This week we review the recently released 2025 satirical black comedy film The Roses directed by Jay Roach.
It is loosely based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, and a re-imagining of the 1989 film.
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as a successful couple whose seemingly pitch-perfect marriage begins falling apart. Andy Samberg, Allison Janney and Kate McKinnon are in some notable supporting roles.
This is a bittersweet week - while this movie just came out and we have uploaded it so you can decide if you want to go and watch it - it is also the same week that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a TPUSA public debate event on the campus of Utah Valley University.
While we are not a political podcast, we pay our respects and discuss freedom of speech for a few minutes at the start of the podcast.
The movie itself we had mixed opinions on.  The Scotsman loves the interplay between the British sense of humour and the American - which is probably why he enjoyed it more.
We discuss relationships and the changing power dynamics in a marriage.
And we finish with a song.
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