Weekend Watch: The 3D Concert Experience Fans Are Moshing To & Em's Favourite Movie Of 2026
If your idea of a perfect weekend involves a high-energy 3D concert experience where the audience is literally moshing in the cinema aisles, we have the ultimate recco from a global pop icon.
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Finally, we unpack a quirky new film about a flock of woolly detectives that features one of our favourite leading men, and has been crowned Em's favourite movie of the year (so far).
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Executive Producer: Monisha Iswaran
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00:11Speaker 2
From Mom and May. I welcome to this bill, your daily pop culture fixed. I'm em Vernon and I'm Anihaiswarren, and we are doing we can Everything with my voice gone as well. It does not sound as nice as my previous weeks, because previous weeks does sound quite nice.
00:29Speaker 1
You've got a nice little husk going though. I feel like it's quite sexy.
00:32Speaker 2
I kind of hope it stays like this.
00:35Speaker 3
You're doing a bit of scar jokes and make my throat very dry though, so not good for you, but good for the people.
00:43Speaker 2
Yeah, good for everyone else. Anyway. It's our weekend Watch episode where we give you our favorite movies and TV shows to watch this weekend. On the show today, we have a movie that you can dance to in your living room or on the cinema stage. And we also have a movie that you can vibe with, laugh with, investigate.
01:05Speaker 1
With, talk with. You went on a real journey with that movie.
01:08Speaker 2
Oh my god, I have so much to say, spillers, But first, mon, you have a movie that's been on your radar recently.
01:14Speaker 3
Yes, so there's a movie that's coming out today and I haven't seen it yet because it only drops later tonight.
01:20Speaker 1
But I'm really excited about it because I've read the book.
01:22Speaker 3
Oh so I think a lot of people would have heard of this, because I think a lot of people are reading it right now. Literally went to the park the other day and I saw a woman get out of a book and it was this book. It's everywhere. You might recognize it as the bright yellow book with the octopus on it, yes, but it's called Remarkably Bright Creatures.
01:38Speaker 2
I've heard very, very good things about this book.
01:40Speaker 3
Yeah, it's spent more than sixty four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It's written by this lady called Shelby van Pelt.
01:48Speaker 1
I don't know any of her other work, but she wrote this book.
01:51Speaker 3
And I actually read it from my book club and I aced the quiz, so it did really well, And I want to free your.
01:56Speaker 2
Book club has quizzes?
01:58Speaker 1
Shall we do a quiz? We take it very serious, not one of.
02:00Speaker 2
Those meant to be fun and enjoyed.
02:03Speaker 1
It's fun and you learn things. Emily.
02:06Speaker 3
So the plot is basically the main character is called Tova Sullivan. She's this woman in her seventies she's retired, but she doesn't fully want to retire, so she still has this part time job cleaning the aquarium and the aquarium the town aquarium. Yeah, it's the aquarium of the town. And she forms a bond. Nothing weird, but she forms a bond with this octopus called Marcellus.
02:29Speaker 2
Is it like a sexual book.
02:30Speaker 3
It's not a sexual pod. It's more of a deeper emotional connection.
02:34Speaker 1
He just gets her.
02:35Speaker 2
Octopuses are meant to be very smart creatures. Isn't it octopi not octopuses.
02:39Speaker 1
I don't think it's octopi. Well, there's no plural in this because it's only one o.
02:43Speaker 2
Well, this octopus seems like he is he or she he muscles, is very smart. So this we have an octopus that would guess who would win the fief for World Cup.
02:52Speaker 3
Yes, so there's all these videos of octopus octopi that.
02:56Speaker 2
Go viral and she doesn't take it seriously.
02:59Speaker 1
But okay, well I'm pretty sure that's what it is. But the woman who wrote.
03:03Speaker 3
This book got inspired by one of those viral videos of the octopus doing something smart. She was like, oh, they're so smart, and then she like wrote this book and there's.
03:10Speaker 1
Parts that are from the octopus perspective.
03:12Speaker 2
They love crazy imaginations. I know, I watched that video and I was like, cool, that made like a massive career out of writing this, Like she's a.
03:21Speaker 3
Seller book, actually great character inspoke, So there's little parts of book that are from the octopus perspective. And he's quite like, I'm sure it's a good book. He said that he's quite disdainful of humans. He's always like, I don't know, he's always kind of like looking down on them.
03:36Speaker 1
It's kind of comic relief in the book club.
03:38Speaker 3
People were divided over whether he's very annoying or very lovable.
03:42Speaker 1
Ah, but anyway.
03:44Speaker 3
It premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was very well received, very warm reception, so I'm very excited to see it. Sally's Field is playing Toba, and Lewis Pullman is in it. He's playing Cameron, who's this other character, Who's this.
03:56Speaker 1
Guy who's like thirty. Honestly, he really annoyed me in it.
03:58Speaker 2
He's just kind of like thirty.
04:00Speaker 1
He's just trying to like, he just has nothing figured out. He just has he's always like.
04:05Speaker 2
Him a break, he's down thirty everything's always breaking.
04:08Speaker 1
His camper van's always breaking. I think it's it is.
04:12Speaker 3
If you read it, you do mean everything goes wrong and it's sort of his fault and you just get it together cameraon.
04:18Speaker 1
But anyway, he's also a lead character. So very excited to see it. I think it'll be quite a heartwarming watch. It's quite emotion I.
04:24Speaker 2
Think, do you think I should read the book before I watch it?
04:27Speaker 3
Yeah? Maybe if you can be bothered. But it's going to come out tonight, so I don't know if you want to be part of the cultural movement, and yeah, maybe I'll just watch the movie.
04:34Speaker 1
Maybe just watch it.
04:35Speaker 3
So it's out on Netflix, I believe around five pm tonight, remarkably Brian creatures.
04:40Speaker 2
I'm excited.
04:42Speaker 3
Okay, So I went to see a movie this week where I have to say, I haven't been to a movie where the atmosphere in the audience was like this crazy for a while. It was the Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, like the live concert experience in three D.
04:58Speaker 1
The day of a show, it just feels like any day at all.
05:02Speaker 4
I just feel like I'm like going to hang out with my friends.
05:05Speaker 2
Here I go.
05:08Speaker 4
To see the scrapes on my hands that is from the fans. I want to feel like it's me and them. You love that.
05:20Speaker 1
I love that. It was really good.
05:24Speaker 3
And I've never gone to a stadium tour of hers, like I didn't go to this tour. I've seen her at festivals when she was on the way up, like it grew in the moon and stuff, but.
05:31Speaker 1
I have never cared.
05:32Speaker 3
I've never seen her well after this, I really want to because she's amazing. I feel like I went to the concert because the crowd were like super fans, so everyone was there dressed in their like caps and kind of like dressed like her and were full like singing along. It was kind of like with the Ears tour with Taylor Swift, how people would go down to the front and like marsh in.
05:51Speaker 2
The like was there a marsh in your cinema?
05:53Speaker 1
There was a mosh in my cinema.
05:55Speaker 3
And the guy next to me was honestly, he brought a lot of the vibes like I wish I could recommend this movie. Sitting next to this particular man, he was like every time she did like a vocal run, he'd be like, yeah, he's kind of like do it along, and then he'd follow along every now and then be like, WHOA, I killed that anyway, So he was very invested. Would you consider yourself a Billie Eilish fan?
06:16Speaker 2
I would consider myself like, yeah, I would say I'm a fan of her music, but I don't know much about her as a person, and I don't think I would like when she came to Sydney. I think it was like a year ago she came to Sydney. I wasn't a big fan enough then to be like, Okay, I'm going to fork out for a concert ticket because concert tickets are expensive.
06:36Speaker 1
They are really expensive.
06:37Speaker 2
As you guys mentioned on the spill, this is.
06:40Speaker 1
A prime example of it. So I would say the same.
06:43Speaker 3
I really like a music, definitely not like a hardcore fan. So I went into it being like, oh am I going to be like a big enough fan to really enjoy this movie. But I really did. And I will say there were probably only like two songs I didn't recognize, like she has so many bangers.
06:56Speaker 2
Yeah, just keep going, and she's an excellent performer and live singer.
07:00Speaker 3
Because she obviously has so many deep emotional, moody songs. Me and my friend who went, We were like, whoa kind of like, you know, feels right now, but then it will suddenly be like bad guy and the whole cinema goes crazy. And it's obviously such a good way to get to experience that if you didn't go to the concert as well. I was thinking before the only concert films I can remember seeing other than this are the Eras Tour and then like never say never, the justin Peoble.
07:21Speaker 2
One, Oh yeah, oh did you ever you know which one I went to which when I was like quite young, like I was in primary school. The Hannah Montana concert me Miley Cyrus.
07:33Speaker 1
I did actually watch that too, and that was crazy.
07:36Speaker 2
Every time one of the Jonas brothers came on screen, every young girl in the cinema would just scream ahead off And I was like, because I was quite a mature young person, so I was like, they're not really there, They're not there.
07:48Speaker 3
I'm so glad you were there to clarify that I was such a looser.
07:51Speaker 2
I was like scolding these kids my age.
07:53Speaker 1
Yeah, like, thank thanks everyone.
07:56Speaker 3
So I feel like this one was different to sort of like the Ears to where it's just the concert films because they had these little behind the scenes interview bits with her as well on the day of the concert, and she it was done in collaboration with James Cameron, like he was one of the directors.
08:10Speaker 2
Oh wow, kind of friend.
08:11Speaker 1
I'm like in between avatars.
08:12Speaker 2
Yes, he's I need to show people the length of my work, not like blue people.
08:17Speaker 1
I'm more than that.
08:18Speaker 2
I'm more than avatar.
08:19Speaker 3
And the way it's shot is great, like the way she has such hypnotic eyes and the way she sort of stares down the camera.
08:25Speaker 2
And the way she does her makeup. I remember one of her I think it was Vogue where they do like the celebrities and how they do their makeup, and like her video went completely viral because of the way she does the eyeliner is so intense.
08:36Speaker 3
They show that in this too, where she sort of tweaks it on the end. She does all her hair and makeup for the tour herself.
08:42Speaker 2
That's crazy. And she's so good at makeup because her face always looks beat.
08:47Speaker 3
Yeah, she looked really great, and she talked about some really interesting things in the interview bits that he did with her, so she sort of explained her reasoning for why she dresses in the kind of basketball jersey and like baggy shorts for the concert, and she sort of spoke about how there's not that many female pop stars who don't do the whole like dress up and look really sexy kind of thing. Obviously we see that more with like Taylor Swift, Sabrina carp and to take and prey all those people, and she was like, I just didn't really want to have to do that because when I was growing up watching rap artists and they would just run around the stage being so comfortable and free, I just wanted to be like that, and she didn't see other women doing that, so she really wanted to be that for like the next generation of girls.
09:24Speaker 2
That's so cute.
09:25Speaker 1
Yeah, So I thought.
09:26Speaker 3
They showed really interesting things like that, a lot of interviews with the fans, and then also sort of showed how she is as a creative, like she's really involved in the lighting, she's really involved in everything to do with the stadium more than just like getting up there and singing. And then one thing I thought was really cute is that every town that they go to, they kind of connect with a rescue dog center and they bring in dogs for the crew and the other band members to like.
09:49Speaker 1
Have us like little therapy dogs and they play with them.
09:51Speaker 2
Shut up, why do we do that here?
09:53Speaker 1
And we should bring that.
09:55Speaker 2
We just had a dog in our studio just sleeping over there.
09:57Speaker 1
I think the podcast would be better.
09:58Speaker 2
Yeah, let's put that in our next like quarterly review. I want to do this, improvements to me for yourself, And I was like, improvements for everyone else bringing dogs.
10:10Speaker 3
So yeah, Billy Eilish hit me hard and soft. The tour live, it's out in cinema's now. Probably a good one if you have kids as well. I feel like all the like there were a lot of children there and they were really getting into it too, so.
10:20Speaker 2
Yeah, good family experience. Okay, I need to talk about a movie that I saw over the weekend. I was very lucky. I got to go to the Sydney screening of this movie. And when you know it's a weekend screening, it means there's going to be a lot of kids there. Because kids can come out in the weekend.
10:39Speaker 1
They're like vampires at night on the weekend.
10:41Speaker 2
We never see them throughout the week. We only see them on the weekend. So I went to the screening much similar to you, chaotic crowd, vibe vibes, a lot of children. And I was sitting next to Tina Burke and a few of us, and someone was like, Oh my god, look at all those kids over there. Look how many there are. And I was like, Oh my god, that's crazy. And then I realized those kids, all of them belonged to exact producer Georgie Page, all eight all millions of kids. There's like a million kids in that theater. Whoever went to Sheep Detectives in the weekend? All those kids you saw, all Georgie Pages kids, every single one of them. It was such a fun movie. Oh sorry, it's called Sheep Detectives. I should have lived with that.
11:22Speaker 1
The movie you've been talking about, a wee movie.
11:25Speaker 3
Of the year.
11:26Speaker 2
I reckon. I think Tina Burke agrees with me. Georgie, do you agree with me? She says, best movie ever.
11:33Speaker 5
If there's one secret to happiness in.
11:35Speaker 3
My life, it's taking care of the kindest creatures on earth, sheep.
11:42Speaker 4
I'm keeping them well fed, well groomed, and.
11:45Speaker 2
Each day read out loud to them mysteries who've done it? I know who the killer was.
11:51Speaker 1
Our shepherd was murdered and we shall solve the crime. I am George Hardy's lawyer.
11:57Speaker 5
He wrote and will in the night Time stories that people and the will are always the suspects.
12:01Speaker 2
That man had nothing.
12:03Speaker 1
Well, actually there is thirty million dollars and we have our motive.
12:09Speaker 2
It is so good. I regret not bringing more people because I want everyone to watch this.
12:15Speaker 3
You're like, why didn't they shut down the street at the State Theater like for dettlewors Prada.
12:19Speaker 2
I actually reckon, Hugh Jackman should have done like a big premiere here, Like, the reception for this movie is huge?
12:25Speaker 1
So is he in it quite a lot?
12:27Speaker 2
He's yes, he's in trailer.
12:29Speaker 1
Didn't make it seem that way.
12:30Speaker 2
Because his character dies very early on in the movie, which is also shown in the trailer, but he comes back during like flashbacks and stuff like that. So he's in like the whole length of the movie as an actor. Okay, but it's the highest rated movie he's ever done.
12:43Speaker 1
That's so unfortunate for him. What about the Greatest Showman? I thought that the guy's literally Wolverine.
12:52Speaker 2
Sorry, Hugh, but it is what it is anyway, sheep detective what it's about? So yes, Hugh Jackman is I would say the main character. He plays a shepherd who owns like this flock of sheep, and they're not like you know how when you see a flock of sheep, how they all look the same.
13:08Speaker 4
Not.
13:10Speaker 2
I think he like collects him throughout his life, so they're all like kind of like sheep who have just all come together. Anyways, he loves his sheep so much. She lives in just like a little caravan on his like field. And every night he reads detective stories to his sheep, and they say and he thinks he's just having a good time reading stories to his sheep, and then when he goes inside, it's shown to the audience that the sheep actually understand everything he's been saying, and they get really into the detective stories. His I was gonna say, the main sheep, his main sheep, the top sheep. His name is Lily.
13:46Speaker 1
Oh, it's a woman. It's a woman.
13:48Speaker 2
And she is played by Julia Louis Dreyfuss. Oh, very very good. She is like so well done. The other main character sheep is Sebastian and he's played by Brian Cranson, also really well done.
14:00Speaker 3
They played by just the voice, the voice voice. They're not there the voice. The sheep are very much Cgi sheep, and they're very very cute anyway, So what happens. Hugh Jackman murdered. I forgot his real name in the movie. We're calling him Hugh Jackman.
14:17Speaker 2
But you're not spoiling because he's in the trailer. It's in the trailer. He gets murdered, and then the sheep decide to investigate his murder because they know so much about murder because he's been reading them all these detective stories.
14:28Speaker 1
It's almost like he knew it was gonna happen.
14:30Speaker 2
Ah nice, And it's really hard for the sheep because they've never left their flock and they've never left the field, so even just crossing a road, they've never seen a road before. The Steaks couldn't be high of the sheep leaving their field to get into the town because the stupid humans don't know what they're doing. Nicholas Braun is the main police guy and the only police guy of the town. He has no idea what he's doing. He's busy taking orders from Emma Thompson and she's just the lawyer. She has no idea what she's doing, so the have to keep giving the humans clues so they can help investigate Hugh Jackman's death.
15:05Speaker 3
Do you know there's actually a lot of parallels to this in the Octopus book, because the octopus.
15:08Speaker 1
Helped solve a mystery. I forgot to say that.
15:10Speaker 3
So there's a running commentary that humans need to listen to animals more.
15:14Speaker 2
Okay, whatever, No, it's true. I think humans need to listen to animals more. And in the end, they do listen to them. I mean not physically. They still can't understand what they're saying, but they do listen to them. But there was a lot of good analogies in this, So, like the sheep do this thing where they all come down to three to forget what they just experience. So it's all about like kind of like living in your trauma, not always like pushing things aside and trying to forget it.
15:41Speaker 1
So what but count down to three to forget what they're just seeing because they were.
15:44Speaker 2
Like, Hugh Jackman just died. Everyone, let's forget this. This was so terrible. One, two, three, And then they forget it. But then they were like, no, we deserve to remember Hugh Jackman. He did so much for our life and for our flock. But then, but then I looked into this, this is not a thing that sheep do. Sheep have actually very good memories and remember everything.
16:02Speaker 3
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't expect so that was kind of a PLoP hole in the movie.
16:06Speaker 1
I thought this was steeped.
16:07Speaker 2
In real sheep yess. Yes, what is a real sheep? Fact though, is that there's a cute little lamb in the movie that's like really like muddy and dirty, and the other sheep want nothing to do with it because it's the winter lamb and usually when lambs are born in the winter gets rejected by.
16:24Speaker 1
The flock so they die.
16:26Speaker 2
Yeah, I mean, this one didn't die spoilers, but like Hugh Jackman's the only one that really loves it, and he died. He dies, And now who's gonna love the lamb?
16:36Speaker 1
I'm gonna want you to forget that?
16:38Speaker 4
What?
16:39Speaker 2
Two?
16:39Speaker 4
Three?
16:40Speaker 1
What lamb?
16:41Speaker 2
What is this place? Where am I? But anyway, okay, I do want to say that this movie, although it's like marketed towards kids and family, it is such a good movie and it's also has really deep themes that I didn't expect from a kid's movie, kind of like int like where like you know how adults like draw so many like parallels to it. It's one of those really good movies. It's also much sader than what I expected. And because the whole thing's in a mystery, it's kind of like a Sherlock's Home vibe where you're like trying to guess who the killer is A body kid next to me guessed it in two seconds.
17:19Speaker 1
We like, don't spoil it.
17:21Speaker 2
Well, the person came on screen and the kid next to me was like, that person did it, And I was like, kids are so stupid. And then as I was watching, I was like, oh, maybe they're just I think that might be And then yeah, that eight year old kid next to me just spoiled the whole movie. But you know what, kids are smart. I guess.
17:38Speaker 3
Well, it's really good though, when they do those movies that parents can also genuinely enjoy, not just like you know some like Duck.
17:44Speaker 4
Well.
17:45Speaker 2
Everyone from our team were just like full adults. We didn't besides Georgie, we all bought other adult people.
17:50Speaker 3
You guys decided Saturday, this is what I'm doing and watching some sheeps of.
17:54Speaker 2
The Murder and I'm so glad I did. I really want to watch it again.
17:57Speaker 1
Now you have really sold it. I want to see it now.
17:59Speaker 2
Oh my god, it's so good. Anyway, that's sheep detectives in cinemas. Yes, you can take your family, but I promise you you will enjoy it more than your kids.
18:07Speaker 1
Thank you so much for listening to this spill.
18:09Speaker 3
We have another super exciting episode dropping this afternoon, a brutally honest review of a film that you absolutely don't.
18:16Speaker 1
Want to miss. Emma and Laura are unpacking all of it.
18:19Speaker 3
This fill is produced by me Minishiuslawn with a video production by Michael Keene and we'll see you this afternoon.
18:25Speaker 5
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18:42Speaker 1
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