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My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and it is time for another home show.
For 486 for those of you playing the home game, there's only one person here with me
to talk about this movie, and that's okay, because he is the official fact checker of
sooner or later productions, and a man who officially knows a lot of things that he can't
talk about because they're secrets.
You may know his Igboonu, but his mom and even Don Ford, I'm gonna call him Don Ford,
hey brother.
I can keep a secret.
For your job, you have to.
Oh, I can give little, yeah, I have to, yeah.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something.
This is no exception.
Director Gavin Hood, this is the guy that on one hand gave us X-Men Origins, Wolverine,
but on the other hand, gave us a movie that Don saw a couple of years ago, called I
in the Sky, but this one is called official secrets.
For what was that, this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
You got to think Bianca and her best friends.
Al, I did a great remark in it.
We love our vendors, they let us review movies and stuff for you guys before they come
out so you can make the best decision for your entertainment dollar.
You will be shocked to know that Don did not get to see this movie because I saw this
a long time in advance because one of his favorite people is the star of it.
One cure and nightly.
This is a true story.
My celebrity crush.
She goes back into 2003 where she works for the British government where she is basically
monitoring communications and interpreting them.
She gets a memo that basically tells her that they need to be monitoring certain people
that are opposing Britain's entrance into the Middle East War.
The 2001 Gulf War?
Well, in 2003, but yes, the actual invasion of Afghanistan.
She does not sit well with her.
This is actually one of the biggest whistleblower cases in British history.
And the risks she takes, especially because she is married to someone who is a foreign
national from that search for the country.
This runs just under two hours.
There's a lot going on here.
A lot.
Really?
And I'm going to say this and I say this in my written review, currently located at www.thecluphousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
One of the best performances of cure and nightly.
It's really?
I'm going to say it.
And so it's getting around that realm of the pirates in the preance.
This is like Cynthia Jordan said, does she do anything modern day?
She does.
I'm going to tell you something.
She does.
And she does it well.
This is a film that I think is going to take a lot of people off guard because number
one, if you know this story, she does not look a lot like the girl she's portraying.
She made a conscious choice to not do not try to look like her because what she was trying
to do and from what I've read, she wanted it to feel like this could she could be anybody.
Okay.
In a case like this, because whistle blowing is a very serious thing.
I heard a great podcast from Planet Money about whistleblowers and you should check it
out if you haven't.
It's an NPR podcast, an economics podcast.
But the thing is she doesn't do this for money, she's not doing this for fame, she does
this out of moral obligation.
This film is very, very intense, pulls no punches.
They use actual news footage from the time as she's dealing with.
I just, I can't say enough good things about this movie, it's paced well.
And the fact that we got to screen it on National whistleblowers day was kind of as well.
That was, yeah, there was a special screen that they did for us on National whistleblowers
day.
There were a lot of big names in this and I think they did that on purpose.
So you weren't looking for the big stars.
And it's a really interesting look into, not a real deep look, but an interesting look
into British politics and the way parliament works and the way they're still kind of old
school with their judicial system.
Oh, yeah, which is kind of an interesting way to do things.
There's a lot of weight and all that.
Now I will tell you, you do have a couple of heavy hitters in this.
I was going to say I was looking at the, you did, I mean, that'd be good.
Mm-hmm.
Well, fine.
Raffer, it's raffer fine.
Raffer fine.
He plays her attorney.
Okay.
And how he approaches the case and he's kind of a pitball.
Rich, Rich Eiffens is also in it as well.
I just can't say enough good things about this, but I don't want to say too much because
to say too much, you go too deep into it.
And if you don't know the story, I don't want to spoil it because it takes a couple of
really interesting turns as well of, as she prepares for the trial and the mine field
that this trial becomes because there are certain laws in place.
And it's called official secrets because that was the name of the law that was enacted
by the British government, which is the law that she violated.
It was called the official secrets act.
So this is basically off a true story of this lady, and basically, I don't know if
you want to answer this or not, is that they charge her and they try her for this?
Oh, the movie starts with her walking into trial.
So yes, absolutely.
It's one of those, she walks in the trial and then we flash back to the beginning of
the story, tell the whole story to get to there and then what happens from there.
Okay.
So there's a little bit of footage of the actual lady at the end of the film, which
is you like, which is kind of the sad see the, okay, because as I was trying to say,
you say trial and all of a sudden, it's like, what, oh, so they, she gave this information
out under the whistleblower laws.
The government comes in says, no, there really wasn't a whistleblower law in Britain at
that time.
Really?
So she violated the law and part of the mind field was whether or not they were going
to charge her with it because of the nature of the documents, because what she did is
she took the email.
She printed it and she anonymously gave it to a friend of hers that was part of an
anti-war journalism group, which then also went to a reporter.
So let's go through the legit channel play by Matt Smith from Dr. Who, okay.
And it's kind of weird the way the whole thing unfolds, because again, I don't want to talk
too much about it because there's a lot going on here.
And if you don't know the story, it's really, it's really cool to go into it cold.
If you had, if you don't know the story, understand, but yeah, would this be kind of like the
pelkin brief where people are trying to shut her up?
I don't know if you want to answer that.
I'm trying to say that they're trying to shut her up, per se, because once it's out
there, it's out there.
It's just what the government tries to do to could say face to say face and try to make
her look bad in the process.
I see.
Smear campaign.
So there's, there's things that come left and right.
There's reporter friends that are helping Matt Smith's character in Martin Bright.
It's just really well done on every level.
So question.
You talk about her performance.
Yes, sir.
My, my future ex-wife, um, the great Karen Eilie, yeah, the, would you say nominations
next year?
You could flirt with it.
It's going to depend on what happens in the next three months because we're getting
into a word season.
Yes.
I will say I will not back down from the fact that this is one of the best roles I've
ever seen her in because she's been nominated twice for Oscars and my thing is, do you
think that this is worthy of a nomination?
That's my question.
I wouldn't be shocked if she's gets nominated, if she gets nominated, uh, but I just don't
know.
Like, it's good, but I think the script helps that too.
Now, do you think this film is going to get to be a big Oscar darling?
Or it's going to get some nominations that I don't know.
Like it could, but does it, it could, but will it, I think, is the deal.
You know what I mean?
Does that make sense?
Yeah, because we're getting in that award season.
That's what I'm thinking.
Well, let's start off with this one and kind of get the word out and stuff like that.
So who knows?
That's, that's my big question.
Okay.
What would you change about it?
And watch gauge.
I want to know that too.
Watch gauge was 35 minutes.
Okay.
I don't know that I would necessarily change anything about the film, per se.
There's a couple of things that I wish they would have gone into a little deeper, especially
when it comes to her personal life and how this affects her on that angle.
Okay.
That got kind of rushed for me, but I really enjoyed this film.
It didn't take me out of it at all.
All right.
All right.
I have no other questions.
All right.
Then let's get to the final analysis.
That's what I was hoping for.
That's why I waited so long for us to record this episode because I was like, they have
to do another screening.
And then I found out they weren't.
And I was like, all right, then let's just go ahead and do this.
So the way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up,
thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letters, numbers, memos, anything like that.
Two questions.
Question number one is, what I see this film again if the answer's no, but we're done here.
If the answer's yes, then it's how would I see it again?
First run in a movie theater, down to a twilight showing, down to a matinee, down to early
morning on a weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to obtaining a physical
copy, down to screening it, and down to cable.
Rob, yes.
Requiring a mindset.
I want to know.
All right.
Would you see this film again?
Would I see official secrets again?
Absolutely.
Okay.
What level?
Okay.
I would see this movie.
I would see that I would pay full price for this.
This movie is that good.
It's intense.
It's really well done.
It's very well acted.
It's very well written.
It's very well executed.
Kudos on every level to this film.
Question.
Yes, sir.
Do you want to get where it's at on your list right now?
Oh, no.
I don't do that until the end of the year.
Okay.
But I'll tell you this.
It's going to be real far from the bottom.
I can tell you that much.
I don't know if you want to answer me this one.
Is it higher than peanut butter falcon?
You don't have to answer.
That's a good question.
We'll find out in December.
Okay.
It is Gavin Hood.
He also co-wrote official secrets for this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
You think we ought to think Bianca and her Bay are best friends?
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