September 27, 2024 • 9 mins
Megalopolis
A conflict between Cesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.
Wolfs
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks ad Been Monday, Judas, Let's alone like that.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is key we artist Reiki Ruaway that songs called
love No Other cool A. Hey, thanks for your feedback
regarding working in the office to prop up business as Jack,
have you ever heard of taking your own lunch to
the office? Yes, actually quite, I don't know. Do I
prefer left overs?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I reckon, I reckon. It's probably a photo finish, depends
on the leftovers. Really No, I'm into that. So that's
a perfectly legitimate point ninety two if you want to
send us some a message in your thoughts on working
from home and whether or not public servants should be
directed to work from the office. Plenty of feedback to
get through very shortly. Right now, though, it's time to
catch up with our film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin is here, Kilda.
(01:15):
Good morning, Okay, two films to talk to. I'm gonna
have already lamented the title of our second film, so
we'll get to that in a couple of minutes. It's
been grinding my gears, but let's start off with a
new movie showing and cinemas at the moment. This is Megalopolis.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Imagine today's society as a branch of civilization. I'm about
to reach your dead end. Is this where we're living
the only one that's available to us?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Baba ba, that's Megalopolis.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yes. This is the sci fi drama written, interrupted and
produced by Francis bard Cropola that he has. The eighty
five year old director has been working on this project
for decades. It is alf funded passion project. He's around
one hundred and twenty million dollars in to make this
film and it played it can. It was picked up
by Lionsgate to have it released in cinemas, which is
(02:17):
really good because it must be.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Seen in a cinema.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
This film is audacious, it is just polarizing. It's absolutely nutty,
but it needs to be seen on the big screen.
It's set in futuristic America that resembles ancient Rome, and
and River plays an architect called Caesar. He's a visionary
and it's his job to determine how to rebuild the
(02:42):
metropolis of New Rome after a disaster, and it's kind
of a battle for the soul of the city and
he's backling against the mayor and the rich and the powerful.
It's like an ancient myth or fable put into a
modern city.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jack.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I saw this film on Wednesday. I still do not
have my head around it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I do not know whether this film is.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
A masterpiece an absolute disaster. It is equally frustrating as
it is at times stunning and beautiful. There are scenes
in this film that I'm there, I'm in it, I'm
in this world, and then there are other scenes where
I'm just going, oh my goodness, this is two hours
(03:26):
and eighteen minutes of my life. I'm never going to
get back. The film obviously looks at sort of power
and corruption and art and creativity and the impact of
progress and of standing still, but it just struggles to
get into a throw. He is throwing so much at us,
and it's not terribly subtle at times, and the film
(03:46):
sort of starts off, I got all, this just looks amazing,
this is meal great. And then the next thing, you know,
Adam Driver's character is doing Shakespeare's soliloquy and I'm like, no, no, no, no,
no no, I don't need Shakespeare as much. And so
there's all these sort of subplots, and you know, it's
it's it. Really you have to see it to believe it.
But I would highly recommend that you watch the trailer first.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It is it is our house. It is bonkers.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It's for a discerning film goer, you know, if you're thinking, oh, good,
I love you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Know the goal, but I just want to watch this.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
There's so much about it which is amazing, but then
there's so much about it which is really frustrating and
just just just bonkers. As you can tell, I'm really
really just sitting on the sidelines with us great cast,
and I'm pretty sure that everybody, no one will care
what You're either going to love it or hate it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And I don't think if you're involved in this film,
you wouldn't matter.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It doesn't You wouldn't care what the reviews are, because
you would go. I was involved in something quite unique
and audacious and I got to work with Francis Ford,
and that's all it means.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, unique is good is good. Different is good. It
sounds like a big movie mash. It sounds like just
a big like like you know, like someone's just throwing
a whole lot of paint at the canvas.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Absolutely, and I can't even go into all these little
examples of just how unsubtled is it and how much he.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Throws at you. And yeah, so a part of me
loved it, part of me hated it.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I think it's probably going to take another viewer
and God for God and.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
A little bit of time before I find which side of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nice okay that sounds that sounds interesting at the very
least and different. So that is Megalopolis that's showing in cinemas.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now to the film, whose title has been irritating me
for days now, starring Bad Brad and George Clery. Have
I listened to Wolf's.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I was told and if I ever needed help to
call you?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
What you can do?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What I do? We clearly have a situation here. The
only course of action is for you to work together
to clean up the mess.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, bam, that's Wolves. Can you just start off by
explaining the title?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, they just didn't want to call it. Are you
going to explain this? You go explain.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
The premise is that you've got these two lone wolves.
So you've got these two loan characters who are cleaners.
They called into fixed problems, but they you know, usually
involving dead bodies, and things or killing people, but they
always work alone, and they're very protective of their trade
craft and they're very protective of what they do. So
(06:28):
we have a wolf which is called into a situation,
and another wolf arrives, and the two of them are
played by George Cleaney and Bread Pitt, and the two
of them are forced to work together, but they're not
really together.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's not really a plural.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Nonetheless, if you're putting it, yes.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I know, I mean it's it's I totally understand where
you're coming from, because we don't use w O L
F S as the plural.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We use the be, so it is very confusing. But
I'd move on from that, Jack, I just let that go.
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Sometimes I just think I'm you know, I remember how
I used to roll my eyes when playing scrabble with
my father, and I've just become that person, you know,
I've just become the nitpecker on grammar all of these things,
and I just you can say, move on. It's easy
to say move on, but I just know that for
some reason, it's like I've got it between my teeth.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Apostrophies as well.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well. I placed apostrophees, yes, exactly, anyway, this is this
is an undermanding fun film.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, so that's why I'm just saying it's not worth
really spending hu much time worrying about that.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
It's you've got a couple of charismatic leads here. I'm
gonna be on this is playing on Apple Plus TV.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
The first twenty minutes about like the two of them
joined up and done a coffee ad together.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right, it's it's George Clooney and bread.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
As you expect that sort of dead pan, kind of
funny banter that the two of them do together.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The film is set.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Over one night, and it is actually beautifully shot. The
cinematog figure is absolutely fantastic. But it really took to
the forty night.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This is an actual comedy. It took to a forty.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Ninth minute when there is a fantastic stunt scene of
the car chase, which actually had me laughing out loud.
And that's when I kind of lightened up a little
bit on this film. When Okay, but you're expecting too much.
This is just supposed to be on the light side.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Look, the two of them obviously work together really well.
There's lots of, as I said, banter between the two
of them. They take the mickey out of each other.
The funny part is that they're actually you know, they
think that they're the best of what they do and
that they're individuals and they must work individually, but actually
they're the same person. They dress the same, they both
had the same back issue, they both work with the
(08:33):
same people.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
They need glasses to read. So there's lots of sort of.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Gags there along those lines as well.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I think the pace ebbs.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And flows, the twists take a while to kick in,
and I think they needed more of them. Sometimes it
felt like the film was just resting on the chemistry
between the two of them, right, you know, there's but
there are a few moments where you they actually put
some effort into the acting, but the rest of it
all comes pretty lightly, pretty easily.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Sorry, So not fun, light breezing entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Very good. Yeah, okay, cool, that's Wolfs That's on Apple TV.
Plus Megalopolis is in cinemas now. Thanks Franciska.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks ad Been Monday, Judas, Let's alone like that.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is key we artist Reiki Ruaway that songs called
love No Other cool A. Hey, thanks for your feedback
regarding working in the office to prop up business as Jack,
have you ever heard of taking your own lunch to
the office? Yes, actually quite, I don't know. Do I
prefer left overs?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I reckon, I reckon. It's probably a photo finish, depends
on the leftovers. Really No, I'm into that. So that's
a perfectly legitimate point ninety two if you want to
send us some a message in your thoughts on working
from home and whether or not public servants should be
directed to work from the office. Plenty of feedback to
get through very shortly. Right now, though, it's time to
catch up with our film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin is here, Kilda.
(01:15):
Good morning, Okay, two films to talk to. I'm gonna
have already lamented the title of our second film, so
we'll get to that in a couple of minutes. It's
been grinding my gears, but let's start off with a
new movie showing and cinemas at the moment. This is Megalopolis.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Imagine today's society as a branch of civilization. I'm about
to reach your dead end. Is this where we're living
the only one that's available to us?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Baba ba, that's Megalopolis.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yes. This is the sci fi drama written, interrupted and
produced by Francis bard Cropola that he has. The eighty
five year old director has been working on this project
for decades. It is alf funded passion project. He's around
one hundred and twenty million dollars in to make this
film and it played it can. It was picked up
by Lionsgate to have it released in cinemas, which is
(02:17):
really good because it must be.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Seen in a cinema.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
This film is audacious, it is just polarizing. It's absolutely nutty,
but it needs to be seen on the big screen.
It's set in futuristic America that resembles ancient Rome, and
and River plays an architect called Caesar. He's a visionary
and it's his job to determine how to rebuild the
(02:42):
metropolis of New Rome after a disaster, and it's kind
of a battle for the soul of the city and
he's backling against the mayor and the rich and the powerful.
It's like an ancient myth or fable put into a
modern city.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jack.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I saw this film on Wednesday. I still do not
have my head around it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I do not know whether this film is.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
A masterpiece an absolute disaster. It is equally frustrating as
it is at times stunning and beautiful. There are scenes
in this film that I'm there, I'm in it, I'm
in this world, and then there are other scenes where
I'm just going, oh my goodness, this is two hours
(03:26):
and eighteen minutes of my life. I'm never going to
get back. The film obviously looks at sort of power
and corruption and art and creativity and the impact of
progress and of standing still, but it just struggles to
get into a throw. He is throwing so much at us,
and it's not terribly subtle at times, and the film
(03:46):
sort of starts off, I got all, this just looks amazing,
this is meal great. And then the next thing, you know,
Adam Driver's character is doing Shakespeare's soliloquy and I'm like, no, no, no, no,
no no, I don't need Shakespeare as much. And so
there's all these sort of subplots, and you know, it's
it's it. Really you have to see it to believe it.
But I would highly recommend that you watch the trailer first.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It is it is our house. It is bonkers.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It's for a discerning film goer, you know, if you're thinking, oh, good,
I love you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Know the goal, but I just want to watch this.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
There's so much about it which is amazing, but then
there's so much about it which is really frustrating and
just just just bonkers. As you can tell, I'm really
really just sitting on the sidelines with us great cast,
and I'm pretty sure that everybody, no one will care
what You're either going to love it or hate it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And I don't think if you're involved in this film,
you wouldn't matter.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It doesn't You wouldn't care what the reviews are, because
you would go. I was involved in something quite unique
and audacious and I got to work with Francis Ford,
and that's all it means.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, unique is good is good. Different is good. It
sounds like a big movie mash. It sounds like just
a big like like you know, like someone's just throwing
a whole lot of paint at the canvas.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Absolutely, and I can't even go into all these little
examples of just how unsubtled is it and how much he.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Throws at you. And yeah, so a part of me
loved it, part of me hated it.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
And I think it's probably going to take another viewer
and God for God and.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
A little bit of time before I find which side of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Nice okay that sounds that sounds interesting at the very
least and different. So that is Megalopolis that's showing in cinemas.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now to the film, whose title has been irritating me
for days now, starring Bad Brad and George Clery. Have
I listened to Wolf's.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I was told and if I ever needed help to
call you?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
What you can do?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What I do? We clearly have a situation here. The
only course of action is for you to work together
to clean up the mess.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, bam, that's Wolves. Can you just start off by
explaining the title?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, they just didn't want to call it. Are you
going to explain this? You go explain.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
The premise is that you've got these two lone wolves.
So you've got these two loan characters who are cleaners.
They called into fixed problems, but they you know, usually
involving dead bodies, and things or killing people, but they
always work alone, and they're very protective of their trade
craft and they're very protective of what they do. So
(06:28):
we have a wolf which is called into a situation,
and another wolf arrives, and the two of them are
played by George Cleaney and Bread Pitt, and the two
of them are forced to work together, but they're not
really together.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's not really a plural.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Nonetheless, if you're putting it, yes.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I know, I mean it's it's I totally understand where
you're coming from, because we don't use w O L
F S as the plural.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We use the be, so it is very confusing. But
I'd move on from that, Jack, I just let that go.
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Sometimes I just think I'm you know, I remember how
I used to roll my eyes when playing scrabble with
my father, and I've just become that person, you know,
I've just become the nitpecker on grammar all of these things,
and I just you can say, move on. It's easy
to say move on, but I just know that for
some reason, it's like I've got it between my teeth.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Apostrophies as well.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well. I placed apostrophees, yes, exactly, anyway, this is this
is an undermanding fun film.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, so that's why I'm just saying it's not worth
really spending hu much time worrying about that.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
It's you've got a couple of charismatic leads here. I'm
gonna be on this is playing on Apple Plus TV.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
The first twenty minutes about like the two of them
joined up and done a coffee ad together.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right, it's it's George Clooney and bread.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
As you expect that sort of dead pan, kind of
funny banter that the two of them do together.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The film is set.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Over one night, and it is actually beautifully shot. The
cinematog figure is absolutely fantastic. But it really took to
the forty night.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This is an actual comedy. It took to a forty.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Ninth minute when there is a fantastic stunt scene of
the car chase, which actually had me laughing out loud.
And that's when I kind of lightened up a little
bit on this film. When Okay, but you're expecting too much.
This is just supposed to be on the light side.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Look, the two of them obviously work together really well.
There's lots of, as I said, banter between the two
of them. They take the mickey out of each other.
The funny part is that they're actually you know, they
think that they're the best of what they do and
that they're individuals and they must work individually, but actually
they're the same person. They dress the same, they both
had the same back issue, they both work with the
(08:33):
same people.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
They need glasses to read. So there's lots of sort of.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Gags there along those lines as well.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, I think the pace ebbs.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And flows, the twists take a while to kick in,
and I think they needed more of them. Sometimes it
felt like the film was just resting on the chemistry
between the two of them, right, you know, there's but
there are a few moments where you they actually put
some effort into the acting, but the rest of it
all comes pretty lightly, pretty easily.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Sorry, So not fun, light breezing entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Very good. Yeah, okay, cool, that's Wolfs That's on Apple TV.
Plus Megalopolis is in cinemas now. Thanks Franciska.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,
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