Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend. 
Fighting with my family 
Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.
Daffodils
Daffodils is a New Zealand biographical musical drama film directed by David Stubbs. It stars Rose McIver and George Mason. Based on the award-winning New Zealand stage play inspired by a true story, the film follows an indie musician who, after being told by her father on his death bed, recounts her parents’ bittersweet romance.
Destroyer 
As a young cop, Erin Bell went under cover to infiltrate a gang in the California desert -- with tragic results. Bell continues to work as a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, but feelings of anger and remorse leave her worn-down and consumed by guilt. When the leader of that gang suddenly re-emerges, Erin embarks on an obsessive quest to find his former associates, bring him to justice and make peace with her tortured past.

This dish is wonderful for the week we’ve had – it’s pure comfort food and the process of making it is meditative and calming. Enjoy!
Serves 4
For Pasta:
500g durum wheat flour (semolina flour)
1 cup water (you may not need it all)
1 tsp salt
For the Sauce:
2-3 good quality sausages
400g store-bought tomato passata or crushed tomatoes
1 tsp cinnamon
½ glass full-bodied red wine
Extra virgin olive oil
Grated parmesan or pecorino to serve
1. Pour flour into large wide bowl. Use a fork to drizzle and mix in enough salted water until it resembles rough breadcrumbs. Knead pasta dough in the bowl until it comes together then turn out on a board and knead for 3-4 more minutes more, until it is a silky and smooth ball.
2. Pinch off marble-sized pieces and roll on a board or bench under palm of hand until it is tube-shaped, slightly tapered at each end. Using 3 fingers, press into the dough and drag back towards you so that the pasta rolls over and off the fingers, nail side. It should resemble a pea-pod. Rest assured, you will get better at it! Leave them in the air to dry while you make the sauce.
3. Sauce: Remove the sausage from its casing, break into small chunks, then sauté in extra virgin olive oil on a medium-high heat. Pour in wine and simmer for 30 seconds-1 minute, then add the cinnamon and tomato sauce. Lower the heat cook for a further 15 minutes.
4. Cook the pasta in boiling salted water for 3-4 minutes. It will float to the surface as it’s ready. Drain and pour into a serving bowl with the sauce, mix well and sprinkle with grated cheese.

The Human Rights Commission is closely watching developments in Christchurch.
Chief HRC Commissioner Paul Hunt told Jack Tame that the HRC is horrified by the events yesterday.
He says New Zealand welcomes all backgrounds and all ethnicities. 
"Diversity enriches us all, and Islamophobia, antisemitism, xenophobia, racism, intolerance in all its terrible forms do not belong in modern Aotearoa New Zealand." 
Hunt says how we respond to yesterday's events will define us.
"Human rights have to guide our response," which he says ultimately make up the values to "live a safe, peaceful, dignified life".
He says that we have to show solidarity with the Muslim community. 
However, as we move on, Hunt says we have to reflect on the dark underbelly in New Zealand. 
"We need to underscore our values. We need to fight intolerance in all its forms. We need to think about how better to educate communities and in schools of our multicultural beliefs." 
Hunt wants us to affirm them throughout our society. 
Hunt says that this incident is akin to the July 22 2011 massacre in Norway in terms of scale and how it affected a small country, and we can follow their example to come back. 
"I am sure New Zealand will bounce back."

People shaken by the Christchurch earthquake have a number of methods to choose between in order to cope.
Psychologist and crisis counsellor Steven Dromgool joined Jack Tame to talk about the three main reactions people are likely feeling at the moment, and the best way that people can be consoled and cope with the tragic events.

Technology expert Paul Stenhouse says that it is "sick" that the Christchurch terror attack was live-streamed. 
49 people are confirmed to have been killed in two separate shootings at mosques in Christchurch.
One of these attacks was live-streamed on social media.
While it has been taken down, Stenhouse told Jack Tame it is impossible to remove every file. 
"The trouble is people download this stuff and then re-upload. It's like playing a game of whack-a-mole." 
Currently, sites like Facebook and YouTube monitor their own video channels. 
Stenhouse says that self-regulation has not worked, but it may not be possible for these sites to be fully monitored. 
"These platforms are so big that I don't even know if regulation would work."
He says that there is so much content on these sites that he struggles to see how they can be controlled. 
Stenhouse says Facebook only has 7,500 moderators, and many of them are contractors who have to deal with some of the most vile content on the internet. 
"They aren't getting benefits, they aren't getting support. A friend of mine used to work as a comment moderator on YouTube, and he saw horrible things." 
He thinks that some of these media companies made need to be seen more as content providers and be held to stricter standards.

Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that there will be additional support and funding for mental health services in Christchurch. 
The Prime Minister has told Chris Lynch that they are making extra staff available to deal with mental health concerns. 
"Anyone who just needs to talk, you don't have to be connected this incident, just anyone who needs any support, 1737 you can text or you can call." 
She says other DHBs have offered their support and resources. 
Ardern says that Christchurch has gone through such huge trauma, and this has added another layer. She wants Christchurch to know that the accused was a resident of Dunedin and was not one of theirs. 
"He's travelled widely internationally. He spent sporadic periods of time in New Zealand. At the time of this attack, he was not a resident in Christchurch. He is not based there, he is not from there."
She says that this was someone who did not call New Zealand home, and nor would they be welcomed here. 
Ardern will arrive in Christchurch today with other party leaders as a show of unity. 
The accused was not on a watchlist. Ardern says there are questions to have been answered about whether there is anything that authorities missed about the attacker. 
"Those are questions I have asked of agencies." 
He did acquire a gun license in late 2017. The Prime Minister says the Government will be looking into how he was able to obtain the weapons he used. 
"The weapons in his possession for the including two semi-automatic weapons, two rifles and one other. I think people will question why an individual would have need or access to a semi-automatic weapon." 
Ardern describes his manifesto as something New Zealanders from all walks of life would reject. 
A number of world leaders have called her to offer their support, including US President Donald Trump. 
"He offered the assistance of the [US] Government and asked if there was anything we may require, and my message was love and support for the Muslim community."

COMMENT
Numbers. They're such a blunt way to measure tragedy, don't you think?
A number doesn't tell you anything about a person. A number doesn't have a cheeky smile. It's not a mum or a dad. A number is not a kid, who loves playing football on the weekend with her big brother. A number doesn't like being read stories before bed.
Last night, I lay wide awake just imagining all the people in my home city doing exactly the same thing, people who wouldn't be sleeping a wink.
All of those families, overcome with shock and grief...49 people, in my city, my home.
I've lived two-thirds of my life in Christchurch, born and bred.
When I was in my last year of high school, I remember I made this short and very amateur documentary about racism in Christchurch.
This was 2004. There had recently been a few racially motivated attacks in the city.
Me and my buddies went to a park in Linwood, it was actually very close to one of the mosques where people were murdered yesterday, and we interviewed the former leader of the National Front in Christchurch.
H told us quite plainly that he didn't like other races and religions in the city. I remember, as a 17-year-old, just a kid, being shocked. Honestly just shocked that someone from my home, someone in my home, could have such a different take on the world.
He was a big man, why is he so scared?
As I lay in bed last night, I thought of a man, a man I never knew but who I have never forgotten.
He was 39 years old and a refugee from Afghanistan. He fled the Taliban and clung to his family in the wild Indian Ocean before his family were rescued.
After defying the odds in the pursuit of a better life, he brought his family and his five kids to a beacon of peace on the South Pacific.
He studied English, he drove a taxi at night to support his family, I don't know when he actually slept. It was the relentless pursuit of a better life.
Then two young men climbed in his cab and stabbed him in the heart.
I watched as Muslim men turned to Mecca to pray and then bury him in the Canterbury earth.
I know the mosques, I know both of them. As a kid dad would park near the Deans ave mosque on Saturday mornings when I had cricket or rugby or when we would walk across Hagley park to watch my sisters play netball.
As an adult, I used to run around Hagley park all the time. In fact, every day for weeks, covering the Christchurch earthquake, I would run around the park with my cameraman colleague, kind of as a way to clear our heads.
We would go and film our earthquake stories then we would run around Hagley Park. I was sure, at the time, that this was the worst thing that would ever happen to Christchurch.
Can you compare a massive natural disaster with human evil? No, of course not, but why, of all cities, why Christchurch?
There were two other little moments I was reminded of last night, the first was of the agonised faces outside Sandy Hook, the elementary school.
I remember looking away from peoples' faces. It was only a week or two before Christmas and I was threr on the other side of the world. I remember looking away and thinking at least I get to go home, at least I get to go to Christchurch next week.
The other was police cordons, sobbing people, three years ago, Orlando Florida, the Pulse nightclub that had been shot up in a heinous massacre, an act of terrorism.
Most of the victims were from the rainbow community, the shooter apparently didn't like people that were different to him. He was scared.
The death toll came through, 49 people killed in a terror attack. 49 people, I remember the gravity of that number. The same number of Kiwis who died yesterday.
I remember in Florida standing there, kind of dumbfounded, awash with this feeling. I felt very lonely, half a world away.
This is madness, I thought, 49 people...It's time to move home, it's time to go home.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark backs Jacinda Ardern's assertion our gun laws will change.
She told Jack Tame our Parliament has to act and support the Prime Minister in this.
"How can people like these killers be able to have five guns, to legally have five guns? Why do we allow semi automatics? What is sporting, hunting or recreational about semi automatics?"
Clark says that when John Howard was Australian Prime Minister and faced a mass shooting, he took legislation to Parliament and tightened their laws.
"We need gun laws at least as tough as Australia." 
She is also asking social media platforms how they allowed the suspect to post publicly as much as he did- including hate speech and a live-stream of his heinous act.
"Facebook claimed they'd taken down the video hours ago. I've been contacted in just the last hour by people who say they found it just now on Facebook, so what is going on."
Clark says these people have algorithms to chase us whenever we express an preference, so why don't they have algorithms to get hate speech and violence off their platforms.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure!
MotherFatherSon: Richard Gere and Helen McCrory star in this new British psycho-thriller series, set within systems of power in politics, media, and the police (TVNZ On Demand).
The Enemy Within: an American drama about a CIA operative who turns traitor against her own country (Lightbox)
Isn’t it Romantic: Rebel Wilson stars in this Netflix movie as young woman disenchanted with love, who mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy (Netflix).
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Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend. 
CAPTAIN MARVEL
The Guardian Rotten Tomatoes is fighting back against online trolls. The reviews aggregator site announced that it will prevent users from commenting on a film before its release date, after a recent barrage of negative online comments targeting the forthcoming Captain Marvel film. Rotten Tomatoes’ move came as it cited an “uptick in non-constructive input, sometimes bordering on trolling”. Captain Marvel, the widely anticipated 21st instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which stars Brie Larson in the title role, is released in US and UK cinemas on 8 March, but has nonetheless been subject to a flurry of negative reviews posted to the film’s Rotten Tomatoes page over the last few weeks, resulting in its “audience score” plummeting from 96% to 54%. It appears the backlash has been fuelled by Larson’s recent comments about the movie’s press tour, in which she expressed growing concerns about the “overwhelmingly white male” proportion of film journalists she has spoken to over the last few years. In an interview with Marie Claire earlier this year, the actor, who won an Oscar in 2016 for her performance in Room, spoke about utilising her role as the eponymous superhero to campaign for increased diversity in the movie industry
THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING 
How did the contemporary art market become so lucrative? In this hilarious and unnerving documentary filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) elicits revealing answers from buyers, sellers, critics and the artists themselves.
An eye-opening and highly entertaining ride through the excesses of the contemporary art market, The Price of Everything loosely tracks the lead-up to a major Sotheby's auction in New York City. This is a world in which visual art “has become a luxury brand,” an acceptable, if not essential part of any self-respecting super-wealthy investor’s portfolio. Works are traded like stocks. There is even a futures market.