July 24, 2025 • 20 mins
It’s Weekend Watch time — and we’re diving into two of the biggest new releases of the week.First up, Happy Gilmore 2 lands on Netflix today - the sequel's been highly anticipated and we’re unpacking what to expect from Adam Sandler’s return to one of his most iconic roles.
Then there’s Fantastic Four: First Steps, the movie it feels like we've been waiting to see for weeks, after the infamous Pedro Pascal interview (where we made him cry - listen here). It’s in cinemas now — but does it deliver on the hype?
Plus, a few extra picks for the true TV obsessives who want to know everything that dropped this week (because Laura refused to choose just two). So whether you love crime-thrillers or murder-mystery dramas we've got you sorted this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So you're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia
acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders that this
podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily pop
culture fix. I'm am Vernon.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I'm morea Brodney.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And today is a very special weekend watch episode.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, it's the episode where we watch all the new
TV shows and movies that have come out this week
and this week I do mean all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You've got to love.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Give you a rundown of the very best ones because
we don't want you to waste your time or your money.
This is your curated list of what to watch.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, you have a lot of recommendation yet.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, well we'll get to why I've been the bad
host this week. Yes, but you may go first, Emily,
with a show that I know you're obsessed with.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I want to go first. And I also have been
a bad host because I didn't follow our rules.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But it's no, let's both just get out here podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The TV show I'm recommending today didn't actually to come
out this week, but it came out last week, so
you might have missed it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Look, I'm no one to throw stories this week about
rule following, So I'm gonna allow it. Good.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So it's called Untamed and it's on Netflix. It stars
Eric Banner and Sam Neil.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh your favor, Sam Neil, so good.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It is just like a season, but it's kind of
a crime drama. There's not many comedy elements in it,
but it's not super super dark. It is so captivating.
I watched all episodes in one night.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Wow, in one night.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I went a bed at one am because I just
had to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So I do love when that happens.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It is like a mystery. It's set in the Yosemite Reserve,
so it's like very beautiful scenes. Eric Banner plays this
detective on horseback because he can't get his car through
all of the forest. Oh, she's just constantly on a horse.
And Sam Neil plays like his boss who's also his
best friend. And it starts off with a death, like
this woman dies. It seems like a murder, so Eric
(02:09):
Banners character investigates it. He brings on this rookie Neya
who's played by Lily Santiago. She is absolutely brilliant. And
it's not one of those like detective shows where like
the fresh new face detectives trying to impress the old
timey detective. It doesn't fall into any of those like tropes,
those mystery tropes. It's just so fresh and new, and
(02:30):
there's so many plot twists and the plot line is beautiful,
the scenes are beautiful. It will literally captivate you from
beginning to end. It's also a really good show to
talk to your uncle about because everyone who's watched the
shows either been my dad or my uncle. Yea, yeah,
so they love the show.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So a very safe one to bring up at family one,
Very very safe.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It will be one of like, this is the show
you want to recommend a family lunch and everyone be
like whoa. Every single person on the table will be like,
wholl I need to watch that? So they're untamed on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, love that. Okay, So I know that when I
created We Can Watch, I set the rule of it
had to be shows and movies that came out this week,
which you've already broken.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I break multiple times.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I know you're terrible at following the rules. And
it also had to be ideally one recommendation each, So
today I have four. Is it my fault? There's so
much good new stuff out this week that I wanted
the list. So I'm going to go through these ones
like kind of a little bit rapid fire. We'll put
the titles in the show notes, so don't freak out
(03:28):
if you're like Laura, you talk really fast and I
didn't understand you, just go to the show notes. So
the first one I wanted to recommend is a TV
show that came out on stand earlier this week called
The Hunting Wives. It's an adaptation of the book by
May Cobb, and it stars Britney Snow as Sophie. So
she's this woman who moves to this town in Texas
where she meets this group of like Texan wives to
(03:49):
like to get together and have like a fun time.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Is it Brittany Snow Blonde? A Britney Snow Brenette.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I mean it's not blonde, it's not blondes. I'm like, so,
I don't want to give spoilers. I'm like, I won't
even tell you what Colora Harriss. So yes, it's the
Britney Snow from like Pitch Perfect and from we Know
in Love, but she's playing a bit more of a
serious character. So Sophie moves to this small town where
she meets these wives who are kind of led by
this socialite named Margo played by Malene Ackerman, who obviously
(04:15):
we knows from so many TV shows and movies. I
feel like her maybe her best performance was Twenty seven Dresses.
You know, she played Catherine Heigel's sister, so she's incredible.
Margo is very like you know, she and Sophie form
this friendship, and like Margo is very sort of controlling
but also very intoxicating, and it does turn sexual between
(04:35):
that's out in the world. That's not a spoiler. But
then all this other stuff happens, and there's an incredible
cast that Chrissy Metz is also in it. People have
likened it to like a textan version of most Big
Little Lies, but it's love that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's
so worth watching. So I won't say anything else because
I just said I would do this quickly, and then
I haven't. So the Hunting Wives on Stan all episodes
(04:55):
are out. You almost want to pull it on Tame.
Just sit down and watch it all in one go,
because you'll be so kind of caught up in the
storyline and the drama So the other show I wanted
to recommend is The Assassin, which all episodes have dropped
on stand tonight the twenty fifth, and The Assassin is
a new kind of crime caper and it stars Keeley Hawes,
incredible actress, are a tired assassin, and Freddie him Or
(05:18):
plays her son, and so you will love it. So
Tina Burke, who sometimes is on the pod, is the
entertainment edit at Mamma Mia watched all the shows so
she could interview Keeley and Freddy and she Freddy, Yeah, yeah,
so that's that's coming soon to MoMA Mia. I get excited.
They have an estrangement, but then they kind of brought
back together when they're on this like idyllic Greek island
(05:40):
and Julie, who played by Keilly Hawes, her very dangerous
past catches up with her. So it's both this kind
of like crazy crime drama and a story of like
this relationship between this mother and son, which is really
engaging to watch. And yeah, I was just quite watched
the first episode. I was so caught up with it already.
So The Assassin on Stan make sure you watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We're going very crimey this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We've got some you know, love and lust and crime
and then mum and son and crime. It's all happening.
That's we love crime with a side of I'm like,
you know mine is like crime and draws me. Yeah, yeah,
you'll just crime and sandy. The other recommendation I have
is a movie that I have just been waiting such
a long time for. It's Happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
My name is Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Thirty years ago I decided to give godf a try.
But even when you're at the top of your game,
you can always shank one.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Happy Gilmour sucks. How are you gonna put me in
a through ballet school? It's seventy five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's four years.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's three hundred and thirty three grand. That's terrible math, Johnny,
it's three hundred grand. Happy Gilmore didn't have things flowing
on the first.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Old check out the name, Ted Grandson.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're in my round now. I got two little stuff
in there. But wow, everyone is talking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Come back here.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You've been watching to play mister Gilmore so inspiring.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They loved you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Man. I am so sady. I guess I really glue.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So if you're not across. The original Happy Gilmore movie
came out in nineteen ninety six. When I was it's yeah,
well we got two great things that year, two great
if you will, two masterpieces ended the world. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I said that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
A great year for the world. So it was one
of Adam Sandler's first big breakout movies. He plays a
golfer called Happy Gilmore. It's a great sports movie. So
Adam Sandler was reprising that role. Julie Bowen was also
in the original, like people would know her from Modern Family.
Now she's reprising her role.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He made his whole production company off the back.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of Yay, Yeah, well he did. His production company is
Happy Madison Production. So it's Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison,
two of his most iconic films that came really early
in his career. And I'm so excited for this movie.
And I know there are naysay out there that say
that Adam Sandler movies aren't good, especially their original ones.
Into that I say, you're wrong like that, I agree.
I feel like they really hold up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Everyone's watched Adam Sandler movie.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, and also I feel like Adam Sandler is just
an incredible comedian. I think he's I'm not even joking.
I said that. I feel like he's an incredible comedian,
He's an incredible storyteller. Yes, he plays all of the
same characters and things, but like he's just really evolved
that level of his performance to make it perfection in
every movie. And also, no one in the industry has
a bad word to say about that man. Everyone loves him.
(08:43):
He puts his wife and his daughters now in every
single movie, so they're in this movie. So to the
Happy Gilmore Too premiere, he drove his family there, like
he just drove.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The car he like parked.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He just parks down the road and gets out, like
walks down to the red carpet and he's just wearing
his like sloppy, bright colored clo. Adam Sandler outfit everyone
for it. Like as kids, that was a huge movie
that my sisters and brother and I all watched over
and over and over again. Like we used to put
the VHS on and pull out actresses out into the
living room so we could be in front of the
air con because North Queensland and watch this movie together
(09:15):
and we still quote it all to this day. And
so I regret not doing this Now, I did think
about jumping on a plane to Queensland, because I've done
that before. I did that when the new Girl More
Girls came out. I flew to Queensland to watch it
with my family, and I almost maybe I've got on
a plane tonight. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Got on a plane to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Please do because I wanted to watch it with my siblings.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Of course you do, you should.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I just like watch it alone at maybe you
and I watch it together and I'll recreate that sibling via.
But I just think it's so nostalgic, so beautiful, Happy
Girl More too. It's coming out on Netflix tonight, Friday night.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Can cancel if you watch? I mean, you could just
watch a standlone movie, but I think to get the
correct experience, you should watch the original Happy Girl Moore first.
So do a double feature, do it back to back
and give yourself a little treat. Okay, now I get
to my actual recommendation of the week, because this one there's.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Been a building than going where on the last one.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Stopping guys, because after the hype and the build up
and the tears and the high high emotions. I have
actually now officially seen the Fantastic Four First Steps, so thank.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
God I'm coming famous around the world.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Please welcome the Fantastic Four. I herald his beginning. I
herald your end.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I herald Galactus.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
What is that? Are we safe? I don't know the
club was taken.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We are going to find a solution. We are going
to make it right. You don't want to just crush them,
hide that.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The four of us will face the danger.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We will protect you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I'm sure most of you would be across. Last
week we had the cast of the Fantastic Four First Steps,
new Marvel movie on this very podcast, so Pedro, Pascal
Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Adam Moore's backrack while they
were in Australia. We recapped while I recapped because you
won't invited, I was. I'm so sorry. Sometimes I don't
have a lot of power.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It was like a fan event. Yeah, and you guys
were able to watch clips of the movie.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, so we gave a little behind them scenes of
what happened at that fan event. Very intense. The police
were called. We saw some clips of the movie and
got to sort of see Pedron, Vanessa and Joseph and
Ebit and everything at that event. The next day I
went interview them. All turned into being a crazy emotional day.
I went into it now, but Pedron Vanessa cry in
my interview, which you can listen to on the episode
(12:13):
that will link in the show notes. And then, like
an idiot, I cried recapping it to Emily on the
podcast because it's a very emotional.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So I really cried.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I was not there. And then it's so funny because
all that content came out we put.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They I nearly cried when you and Vanessa were reminiscing
about your first interview with her, which is also one
of her first press junkets, and there was you as
a first time being in the entertainment space.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It was all the first happening was yeah, we shared
a moment, But that she remember that still blows my mind.
I can't believe she's like, I remember it exactly and
she didn't want to bring it up when I walked
in because she thought I wouldn't remember. And I was like, Vanessa,
I remember spending half a day with you. Are you kidding?
So yeah, that was crazy. So we'll link that in
our show notes. We also put the full interviews up
on YouTube. They've gone crazy for numbers. We put the
(12:57):
videos out, so that's all out there. After all that,
I still hadn't seen the actual movie. So Tuesday night
I went to a place where you and I have
both had good and bad memories. I went to the
Imax for the premiere.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Where did you sit in me?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh my god? So for Yeah, for people who don't know,
Emily and I once were late to a premiere at
the Imax and it was my fault.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This story reeks the privilege. By the way, like every
type no I saw people we got free tickets to
the Imax and we were so mad.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It wasn't worth it for the free tickets. Okay. The
floor of this particular Imax, which is in Sydney and
where a lot of premieres are held. And I think
it's important because even if you don't live in Sydney,
all your reviews would be coming from the people who
in that theater. And I think it's so important to
stress that half the people can't see the screen because
it's a huge, huge screen. It's definitely the biggest screen
in Australia. But it's also like the biggest screen of
(13:43):
like half.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The halftive screen. But if you're sitting in the first
I want to say five rows.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, just leave. You can't, it's not worth it. You
and I watched the Marvels there, which I feel like
we did like, but I couldn't tell you what happened
because we were in the movie. You were in the movie,
and I had a seizure, so both of us.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Like, my neck has never felt so much pain. And
we were in the second row. We weren't even in
the first way. We were in the second row. And
then if someone, if a character walked across the screen,
our whole row had to turn their heads to see
where they.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Went at least see one part of the screen anytime.
So you really had to pick which character you wanted
to follow it, and the rest of the other characters
couldn't even tell you what happened. So the next time
you and I went to a premiere there with the
first ones through the door, and we had to almost
do that this time, and.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I was I'm very strict about our IMAX viewings. We
have to be there half an hour early, yeah, to
get a seat at the back, because even if you're
in the middle.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's still quite big, which is where we were for
Fantastic for because even though we got their early, the
Marvel reviewers and not to be trifled with. So I
just want you guys to sometimes know what we go
through to get you these reviews. It's not all free
champagne and free popcorn, although there was that there So
the movie Yeah, okay, I know we have talked about this.
Marvel's had a few stumbling box since Endgame correct and
(14:52):
we loved Thunderbolts, but it didn't perform as well.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I also loved Captain America, which a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I didn't love Brave New World, Yeah, which was the
Anthony Mackie Captain America, and.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I I just love Anthony Mackie.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, I mean. And also that's not just us saying
that a lot of their recent projects have not performed
as they thought of the Bosox and have also had
bad reviews from critics and fans like and also Marvel
have also come out, I should say, and they have
acknowledged that they've gone off the path a little bit.
They put out too much content, too many stories, and
I think it's important to note that what they're saying
(15:24):
is Fantastic Four if you've dropped out of the Marvel
set about a universe, because you're like, I can't keep
up with ten different TV shows and ten different movies
just to go and watch this movie. The thing about
the Fantastic Four is that you don't need to do homework.
That's the official line from Marvel. No homework. You go
in with starting fresh. I love with this story. So
the Fantastic Four is known as Marvel's first Family. They're
(15:45):
like the original family from when these comic books first started.
I sort of won't go too much into the plot
because it's all really in the movie. You don't need
to know too much. But they're a group of astronauts
and scientists who go into space. An event happens, and
they come back to space, but they come back to
Earth with superpowers. So you've got to Venessa. Kobe's got
the you know, Soux Storm is like the invisible woman,
mister Fantastic played by Pedro Pascal. You know, the stretching
(16:08):
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a very feminine being able to stretch, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And backflip and stuff. It's very cool. And then like
Johnny Storm played by Joseph Quinn, you know, can fly
and some of stuff. And then obviously Ben Grime's played
by Evan Mosse. Backcrack is the thing and you know,
the one who has the physical transformation. Yeah, so the
story isn't focusing on them getting their powers, even though
that is all explained at the beginning, So you can
go into this movie with no knowledge. I think they're
(16:32):
really stepping away from origin movies. It's like, how many
more times can we see a boy get bit by
a spider?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And also had a lot of Fantastic Four movies and
they've all done the Origin story.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yes, they've all done the Origin story in different ways,
and this time they were just like, we start with
that information, it's explained how they got them, but then
we jump into the next part of the story. Also,
I've got to say, like visually stunning, it looks incredible,
It has its own tone feel, It's beautiful to look at,
action sequences, great pacing of the story excellent, Like it's
(17:01):
an hour and fifty five minutes and it went by
in a blink of an eye. There was no point
where you know, sometimes in superhero movies and action movies,
they stop and someone explains something fifty minutes or there's
big back and forth between these two guys and suits
and you know, and all that sort of stuff, and
you're just like, you're pulling me out of the story.
The pacing is off. There's all these scenes we don't need.
This one is like every scene is like bang bang
(17:22):
bang bang story. Story story. You'd see this from the
trailers that Pedron Vanessa have a baby, which I'm just saying,
fucking terrify to that baby's all powerful. But anyway, that's
a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Incredibles.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, it actually feels like a lot like if you
like The Incredibles, you'll like this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We also have the same powers as the Incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, there's a line there. At its core, it is
a family drama with action sequences, so it's also not
as bouncy and fun as some other Marvel movies. There's
definitely some fun moments, but it's I guess, more dramatic
and more intense. It also just feels the whole way
through like there's actual proper steaks, like the storyline stakes
feel very high. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I feel like that's what Marvel was missing, which is
why and I still haven't watched it, the new Superman
DC movie. Yeah, I'm glad it's had so many great
reviews because I feel like, for the love longest time,
Marvel's just been competing with Marvel, and now finally DC
has like come up to the stadium and it is
just like making a competitive for Marvel, which is what
they needed.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. I'm sort of holding my breath as they say
this because I don't want to jump at like a
head too much. But blockbusters are really they're back. Like
I know, I said cinema was back with Superman, but
seeing Superman and I, as I said on the pot
at the time, I love that so much. It also
felt like it wasn't lazy storytelling. It was made for
the audience and they knew how higher expectations were. And
(18:40):
Fantastic four First Steps also feels like that. It's like
they're trying to win us back so hard. I apply.
I love going into a movie theater and feel like
I'm being wood Like it's like they're not just churning
it out and being like we know that you'll just
watch this because it's Marvel. So Fantastic four First Steps,
I know we all got really caught up with the
press tour.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think we're going to try to watch it in
me iMac.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I think you should just get there really okay, but
I feel like everyone should try and see it on
the big screen if you can. I know, move secuts
are expensive, but it really is a very immersive experience
and also all Castigrade in it, but it is Vanessa
Kirby's movie. Holy hell, she's amazing. Like I honestly give
her at least an Oscar nomination. I know they won't,
but like she's acting like she's in a Shakespearean play
(19:22):
and they've written the part like that for her. It's
not a throwaway part. Also just watching the whole thing
of like her being a mother and her giving birth
and space and like the steaks around it, and also
her being like this all powerful being. I think there's
just I feel like a lot of women walked out
of a cinema being like, yeah, like it's not this
throwaway feminism, Like it felt like it's wrapped through every
(19:42):
core of the movie. Fantastic four First Steps. It's a
great time. And you know, we love pairing our TV
and movie picks with a cheeky drink, so check out
the show notes for a recipe to whip up a
pineapple rum ninja slushy cool. And on that note, we'll
see you back here in your podcast feed at three
pm today. Bye bye Lan.
So you're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia
acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders that this
podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily pop
culture fix. I'm am Vernon.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And I'm morea Brodney.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And today is a very special weekend watch episode.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, it's the episode where we watch all the new
TV shows and movies that have come out this week
and this week I do mean all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You've got to love.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Give you a rundown of the very best ones because
we don't want you to waste your time or your money.
This is your curated list of what to watch.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, you have a lot of recommendation yet.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, well we'll get to why I've been the bad
host this week. Yes, but you may go first, Emily,
with a show that I know you're obsessed with.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I want to go first. And I also have been
a bad host because I didn't follow our rules.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But it's no, let's both just get out here podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
The TV show I'm recommending today didn't actually to come
out this week, but it came out last week, so
you might have missed it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Look, I'm no one to throw stories this week about
rule following, So I'm gonna allow it. Good.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So it's called Untamed and it's on Netflix. It stars
Eric Banner and Sam Neil.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh your favor, Sam Neil, so good.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It is just like a season, but it's kind of
a crime drama. There's not many comedy elements in it,
but it's not super super dark. It is so captivating.
I watched all episodes in one night.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Wow, in one night.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I went a bed at one am because I just
had to find out.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So I do love when that happens.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It is like a mystery. It's set in the Yosemite Reserve,
so it's like very beautiful scenes. Eric Banner plays this
detective on horseback because he can't get his car through
all of the forest. Oh, she's just constantly on a horse.
And Sam Neil plays like his boss who's also his
best friend. And it starts off with a death, like
this woman dies. It seems like a murder, so Eric
(02:09):
Banners character investigates it. He brings on this rookie Neya
who's played by Lily Santiago. She is absolutely brilliant. And
it's not one of those like detective shows where like
the fresh new face detectives trying to impress the old
timey detective. It doesn't fall into any of those like tropes,
those mystery tropes. It's just so fresh and new, and
(02:30):
there's so many plot twists and the plot line is beautiful,
the scenes are beautiful. It will literally captivate you from
beginning to end. It's also a really good show to
talk to your uncle about because everyone who's watched the
shows either been my dad or my uncle. Yea, yeah,
so they love the show.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So a very safe one to bring up at family one,
Very very safe.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It will be one of like, this is the show
you want to recommend a family lunch and everyone be
like whoa. Every single person on the table will be like,
wholl I need to watch that? So they're untamed on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, love that. Okay, So I know that when I
created We Can Watch, I set the rule of it
had to be shows and movies that came out this week,
which you've already broken.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I break multiple times.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I know you're terrible at following the rules. And
it also had to be ideally one recommendation each, So
today I have four. Is it my fault? There's so
much good new stuff out this week that I wanted
the list. So I'm going to go through these ones
like kind of a little bit rapid fire. We'll put
the titles in the show notes, so don't freak out
(03:28):
if you're like Laura, you talk really fast and I
didn't understand you, just go to the show notes. So
the first one I wanted to recommend is a TV
show that came out on stand earlier this week called
The Hunting Wives. It's an adaptation of the book by
May Cobb, and it stars Britney Snow as Sophie. So
she's this woman who moves to this town in Texas
where she meets this group of like Texan wives to
(03:49):
like to get together and have like a fun time.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Is it Brittany Snow Blonde? A Britney Snow Brenette.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, I mean it's not blonde, it's not blondes. I'm like, so,
I don't want to give spoilers. I'm like, I won't
even tell you what Colora Harriss. So yes, it's the
Britney Snow from like Pitch Perfect and from we Know
in Love, but she's playing a bit more of a
serious character. So Sophie moves to this small town where
she meets these wives who are kind of led by
this socialite named Margo played by Malene Ackerman, who obviously
(04:15):
we knows from so many TV shows and movies. I
feel like her maybe her best performance was Twenty seven Dresses.
You know, she played Catherine Heigel's sister, so she's incredible.
Margo is very like you know, she and Sophie form
this friendship, and like Margo is very sort of controlling
but also very intoxicating, and it does turn sexual between
(04:35):
that's out in the world. That's not a spoiler. But
then all this other stuff happens, and there's an incredible
cast that Chrissy Metz is also in it. People have
likened it to like a textan version of most Big
Little Lies, but it's love that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's
so worth watching. So I won't say anything else because
I just said I would do this quickly, and then
I haven't. So the Hunting Wives on Stan all episodes
(04:55):
are out. You almost want to pull it on Tame.
Just sit down and watch it all in one go,
because you'll be so kind of caught up in the
storyline and the drama So the other show I wanted
to recommend is The Assassin, which all episodes have dropped
on stand tonight the twenty fifth, and The Assassin is
a new kind of crime caper and it stars Keeley Hawes,
incredible actress, are a tired assassin, and Freddie him Or
(05:18):
plays her son, and so you will love it. So
Tina Burke, who sometimes is on the pod, is the
entertainment edit at Mamma Mia watched all the shows so
she could interview Keeley and Freddy and she Freddy, Yeah, yeah,
so that's that's coming soon to MoMA Mia. I get excited.
They have an estrangement, but then they kind of brought
back together when they're on this like idyllic Greek island
(05:40):
and Julie, who played by Keilly Hawes, her very dangerous
past catches up with her. So it's both this kind
of like crazy crime drama and a story of like
this relationship between this mother and son, which is really
engaging to watch. And yeah, I was just quite watched
the first episode. I was so caught up with it already.
So The Assassin on Stan make sure you watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We're going very crimey this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We've got some you know, love and lust and crime
and then mum and son and crime. It's all happening.
That's we love crime with a side of I'm like,
you know mine is like crime and draws me. Yeah, yeah,
you'll just crime and sandy. The other recommendation I have
is a movie that I have just been waiting such
a long time for. It's Happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
My name is Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Thirty years ago I decided to give godf a try.
But even when you're at the top of your game,
you can always shank one.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Happy Gilmour sucks. How are you gonna put me in
a through ballet school? It's seventy five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's four years.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's three hundred and thirty three grand. That's terrible math, Johnny,
it's three hundred grand. Happy Gilmore didn't have things flowing
on the first.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Old check out the name, Ted Grandson.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're in my round now. I got two little stuff
in there. But wow, everyone is talking about it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Come back here.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You've been watching to play mister Gilmore so inspiring.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They loved you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Man. I am so sady. I guess I really glue.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So if you're not across. The original Happy Gilmore movie
came out in nineteen ninety six. When I was it's yeah,
well we got two great things that year, two great
if you will, two masterpieces ended the world. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I said that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
A great year for the world. So it was one
of Adam Sandler's first big breakout movies. He plays a
golfer called Happy Gilmore. It's a great sports movie. So
Adam Sandler was reprising that role. Julie Bowen was also
in the original, like people would know her from Modern Family.
Now she's reprising her role.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
He made his whole production company off the back.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of Yay, Yeah, well he did. His production company is
Happy Madison Production. So it's Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison,
two of his most iconic films that came really early
in his career. And I'm so excited for this movie.
And I know there are naysay out there that say
that Adam Sandler movies aren't good, especially their original ones.
Into that I say, you're wrong like that, I agree.
I feel like they really hold up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Everyone's watched Adam Sandler movie.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, and also I feel like Adam Sandler is just
an incredible comedian. I think he's I'm not even joking.
I said that. I feel like he's an incredible comedian,
He's an incredible storyteller. Yes, he plays all of the
same characters and things, but like he's just really evolved
that level of his performance to make it perfection in
every movie. And also, no one in the industry has
a bad word to say about that man. Everyone loves him.
(08:43):
He puts his wife and his daughters now in every
single movie, so they're in this movie. So to the
Happy Gilmore Too premiere, he drove his family there, like
he just drove.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The car he like parked.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He just parks down the road and gets out, like
walks down to the red carpet and he's just wearing
his like sloppy, bright colored clo. Adam Sandler outfit everyone
for it. Like as kids, that was a huge movie
that my sisters and brother and I all watched over
and over and over again. Like we used to put
the VHS on and pull out actresses out into the
living room so we could be in front of the
air con because North Queensland and watch this movie together
(09:15):
and we still quote it all to this day. And
so I regret not doing this Now, I did think
about jumping on a plane to Queensland, because I've done
that before. I did that when the new Girl More
Girls came out. I flew to Queensland to watch it
with my family, and I almost maybe I've got on
a plane tonight. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Got on a plane to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Please do because I wanted to watch it with my siblings.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Of course you do, you should.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I just like watch it alone at maybe you
and I watch it together and I'll recreate that sibling via.
But I just think it's so nostalgic, so beautiful, Happy
Girl More too. It's coming out on Netflix tonight, Friday night.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Can cancel if you watch? I mean, you could just
watch a standlone movie, but I think to get the
correct experience, you should watch the original Happy Girl Moore first.
So do a double feature, do it back to back
and give yourself a little treat. Okay, now I get
to my actual recommendation of the week, because this one there's.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Been a building than going where on the last one.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Stopping guys, because after the hype and the build up
and the tears and the high high emotions. I have
actually now officially seen the Fantastic Four First Steps, so thank.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
God I'm coming famous around the world.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Please welcome the Fantastic Four. I herald his beginning. I
herald your end.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I herald Galactus.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
What is that? Are we safe? I don't know the
club was taken.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We are going to find a solution. We are going
to make it right. You don't want to just crush them,
hide that.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The four of us will face the danger.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We will protect you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So I'm sure most of you would be across. Last
week we had the cast of the Fantastic Four First Steps,
new Marvel movie on this very podcast, so Pedro, Pascal
Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Adam Moore's backrack while they
were in Australia. We recapped while I recapped because you
won't invited, I was. I'm so sorry. Sometimes I don't
have a lot of power.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It was like a fan event. Yeah, and you guys
were able to watch clips of the movie.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, so we gave a little behind them scenes of
what happened at that fan event. Very intense. The police
were called. We saw some clips of the movie and
got to sort of see Pedron, Vanessa and Joseph and
Ebit and everything at that event. The next day I
went interview them. All turned into being a crazy emotional day.
I went into it now, but Pedron Vanessa cry in
my interview, which you can listen to on the episode
(12:13):
that will link in the show notes. And then, like
an idiot, I cried recapping it to Emily on the
podcast because it's a very emotional.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So I really cried.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I was not there. And then it's so funny because
all that content came out we put.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They I nearly cried when you and Vanessa were reminiscing
about your first interview with her, which is also one
of her first press junkets, and there was you as
a first time being in the entertainment space.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It was all the first happening was yeah, we shared
a moment, But that she remember that still blows my mind.
I can't believe she's like, I remember it exactly and
she didn't want to bring it up when I walked
in because she thought I wouldn't remember. And I was like, Vanessa,
I remember spending half a day with you. Are you kidding?
So yeah, that was crazy. So we'll link that in
our show notes. We also put the full interviews up
on YouTube. They've gone crazy for numbers. We put the
(12:57):
videos out, so that's all out there. After all that,
I still hadn't seen the actual movie. So Tuesday night
I went to a place where you and I have
both had good and bad memories. I went to the
Imax for the premiere.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Where did you sit in me?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh my god? So for Yeah, for people who don't know,
Emily and I once were late to a premiere at
the Imax and it was my fault.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This story reeks the privilege. By the way, like every
type no I saw people we got free tickets to
the Imax and we were so mad.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It wasn't worth it for the free tickets. Okay. The
floor of this particular Imax, which is in Sydney and
where a lot of premieres are held. And I think
it's important because even if you don't live in Sydney,
all your reviews would be coming from the people who
in that theater. And I think it's so important to
stress that half the people can't see the screen because
it's a huge, huge screen. It's definitely the biggest screen
in Australia. But it's also like the biggest screen of
(13:43):
like half.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The halftive screen. But if you're sitting in the first
I want to say five rows.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, just leave. You can't, it's not worth it. You
and I watched the Marvels there, which I feel like
we did like, but I couldn't tell you what happened
because we were in the movie. You were in the movie,
and I had a seizure, so both of us.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Like, my neck has never felt so much pain. And
we were in the second row. We weren't even in
the first way. We were in the second row. And
then if someone, if a character walked across the screen,
our whole row had to turn their heads to see
where they.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Went at least see one part of the screen anytime.
So you really had to pick which character you wanted
to follow it, and the rest of the other characters
couldn't even tell you what happened. So the next time
you and I went to a premiere there with the
first ones through the door, and we had to almost
do that this time, and.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I was I'm very strict about our IMAX viewings. We
have to be there half an hour early, yeah, to
get a seat at the back, because even if you're
in the middle.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's still quite big, which is where we were for
Fantastic for because even though we got their early, the
Marvel reviewers and not to be trifled with. So I
just want you guys to sometimes know what we go
through to get you these reviews. It's not all free
champagne and free popcorn, although there was that there So
the movie Yeah, okay, I know we have talked about this.
Marvel's had a few stumbling box since Endgame correct and
(14:52):
we loved Thunderbolts, but it didn't perform as well.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I also loved Captain America, which a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I didn't love Brave New World, Yeah, which was the
Anthony Mackie Captain America, and.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I I just love Anthony Mackie.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, I mean. And also that's not just us saying
that a lot of their recent projects have not performed
as they thought of the Bosox and have also had
bad reviews from critics and fans like and also Marvel
have also come out, I should say, and they have
acknowledged that they've gone off the path a little bit.
They put out too much content, too many stories, and
I think it's important to note that what they're saying
(15:24):
is Fantastic Four if you've dropped out of the Marvel
set about a universe, because you're like, I can't keep
up with ten different TV shows and ten different movies
just to go and watch this movie. The thing about
the Fantastic Four is that you don't need to do homework.
That's the official line from Marvel. No homework. You go
in with starting fresh. I love with this story. So
the Fantastic Four is known as Marvel's first Family. They're
(15:45):
like the original family from when these comic books first started.
I sort of won't go too much into the plot
because it's all really in the movie. You don't need
to know too much. But they're a group of astronauts
and scientists who go into space. An event happens, and
they come back to space, but they come back to
Earth with superpowers. So you've got to Venessa. Kobe's got
the you know, Soux Storm is like the invisible woman,
mister Fantastic played by Pedro Pascal. You know, the stretching
(16:08):
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's a very feminine being able to stretch, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And backflip and stuff. It's very cool. And then like
Johnny Storm played by Joseph Quinn, you know, can fly
and some of stuff. And then obviously Ben Grime's played
by Evan Mosse. Backcrack is the thing and you know,
the one who has the physical transformation. Yeah, so the
story isn't focusing on them getting their powers, even though
that is all explained at the beginning, So you can
go into this movie with no knowledge. I think they're
(16:32):
really stepping away from origin movies. It's like, how many
more times can we see a boy get bit by
a spider?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And also had a lot of Fantastic Four movies and
they've all done the Origin story.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yes, they've all done the Origin story in different ways,
and this time they were just like, we start with
that information, it's explained how they got them, but then
we jump into the next part of the story. Also,
I've got to say, like visually stunning, it looks incredible,
It has its own tone feel, It's beautiful to look at,
action sequences, great pacing of the story excellent, Like it's
(17:01):
an hour and fifty five minutes and it went by
in a blink of an eye. There was no point
where you know, sometimes in superhero movies and action movies,
they stop and someone explains something fifty minutes or there's
big back and forth between these two guys and suits
and you know, and all that sort of stuff, and
you're just like, you're pulling me out of the story.
The pacing is off. There's all these scenes we don't need.
This one is like every scene is like bang bang
(17:22):
bang bang story. Story story. You'd see this from the
trailers that Pedron Vanessa have a baby, which I'm just saying,
fucking terrify to that baby's all powerful. But anyway, that's
a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Incredibles.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, it actually feels like a lot like if you
like The Incredibles, you'll like this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We also have the same powers as the Incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, there's a line there. At its core, it is
a family drama with action sequences, so it's also not
as bouncy and fun as some other Marvel movies. There's
definitely some fun moments, but it's I guess, more dramatic
and more intense. It also just feels the whole way
through like there's actual proper steaks, like the storyline stakes
feel very high. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I feel like that's what Marvel was missing, which is
why and I still haven't watched it, the new Superman
DC movie. Yeah, I'm glad it's had so many great
reviews because I feel like, for the love longest time,
Marvel's just been competing with Marvel, and now finally DC
has like come up to the stadium and it is
just like making a competitive for Marvel, which is what
they needed.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. I'm sort of holding my breath as they say
this because I don't want to jump at like a
head too much. But blockbusters are really they're back. Like
I know, I said cinema was back with Superman, but
seeing Superman and I, as I said on the pot
at the time, I love that so much. It also
felt like it wasn't lazy storytelling. It was made for
the audience and they knew how higher expectations were. And
(18:40):
Fantastic four First Steps also feels like that. It's like
they're trying to win us back so hard. I apply.
I love going into a movie theater and feel like
I'm being wood Like it's like they're not just churning
it out and being like we know that you'll just
watch this because it's Marvel. So Fantastic four First Steps,
I know we all got really caught up with the
press tour.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think we're going to try to watch it in
me iMac.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I think you should just get there really okay, but
I feel like everyone should try and see it on
the big screen if you can. I know, move secuts
are expensive, but it really is a very immersive experience
and also all Castigrade in it, but it is Vanessa
Kirby's movie. Holy hell, she's amazing. Like I honestly give
her at least an Oscar nomination. I know they won't,
but like she's acting like she's in a Shakespearean play
(19:22):
and they've written the part like that for her. It's
not a throwaway part. Also just watching the whole thing
of like her being a mother and her giving birth
and space and like the steaks around it, and also
her being like this all powerful being. I think there's
just I feel like a lot of women walked out
of a cinema being like, yeah, like it's not this
throwaway feminism, Like it felt like it's wrapped through every
(19:42):
core of the movie. Fantastic four First Steps. It's a
great time. And you know, we love pairing our TV
and movie picks with a cheeky drink, so check out
the show notes for a recipe to whip up a
pineapple rum ninja slushy cool. And on that note, we'll
see you back here in your podcast feed at three
pm today. Bye bye Lan.
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