The Watchlist

0:00Time now for the watch list and recommendations for the best film and TV for the week ahead and I'm joined today We just won watch list or cultural reporter and host of the Bellissimo files podcast Serena Bellissimo. Hi Serena Hey, Vandian. I'm good. How are you good? So it's all all on you today? No pressure. No pressure Will will we start with war? This is this divorce drama starring Dominic West and CNN Miller on HBO I'm so glad you've started with this one because this is my pick of the week and talking about pressure There is high pressure in this so basically Dominic West and CNN Miller they play a couple ones an actress once become a billionaire and all of a sudden they're going to divorce They're dealing with two different Law firms and it's all about it's eight episodes based on this and it's all about how do each of them get the most money out of the other It's sneaky. There's twists and turns there's peril I was on the edge of my seat for the whole thing because like something like this Brendan We're used to seeing in like

1:02Legal dramas and it's usually one episode. I'm like how are they gonna keep this going for eight episodes without getting ridiculous Brendan they do it and they do it so well. There were times where I literally physically caught myself going I Couldn't believe the twist that they just threw in there and it never got ridiculous I also want to give a shout out. We mentioned Sienna and Dominic but last week we you probably spoke about Aaron Murphy because he's in youth with Sharon Hawgan Yeah, Aaron Murphy He's a nice terrific and youth. He is fantastic in this I said when I'm talking about Aaron Murphy at the moment everyone just because they want to be able to relate him to someone They're like it's killing Murphy's son. I can tell you now He won't be known as that for very much long So good, but war is amazing. It drops every Friday the episode there's eight episodes It's on now. I did binge all of them. What I will say is it doesn't stick the landing The landing is a bit weak, but having said that I don't run it for me. I need a new show. That's it now Okay, I'm used to moral disappointment at the end of these things. That's so good

2:08Now do I really want to watch TV show about an airport chaplain? What spoiler alert? No, I don't Well, I have to say there was a bit of bias going into this I wanted to watch it because it's an Australian show. Okay, it stars Hugo weaving who you'll know as from Priscilla Queen of the desert It also stars Claudia Carvin and Shabana a seas who you'll know as Victoria in the pit Right, so it's got a great cast and I think the premise is fantastic. It's on Netflix It's eight episodes long their 30 minutes each so you can binge quite easily Basically, it's about all the dramas that happen in the airport and this airport chaplain always comes to the rescue I would have loved watching a show about that the problem with this is the eight episodes There's a backstory that's happening with the chaplain and every time it's on the chaplain's taking on big airport Basically is that kind of it like he's he's a maverick. He is a maverick, right? Which is great and you find out over the eight episodes Why he's done that? That sort of lets it down. You're just like I'm like a chaplain with a backstory that we don't need that we don't need so I think I'll enjoy season two if it gets a season two more than season one

3:13It's an easy watch Netflix eight episodes 30 minutes. I'm there for an easy watch the airport chaplain. That's on Netflix now um adults season two has come to Disney plus is this good? Did you watch the season one? I tried it really briefly and I found the question nine would that be That is completely right. No, it's not I think what happened was in season one They've really tried to go in on this is the way Gen Z's behave and let's be crashed to be crashed and let's shock to shock And I don't think we got the season that they deserved I was shocked it came back for a season two though because there's something similar like everyone's trying to make the new friends Right, they won't be putting that in the poster. I was shocked it came back for season two Well, they should because season two is so much better. Okay, everyone's trying to make a new friends and earlier in the year Mindy Caling had NSFW not suitable for work again five Young 20 some things living in New York. I thought that would get a second season that didn't this did This if you can get through season one. Okay, you will finally understand them

4:13And they sort of start holding back on the crass for crass sake when it happens you're actually going along Okay, so it's worth easing the purge of season one if you can to get to the crunching or cornflakes of season two Okay, that's adult season two Disney plus Artie's big autumn drama and this is in monster carlin the creator of love hate and it serves the great eden gillen and it kicks off tonight Tollotales and murder it's called this is mad. It's been described as a bonning Clyde style adventure of bent cops kidnapping underworld fixes some libido enhancing hot medication bootlegs and there's the dilemmas of the heroes the villains This also goes back to like medieval times basically. Okay, so a bit fantastical like not not not just gritty kind of So do you know what this is? It's an interesting way to tell something that's been told so many times It's a gangster story with metty with tall tales in Behind it basically a eden gillens character wakes up in this hospital He's a thief the nurse looking after him bridger

5:17discovers that there's Treasure hidden she takes in this guy called Paul who's working there on the They decide to go off with eden gillens character Um, it's not for me because I'm not into fantastical, but I can see people are raving about this Do you know who I am raving about? I'm raving about the two leads Ella lily highland and Casey Walsh. This is Casey Walsh was first TV thing They're both brilliant. I would watch something with just a two lot of people talking about her lily highland Oh, she's fantastic the two of them I watch anything with eden gillen as well. So that's tall tales and murder. Yeah tonight at 935 an orty one and beyond the orty bear and that is available with audio description Um as is by the way adult season two. Okay, quick bite of cinema before you go Heart of the beast stars Brad Pitt and a dog. It's in cinemas. No. Is this as good as its own? If you know what I mean, I think this I think there's something wrong with me Yeah, because this premiered at 100% on rod and tomatoes By wednesday it was down to 89% basically if you're into stories about dogs. He's a special forces

6:23agent who have ended up in a car car in a plane crash and they need to survive I think this is Brad Pitt's revenant trying to get the oscar great performances for me It was just like how much more can he turn into maghiva? How can he get out of this This scenario that he's found himself in and even there was an hour and 40 attract for me But it hasn't for anybody else Not a comedy at all and what I will see say like the airport There is a backstory here that you get at the very end if they gave it to me at the start I think I would have watched this different dog does never back story does yes he does Okay, heart of the beast you can make your own minds up on that in cinemas now And finally the Catherine Coralus film the last children of tomb and people may feel they know this story But it's in cinemas now and people are finding this incredibly powerful. It's it's a really hard watch But I have I've put this on there as my note to myself to actually go and watch this I haven't seen it but anyone who has seen it said they've come out crying and it's a film that we all need to see

7:26At Leigh Muth, uh, Leigh Mneeson was involved in the producing of this as well Okay, so that's out in cinemas now. So that is the last children of of tomb And I think definitely I get the vibe that even if you taught you new this story This is an incredibly powerful So rena belissimo. Thank you very much