A Festive Season of Film: Unpredictable Weather and Naughty Christmas Revels | S02E26

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First on film and entertainment. We're
getting towards the end of the year,

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no idea what the weather is doing, because hey, it depends on the

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time of the day. That's kind
of what we're in for during the summer.

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Every summer. This is Melbourne.
People in other states have no idea

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what they're missing out on, do
they? Great? Key? I think

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Sydney in for Well, I'm saying
if you come to Melbourne, you've got

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no idea what sort of weather like
in Melbourne. You know to prepare,

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right, you can prepare an umbrella, you can prepare a parker, you

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can prepare a T shirt and then
the same day. Correct, that's the

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point. But you know any other
state that that we're the laughing stock when

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it comes to weather? Is that
not the case, Peter? Look,

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I don't think so. I think
our weather's become more settled and more predictable.

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What are you talking about it's totally
unsettled all the time. Well,

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where's where's the predictability of that?
I don't know. View of virtuology?

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Oh god, you know you get
forecasts that are what twenty seven days in

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advance and they're wrong. No,
no, it's not. Sorry, I

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love the Bireau. We shouldn't be
like this at all. No, No,

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I just like the fact that now
I look at my app and for

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example, if we're looking ahead and
we sort of for those people who want

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to you're looking at Christmas Day,
you're looking at Boxing Day. I mean

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obviously cricket, et cetera. But
I mean you're preparing for it, right,

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there's the anticipation, you get closer
to it, and it's totally different.

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So I'd rather they not tell us
if it's wrong. How do we

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get that across, Peter, I
don't know. I suppose we'll weather the

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storm somehow. Beg you very much. Indeed, now, guys, one

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thing that I want to start with
a show simply because I had no idea

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what to expect. And I've said
to you that I saw the NTC production,

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which is very, very funny,
and I also saw the Comedy Theater

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production, which is very funny.
Related to Christmas one. You know,

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it's the Scrooge story, right,
so you've got the Jewish version and you've

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got the Christian version. So they've
been terrific, no complaints whatsoever, and

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you know, I want them to
keep coming back a year after year.

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But what I hadn't seen is a
show called A Very Naughty Christmas. And

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apparently it's been playing in Queensland for
seven years, and this is the first

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time we've had it down here.
Apparently it's playing in Queensland on both the

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Gold Coast and also in Brisbane,
and there's also now a show in Melbourne,

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and some of the people from Queensland
have come down and others have stayed

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there, and we've got original cast
members from this state. So now both

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of you have seen Magic Mike.
Yeah, the movie. Now, I've

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got to say I was sitting in
the theater at alex Theatre Insinkilda and sort

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of the opening and you've got a
nice Christmas Carol behind curtains and you're thinking,

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okay, well that's fair enough.
Now it's titled A Very Naughty Christmas.

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I've not read anything about it.
And the next thing, you know,

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I have no idea whether I'm watching
Magic Mike or whether I'm watching Santa.

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That's the sort of show, this
says Peter. So I mean,

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you know, that's that's all.
And I've got to say it's got an

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R rating, all right, So
not too many shows I go to have

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an R rating. Not too many
movies have an R rating. Now I

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suppose that you could say that honestly, there are times you can't tell the

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difference between Magic Michael or Santine.
What is a sexually promiscuous, irreverent Christmas

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review with no shortage of fun?
Now? Have I tivlated your your taste

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buds, Peter or Dodd? Pit
Santa? Slide down the pole? Yes,

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yes, there is a pole,
very well picked up. Now there

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is a barber's pole. And so
it's a two tiered set. And on

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the top tier you've got a three
piece orchestra, and then you've got sets

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of stairs at eather's side, and
you've got a barber's bowl. So you

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know that's the setup now, so
it up ends absolutely everything you thought you

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knew about the festive season and keeps
the laughs coming. Now that's what Christmas

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should be about, right, family
and fun? And I mean, look,

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you've got to have a really strong
sense of humor here, because if

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not, you're going to be offended. Right, So those people who are

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listening to us, who happen to
be very fervently religious Christians are going to

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run a thousand kilos in the opposite
direction. I dare say it depends on

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their sensitivity. I shouldn't be that
judgmental. But you've got that Christmas Carol,

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then that gives way to smut an
innuendo. And I got to say

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that it was a full full congregation. I was about to say a full

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set of patrons on opening night,
and boy did they lap it up.

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The laughs were thick and fast.
So you've got song and dance, you've

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got stripped teas, you've got a
retelling of the first Christmas with audience participation,

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and then you've got Saint Nick's politically
watered down address. And that was

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my fancy. That was really my
favorite. You know, there's political correctness

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that's going on and everything is sort
of woke. Well basically what they want

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to do. Santa sort of puts
out a plea to all the boys and

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girls and whatever, and he runs
through this with if you're like a minder,

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and every time he opens his mouth, the minder says, no,

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you can't say that, and it
is hilarious. So it starts with ho

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ho ho. But you can imagine
you can't say that anymore, greg right,

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you still can No, you can't
what does HO mean peta a second

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thing in a bit sexual? Well, yeah, I mean women who are

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loose, shall we say? Right, So you can't say that, you

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can't start an address anymore, right, that's the you get my sensitivity.

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And then Christmas you can't say that
because that isn't inclusive enough. You can't

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say boys and girls anymore without Greek, can you, because there are only

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two genders and there's more than two
genders yet me. So it does go

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down to treat and you know,
it's just to watch this unfold because there's

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a lot of truth in all of
this. I hate to say. You've

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got to be so careful about giving
it address not to offend anybody, and

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it means that I mean anything.
You're right. You know when you're writing

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a review, Greg, I suppose
you don't. A lot of this doesn't

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really apply to you. But a
lot of the shows I go to with

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my written reviews, I've got to
be so careful that I appropriate the correct

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pronoun to the person. And if
they're in the program, that makes it

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a lot easier. If it's not
in the program, I've also got into

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trouble when it's not been in the
program. How am I supposed to know?

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Gree No, no, that doesn't
help me. Greg, Come on,

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get with the program. Peter,
what would you suggest? I suggest

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you go with your gut instinct and
don't worry about what anyone else says all

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things. No, no, oh
no, I've copped plaque for that in

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the past, and yeah, no, you can't get you can't get away

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with that anymore. So anyway,
I'll continue to struggle with pronouns. So

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look, it's a I've got to
say that. The cast even manages to

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find room for a tap dance routine. So look bloody, marvelous or all

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of this, I say, really
really good. It's a polished it's a

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joyful show. But of course,
as I said, if you're easily offended,

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don't go because they swear like troopers. They're not backward in coming forward.

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Eight performers plus the three piece band, and you've got the musical director

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Martine Wengro on keyboard, Sam Ainsley
on guitar and bass, and Faku al

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Varez on drums. All the artists
excel, but I want to highlight three

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of them. Having seen Tim page
Phill the big Man shoes, I'll never

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look at Santa the same way again. Apart from his potty mouth, let's

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just say he doesn't mind bearing more
than a little skin. And I was

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left to ponder whether that was actually
a fur code covering his chest that I'll

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leave that in the ether. He'd
be a lock at any Christmas party worth

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it, Solt, That's all I
can say. Shae Debney is his most

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endearing offsider, and he's an eager
to please Elf, to whom the audience

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immediately warms, and his affectations are
priceless. And then he got Jordan Twigg.

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She vocally is sensational. I've seen
it before and she's a commanding presence.

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Has the most mallifluous boys and others
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Kalou, kate Yaxley, Madeline Pratt, and Joe I'm sure Spinello. So

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that's the eight cast members and overall, many of the tuneful songs with sexually

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forward lyrics are absolute rippers. And
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Alex Woodward and Dan Vince and Vents
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alongside co writer and director Alistair Smith. Skid writers Emily Christopher, Stephen Hurst

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and Matt Semple collectively, they really
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They turn the tables on woke and
how the pacing of A Very Naughty

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Christmas is spot on, never a
dull moment. One routine simply rolls into

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the next. And I must say
that sad as attempt at going PC is

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the thing that really gets the mark
for me. So you know that's the

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jolly fat Man. Bardy costuming by
Isaac Loomis, including lace underwear, shimmery

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suits, no shortage of flesh,
revealing numbers in green, red, gold,

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and white, sex toys, large
playing cards to cover the privates proved

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to be quite useful props here,
Peter, are you getting in on the

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Christmas action here? Oh, I'm
still imagining Santra soniding down the pole,

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Thank you very much. Eighteen minutes
of hilarity and vice. It's I've described

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this greg as a box of licorice
all sorts. Do you like licorice?

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Yeah, you're not into licorice?
No, it's not into litrish. Well,

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everything's left on the stage. The
title of it, A Very Naughty

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Christmas speaks volumes it is very naughty
but nice. Loved it, absolutely loved

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it. And again I make the
point suitable for adults only playing at a

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theater that bears my name. Do
I get royalties? Do I know?

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Anyway, it's called the Alex Theater, it's insign Kilda. It's playing till

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the twenty third of December, and
it is heaps and heaps of fun.

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I look, I just if you've
got the right it puts you in the

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right frame of mind. It's a
great if you're wanting to have a bit

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of a breakup at work, this
would be an absolute ripper of a night

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out. It's that sort of It
is that sort of show. So anyway,

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there's lots of Christmas shows that have
been doing the rounds. Christmas under

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the Big Top has been is still
on for those people who want to go

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to Burnley Oval and catch that one. And you've got a Christmas Carol and

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a very Jewish Christmas Carol, so
you know they mind you. They are

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going to be finishing very very soon. I'm just yeah, anyway, a

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Christmas Carol. Note Christmas Carol's going
till the seventh of January, so that's

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well worth catching. If you haven't
caught it the Comedy Theater and the other

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one is the Melbourne Theater a very
Jewish Christmas Carol. And I'm just looking

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up the date that that finishes because
I think it is. Yeah, it's

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in fact, it finished yesterday,
So there we go. Hopefully next year

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that comes back. Let's turn to
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Now, okay, for those people
who go back to Gene Wilder as Willie

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Wonka, I found it hard to
believe that was fifty two years ago.

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So you were but a lad at
that stage, Greg, eh was I

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I was probably didn't even see you
ritually, I think on Silver tram on

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TV. What about Johnny Depp years
Yeah, that was eighteen years ago.

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So okay, when you think about
this, the newest generation haven't been brought

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up on Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp. So unless you're into movies, which

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Peter you were before you were in
the Birth canal Stell, that is what

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about two hundred and thirty seven years
ago? But yes, sorry with Motart,

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Yes, yeah, exactly, Oh, yes, thank you. I

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mean what I'm getting at though,
you would see movies before you were born.

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I get that, but a lot
of people don't. So do you

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think it's fair game? And this
is the conversation I want to have.

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Do you think it's fair game that
they redo no matter how good a movie

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is a movie for the next generation, or do you think that it's incumbent

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upon people, even though they're relucting
to do that, to go and visit

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something predating their birth. What's your
view? That's a hard one because the

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originals are usually always the best.
However, remakes can be very good if

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they change things a little bit,
if they update, if they have something

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that gives that extra energy to an
original story. But generally speaking, I

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mean a great example of Psycho when
they did a remake of Psacho that was

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abominable. Yes it wasn't good,
but the remake Alice is not a strict

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dreammate. It's more of an origin
story. It is more of an I

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know, a valid point, but
it's still you know, it still deals

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with the same theme. I mean
the point that I was making, I

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reckon's only fitting that this generation has
its own Wonka, right and and and

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you know, the singing dancing Timothy
Shallow mate, I reckon, he makes

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a mighty good fist of it here
to me, like Johnny Depp is great

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choice, Okay, Gene Wild the
terrific choice. I think all three of

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them have been outstanding choices. Do
you not think that great? Oh yeah,

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but there'd be a different take on
the character. Yeah, I think

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simsichel mate, he brings a much
more of an innocent, naive approach to

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the character. I think that's great. I think that's great because it's got

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a PG rating, but it's it's
a pretty wholesome representation. And I really

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I liked it because it was like, and I think he's a really good

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actor. What was the gay themed
film that Called Me by Your Name?

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Which was just fabulous and really thrust
him into the public eye. And I've

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got to say, there are certain
actors that you look forward to seeing in

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roles because you know they're going to
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one of them. I think he's
really cemented his place. How old is

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he? What, late twenties by
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I think he's about twenty three,
twenty four or something like wow wow's I

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mean he's really charming, his effusive. He's the sort of magic man come

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chocolatier who arrives in town after to
Devin, he's twenty seven. There you

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go. Okay, heykay, well
and when when was call me by your

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name? Mate? Just would you
mind googling while we're chatting away here?

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So here's this magic man come chocolatier
arrives in town having spent seven years at

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sea, and he arrives, he
decides he wants to open a chocolate chop,

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and having spent and squandered the twelve
sovereigns in his pocket on his walk

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from ship to shore, he's now
skinned and he chooses to think the best

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of a rogue who ushes him out
of the cold. Okay, call me

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by your name is twenty seventeen,
there you go, so all right,

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So here you go six years ago? So all right. So if he's

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twenty seven. Yeah, twenty one
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He's very, very boyish in terms
of his look as well. Anyway,

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Bleacher is the name of the rogue
played by Tom Davis, looks to take

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advantage of Wonker's vulnerability, takes him
to lodgings at Missus Scrubberts Missus Scrubbard played

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by Olivia Coleman. It took him
out great actors anyway, not listening to

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the sage advice of one of Scrubberts
helping hands kept in servitude, I might

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say this helping hand. Wonka fails
to read the fine print because he can't

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read, and as a result,
he signs up for what he's told is

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a sob in a night which he
believes he can easily cover, only to

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be hood winked big time, and
in a matter of hours his bill rises

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to ten thousand sovereigns and he joined
several others trapped in scrub Its web.

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But onek is different to the others. Seemingly out of nowhere, he can

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magically create the world's most delicious chocolates
that result in people literally taking flights.

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Now, at this point, I'm
going to pause and ask are you a

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chocoholic, Gregory King, I like
I like my chocolate, yes, yeah,

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okay, in terms of your favorite
food, does chocolate rate in the

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top three? I know about the
top three, but it might be I

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will certainly be in the five or
six, all right, Peter, true,

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true, give give give give here, Yes, chockeyes. I do

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like chocolate, especially dark chocolate.
Yes, you like dark chocolate. Okay,

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So now in your top three foods
food groups, I don't, again,

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like greg not necessarily top three,
but certainly in the top ten.

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Okay, chocolate is number one for
me. I absolutely adore chocolate, and

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chips is number two. So does
that make me very healthy? Have you

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checked your cholesterol lately? But I
mean you can air fried chips these days,

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so they're healthier. Right. And
they keep telling us that dark chocolate,

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the darker the better, is is
actually good for you. I'm not

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sure I believe that, but there
you go. All right, So I

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like the fact, mind you.
I'll tell you what, chocolate is one

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of life's pleasures, no question about
that. And you go to a lot

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of European countries and you just you
have to go along, and some of

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the chocolate chops that just the smell
of a chocolate chop. You're working in

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chocolate chop, and chocolate chop like
Cadbury would be would be a bit of

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a challenge after a while, I
reckon, you know, whether was it

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is it Cabrey that allows you to
eat as much as you want? I'm

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not sure whether they then have a
dietitian into to ensure that their workers don't

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drop dead. No, no,
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying

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that at all. That just that
just snuck out of my lips, and

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I deny it immediately. Anyway,
I love, actually I really like I

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like Cadbury chocolate. I do.
I also like Lint. I think that's

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a really nice brand of chocolate.
Now, what happens in Wonka is that

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people who try his chocolate that sort
of he creates magically, as I say,

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literally take flight. And what happens
beyond that is that he forges an

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instant connection with the orphan girl who
urged him to read the fine print at

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the establishment where he's staying. And
that girl's name is Noodle or that's her

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nickname, played by Carla Lane,
and with her help, she breaks his

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restraints intent on opening a chocolate chop
in a posh part of town named Gallery

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Gormey Right, so her help.
She breaks his restraints because he is literally

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sort of tied down effectively. And
it's something that he foresaw years earlier when

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his beloved mother played by Sally Hawkins
who's now no longer with us, introduced

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him to the lights of handmade chocolate. That's how he got his love of

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the particular delicacy. Only what he
doesn't count on is a conspiracy by a

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cartel operated by three uppitty chocolate ears
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And those three are Slugworth played by
Patterson, Joseph prod Knows Matt Lucas and

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fickle Gruber Matthew Bayton. In their
pockets are the Chief of Police, not

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literally the Chief of Police played by
Keegan Michael Key, a priest called Father

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Julian Rowan Atkinson, and five hundred
chocoholic monks. Yes, you got it.

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You can be you know, you
can be close to God and still

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like your chopeyes. But Wonka is
nothing if not persistent, and of course

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he possesses this indomitable spirit and one
card overlook is encountered with the diminutive orange

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umpah Lumpa with green hair played by
Hugh Grant, who better to play the

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Unpolumpa, and this Umpa Lumpa has
been stalking him, and the Impolumpa maintains

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that Wonka is beholden to him and
now okay, So this is Wonka infused

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with some strong musical numbers which help
carry the narrative and the resetting of the

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role. Dahl's story is by Simon
Farnaby and Paul King. I think it

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works a treat, it's colorful,
it's creative, put smiles on faces and

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you not surprisingly, it's the larger
than life characters that make the piece what

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it is, and many are priceless, and I've already referenced Timothy Shallamy being

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so endearing. Coleman revels in her
greedy and wicked persona which Tom Davis feeds.

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Patterson, Joseph Matt Lucas Matthew Baton
play up the chocolate Baron's arrogance and

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entitlement. Carla Laine displays resilience as
Noodle, and the person who's gifted some

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choice one liners and doesn't let us
down delivers them with a plumber is Hugh

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Grant. His droll sense of humor
suits the role perfectly. Always a crowd

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favorite. I would have liked to
have seen more of Rowan Atkinson as an

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unlikely man of the cloth. And
among the many standouts in the film is

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the sumptuous consuming and the production design
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Paul King, who established his Voda
fights as a fine family film director with

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Baddington and also Paddington. iiO,
I reckon he's crafted another beauty. It's

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a delightful blend of fantasy, adventure
and humor and chocolate. Lovers can read

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choice, don't you think, greg
Ah, Yes, indeed there's a fun

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film there. And Paul Keen,
as you said, has es savaged himself.

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I like, I really enjoyed Pennington
too there and fitting me here Grant,

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who has had a great couple of
years there with his roles in Pennington

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and a couple of guy Rishi films. I thought it was excellent as ye

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lump there special effects of reduced him
through ministeral size, but he was having

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fun there. Sims Challa made brings
that sense of innocence and Avid to the

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younger, optimistic Wonker there. But
at times the film had a bit of

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a tim Burton field where I thought
there, especially the scenes set in the

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underground laundry there and Olivia Clemens role
there remind me of a couple of Tim

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Burton films, particularly the Sweeny Todd
there. I sort of captured that vibe

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for me. But it's very colorful. A lot of song and Dan's numbers

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there. I thought a couple of
sound a little bit bland, actually,

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Alex did he? I like the
songs, okay, I like really poppy

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type tunes, and I'm I'm into
top forty type stuff. I'm afraid so

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this suited me. Okay, So, but I mean the performances, did

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you also really like me? I
really enjoyed the role that Missus Scrubberts role.

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I think Ola Coleman. I thought
he was really great as a villain

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there. I enjoyed a little bit
that Rowan Atkinson did. We needed more

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of him, didn't we? We
needed more of him, yeah, because

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he didn't really ever checked. He
was a gazumped by Hugh Grant, because

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Hugh Grant was gifted all these great
lines. So, but it's a it's

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a fun film and it's PG right. It's a lot of people who are

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going to enjoy it. But I
think adults as well as you youngsters can

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have fun with this, don't you. Yeah? Yeah, okay, comudgine,

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Sorry, thank you very much.
Come on, please tell me you

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enjoyed Wonka. I actually did enjoying. I thought a really nice British film

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which had a sort of Dickensian quality
to it. And yes, Paul King,

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who directed Paddington one and two,
really knows how to get the humor

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going, and he also directs the
song and dance numbers very well. I

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was surprised how good Chalamay was with
the singing and dancing and so on.

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The special effects are also quite noteworthy
and really well produced. And yes,

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a great cast. It was nice
to see John Carter, who was in

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The Crown and other sort of British
films. Is that Magner's brother saying you

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King John will be proud or another
yad joke there, Ale, thank you,

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thank you? Yes, yes,
slipping, my friend. You haven't

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slipped too many in so you know, I just thought i'd lift the tone.

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There you go, keep going great
altho, Yeah, exactly, okay,

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keep going pleator, Yes, thank
you, okay. I actually liked

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the new musical numbers as well as
the rendition near the end of Pure Imagination,

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which has featured in the first Willie
Wonka film. So look, there

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are some really nice elements to the
film. There are some potential darker moments

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which are the film of course defeats
and goes very strongly positive. And I

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can see a possible sequel in the
wind to look at Wonka's journey from establishing

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himself to going to the next stage
and what happens when he became you call

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the sequel, I don't. It
will be very hard one. I'll call

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it Wonky. So because we're afraid
that Paddington I didn't show a lot of

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imagine and imagination for me, and
Want the two doesn't really show a lot

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of imagination, hence the reason I
asked. But now I just wanted to

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add that the roll Dahl Estate was
part of the production of this film,

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so it looks like they're going to
be making more films that are accessible through

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roll Dahl's sort of works. Well. I like the fact that this is

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a By the way, I've got
to compliment Universal because they put on a

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terrific spread at one of my favorite
theater, probably my favorite cinema apart from

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Imax, which is my favorite place
to see them movie. But the RIVALI

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is just a wonderful, wonderful art
deco cinema. And since they're basically improved,

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it tarted it up. Bad use
of word. But a few years

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ago I love going there and they
put on that I don't know, have

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you tried it? They put on
chocolate toothpaste. Have you yet tried that?

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Beta? No, I'm too afraid
to walk around with brown teeth.

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Well, okay, I'm going to
tell you guys a story. Settle back,

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right, Settle back and enjoy the
story. And Dad, once upon

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a time there was a little fella
me barely able to sort of reach above

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the kitchen table, and he trotted
himself off to India, and there were

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lots of people in India, and
he went to a very very nice hotel.

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And you get shampoo, and you
get all sorts of other goodies that

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you take away at the end of
your stay. Not the kitchen sink,

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but you know, the slippers and
the comb and stuff like that, and

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the most delirious experience he had.
Apart from staying in the hotel, which

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was delightful, was the fact that
he was given chocolate shampoo. Seriously,

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I absolutely now this shows how much
of a chocoholic I am. Can you

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imagine sort of putting, you know, rubbing it through your hair and the

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aroma is intoxicating. It is like
it fills the room. It's fantastic and

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I was so disappointed when I ran
out of it. When I get back

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back to Australia. Actually, after
seeing one a true story, I googled

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chocolate champoo and I'm going to buy
some ware. So there you go.

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It's really satisfied my taste buds as
well. Have you ever heard of chocolate

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champoo prior to this conversation, Brick, No, I haven't, and thank

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you for awakening me to that.
Alex there why not? And Peter,

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with all being hair suit, you
know, chocolate shampoo may do it for

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you, right, you know,
I could just imagine the top deck hair

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top deck hair exactly, So there
you go. It's not cheap. I

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might say, I don't know why, but I could do vanilla. I

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like it. Do you like the
smell of vanilla? Peter? My goodness,

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what are your putting through your hair? This is getting out of hand.

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This is a hair raising expiration.
Now, yes, hey, listen,

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excuse me, because I'm getting my
skull cap op top? What you

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been getting? I've got? I
asked my darling wife. I said,

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look, can I just go?
You know, can I go the full

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bottle and just sort of shine the
dome? And she said absolutely, no

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way. If you dare do that, the marriage is over. Well,

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I reckon, some people do bald
well, and I haven't tried it.

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As a youngster, I had a
massive afro. It was like imagine putting

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your finger into it a socket,
right, It was like that. I

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had a massive socket of hair.
But as the years have passed, I

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thought it was time to try something
different. But she doesn't want me to

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do. Nothing wrong with bald men? Is there? They? Okay?

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I'm speechless. This has really got
off the rails. It's lovely, you

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know, a little bit of distraction
here and there, all right, So

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let us let us now get back
to rating for Wonka PG rate it and

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it runs for all of one hundred
and sixteen minutes. Score out of ten,

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Gregory King, Look, I'll give
it seven out of ten. Okay,

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and mister curmudgeon, I give it
the same Marcus Gregg seven out of

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ten. Well that's sort of better
than average, but I reckon it's worth

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more. I reckon you guys are
being you're giving it a hard time.

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Eight out of ten for mine,
for Wonka, Yes, why not go

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00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.799
along and see it. I think
you can have a lot of fun.

402
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.119
Now, we didn't speak about Master
Gardner, which opened the previous week,

403
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.519
and I have caught up with it, and I'm really pleased that I did.

404
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.160
I enjoyed this movie. I really
did. Now, well there it's

405
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.640
always not really the word for this
one. Elements. It's a bit dark

406
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.640
and bleak time. Yeah, okay, sorry, I appreciated it. You're

407
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:56.160
quite right, thank you for the
correction. And I get the whack.

408
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.759
Look, it's m rated. It's
hundred eleven minutes. Never heard the name

409
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.720
of the Joel Edgerton character. Have
you ever heard that before? Greg novel

410
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:09.079
n a v El? Where does
that come from? Have no idea?

411
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.519
No? That probably a bit of
narvel gazing went into this one. Oh,

412
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.240
thank you Marvel. That yes,
all right. So narvel Roth is

413
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:23.440
the character that he plays. He
is a remarkably gifted and meticulous gardener who

414
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:29.640
leaves nothing to chance. Everything he
does is planned and documented. Nevertheless,

415
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:34.519
his knights are plagued by flashbacks two
different time in his life. He leads

416
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.279
a team of gardeners tending the grounds
of Norma have a Hills, beautiful and

417
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:45.359
historic private estate called Gracewood Gardens and
Norma have a Hill is a role filled

418
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:52.000
by Sigourney Weaver. He is preparing
for the annual Spring charity auction when Miss

419
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:58.400
Havel who is a no nonsense employer, calls him in for a chat.

420
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:05.319
She asks him to engage her troubled
grand niece, Maya Core played by Quintess

421
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:12.359
Swindell, whom she hasn't seen since
the latter was a little girl. Wants

422
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.559
him to employ her as his apprentice. But mete, I'm going to to

423
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:23.039
take a drink because I'm going orse
gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. So Miss

424
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:30.319
Haverhill makes it clear she has no
respect for Mayaku's mother, who is her

425
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:37.200
niece and who was a drug addict, and it's soon established that twenty something

426
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:42.440
Maya is quick on the uptake and
seemingly settles well into her gardening duties,

427
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.680
that is, until she has a
couple of unsettling run ins with the hard

428
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:52.000
nosed Miss Aveil. Things really begin
to unravel after Maya arrives at work having

429
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.839
been beaten up by the drug peddler
that also dealt with her mother, and

430
00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.759
at the same time, a jealous
Miss Haverhill accuses novel of having sexual relationship

431
00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:07.839
with Mayer. Truth be told,
age is no barrier for Miss Avahill to

432
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:15.360
have a special relationship with the conciliatory
novel now as much on the line here

433
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:22.199
as novels intent on breaking Maya's drug
cycle, while his nefarious past threatens to

434
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.440
prevent that from happening. The novel
of Today's vastly different man from the what

435
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:30.480
he was more than a decade earlier, and yet he may have to use

436
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.239
the wiles of bygone days to deal
with the present. It's been written and

437
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:38.159
directed by Paul Schrader, who was
responsible to The Card Counter. It's a

438
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:43.880
measured, dramatic thriller. It's got
a mysterious and ugly underbelly, and it's

439
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.760
a question of pulling back the layers, which only happens gradually because where we

440
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.519
the audience, were left to piece
together the full backstory, which is not

441
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.679
revealed. That's a deliberate drip feed
ploy by Schrader works well as the cues

442
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.199
are strong enough to do that.
In other words, Trader lets our respective

443
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:06.800
and collective imaginations run freely. Although
not initially envisaged as a trilogy, Master

444
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:12.159
Gardner does mark the end of three
what I'll call lonely figure films that their

445
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:16.440
movies concerning characters wrestling with the past
and hiding behind day jobs waiting for something

446
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:21.800
to change. First was First Reform, That was twenty seventeen, the Card

447
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.639
Counter I mentioned in twenty twenty one, and now Master Gardner. Mind you

448
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:29.920
that crt of character first emerged in
Taxi Driver. That was the film that

449
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.920
Trader wrote back in nineteen seventy six
as an outgrowth of the existential hero that

450
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.880
you often got in European fiction.
Novel Like so many Trader leading men,

451
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:47.079
is a loaner and he sports a
largely poker face, as that Edguton is

452
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:52.800
sort of sporting. This largely poker
face still manages to channel a range of

453
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:59.079
traits for novel, including restraint,
determination, and menace. You know,

454
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:04.079
as this Master Gardner, and there's
an Order Leaders in respect about his fellow

455
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:08.280
Green thumbs as their cast in this
movie as Miss Haverhill, Sigourney Weaver is

456
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.400
a controlling figure, very used to
getting her weight and with her life at

457
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:19.239
the crossroads. Quintessa Swindell has a
magnetism. I thought about her as Maya

458
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:24.079
quite an endearing character, even though
she's certainly got a dark side. I

459
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:29.000
really appreciated the plot twist, the
gritty feel of the movie, which balances

460
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.880
order with chaos. Did you appreciate
it as well, Peter or not?

461
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:39.000
I did. I really like Paul
Schrader's work and the way he deals with

462
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:44.119
the writing that he does and also
with his direction First Reformed you mentioned and

463
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:50.559
Tatsi Driver and Raging Ball, etc. He deals with damaged people or people

464
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.960
who need redemption of some sort as
well. And I found Master Gardener so

465
00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:04.159
interesting because of the Leo Nazi asp
bet that's developed in the storyline, as

466
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:09.159
well as the racial issues that come
up, white supremacy, white superiority,

467
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:15.960
wealth versus poverty, et cetera.
There are so many aspects to the film

468
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:22.119
without going into too much detail in
the narrative structure of the plot that I

469
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:28.320
think it makes the film very impressive, and it is extremely well acted by

470
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:37.119
Editon and by Sigourney Weaver especially,
who plays this rather difficult privileged white role

471
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:44.639
extremely well. What about Quintessa Swindell, I thought she she certainly impressed me.

472
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:47.079
She's called, she's called. She
needs to develop more in terms of

473
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.840
other films, et cetera. And
she's used more as a device, if

474
00:37:52.840 --> 00:38:00.519
you like, in the story to
pivot between Editon and Weaver's it does.

475
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:06.880
Nevertheless, this is a very strong
film. Paul Trader is such an important

476
00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:10.920
filmmaker, and I thoroughly endorse this
film that people go and see it.

477
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:15.320
It's excellent. And Greg, did
you enjoy it too well? As I

478
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:21.840
said before, Alis is not a
film in jury produce a filia niolistic film.

479
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.480
Forwards the end there and as you
and PEDERI will point out, it

480
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:30.960
follows the directory of a lot of
Charader's films and a sort of loaner character

481
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.440
trying to tone for his dark past. There this build up, this slow

482
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.519
and measured, and then it adventures
in the more familiar territory before it erupts

483
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:44.960
into control violds at the end.
It follows the templated film White taxi driver

484
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:51.559
the card counter first reformed Norwo's,
but I thought the performances were quite would

485
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:55.800
here. Edison has a button up
quality to his performance as nicely understated,

486
00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:01.400
and he brings a sort of down
while to his novel there, and his

487
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:06.800
very sense of underas is palpable there. And I thought we were suitably haughty

488
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:12.760
and imperious and cold and slightly unhappy
there. I didn't think there was a

489
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:17.400
real sparkle chemistry though between Edison and
Swindle. I found Man's a little bit

490
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:22.599
unlikely. That's I did. I
thought again, I think I must have

491
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:28.000
thought much more of Quintessa Swindle than
both of you. That's hard. I

492
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.360
thought it was nicely shot by regular
cinemasult for Alexander Dinan, a little bit

493
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.800
dark and bleak at times there,
and I thought the production design was actually

494
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.079
quite good there, being a sense
of ronning grandeur soose gardens and they have

495
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:45.440
a hill essate there, And I
thought the garden itself became opposed is somewhat

496
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.599
heavy handed metaphor for the scenes of
regeneration growth and changed it creative with the

497
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.519
exploring here. I agreed, agreed, Yeah, So I mean okay,

498
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:57.320
overall, in Greek. What would
you give it out of ten? It's

499
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.920
it's Master Gardener one hundred and eleven
minute, m RTED six and a half.

500
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:04.880
Seven. Okay, Peter, you'll
go higher than that, won't you.

501
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.440
Absolutely? I give it eight out
of ten and I give it seven

502
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.039
and a half, So okay,
it's a film that we would certainly recommend

503
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:16.199
a movie. This was an interesting
experience. I went to Where did I

504
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:22.320
go to the Dendy to see this
one? I'd missed it when it I

505
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.360
think there was a screener that we
were given and I didn't see it.

506
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.280
One True Loves. Were we given
a screen of boys? Or where did

507
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.039
you see it? Peter? Yeah? I think I did have a screener

508
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:36.639
for that. Yeah, okay,
So PG rated one hundred minutes. So

509
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.000
this was the experience. So I
get into the cinema. It's a very

510
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:45.559
narrow cinema, the one that I
think was number five, And there was

511
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.599
a gentleman there and I was the
only other patron the night that I saw

512
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:52.719
it, And halfway through the gentleman
walks out and doesn't come back. So

513
00:40:53.679 --> 00:41:00.000
interesting anyway, PG rated one hundred
minutes. One True Loves think old fashioned

514
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:06.920
free to air midday more movie right
or a Mills and Boone romance novel,

515
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.480
and your head's in the right space
to contemplate one through loves. Since school

516
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:15.480
days, Sam has been into Emma, but Emma always had the hots for

517
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:20.400
the school swimming champion Jesse. As
it turned out, Jesse swept Emma off

518
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.920
as feet. They fell deeply in
love. They traveled the world together,

519
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.920
They got married, she in fact
as a travel writer. And these you

520
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:32.840
happily ever after, well not quite
work. Sees Jesse played by Luke Bracey

521
00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:37.880
edoch Or Alaska on his own,
promising to celebrate their wedding anniversary. When

522
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:40.400
he returns home. I think it
was the first wedding anniversary. Wasn't it

523
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:45.840
better in recollection? But anyway,
wedding anniversary instead. Emma played by Philipps

524
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:52.039
Sue gets a dreadful phone call to
say that Jesse's missing, presumed dead after

525
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:58.280
a helicopter crash in the Pacific Ocean, and Emma's totally lost, bereft of

526
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:02.199
what to do next. So it
is that her older sister Marie will Marie

527
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.400
played by Mikayla Conlan, sweeps her
up, brings her back to their picturesque

528
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:14.079
small hometown in Massachusetts, and it's
there that Marie and their parents operate a

529
00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:17.960
bookstore, something Emma never wanted to
be a part of, but now things

530
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.320
are different. The combination of the
local environment the familiarity of the bookshop brings

531
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:28.639
Emma a sense of solace, and
then unexpectedly, Emma bumps into Sam.

532
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.400
This is the guy who had the
hots for all those years ago, played

533
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:37.159
by Simoulu once more, and he's
now the high school music teacher. As

534
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.719
spark ignites and in time, the
pairs engaged to be married. Thereafter,

535
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:47.800
Emma receives a call that rocks everyone's
socks. Four years after he disappeared,

536
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:54.119
Jesse has been found on a deserted
island. Suddenly Emma has to try to

537
00:42:54.400 --> 00:43:00.760
navigate what the future looks like loving
two men with if those feelings reciprocated by

538
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:07.280
each of them awkward. It's been
written by Taylor Jenkins Read and Alex Jenkins

539
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.280
Read, based on the former's book
of the same name. Both writers have

540
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.000
television backgrounds, and it shows in
fact the movie looks like it has been

541
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:21.679
written for television. It's schmaltzy features
a bunch of good looking, nice people

542
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:27.519
feels heavily manufactured or put on to
solicit audience sympathy, and given those restraints,

543
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.119
obtaining performances that had a ring of
truth about them was always going to

544
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:34.559
be a challenge. Mind you.
I did like the moral quandrey that was

545
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.880
established and opened itself up to being
explored. Further so to the setting.

546
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.559
The scener is beautiful, which the
cinematographer Greg Gardiner has captured well, it's

547
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.880
stracted by Andy Fickman. It plays
it safe and by the book, does

548
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.400
it not? Peter Ah, Yes, sir, one true loves This film

549
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.480
has gone straight onto my list of
one of the worst films of the heir.

550
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:01.440
I was cringing through it as I
was watched, and I must say,

551
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.480
there's everything wrong about this film.
I have to say. One is

552
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:10.400
the title, which is grammatically idiotic. Secondly, that's the whole idea,

553
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:15.320
hang on, hang They've done that
deliberately to get people like you get up

554
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:19.719
your goat, and they've succeeded.
Congratulations. I don't remember the goat in

555
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:24.039
the film, but I must watch
out for it again. Secondly, Luke

556
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:30.039
Bracy, who's an Australian actor,
is given a role that is just makes

557
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.840
no sense whatsoever. Four years on
a deserted island, how could he have

558
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:40.920
possibly survived? This is just ludicrous
plighting. Okay, I'm sure that we

559
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:46.320
had a volleyball and there was survival
in a very fine movie not so many

560
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:52.519
years ago. Hey, thank you? Can I keep going? And I

561
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.920
don't know what you said? You
don't know how you could survive. He's

562
00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:01.239
very industrious, he swims very well, and he's obviously captured f and maybe

563
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:08.880
there's coconuts, and maybe Santa is
sad. Exactly reading down the pole is

564
00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:15.199
what's wrong with Santra in the Easter
Bunny? Right right? You're very very

565
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.559
arsh, don't yes? Keep going? Thank you. I'd like my commotion

566
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:25.440
role. I also, the whole
plot premise is makes no sense whatsoever.

567
00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:30.639
I mean, you have this music
teacher who spends his time talking to his

568
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:37.679
class about his relationship situation. Again, makes no sense. We second you,

569
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.960
gootic. No, you got to
put context around that. He is

570
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.679
about to get married to the the
love of his life, who he's loved

571
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:50.000
since he was at high school and
she was a high school. The husbands

572
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.880
come back, and now he doesn't
know whether the husband has got prior rights,

573
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:58.039
and therefore he's going to miss out, and so he lets he spills

574
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.679
his guts out to his students and
to the teachers. What's so difficult to

575
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:06.039
you're being? Oh my golly,
we're very, very stupid, I have

576
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:09.800
to say, And maybe the whole
plotting is stupid. Imagine that happening,

577
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:14.800
couldn't you? Yeah, of course, hey, I am you. You

578
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:17.880
and Gregor are both in a teaching
environment. Could that ever happen in the

579
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:23.239
school? No, you would not
share that sort of No, you normally

580
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:29.360
wouldn't make I would agree that it's
not, of course not. And such

581
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.440
good actors as Michael o'keef, who
remember back from films dating back a number

582
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:37.880
of years, and Tom Everett Scott
are totally wasted in this film. I

583
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:39.880
was surprised to see Tom Evertt Scott, I've got to say, in a

584
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:46.760
thankless role. This is one of
those awful Hallmark style films which obviously leads

585
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:52.800
to a happy ending. Obviously all
of them have to be satisfactorily resolved one

586
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.280
true loves. I would give that
a huge miss. It is just awful.

587
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.599
Well, look, it's been a
long time, Greg do you remember

588
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:06.639
even on your program. I often
talked about sort of midday movie, and

589
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.079
you know, this was for years
I did this. I haven't been doing

590
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:15.480
it recently because there haven't been many
that have come out that I felt that

591
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:20.320
it was in that sort of space. This one definitely is. I still

592
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:24.079
look, I thought it was okay, I thought I knew exactly what was

593
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:29.280
happening. I knew exactly what was
going to happen once it was established that

594
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:35.320
he had been lost and found.
Notwithstanding that, I suppose I adopted I.

595
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.320
Well, it's a midday movie type
film and it's snuck through into the

596
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.800
cinemas. I'm giving it a five
and a half out of ten. So

597
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.440
a bear pass PG. One hundred
minutes. You're going to fail it.

598
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.320
I know that. What's your score? So one? Or is it two?

599
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.800
Peter? Ah, you are so
so right. I can barely give

600
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:58.760
it two out of ten. There
you go. Wow, So this makes

601
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.719
the list. Have you seen the
worst film leater this year? Oh?

602
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:07.719
Yes, Blue beetlele is one that
comes to mind. The Fast X was

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just awful. Shazam. Oh look, there are some really shockers this year.

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Okay, it's nice to know that, you know you're keeping count I'm

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delighted to hear it. So all
right, I do have good films too.

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I'm delighted to hear it. And
by the way, I think,

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what I think we'll do that next
week? Guys, if they were in

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terms of the film, do we
do Christmas films or do we do films

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of the year next week? What
do you think? Maybe we do Christmas

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films and then we do films of
the year the following. We'll talk about

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it after your people will talk to
my people outside of this program, and

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we'll work we'll work that through.
Let's let's have a look at a movie

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which we talked about a few weeks
ago, Greg, didn't we when we

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were talking about the British Film Festival. But it's now going to come out

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on Boxing Day and that's one Life, correct. We did talk about it

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a few weeks ago from recollection,
and it's a movie that I really want

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people to see. I think it's
a very good film. I think we

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saw it probably back in what October, November something like that. That's my

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recollection in terms of yes, it
was the media launch for the British Film

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Festival. Okay, good well,
December nineteen thirty eight, Nicholas Nikki Winton,

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mild mannered British stockbroker, headed for
a week in Prague and increasingly refugees

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have fled there to try to outrun
the growing Nazi presence in Europe, and

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Winton wants to help in any way
he can, But the situation he finds

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when he gets there really disturbs him. Children, many of them Jewish,

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are facing desperately poor conditions. They've
got little or no shelter, They're malnourished,

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they're sick, and they are dying. As the tide of anti Semitism

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rises. Where others work within the
system, Winton subverts it his intent on

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transporting as many children as he can
via train to temporary homes in England before

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the borders are closed. But first
he needs the legal authority to do that,

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as well as the financing as well
as the foster parents. Decades later,

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as I say started December nineteen thirty
eight, now nineteen eighty seven,

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living in Maidenhead, England, Winton's
wartime experiences come flooding back. The prompt

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is opening a thick scrapbook which charts
his exploits at each turn. That triggers

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a series of life affirming events.
Quite a remarkable story of persistence and humility.

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Winton's presented as a humanitarian intent on
doing the right thing and as a

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younger man, is the driving force
behind a quite remarkable rescue effort. In

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old age, he finally gets the
recognition he so richly deserves. Based on

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the book If It's Not Possible by
Nicholas Winton's daughter Barbara, who unfortunately passed

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away midway through principal photography on this
movie and the screenplay by Lucinda Coxon and

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Nick Drake is very well developed,
many surprises coming near the end end of

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the film, present as an emotional, heartfelt journey jumping between the onset of

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war and the late nineteen eighties.
Score by Volka Bertleman really resonates direction from

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James Wores, who cut his teeth
helming TV series He Is. Transition to

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the big screen seems to be seamless
as far as I'm concerned, thought Anthony

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Hopkins was compelling should humble as a
man initially told to clean up his clutter.

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Johnny Flynn plays Winton's younger self as
respectful but shocked into taking action when

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others see the barriers as been too
severe. Helena Bonham Carter memorable as Wynton's

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asserted mother babette who brought up a
son with a strong streak of conscience.

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Lena Olden fills the role of Wynton's
loving Danish born wife Gret with warmth and

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alacrity, and Romola Garai paint story
and Warren of the head of the British

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Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, as
an energetic and spirited leader. And Alex

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Sharp good sort as Trevor Chadwick boots
on the ground fellow Britain Prague, never

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afraid of mucking in. Look,
this film, One Life gives voice to

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the truism one handmaker difference, and
it reminded me of the excellent film Shindler's

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List. I also couldn't but help
think about just how much this movie resonates

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in the fractured world in which we
live today. It's a pivotal picture and

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it's on general release on Boxing Day. What did you think of it?

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Better? Oh, I really liked
it. And by the way, correctly

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it was the opening night film with
the British, not the media launch film.

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Excellent performance by Anthony Hopkins. There's
been a few documentaries about Winton,

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but this film about the early days
of the Kinder transport is really well developed

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and moving. And it was nice
to see the television show that where all

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of this was revealed, that was
hosted by Esther Ranson at the time,

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and actress who plays her does it
very well. Now I really liked One

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Life very much. Well, what
do you think, Greg, Yeah,

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it's a great little film. Something
you call this film Winton's List, isn't

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it? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, it is that A great a great

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story there and it opens is one
of those actors seems to get better with

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age, isn't he amazing? Absolutely
amazing and you long to see him on

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the screen. Greg, I agree
with you, a good good assessment.

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Yeah, yeah, but you know, I enjoyed it. It's a great

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story. As you said when I
thought the production details and period detail was

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also very well done, and the
juxtaposition between time frames actually works very well.

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Even though we've sort of praised Anthony
Hopkins, Johnny Flynn's got a substantial

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role in this Greek, doesn't he. I mean, he does a good

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job. He does it boo.
It's like when he captures some of Anthony

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Hopkins's mannerisms or was it the other
way around? Yeah, yeah, reading

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mannerisms. And I also love seeing
Helena bollin Carter. We don't see a

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lot of her, but she's a
very stowy actor and somebody who you always

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recognize when she appears on the screen. So score out of ten Greek,

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I'll do it some and Peter I
really liked it. Eight out of ten.

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Yeah, I agree with you.
Peter. I gave it an eight

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out of ten PG rated one hundred
and nine minutes. Boys, thank you

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very much for your contribution to First
On Film and Entertainment today. We will

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do it all again next week,
and be kind to one another as we

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get closer to the festive season.
Don't toot yourrn too badly in traffic,

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and be nice to the shopkeepers that
are trying to look after us. Catch

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you then see you later on First
On Film and Entertainment.