Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor reviews the third 'Knives Out' movie

'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' - the third instalment in the 'Knives Out' series has received a positive review from Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall. 

He told Francesca Rudkin that the film is, 'really humour laced, really strong performances, and the sort of film as well that I think really benefits from not having your phone in your lap.' 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So if we're playing Kate Bush running up that hill,
that means that Stranger Thing. Season five has landed four
episodes on Thursday Afternoon, Gonna be honest with You. I
kind of felt like the series had peaked around season two,
season three, and I was like, oh, yeah, wats the
first step kind of got drawn back in for the
secondep and I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm I'm

(00:33):
onto this journey for the final time. So it's out.
If you're a fan and you were wondering when it
was out, it was released Thursday on Netflix, Right times
Talk Entertainment Now and I'm joined by Steve Newell, editor
at Flex dot Co dot in Ze.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hang Another film which is out which is kind of
snuck up on me is Wake Up dead Man, which
is the new Knives Out movie. I really enjoyed Knives Out.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, and it's a sequel. Glass Onion was also a
really good watch. This is Ryan Johnson's murder mystery homage
film series starring Daniel Craig as the Foghorn Leghorn voiced
benoir Blanc like chewing the scenery with an absurd Southern accent,
and has snuck into cinemas. It's a Netflix film. It's

(01:18):
on Netflix from the twelfth of December. But as with
recent releases like Catherine Bigelow Is a House of Dynamite Dreams,
Train Dreams, Gimmo de Torros, Frankenstein, there is an obviously
an obligation to release in cinemas, but they just haven't
gone very wide with it or ready done a good
job of telling people it is out. So I enjoyed.

(01:38):
I'm going to see this with a paying audience the
other night, and the films that really do work better
in a room, really humorizd, really strong performances, and the
sort of film as well that I think really benefits
from not having your phone in your lap, not having
a bunch of other distractions, because not only is it
a sort of detail heavy murder mystery, but it's just

(02:01):
full of little gags and little character moments that really
do deserve your full attention. The ensemble cast of this
one is excellent, so obviously you've got Daniel Craig back,
but leading the ensemble is a fantastic Josh O'Connor playing
a young priest who ends up dispatched to a rural
church and with a very small congregation as a sort

(02:23):
of a bit of a punitive measure, and then finds
himself in the middle of a strange and unexplained locked
room death, which is kind of the staple of TV
murder mysteries. But Johnson has a lot of fun with
us here. I think the only fault with these songs
and me is that don't come out frequently enough. Yeah,
but Ryan Johnson has been busy making two seasons of
poker Face, sadly now canceled. Actually this show starring Natasha Leone,

(02:46):
but there's plenty out there, And as our writer on
Flick's observed, if you do like a locked room mystery,
you can always go back to Jonathan Creek, a fantastic
British show, absolutely full of them.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
And look, poker Face might be, you know, canceled, but hey,
All's fair got a second season, so.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, and look they were going for a third one,
but get and Get they're going to swap out Natasha
Leone and replace her with Peter Dinklage and allegedly maybe
try and play the same character.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, right, let's move on, Hollywood, Go Hollywood. Hey, look,
we hear quite a lot from music journalists these days.
You know that we're not getting the concerts here in
New Zealand. Everyone's going to Australia. They're not making it
over here. What's happening with our live scene?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
If you take a look at what's been sort of
happening in Auckland over the last week or two, it
feels like the live scene is very much your live
and kicking in. There's plenty for people to enjoy.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, something's going on rights, As a music journalist Tony
Stamp observed on social media the other day. Over the
past week, Metallica, Tool Doja, Cat, Coca Roca and more
have played in New Zealand, the country international acts never
come to anymore, according to certain pundits, and it can
add to that list. Peck Seas have just been here,
operth Blood Incantation. Last night Ozzie's Rufus Desoul played a

(03:58):
sold that show to twenty five thousand people at the
Outer Fields or wester Springs. Thousands of people are along
k Road for the Other's Way festival and just looking
ahead to I mean, look, there's a lot of issues
you can go into. We can go into as Eden
Park just trying to feather their own nest by the
sort of lobbying that's taking place publicly. Should we be
providing corporate welfare to big promoters, would be supporting international

(04:19):
multinationals that export the profits offshore? And should should we
be preserving the pipeline for local artists to actould graduate
to these big stages meeting topics another time, Let's just
say there's been a lot of stuff on and in
the next few months you can see Chapel, Rohan, Wetleg,
Geese and Benny among the Laneway Festival lineup. Lewis Capaldi's coming,
Lumineers are coming, David Burn's coming, Lab and Stan Walker

(04:41):
out onto it together, Pulp's coming, Iggy Pop and Joan
and Jed are coming, Lord Lord's playing. And then even
as summer ends you got Deaftnes and Interpol, Bone Thugs
and Harmony.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's time to stop having a complain, stop winging.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I mean, Steve heaven forbid, I'd raise that suggestion in
this positive country of ours. But now look, I'll just
say Look, there's a ton of stuff on and at
some point. You know, the other thing I think that's
worth considering is is there a ceiling at some point
for the undisposable income that's actually here for people to
go to these big international tours all. Look, the main
thing for me is i had a great night out

(05:15):
on K Road last night, and I'm looking forward to
a bunch of that stuff coming out. Can't wait to
see Pulp again. I can't recommend that highly enough. So yeah,
let's get out and we'll see it at some shows.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Love it. Thank you so much, Steve Good To catch
up for

Speaker 1 (05:30):
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