October 30, 2025 • 17 mins
On the show today, one of our favourite creators and actresses has released her highly anticipated new series, and it’s a love letter to the friendships you make in your twenties.
Plus, Em has become obsessed with a polarising new movie that just dropped on Netflix, and it’s made us worry about what will happen to the world (but in an entertaining way).
And Emma Stone’s new movie Bugonia has finally arrived in cinemas and now we need to give you an honest review of this truly unhinged movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So 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 fixed. I'm Laura
Brodney and I'm m Burnham, and welcome to Weekend Watch,
where we talk about the best new movies and TV
shows that have just come out this week. Yes, very exciting,
(00:38):
got some good ones this week. It comes in waves.
Sometimes it's a bit of a choir week, and sometimes
we have a whole bunch of new releases all at once.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We've had a big week this week, and we've already
talked about one of our favorite new TV shows. Yes,
well it Welcome to Dary. We talked about that on yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, we'll link that episode in the show notes because
it is truly one of the wildest screening experiences we've
ever had.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And also the second episode drops today, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
As a special for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh yes we should not.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All Halloween's are my favorite times of year. Like, I
don't dress up, but I like that, like being I
respect the old school pagan elements.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Of the day.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I like eating candy that's fun too.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I actually have to recommend it so fun today, but
I want to hear yours first.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, So I have been waiting for this TV show
to come out since it was first announced, and it's
the new comedy series that is dropping on HBO Maxx
actually dropping on Mondays, but it would be too late
if we did next week's weekend watch. So I'm just
you know, you can be excited over the weekends for
this show coming out on Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So it's called I Love La Dylan will not the
day that I just had my God, you're here at
my house crazy, you think you got it? All those
kind of people have those like less ambition, they want
success and money and like a nice house and all
(02:01):
these things. It's fucking iconic.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're realize that you are still different ever since to
God yours on.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
A bad day, she's smoking coke that mesic.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I love La, and that really rings with me because
I don't know if it's a basic bitch thing to say,
but I also do really love La. But what I
was most excited about is who the creator of the
show is and who the star is, because she's one
of my faves and I would just watch anything that
she makes. So before I even watched the show, I
was all in. I still gave it a genuine review,
but I was I was a little bit biased because
it's Rachel Sennate, so funny, our fave girl in the world,
(02:38):
one of our favorite movies. She's the star of Body
If anyone has dad, Yes, I have truly never laughed
so much in a movie. She's such a creative force.
But also Shiver Baby, have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh my gosh, Okay, you need to watch that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You will love it. Okay, oh my god, it's like
another recommendation.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So she's the star of that and was like heavily
involved in the creation. And it's about out a shiver,
you know how like in Jewish culture when someone passed
away used to shiver for them. But she like sees
her ex girlfriend and her family and it's the whole thing.
It all takes place at the shiver. It's such a
good movie anyway, So this new TV show is when
I heard the premise, I feel like a lot of
people are a bit IROLLI They're like, oh, how many
times can we do this? But I would just say
(03:18):
that this premise. I could watch this premise one thousand
times over and it can still feel new and fresh
if it's done properly, because it's an eight episode season
that follows an ambitious friend group who navigates life and
love in La So. It's that whole thing of people like, oh,
I mean, I feel like I've watched this before.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, the thing is, this is something we talked about
earlier this year with the adult series that came out
on Disney Plus, and it was that similar thing of
like a young group of friends who were trying to
navigate life and love in New York. And we've seen
this premise over the years. You know. Sometimes it's more
of like a zitcom kind of style, like with Friends.
Sometimes it's a bit more dramatic like Girls, and it
(03:55):
kind of feels very fresh in I Love La So.
Rachel Senet plays Maya, a young twenty something. There's like
a whole kind of story around her career, late mystas
in it. For a bit, she plays her boss. She's
so good like missus, having such a moment her character
and this is kind of like, in a way, the
same livery as her character.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If nobody wants this that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Really kind of like flippant, yeah, almost airhead, vapid but
kind of business eg, that kind of vibe, and it's
just set there like her and her friends, and there's
like a friendship kind of something that happened, and that
friend kind of comes back into her life, and then
it's about their careers and love. And it's what's really
interesting about it. It's both a critique of that generation
and the things they want and how they behave with
(04:34):
anxieties they have, and a love letter to them, which.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I really like. So I feel like you just have
to really.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Watch all eight episodes to really get the feel for it.
And yes, the premise has been done before, but I
think there's always room for stories of exploring that time
in your.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Life because it also changedes like generation and generation.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, exactly, like Watching Adults one of my favorite shows
from this yet, like watching what a group of twenty
somethings navigate now to what they navigated when I was
watching those shows twenty years ago on TV is so different, weirdly,
so different, but also so the same because the end
of the day, it is that thing of like how
do I be an adult? And like it's so fun.
And also you're falling in love the first time and
your friendship dynamics are weird. But also and you want
(05:13):
this big career but it's not what you thought it
was going to be. And yeah, it's just really good.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I love LA.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's on HBO Max and new episodes dropping weekly.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I love that recommendation.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The show. I wanted to recommend this quite in the
opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, that's what makes this episode great.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The first one I want to quickly talk about dropped
last Friday. It's called A House of Dynamite and it's
on Netflix and it's a movie. Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Have not seen this.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh it's DoD Just being ready is the point. Thank
you for the villain check. She's the world straight. They
see how prepared we are. Now, let's start to nuclear war.
Approximately three minutes ago, we detected an ICBM over the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Current flight trajectory is consistent with impact somewhere in the
continentally United States.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
If we do not take steps to neutralize our enemies now,
we will lose our window to do so. Okay, it's
really scary, not like horror scary, it's like thriller drama.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh you know, I prefer horror. There no zombies, vampire.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
This movie will make you scared for life in general.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh good, well, that's definitely what I'm looking forward to
on this weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Massive Cast star as Rebecca Ferguson Caitlyn Deava. We love her, Elba.
All of our phase are hot phase.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh my god. Nothing bad happens to Idris, does it?
I can't stand that. I won't stand it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I can't tell you. Okay, basically, it's set in how
do I explain this?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And here we come to Emily's downfall of this podcast
is that she'll watch something, she'll love it, she'll think
about it all the time, and then she cannot tell
you the plot.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm saying, sorry anyway, it's okay. Your recommendation was enough. Okay,
this is not a spoiler. Literally happens in the first
second of the movie and missile is coming to America.
Yeah sure. And then as the missiles coming to America,
they have eighteen minutes for the president and his government
to figure out how to stop it and where it's
coming from.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, you know, yeah that does sound so really really scary.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the whole movie is done in three acts, and
like throughout the movie, you see the president and these
government officials on this big skype call to kind of
work out how did this happen? Why is it happening?
How do we stop it? And each act goes through
the perspective of each person on that call. It's done
so so well, you like, I had no idea how
many people were actually involved in nuclear war in each country,
(07:38):
Like it's just so intense. And then what I did,
which I'm sure everyone did after watching the movie, was
look up how accurate this actually was. I found an
article on Slate that had the headline I've been reporting
on nuclear war for decades and no movie has shaken
me like this one.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh my god, Okay, I can watch it. This is
getting a bit too real for me.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
A part of when the missile is coming to a country,
that country has set up these things called gbis, which
stand for ground based interceptors, and these are kind of
like these other missiles that calm and a mental blow
the missile that's coming to you, right, the world has
put in five hundred billion dollars into these interceptors to
get them made. Talking about real life, Jesus, so for America,
(08:23):
five hundred billion dollars have been put into making these interceptors. Yeah,
that's in the correct amount. In the movie they say
fifty fifty billions. Oh okay, wrong, five hundred billion. Okay.
These interceptors only have a sixty one percent successful.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Why would you say that to me? I want so
much to worry about the moment, like my hair, packing
for a trip, all these things. I can't take this
on as well.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
They say the line it's like hitting a bullet with
a bullet. Okay, that's terrible. So that's just the premise
of like how intense that's It's just so the whole movie.
It's not like apocalyptic, it's not like Chimney. It's the
whole movie is just focusing on this missile. Yeah, and
that's just like the intensity of like why it's so
intense to take it down? It is done so so well. Interestingly,
(09:07):
it hasn't had that many positive reviews. Come to the
conclusion that hasn't had that many positive roots because it's
so real, just too real. People don't want to real
think about it. But it's I think the performances in
it are brilliant. It's just very realistic. Like you're not
seeing an over dramatization of politics or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Usually these movies culminate like a huge action scene. Usually
it's someone like the president is meant to this big
action here who saves the day, or like they had
to sacrifice a bunch of people. But like you know,
the young lovers will make it feels more like a documentary. Yeah,
oh my god, did you sleep after watching this? What happens?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Since? I think I was okay because I watched it
where like not many other people watching it and in
the US has come back and going that's a lie,
it's one hundred percent accurate. That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's not it's okay, not you taking on the US
government and this podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You're liars.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Next minute, all our platforms disappear, everything we disappear, disappear.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And I was like, I I don't agree with her,
and it'll be like the disappearance where they're like they
just never existed. Yeah, we're just watch from the world.
That sounds quite nice. We'd be useful for some Maybe
we both move into like a massive lodge on a
beach somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, sweetheart, to tell you this, we're not going anywhere.
If we disappeared, we're going to be killed. We don't
get to pick somewhere to go live.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think we could because then we have the knowledge
of the interceptors, not how we'd be helling sixty one percent.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Say those people don't get to go live on a
beach from they get taken out. They don't get to live.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's I've seen some of them in Palms movies. They
show them there.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, Miami, maybe stay ignorant friend staying.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Either Miami or Alaska. Actually Alaska is where the nuclear
positioning is. I don't want to that's there. I'll make
a situation worse anyway. That's a House of Dynamite on Netflix.
Please watch it. I need people to watch it so
we can like talk about theories together because the ending's crazy.
The next movie I want to talk about is one
(11:02):
that is out in cinemas right now. It's the new
Yogos Latomwas's film starrying Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. It
is called bogon Ya. Do I say that right?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm not going to o crew take anyone on how
to say stuff, because I've mispronounced stuff all the time,
I've been saying Bogonia, but I do think that might
be just my North Queensland accent coming through. Anyway, people
will pick up what we're putting down from memory. I
don't think they say the name of the film, so
it is open to interpretation.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yes, I am a high profile female cooperative, so what
you're asking me to do is not quite clear to me.
I know what you are. You should just say it.
What do you really want me to say.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm an alien?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I just say it convincing I am an alien. This
is the best you could do. You didn't even see
it in your own language. You know I'm not an alien?
Wy truth. What's the difference. What if someone finds out
about what we're doing. They're healing our planet. It's up
to you and me to stop them. Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Can I stop by saying I'm so so jealous because,
as you know, I've been wanting to see this movie
for such a time. I love all your gross's films.
We have seen a lot of them together big fans,
and then it got room for me and I couldn't
attend because of someone called Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, you had to interview the lovely Kim Kardashian amongst
other A listers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, other A lists as well, But I just think
for the punchline, the joke co name is the best
one to use. So I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, I went to the screening. Yes, they had it
at south By Southwest. It was a good film. Oh wow,
Wow wasn't my favorite of his, and I think that
also has to do with the experience I had watching it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, what is your favorite Yorgost film? Just so people
have a parameter to judge it by.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Probably Poor Things?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Interesting, mine's the favorite it Poor Things is up there,
and also kinds of kinds of Kindness. I think we
might be the only person who people who really.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Loved that movie. A lot of people didn't like it.
This movie I thought was really Jesse Plemmons. I think
his best performance ever.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, everyone's like he's going to get heat, like.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He deserves an oscar for Wow, it is so so good.
But basically, let me just talk about the movie before
I go into Okay, I watched it, so Emmastone also
forgot the character's name. Sorry, Barwell you to say Emistony.
People know Emmastone plays the CEO of a major company
like think of the CEO of a CEO of a
CEO like up there. And then these two guys who
(13:25):
live kind of in the countryside, which is Jesse Plemon's
and his younger cousin who has a new diversity. They
kidnap her because they think she's an alien. Oh sure,
and the whole premise of the movie is then figuring
out if she's an alien or not. Wow it is. Yeah,
it's done really well. In my opinion. I felt like
it ran on for a bit too long.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay, but well you got film, will do that, you
will do that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And it has that like his same like quirky touch
to it. Yeah, but the performances in it is amazing.
The main reason why I feel like I didn't like
this film as much is because I did watch it
at south By Southwest. It was in a lecture hall
because it was in the Seamour Center, so it's not
like the actual proper theater, and we had our tables
out so I could put my snacks on, and I
got yelled at to put the tables away because it's safety.
(14:08):
Hasn't every tables It's a lecture theater.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, when this movie wins an Oscar. You just like,
I can't get behind this because I was alling to
have my secretary down when I watched it, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But that wasn't the reason. The reason was before the
movie played, a person came up on stage to talk
about the film. Who brought the film to Australia. That's
the whole reason why we got to see the screening,
And she accidentally let out a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh my god, this is such a spoilery movie. Everyone
I've seen has watched it. All the conversation online is like,
don't google anything about it, don't look at anything, don't
look in any comments.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You have to go in.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Blind to be able to really experience it. So that
was taken from you, So wait to get us uninvited
to any of these movies going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but I just had to say.
It was like not a spoiler in the sense that
it was like a plot line spoiler, but it was
like it said enough that I was able to guess
exactly what happened in the first scene of the movie. Oh,
like I guess the ending straight away. Oh no, yeah,
and that's the whole point of watching it. Yeah, okay,
and it just like and then I was just watching it,
and then I didn't really like feel anything while I
(15:09):
was watching it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, Okay, that's really weird for one of his movies
because of the spoiler. Okay, butting people who don't have
the spoiler will like it, Yes, you actually do. And
for people who don't know, like, this is the movie
Emma Stone shaved her head for. I don't want to
reduce it to that, but I feel like there was
so many headlines around that people like why did.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
She shave her head? It was it was for this
and the whole scene about her hair is just so
fucking funny, Like it's so so because it's like a
dark comedy, dark comedy, thriller, horror, so like there are
bits that are just so so funny. Yeah, and yeah,
the performances like Emmastone and just Wreman's deserve to be
in every single movie together for the rest of your life,
Like they just work so well together. But that was
(15:45):
kind of annoying my experience of it. But I really
want everyone to watch it because there's like so much
to discuss about it. After watch it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm trying to do what that person did and not
give too much, not give too much away, okay, and
out in cinemas now out in cinema, And I think
those are the kind of movies you do have to
watch in his cinema, like you can't watch it at home.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't say that lightly.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I know that getting to the cinema is hard and
it's expensive, but I do think sometimes if you can, like,
don't see this as a ball, because you really do
experience a movie in a different way, and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It is a very shared experience. There'll be parts where
like you'll be like ooh because other people in the
seat see it before you. Yeah, you'll be like oh,
and then you can like laugh to get the reaction.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There's nothing like it. And I also think even if
you're at home, you think you won't look at your
phone and stuff, but you do. You do you need
to be in a cinemay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I do. I'll admit it. Yeah, I'm glued to my phone. Yeah,
watching House of Dynamite on my phone.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, Well then you you probably missed half the movie
and no one you can describe it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And I'm nailing at the US government like you guys
are wrong. I'm like reading the articles while I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, that's a terrible way to watch a movie, so
we can't trust a word you. Sorry. Okay, well, thank
you for all of that. Give me a lot to
think about, a lot of nightmares to have tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So we know you guys love your TV binges, which
is why our new podcast, watch Party has been doing
recaps and like analysis of pretty much every episode of
Nobody Wants This. So go and check that out, especially
if you're currently watching the show now. But also we
have our brutally honors review of Nobody Wants This coming
later today, and look, we're not holding back with this one. Yeah,
(17:13):
I've got a lot, Oh my god, so do I.
The spill is reduced by Venetious Warren with sound production
by Scott Stronnik and we will see you soon. Bye
bye
So 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 fixed. I'm Laura
Brodney and I'm m Burnham, and welcome to Weekend Watch,
where we talk about the best new movies and TV
shows that have just come out this week. Yes, very exciting,
(00:38):
got some good ones this week. It comes in waves.
Sometimes it's a bit of a choir week, and sometimes
we have a whole bunch of new releases all at once.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We've had a big week this week, and we've already
talked about one of our favorite new TV shows. Yes,
well it Welcome to Dary. We talked about that on yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, we'll link that episode in the show notes because
it is truly one of the wildest screening experiences we've
ever had.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And also the second episode drops today, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
As a special for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh yes we should not.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All Halloween's are my favorite times of year. Like, I
don't dress up, but I like that, like being I
respect the old school pagan elements.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Of the day.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I like eating candy that's fun too.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I actually have to recommend it so fun today, but
I want to hear yours first.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, So I have been waiting for this TV show
to come out since it was first announced, and it's
the new comedy series that is dropping on HBO Maxx
actually dropping on Mondays, but it would be too late
if we did next week's weekend watch. So I'm just
you know, you can be excited over the weekends for
this show coming out on Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So it's called I Love La Dylan will not the
day that I just had my God, you're here at
my house crazy, you think you got it? All those
kind of people have those like less ambition, they want
success and money and like a nice house and all
(02:01):
these things. It's fucking iconic.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're realize that you are still different ever since to
God yours on.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
A bad day, she's smoking coke that mesic.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I love La, and that really rings with me because
I don't know if it's a basic bitch thing to say,
but I also do really love La. But what I
was most excited about is who the creator of the
show is and who the star is, because she's one
of my faves and I would just watch anything that
she makes. So before I even watched the show, I
was all in. I still gave it a genuine review,
but I was I was a little bit biased because
it's Rachel Sennate, so funny, our fave girl in the world,
(02:38):
one of our favorite movies. She's the star of Body
If anyone has dad, Yes, I have truly never laughed
so much in a movie. She's such a creative force.
But also Shiver Baby, have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh my gosh, Okay, you need to watch that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You will love it. Okay, oh my god, it's like
another recommendation.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So she's the star of that and was like heavily
involved in the creation. And it's about out a shiver,
you know how like in Jewish culture when someone passed
away used to shiver for them. But she like sees
her ex girlfriend and her family and it's the whole thing.
It all takes place at the shiver. It's such a
good movie anyway, So this new TV show is when
I heard the premise, I feel like a lot of
people are a bit IROLLI They're like, oh, how many
times can we do this? But I would just say
(03:18):
that this premise. I could watch this premise one thousand
times over and it can still feel new and fresh
if it's done properly, because it's an eight episode season
that follows an ambitious friend group who navigates life and
love in La So. It's that whole thing of people like, oh,
I mean, I feel like I've watched this before.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, the thing is, this is something we talked about
earlier this year with the adult series that came out
on Disney Plus, and it was that similar thing of
like a young group of friends who were trying to
navigate life and love in New York. And we've seen
this premise over the years. You know. Sometimes it's more
of like a zitcom kind of style, like with Friends.
Sometimes it's a bit more dramatic like Girls, and it
(03:55):
kind of feels very fresh in I Love La So.
Rachel Senet plays Maya, a young twenty something. There's like
a whole kind of story around her career, late mystas
in it. For a bit, she plays her boss. She's
so good like missus, having such a moment her character
and this is kind of like, in a way, the
same livery as her character.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If nobody wants this that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Really kind of like flippant, yeah, almost airhead, vapid but
kind of business eg, that kind of vibe, and it's
just set there like her and her friends, and there's
like a friendship kind of something that happened, and that
friend kind of comes back into her life, and then
it's about their careers and love. And it's what's really
interesting about it. It's both a critique of that generation
and the things they want and how they behave with
(04:34):
anxieties they have, and a love letter to them, which.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I really like. So I feel like you just have
to really.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Watch all eight episodes to really get the feel for it.
And yes, the premise has been done before, but I
think there's always room for stories of exploring that time
in your.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Life because it also changedes like generation and generation.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, exactly, like Watching Adults one of my favorite shows
from this yet, like watching what a group of twenty
somethings navigate now to what they navigated when I was
watching those shows twenty years ago on TV is so different, weirdly,
so different, but also so the same because the end
of the day, it is that thing of like how
do I be an adult? And like it's so fun.
And also you're falling in love the first time and
your friendship dynamics are weird. But also and you want
(05:13):
this big career but it's not what you thought it
was going to be. And yeah, it's just really good.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I love LA.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's on HBO Max and new episodes dropping weekly.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I love that recommendation.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The show. I wanted to recommend this quite in the
opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, that's what makes this episode great.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The first one I want to quickly talk about dropped
last Friday. It's called A House of Dynamite and it's
on Netflix and it's a movie. Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Have not seen this.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh it's DoD Just being ready is the point. Thank
you for the villain check. She's the world straight. They
see how prepared we are. Now, let's start to nuclear war.
Approximately three minutes ago, we detected an ICBM over the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Current flight trajectory is consistent with impact somewhere in the
continentally United States.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
If we do not take steps to neutralize our enemies now,
we will lose our window to do so. Okay, it's
really scary, not like horror scary, it's like thriller drama.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh you know, I prefer horror. There no zombies, vampire.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
This movie will make you scared for life in general.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh good, well, that's definitely what I'm looking forward to
on this weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Massive Cast star as Rebecca Ferguson Caitlyn Deava. We love her, Elba.
All of our phase are hot phase.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh my god. Nothing bad happens to Idris, does it?
I can't stand that. I won't stand it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I can't tell you. Okay, basically, it's set in how
do I explain this?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And here we come to Emily's downfall of this podcast
is that she'll watch something, she'll love it, she'll think
about it all the time, and then she cannot tell
you the plot.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm saying, sorry anyway, it's okay. Your recommendation was enough. Okay,
this is not a spoiler. Literally happens in the first
second of the movie and missile is coming to America.
Yeah sure. And then as the missiles coming to America,
they have eighteen minutes for the president and his government
to figure out how to stop it and where it's
coming from.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, you know, yeah that does sound so really really scary.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the whole movie is done in three acts, and
like throughout the movie, you see the president and these
government officials on this big skype call to kind of
work out how did this happen? Why is it happening?
How do we stop it? And each act goes through
the perspective of each person on that call. It's done
so so well, you like, I had no idea how
many people were actually involved in nuclear war in each country,
(07:38):
Like it's just so intense. And then what I did,
which I'm sure everyone did after watching the movie, was
look up how accurate this actually was. I found an
article on Slate that had the headline I've been reporting
on nuclear war for decades and no movie has shaken
me like this one.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh my god, Okay, I can watch it. This is
getting a bit too real for me.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
A part of when the missile is coming to a country,
that country has set up these things called gbis, which
stand for ground based interceptors, and these are kind of
like these other missiles that calm and a mental blow
the missile that's coming to you, right, the world has
put in five hundred billion dollars into these interceptors to
get them made. Talking about real life, Jesus, so for America,
(08:23):
five hundred billion dollars have been put into making these interceptors. Yeah,
that's in the correct amount. In the movie they say
fifty fifty billions. Oh okay, wrong, five hundred billion. Okay.
These interceptors only have a sixty one percent successful.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Why would you say that to me? I want so
much to worry about the moment, like my hair, packing
for a trip, all these things. I can't take this
on as well.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
They say the line it's like hitting a bullet with
a bullet. Okay, that's terrible. So that's just the premise
of like how intense that's It's just so the whole movie.
It's not like apocalyptic, it's not like Chimney. It's the
whole movie is just focusing on this missile. Yeah, and
that's just like the intensity of like why it's so
intense to take it down? It is done so so well. Interestingly,
(09:07):
it hasn't had that many positive reviews. Come to the
conclusion that hasn't had that many positive roots because it's
so real, just too real. People don't want to real
think about it. But it's I think the performances in
it are brilliant. It's just very realistic. Like you're not
seeing an over dramatization of politics or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Usually these movies culminate like a huge action scene. Usually
it's someone like the president is meant to this big
action here who saves the day, or like they had
to sacrifice a bunch of people. But like you know,
the young lovers will make it feels more like a documentary. Yeah,
oh my god, did you sleep after watching this? What happens?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Since? I think I was okay because I watched it
where like not many other people watching it and in
the US has come back and going that's a lie,
it's one hundred percent accurate. That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's not it's okay, not you taking on the US
government and this podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You're liars.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Next minute, all our platforms disappear, everything we disappear, disappear.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And I was like, I I don't agree with her,
and it'll be like the disappearance where they're like they
just never existed. Yeah, we're just watch from the world.
That sounds quite nice. We'd be useful for some Maybe
we both move into like a massive lodge on a
beach somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, sweetheart, to tell you this, we're not going anywhere.
If we disappeared, we're going to be killed. We don't
get to pick somewhere to go live.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think we could because then we have the knowledge
of the interceptors, not how we'd be helling sixty one percent.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Say those people don't get to go live on a
beach from they get taken out. They don't get to live.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's I've seen some of them in Palms movies. They
show them there.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, Miami, maybe stay ignorant friend staying.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Either Miami or Alaska. Actually Alaska is where the nuclear
positioning is. I don't want to that's there. I'll make
a situation worse anyway. That's a House of Dynamite on Netflix.
Please watch it. I need people to watch it so
we can like talk about theories together because the ending's crazy.
The next movie I want to talk about is one
(11:02):
that is out in cinemas right now. It's the new
Yogos Latomwas's film starrying Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. It
is called bogon Ya. Do I say that right?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm not going to o crew take anyone on how
to say stuff, because I've mispronounced stuff all the time,
I've been saying Bogonia, but I do think that might
be just my North Queensland accent coming through. Anyway, people
will pick up what we're putting down from memory. I
don't think they say the name of the film, so
it is open to interpretation.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yes, I am a high profile female cooperative, so what
you're asking me to do is not quite clear to me.
I know what you are. You should just say it.
What do you really want me to say.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm an alien?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I just say it convincing I am an alien. This
is the best you could do. You didn't even see
it in your own language. You know I'm not an alien?
Wy truth. What's the difference. What if someone finds out
about what we're doing. They're healing our planet. It's up
to you and me to stop them. Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Can I stop by saying I'm so so jealous because,
as you know, I've been wanting to see this movie
for such a time. I love all your gross's films.
We have seen a lot of them together big fans,
and then it got room for me and I couldn't
attend because of someone called Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, you had to interview the lovely Kim Kardashian amongst
other A listers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, other A lists as well, But I just think
for the punchline, the joke co name is the best
one to use. So I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, I went to the screening. Yes, they had it
at south By Southwest. It was a good film. Oh wow,
Wow wasn't my favorite of his, and I think that
also has to do with the experience I had watching it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, what is your favorite Yorgost film? Just so people
have a parameter to judge it by.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Probably Poor Things?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Interesting, mine's the favorite it Poor Things is up there,
and also kinds of kinds of Kindness. I think we
might be the only person who people who really.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Loved that movie. A lot of people didn't like it.
This movie I thought was really Jesse Plemmons. I think
his best performance ever.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, everyone's like he's going to get heat, like.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
He deserves an oscar for Wow, it is so so good.
But basically, let me just talk about the movie before
I go into Okay, I watched it, so Emmastone also
forgot the character's name. Sorry, Barwell you to say Emistony.
People know Emmastone plays the CEO of a major company
like think of the CEO of a CEO of a
CEO like up there. And then these two guys who
(13:25):
live kind of in the countryside, which is Jesse Plemon's
and his younger cousin who has a new diversity. They
kidnap her because they think she's an alien. Oh sure,
and the whole premise of the movie is then figuring
out if she's an alien or not. Wow it is. Yeah,
it's done really well. In my opinion. I felt like
it ran on for a bit too long.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay, but well you got film, will do that, you
will do that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And it has that like his same like quirky touch
to it. Yeah, but the performances in it is amazing.
The main reason why I feel like I didn't like
this film as much is because I did watch it
at south By Southwest. It was in a lecture hall
because it was in the Seamour Center, so it's not
like the actual proper theater, and we had our tables
out so I could put my snacks on, and I
got yelled at to put the tables away because it's safety.
(14:08):
Hasn't every tables It's a lecture theater.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, when this movie wins an Oscar. You just like,
I can't get behind this because I was alling to
have my secretary down when I watched it, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But that wasn't the reason. The reason was before the
movie played, a person came up on stage to talk
about the film. Who brought the film to Australia. That's
the whole reason why we got to see the screening,
And she accidentally let out a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh my god, this is such a spoilery movie. Everyone
I've seen has watched it. All the conversation online is like,
don't google anything about it, don't look at anything, don't
look in any comments.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You have to go in.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Blind to be able to really experience it. So that
was taken from you, So wait to get us uninvited
to any of these movies going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but I just had to say.
It was like not a spoiler in the sense that
it was like a plot line spoiler, but it was
like it said enough that I was able to guess
exactly what happened in the first scene of the movie. Oh,
like I guess the ending straight away. Oh no, yeah,
and that's the whole point of watching it. Yeah, okay,
and it just like and then I was just watching it,
and then I didn't really like feel anything while I
(15:09):
was watching it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, Okay, that's really weird for one of his movies
because of the spoiler. Okay, butting people who don't have
the spoiler will like it, Yes, you actually do. And
for people who don't know, like, this is the movie
Emma Stone shaved her head for. I don't want to
reduce it to that, but I feel like there was
so many headlines around that people like why did.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
She shave her head? It was it was for this
and the whole scene about her hair is just so
fucking funny, Like it's so so because it's like a
dark comedy, dark comedy, thriller, horror, so like there are
bits that are just so so funny. Yeah, and yeah,
the performances like Emmastone and just Wreman's deserve to be
in every single movie together for the rest of your life,
Like they just work so well together. But that was
(15:45):
kind of annoying my experience of it. But I really
want everyone to watch it because there's like so much
to discuss about it. After watch it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm trying to do what that person did and not
give too much, not give too much away, okay, and
out in cinemas now out in cinema, And I think
those are the kind of movies you do have to
watch in his cinema, like you can't watch it at home.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I don't say that lightly.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I know that getting to the cinema is hard and
it's expensive, but I do think sometimes if you can, like,
don't see this as a ball, because you really do
experience a movie in a different way, and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It is a very shared experience. There'll be parts where
like you'll be like ooh because other people in the
seat see it before you. Yeah, you'll be like oh,
and then you can like laugh to get the reaction.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There's nothing like it. And I also think even if
you're at home, you think you won't look at your
phone and stuff, but you do. You do you need
to be in a cinemay.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I do. I'll admit it. Yeah, I'm glued to my phone. Yeah,
watching House of Dynamite on my phone.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, Well then you you probably missed half the movie
and no one you can describe it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And I'm nailing at the US government like you guys
are wrong. I'm like reading the articles while I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, that's a terrible way to watch a movie, so
we can't trust a word you. Sorry. Okay, well, thank
you for all of that. Give me a lot to
think about, a lot of nightmares to have tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So we know you guys love your TV binges, which
is why our new podcast, watch Party has been doing
recaps and like analysis of pretty much every episode of
Nobody Wants This. So go and check that out, especially
if you're currently watching the show now. But also we
have our brutally honors review of Nobody Wants This coming
later today, and look, we're not holding back with this one. Yeah,
(17:13):
I've got a lot, Oh my god, so do I.
The spill is reduced by Venetious Warren with sound production
by Scott Stronnik and we will see you soon. Bye
bye
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