October 17, 2025 • 8 mins
Cillian Murphy and Tracey Ullman are the stars of new Netflix movie 'Steve', adapted from a book written by Max Porter.
And Kiera Knightley stars with Guy Pearce and Hannah Waddingham in another book adaptation.
Francesca Rudkin joined Jack Tame to give a rundown of the two movies, including their highs and lows.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is cool, like this is time and Parlor. It's
a brand new song. It's called end of Summers. Like
a weird time to be releasing their day, especially for
an Australian artist. I guess it makes it because it
tells you who the target audience is. Yeah, I like
that though. Time to catch up with the film reviewer
Francisca Rudkin is here with her film pet for this week.
(00:52):
Good morning, Good morning. It's like how fet Freddy's used
to always, you know, they always like released their new
albums in the European summer. You'd always feel like, oh weird,
We've got this like real like chill kind of you know,
like fat friddies dub beat and it's the perfect thing
just to ease you into a nice cold winter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well we all need to be assuring us, ye winter.
If we can be fooled into thinking it's not as
bad as it is, that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, you're a Kirie Russell fan, yes, oh yes, yeah, no, No,
we're not doing too much of the focus on the
show this morning on Carrie Russell just a little bit,
just an appropriate amount. I'm a big fan from way back. Anyway,
You've got two films for us this morning, so we
will kick off with a new film streaming on Netflix,
this one starring Killian Murphy. Have listened to Steve, so
(01:41):
they're asking everyone to describe themselves in three words.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
These are extraordinarily complex young people.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, tell us about Steve Francisca.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yes, so I have got two films today, which are
both adaptations of books. Both have gone straight streaming services
to be released here in New Zealand on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And Kellyan Murphy stars in this film.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And the book originally kind of focused on a student
at this particular school, and they've kind of to make
it work for the film, they've switched it around to
focus on the headmaster, Steve, and Kellyan Murphy plays this
headmaster and he runs this very small, last chance rural
school in some sort of lovely, big old house in
(02:34):
the country.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He's really only just holding it together along.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
With his deputy played by Tracy Olwen, and it's great
to see her back on screen in a role.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
These two work really nicely together. It's said in the
nineteen nineties there's real attent into the music, Like if
you remember the nineteen nineties and drum and bass, then
you'll be right back there in those moments. But these
teenagers are really difficult. This is probably the last chance
that they have. This is a place where people are care.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
For them and look after them and really trying to
make sure that they can have a future because you know,
schools have are done with them.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, often their parents are done with them, societies
done with them. They're in trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They have learning disabilities, they have mental health issues that
you know, they deal with trauma and things. So this
school really does have yeah is taking them. It's the
last time for these kids to really find their feet
and Stephen his team treat them with a lot of respect.
They refuse to give up on them. But the problem
is that the school is about to close. So this
(03:40):
film actually just takes place of a twenty four hours
Jack and We have. There's a visitor, a very funny
visit from mp A local news crew has come out
to do a story on the school. There's also just
trying to deal with the chaotic nature of these boys
and what they get up to in things. I think
this is one of those films where you a film
(04:00):
you watch for the performances. Cann movie is absolutely fantastic,
as are the teenagers who play these boys really are fantastic.
But it just it just gives you a little sort
of it's sort of very performance driven, but it does
kind of remind you of the you know, the importance
of their being somewhere for these kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Students to go.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So, yeah, really really great, really really clear, the really
well put together.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
But I think you'd watched this one of the performances.
They're really great.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, right, Okay, so that's Steve. It's on Netflix, starring
Kelly and Murphy. Next up, this is the woman named
Kevin Tin Laura Blacklock.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Laura is an award winning journalist histori a piece for
us on the Foundation. I know this is an unusual
approach to charity.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Three days and a luxury yad.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Laura is going to be spying on us.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Bam Bam, starring Kiera Knightley, Guy appears Big Name.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is an adaptation of a book by Ruth Ware.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It's not based a true story, but she has been
inspired by real life experiences. She was inspired by stories
where by women their word wasn't sort of taken at face.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Value, you know, they were Their word.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Was endlessly sort of dissected or pulled apart. And so
what we had here is we had this journalist from
The Guardian played by Karen Knightmay who's come back from
a very difficult assignment.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
She's an investigative journalist does very serious pieces.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
She's invited to go on this super yacht to cruise
to Norway for the announcement of the charity launch with
this very wealthy couple, and it sort of thought to
be a bit of a puff piece that she can
write while also having a bit of time off and
taking taking a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Of a break.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
But when she gets on board, the host Richard played
by Guy Peers, who you heard there.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He sort of just appears a little bit dodgy, and
on her first.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Night there there was a kerfuffle in a cabin next
door and she is sure that someone has.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Gone overboard, and from there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We end up with this woman who was pretty much
gas lit for the rest of the entire film, which
gets a little hiresome to be honest with you, Jack,
As you know, she thinks that there is something going on,
something strange, something very dangerous is happening on this yacht,
and everybody else is implying.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That she's stressed and she's just losing.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Her mind, and you know, her job's taking a toll
on it. Hysterical, she's being hysterical, and to be honest
with you, you can kind of imagine kurea night and
you're going into this kind of this kind of mode.
And then she just sort of stated it. She's a
great actress, right, I've given a lot to do here
except kind of be guess and I and I find
that quite frustrating watching someone just be frustrated for the
(06:41):
entirety of a film.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So it doesn't quite work for me. I'm not sure
that the that the build up is good enough for
the twist at the end. Great cast, really good supporting
cast as well. Yeah, I just didn't quite fin me.
It's very Agatha Christi esque, which I really like, I
really enjoy, but you don't really kind of like you
need these characters or anything. So it was just a
(07:03):
bit of a misfire for me.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Okay, you know what the problem is, We've had
too many the women the woman movies and stories, the
woman in the train, the woman behind the curtains, the
woman and the otherwise sleepy suburban neighborhoods, the woman and
the thing, the woman in my dream, you know, the
woman at the top of the stairs, the woman in
(07:26):
the basement.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, I thought you're trying to imply that there's
too many.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I'm not going to say there's too many women.
I'm just trying to say, don't you think, like how
many I'm going to ask chet DPT in a few
minutes how many the woman things that there? Yeah, the person? Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, okay,
beg you very much, Francesca. So that is the Woman
in Cabin ten. It's on Netflix, so is Steve will
have all the details for those films up on the
(07:51):
News Talks, he'd be website. And speaking of the news Talks,
he'd be website. You have to get in quick if
you want to win a double pass to the Intrepid
British and Irish Film Festival. You've only got until tomorrow,
so you got to get a move on. The film
festival is screening across New Zealand from the twenty ninth
of October to November nineteenth. It's got an incredible lineup
of titles, heaps of star power films featuring the likes
(08:14):
of Emma Thompson, Bill Nigh and Ralph fines. So News Talk, ZEDB,
dot co, dot Z Forward, slash win is the Place
to Go. At closes tomorrow's You Gotta Be Quick.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to Newstalks EDB 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.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is cool, like this is time and Parlor. It's
a brand new song. It's called end of Summers. Like
a weird time to be releasing their day, especially for
an Australian artist. I guess it makes it because it
tells you who the target audience is. Yeah, I like
that though. Time to catch up with the film reviewer
Francisca Rudkin is here with her film pet for this week.
(00:52):
Good morning, Good morning. It's like how fet Freddy's used
to always, you know, they always like released their new
albums in the European summer. You'd always feel like, oh weird,
We've got this like real like chill kind of you know,
like fat friddies dub beat and it's the perfect thing
just to ease you into a nice cold winter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well we all need to be assuring us, ye winter.
If we can be fooled into thinking it's not as
bad as it is, that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, you're a Kirie Russell fan, yes, oh yes, yeah, no, No,
we're not doing too much of the focus on the
show this morning on Carrie Russell just a little bit,
just an appropriate amount. I'm a big fan from way back. Anyway,
You've got two films for us this morning, so we
will kick off with a new film streaming on Netflix,
this one starring Killian Murphy. Have listened to Steve, so
(01:41):
they're asking everyone to describe themselves in three words.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
These are extraordinarily complex young people.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, tell us about Steve Francisca.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yes, so I have got two films today, which are
both adaptations of books. Both have gone straight streaming services
to be released here in New Zealand on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And Kellyan Murphy stars in this film.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And the book originally kind of focused on a student
at this particular school, and they've kind of to make
it work for the film, they've switched it around to
focus on the headmaster, Steve, and Kellyan Murphy plays this
headmaster and he runs this very small, last chance rural
school in some sort of lovely, big old house in
(02:34):
the country.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He's really only just holding it together along.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
With his deputy played by Tracy Olwen, and it's great
to see her back on screen in a role.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
These two work really nicely together. It's said in the
nineteen nineties there's real attent into the music, Like if
you remember the nineteen nineties and drum and bass, then
you'll be right back there in those moments. But these
teenagers are really difficult. This is probably the last chance
that they have. This is a place where people are care.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
For them and look after them and really trying to
make sure that they can have a future because you know,
schools have are done with them.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, often their parents are done with them, societies
done with them. They're in trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They have learning disabilities, they have mental health issues that
you know, they deal with trauma and things. So this
school really does have yeah is taking them. It's the
last time for these kids to really find their feet
and Stephen his team treat them with a lot of respect.
They refuse to give up on them. But the problem
is that the school is about to close. So this
(03:40):
film actually just takes place of a twenty four hours
Jack and We have. There's a visitor, a very funny
visit from mp A local news crew has come out
to do a story on the school. There's also just
trying to deal with the chaotic nature of these boys
and what they get up to in things. I think
this is one of those films where you a film
(04:00):
you watch for the performances. Cann movie is absolutely fantastic,
as are the teenagers who play these boys really are fantastic.
But it just it just gives you a little sort
of it's sort of very performance driven, but it does
kind of remind you of the you know, the importance
of their being somewhere for these kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Students to go.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So, yeah, really really great, really really clear, the really
well put together.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
But I think you'd watched this one of the performances.
They're really great.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, right, Okay, so that's Steve. It's on Netflix, starring
Kelly and Murphy. Next up, this is the woman named
Kevin Tin Laura Blacklock.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Laura is an award winning journalist histori a piece for
us on the Foundation. I know this is an unusual
approach to charity.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Three days and a luxury yad.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Laura is going to be spying on us.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Bam Bam, starring Kiera Knightley, Guy appears Big Name.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is an adaptation of a book by Ruth Ware.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It's not based a true story, but she has been
inspired by real life experiences. She was inspired by stories
where by women their word wasn't sort of taken at face.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Value, you know, they were Their word.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Was endlessly sort of dissected or pulled apart. And so
what we had here is we had this journalist from
The Guardian played by Karen Knightmay who's come back from
a very difficult assignment.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
She's an investigative journalist does very serious pieces.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
She's invited to go on this super yacht to cruise
to Norway for the announcement of the charity launch with
this very wealthy couple, and it sort of thought to
be a bit of a puff piece that she can
write while also having a bit of time off and
taking taking a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Of a break.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
But when she gets on board, the host Richard played
by Guy Peers, who you heard there.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He sort of just appears a little bit dodgy, and
on her first.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Night there there was a kerfuffle in a cabin next
door and she is sure that someone has.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Gone overboard, and from there.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We end up with this woman who was pretty much
gas lit for the rest of the entire film, which
gets a little hiresome to be honest with you, Jack,
As you know, she thinks that there is something going on,
something strange, something very dangerous is happening on this yacht,
and everybody else is implying.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That she's stressed and she's just losing.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Her mind, and you know, her job's taking a toll
on it. Hysterical, she's being hysterical, and to be honest
with you, you can kind of imagine kurea night and
you're going into this kind of this kind of mode.
And then she just sort of stated it. She's a
great actress, right, I've given a lot to do here
except kind of be guess and I and I find
that quite frustrating watching someone just be frustrated for the
(06:41):
entirety of a film.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So it doesn't quite work for me. I'm not sure
that the that the build up is good enough for
the twist at the end. Great cast, really good supporting
cast as well. Yeah, I just didn't quite fin me.
It's very Agatha Christi esque, which I really like, I
really enjoy, but you don't really kind of like you
need these characters or anything. So it was just a
(07:03):
bit of a misfire for me.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Okay, you know what the problem is, We've had
too many the women the woman movies and stories, the
woman in the train, the woman behind the curtains, the
woman and the otherwise sleepy suburban neighborhoods, the woman and
the thing, the woman in my dream, you know, the
woman at the top of the stairs, the woman in
(07:26):
the basement.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, I thought you're trying to imply that there's
too many.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I'm not going to say there's too many women.
I'm just trying to say, don't you think, like how
many I'm going to ask chet DPT in a few
minutes how many the woman things that there? Yeah, the person? Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, okay,
beg you very much, Francesca. So that is the Woman
in Cabin ten. It's on Netflix, so is Steve will
have all the details for those films up on the
(07:51):
News Talks, he'd be website. And speaking of the news Talks,
he'd be website. You have to get in quick if
you want to win a double pass to the Intrepid
British and Irish Film Festival. You've only got until tomorrow,
so you got to get a move on. The film
festival is screening across New Zealand from the twenty ninth
of October to November nineteenth. It's got an incredible lineup
of titles, heaps of star power films featuring the likes
(08:14):
of Emma Thompson, Bill Nigh and Ralph fines. So News Talk, ZEDB,
dot co, dot Z Forward, slash win is the Place
to Go. At closes tomorrow's You Gotta Be Quick.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to Newstalks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
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