March 14, 2025 • 8 mins
Black Bag
When his beloved wife, Kathryn, is suspected of betraying the nation, intelligence agent George Woodhouse faces the ultimate test -- loyalty to his marriage or his country.
Hard Truths
Pansy, angry and depressed, lashes out at family and strangers. Her constant criticism isolates her, except from her cheerful sister Chantelle, who remains sympathetic despite their differences.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at b SO Sisters still Radio stereo.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The way you've made fair you know, so sister.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Miss a single thing tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We just had to play it, you know, given say
I've hit back drops of Jupiter, we just had to
do one for Hayes Sol's sister there. And the good
news that there's that it really needs our support. It's
only had like two billion, seven hundred and fifty six million,
eight hundred and seventy nine thousand, four hundred and sixty
two streams so far, this song that it really needs
(00:56):
our support. The thing about hay Sol sister is it's
one of those songs where just little production elements have
probably made it right. Like you listen to this, I
reckon it's the it's the ukulele that kind of that
really distinguishes the sound anyway. Pat Monahan from Training of
Course with us after ten o'clock this morning. Right now
it's twenty four to ten, which means it's time to
get your film picks for this weekend. Francisca Rudkin, our
(01:17):
film reviewer, is with us this morning. Killed her Good morning,
Got two films, both of them showing in cinemas this morning.
So let's start off with a little bit of a
Listen to a new film starring Kate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender.
This is Black Bag.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You asked how it works to be with someone in
this business?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is her.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You've each known what you know, and you know what
he'll do, and you'll never discuss certain things again.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I watch her, and I assume she watches me.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would do anything for you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes? Anything? D that's black that's a black bag. Tell
us about it.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, look, great calfs Michael Face caplane sheet start and
this really quite so mature, sleek, spy thriller. The best
thing about it Jack sleeping ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's yeah, that's great. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
At the moment, we do seem to be people like
complaining a little bit about slogging their way through very
long films. This is a film I students photogurg and
of course you're thinking, gosh, didn't we just was the
film by him? Recently? That was the sort of ghost
supernatural number called presence. So for a man who decided
that he was going to retire from making films. He's
(02:41):
very prolific these days. This is a very sort of
sixy beautifully sort of put together a little mature number
with a very dry, witty script. He is very much
and trying to get more mature audiences back into the
(03:02):
cinema with a little number. It's not a full on
action in film as a sense kind of it's a
bit of a who Done it. It plays out a
little bit like a game of cludo, and our characters
here are all sort of trying to work out how they're,
you know, how each other maneuvering, and who potentially could
be a mole in London's National Cybersecurity Center. So Michael Fassbender,
(03:27):
he plays this character whose job it really is to
try and nut out who this potential mole might be.
And he's got some rather unusual ways of doing that,
Like he throws a dinner party for the suspects and
he puts a little bit of truth serrem into one
of the dishes, and that turns out to be rather
(03:49):
amusing and a dinner party probably quite unlike anything that
you or I have ever been to, and off they
kind of go. He also kind of uses a polygraph
test and things and to try and get to the
bottom of you know, who this person is and what
kind of unfolds here. Is sort of a lot of
(04:10):
personal as well as professional indiscretion. So he's his wife
is played by Kate Blenchet. She too, is a spy.
And the reason it's called black Bag is because you know,
when they might say to each other, Hey, darling, what
are you up to today, She'll go, I'm getting out
of the country. I'll be back tomorrow, and he goes,
where you're going and she's like, black bag. You know
it's in the black bag. It's something I can't tell
you about. It's you know, confidential. So it's also very
(04:32):
much a relationship drama as much as it is a
spy drama as well. Look, it's really well put together.
The tension is very contained. As I said, it's not
a full on action film. It's quite restrained and mature
in the way they approach this, and it's got that
(04:52):
great script, very cold characters as well. But look, it's
a lot of fun. It's kind of a bit more
like a more intelligent mister and missus Smith here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Okay, Yeah,
I mean I enjoy and missus Smith it was kind of,
you know, a bit of a dumb popcorn blockbuster. But yeah,
this definitely sounds like a bit of meeting. So this
is Black Bag. It's showing in cinemas at the moment.
Kate Blunchett and Michael Fairsbender and directed by Steven Soderberg. So,
as you say, an all star cast and production team.
Next up, let's have a listen to the trailer for
(05:26):
Hard Truths.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look at you, fix your face. You're dealing with the public,
handling people's food. People can't stand him. Cheerful, grinning people.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I can heal laughing already. Friend.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, Mike Ley. Look, he's the ruler and director behind
this film. He's one of the most thing British directors
of our time. He's spent his career portraying ordinary people
in their lives in extraordinary ways. You'll know his films
films such as Secret and Lies, Very Drake and Have
to Go Lucky and at the age of eighty, Toty
is back with a new film called Hard Truths. Atually
spoke to him last week on the Sunday Season and
(06:09):
it's really worth having a listen because he has remained
a staunchly independent filmmaker throughout his career, and he has
some quite interesting opinions on Hollywood and Sutain actors because
he's got a very particular way of working. He brings
in an actor and then they for months they will
rehearse and improvise and really get to the bottom of
these characters and who they are and how they know
(06:30):
their lives, which is why he's able to present you
with such complex, interesting characters in his films. He is
reunited here with Jean Baptiste, Mary Anne and Battiste and
she was in Secrets and Lives, I think with him,
and she plays Pansy, who was a deeply unhappy woman.
(06:51):
She is suppressed, she doesn't like leaving her house. She
just complains endlessly about everything and gets into some hilarious
arguments with strangers. But underneath it all, she's very lonely
and she's unwell, and she is dealing with, you know,
the consequence of the way she was brought up and
the way her mother treated her and things. And this
(07:13):
is contrasted to her sister, who manages to find the
joy in life and things that it gets to a
point where the sisters you know, is trying to help
Pansy help Pansy out. So it's kind of a moment
where she just reflects on her life and and how
she's living her life and happiness and things. Look, it's
awkward and comfortable that, you know, Mike Lee isn't going
(07:35):
to just present you with characters that you sit there
and kind of giggle along with and life along with.
It is challenging this film, but it's also got beautiful
moments of humor and ultimately sort of quite a poignant
moving end to it as well. I just think every
might Leave film is worth taking a look at. So
(07:56):
marring us back in, he's not going to stop, He's
going to keep.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, Okay, so that's hard truth that showing in cinemas now.
So as black Bag, black Bag was meant to his
first pick there. And we'll put both of those films
and all the details for them up on the news talks.
He'd be website. Thank you, Frands, you scopt catching in
next week. Francisco rod Can our film reviewer.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news Talks. He'd be from nine am Saturday or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at b SO Sisters still Radio stereo.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The way you've made fair you know, so sister.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Miss a single thing tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We just had to play it, you know, given say
I've hit back drops of Jupiter, we just had to
do one for Hayes Sol's sister there. And the good
news that there's that it really needs our support. It's
only had like two billion, seven hundred and fifty six million,
eight hundred and seventy nine thousand, four hundred and sixty
two streams so far, this song that it really needs
(00:56):
our support. The thing about hay Sol sister is it's
one of those songs where just little production elements have
probably made it right. Like you listen to this, I
reckon it's the it's the ukulele that kind of that
really distinguishes the sound anyway. Pat Monahan from Training of
Course with us after ten o'clock this morning. Right now
it's twenty four to ten, which means it's time to
get your film picks for this weekend. Francisca Rudkin, our
(01:17):
film reviewer, is with us this morning. Killed her Good morning,
Got two films, both of them showing in cinemas this morning.
So let's start off with a little bit of a
Listen to a new film starring Kate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender.
This is Black Bag.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You asked how it works to be with someone in
this business?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is her.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You've each known what you know, and you know what
he'll do, and you'll never discuss certain things again.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I watch her, and I assume she watches me.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would do anything for you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
What do you?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes? Anything? D that's black that's a black bag. Tell
us about it.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh, look, great calfs Michael Face caplane sheet start and
this really quite so mature, sleek, spy thriller. The best
thing about it Jack sleeping ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's yeah, that's great. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
At the moment, we do seem to be people like
complaining a little bit about slogging their way through very
long films. This is a film I students photogurg and
of course you're thinking, gosh, didn't we just was the
film by him? Recently? That was the sort of ghost
supernatural number called presence. So for a man who decided
that he was going to retire from making films. He's
(02:41):
very prolific these days. This is a very sort of
sixy beautifully sort of put together a little mature number
with a very dry, witty script. He is very much
and trying to get more mature audiences back into the
(03:02):
cinema with a little number. It's not a full on
action in film as a sense kind of it's a
bit of a who Done it. It plays out a
little bit like a game of cludo, and our characters
here are all sort of trying to work out how they're,
you know, how each other maneuvering, and who potentially could
be a mole in London's National Cybersecurity Center. So Michael Fassbender,
(03:27):
he plays this character whose job it really is to
try and nut out who this potential mole might be.
And he's got some rather unusual ways of doing that,
Like he throws a dinner party for the suspects and
he puts a little bit of truth serrem into one
of the dishes, and that turns out to be rather
(03:49):
amusing and a dinner party probably quite unlike anything that
you or I have ever been to, and off they
kind of go. He also kind of uses a polygraph
test and things and to try and get to the
bottom of you know, who this person is and what
kind of unfolds here. Is sort of a lot of
(04:10):
personal as well as professional indiscretion. So he's his wife
is played by Kate Blenchet. She too, is a spy.
And the reason it's called black Bag is because you know,
when they might say to each other, Hey, darling, what
are you up to today, She'll go, I'm getting out
of the country. I'll be back tomorrow, and he goes,
where you're going and she's like, black bag. You know
it's in the black bag. It's something I can't tell
you about. It's you know, confidential. So it's also very
(04:32):
much a relationship drama as much as it is a
spy drama as well. Look, it's really well put together.
The tension is very contained. As I said, it's not
a full on action film. It's quite restrained and mature
in the way they approach this, and it's got that
(04:52):
great script, very cold characters as well. But look, it's
a lot of fun. It's kind of a bit more
like a more intelligent mister and missus Smith here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Okay, Yeah,
I mean I enjoy and missus Smith it was kind of,
you know, a bit of a dumb popcorn blockbuster. But yeah,
this definitely sounds like a bit of meeting. So this
is Black Bag. It's showing in cinemas at the moment.
Kate Blunchett and Michael Fairsbender and directed by Steven Soderberg. So,
as you say, an all star cast and production team.
Next up, let's have a listen to the trailer for
(05:26):
Hard Truths.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look at you, fix your face. You're dealing with the public,
handling people's food. People can't stand him. Cheerful, grinning people.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I can heal laughing already. Friend.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh, Mike Ley. Look, he's the ruler and director behind
this film. He's one of the most thing British directors
of our time. He's spent his career portraying ordinary people
in their lives in extraordinary ways. You'll know his films
films such as Secret and Lies, Very Drake and Have
to Go Lucky and at the age of eighty, Toty
is back with a new film called Hard Truths. Atually
spoke to him last week on the Sunday Season and
(06:09):
it's really worth having a listen because he has remained
a staunchly independent filmmaker throughout his career, and he has
some quite interesting opinions on Hollywood and Sutain actors because
he's got a very particular way of working. He brings
in an actor and then they for months they will
rehearse and improvise and really get to the bottom of
these characters and who they are and how they know
(06:30):
their lives, which is why he's able to present you
with such complex, interesting characters in his films. He is
reunited here with Jean Baptiste, Mary Anne and Battiste and
she was in Secrets and Lives, I think with him,
and she plays Pansy, who was a deeply unhappy woman.
(06:51):
She is suppressed, she doesn't like leaving her house. She
just complains endlessly about everything and gets into some hilarious
arguments with strangers. But underneath it all, she's very lonely
and she's unwell, and she is dealing with, you know,
the consequence of the way she was brought up and
the way her mother treated her and things. And this
(07:13):
is contrasted to her sister, who manages to find the
joy in life and things that it gets to a
point where the sisters you know, is trying to help
Pansy help Pansy out. So it's kind of a moment
where she just reflects on her life and and how
she's living her life and happiness and things. Look, it's
awkward and comfortable that, you know, Mike Lee isn't going
(07:35):
to just present you with characters that you sit there
and kind of giggle along with and life along with.
It is challenging this film, but it's also got beautiful
moments of humor and ultimately sort of quite a poignant
moving end to it as well. I just think every
might Leave film is worth taking a look at. So
(07:56):
marring us back in, he's not going to stop, He's
going to keep.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, Okay, so that's hard truth that showing in cinemas now.
So as black Bag, black Bag was meant to his
first pick there. And we'll put both of those films
and all the details for them up on the news talks.
He'd be website. Thank you, Frands, you scopt catching in
next week. Francisco rod Can our film reviewer.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news Talks. He'd be from nine am Saturday or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,
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