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Ep 172 John Wick: Chapter 2 : Do You Expect Us To Talk

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Do You Expect Us To Talk? is back after a break away due to illness (not relating to the world pandemic that’s currently happening at this current moment) to pick up where we left off. The second instalment of the John Wick serise, picks up where we left off, as John retrieves his car that was stolen. Once returned home, ready to settle down away from his past, the past follows hime once more. A Camorra crime boss stops by with a marker, proving a debt that is owed, dragging John back in the game and a whole load of trouble .

Join Becca, Dave and Chris as we discuss life during the caronaviris rather than the movie itself, reflecting on No Time To Die (a film we’ve not seen), generic Italian bad guy names, is common dead or not, the essentialness of Sports Direct.

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Do You Expect Us To Talk Will Return with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

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Ep 171 John Wick : Do You Expect Us To Talk?

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Listeners keeping asking if we’re back or not? Yeah… we’re thinking we’re back. Do You Expect Us to Talk returns with a new series. This time we take on the recent action trilogy John Wick starring Keanu Reeves. After his wife loses a battle to a terminal illness, John Wick receives a puppy as a gift from beyond the grave. When the son of a Russian gangster breaks in to steal his car, beating up John and killing the dog. Awaking something inside that has been long buried, they get more than what they bargained for as John Wick isn’t what he seemed.

Listen to Becca, Dave and Chris as we discuss the misunderstanding of Keanu Reeves’ acting ability, is this one of the best action movies of recent memory, the appeal of action revenge movies, the appeal of Lovejoy, Chris fluffs his line and the stupid reason why you can’t get a Pitbull in the UK.

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Chef : Review by Daniel Burden

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Review by Daniel Burden 

I love the big summer event movies. They’re loud, full of explosions, bombastic, switch your brain off

fun. We’ve had a few already this year, and I can’t wait for the next Transformers. Dinobots? On the

big screen? Things go bang? I’m there on opening night.

However, it doesn’t hurt to slow down. And considering Jon Favreau last two films were Iron Man

2 and Cowboys & Aliens, big casts, big budgets and big explosions, to see him go back to something

simpler and more personal is a genuine joy to behold. It’s easy to forget that’s he’s one of the most

talented actor/directors in the business, and Chef shows off everything he has to offer.

We’re not quite in Swingers territory here, there’s nothing hugely revolutionary about Chef, but what

we get is a near perfect feel good movie.

In front of the camera Favreau plays the titular chef Carl Casper, a talented but creatively frustrated

head chef at a restaurant run by Dustin Hoffman (who is just one of the hugely famous supporting

cast), and after a bad review from a critic, he engages in a Twitter war and becomes a viral celebrity.

This doesn’t go well for the unprepared Casper, and he soon finds himself out of a job and at a loose

end, essentially working as a nanny for his own son, who he barely has a relationship with. What

Favreau has to say about social media is all spot on, how quickly the public can turn on you, and also

what a wonderful tool it can be, even if it is a little on the nose. You get the feeling this aspect, and

the movie in general, are a reaction from Favreau in regards to his own poor reviews.

The second half is very much a road movie, when Casper, along with his son, and best friend played

with a delightful energy by John Leguizamo, after buying a van and selling Cuban sandwiches across

the country.

It’s not a premise that immediately screams “Watch Me!” But it totally works. And the food! I

guarantee this movie will make you hungry, I was sitting salivating in my seat. This is the best movie

about cooking and food that I have ever seen. Not that I’ve seen all that many.

The supporting cast include, the aforementioned Dustin Hoffman, Sofia Vegara, Oliver Platt, Scarlett

Johansson and a near movie stealing cameo from Robert Downey Jr. But this is Jon Favreau’s movie.

He’s the heart at the centre of the whole thing, a career best performance in terms of acting and

directing. His character goes through a transformation in this movie, and in way so does Favreau,

he’s no longer the man who struggle through Iron Man 2 and was clearly disinterested Cowboys &

Aliens, Chef is a deeply personal film and it shows.

So you can go and see giant robots fighting, or giant monsters fighting, or giant robots fighting giant

robots. Or, why not catch Chef. It’s genuinely funny and heartwarming, chocked full of wonderful

performances from a hugely talented cast.

This is the kind of movie I want Jon Favreau to keep making, he may have brought the Marvel

cinematic universe to life, but this smaller stuff, a movie about people, relationships (and gorgeous

food you can almost taste) is his best work.

More of this please Jon!

9/10

Chef hits UK screens on 25th of June..