Francesca Rudkin: Twisters and Ka Whawhai Tonu

Twisters  

Haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado, Kate Cooper gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi, to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma. 

 

Ka Whawhai Tonu  

Set in New Zealand in 1864, follows the story of a crucial conflict of the nation's first land warfare, fought between Maori and colonial soldiers against insurmountable odds. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sorry, just take it out at Katy Perry there. Sorry, Katie,
we'll give you a first. It's dangerous when you interrupt
a song as a man, a song called Woman's World.
You just blunder on. And sorry, Katie p You're a
Jack Tame This Saturday Morning twenty three to ten, which

(00:39):
means it's time to catch up with our film review
of Francesca Rudkin for this week's movie Picks Morning Morning. Okay,
so we saw this trailer at home for the first
film that we're going to be sharing with you this morning,
and my wife said, oh, that looks amazing, and I said,
it looks awfully like a film I saw about twenty
years ago. But let's let our audience make up their
own minds. This is Twisters. We want a generation torna

(00:59):
or outbreak continues Talkhomer.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We've never seen tornidos like this before, and we need
your help. No, I don't chase anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Thank we deceived lives They Tyler Orwans cause himself, Torneedo ring.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Scar scared.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, this is Twisters, not to be confused with twist
tur If.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You feel it, chase it. They could be a bit
of a model for life.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Could feel it, Chase it.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Chase it. This has got everything you want in a blockbuster, Jack.
It's got a lot of high speed actions, some pretty
good special effects. Actually, it's got a lot of humor.
It's got a touch of romance, but it's just a touch.
There's not even a kiss here, because this is family entertaining, okay,
And it's really cheesy at times, and a touch predictable,
and it's good fun. Yeah, it's everything that you want

(01:49):
out of a blockbuster. And you're absolutely right. You possibly
saw this film in nineteen ninety six. So they're saying
that it's kind of not they're not sort of saying
that it's a remake, and they're not saying it's a sequel.
It's kind of like just the film but in a
contemporary kind of setting. But you know, they can't even
quite use the words climate change or anything. There is
this sort of there's a sense that you know, there

(02:09):
is a change in the climate, but we don't even
use those words either. So it's taking it very very safely.
But hey, two fabulous leads here with great chemistry Daisy
egg Jones and Glenn Powell. Glen Powe's sort of like
the man of the moment. Actually he's a hit man
on and he's particularly steamy in this one.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I must say.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Anyway, so it's sort of felt that there's not going
to blow your socks off, but this is really great entertainment.
I think for the Holidays doesn't take it south too
seriously while trying to also take the fact that tornadoes
and their destruction they cause is serious, if you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The sort of.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Nicely kind of balancing that up. And basically we do
we just watch a couple of we watch your tornado
wrangler played by Glenn and a tornado whisperer played by
Daisy kind of start out on sort of opposite sides
of the tornado and then and then sort of come
together a little bit throughout. And that's all you need
to know.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Good fun. I'm just going to read one line from this,
So is it Harvey Harvey Cake Cooper. Yeah, yeah, so
she crossed his path with I'm presuming Glenn Power's character
Tyler Owens, a charming but reckless social media superstar who
thrives on posting his storm cheasing adventures.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, pretty much. So he's the YouTuber and she's sort
of the scientist and socialologist. But oh look, there's a
lot more to the characters than you think. Just remember
is there if you feel it, chase it.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
If you feel it, chase it. Honestly words to lift
by speaking of feeling it. Have I ever told you
about the time I went tornado chasing. No, I didn't
actually took chase like a proper like the tornado had
fizzled by the time I got there. But I was
in Oklahoma for work and there was a massive tornadoes.
The more tornado, I think about thirty five people died, sadly,

(03:56):
and it was like a Category five tornado, like one
of those absolute you know, like where they're like, oh,
this is like a black hole tornado.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Seen one of those in the movie.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And I got there and it was a couple of
years after the christ Itch earthquake, so I've seen all
the destruction in christ Church, and then I went to
Oklahoma City and saw this tornado, and I just can't
impress upon you the scale of destruction. It's just unbelievable
what tornadoes can do. Like I think like three hundred

(04:26):
kilomere in our wins, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, And I think actually that's the one thing to capture.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Ye, it's very much the one.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
And when I sort of said to you, it's that
balance between the film not taking it serious the characters,
but actually very much trying to take seriously the devastation,
just the annihilation. It's the place. Yeah, I remember it
was an unpredictability of them and how to know when
they form and things like that. Look that there are
some interesting aspects of the film.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh it sounds good. Okay, all right, So that is
Twisters that is showing in cinemas and it feels like
a kind of movie you probably want to see the holidays. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Next up, tell us about Carfa Fi Torny. Yes.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now, this was released a couple of weeks ago, and
I really want to take a mention of it, becau.
It's a very powerful historical drama, but it also looks
beautiful and should be seen on the big screen. And
as I mentioned, released a couple of weeks ago. It
tells the story of the battle for Raco in the Waikato,
and it's told very much through the Murray Lens here,

(05:24):
so we're in eighteen sixty four. This is probably one
of the more dramatic events in the land wars. I
think they actually celebrated one hundred and sixtieth anniversary that
was marked this year of this particular battle. And at
the heart of this film with two teenagers, one is
a young woman, a prophet who speaks for the war

(05:45):
of the God of War. She is feared by everybody,
including her own people. And another young boy who has
a Pakiha father and a Maori mother and he is
he finds himself in this battle as well. So the
story there at the heart of the story. Amazing cast Timioda, Morrison,
Mariam Smithcliff Curtis. So it's a bit of a mix

(06:07):
of the coming of age story of these young characters,
but also a bit of a coming of age story
for New Zealand because the country was very much in
flux at that point and sort of at this point
of chaos. So it's a war film as well. I
mean I sat there a lot of times going okay,
brief now take a breath. Yeah, Like it's full on.
So it's wonderful, definitely deserves to be seen on the
big screen.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, great, that sounds really good. So that is car
Far five Tornu. We'll make sure that and Twisters, two
rather different films. It has to be said, that's what
we do, that's what I try to do. What is
something for everybody exactly? We will make sure details for
both of those films are up on the News Talks
he'd be website.

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