an
amazing piece of Australian drama. So, yeah, someone's got war
scenes and battle scenes but kind of showing like a
lot of the gruesome sides of war. So it's a
five part series and it's adapted from austray And author
(09:50):
Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize winning novel of the same name,
and so the story kind of goes back and forth
between a few different timelines. So it tells the story
of Dorigo Evans. So he's played by Jacob Orlrdi as
a young man and then Kieren Hines as the older
duringo and it tracks his life in nineteen forty before
when he's stationed to Adelaide from military training and he's
(10:11):
very much in love with Olivia Ja Jong's character. So
he's got a lot of amazing Australian actresses and I
feel like they're not getting their kind of moment in
the sun because a lot of people like me are
just talking about Jacob being like sultry on a red carpet.
But Olivia Jejong's in it. She's amazing her And his
character has like a bit of a love story, and
he also forms a very intense connection with his uncle's wife,
(10:32):
who's like a young spitfire called Amy played by Odessa Young,
who I always love in everything. Is that a scandal
of a bit of scandals, That's what I mean. It's
it's a war story, and like he becomes a prisoner
of war and you see like that kind of like
brutal reality of the situation. And then you also see
him as an older man where he's like become a surgeon.
He's this very reluctive yeah, and he's a very reluctant
(10:53):
war hero. He's a surgeon when he's a a career change.
And so it's just really beautifully done. And I know
people who were at the who were at the screening
thought it was maybe a little bit hard to watch
and is very kind of like a serious hard to
watch show, but really beautifully crafted and made. You can
just see so much time and care has gone into it.
(11:14):
I was surprised that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They made it into a series and it wasn't a movie.
Those genres, I feel like are always just massive movies.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, I feel like it would have really diluted the
story if it was a movie, because there's you've got
all the different timelines, and you've got what's going on
with like Amy back at home, and like what's going
on with him at the war, and then his oldest
self and what he's going through and everything, and like
building the Burma railway and all the horrors of that
and everything. So it's yeah, really beautifully done. There's five
episodes coming to Prime Video this Friday, April eighteen, and
(11:45):
one more thing now that I've talked about how what
a great series it is and how it's based on
the best selling book. So I just want it on
the record that I said all that stuff, Okay before
I answer you really want to say, but answered the
question every single persse. Obviously, I'm at these events. I'm
putting all like photos from Instagram of like the celebrities,
and I'm also putting up my review and stuff. And
the one question I got from everyone is like, do
you see Jacob a Lordie naked, and the answer is kind.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Of yeah, what kind of do we see pain?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, no, not for penis, but and again this is
a very important historical novel. But there is quite a
lovely sex scene of him and one of the actresses
very early on episode one, so like, really they give
it to you straight away. And there's a lot of
him shirtless. There's a lot of him like with very
little clothing on. It's absolutely not the point of the
(12:29):
TV show. But if you want to see Jacob Lordie
in a hot and heavy sex scene, then TV shows
away there, Okay, the Narrow Road to the Deep North
and on Prime Video. It's a very important TV show.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But just just that, can I give a bit of
a rogue recommendation?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Please do as you know, I've lifted the rules from today.
We're allowed to throw a few extra things in out.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
On Disney Plus right now, Daredevil Born Again.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh obviously I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Have you watched the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, I'm still watching because kind of Okay, I haven't
actually told you this yet. I've gone back and watched
the original Dare Devil.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I should have done that because I forgot a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I feel like I had to really really kind
of go back into that world before I could watch
this reboot series. But I have watched the first episode
of the reboot, and so I know the huge which
I don't think we should say here, but I know
the huge, huge, huge sad thing that happens. But you
want to tell the people who Dared Devil is in
case they don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, So okay, you know where Marvel fans over here.
We love the Avengers, we love the X Men, we
love which we haven't talked about a lot, the Defenders. Yeah,
so the Defenders are a subgroup. They're kind of like
if like people auditioned for the Avengers and they didn't
make it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
In the I mean, Jessica Jones wouldn't want you to
say that, but they were just untrue.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So that's how I found Daredevil was through Jessica Jones.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
A perfect TV show.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Perfect. Actually, let's check this into the regulation as well,
Screw Dared Devil watch Jessica Jones.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, I think Jessica Jones, you should watch first with
your entry into the Defender's TV universe.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, And then I watched the Defenders and that's when
I was introduced to Dead Devil.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Have you watched Iron Fist and all the other Luke Cage.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And all the un Punisher Yeah, yeah, watch them. She's
a good one, but you're right, Jessica Jones is the
best one. But I don't want to talk too soon
because I also haven't finished Dared Devil Born Again and
it's really good, sofa, it's like brilliant, So anyway, Daredevil.
It stars Charlie Cox, who plays Matt Murdoch. He is
a how would you just.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Would you just gob? He's a blind he's a blind lawyer,
but is like a superhero yes, because he had all
his other senses are like since he became blind, all
his other sensors are like whoa, Yeah, So his senses
aren't heightened because of like a supernatural thing. His senses
a heightened because he lost his sight as a young boy.
And he also underwent like i'sn'd went the karate kid
or something like that. He underwent like really intense fight
(14:49):
training as a child. So now he's a blind lawyer
by day, a mild mannered blind lawyer by day who
like you know, looks after the people of Hell's Kitchen,
does like justice for them in New York City and
by night he leaps on Ruth's tops and fights bad
guys and you know, takes out the criminal element.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Are you expling that so well? I was like, and
then what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I was like?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And then what you're like? What does he do?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Then there's three seasons of the original plus the comics,
plus a pretty terrible better flick movie. But but it's
where he met Jennifer Ganah.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes, and she was in the Deadpool movie playing the
same character and it was a dig at benefitte one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh the law here is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And then he moved to DC.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Loser. Can I say about the original Daredevil, which is
also on Disney Plus so you can just go and watch.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here's why they made them two separate series instead of
just making this more seasons.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well because there was a big break because it kind
of got canceled, slash ended, slush. There was all this
stuff with the studios and so the story did end.
So they had to like born again, like he's come
back from the cancelation of you know.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
They love her born again, a reborn would origin.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I will just say that the original Daredevil series, if
you want of those people out there who's like, oh,
I hate superhero shows, blah blah blah. This is also
just a really good like comedy drama, and it's just
got some really.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Good suits a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
If the suits seemed were really poor in New York
and they couldn't pay their bills. Yeah, and also a
great love story like I won't spoil it, but also
kind of say, he's the hottest of all the I'm
the most attracted to him out of any of the
Low's like TV Superhero even movie, even more than any
of the Avengers. Why is he so hot?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I think it's because he's also so so smart, but
like not like a Tony Stark like science. He's smart
like a witty like I get people smart.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, sing about him is also just Charlie Cox's like
he's not brooding.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I feel like a lot of Superhero is brood alone,
and he's more just.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Like he broods, but it's different. I don't know. He's
just such a dream boat and there's a really great romance,
especially in the first season when they have Ione saying things,
want you guys to watch if you haven't, when they
had that first kiss in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, I just watched you know what that was? That
was better than the Spider Man kiss one hundred. It
might even be one of the most romantic kisses I've
ever seen on TV or in a super Hear movie
Dared Devil rum com.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, yeah, it is a wrong also because all the
big screen Marvel and DC adaptations very famously don't have
sex scenes. It's only the eternals and they're very sexless
and no one really kisses like it's a whole They've
just removed romance and sex from it. Whereas Daredevil, he's
having sex all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, he loves it. Daredevil born Again. Everything we said
is nothing about the news seats, but.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's really good. It's really good. You talk about the
new season, He's back.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's back. There's a lot of politics involved in this
new season, which kind of makes me feel like it's
not very like, as you said, like typical superhero, but
it's also not too romantic. Yeah, it's more feels with
succession any time suits. Yeah, like very political. He's going
into like this whole new world. I think it's like
post Avengers. Yeah, so you're seeing him like navigate this
(18:01):
whole world all these like different identities I feel like
we might see and I don't want to spoil it
for myself. In case I spoil it for myself, how
would you spoiler for yourself? Well, what if I guess director?
You know, Yeah, I feel like there might be mutant playing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, that's what we're seeing now in the new one.
You looked around as if like DC was going to
come and grab you would take your way to a cell.
That's all we're seeing in the new Marvel movies.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So maybe, oh, Devil Born again, watch it, Disney Brussa
La Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So unfortunately I had to go to another premiere without
you the other day and you would have really loved it.
But it's okay, was going to tell you about it now.
So no, it's even though I don't say that lightly,
like I know exactly what scares you would need to
be one hundred percent fine in this in anything, you
might be kind of calling out a bit of criticism
in the movie or laughing. So it's called Drop, and
it's coming out in cinemas this week on April seventeen,
(18:51):
and it's a new kind of thriller mystery, and the
most exciting part of it is that it stars, girl
of the moment, but she's always been a girl for
you know, a girl of the moment for us, Megan Fakie.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
She's like the face actor of the moment.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So I think a lot of
people would know her from The White Lotus season two
she played Daphne and she was like a real breakout
star from that. My friends would know her from The
Bold Type where she played Sutton. And also interestingly, we
had her on The Spill as a guest when she
was just kind of blowing up on The Bold Type.
And I'll never forget it because I waited on the
car because it's online for like twenty minutes and she
(19:23):
didn't show up, and I'm like, I can't believe Megan
fayh has just ditched our interview. That's so freaking rude.
I'll never watch anything with her. And again, next minute
she pops up on screen or flustered and like, I'm
so sorry, I'm so sorry, and I was like, oh,
it's okay, and then she's like and then she told
me this story where her laptop had died, her phone
had died, so she couldn't reach anyone, she couldn't call
her publicist. She's in a hotel in a city because
she was on a press tour, doesn't know anyone. So
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she walked down the hallway and tapped on people's doors
or other guests in the hotel, and she borrowed someone's
iPad and that's how we did the interview. So ever
since that, I've been like, that girl is resourceful, she's
career oriented.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I can tell you right now, I'll never do that
without anyone.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I said to her, I wouldn't even do that to
interview you. I who just canceled it, And she was like,
that's fair anyway. So in this movie, she plays a
young single mother called Violet, and she's just come out
of a really terrible marriage that ended very badly. It
was a very intense DV situation. So she's been a
(20:19):
single mother and she's does crisis counseling, but she's just
started sort of wading back into the pool of dating
and she's talking to this really nice guy online and
they've got a bit of a connection and it's Brandon Skelma,
you know from I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Sure he ends with us. Yeah, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
To say aything, do you anyway?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I can I tie track a little bit. Sure is
he single?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
No, he's got a girlfriend. I'm pretty sure. No. Again,
the only thing is staying between you and Brentons.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
His instagram just gives such single everyone go look at
his instagram right now. It gives like the single energy
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
No, I know that was the vibe after it ends
with us, and I think that got so intense and
even famous people were being like, is he single? And
then he walked away car with his girlfriend? I'm pretty sure?
Just turn them, Yeah, just to get people to come
make sense with you about his instagram. That news didn't
reach you anyway. So she is going off for this
date to meet this guy who she's in chatting to online.
She leaves her son behind with her sister, and then
(21:11):
she goes this very fancy restaurant, like a some of
those big skyscraper.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Restaurant where three sixty views Yeah city exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So it's a good pairing as well, both of them. Yeah,
it's a good pairing because they could also look like siblings. Yeah,
and I'm like, I love those couples.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, siblings are dating in a movie. So she gets
to the restaurant, she's waiting for him to show up,
and all of a sudden, she starts getting all these
weird air drops on her phone and they get more
intenses the night goes on, and basically what you find
out is that there's someone in the restaurant. You find
that out very early on because obviously air dropping to her,
and they're basically holding her hostage because they sent someone
to her home where her Sonny is with like a gun.
There's someone in the restaurant, and they're getting her to
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do all these things and if she makes a move,
she tells anyone, if she tries to leave, then they
will you kill her and kill her family and all
this sort of stuff. So it's all these tarks that
she has streets at night. No, no, no, I know I'm
saying that, but like it's not not scary. It's kind
of like it does the stakes feel high, but also
it does kind of lag a little bit. Because when
I first heard of this movie and the review the
initial reviews when it first started showing at film festivals
(22:10):
were so good, and I was really excited for it
because I feel like it was maybe like a new
version of Red Eye or like Phone Booth, you know
those kind of ideas like Red Eye with Rachel McAdams
and Killian Murphy.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
That movie had me like, I think about that way
too much, literally having on the edge of my seat.
It's one of those movies where you automatically say, if
you were in that situation, what would you do? Yeah, like,
that's the one movie that situation I would we would
don't even.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Pick us because we're gonna die before we get him.
Get on the plane. But that is such an incredible movie,
and so much of that movie is just them on
the plane and it's just this one shot of Rachel
McAdams and Killian Murphy together. But the suspense is so good,
the pacing is so good. Nd percent, I meanf you
haven't watched that movie, go and watch it. And then
also something like Phone Booth where Colin Farrell's literally in
Phone Booth but it's so good and it's so intense,
(22:59):
and so I thought was going to be like that,
and look, it's fine, it's no Red Eye. I'll just
say that, but like it's quite good. I just felt
like it didn't. At first. It kind of does feel
a bit like a really intense and then it kind
of segues into just being like kind of like a
laugh out loud action comedy. So it's an interesting kind
of tonal twist. But I will just say that Megan
Fahi is incredible in it. She holds the movie like
(23:21):
if there's anyone else, it wouldn't be great, and it's
just I don't know, you're also just watching these people
like the world's worst first date, like you would have
been on the floor from embarrassment. Really yeah, because well
she's like, I'm trying to like get away from this
murderer and he's like, do you want to sell it? Oh? God,
Like what do you do for hobbies? Do you like
the view? It's just and they have this waiter who's
like trying to be an improvactor, and he gets coming
(23:43):
up to improv and it's whole. So there's a lot
of moments like that that sounds like a typical first Yeah. No, no,
that's I think maybe that's why I was getting a
bit sick in the stomach watching it, because I was like, real, one,
I'm worried for the safety of this woman and everyone
around her because there is someone in this restaurant who's
trying to kill her via air drop. And two, this
is just such a bad first date. But like they're
really into each other. Oh, so there's that, But also
(24:06):
everything about it is so awkward because she obviously can't
tell him what's going on, but it doesn't and the.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Whole children are about to dine, but she's like, oh,
but he's so hot.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah she I mean, she is more about trying to survive,
but she can tell that like in any other situation,
they just be having a lovely time. So it does
really build to a very interesting conclusion. And I would
say if you're going into the movies to watch it, like,
don't read anything about it first. You have any spoilers,
so don't you read anything about it. But it's good
to be looking around the restaurant being like putting the
clues together, because I wanted to tell the clues are
(24:35):
there for you to find the person before it's revealed.
You know, it's like it's sitting there if you want
to find it yourself, like you could just have it
revealed to you later on.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Very like knives Out.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, it's like knives Out. You can solve in your
head if you really get into it beforehand, or you
can just be surprised at the end. I thought that
for Drop, So like again, so pick your players, Yeah,
you pick the right ending.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well, I'm gonna try to solve it. But if I
don't solve it, then I'm gonna tell everyone that I
wasn't trying to solve it.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I want I was just going where the story takes me. Yes. Again,
So it's Drop. It's Adam Cinema's this week, April seventeen.
And just if you're looking just for a fun movie
with your girlfriends or it'll come to streaming very soon,
you know, just be a really fun Friday night movie.
And also Meghan Faihi just woman of the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today.
The Spill is produced by Amy Kimball with sound production
by Scott Stronik. And we'll be back here on your
podcast feed at three pm on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Bye bye,
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome
to the Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodney and my gosh, Grace by the presence of Emily
Verner miss missed you too. The amount of times in
(00:35):
my day and night when I'm watching things, I'm talking
to people and I think I gotta tell Emily that
is quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And it's not keeping a note in my phone that
says things to tell Emily, and it'll be movies to watch,
how to live alone, how to grocery shop, or.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'd taken up your photo album, so well I'll take
up your note tap as well.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I showed some on my phone the other day to
get a screenshot and they're like, your photo's just a
bunch of kids, which is all my nephews and nieces
and Emily because I take photos of univents anyway. And
we're a bit zany because we're heading into long weekend,
the East Long weekend, and we're very excited and that
is exactly the energy we're looking for and we have
had previews of so many amazing things that are coming
(01:14):
out this week. TV shows, movies, a lot of cinema,
a lot of cinema. Cinema is back, as they say
it back before. Wait to hear the movie I'm talking about,
You'll be like, hm, is it? So we decided to
do instead of our normal Friday morning drop, We're going
to do an extra long weekend watch today because we
have so many recommendations to pass on to you and
maybe you want to get away from your family for
(01:35):
the weekend and go watch movies or watch a TV
show and this is your avenue to do that. So
first of all, we have to do a little PSA
just in case the Spillers are not across. So the
last of Us season two came out this week. Have
you watched the first episode?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I have not as yet. I've been saving it for
the long weekend. But I also didn't really know where
to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It, okay, exactly. Yeah. So a few weeks or maybe
two weeks ago now, we talked about the launch of
Max in Australia. That's why they had the white Lotus
cast here who we had on the spill They had
the Last of Us cast here. They did this huge,
big premiere where they did it the State Theater like
you were in the Last of Us, which was both
beautiful and alone settling because I would die instantly in
that show.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's very scary.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And Bella Ramsey was there, and this is this whole
big thing. So I watched the first episode in a
cinema with the cast of The Last of Us, not
Pedro because it was his birthday and he didn't want
to come, which is fair enough.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's too busy reaping the benefits of that Apple commercial.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Exactly every time that flashes up with a little you're perfect.
That's it, right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I watch it every single really and it's popped up
like TikTok knows I want that ad.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I feel like it emotionally hurts me. It's like, Pedro,
you don't mean that whatever, You're just doing it for
the money. Whatever. Anyway, So the first episode is excellent.
Pedro is excellent in it. Bella Ramsey is just top
tier back as Ellie. There's a whole new cast. What
I will say it. I know we banged on about
this last time, is it? The Last of Us is
just more than a zombie show or an apocalyptic show. Like,
(02:59):
it's an incredibly crafted drama. And I find I've only
seen the first episode obviously of season two, but the
world building is so intense. There's all these great characters,
and there's a lot of humor in the first episode.
It's quite a bit of rhromance. There's also some bloody
death and murder, and you know, people surviving in an
apocalyptic wasteland.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is it a time jump or are they kicking?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There's quite a big time exactly. So when you come
into that first episode, they like it flashes up on
the screen how many years have passed, and people in
the cinema literally gas, but they're like, oh my god,
like really yeah, Like so the whole story has reset
a different way and you just kind of pick up, yeah,
where these characters are, but so much has happened that
their whole kind of world has changed. And I would
(03:40):
say that the first episode very heavily features Catherine O'Hara
as in Moira Rose from Ship's Creek. She's firing on
all this sworders so good. I can't wait for you
to watch so we can chat about it. So it's
on max Is where you have.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
To watch once a whole day, one hundred percent. My god,
we could dress as clickers.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've always carried that, which one would you be? I
would be my favorite clicker. If you don't watch the show,
and again please do you all should? My favorite clicker
is the one who's the huge, big clicker who's under
the cars and rubble in one in one of the
episode that Melanie Linski's in, and the bulbous clicker who
comes out of the ground. I loved him.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, it was really cute.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What's your favorite click A little girl clicker in the car.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The one that acrobat that was just really good, a gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That could be you. I could try. Okay, I'm a
best Well, last time we did more of like a
deep dive. On the last of US, I dressed as Joel,
which I did. I was spending all my money on props.
I wasn't making any money in this job, so this
time just as a clicker.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The last of US season two episodes out weekly, which
is exactly the way she was doing it on Max.
Now you have another recommendation to throw into the mix.
I do have afore we get into any stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, so I was grateful, not grateful. I was privisioned
enough to see an early screening of a movie that
has come out now on Thursday, so you can watch
it in cinemas right now. It's called Sinners.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can I just Ever since I saw the first clips
of this movie, since was announced, since the trailer came out,
this movie has been my entire life. I couldn't go
to the premiere. I couldn't watch you experience because watching
you experience movies is my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Whole bunch of us that mum mail went to the
cinema and the IMAX.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, you and I have a very treacherous past with
the IBAX.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you know, you know, if you don't know, you'll
figure it out. But firstly, I get I love horror movies. Ye,
but I am one of those people that get so
immersed in horror movies and I genuinely get terrified.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Which I do. I mean, it's doing what it needs
to do. I also love that you get so into it,
because not just because I love to watch you, just
sometimes you I'll just be sitting next to you, just
in a cinema, watching a horror movie, and all of
a sudden, you'll disappear and I realize you've sunk, just
slunk onto the floor in a little ball and you're shaking,
which I feel bad about it, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It was so in the story, and we were in
the IVY, so I felt like, as you know, when
we talk about IMAX, you're in the movie.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, you want to say too much, but vampires Michael B.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jordan, Mike just think, Okay, think Michael B.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Jordan. I'm already there times that by two, oh, stop it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But he plays twin brothers. It's about like these twin
brothers and names of Smoke and Stack, great names names,
and they go back to their hometown to kind of,
like I guess, like relive this new life of theirs.
It is a horror movie. It is mystery. It's like
horror adventure, which is the best genre, best genre, and
there's something really fucking weird about their hometown.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Again, I'm just guessing about a few things from the trailer.
I actually I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Steinfeel's in it as well.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, apparently she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
She's amazing. And have you been watching their interviews together?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes, so flirty, having a real I mean, she's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
No he's day. I think, Okay, look, I don't want
to disappoint anyone here, but I'm pretty sure he's in
a relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What I mean, that's the only thing. Standy for team
him and asks nothing else.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Nothing else. That was it. But I do love the promo,
like they've been doing really clever stuff with his promo
where they're kind of like he's wearing two different outfits
and red carpet so it looks like he's the Twins.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So good.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
This movie is so so good, fucking terrifying. But you know,
do it. You have to imax. It is out now
in cinemas.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So it's very sad you're away last week, Emily, not
just because I always miss you, but because you missed
my very theatrical and somewhat over the top retelling of
being at the premiere of the TV show Narrow Road
to the Deep North.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm so upset I miss that premiere because I'm so
good and you saw my boyfriend Jacob ELORDI.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well I did again, we'll link that episode which.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm not allowed to date because he's too tall for me.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Apparently, yes, thank you for that. Please, short or medium
height women do.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Not date toll me, I'm not allowed to date over
five to ten. I've been yelled, which I've stuck to.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, you're a girl girl.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If anything, I'm a girl's girl.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I won't go into the whole story now, mostly
because I might get arrested if I keep bringing it up.
But I'll link at that podcast. I'll link that podcast
episode in the show notes. Because I got there late.
Don't say anything. I was working, you know what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know if I was there, you wouldn't have been late.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, I know, because if we're in the office, I leave. Yeah,
Emily walks off my desk because I'm leaving, and I
was like, I don't know where you're going because they're
my tickets and you need me to get in.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And get there, and I'm like, hellower Broad I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
A few times I have got to red carpets and
they're just like, oh, you're already inside. I'm like, Emily,
I'm not, it's Emily. Anyway, I got their lates. I
accidentally arrived at the exact same time as Jacob e LORDI,
So I'm trying to go down the Red Carpet's late.
His security had to like push me oy the way,
and I had to walk behind him up the red
carpet waiting to like get past him. It was a
whole situation where we'll look at the show notes because
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there more stuff happened once we got inside.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I can't wait to see that photo.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I put some of my instincts. So he was going
along and like pulling his pen out and like pulding
the penlan in his mouth while he signed fans books.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I couldn't rab that penlet out of his mouth.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I would have so many people messaged me that it
was actually quite upsetting.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Anyway, wait, show how what was his height like from
your point of view?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I've met him briefly before, but I would say I
was wearing like a low a medium heel, and I'm
very tall and he's a lot taller than me. Whoa yeah,
And he was slinking about with his head down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Did he pull out a novel from his pocket?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He likes that. No, but we did that in now
social videos. The social did that. Poor man. He was
just walking in there and everyone was just like Jacob,
I love youel and he's like, hey, that's so him,
that's oh Jacob, so Jacob. Anyway, the TV show. This
is the second time I try to tell the port
of this TV show and every time I talk about
this pot we just derail over Jacob. But it is
(09:30):
a very important series, really beautifully done, like very brutal
to watch, watch the first two episodes, but really beautifully done.
I highly highly recommend that everyone watch it as an
amazing piece of Australian drama. So, yeah, someone's got war
scenes and battle scenes but kind of showing like a
lot of the gruesome sides of war. So it's a
five part series and it's adapted from austray And author
(09:50):
Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize winning novel of the same name,
and so the story kind of goes back and forth
between a few different timelines. So it tells the story
of Dorigo Evans. So he's played by Jacob Orlrdi as
a young man and then Kieren Hines as the older
duringo and it tracks his life in nineteen forty before
when he's stationed to Adelaide from military training and he's
(10:11):
very much in love with Olivia Ja Jong's character. So
he's got a lot of amazing Australian actresses and I
feel like they're not getting their kind of moment in
the sun because a lot of people like me are
just talking about Jacob being like sultry on a red carpet.
But Olivia Jejong's in it. She's amazing her And his
character has like a bit of a love story, and
he also forms a very intense connection with his uncle's wife,
(10:32):
who's like a young spitfire called Amy played by Odessa Young,
who I always love in everything. Is that a scandal
of a bit of scandals, That's what I mean. It's
it's a war story, and like he becomes a prisoner
of war and you see like that kind of like
brutal reality of the situation. And then you also see
him as an older man where he's like become a surgeon.
He's this very reluctive yeah, and he's a very reluctant
(10:53):
war hero. He's a surgeon when he's a a career change.
And so it's just really beautifully done. And I know
people who were at the who were at the screening
thought it was maybe a little bit hard to watch
and is very kind of like a serious hard to
watch show, but really beautifully crafted and made. You can
just see so much time and care has gone into it.
(11:14):
I was surprised that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They made it into a series and it wasn't a movie.
Those genres, I feel like are always just massive movies.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, I feel like it would have really diluted the
story if it was a movie, because there's you've got
all the different timelines, and you've got what's going on
with like Amy back at home, and like what's going
on with him at the war, and then his oldest
self and what he's going through and everything, and like
building the Burma railway and all the horrors of that
and everything. So it's yeah, really beautifully done. There's five
episodes coming to Prime Video this Friday, April eighteen, and
(11:45):
one more thing now that I've talked about how what
a great series it is and how it's based on
the best selling book. So I just want it on
the record that I said all that stuff, Okay before
I answer you really want to say, but answered the
question every single persse. Obviously, I'm at these events. I'm
putting all like photos from Instagram of like the celebrities,
and I'm also putting up my review and stuff. And
the one question I got from everyone is like, do
you see Jacob a Lordie naked, and the answer is kind.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Of yeah, what kind of do we see pain?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, no, not for penis, but and again this is
a very important historical novel. But there is quite a
lovely sex scene of him and one of the actresses
very early on episode one, so like, really they give
it to you straight away. And there's a lot of
him shirtless. There's a lot of him like with very
little clothing on. It's absolutely not the point of the
(12:29):
TV show. But if you want to see Jacob Lordie
in a hot and heavy sex scene, then TV shows
away there, Okay, the Narrow Road to the Deep North
and on Prime Video. It's a very important TV show.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But just just that, can I give a bit of
a rogue recommendation?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Please do as you know, I've lifted the rules from today.
We're allowed to throw a few extra things in out.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
On Disney Plus right now, Daredevil Born Again.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh obviously I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Have you watched the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, I'm still watching because kind of Okay, I haven't
actually told you this yet. I've gone back and watched
the original Dare Devil.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I should have done that because I forgot a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I feel like I had to really really kind
of go back into that world before I could watch
this reboot series. But I have watched the first episode
of the reboot, and so I know the huge which
I don't think we should say here, but I know
the huge, huge, huge sad thing that happens. But you
want to tell the people who Dared Devil is in
case they don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, So okay, you know where Marvel fans over here.
We love the Avengers, we love the X Men, we
love which we haven't talked about a lot, the Defenders. Yeah,
so the Defenders are a subgroup. They're kind of like
if like people auditioned for the Avengers and they didn't
make it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
In the I mean, Jessica Jones wouldn't want you to
say that, but they were just untrue.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So that's how I found Daredevil was through Jessica Jones.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
A perfect TV show.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Perfect. Actually, let's check this into the regulation as well,
Screw Dared Devil watch Jessica Jones.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, I think Jessica Jones, you should watch first with
your entry into the Defender's TV universe.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, And then I watched the Defenders and that's when
I was introduced to Dead Devil.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Have you watched Iron Fist and all the other Luke Cage.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And all the un Punisher Yeah, yeah, watch them. She's
a good one, but you're right, Jessica Jones is the
best one. But I don't want to talk too soon
because I also haven't finished Dared Devil Born Again and
it's really good, sofa, it's like brilliant, So anyway, Daredevil.
It stars Charlie Cox, who plays Matt Murdoch. He is
a how would you just.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Would you just gob? He's a blind he's a blind lawyer,
but is like a superhero yes, because he had all
his other senses are like since he became blind, all
his other sensors are like whoa, Yeah, So his senses
aren't heightened because of like a supernatural thing. His senses
a heightened because he lost his sight as a young boy.
And he also underwent like i'sn'd went the karate kid
or something like that. He underwent like really intense fight
(14:49):
training as a child. So now he's a blind lawyer
by day, a mild mannered blind lawyer by day who
like you know, looks after the people of Hell's Kitchen,
does like justice for them in New York City and
by night he leaps on Ruth's tops and fights bad
guys and you know, takes out the criminal element.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Are you expling that so well? I was like, and
then what happened?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I was like?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And then what you're like? What does he do?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Then there's three seasons of the original plus the comics,
plus a pretty terrible better flick movie. But but it's
where he met Jennifer Ganah.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes, and she was in the Deadpool movie playing the
same character and it was a dig at benefitte one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh the law here is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And then he moved to DC.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Loser. Can I say about the original Daredevil, which is
also on Disney Plus so you can just go and watch.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here's why they made them two separate series instead of
just making this more seasons.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well because there was a big break because it kind
of got canceled, slash ended, slush. There was all this
stuff with the studios and so the story did end.
So they had to like born again, like he's come
back from the cancelation of you know.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
They love her born again, a reborn would origin.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I will just say that the original Daredevil series, if
you want of those people out there who's like, oh,
I hate superhero shows, blah blah blah. This is also
just a really good like comedy drama, and it's just
got some really.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Good suits a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
If the suits seemed were really poor in New York
and they couldn't pay their bills. Yeah, and also a
great love story like I won't spoil it, but also
kind of say, he's the hottest of all the I'm
the most attracted to him out of any of the
Low's like TV Superhero even movie, even more than any
of the Avengers. Why is he so hot?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I think it's because he's also so so smart, but
like not like a Tony Stark like science. He's smart
like a witty like I get people smart.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, sing about him is also just Charlie Cox's like
he's not brooding.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I feel like a lot of Superhero is brood alone,
and he's more just.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Like he broods, but it's different. I don't know. He's
just such a dream boat and there's a really great romance,
especially in the first season when they have Ione saying things,
want you guys to watch if you haven't, when they
had that first kiss in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, I just watched you know what that was? That
was better than the Spider Man kiss one hundred. It
might even be one of the most romantic kisses I've
ever seen on TV or in a super Hear movie
Dared Devil rum com.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, yeah, it is a wrong also because all the
big screen Marvel and DC adaptations very famously don't have
sex scenes. It's only the eternals and they're very sexless
and no one really kisses like it's a whole They've
just removed romance and sex from it. Whereas Daredevil, he's
having sex all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, he loves it. Daredevil born Again. Everything we said
is nothing about the news seats, but.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's really good. It's really good. You talk about the
new season, He's back.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's back. There's a lot of politics involved in this
new season, which kind of makes me feel like it's
not very like, as you said, like typical superhero, but
it's also not too romantic. Yeah, it's more feels with
succession any time suits. Yeah, like very political. He's going
into like this whole new world. I think it's like
post Avengers. Yeah, so you're seeing him like navigate this
(18:01):
whole world all these like different identities I feel like
we might see and I don't want to spoil it
for myself. In case I spoil it for myself, how
would you spoiler for yourself? Well, what if I guess director?
You know, Yeah, I feel like there might be mutant playing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, that's what we're seeing now in the new one.
You looked around as if like DC was going to
come and grab you would take your way to a cell.
That's all we're seeing in the new Marvel movies.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So maybe, oh, Devil Born again, watch it, Disney Brussa
La Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So unfortunately I had to go to another premiere without
you the other day and you would have really loved it.
But it's okay, was going to tell you about it now.
So no, it's even though I don't say that lightly,
like I know exactly what scares you would need to
be one hundred percent fine in this in anything, you
might be kind of calling out a bit of criticism
in the movie or laughing. So it's called Drop, and
it's coming out in cinemas this week on April seventeen,
(18:51):
and it's a new kind of thriller mystery, and the
most exciting part of it is that it stars, girl
of the moment, but she's always been a girl for
you know, a girl of the moment for us, Megan Fakie.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
She's like the face actor of the moment.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, one hundred percent. So I think a lot of
people would know her from The White Lotus season two
she played Daphne and she was like a real breakout
star from that. My friends would know her from The
Bold Type where she played Sutton. And also interestingly, we
had her on The Spill as a guest when she
was just kind of blowing up on The Bold Type.
And I'll never forget it because I waited on the
car because it's online for like twenty minutes and she
(19:23):
didn't show up, and I'm like, I can't believe Megan
fayh has just ditched our interview. That's so freaking rude.
I'll never watch anything with her. And again, next minute
she pops up on screen or flustered and like, I'm
so sorry, I'm so sorry, and I was like, oh,
it's okay, and then she's like and then she told
me this story where her laptop had died, her phone
had died, so she couldn't reach anyone, she couldn't call
her publicist. She's in a hotel in a city because
she was on a press tour, doesn't know anyone. So
(19:44):
she walked down the hallway and tapped on people's doors
or other guests in the hotel, and she borrowed someone's
iPad and that's how we did the interview. So ever
since that, I've been like, that girl is resourceful, she's
career oriented.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I can tell you right now, I'll never do that
without anyone.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I said to her, I wouldn't even do that to
interview you. I who just canceled it, And she was like,
that's fair anyway. So in this movie, she plays a
young single mother called Violet, and she's just come out
of a really terrible marriage that ended very badly. It
was a very intense DV situation. So she's been a
(20:19):
single mother and she's does crisis counseling, but she's just
started sort of wading back into the pool of dating
and she's talking to this really nice guy online and
they've got a bit of a connection and it's Brandon Skelma,
you know from I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Sure he ends with us. Yeah, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
To say aything, do you anyway?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I can I tie track a little bit. Sure is
he single?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
No, he's got a girlfriend. I'm pretty sure. No. Again,
the only thing is staying between you and Brentons.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
His instagram just gives such single everyone go look at
his instagram right now. It gives like the single energy
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
No, I know that was the vibe after it ends
with us, and I think that got so intense and
even famous people were being like, is he single? And
then he walked away car with his girlfriend? I'm pretty sure?
Just turn them, Yeah, just to get people to come
make sense with you about his instagram. That news didn't
reach you anyway. So she is going off for this
date to meet this guy who she's in chatting to online.
She leaves her son behind with her sister, and then
(21:11):
she goes this very fancy restaurant, like a some of
those big skyscraper.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Restaurant where three sixty views Yeah city exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So it's a good pairing as well, both of them. Yeah,
it's a good pairing because they could also look like siblings. Yeah,
and I'm like, I love those couples.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, siblings are dating in a movie. So she gets
to the restaurant, she's waiting for him to show up,
and all of a sudden, she starts getting all these
weird air drops on her phone and they get more
intenses the night goes on, and basically what you find
out is that there's someone in the restaurant. You find
that out very early on because obviously air dropping to her,
and they're basically holding her hostage because they sent someone
to her home where her Sonny is with like a gun.
There's someone in the restaurant, and they're getting her to
(21:48):
do all these things and if she makes a move,
she tells anyone, if she tries to leave, then they
will you kill her and kill her family and all
this sort of stuff. So it's all these tarks that
she has streets at night. No, no, no, I know I'm
saying that, but like it's not not scary. It's kind
of like it does the stakes feel high, but also
it does kind of lag a little bit. Because when
I first heard of this movie and the review the
initial reviews when it first started showing at film festivals
(22:10):
were so good, and I was really excited for it
because I feel like it was maybe like a new
version of Red Eye or like Phone Booth, you know
those kind of ideas like Red Eye with Rachel McAdams
and Killian Murphy.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
That movie had me like, I think about that way
too much, literally having on the edge of my seat.
It's one of those movies where you automatically say, if
you were in that situation, what would you do? Yeah, like,
that's the one movie that situation I would we would
don't even.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Pick us because we're gonna die before we get him.
Get on the plane. But that is such an incredible movie,
and so much of that movie is just them on
the plane and it's just this one shot of Rachel
McAdams and Killian Murphy together. But the suspense is so good,
the pacing is so good. Nd percent, I meanf you
haven't watched that movie, go and watch it. And then
also something like Phone Booth where Colin Farrell's literally in
Phone Booth but it's so good and it's so intense,
(22:59):
and so I thought was going to be like that,
and look, it's fine, it's no Red Eye. I'll just
say that, but like it's quite good. I just felt
like it didn't. At first. It kind of does feel
a bit like a really intense and then it kind
of segues into just being like kind of like a
laugh out loud action comedy. So it's an interesting kind
of tonal twist. But I will just say that Megan
Fahi is incredible in it. She holds the movie like
(23:21):
if there's anyone else, it wouldn't be great, and it's
just I don't know, you're also just watching these people
like the world's worst first date, like you would have
been on the floor from embarrassment. Really yeah, because well
she's like, I'm trying to like get away from this
murderer and he's like, do you want to sell it? Oh? God,
Like what do you do for hobbies? Do you like
the view? It's just and they have this waiter who's
like trying to be an improvactor, and he gets coming
(23:43):
up to improv and it's whole. So there's a lot
of moments like that that sounds like a typical first Yeah. No, no,
that's I think maybe that's why I was getting a
bit sick in the stomach watching it, because I was like, real, one,
I'm worried for the safety of this woman and everyone
around her because there is someone in this restaurant who's
trying to kill her via air drop. And two, this
is just such a bad first date. But like they're
really into each other. Oh, so there's that, But also
(24:06):
everything about it is so awkward because she obviously can't
tell him what's going on, but it doesn't and the.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Whole children are about to dine, but she's like, oh,
but he's so hot.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah she I mean, she is more about trying to survive,
but she can tell that like in any other situation,
they just be having a lovely time. So it does
really build to a very interesting conclusion. And I would
say if you're going into the movies to watch it, like,
don't read anything about it first. You have any spoilers,
so don't you read anything about it. But it's good
to be looking around the restaurant being like putting the
clues together, because I wanted to tell the clues are
(24:35):
there for you to find the person before it's revealed.
You know, it's like it's sitting there if you want
to find it yourself, like you could just have it
revealed to you later on.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Very like knives Out.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, it's like knives Out. You can solve in your
head if you really get into it beforehand, or you
can just be surprised at the end. I thought that
for Drop, So like again, so pick your players, Yeah,
you pick the right ending.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well, I'm gonna try to solve it. But if I
don't solve it, then I'm gonna tell everyone that I
wasn't trying to solve it.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I want I was just going where the story takes me. Yes. Again,
So it's Drop. It's Adam Cinema's this week, April seventeen.
And just if you're looking just for a fun movie
with your girlfriends or it'll come to streaming very soon,
you know, just be a really fun Friday night movie.
And also Meghan Faihi just woman of the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today.
The Spill is produced by Amy Kimball with sound production
by Scott Stronik. And we'll be back here on your
podcast feed at three pm on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Bye bye,
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