Point of View Podcast – Episode 5: Katie Wolfe
This month on Point of View, join Tom Augustine as he chats with Katie Wolfe, a director, writer, and actor from Aotearoa New Zealand with an impressive career in film, television, and theatre.

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This month on Point of View, join Tom Augustine as he chats with Katie Wolfe, a director, writer, and actor from Aotearoa New Zealand with an impressive career in film, television, and theatre.
Kiwi director Katie Wolfe discusses her powerful new film, The Haka Party Incident, coming to cinemas on January 30th.
Recently awarded the Human Rights Award at the LA Independent Women Film Awards, Katie shares the story behind her impactful latest project.
What to Expect:
- The Haka Party Incident – A clash between two cultures
- From theatre to cinema – “You were in the room that day… tell your truth.”
- Arriving at a time of…
- A personal reflection on her journey from Dargaville to New York, her love of music, and her powerful documentaries.
Featured Film:
- The Haka Party Incident – In cinemas January 30
View in Screen in Cinemas in February:
- Captain America: New World Order – February 13
- I’m Still Here – February 20
- The Monkey – February 20
- Bird (Waitangi Day)
- September 5 (Waitangi Day)
- Alien Weaponry – September 5 (Waitangi Day)
- Love Hurts – September 5 (Waitangi Day)
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – February 13
- Tina – February 27
- Vicious – February 27
Best of Streaming Coming Out:
- The Gorge (Apple TV+ – February 14)
- Reacher Season 3 (Prime Video – February 20)
Most Anticipated Films 2025:
- Tom’s pick: Terence by Terrence Malick
- Katie’s top picks: A Complete Unknown and Maria
View Box:
- Best Interests (Rialto Channel on Sky – from February 25)
Stay Connected:
Don’t miss next month’s updates—follow us on social media:
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- Instagram: @viewmagnz
- Website: www.viewmag.co.nz
Speakers:
- Tom Augustine – @thaugustine
- Katie Wolfe – @katiewolfe.nz
Stay tuned for more exciting episodes!
Transcript
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K and welcome to point of view uh view magazines uh monthly film podcast my
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name is Tom Austine uh it's very nice to have you here with me today um we've got a great show coming up for you today
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we're talking with Casey Wolf the director of the excellent documentary the hacka party incident um we're going
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to be talking about that film The Making of that film which is now in cinemas um we're going to be looking at the new
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films that are coming out this month and uh also what's coming out on Realo
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Channel as well so stick around Katie wolf is a theater maker and filmmaker um
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a really really amazing one at that um her new film The hakas Incident is in
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cinemas now har thank you so much for being with me today K Tom thank you for
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inviting me on and thank you for seeing the fil and enjoying it I I'm a really
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big fan of this film um sort of Hing showing it from the roof boops as much
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as possible um it's a it's a really special and really important film and one that I think uh is arriving at a
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very important moment in newal history talking about um a very important moment in New Zealand prior um can you start
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maybe for those who don't know the story of the Haka party incident what is this film about the
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hucker party incident is documentary film based on an incident that happened
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in 1979 um it is it documents a clash
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between the Oakland University Engineering Department who had a tradition of um dressing up in Grass
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skirts and putting tattoos on their body and doing a very bad version of the hucker as part of the C Day stunt we
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have a a a new activist um movement coming out of South Oakland and and
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those um that mid to late 70s a group um which was named after the incident H TOA
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came into their last practice to say please stop doing this a violent I guess
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altercation I would say violent but it was more of a scuffle lasted three minutes and from that there was a huge
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Fallout um that we you see played out in the documentry um and but it was a pival
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point in the uh for New Zealand race relations um and but the story was
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forgotten and so part of my uh impetus to tell it was it is a forgotten story
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ret and it seems like there was maybe some encouragement that it become
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forgotten I think so I it's very interesting that because it was of course all over the paper at the time I
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think you wrote in your review that a family member had said I remember and then it was like it just seemed like
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a little sort of flash point and you disappeared dropped off the yes and I think particularly in the University it
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was it was it was I deliberately forgotten will will for forgetting I I
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talk about and wasn't forgotten in the in the um in the circles of her TOA and
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that movement they always remembered it but absolutely it was like put aside
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yeah so what was your Genesis with this project so you obviously made it and a piece of theater first
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um when did you become aware of the incident or had you always known about the incident and wanted to make something about it I was reading Walker
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um book which is a fantastic read it's a mildy
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POV of New Zealand history um and it mentions it in there and I was just it
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just was IND delible was just like well this is kind of like you know this is like violence you know this is a really
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big deal it's a clash between the two cultures so I always sort of had it sort
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of I bottom draw it in a way that was simmering down there as a story idea I
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did try to get some you know to maybe get it made through TV documentary many
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years ago it never got off the ground and then when the open theater Cy gave
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me the opportunity to create a new work I was I picked it up yeah right yeah and
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so then at at what point did you decide this has the leagues to become something
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Beyond theater to move into the c space well I think would have to actually that goes to co actually in that I the
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theater piece was very delayed during Co which you know it's a very interesting
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um experience to me in terms of understanding that how much uh story
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and creativity is about time and place in terms of you know the play was delay
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so by the time I was picked it up again it was like there was more another way to tell the story um and then when we
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were in the big lockdown of 21 um I because to make the theater
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piece I had to film everybody and I I ran my editor and um said look let's go
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and lock ourselves in a room and see if we can um see if we can start throwing the story together in terms of film so
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that was very much a a lockdown project um so and I was very aware when I was
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making it I was always asking that question is it a film because it's very very you know it's it's very static in
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terms of like it's just the people who you know that that's that's the premise of the film if you were in that room
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that day I want to hear from you so it's from the there's no there's not no of my
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opinion in the film whatsoever it's just if you in that room that day you tell
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you the truth um so I was always testing myself in terms of making that there was
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a cinematic conceit there for the film to carry and that came with the more the
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more archive I found or that beautiful film from the 1970s it's incredible isn't it you know
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that you know so revealing so much for so revealing all this spal itself yes
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yeah I find it very poetic yeah the street photography that was around and
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time um you know the main interview of hi TOA which was for
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a I think it's called eyewitness was eyewitness maybe the the program back in
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the day um that the only reason Nala had that footage is someone had um I think
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copied it either off off the TV or of
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some source and had delivered that to n h so it still had all the ad breaks the
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ads from the 9 whatever that time was so that and I already found that out very
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late so it was a because TVN Z destroyed so much of their um film back in the day
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just recording over Star right um that uh that it's was a real T that it's live
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that inter yeah I mean I find it fascinating you kind of touched on this
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so much of the film is as you say interviews sort of like just just the
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personal string answering questions which you know in certain formats
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doesn't necessarily have this kind of cinematic feel and yes in this film it's
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riveting it's utterly like just watching I think it's just because you um place
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the camera and it's just naked truth and it's just it's it's unfed
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unvarnished and you manage to coax these kinds of Revelations out the out of
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people um that I don't think they're even aware that they're kind of arriving there so what was the process there what
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was what was it like in those rooms especially talking to people who were on let's say the less uh the wrong side of
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History the wrong side of History yeah yeah you know it's a very common question for me um when I was making the
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play I had access to one interview from
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an engineer that was from the many years before when I tried to hit off the ground TV project I had that as a
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recording um but that was it I had nothing else from the engineers I had some
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names um and uh so this and this was the very first Workshop production that was
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going out now they must someone must have word must have got out somewhere
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and um I the was that week before we opened the workshop uh the receptionist
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ADC came in and said um there's someone on the phone we like to speak to you and it's one of the engineers wives and she
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had run the ulate theat company and said I be my husband to talk about this so off I high tailed out to um St halers
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and I met with Karen first we had a commonality we're both from tanaki we twed a lot about being brought up in
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tanaki um and we uh Karen was really you know she felt in herself that she knew
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her husband had been part or something a really big part of New Zealand history but had never got to talk about it then
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I went down and I met Ian he was down on his boat shed and I spoke to him he was really nervous to speak yeah um and I
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from there I met them a few more times before we actually put them on camera and it was very much
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a um I guess that I I think they Sense
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on me that I wasn't coming in to make um I was going want to blame anybody I was
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very very interested in what had happened to them that day and I was interested in helping them understand
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what had happened because they than never talked about it it was something almost therapeutical about the
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interviews are really trying to articulate what they' been through and
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um so I I really treasure those interviews in terms of their cand candidacy and their their their honesty
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yeah well you know that is fascinating I mean there is this feeling in this with some of them at least that there's like
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this desire to arrive at a place of peace to actually be held accountable in
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themselves which is really fascinating and kind of almost admirable in a sense
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you know to be able to actually front up and say I was part of this ideally
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regret it um and there's a generosity to the film that I think comes through and
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and and some of them don't regret it like does say I don't don't regret being part of it because they were part of a
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system you know these they were all 18 years old or 17 very young very young
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they were all from Catholic boy schools and that was just thing I found out later on there was there were only men
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white men in the department at their time there were no women you know there were Malaysian students that came in um
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but they had this incredibly sheltered view of the world and and and because
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and it was a world that I remembered I think that's really important actually I was 11 in 1979 and very cognizant
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actually um of the world that I lived in and so I had a sense that when I started
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digging around you see all the stuff from week of that and mcf and gadsby all that really sort of what would know that
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wouldn't fly these days but these these Engineers lived in a they were just part
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of the societ society that we were in yeah yeah yeah a reflection of the time yeah um so film uh was largely
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independently produced is that correct yeah yeah SW was that process like kind of uh putting this together by yourself
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um really satisfying actually I found it really um because I um produce my um
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producing partner um Tim B we have a production company Tasman Ray we produced the theater tour that happened
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um in 23 we've done a lot of producing in the past that the idea that we keep
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the project moving forward inside that sort of um production Paradigm was
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really satisfying to me I was really interested in getting a film off the ground um and um not having to go
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through all the hoops and hoopla of trying to get a film made in this country which is incredibly difficult um
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I was part of the wuo team which was again a another very sort of um
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independently made film In terms yeah which is another it was one of the Highlight project for me um and been
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able to approach um film and pretty much how I
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approach a lot lot of my theater work I guess in terms of that the form actually
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informs process and so in terms of like when able to keep the um keep
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um that the interviews were very organic and that I there was a bouncing ball I
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was able to do it over a long stretch of time yeah so that was really satisfying
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um amazing support from a post production House images and sound who I
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do a lot of Television work through so we love those guys you know and so they
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were incredibly supportive and then um taking us through that post process um
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you know there's a lot of archive in the film archives really expensive yeah um
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and so balancing that to a to afford that archive it was really tricky but
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then then Radio New Zealand coming in as um an acquisition afterwards it was a
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really satisfying process so now it's in cinemas um
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and it feels like it's arriving at a time of renewed kind of discourse and
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tension and that kind of thing the you the relations between Mar and Parky
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we've got triy principles Bill we've got the largest proest movement possibly in museal history the website for the
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submissions just went I know talk about timing yeah so
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what do you make of that and I guess what are your hopes for the part that this might play in that kind of you know
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what the the the the thing that's always astonished me about that telling the story has been when I when I made the
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play which is a piece of Aion Theater which I really enjoy it's a really fantastic theater form after the play
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any all everyone wants to talk about you see people leave the play and they're just like in these deep discussion
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walking away from the theater that the you for me I was
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people were talking about the incident what it means to them how it's relevant to them now um and so a funny way the
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film and the play becomes sort of something over here because the the the Cooper overtakes it but this is really
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really positive in that I think there's a penny drop moment that do come for
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some p in terms of understanding how we're partnersh come comes from and it's
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not threatening it's actually just really um clear and accessible as an
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idea so that's being real so I really hope that that maybe the if an audience
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does get in there it's a real word of mouth project um a thing like the play
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people come and you know tell people and what I gets I hopefully that happens in the cinema um that we will see these
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conversations is opening up and then understanding that the this idea of
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partnership which does go back to the treaty um that It Centers itself an
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understanding why this bill is absolutely inappropriate and needs to go
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so there will be that hopefully there'll be will be feeding back into that well if there's anything that you can take
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away from me it's that this fil is essential for new zealanders to watch so hopefully people get out there and see
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yeah yeah um talking about what's coming up in February um on Whitey day we have
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the release of alien Weaponry the uh documentary film uh about the young uh
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today only uh mle band um are you a big alien weary
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listener no but I'm a big alien alien weary fan so you know theyve always been
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astonishing what an incredible medium to you know Haight the deal and so um and of course alien whing
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played alongside Us in the F New Zealand isable so it's a looks like a fantastic film special place in your heart I mean
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it's um I've seen the film and it's it's really really wonderful it's really Entertainer you know the thing that
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really struck me the theong boys who are the kind of front M of the band um so
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young like at the beginning of the film they in the right yeah teenage B now
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they're only like 21 and 19 oh my really young to be doing something that is
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historical you know moving into a genre where this has happened before at such a young age and to them it's I it haven't
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se the movie but from the trailer I can glean that they that it was really they it was very apparent to them that they
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that they had to sing into yeah yeah like it was just yeah that's what they were going to do and one of the things
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that's really lovely about the film is that it's a it's a family affair so the whole family is like around them and
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supporting them and the the mother and father of the boys are just as significant to the film as the boys
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themselves and it's just a really beautiful kind of depiction of like wife
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and Al Young F A young family that are Bing this awesome heartart it's a really
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really great F I like see it um the other trailer that we're talking about is uh brard Jones matter out the boy
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yeah so this is the third Bridget Jones Fone yeah um do you have seen that one
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too I've seen the first one and so um you know like back in the day read the book we all love the book was kind of
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sort like the first yes yeah and it was kind of like the first sort of
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like checklist or whatever they used to call it or you know this really Yang
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female catric sort of quirky lature I remember at the time and then the then
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the film was just so successful yeah that F film is a is a is a really fun
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film to visit I mean yeah the interplay of um this just such clever
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scenes with Colin F and and hug that love triangle is just very satisfying
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and honestly it's probably my favorite of um Rene Z's performances so so
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there's I'm excited to see where they're going with this one now this is also based on a bridg of Jones book um one of
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the big controverses is that conf first car has passed away right yes yes so
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it's but it's not in the book it's not in the book I don't know I I think it is in the book right yeah I think like uh
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you know because it's being reintroduced and film for new audience is weird it
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yeah I must say I mean I was a little bit like I don't know because that that triangle is s significant to what it was
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but you have to be just like that they kill Mr Big yeah in the very first episode when he comes back you're like
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oh and then you go it's a pretty good device yeah it works it works so yeah I think it's it's pushing the story
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forward so that's always a good thing it'll be interesting to see what happens this new love interest play byal is year
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for so that's cool um hug shows up I don't know how much of it he's actually
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gonna be in but um that one I think is going to be a pretty raging success yes um because
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it's one of those titles that has a lot of love a lot of affection for back yeah I think I think it may get the the
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people that used to go to the sun might come back for Bridget J year yeah absolutely so it comes out the day
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before Valentine's Day there you go perfect yeah coming up also uh in February we have what it called g g
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galentine's day they gallentine or something they to make Valentine's Day Valentine's Day you could definitely do
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a g trip to bridg CH it will be great maybe I should do that
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yeah um coming up in cinemas in February also we have a range of um all sorts of
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different kinds of films um some of the kind of holdovers from Oscar season one
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of the big ones is I'm still here now this is a Brazilian film uh Fernand Torres who's the actress and I'm still
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here uh kind of shocked uh the awards prognosticators by
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winning best actress at the Golden Globes for drama um against some pretty
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Heavy Hitters um now this is a film about a woman uh struggling with The Disappearance of her husband during
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Brazilia uh Brazil's 1960s military dictatorship um it looks like a very
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very powerful very effective drama we've also got uh bird which is a which is one
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that was here as part of the British and Irish Film Festival but if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it one of my
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favorite films of last year um it is from Andre Arnold a director of fish tank and American Honey she's a great
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director of British realism this one is a little bit different it definitely is still kind of rooted in workingclass
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bristen as many of her films are um it's about a young girl who is kind of
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growing up in the very much like the wrong side of tracks part of Britain her
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father her young father played by Barry hogut is um uh well meaning but a little
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bit of a lunkhead and she runs into a mysterious
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kind of figure named Bird played by France rowski who's an amazing uh German
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act to um and it kind of builds into this very interesting almost magical
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realist drama uh it's a very very powerful film it doesn't go where you think it's going to go um and there's
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lots of really classic kind of moments of kind of um spontaneous working class joy in there
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as well which is always a big part of her films so that's a really really great film worth watching um Mike Lee's
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got a new film coming out this year hard truth yeah that was also at the festival I loved hard truth I'm a mive fan of
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Mike and um but it sounds um bird sounds like it's in that same sort of uh yeah
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kind of has picked up the mental of that kind of syn British realism that he
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maybe helped to start um but it's awesome that he's still making fils is
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incred can't wait um on the more Blockbuster side of things uh we've got
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Captain America New World Order now this also drops on the 13th of Fe this is the
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newest Captain America film Captain America is now played by Anthony mecky who was the Falcon in the earlier Marvel
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film this one uh is interesting because it is the first major Marvel film uh since the
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big flop of uh the Marvels in
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2022 um 23 23 um obviously there was Deadpool and Wolverine last year but
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that one was kind of sort of outside of the usual circle of these sorts of things this one is picking up the story
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again there has been a pretty significant kind of cultural drop and interest in these films so it's going to
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be interesting to see how this holds together it's it's been delayed several times there's been re-shoot on reshoots
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not re shoots who knows what we're going to get but it does have Harrison for in it so that is uh valuable I've never
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rone the marble World I'll be very honest with you so where are we up to in the marble world like sort of veryy
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deep we are very deep of mar uh and
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uh highs and lows and I I think you would describe it as being in a pretty
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deep low at the moment so whether they can build back at all I mean we'll see
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but um the trailers for this hadn't necessarily be super promising but you know I will probably still be seing it
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I'll probably be watching it um the monkey is a horror film now this one is
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from the director of long Lees uh in Perkins no that's Oswald Perkins Anthony
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Perkins is his grandfather I think um who was in psyo i v who made long legs
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did you see long legs not aan no no I didn't watch the substance the other night oh yeah
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that's my God but when I was watching it I was like I wonder if it was influenced
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by Brandy yeah SPL thing yeah right and the sounds they make with all the you
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know the needles going in so I went and ask old AI you know is the substance
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influenced by brain yes it is to but who knows yeah no you can never really tell
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if they are but I think uh I can definitely see the through line and that's FL genre yeah um long leagues
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also a really great horror film from last year well it's kind of well you know it's deeply scary but it's like a
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it's kind of like Sil of the lens or something like that um and it showed a really promising Talent inw Perkins the
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monkey is adapted from St King short story um which I haven't read but it looks like it's a whole bunch of for
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Island uh thiss that are kind of like in a final destination kind of way um that
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goes to some very Twisted places so that's going to be interesting on the 27th of February we have um Mikey
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manver uh Tina yes mi Mega Tina which looks amazing has a very powerful
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trailer yeah very very like really pulls at the heartstrings there a teacher who
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loses um uh the which is played by the brilliant annaa um got to make sure I
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say Anna's name correctly um Paula tyal and she's an
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incredible New Zealand actress um very well nine in theater circles and I think
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this this she plays a uh a mother who lives her daughter in the Christ j
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Christ and ends up in a very Posh Christ Church I think High School um teaching
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um ti so it's so really it's it looks like a classic
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heartfelt heartwarming movie Led Out by the incredible Anapa how howon is she's
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getting a moment with this kind of lead role yes yes from what I've heard it's a
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very powerful F I'm very excited for that one um last two I'll mention September 5th is out on white honey day
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and it's about um the Munich uh hostage crisis in the 70s and Love Hurts which
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is kind of in the vein of nobody and John Wick has got Kwan from uh e all at
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once uh in a kind of action role so there's a lot to look forward to this month
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MH so it's 2025 it's a new year um and that means that there are new films in
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the pipeline um there's a lot that uh we can look forward to this year a lot of really major filmmakers are um flexing
28:59
their muscles and getting new films out there um I'm interested what you're what's you're anticipating uh coming up
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um probably my number one would be the Bob Dylan film with Timothy shamal yeah
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what's it called the complete unknown complete unknown um and that that
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apparently Timothy is just out the gate and and and I love a b pick they my
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favorite so my second film which I'm really looking forward too is the one about Maria Callis with I've seen that
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yeah yeah it's very good I really really enjoyed it and um there's amazing doco
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and here that came out maybe two years ago which is all this un you know found
29:41
footage of Maria and it's just mesmerizing it's one of those movies I sort of have when I'm writing or
29:48
something I just have sort of playing over and over in my office because it's just the the footage they found of her
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is just extraordinary so I'm really looking forward to that yeah I mean that's from film yeah it's from Pablo
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Lorraine um who also did Jeffy and spiter so he is third in this kind ofy
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about the big Divas yes it's it's Angelina Jolie in the lead Ro and she's really really
30:13
strong and you know I actually didn't know much about Mar I know a lot about yeah be interested to know what a
30:20
a big fan of her will take away from it but I found it to be a quite kindhearted fil like it's a it's a f that's very
30:26
like drenched and S but it's Immaculate beautiful looking um as we've come to expect from the
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street gosh yeah but yeah there's something about it that I found quite kind of yeah moving and intoxicating and
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also quite yeah kind-hearted as I say um I haven't seen an they don't know but um
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I you know Dyan fan so I'm G to be interested to see you know yeah how his
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life fits into that biop pip kind of treatment yeah yeah um so I have been
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looking a little further in terms of films that I'm uh most anticipating this year first uh is a film called die my
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love it's from Lyn Ramsey who is uh an incredible filmmaker she's made films
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like um rat catcher we need to talk about Kevin or Keller um her new film
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has Jennifer Lawrence and it's about uh a housewife who started to kind of
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unravel um and there's not much detail beyond that that we know but the thing that draws me to it it is um is the
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presence of Lyn Ramsey she only makes films very rarely like she's such a master and very meticulous takes a long
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time to put out new FS so every time that we get a new one it's it's something to uh treasure and to be
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excited going on my list y um the next one is from Punam W it's
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called no other choice we've got a poster for this but that's it uh it's again a filmmaker because it's the
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filmmaker uninterested in in seeing the film par sh obviously made old boy the
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handmaiden his most recent was decision to leave so I'll be very interested to see it sounds like it's another kind of
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Thriller um he is just a very um he always makes a fascinated choice so
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that's always something to look out for as new Pat and what film um the next one I have here is one
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that we may or may not receive this year the reason I say that is that is from Terence m
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um of uh bad lands that rine injury of Life Etc it's called The Way of the wind
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and it has been in post production for six years and that's because Terence Malik does not do anything quickly he is
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very kind of um a tinkerer and everyone who knows his kind of director process
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knows that a lot gets thrown out um a lot of it's it's kind of a moving times
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this one is about the life of Jesus and the thing about Malik is that all his
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films are reflected with this kind of Christian iconography and ideas so it's
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going to be interesting to see him tackle the actual story of no hell absolutely facing Jesus yeah what's the
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title called The Way of the W can't wa there G he's been working on it since the 70s so I'm very interested to see
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what that HS of yeah um I have highest to lowest which is the new spark Le
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joint I am a huge spark Le fan um and his last film the five Bloods
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which is on Netflix highly recommended amazing film um this one is a remake of the Kura film high and low which is
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about uh businessman who um gets embroiled in this kind of hostage
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situation um and it's got Denzel Washington in the lead um and I think
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just the opportunity to see Spike Lee whose style is very different from kurasawa tackled this kurasawa film uh
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and have a new updated version of this classic I am there day one cannot wait
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sounds great the last one I have is a little bit uh more mainstream um Mission
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Impossible find Reckoning I love the mission imposs films of all the Blockbusters those are the ones that I
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go to B for um I will always right in there Tom right in there and we don't
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know what the big stunt is this time that there is surely going to be one he did all he does
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all um the last one de Reckoning was really really fun uh and really really
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well put together uh so I'm really excited to see how the story wraps up it is reportedly the final P Cruise
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possible so we will see what happens there but lots of Throwbacks isn't there like actor Throwbacks director
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Throwbacks with bridg Jones throwing yeah absolutely some really classical directors kind of coming back for
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another B so um there a lot love to us yeah and and making movies for the
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movies I guess like having a real understanding what it is to put it into that space you know because that's the
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big you know the challenge that we face as filmmakers is getting people into
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the 100% so um yeah highly recommend you
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B but goes and sees these kinds of
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[Music] films justly touch on what's showing on
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streaming this month we have our Apple TV plus an interesting kind of mysterious looking film called The Gorge
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um two uh hot young Stars Mar tella and Ana Taylor Joy of furiosa um they play
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two guards posted on opposite sides of in two guard towers on opposite sides of
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a mysterious mys gge no one knows what is down there um and there's a little
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mystery kind of shroud in this film so it's going to be interesting it looks like like a little bit of like a love story SL Blockbuster Sci-Fi Action uh
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the other big thing coming to Prime video this month is the third season of
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Reacher obviously based on the jack reach Reacher books um this one if
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you're a fan of the show it looks like a little bit more of the same but that's always enjoyable um one of the big kind
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of calling cards for this season is that obviously the carer Jack Reacher is this giant hulking kind of Beast Man and it
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looks like he's going out to against some even more Giant and more Hawking than before so uh that is going to be
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the big clash of the season of Richa um Katie I'm really really thankful that
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you came in today as I say I'm a huge fan of this film I um really hope that
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people get out there and watch it um thank you so much for being here with me today thanks Tom and something I've just
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learned is that say you know if you're wherever you are in Al if your if your
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local Cinema hasn't got the movie on yeah um ring them up ask for it ask for it
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and and so the Distributors really um they take note note of that so if it's
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not there give them a call and I'll I'll get L I think like this film would be
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really valuable to be watched some kind of rural smaller towns that kind of thing so um at the moment uh hak part
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incident is showing in screens Nationwide but it could always shown more screens so um please get out there
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and see it or ask for it in your Cinema kill it
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[Music] Tom Rialto this February we have the
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exclusive series premiere of best interests um this is a baath nominee uh coming to you on the 25th of February uh
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it's a really really powerful series it stars the great Sharon Hogan who is more
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known as a comedy ress uh I guess in recent times you know she was in bad sisters and also catastrophe which is
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one of my favorite series um this is a bit of a different kind of role for her
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um she Stars alongside the also excellent Michael Sheen as a pair of parents who are fighting for um proper
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care for their daughter who has a who is diagnosed at a young age with a particular kind of muscular distrophy um
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it is a very powerful very affecting series um very gripping with two just
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Titanic actors um tackling some very mecy topics so um please come along and
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check it out if you want to find out more about it go behind the scenes of best interest on Realo Channel's YouTube
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page you can find out more about the series uh and get a little peek into
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what was going on in the making of the [Music]
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show we've got a few giveaways for you um obviously this month is Valentine's
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Day 14th of February um the good folks of De Port chocolates have put together
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a very cool price paying for you um and a special one in your life or it could
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be a galentine's day gift as Casey said um head on over to v. co.nz we're also
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giving away a double pass to a film that will be revealed uh imminently so head
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on over and check it out um also on vag I just want to remind you that uh the
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best of 20 24 40 of my favorite films from the last year uh dropped last month
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if you haven't read it yet check it out so that you can have the lowdown on all the very best songs that you can watch
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uh from last year uh that's all from us today at point of view thank you so much for listening KY t