Mickey 17, Black Bag, Grand Theft Hamlet and Jessica Palud Interview (Movie Squad Podcast #478)

The Blockbuster Babes reunite with Breakfast host Pam Boland for the latest edition of Movie Squad, discussing a couple of films about… couples!

First up, Tristan Fidler leads a review of Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson as a regularly-reprinted ‘expendable’ clone who survives his ’17th death’ on a remote ice planet and accidentally meets his successor, Mickey 18, also played by Pattinson. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette star alongside the double Roberts in the latest from the South Korean director of Parasite.

Then, Simon Miraudo reviews the second Steven Soderbergh film of 2025 (after last month’s Presence): the slinky espionage thriller Black Bag, in which Michael Fassbender’s married MI5 agent begins investigating his spy wife, played by Cate Blanchett, of a suspected betrayal. Black Bag also features Marisa Abela, Regé-Jean Page and Naomie Harris.

Both films are now in Australian cinemas.

Stay tuned for a pod-exclusive review of Grand Theft Hamlet, the hilarious new documentary about out-of-work actors attempting to stage a production by William Shakespeare entirely within the open world video game GTA.

Then, hear Simon’s chat with Jessica Palud, director of Being Maria, which stars Anamaria Vartolomei as actress Maria Schneider and follows Maria as a 19-year-old on the set of Last Tango in Paris, and how her life was altered by a shocking and unprompted on-camera violation by her co-star Marlon Brando and director Bernardo Bertolucci. Being Maria makes its Australian Premiere at the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival. Check out its showtimes here.

Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam! And find out more about Movie Squad’s curation of Throwback Thursdays at Joondalup Festival in March!