Francesca Rudkin: Materialists and Dangerous Animals

Materialists  

A young New York City matchmaker's lucrative business gets complicated as she finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. 

 

Dangerous Animals 

A shark-obsessed serial killer holds Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, captive on his boat. Racing against time, she must figure out a way to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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three to ten.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
On News Talks. He'd be that starts the night by
Dua Lipa. She's got engaged, isn't she. I'm reliably informed
that her fiance is Callum Turner, the actor. She's confirmed
it to British Vogue and surprise, surprise, the ring is
not insignificant. Apparently the diamond is insanely big, huge. So

(00:54):
congratulations to Dua Lipa. Francesca Rudkin, our film reviewer, is
here in the flesh this morning, so good to see hi.
You were rolling your eyes when I was talking to
Save about Pedro Pascal. It was very unfair and was
I wrong? Is he not dish?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is absolutely a dish? Even my sixteen year old daughter
thinks he's a dish.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
And I just thought it was quite funny you asking
sev well, you know, you know it's.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
The twenty twenty five, aren't you good? Let's ever listen
to the film that Pedro Pescal is starring, and this
is Materialists.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hey are you single? I'm a matchmaker? Give me a
call if you want to meet somebody sweat? So how
many marriages are you responsible for?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Lucy nine? If the girl asks for us pull drink
of water?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Has this time with the salary over five hundred grand?
Always missed you deliver?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pescal tell us about Yeah,
what a cast.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
So this is selene songs follow up to Past Lives,
that was her debut film, which scored her a couple
of Oscar nominations. Actually you can watch that on Disney
Plus if you have that streaming service. At the moment,
I really enjoyed this, but I think might be a
little bit polarizing because this film Jack, it presents very
much as a romantic comedy, and you think you're going
into a rom com. But Selene's song, she takes the

(02:19):
genre a little bit more seriously. She throws a bit
of depth into this film. It's set in New York,
It's lush, beautifully shot, amazing costumes, so hence, you know,
as I say, it looks like a Nora Efron rom com.
But she kind of asks the question, you know, who
is the right person for you? Is it someone that

(02:39):
you kind of do the math and on paper looks
great or is it the person that you actually fall
in love with. So Dakota Johnson plays Lucy. She's a
matchmaker although she remains single. She's a bit cynical about love.
She treats love like a business. So her clients are
commodities and it's her job to assess their value on
the market jack and then she will basically find them

(03:01):
a mate, should work out where they sort of sit
in the market and find them a mate. And she,
you know, talks about it's all about the math I use.
She uses math to kind of do this. So what
she's basically saying is she needs to find the person
who equals you when it comes to your background, your
political beliefs, your education, your income, and then there's the

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even more materialistic things like you know, your BMI, your
looks and your height. You know, you want to tack
all those boxes for people. So that's what the film does.
It asks this question, who's the right person for you,
the one on paper or the one that maybe you
fall in love with, And her thoughts are challenged by
two men who come into her life about the same time.
Harry played by Pedro Pascal, who is what they call

(03:44):
a unicorn. Jack, all right, you'd be a unicorn. So
unicorn has it all right, you know, the breeding, the success,
the you know, the education, plus also the height, the
good looks, and money, lots of money.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And I'm not sure I Wouldnicorn.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And then there's John who's played by Chris Evans, who,
to be honest with you, he's got all the looks
and things.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
But he's a broke waiter, so he's not Chris Evans. Yeah,
he's not lowly old Christian.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
So yeah, Hence I'm making the point. God, it does
look like the unicorn, but he's broke. He's thirty seven,
he's a waiter and a want to be actor, still
trying to find his way, and he's he's a bit
angry at the world and things. So there's two and
he's her ex and they reunite. So these two men
are kind of in her life, which kind of challenge
her thoughts about love and stuff. Look, I liked this.
I thought it was quite honest and almost sort of

(04:35):
brutal at times. The dialogue gets a little bit awkward occasionally,
but I just I just like the way selling song
just kind of hits the mark with the way we
talk about love and relationships and the transactional nature of
them these days. I mean, you watch Love Island and
it's all about what's your type and they ticking the boxes,
and you know, we do talk about it in this way.

(04:56):
And who hasn't dated someone and drop them for a
materialistic reason, like oh they're a bit short, or oh
I don't really like their job. I mean, let's be honest,
at some point in our lives, probably all made a
decision based on something quite materialistic. So she's kind of
hits the hits the name on the head there. Yeah,
I enjoyed this.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay, sounds good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Song is actually going to be on the Sunday Session
tomorrow just after ten. She was a matchmaker for a
little one. Oh yeah, she couldn't get a job as
a barista, but she could get a job as a matchmaker,
which is kind of baddy. So we're going to talk
about that tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
How intriguing. I wonder if she okay, I thought you
were going to say that she did that to prepare
for the film.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the day, she was a theater director and needed
some money.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Amazing, Okay, cool materialist, So that's in cinemas. I reckon.
He's probably already been three times, but she'll be off again.
Next up, another film showing in cinemas at the moment.
This is Dangerous Animals.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh my god, I don't believe I let you take
me into this.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
All right, gro It's still one thing we need to
take care of.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Close You're right, how come aboard?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh gosh, this was exhausting. This is a film by
Sean Byrne. He's an Australian horror director. He's done The
loved Ones and The Devil's Candy and oh my gosh,
he just really does nail be grade horrors. This is
a lot of fun. Jay Courtney stars in this film
and he's absolutely fantastic. He keeps he completely engaged on

(06:34):
the edge of your seat. He's Tucker. He's a pretty unhinged,
charismatic tourist operator who takes people out to cage dive
with sharks. But it turns out he's actually a serial
killer who likes to dangle people over the edge of
his place.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You don't have to suspend reality for this one and
watch what happens. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
But we also meet sort of at the same time.
We meet Gye. We meet Zephyr played by Hesse Harrison,
and she is a bit of a loner. She's a surfer.
She's on her and she a little bit feisty, and
she really sort of she comes into Tuckers all bit,
but she decides to fight back. Look, this is it's

(07:19):
great fun. I can't say that. I you know, I
got very tense watching this film. I could not kind
of wait for it to be over. Sean Byrne does
a good job of kind of, you know, giving you
the shock and the horror and the gore, but sometimes
maybe not when you're expecting it, so it does kind
of keep that tension going. Look, if you're not a
huge fan of Sharks, you just this might not be

(07:42):
your cup of tea. But look, it's it's a really fun,
B grade style horror film. It's done pretty well. If
that's your cup of tea.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, Look, it certainly sounds like a concept feeding people. Yes,
really good. Okay, so that's Dangerous Animals that's showing in
cinemas at the moment. Materialists is also showing in cinemas.
Don't get them confused, or that could be a rude shock.
We will make sure we put all the details for
them on the news Talks he'd be website. Thank you
Friendshies skim after ten o'clock this morning. If you are
into sharks but you don't want to see them eating people,

(08:15):
good news. David Edinburgh has got a new series. It's
called Ocean with David Attenburgh and something tells me there
are a few sharks in that. So we're going to
tell you a little bit more about his latest series
and where you can see it.

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