The Woman King

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

It certainly feels great to cover a good movie again! Our mini-run of new releases ends with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s crowd-pleaser - the African female warrior epic “The Woman King”. We’ve got David’s exclusive report on the film’s world premiere at TIFF (humblebrag), a deep dive on the career of Viola Davis (did you know her early industry champions were Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney?), and some thoughts on how this film taps into Prince-Bythewood’s ongoing exploration of chosen families and personal identity.

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0:00.0	And evil is coming that threatens our kingdom, our freedom.
0:26.7	And we have a podcast they are not prepared for.
0:31.7	I don't know.
0:33.7	Look, sometimes we cover a movie that does not have an IMDB quotes page.
0:38.7	Is that this one?
0:39.7	This has got a few.
0:40.7	This has got some trailer.
0:41.7	Look, it's certainly not a thing we're going to harp on to any degree in this episode, but this movie's already been the victim of bad faith online trolls.
0:48.7	And this one has enough quotable cool badass lines in the trailer.
0:55.7	And the movie's already a hit.
0:56.7	It is the type of film that usually gets a fully submitted filled out quote page pretty quickly and I'm to be what is usually a largely a user generated site.
1:04.7	Yeah.
1:05.7	I have to feel like this is some kind of troll.
1:08.7	The one quote on the woman king.
1:11.7	I need to be quote page is.
1:16.7	Naska.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.7	It says brackets as a company of warriors break out into a song and dance.
1:22.7	And then the quote is if you like Pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, if you're not into yoga.
1:28.7	That's not that bad.
1:29.7	Right.
1:30.7	Unless I mean, is that like, you know, post credits scene, I didn't catch maybe.
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