July 25, 2025 • 8 mins
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
Four Letters of Love
Nicholas and Isabel are made for each other, but as destiny pulls them together, family, passion and faith drives them apart. As they embark on journeys of heartache and misplaced love, fate soon contrives to pull the threads of their lives together.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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from News Talks at B.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is Umi Zuma. They've got new music out. This
song is called Cross My Heart and Hope to Die.
I like that baseline. But don't boom boom bad. Don't
boom boom boom right, oh, twenty three minutes to ten
on your Saturday morning, don't forget befourteen o'clock. We've got
that amazing sounding recipe a Temarillo custard cake. I feel
like any cake that has custard in it, like it
(00:57):
is just you know, you just you know what custard
is like a in a cake context. It just it
just means moist, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Care how many times you say that? But yeah, that
sounds amazing. So we're going to share that with you
very shortly. Right now, though, time to get your film
picks for this weekend. Francesca rud Can our movie reviewers
here this morning, Good morning, morning Jack. Two films to
work too. Let's start off with Fantastic four First Steps.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Wow, folks, we all know the story. Four brave astronauts
head up into space and come back forever changed. Please
welcome the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right, oh, mister Fantastic Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and the
Thing faced their most daunting challenge yet.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That they do. So this is Fantastic Four the first steps,
and everyone is really loving this. And I don't know
what I'm missing. I thought a bit leaving this film.
I walked out and thinking, gosh, I think I might
have been a bit tough on Superman. I said Superman
was good, and I said it was really fun. But
it maybe in contrast if it has it from them
going now, it was better than I thought, and it
(02:10):
really was good fun. Look, this is a bit of
a restart to this franchise from Marvel that the Fantastic
Falls never really fired. They do a really good introduction, though,
to these you know, Marvel's first superhero team. You heard it.
They're really simply they sort of whipped through the background.
We had this group of people that went on a
space space mission. Something happened to them in space, and
(02:32):
they returned with altered DNA which gives them superpowers. They
now hold the world in check, who we all look
to to, you know, keep the world in order and things.
The art direction in this film was absolutely fantastic. They
go completely overboard trying to They absolutely nail this retro
sixties sci fi look, and I think that this gives
(02:55):
this particular film its own this particular franchise is its
own look, and it feels really fresh and it's very cool.
But another part of we thought it sort of overwhelmed
things a little bit. The car is really good. You've
got Pedro Pascal playing Red Richard's Vanessa Kirby as a storm.
They are a couple. They have wonderful chemistry. Joseph Quinn
(03:16):
is playing Johnny's storm, and so this group of people
come together really well. They're like a family, the four
of them. Evon loss back Rack, he also plays Ben Grimm.
You've got this group of four, they're like a family.
You've got the two parents and you've got these other
two adults who are kind of like the kids and
the family. So that the dynamics really good, but it
(03:36):
just kind of washed over me a little bit. In
this particular film, they're saving the Earth from a space
god and who looks like sort of some big sort
of Mongolian sort of warrior from many centuries ago. But
I didn't really kind of I didn't really kind of
relate to him. He just wants to eat and gobble up.
(03:56):
He was all powerful and has this never ending hunger
and he just wants to eat planets, and Earth is next,
and he says, he said, look, I won't eat Earth,
I won't destroy the end planet if you give me
your firstborn. And this is what he says to Read
and Sue, and they of course go, we don't really
want to give you our baby, and off we go
trying to find a solution. It's fun. It's it's fun
(04:19):
in the sense that it's very much a comic. Like
you don't try and make the maths work or the science.
It's very silly, you know, you've got a birth scene
and no gravity on a flight deck of a ship
or just cracked me out. But but for all that,
it's sort of comically and a bit ridiculous. There were
no laughs, Like, no one in the theater was laughing
at loud. I think there was one point where there
(04:39):
was a bit of a collective laugh.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So I just kind of went, you had all this,
you had everything is there, but there just wasn't some
humid there. I didn't kind of it didn't grab me.
I kind of walked out, going, ah, okay, here we
go again. But look, it's getting really good reviews, so
don't trust me, go along.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We always trust you. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? No?
That's good. Thanks. We appreciate your honesty. This is good.
This is this is why we why we value your
input here.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So that's fantastic for first steps at showing in cinemas
now also showing at the movies. Four Letters of Love.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
When I was seventeen, God spoke to my father for
the first time. I'll go to the western Pune, presuming days.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
In this world.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Isn't also paying this Charles necklace. You'll have to meet belief.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'll stay as long.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
As it takes.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I was some big names here. Ps Brosnan, you just
heard and Helen and Bottom Carter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes, and I spoke to Helen and Bonomb Carter last
week on the show. You can go and have a
listen to that interview. She's absolutely delightful talking about this film.
Narl Williams, of course, is the famous and very loved
Irish author. He has written The Owner adapt his own
adaptation to this book. This was his debut book. I
think I know it's about twenty five years old, very
hard to adapt. A lot of people have tried to
adapt it over the years and haven't been able to.
(05:57):
So he wrote the screenplay and look, if you are cynical,
very practical, don't necessarily believe and love it for sight
and things like that. Don't go to this film because
it is It is wildly romantic jazz. It's filled with
gorgeous sort of irish sort of sensibilities. It's whimsical. It
does require a belief in signs and destiny and that
(06:20):
the universe works in mysterious ways. Lovely cast, as you
mentioned Gabriel Berners also in here, but a really strong
cast of younger talent as well, who hold their own.
It's you know, my mum said to me, I don't
think I can go to this film because I cried
all the way through reading the book. And actually I
found the film. As much as there's there's tragedy and
(06:44):
abandonment and of a child and all sorts of deep
difficult issues, I actually found the film quite loving and
warm and lovely moments of humor and quite you know, hopeful.
So if you're thinking like man, you're oh gosh, I
love that book, but it was terob grapsetic. Don't don't
think you know, don't let that put you off going. Yeah,
(07:06):
I just the Island of Widgets shot the West. The
West Islands of the Western Islands of Ireland are absolutely
stunning and sharing and we tend to think we've got
some pretty stunning locations. But they were a bit like
another character in a book. This is like the perfect
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, that sounds as long as you're.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
After something wild. They're romantic and at little.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Bit of therapy, maybe a little bit o not to syrapy,
just just not yea, you just cut it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, you just got to believe in last don't be
too cynical.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, don't be too it's not the first time.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, okay, now this sounds good. All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So there are Four Letters of Love starring Helen A.
Bottom Carter and Pierce Brosna. And yes you can go
and hear that interview with Helen and Bottom Carta at
news Talks. He'd be dot co dot en z fantastic.
Four First Steps was Francesca's first film.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Both of those are showing at the Movies at the Moment.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Team, listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on Heart Radio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at B.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is Umi Zuma. They've got new music out. This
song is called Cross My Heart and Hope to Die.
I like that baseline. But don't boom boom bad. Don't
boom boom boom right, oh, twenty three minutes to ten
on your Saturday morning, don't forget befourteen o'clock. We've got
that amazing sounding recipe a Temarillo custard cake. I feel
like any cake that has custard in it, like it
(00:57):
is just you know, you just you know what custard
is like a in a cake context. It just it
just means moist, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Care how many times you say that? But yeah, that
sounds amazing. So we're going to share that with you
very shortly. Right now, though, time to get your film
picks for this weekend. Francesca rud Can our movie reviewers
here this morning, Good morning, morning Jack. Two films to
work too. Let's start off with Fantastic four First Steps.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Wow, folks, we all know the story. Four brave astronauts
head up into space and come back forever changed. Please
welcome the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right, oh, mister Fantastic Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and the
Thing faced their most daunting challenge yet.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That they do. So this is Fantastic Four the first steps,
and everyone is really loving this. And I don't know
what I'm missing. I thought a bit leaving this film.
I walked out and thinking, gosh, I think I might
have been a bit tough on Superman. I said Superman
was good, and I said it was really fun. But
it maybe in contrast if it has it from them
going now, it was better than I thought, and it
(02:10):
really was good fun. Look, this is a bit of
a restart to this franchise from Marvel that the Fantastic
Falls never really fired. They do a really good introduction, though,
to these you know, Marvel's first superhero team. You heard it.
They're really simply they sort of whipped through the background.
We had this group of people that went on a
space space mission. Something happened to them in space, and
(02:32):
they returned with altered DNA which gives them superpowers. They
now hold the world in check, who we all look
to to, you know, keep the world in order and things.
The art direction in this film was absolutely fantastic. They
go completely overboard trying to They absolutely nail this retro
sixties sci fi look, and I think that this gives
(02:55):
this particular film its own this particular franchise is its
own look, and it feels really fresh and it's very cool.
But another part of we thought it sort of overwhelmed
things a little bit. The car is really good. You've
got Pedro Pascal playing Red Richard's Vanessa Kirby as a storm.
They are a couple. They have wonderful chemistry. Joseph Quinn
(03:16):
is playing Johnny's storm, and so this group of people
come together really well. They're like a family, the four
of them. Evon loss back Rack, he also plays Ben Grimm.
You've got this group of four, they're like a family.
You've got the two parents and you've got these other
two adults who are kind of like the kids and
the family. So that the dynamics really good, but it
(03:36):
just kind of washed over me a little bit. In
this particular film, they're saving the Earth from a space
god and who looks like sort of some big sort
of Mongolian sort of warrior from many centuries ago. But
I didn't really kind of I didn't really kind of
relate to him. He just wants to eat and gobble up.
(03:56):
He was all powerful and has this never ending hunger
and he just wants to eat planets, and Earth is next,
and he says, he said, look, I won't eat Earth,
I won't destroy the end planet if you give me
your firstborn. And this is what he says to Read
and Sue, and they of course go, we don't really
want to give you our baby, and off we go
trying to find a solution. It's fun. It's it's fun
(04:19):
in the sense that it's very much a comic. Like
you don't try and make the maths work or the science.
It's very silly, you know, you've got a birth scene
and no gravity on a flight deck of a ship
or just cracked me out. But but for all that,
it's sort of comically and a bit ridiculous. There were
no laughs, Like, no one in the theater was laughing
at loud. I think there was one point where there
(04:39):
was a bit of a collective laugh.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So I just kind of went, you had all this,
you had everything is there, but there just wasn't some
humid there. I didn't kind of it didn't grab me.
I kind of walked out, going, ah, okay, here we
go again. But look, it's getting really good reviews, so
don't trust me, go along.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We always trust you. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? No?
That's good. Thanks. We appreciate your honesty. This is good.
This is this is why we why we value your
input here.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So that's fantastic for first steps at showing in cinemas
now also showing at the movies. Four Letters of Love.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
When I was seventeen, God spoke to my father for
the first time. I'll go to the western Pune, presuming days.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
In this world.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Isn't also paying this Charles necklace. You'll have to meet belief.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'll stay as long.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
As it takes.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I was some big names here. Ps Brosnan, you just
heard and Helen and Bottom Carter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes, and I spoke to Helen and Bonomb Carter last
week on the show. You can go and have a
listen to that interview. She's absolutely delightful talking about this film.
Narl Williams, of course, is the famous and very loved
Irish author. He has written The Owner adapt his own
adaptation to this book. This was his debut book. I
think I know it's about twenty five years old, very
hard to adapt. A lot of people have tried to
adapt it over the years and haven't been able to.
(05:57):
So he wrote the screenplay and look, if you are cynical,
very practical, don't necessarily believe and love it for sight
and things like that. Don't go to this film because
it is It is wildly romantic jazz. It's filled with
gorgeous sort of irish sort of sensibilities. It's whimsical. It
does require a belief in signs and destiny and that
(06:20):
the universe works in mysterious ways. Lovely cast, as you
mentioned Gabriel Berners also in here, but a really strong
cast of younger talent as well, who hold their own.
It's you know, my mum said to me, I don't
think I can go to this film because I cried
all the way through reading the book. And actually I
found the film. As much as there's there's tragedy and
(06:44):
abandonment and of a child and all sorts of deep
difficult issues, I actually found the film quite loving and
warm and lovely moments of humor and quite you know, hopeful.
So if you're thinking like man, you're oh gosh, I
love that book, but it was terob grapsetic. Don't don't
think you know, don't let that put you off going. Yeah,
(07:06):
I just the Island of Widgets shot the West. The
West Islands of the Western Islands of Ireland are absolutely
stunning and sharing and we tend to think we've got
some pretty stunning locations. But they were a bit like
another character in a book. This is like the perfect
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, that sounds as long as you're.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
After something wild. They're romantic and at little.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Bit of therapy, maybe a little bit o not to syrapy,
just just not yea, you just cut it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, you just got to believe in last don't be
too cynical.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, don't be too it's not the first time.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, okay, now this sounds good. All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So there are Four Letters of Love starring Helen A.
Bottom Carter and Pierce Brosna. And yes you can go
and hear that interview with Helen and Bottom Carta at
news Talks. He'd be dot co dot en z fantastic.
Four First Steps was Francesca's first film.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Both of those are showing at the Movies at the Moment.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Team, listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on Heart Radio.
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