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Uh, yeah, no, it, it, it really is a physical thing.

Uh, but that's, that's, that's the thing.

Like, I mean, if you have done the training, uh, you know, and it's usually a period of about four months, I mean, people vary and stuff like that.

And you've, you know, some weeks you've been running 60 miles or whatever.

Like, you have it in your bones to do it, so it does become a mental thing because the physical thing is exhaustion at about mile 18 or mile 20.

But telling yourself, "You know what? I've trained for this.

I imagine hydration is pretty crucial.

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And he's this billionaire who's been drilling oil all his life, and he's, "Drill, baby.

Drill, baby, drill." There's a eco disaster on its way because of his drilling.

Long story short, there's gonna be a massive iceberg coming towards Europe, so there's a lot of real-world connection.

Started off in Greenland.

And this kind of eco- ecological satire begins.

This is spoiler-ridden because about 40 minutes in, something changes the entire dimensions.

Um, John, what do you have for us?

All right, John Fardy, what's your next choice?

Yeah, some would say the big TV event of the week, if not the early autumn, the return of Slow Horses.

Now, I don't know who in the room here or the studio which we're in, to be precise, is a fan.

If you're not, it's about a gang of misfit MI5, I was going to say M15, but...

Intelligence people who are no longer of much use, or so they've been told because they've gotten into nefarious things over the years, and they're sent to this fable place called Slough House where they rot, in essence, under the guidance of Gary Oldman, who is Jackson Lamb, who is this... flatulent, boozing, smoking, horrible, but brilliant kind of intelligence officer.

One of the best lines in recent years in TV, and apologies if you're eating your dinner, was, Kirsten Scott Thomas said to him after he farted, was that wind? And his response was, mostly.

That's the kind of guy you're dealing with.

Geoff, do you have something else for us? I

want to see her kangaroo hop again.

John, what do you got? Yeah, so there's something very different, a film called The Death of Robin Hood.

So Robin Hood has been on screen many times.

You know, if you're thinking Kevin Costner, you know, Mel Brooks, Men in Tights, even the TV show Robert A. Sherwood, this is not that.

This is kind of a deconstruction of the Robin Hood motif.

It's based on, I think, something from like the 12th century called The Ballad of Robin Hood.

and it is Hugh Jackman as this kind of bruised and battered Robin Hood at the start, who's not even owning up to being called Robin Hood, and he's kind of on one last job, and he's looking back on his life of... what they claim in this was in essence pillaging and killing.

Hurry up now, will you? And it's...

... and in his first season, he won the league.

It's not just money.

And the sto- look, I don't wanna give you his whole career.

The story goes on and on again.

He famously fell out with all sorts of people.

He has a build and break it down mentality, it seems.

He has great success, then people start annoying him, stuff isn't working out, and he ends up falling out with everybody.

You're going to the Kingdom next, are you?

My ship!

Toy Story.

sounds like it's

a lovely idea.

The only thing is I'm used to these screenings on a Thursday morning where I'm with myself and seven other angry men.

I don't know how I get on with, you know, kids making noise and stuff like that, you know.

Tell me about what is, what are The Shards.

Yes.

Uh, it's on Disney+.

It's nine episodes.

Two great, well, certainly one great enfant terrible, as they say, Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote a book called Less Than Zero, and then famously, American Psycho, uh, who was kind of this, as I say, the, the, the dark child of the American literature scene in the '80s and '90s, and American Psycho was famously turned into a book.

This is based, or into a movie.

This is based on his strange meta-fictional memoir about growing up in LA in the '80s.

Did you ever, uh, think, though, when you were watching this, that they all looked rather old to be high school students?

And, and she is the brains that might bring them to number 10.

Indeed, the power behind the throne.

But she's kinda lovely as well, it has to be said.

She's a great actress.

A lot of people might know her from Octavia Spencer.

Now, here's the rub in all this.

Hannah Washington's character, Judith, also known as Whiptail.

And, and it's not a spoiler to say that her boss is Bill Nighy, uh, playing Bill Nighy very well.

And, and, and I think the cheer as well that went up for her, I would imagine, was heartfelt as well.

Absolutely.

And, like, don't forget, you know, she beat Julia Roberts and Anjelica Huston that year.

But her performance in that was amazing.

Like, the mother to Christy Brown.

And she was, I suppose, she was two things.

She was a traditional Irish mother that we all [laughs] know and love, but she was also a fighter for Christy Brown and his greatest advocate.

Um, lastly, John, her legacy, what, what do you think it is?

Now, you both have picked your first one, so I'll come to you first, John, but The Odyssey.

Oh, yes.

10,000 year old Homer epic poem.

Who wouldn't want to make a movie out of it? Yeah, Homer, the pre-Socratic guy.

This is Christopher Nolan tackling, you can't call it the greatest story ever told because that would upset the Christians because it's technically the Bible.

But this is one of the foundational myths of Western civilization, you could say.

It is about King Odysseus fighting the Trojan War and then returning home to his wife and child who's waiting for him.

This is the

though she herself has been divorced and is partnered up with a man who is younger than her.

Now, by 10 years, he seems more in the ballpark.

This is a sizable age gap.

And the thing is, not everyone is loving this.

I read a review in The Guardian that was quite...

Some people are calling it a wrong calm because it's icky, this age gap.

Now, she is 26.

You could do all three generations, mother, daughter and granny.

There is a bit of '80s cultural reference, but we'll get to that in a moment.

No, exactly.

So Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll are two people you may have never heard of.

They're kind of comedians and filmmakers who had a web series, then a TV show, about this fictional band called Nirvana the band, which was terrible, and they were desperately trying to get gigs and never got them.

And that was their kind of cult TV show in Toronto about 10 years ago, and they've now turned it into the mo- into a movie, where they're desperately trying to get a gig in a place called The Rivolo in Toronto.

And they are a really bad band, and they don't even think, "How are we gonna get this gig? Why don't we call them up?" They come up with these bizarre ways to do it, like they're going to skydive off the CN Tower-

Um, J- JF, what's your next choice?

Yeah, Enola Holmes 3 on Netflix, a new movie.

Is that just a device for not paying attention to what's on the screen?

Well, you see, when you say subtitles, like I assume you meant, oh, this movie's in Italian and I don't speak Italian.

No, you're actually talking about people being too lazy or wanting to eat louder than the stuff that's in front of them.

So they're going to turn on.

Subtitles.

To me, this may be the nadir of TV watching and if not Western civilisation.

Like, I find that completely bizarre that people turn on subtitles for an English language movie and they are English language native speakers.

Is that a no-no for you?