It’s Weekend Watch time! This week, we’ve got three very different picks for you to stream.First, Lena Dunham is back with a new series, Too Much, that delves into the complexities of modern romance. Set against the backdrop of London, it offers a fresh take on love and self-discovery, marking a significant return for Dunham since her previous work on Girls.
Or you could dive into a gripping thriller where a young genius finds himself in a mysterious facility alongside other children with special abilities. This adaptation promises suspense and intrigue, staying true to King's signature storytelling.
And finally, some of us weren't expecting to enjoy the new Superman movie… but James Gunn may have pulled off the impossible. It's fresh, earnest, anmd we break down what works, what doesn't and why it’s just what the franchise needed.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much. 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 Concenular Kitsch, and today is I'm going
to say my favorite episode of the week, because it
(00:35):
is Weekend Watch, where we get to bring you the
best new TV shows and movies that have just premiered
this week. You can watch for the weekend and the
good thing is that we get to watch everything early
before it comes out, so we can weed out the
bad stuff and just give you the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Honestly, the best thing about this job is getting screened
as early. I feel so special all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, exactly. But I want to just post on my
Insta stories I normally do about stuff I love, like
every second of what I'm watching, but the Netflix lords
will take us down so we can't do that. They
were okay, embargoes have lifted. We can freely talk now,
which I know is good. And there's a show that
you hinto that last week that we were't allowed to
discuss that you can now tell us probably, And.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This has been so anticipated and promoted by Netflix. It
is Lena Dunham's return to television. It is too much
and that is out now for you guys. Jess, something
has shifted with you. Josh Hi, how are you girl?
Are you good? You're unhappy leaving me. It's the worst
(01:34):
thing that everyone's ever done. Change your life. Go to London, seriously,
you love London. You saw Spice World nine times in
the theater. I could do it. I could go and
find my English dream. You know, a state ground spreading gardens.
Good luck with love one.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Of them here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They're singing, guy the way you've got like an American accent.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right, let me guess you like one of those love.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Actually, girls, this is the London I came here for.
It's like out of a movie, Yeah, horror movie. These
people are full of pent uprage and dark secrets. I know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We'd look at the Yellow House.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I came here to find myself. A lot of stuff
went down in New York. My ex boyfriend is living
with another woman right now. Yeah, I want you to
cut their heads off and sew them back on, looking
in a big blue eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is he who he says he is.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This has all just been a series of redflex Do
you think you're so special? I get that it's hard
for you, but like it's hard for fucking everyone. Okay,
I wanted to be in bed with like a few
grant from the British Jones Diaries. Would you say British Jones.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now there's four of them. Yeah, it's not called British Jones.
She's British. Now. We both love the show. Actually, the
whole office loves this show. We've had a really good
feedback on it. If you're familiar with Lena Dunams's work before,
she obviously did Girls back in the twenty tents, I
will say that too Much, particularly the first episode, is
(03:14):
very Girls coded, And what I mean by that is
the humor is the same, which makes sense because Lena
is writing it, directing it, so her voice is very
much all over this. However, Too Much goes deeper than
Girls did. Now it's ten episodes. Each episode's about an
hour now. It stars Megan Statler, who is who plays Jessica.
(03:35):
She's in her early thirties. She just breaks up with
her ex boyfriend and decides to kind of shake things up.
A bit and move to London, and her first night
in London she meets a very handsome musician called Felix
played by Will Sharp, and they have this love affair.
It's really funny, but it's not a rom com.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, I think that's the important thing. Like at the
top of my review, I'm kind of hammard this thing
of like I don't want it to be like Materialists,
where people go into something because they've watched half the
trailer and they think it's a frothy rom com and
it's got comedic elements and love elements, but it is
also a drama at its core. In saying that, though
I found the humor, like, Megan Sttles's performance is so good.
I think a lot of people fell in love with
(04:16):
her in Hacks. She's like the breakout star of that.
She is so compelling funny in this. Lena Dunam's writing
is so funny. It's a lot of physical humor, a
lot of pop culture based humor, which I love. And
it's basically Yeah, she is in New York, she has
ended a long term relationship, she doesn't know what to do.
She gets sent to London. This is where the rom
(04:37):
com factor comes in because that sort of stuff only
happens in movies and TV shows. Can I just say,
my life has also got off the rails many times,
and no one Mum and me has sent me to
London or Emily in Paris or anything like that. So
I'm just saying we need to kind of kick that
up a notch. And Lena Dunnan did say that she
is a huge lover of rom comms and that was
a bit of the catalyst for this story. It's also
(04:58):
from the producers of movies like Notting Hill and Love Actually,
so you do have those elements dotted through there. It's
also very loosely based on Lena Dunham's own love story
when she had been through a huge break up with
Jack Antonov. She went to London and met Louis Felber
and they had this whirlwind romance and now they're married.
Doesn't exactly play out the same way in the show,
(05:19):
like I want to get into what happens in their
characters for spoilers, but it is that kind of idea
of like an American and a British man falling in love.
But it's just such a good show. I just devoured
and inhaled every second of it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So what I will say about this, it's because it's
ten episodes. Each episode is quite long. Yeah, I would
say take your time with it. I don't normally say
to people, don't binge because I'm a huge binger when
it comes to TV, but take your time. Let each
episode digest because they do kind of sit quite on
their own.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
There's a lot of storyline, a lot of plot happening.
Like I had to speed through a few of them,
but you do sometimes have to give yourself a moment
to process what happened in each episode because it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It is a lot, and it's really well written. The
British humor American humor kind of meshes together. Lena Duneham
is in it as the older sister of Jessica. But yes,
really great show. Absolutely loved it, so get on watching that,
but watch it slowly.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Please watch it slowly, drink it in yeap.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Marinate, let it settle and then go to the next app.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, Okay, the other show that I wanted to recommend
for this week, bit of a different take, but it's
for people like me who love a thriller, love a
bit of horror, love, a bit of sci fi. It
is The Institute, which is premiering on Stand this weekend,
July thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Your brain and what it can do is a gift
that knows it didn't come from us. See how far
it can take you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Welcome to the Institute.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Have we been kidnapped?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They call it recruited?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Who's the congratulations for being here? My parents?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Do they know where I am?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Are they alive?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Of course, We're not monsters. Without our work, the world
as we know it would cease to be. It's my
responsibility to see that that work gets done. So it
will get done so.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The Institute is based on the best selling novel by
one of my favorite authors in the whole world. I
don't know if anyone else has heard of him, Stephen King.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Just the little known authors. Stephen King.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, one of his best selling novels. The Institute is
now a TV series. It's also from the director of
one of my favorite current TV shows and a show
that I watch over and over again, even though it
terrifies me. From It's from the director of From, which
is also on Stand. And I know I've talked about
the show before. If you haven't watched that Holy hell,
and he's also a director on Boss. So all these
(08:01):
great things they have come together to tell the adaptation
of this show. So it's this really gripping story about
this teen prodigy called Luke Ellis who is abducted and
then he wakes up in the middle of the night
in this facility with all these other children who have
been brought there under really sinister and mysterious circumstances. And
(08:21):
there's this whole thing of like them having supernatural abilities
and what does it mean and who's really controlling the institute.
And then there's also this other story happening at a
nearby town where a police officer called Tim Jamison played
by Ben barnes Hot is trying to sort of outrun
his past and his world and Luke's world really collide.
And I'll just say, if you've read the book, which
(08:42):
I have, you'll be really pleased and like very invested
in the series and how they've adapted it. And if
you haven't read the book, don't look up anything, don't
watch any videos, don't read any synopsis, don't do anything
like that. Just watch the series so that you can
experience all the twists and turns for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I actually think Stephen King is the most adapted author. Yeah,
in Hollywood. I'm I'm certain that that's the stat isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He has had more of his books adapted to movies
than like any other author.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh exactly. And I feel like I.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Leanne Moriarty might be close second.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh yes. And also the thing is that with Stephen
King is like it's like TV series movies and he's
so like also part of like the adaptation of his works.
I went on a big thing this in the last
year of making sure that there was no Stephen King
adaptation in the world that I had left unwatched. So
I think I've pretty much watched all of them at
this point in time. So the Institute is top of
my list.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
How scary is it? Because it is terrifying? I refuse
to watch it. Oh okay, Like I don't like horror.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
This is not as horror as some of his other adaptations,
So I would say, yeah, not as intense as it,
or even like as intense as something like Misery or
The Stand or anything like that, like the original Salem's Lot,
very very creepy. I would say, this is sort of
out of that realm a little bit. It does obviously
have some tension and some scarce, so maybe you should
(10:03):
watch it in the daylight.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it's not scary movie.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's not overly graphic horror. But I mean, the thing
is it is for people who love thrillers, sci fi, horror.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That and sci fi. But I don't like horror.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay, Well you'll just have to see watch some episodes
in the light, is all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Like, you know, I don't watch it with you, kid memore.
You know the substance.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I had to skip through the really like that's really
body horror though, Like I had.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
To skip through, like I really loved the story you
had to skip through.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, okay, you'll be okay with this. Just just stop sure,
just have your hand ready to kind of if you
have to just sort of pop it down on stage.
But overall, out of all his works, this is probably
the best one for you to begin with. So, okay,
the Institute it's on stand, make sure you watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay. So the final one that we've got is a
little bit of a surprise for me because I saw
a lot of posters for this. I've been seeing it everywhere,
and I have written it off before I even watched
a trailer or anything, as this is going to be
terrible because unfortunately a lot of movies from this part
tequila genre have not been very good. And we're talking
(11:13):
about DC Universe, We're talking about Superman.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Superman, the most powerful being on planet Earth. We finally
meet now as plans, I'll destroy you, and of course
(11:41):
that reporter you always do interviews with.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Who raised you as a child, I'll kill them too.
No matter what you do to me, Luth, your plans
will work.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, So I have a very important update for everyone.
So I know last week I wasn't on Weekend Watch,
but Tina Burke, who I work very very closely with
and is the entertainment editor at Mama Mea, was on
the show here to tell you that Jurassic World Rebirth,
the new Jurassic Park movie, is pretty terrible, and she
was saying that cinema is over.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She's a little bit dramatic.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I mean she did believe it. She's like, movies
over Hollywood done. Like I think she wanted to disband
our entertainment team. She's like movie is done. She and
I went to the Sydney premiere of Superman this week,
and we both agree, Cinema's back. It's down. It is
down for a week. It's come back because this new
Superman movie was so good. And I can feel some
of our listeners rolling their eyes and being like, oh
(12:43):
my god, Laura, you always talk about superhero TV shows
and movies. You love everything, ra Rah, Not true. I
love Superman TV shows. Lewis and Clark, the series from
the nineties with Dan Kvetch so good that I was
so obsessed with Dank hot hot their chemistry. Again, we're
watching it as kids. It's very it's very sanitized. It
is for children in a way that is great. That's
(13:05):
also more of a rom com, but it's still a
superhero show. Smallville an incredible TV show for ten seasons,
every season a banger. All the DC TV shows that
have with like Tyler Hutchin's version of Superman great, the
TV shows have Superman sorted movies. The Christopher Reeves ones
were quite good, but they were like quite iconic. All
(13:26):
the Superman movies since then, in my professional opinion, kind
of duds. Yeah, and then I don't know what to
do with the character. They're bleak, they aren't interesting, Like
he can be a really bland superhero if you don't
play him properly. And the last few Superman movies have
left me so cold.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And they feel like as well. DC have definitely had
a little bit of trouble compared to Marvel. You know,
Marvel of since you know, the very first Iron Man
movie has been success. After the success, there's been a
couple of ones that have been duds, but generally they've
been pretty good. Yeah, DC. However, apart from you know,
Dark Knight, that series, you know, the Christopher Nolan that
(14:03):
went really well, but Superman's really been struggling, and I
feel like a lot of the DC ip have been
taken by the CW network, which kind of makes these
really like like Ruby Rose did that Batgirl, yeah, which
was a bit of a dud, but I'm really excited
that it's good and Nicholas Holt plays Lex Luthor.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh yeah, so much about this actual movie is great.
So I should say that it's written directed by James Gunn,
which I know that should have been a clue that
it was going to be incredible, because obviously so many
movies that he makes are incredible. He's the one who
really shaped Guardians of the Galaxy and made that the
huge part of marvel that it is. He is the
writer and director of this film. Everything about it just works.
(14:43):
It's got a lot of comedy and humor and warmth,
I think is what you need from a Superman series.
But there's also like a gravitas and like a seriousness
to it, and that it's very fast paced. But David
corn Sweat, who has been a lot of movies and
TV shows, but this is, I've got to say, his
huge breakout role. He plays Clark Kent Souperman chatting to
a lot of people about this the hottest Souperman so far.
(15:05):
I'm gonna go out and the women say it also
very charismatic and a bit of a do fist in
the best way, which is what Sue Man supposed to be.
Rachel Brosnahan plays Lois Slaine and she is one of
the main reasons I went because she played Midge in
The Marvelous Missus Maisel, one of my favorite TV shows.
She is so great as Lois Laane like the perfect
and she also has her own big story and her
(15:25):
own like side characters and her own things that are
going on. She's not just a damn slung distress. And
then yes, Nicholas Poult plays Lex Luthor.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He looks so hot with that blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Okay, the blond hair is so funny because we had
people are in our offers who were like, Oh, I
don't really care about Sudeman, I want to see this movie,
but I'm going to go because I want to see
him with the blonde hair. No, No, he's yeah, And
then Tina Burke and I had to say, just a second,
you know that he's bald in this right, Like Lex
Luthor famously a bald character, and there's a whole backstory
of how that happens. So they didn't go to the
movie because I didn't want to see her that the
(15:57):
blonde hair.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Actually just listened to a SmartLess episode with Yeah Assault Yeah,
and he was talking about the reason he's blonde is
because he's doing a new movie now. Yeah, but he
looks so good with it. I'm like, oh, yeah, he's
a hot pot man rush on Lex, But I wish
he did have blonde hair. I know he's bald, I
know he's hossible.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Kind of just say he's hot. Bald. He's got this
kind of like very villainous element about him that makes
le Luthor not just like he can sometimes be a
bit of a caricature, but you like, this man does
feel very threatening. There's so many good side characters. Nathan
Fillion is in it, which I know a lot of
people love from the TV show Castle. I love him
from Firefly. He's in it. Isabella mar said, who is
(16:35):
just had a great run in the Last of Us. Yeah,
so that is a bit of a reveal, like we
knew that was coming, but you do get your first
glimpse of Australian actress Millie o'cock as a Supergirl, and
that's like a really fun moment. And overall I just
found it a really enjoyable film. Superman's got a dog.
That's fun. There's a dog in the mix if that's
(16:56):
your thing. He's got a cape, he flies. Overall, just
a really really fun movie. So I just want to
sort of say that I don't take it lightly like
recommending movies that people have to go and see at
the cinema, because I'm aware that cinema tickets are expensive
and like you might have to like get a babysitter,
or we might have to give up like your one
free night to go. So I'll just say that, like,
if you love superhero movies, you'll really enjoy this. If
you're just looking for a fun movie, you don't have
(17:17):
to know all of the superhero law behind this. It
just stands as it's o. There's lots of little callbacks
to like the original comics in the dialogue, but if
you don't know what those are, it's fine. You can
just enjoy the action and the humor and the love
story and yeah, Superman. Add the movies now, little indie film,
give it a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, a few things to watch this weekend. Thank you
so much for joining us here on Weekend Watch. We
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So much. 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 Concenular Kitsch, and today is I'm going
to say my favorite episode of the week, because it
(00:35):
is Weekend Watch, where we get to bring you the
best new TV shows and movies that have just premiered
this week. You can watch for the weekend and the
good thing is that we get to watch everything early
before it comes out, so we can weed out the
bad stuff and just give you the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Honestly, the best thing about this job is getting screened
as early. I feel so special all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, exactly. But I want to just post on my
Insta stories I normally do about stuff I love, like
every second of what I'm watching, but the Netflix lords
will take us down so we can't do that. They
were okay, embargoes have lifted. We can freely talk now,
which I know is good. And there's a show that
you hinto that last week that we were't allowed to
discuss that you can now tell us probably, And.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
This has been so anticipated and promoted by Netflix. It
is Lena Dunham's return to television. It is too much
and that is out now for you guys. Jess, something
has shifted with you. Josh Hi, how are you girl?
Are you good? You're unhappy leaving me. It's the worst
(01:34):
thing that everyone's ever done. Change your life. Go to London, seriously,
you love London. You saw Spice World nine times in
the theater. I could do it. I could go and
find my English dream. You know, a state ground spreading gardens.
Good luck with love one.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Of them here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They're singing, guy the way you've got like an American accent.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right, let me guess you like one of those love.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Actually, girls, this is the London I came here for.
It's like out of a movie, Yeah, horror movie. These
people are full of pent uprage and dark secrets. I know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We'd look at the Yellow House.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I came here to find myself. A lot of stuff
went down in New York. My ex boyfriend is living
with another woman right now. Yeah, I want you to
cut their heads off and sew them back on, looking
in a big blue eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is he who he says he is.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This has all just been a series of redflex Do
you think you're so special? I get that it's hard
for you, but like it's hard for fucking everyone. Okay,
I wanted to be in bed with like a few
grant from the British Jones Diaries. Would you say British Jones.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now there's four of them. Yeah, it's not called British Jones.
She's British. Now. We both love the show. Actually, the
whole office loves this show. We've had a really good
feedback on it. If you're familiar with Lena Dunams's work before,
she obviously did Girls back in the twenty tents, I
will say that too Much, particularly the first episode, is
(03:14):
very Girls coded, And what I mean by that is
the humor is the same, which makes sense because Lena
is writing it, directing it, so her voice is very
much all over this. However, Too Much goes deeper than
Girls did. Now it's ten episodes. Each episode's about an
hour now. It stars Megan Statler, who is who plays Jessica.
(03:35):
She's in her early thirties. She just breaks up with
her ex boyfriend and decides to kind of shake things up.
A bit and move to London, and her first night
in London she meets a very handsome musician called Felix
played by Will Sharp, and they have this love affair.
It's really funny, but it's not a rom com.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, I think that's the important thing. Like at the
top of my review, I'm kind of hammard this thing
of like I don't want it to be like Materialists,
where people go into something because they've watched half the
trailer and they think it's a frothy rom com and
it's got comedic elements and love elements, but it is
also a drama at its core. In saying that, though
I found the humor, like, Megan Sttles's performance is so good.
I think a lot of people fell in love with
(04:16):
her in Hacks. She's like the breakout star of that.
She is so compelling funny in this. Lena Dunam's writing
is so funny. It's a lot of physical humor, a
lot of pop culture based humor, which I love. And
it's basically Yeah, she is in New York, she has
ended a long term relationship, she doesn't know what to do.
She gets sent to London. This is where the rom
(04:37):
com factor comes in because that sort of stuff only
happens in movies and TV shows. Can I just say,
my life has also got off the rails many times,
and no one Mum and me has sent me to
London or Emily in Paris or anything like that. So
I'm just saying we need to kind of kick that
up a notch. And Lena Dunnan did say that she
is a huge lover of rom comms and that was
a bit of the catalyst for this story. It's also
(04:58):
from the producers of movies like Notting Hill and Love Actually,
so you do have those elements dotted through there. It's
also very loosely based on Lena Dunham's own love story
when she had been through a huge break up with
Jack Antonov. She went to London and met Louis Felber
and they had this whirlwind romance and now they're married.
Doesn't exactly play out the same way in the show,
(05:19):
like I want to get into what happens in their
characters for spoilers, but it is that kind of idea
of like an American and a British man falling in love.
But it's just such a good show. I just devoured
and inhaled every second of it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So what I will say about this, it's because it's
ten episodes. Each episode is quite long. Yeah, I would
say take your time with it. I don't normally say
to people, don't binge because I'm a huge binger when
it comes to TV, but take your time. Let each
episode digest because they do kind of sit quite on
their own.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
There's a lot of storyline, a lot of plot happening.
Like I had to speed through a few of them,
but you do sometimes have to give yourself a moment
to process what happened in each episode because it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It is a lot, and it's really well written. The
British humor American humor kind of meshes together. Lena Duneham
is in it as the older sister of Jessica. But yes,
really great show. Absolutely loved it, so get on watching that,
but watch it slowly.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Please watch it slowly, drink it in yeap.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Marinate, let it settle and then go to the next app.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, Okay, the other show that I wanted to recommend
for this week, bit of a different take, but it's
for people like me who love a thriller, love a
bit of horror, love, a bit of sci fi. It
is The Institute, which is premiering on Stand this weekend,
July thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Your brain and what it can do is a gift
that knows it didn't come from us. See how far
it can take you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Welcome to the Institute.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Have we been kidnapped?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They call it recruited?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Who's the congratulations for being here? My parents?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Do they know where I am?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Are they alive?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Of course, We're not monsters. Without our work, the world
as we know it would cease to be. It's my
responsibility to see that that work gets done. So it
will get done so.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The Institute is based on the best selling novel by
one of my favorite authors in the whole world. I
don't know if anyone else has heard of him, Stephen King.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Just the little known authors. Stephen King.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, one of his best selling novels. The Institute is
now a TV series. It's also from the director of
one of my favorite current TV shows and a show
that I watch over and over again, even though it
terrifies me. From It's from the director of From, which
is also on Stand. And I know I've talked about
the show before. If you haven't watched that Holy hell,
and he's also a director on Boss. So all these
(08:01):
great things they have come together to tell the adaptation
of this show. So it's this really gripping story about
this teen prodigy called Luke Ellis who is abducted and
then he wakes up in the middle of the night
in this facility with all these other children who have
been brought there under really sinister and mysterious circumstances. And
(08:21):
there's this whole thing of like them having supernatural abilities
and what does it mean and who's really controlling the institute.
And then there's also this other story happening at a
nearby town where a police officer called Tim Jamison played
by Ben barnes Hot is trying to sort of outrun
his past and his world and Luke's world really collide.
And I'll just say, if you've read the book, which
(08:42):
I have, you'll be really pleased and like very invested
in the series and how they've adapted it. And if
you haven't read the book, don't look up anything, don't
watch any videos, don't read any synopsis, don't do anything
like that. Just watch the series so that you can
experience all the twists and turns for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I actually think Stephen King is the most adapted author. Yeah,
in Hollywood. I'm I'm certain that that's the stat isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He has had more of his books adapted to movies
than like any other author.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh exactly. And I feel like I.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Leanne Moriarty might be close second.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh yes. And also the thing is that with Stephen
King is like it's like TV series movies and he's
so like also part of like the adaptation of his works.
I went on a big thing this in the last
year of making sure that there was no Stephen King
adaptation in the world that I had left unwatched. So
I think I've pretty much watched all of them at
this point in time. So the Institute is top of
my list.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
How scary is it? Because it is terrifying? I refuse
to watch it. Oh okay, Like I don't like horror.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
This is not as horror as some of his other adaptations,
So I would say, yeah, not as intense as it,
or even like as intense as something like Misery or
The Stand or anything like that, like the original Salem's Lot,
very very creepy. I would say, this is sort of
out of that realm a little bit. It does obviously
have some tension and some scarce, so maybe you should
(10:03):
watch it in the daylight.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it's not scary movie.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's not overly graphic horror. But I mean, the thing
is it is for people who love thrillers, sci fi, horror.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That and sci fi. But I don't like horror.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay, Well you'll just have to see watch some episodes
in the light, is all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Like, you know, I don't watch it with you, kid memore.
You know the substance.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I had to skip through the really like that's really
body horror though, Like I had.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
To skip through, like I really loved the story you
had to skip through.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, okay, you'll be okay with this. Just just stop sure,
just have your hand ready to kind of if you
have to just sort of pop it down on stage.
But overall, out of all his works, this is probably
the best one for you to begin with. So, okay,
the Institute it's on stand, make sure you watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay. So the final one that we've got is a
little bit of a surprise for me because I saw
a lot of posters for this. I've been seeing it everywhere,
and I have written it off before I even watched
a trailer or anything, as this is going to be
terrible because unfortunately a lot of movies from this part
tequila genre have not been very good. And we're talking
(11:13):
about DC Universe, We're talking about Superman.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Superman, the most powerful being on planet Earth. We finally
meet now as plans, I'll destroy you, and of course
(11:41):
that reporter you always do interviews with.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Who raised you as a child, I'll kill them too.
No matter what you do to me, Luth, your plans
will work.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, So I have a very important update for everyone.
So I know last week I wasn't on Weekend Watch,
but Tina Burke, who I work very very closely with
and is the entertainment editor at Mama Mea, was on
the show here to tell you that Jurassic World Rebirth,
the new Jurassic Park movie, is pretty terrible, and she
was saying that cinema is over.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She's a little bit dramatic.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I mean she did believe it. She's like, movies
over Hollywood done. Like I think she wanted to disband
our entertainment team. She's like movie is done. She and
I went to the Sydney premiere of Superman this week,
and we both agree, Cinema's back. It's down. It is
down for a week. It's come back because this new
Superman movie was so good. And I can feel some
of our listeners rolling their eyes and being like, oh
(12:43):
my god, Laura, you always talk about superhero TV shows
and movies. You love everything, ra Rah, Not true. I
love Superman TV shows. Lewis and Clark, the series from
the nineties with Dan Kvetch so good that I was
so obsessed with Dank hot hot their chemistry. Again, we're
watching it as kids. It's very it's very sanitized. It
is for children in a way that is great. That's
(13:05):
also more of a rom com, but it's still a
superhero show. Smallville an incredible TV show for ten seasons,
every season a banger. All the DC TV shows that
have with like Tyler Hutchin's version of Superman great, the
TV shows have Superman sorted movies. The Christopher Reeves ones
were quite good, but they were like quite iconic. All
(13:26):
the Superman movies since then, in my professional opinion, kind
of duds. Yeah, and then I don't know what to
do with the character. They're bleak, they aren't interesting, Like
he can be a really bland superhero if you don't
play him properly. And the last few Superman movies have
left me so cold.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And they feel like as well. DC have definitely had
a little bit of trouble compared to Marvel. You know,
Marvel of since you know, the very first Iron Man
movie has been success. After the success, there's been a
couple of ones that have been duds, but generally they've
been pretty good. Yeah, DC. However, apart from you know,
Dark Knight, that series, you know, the Christopher Nolan that
(14:03):
went really well, but Superman's really been struggling, and I
feel like a lot of the DC ip have been
taken by the CW network, which kind of makes these
really like like Ruby Rose did that Batgirl, yeah, which
was a bit of a dud, but I'm really excited
that it's good and Nicholas Holt plays Lex Luthor.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh yeah, so much about this actual movie is great.
So I should say that it's written directed by James Gunn,
which I know that should have been a clue that
it was going to be incredible, because obviously so many
movies that he makes are incredible. He's the one who
really shaped Guardians of the Galaxy and made that the
huge part of marvel that it is. He is the
writer and director of this film. Everything about it just works.
(14:43):
It's got a lot of comedy and humor and warmth,
I think is what you need from a Superman series.
But there's also like a gravitas and like a seriousness
to it, and that it's very fast paced. But David
corn Sweat, who has been a lot of movies and
TV shows, but this is, I've got to say, his
huge breakout role. He plays Clark Kent Souperman chatting to
a lot of people about this the hottest Souperman so far.
(15:05):
I'm gonna go out and the women say it also
very charismatic and a bit of a do fist in
the best way, which is what Sue Man supposed to be.
Rachel Brosnahan plays Lois Slaine and she is one of
the main reasons I went because she played Midge in
The Marvelous Missus Maisel, one of my favorite TV shows.
She is so great as Lois Laane like the perfect
and she also has her own big story and her
(15:25):
own like side characters and her own things that are
going on. She's not just a damn slung distress. And
then yes, Nicholas Poult plays Lex Luthor.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He looks so hot with that blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Okay, the blond hair is so funny because we had
people are in our offers who were like, Oh, I
don't really care about Sudeman, I want to see this movie,
but I'm going to go because I want to see
him with the blonde hair. No, No, he's yeah, And
then Tina Burke and I had to say, just a second,
you know that he's bald in this right, Like Lex
Luthor famously a bald character, and there's a whole backstory
of how that happens. So they didn't go to the
movie because I didn't want to see her that the
(15:57):
blonde hair.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Actually just listened to a SmartLess episode with Yeah Assault Yeah,
and he was talking about the reason he's blonde is
because he's doing a new movie now. Yeah, but he
looks so good with it. I'm like, oh, yeah, he's
a hot pot man rush on Lex, But I wish
he did have blonde hair. I know he's bald, I
know he's hossible.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Kind of just say he's hot. Bald. He's got this
kind of like very villainous element about him that makes
le Luthor not just like he can sometimes be a
bit of a caricature, but you like, this man does
feel very threatening. There's so many good side characters. Nathan
Fillion is in it, which I know a lot of
people love from the TV show Castle. I love him
from Firefly. He's in it. Isabella mar said, who is
(16:35):
just had a great run in the Last of Us. Yeah,
so that is a bit of a reveal, like we
knew that was coming, but you do get your first
glimpse of Australian actress Millie o'cock as a Supergirl, and
that's like a really fun moment. And overall I just
found it a really enjoyable film. Superman's got a dog.
That's fun. There's a dog in the mix if that's
(16:56):
your thing. He's got a cape, he flies. Overall, just
a really really fun movie. So I just want to
sort of say that I don't take it lightly like
recommending movies that people have to go and see at
the cinema, because I'm aware that cinema tickets are expensive
and like you might have to like get a babysitter,
or we might have to give up like your one
free night to go. So I'll just say that, like,
if you love superhero movies, you'll really enjoy this. If
you're just looking for a fun movie, you don't have
(17:17):
to know all of the superhero law behind this. It
just stands as it's o. There's lots of little callbacks
to like the original comics in the dialogue, but if
you don't know what those are, it's fine. You can
just enjoy the action and the humor and the love
story and yeah, Superman. Add the movies now, little indie film,
give it a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, a few things to watch this weekend. Thank you
so much for joining us here on Weekend Watch. We
will be back in your feed at three pm this afternoon.
The Spill is produced by Minisha is Worried, with sound
production by Scott Stronach Mama Mia Studios are styled with
furniture from Fenton and Fenton. Visit Fenton and Fenton dot
com dot au. See you later, Bye Lan
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