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Episode 023 - Mixed Popcorn
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In this episode we catch up on the movie news and recent viewing
CREDITS:
Intro clip from Chad Stahelski's "John Wick" (2014) from Thunder Road Pictures, 87Eleven Productions, MJW Films, DefyNite Films, distributed by Summit Entertainment
Opening music: https://pixabay.com/music/id-116199/
Closing music: https://pixabay.com/music/id-11176/
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Introduction to Two Oceans Podcast
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Two oceans. Two oceans will begin. Wait, what did you say? What did you say to me? We own you. You don't own me, punk. I work with your father, right?
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You're the owner of the car. Did you kill him or what? No. You sure as hell fucked up his dog. You fucked up his dog. That's what you did. You fucked up his dog. That's crazy shit, man. Oh, look at you. It's great. You're gonna come into my shop and you're gonna pull a gun on me. That's great, man. Come on. Now, you kill me right now, but you get the fuck out of my shop.
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I'm gonna like this. But you know what a beagle likes or doesn't like? Tell you, somebody's gonna understand.
Episode 23: Movie and TV News Updates
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Welcome to the Two Oceans Podcast, where myself, Sue Fire, along with my friend and witty colleague, Scrumpy, discuss film and other media through a decades-long lens of mass media consumption. In this episode, we catch up on movie news and recent viewing. This is the Two Oceans Podcast, so dig into your stash of gold and weapons, check into the Continental, as we begin Episode 23.
00:01:46
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Right. Episode 23. All right. So let's, uh, I guess we're going to kick off with the movie news.
Revival of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead
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We got more than movie news. We got some television news. That's pretty interesting. So it looks like we're going to get a new series of King of the Hill. Yeah. Yeah. A new series. I tell you what. Yeah. Still just as valid.
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And apparently it's going to be set, uh, set now. So Bobby's going to be bigger. Um, yes. Yeah. I don't know much beyond that, but yeah, I don't know much beyond that. I, I, I trust the people behind it to, uh, to keep it, keep it going. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they had a good thing. They just, you know, decided to stop and it's better to stop before it burns out. Right. Right. Speaking of same.
00:02:42
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Basic group though, shortly here, what next week I think? New season of Beavis and Butthead premieres as well. Oh, really? Oh. So it's all Mike Judge time now, apparently. It's Mike Judge time, yeah. It would be a good time for an Idiocracy sequel. I think we're living that here in the States. Well, I think we're living it, yeah. It's hard to tell. Yeah, it's now would be a documentary.
Star Wars Visions and Ahsoka Trailers Discussion
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and just kind of sneaking into the Star Wars stuff. And we've both seen the trailer for the new Visions, which I think is one of the more exciting things that Disney are doing, the more experimental side, I should say. Actually, yeah. Creative, doesn't have to adhere to pretty much any story. Yeah, set it in any time, any style. Any time, any characters, any style, anything's up for grabs. Yeah, yeah, it's good. What was your favorite out of the first series, by the way?
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There was the very traditional, the black and whitish one with the Ronin-like Jedi collecting the Sith crystals, saber crystals from that. That was really good. And the
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Gosh, it's been a bit, been a minute since I've seen them, but I, well, I, the one that I really enjoyed was the one with the master and the apprentice and when they thought the fifth were extinct and they stumble across one. Yeah. Yeah. That was really good. That, and I think it was the last one where they brought them all together. Yeah. You thought all these people that were the good guys are actually the bad guys. And, uh, yeah, that was really well done.
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But I enjoyed most of them even, you know, even if they, even if they failed, I appreciated them for what they tried to achieve. Oh, totally. Yeah. No, I had the same thing. And watching the trailer, it seems like if anything, there's even more variety in the different styles that they're going for. Oh yeah. Yeah. They're able to branch out to get, yeah. I mean, including, you know, somebody like Aardman. Yeah. In the mix. So, you know, it'll be hilarious.
00:04:48
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Big teeth. Yeah, exactly. Big teeth. But, you know, it's something that Star Wars has gotten better at, but, you know, still needing to include a good sense of humor. It's been kind of hit and miss, you know, outside of Han Solo, you know, a lot of it was, he was the comic.
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Yeah, the original story. Well, I mean, there's a series that I wish they would continue probably in a TV series format would work better for the solo stories, I think. Agreed. Yeah. You just untold things to mind there, like, right? Yeah.
00:05:24
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There's a lot to mind between what happened in that last movie and, you know, the beginning of New Hope. And when we meet them, exactly. Yep. Yep. Yep. Agreed. And I know that, that is, you know, there's still talks with Donald Glover as an Orlando series.
00:05:44
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Yeah, no, at the same time, which would be great too. I mean, there was a lot I enjoyed about the Han Solo movie. There were a few bits that I thought were completely unnecessary, mostly really terrible dialogue that I felt, yeah, brought it down a notch that it's really easy. Yeah, yeah. Like how he got his name Solo. I know, that was really unnecessary. Painful, painful to watch. Yeah. Swing and a miss.
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Yeah. But Phoebe Waller bridges as the robot was like perfect. Oh, revolutionary robot. I didn't like the side characters I thought were all good.
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I thought the heist on the train was quite good as well. I thought that was really well done. And I think the finale of, I mean, Han Solo had a proper character arc as well over the course. And he became, you could see the Han Solo we know that we got introduced to being formed, right? That's what that whole, it's an origin story, but it's also a heist movie. You know, it suffers a little from that identity dysphoria.
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Uh, a bit, but overall I thought it worked. I enjoyed it. Well, and, uh, Woody Harrelson was great in it too. Oh yeah. That was a great piece
Woody Harrelson and Star Wars Fan Reactions
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of casting. And that's another bit that was in the news this week is that he might be Matthew McConaughey's half brother. Actually he'd be his half brother. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy times we're living in. Um,
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I always laugh, though, because, you know, growing up, the folks, you know, they're big fans of Cheers for some reason, you know, they didn't drink. They love the show for some reason. But they liked Woody Harrelson's character, but they couldn't like Woody Harrelson because his, you know, my Law and Order folks, because his dad apparently had killed a Texas Ranger or U.S. Marshal or something. Right, right. Texas. Yeah, there's some thing like that in the backlog.
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that prevented them from embracing him as a, I'm like, you know, he didn't do it. Right. But anyway. Yeah. I mean, it's a funny thing with Woody Harrelson because as, as the way he was in cheers, he is.
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Not just as his character, but physically, he's very different from the way he appears in the films, because I think the first big movie that he was in was Natural Born Killers. Right. It was such such a leap from, you know, the character. Quite a change. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, what else do we have in the news? Well, I mean, you'd want to talk TV news and trailer stuff. Yeah. Tip our hat to the Star Wars episode, which will be next for us as the Ahsoka trailer.
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Whoo, boy, I have nothing bad to say about that trailer. I just everything I wanted to see. I saw, you know, they're done. Well, like, you know, yeah, plus plus more, right?
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Oh, it was so good. It was the tone as well. And I think that scene that we saw with Ahsoka and Sabine, where Sabine's got the long hair, I think that is a different time frame to what we saw in Rebels, because in Rebels, she does have short hair. She had the super short hair right at the end of Rebels. Yeah, people were really kind of complaining about it, going, no, no, no, Ahsoka's supposed to have the white cloak and all that. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. I think that time has moved on. Yeah, yeah.
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What the god that's the thing, you know, and this is another thing that brings me up. It happens a lot, but a lot with Star Wars anymore is, you know, people just fishing for headlines, you know, Star Wars fans are outraged. Like, no, no, I'm outraged that you would lump everyone together. Those of us in with these like hyper reactionary idiots. Well, this is the thing. Not everything has to be for everyone. You know, I mean, exactly. Star Wars. Exactly.
00:09:48
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Like they released a trailer for a series. I can't even remember its name because I'm so disinterested in it because it's meant for kids. Right. And, and fine. Great. You know, okay. You know, I think the kids would probably want the proper stuff anyhow, because I remember being patronized that way when, when we were kids. Like, here you go. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. Because they used to be here have droids. Oh, here have Ewoks. This is for you kids. And they're terrible. And it was like, and they were awful. Yeah, they were awful. It wasn't just bad selection of, you know, some some characters. These were just terribly done shows like Ewok adventures, droids, they're awful shows. Yeah, absolutely. Regardless of Star Wars. They are bad shows.
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badly crafted, bad stories, everything. And they thought that's that's what you know, because as executives in that time, quite, they're a bit better now.
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We're quite patronizing toward kids, you know, Oh, we can do it for half the price because it's for kids. And that's not the way things are approached nowadays, you know? Um, yeah. And actually that's, that's another bit of movie news.
Ridley Scott and Indie Film Announcements
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Well, that's what the vaguely walks are anyway, but the Christmas special, um, which gave us Boba Fett. Well, there you go. It also gave us so many nightmares.
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Yeah. When you're eight years old, you're like, what is this crap at the TV? This is stupid. Why? Who did this? Like, I'm eight years old, and I know this is garbage. Who greenlit this, you know? Oh, totally, totally. Actually, another bit of movie news that's sort of tied to Star Wars is Giancarlo Esposito is confirmed to be in Maxine, a tie-wests conclusion to his bet.
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Of course, he's been in the Mandalorian this week as we went through the penultimate episode. Big reveal for him.
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Oh, yeah. In this week, they finally think, oh, that's what he's up to. I mean, the frustrating thing that I found about this week's episode was it felt like it finally started getting moving, which kind of annoyed me a little bit. I was like, you could do all this? I mean, right. This has all been there all along. Yeah.
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Yeah. Uh, uh, what else we got, uh, Ridley Scott's Napoleon has a release date for November. Um, not had a great track record over the recent releases, but we'll see. Cause I know it's a like long-term project for him. So hopefully long-term passion project. And, you know, back way back when the duelist was set during that time. And that was cool.
00:12:39
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Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, fingers crossed. Yeah, something decent comes out of that. And, oh, yeah, so we got Indiana Jones and the Dallas Destiny is going to be premiering at Cannes. And we also had news this week that its director is going to be making a Star Wars movie.
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Right. Yeah. The new Star Wars movies that will be coming out. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is the, I think his is going to be the one around the first Jedi and he wanted to do it in a period where he wasn't going to be beholden to anything in the Star Wars universe, you know, having to make a, you know, a line to everything else that was there. Until he makes this, then everybody will have to make a line to it. But, you know,
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Yeah. Good for him. Oh, and a Scott Pilgrim anime series is coming out soon with the entire original cast. A full original cast. Yes. Which is amazing. And I'm looking forward to that because I thought that I love that movie. I thought it was light years ahead of its time. I think it still is. It still holds up. And we got a Star Wars connection there too.
00:14:01
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We do now. That's true. Well, we do now. Yeah. As well as a Barbie movie connection.
00:14:09
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Oh, Michael Zina. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Wow. As Ken's friend, Larry, or something like that. I mean, again, I still look at that, you know, they released the newer trailer recently for that. And it just looks like a hoot. But I mean, it's, you know, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. I mean,
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So, you know, it's not idiots doing this. It's not, you know, Super Mario mothers or some crap like that. It's it's something a bit more that teaser they did. The 2001 teaser was fantastic. I thought that that brought me in and I was definitely not interested in that. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed.
00:14:58
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Uh, the other, uh, other one coming up with the, uh, the rush for, uh, more Dracula stories. I don't know why, but, you know, Renfield's hitting theaters now with Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Holt. Uh, but, uh, the, uh, Tale of the Demeter.
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Oh, for the voyage, Dracula's voyage from Romania to England. Right. And that that's part of the story that's just, you know, I was always loved that in the original Dracula story, right? Because it's like,
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It's like, oh, clearly everything went wrong in that trip. But they're like, but, you know, this is just to build the mystique of Dracula and the power and the horror and such, right? But it's like, wow, why didn't anybody do that before? Like, there's a whole thing to tell there. So the guy behind it did Autopsy of Jane Doe and Troll Hunter and we did both excellent, excellent horror films. Completely agree. So and the trailer looks good.
00:15:57
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Uh, also knowing that, you know, probably everybody's going to die. Maybe somebody gets away on a boat, you know, at some point, you know, there are kids involved, but Hey, like they're on the table. So, uh, did you ever see the, uh, David Fincher episode from love, death and robots that was set on the ship?
00:16:15
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I did not. Oh, man, that that that is a highlight that that that it's fantastic. I can't remember what season it is. You know, it's all animated, but the style that they did that particular episode and the the the ending and the morals that end up getting sort of tugged along in that episode are really good. I don't. Did you see the terror, the television series, the first series?
00:16:44
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No, I have not to watch that. That is worth checking out. That is worth checking out. That that was very, very good. The second series isn't too bad, but they just kind of made it completely different. You know, but the terror, you know, face season with was it Sharon Hines and right.
00:17:05
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And then the Terror was, the first series was based on the story of the British exploration ship, The Terror. And the way that it lines up with real historical facts works really, really well. And it's essentially a monster movie, but it's quite smart. It's good. It's got a great cast as well. Excellent. Yeah.
Wes Anderson, Pixar, and Festival Highlights
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Um, and then there's been a trailer this week for another Wes Anderson movie. I'm personally getting quite weary of the Wes Anderson look, uh, for asteroid city. Um, and given the amazing cast on it, there wasn't very much that hooked me in the trailer. Um, it was more seeing that cast interact and.
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Yeah. And then, you know, just I mean, you know, for me, I've got that particular niche of like 50s, 60s, retro sci fi sort of thing. And it's got some of that to it. So for me, that kind of that that pokes that a little bit, but it's still just like,
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Okay, this is gonna be like, it looks like I have to wear sunglasses to watch this movie. It does, doesn't it? Or it looks like you're wearing like those blue sunglasses. Or you're wearing a visor or something. Yeah. Jason Schwartzman is great in it. But you don't really get to see much of the rest of the cast or get too much of
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You get a flavor for the tone of the movie, but you don't really get the story out of it. Although that's fairly typical for. I suppose the trailer, right? You know, yeah, yeah. But what else we got? Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, there there is a sequel coming up as a short for up.
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which is called Carl's date. And then Pixar apparently starting their own channel. What's Pixar's elemental? That I don't know.
00:19:15
Speaker
Uh, it sounds like another channel. Um, yeah. Uh, Oh, and, um, uh, evil dead rise. Has that been released over your way yet? Not yet. It's the end of the month. So another week, right? I want to say another week or two thing, you know, aside from YouTube, I've, I've not seen any promos for it, but they've had a bunch here, uh, festival stuff and nice couple cons and things like that. And the, uh,
00:19:43
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the early reviews are through the roof. Yeah, that's what I've seen. I've seen pretty much 100% on the old rotten tomatoes. So it's... Roddy teas? Roddy teas. Again, that's just speaking of the new season, the final season of Barry starts this week and that's where they use that praise.
00:20:01
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Oh, man. Well, there's another great eight show. And actually speaking of shows, if we start going on to stuff we've seen this week, I started what was it called? Beef. I don't know if you've seen the trailer for that. Yeah.
00:20:20
Speaker
It's really good. I've got two more episodes left. So there's 10 episodes in the series. They're quite short. They're like a half hour each, which is unusual. So the story moves along at a nice clip. Tonally, it reminds me a lot of Breaking Bad.
00:20:39
Speaker
Really? But while also feeling like its own thing. So yeah, it's been really good. I had a few recommendations this week saying, oh, you got to watch this. I binged it, you know, kind of thing. It's very bingeable when it's a half hour as well. You know, just think, oh, just one more. It's fine. But yeah, very, very good. Excellent. Yeah, I was going to add a thing because I like those actors, especially Steven Eun.
00:21:07
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Yeah, no, it's a solid story as well. And it doesn't feel contrived. Well, there is some contrivance because they've structured the whole thing, but it also feels very real in terms of people
00:21:24
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trying to be happy, you know, and you've got that a character who's very rich and a character who's quite downtrodden. And it's quite interesting. Yeah, I know it's good. I'll see how it ties up because, you know, sometimes you get to the finale and it raises it up several degrees, doesn't it? Or the exact opposite. So we'll see how that turns out.
00:21:48
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And the Penguin. Yes. The production look or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, I have. From the makers of the Batman. Exactly. I have nothing but, you know, positive thoughts for it. And it looks like they're setting it immediately after the events of the film.
00:22:11
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Yeah. Oh, is it's not a prequel or anything like that? Okay, they show the opening shots and it's Gotham's underwater and right at the end of the movie. Nice, nice. I'm getting a bit weary some of the Batman prequels. Yeah.
00:22:31
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And, uh, do you see it? I saw a trailer this week for an eight 20, the next eight 24 horror, which is called talk to me, which has some buzz around it as well. Yeah. I didn't watch a trailer though. I didn't see the it's okay. I actually stopped it halfway through because I I'd seen enough halfway, you know, cause I started feeling like, okay, you know, you're starting to show me probably more than I need to see, you know,
00:23:00
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Okay, one of those, one of those things. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what it was. So what else have you seen this week? Recently, I'll say being that it's halfway to Halloween. I've started Oh, god, right. But picked up a couple there like the, they did these crowd sourced horror documentaries on 80s horror. There's three of them called into the darkness.
00:23:30
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And the first one was three plus hours, the second one was four plus, and the third one is five plus. Yeah, but they, so they go through year by year, they kind of pan through what's supposed to be like a video store wall, and focus it on a movie and talk about it, but then they also talk to particular
00:23:51
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actors, directors and such from the time, Tom Savini, Cassandra Peterson or Ovira, you know, and get like specific things to them, you know, a little thing on breakout thing on Hank Carter or Linnea Quigley or, you know, some of the more iconic
00:24:10
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names from there. So it's pretty well done. But yeah, it's long. It's, it's, it's very, very, very long. You know, some of the things are kind of going through, it was like, Oh, yeah, watch that movie. I never knew what it was. Now I know what it is. Or like, God, I remember this, or it's scary how many of these I've seen. So you know, that's the true horror of it. But
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the two others, I watched this in the symbol of the rain, both shutter originals.
Horror Film Reviews: Anything for Jackson and The Outwaters
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And both fairly recent one very recent one a couple years old. Anything for Jackson? Anything for Jackson, which is a elderly couple, they want to bring back their grandson, so they kidnap this pregnant woman, and they're going to summon a demon to our gateway to
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Get the spirit of their son to enter the her unborn almost born right child
00:25:05
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Very good, surprisingly good. The surprising part comes when I looked at this director, I'm like, huh, this is obviously not their first movie. They're very capable, very confident. Yeah, the guy's directed like a boatload of Lifetime, like Christmas and Bible movies. Oh, really? How interesting. Like a boatload of them. And it's like, and then this, I'm like, okay, I guess he gets to finally do what he wants or something.
00:25:29
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Well, Shutter are really good with that. You could definitely tell that they're pretty hands-off with, you know, once they've signed off on, you know, the script and concept that the directors have free reign because I've seen such variety in the Shutter originals. Yeah.
00:25:45
Speaker
And the other shutter original, it's newer, it's called Slashback. And it takes place 31 miles south of the Arctic Circle or the North Pole or something like that, basically. Inuit Village, way up in the middle of nowhere. And it's an alien invasion thing. So it's kind of like meet the block meets the thing. Oh, nice.
00:26:09
Speaker
With the And it's the Inuit girls. There's teenage girls group that are at the core of it as well. So It would fit it'd be a very good companion with prey the predator. Well, very nice And it is it's actually really well done and it's funny and it's Good gore effects good monster effects somebody, you know, clearly it's You know dudes in suits
00:26:38
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doing this but a couple are supposed to be basically like dudes in suits kind of without giving too much away so yeah really well done a female director you know it's in it's a Canadian production so they've got all that backing but the soundtracks all Inuit and not like you know
00:27:00
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what you would stereotypically think of just, you know, something simple, like, no, it's like modern style music, you know, all in all in the native language. So it embraces that fully 100%. And that's kind of a theme.
00:27:14
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of the movie. Okay, as well. So you would, you would really enjoy it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. One horror movie I saw this week is a 2022 film that came up on a few recommendation lists is a film called The Outwaters.
00:27:31
Speaker
I didn't enjoy it. It was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. And it's funny because it's supposed to be found footage, right? And it is kind of an arty film, right? An arty horror, which that's fine. I'm on board with that.
00:27:53
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But it comes off as pretentious. I was never convinced it was found footage just because of the artistry and the camera angles. And they tried to explain some of that away with it. No, these are professional videographers who are doing this found footage.
00:28:10
Speaker
But it gets it's it's more less and less believable as you go because like at the end when and things really hit the crunch is like you would not the camera would not be your priority and
00:28:26
Speaker
nothing really happened. It's like, well, first of all, it's around two hours plus and nothing, this group of four people, two men and two women go out into the desert to go film a music video kind of thing. And, you know,
00:28:49
Speaker
Okay, fine. It opens up with a 911 call where, you know, there's frantic, you know, oh my God, they're killing us kind of thing. And that sort of sets up the tone, but that tone doesn't really return for about 90 minutes. And it's
00:29:10
Speaker
It needed editing down. There's probably a decent short film in here. And then the effects as well are very poor, you know, like literally rubber snakes on strings kind of poor and incoherent story. There is gore eventually in the film.
00:29:31
Speaker
But it's unnecessary gore, right? And the kind of gore that you talk about, like going, that was a messed up movie because this happened. But, you know, there was no entertainment value in it. And I think I read a few reviews that were positive on it and I found the reviews themselves quite pretentious, you know, because I wasn't convinced. I was thinking if I felt like a graduate,
00:30:00
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a film student who wanted to make something arty and they thought that this was it but it was so disappointing really because they compared it to to things like um anismen that i've seen recently and uh skinnerink um and it is nowhere near
00:30:19
Speaker
either of those films. But yeah, there you go. Okay. Also, I keep it on the horror thing, I'd watch the, the, it's apparently to be the last installment in the VHS series, which was VHS 99.
Unique Thriller Reviews: VHS 99 and Cairo Conspiracy
00:30:35
Speaker
Oh, well, I've enjoyed those. I've enjoyed those. I have as well. And again, I've enjoyed them even when they've clearly not, you know, they're the best option or. Yeah.
00:30:49
Speaker
Yeah, best product at the end, but they're still again, applaud the effort for the most part. This one held together pretty well. The nice thing is they didn't do any real I mean, there was a bit of the overarching story like how all these are kind of connected some loosely. But from the previous films, they just jettison that entirely of the like, Oh, there's some cult in a house and you watch these movies and sort of thing that's all gone.
00:31:15
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So I was kind of happy to see that in a way, but overall the best segment was the final segment, which was pretty well done. They kept it nice and tight and needed basically a witch is trying to summon a demon and the guy doing the, they had allowed this guy and his buddy to come in as the, like to document it. And they accidentally are the ones that get sent to hell.
00:31:45
Speaker
So they're trying to find their way back. But it was done by the folks. It's a husband and wife team. They did. Oh, I'm just spacing the name of it. And I didn't write it down the so it's another shutter original that dead stream dead stream. So the guy is about a guy that's a live streamer and
00:32:10
Speaker
He screws up and he loses all his sponsors. So he's trying to get him back. So I mean, his theme is to do things that scare the hell out of him. So this one is he goes to a haunted house.
00:32:19
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and locks himself in and takes the spark plugs out of his car. There's no whiskey. He makes it so he can't escape, can't run away no matter how scared he is. But it's actually really well done for what it is. It's surprisingly well done. So that was one led to the other kind of thing. It's Joseph and Vanessa Winter are the couple. And they also had an installment in VHS 99. Yes.
00:32:49
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Yeah, that was them. Cool. So yeah, and theirs was like the best out of VHS 99. Theirs was the best segment, I would say. Right. Very nice. Yeah, so kind of just dovetail together.
00:33:03
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Cool. I saw a movie in the past couple of weeks called Cairo Conspiracy, and it's actually a Swedish-Iranian director. You know those guys. Oh, yeah.
00:33:19
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it is uh the story of this this this uh it's almost a coming of age story um where you know it's that whole thing when you are going out into the world and you think wow i've got all this freedom and at some point you kind of realize oh shit i don't you know except this is a little bit more extreme this is a thriller um but also a drama so
00:33:46
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this this this this kid he is leaving his small village his father is a fisherman they're quite poor but he ends up getting a scholarship through the local mosque to go to this prestigious university in Cairo which is apparently the
00:34:10
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like the premier Muslim religious university for religious studies. And there is this whole kind of undercurrent to the government wanting to get the new imam because the current imam has died, right? And all these groups want to push their own agenda by getting the right person sort of pushed into that and this poor kid gets dragged into it.
00:34:38
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But it's really good. I found it really kind of interesting seeing a thriller from that perspective of, you know, and there isn't any sort of Western influence either. It's all within kind of a Muslim world and all these different plotting factions trying to get, you know,
00:34:59
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So there are different professors there that are up for the new imam. Some of them are quite extreme. Some of them are quite, you know, everything they say. Yeah, that makes sense, you know? But it's a really good movie. It has a nicer tie up at the end as well. Excellent.
00:35:20
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Yeah.
John Wick 4: Action and Tribute to Lance Reddick
00:35:21
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And then actually we got out to the theater for John Wick 4. Now, I've got to catch up with the John Wick series. So I'm going to hold my cards up. I watched the first one, really enjoyed it. And I have not watched any of the sequels yet. So the second one's OK. Third one gets back on track. Fourth one. This one was fantastic. Right.
00:35:43
Speaker
That's what I've heard. I've heard, I've heard, I've heard good things. And apparently this is, this is the end of the series as well. Yes. And it's a good, they do a good, good, do a good job tidying up, but then also keeping it open. There is a post credit sequence.
00:36:02
Speaker
A very short one in it as well. It does a couple things. One thing in particular had me clapping like a toddler in excitement at one scene in particular. So there's that, but also the inclusion of Donnie Yen.
00:36:26
Speaker
uh, into the storyline, which, uh, it's just great to see, you know, see him still doing his thing, but also get to see people, you know, obviously this is probably the first time they've ever seen him in action. Right. And, uh, you know, he's a, he's a joy, joy to watch anyway, always has been, and this is just, uh, uh, another, uh, another aspect of it. He's a blind assassin.
00:36:55
Speaker
That's always good. Always. He's, you know, he's, he's, you know, basically forced into going after john wick, he doesn't want to their old friends. But, but he does, you know, because he's committed to this whole thing. And so there's that, you know, they're, they're equals.
00:37:15
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on that as well, and so there's that tension. The Bill Skarsgard in it, he's the, you know, from Barbarian and the Pennywise and It and all that is fantastic as the villain. Oh, nice. As the Maki, as they call him. Right, okay. In that, so that one's a nice touch. And yeah, just a lot of nice touches, a lot of good ways to finish it off, a lot of good ways, a lot of, you know,
00:37:44
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broadening out of the characters and the final segment, which is probably the last hour of it, 45 minutes, all takes place in Paris. So, you know, there's a whole this,
00:38:01
Speaker
It's almost a they live kind of fight scene gratuitously long scene of them driving around the ark tutorial and and out of the car and like throwing people into oncoming traffic so they get run over by cars and then you know as a way of
00:38:16
Speaker
And it's just it's batshit crazy. And then once a year. And again, you you live there. So you would know probably. Yeah, well, yeah, the traffic's batshit crazy anyway. Right. Anyway, they're gonna keep driving. But there's one there's a super long staircase that goes up to this cathedral.
00:38:34
Speaker
Right. OK. And he has to go up it and he only has a certain amount of time. And so it's basically him. It's like a 20 minute segment of him going up and then down and then up and then down like like trying to make his way to the top. And they're not right. Then they're trying to prevent him from getting to the top. I mean, the last action film that I can remember being in Paris was Ronin. Yeah, that was a long time ago. You know, yeah.
00:39:02
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There's also elements in there when they when this happens when he's running around Paris of very delightfully pulled from the warriors with the DJs going out. Then there's a few other
00:39:17
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action movie nods in it as well. It's really well done. It's a good ending of the series, but it's healthy to watch the others as well just because they're good anyway. And speaking of new stuff, they just released the teaser trailer for the prequel of The Continental.
00:39:35
Speaker
about the hotel that Ian McShane runs. And the ballerina, yeah, they just announced that one as well. And actually going to the movie news, there's the sad news that Lance Reddick has died. Right, and they, I think in, I think they knew. They have filmed his vids for ballerina.
00:39:57
Speaker
Right. And I think for John Wick 4, I think they knew. Right. As well. And of course, there's a segment, a title card, you know, at the end. Nice. Which is better than the Oscars can do for some people. Apparently. Yeah, which I got totally, totally unrelated, but I was watching, I think you should leave the comedy show on Netflix and they're doing an in memoriam, but they're saying how they died. Right.
00:40:26
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They just keep getting worse. It's like 92 years old, throat slashed. You may as well do a little like animated gif with each one, too. Anyway, yeah, it's excellent. Totally worth seeing. Also, it's very worth seeing on the big screen. The others were kind of, I mean, I watched all of them on the big screen, but also subsequently on home viewing. And this one out of all of them is the one to see
00:40:56
Speaker
as big as possible. I don't know about iMacs because it is available at iMacs. It's diminishing returns for me. I went to go see Dune on a regular 2D screen and then I went to the iMacs to go see it.
00:41:11
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David Lynch is doing? Bigger. That would be fun. That would be something. But yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to have seen it for the first time in that format. That can get a bit distracting, you know.
00:41:29
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Right. Yeah. Distracting. That's the best way of. Yeah. Only seen a couple of them here and there in IMAX. It was kind of like, eh, that was it. Okay. Right. Right. But I mean, give me a regular cinema that's got a good sound system. Yeah. You know, and I'm, you know, fine. Agreed. So. Right. So.
00:41:54
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Oh, and Sam Raimi has hinted that he would like to do more Evil Dead movies with Bruce Campbell, which always gets everyone frothing.
Innovative Storytelling in Film and Manga
00:42:03
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He just shouldn't say it. Just I don't even want to hear it until it's happening. Oh, oh, this is just looking my notes. The other one I watched this week that's getting some buzz around is Leonore Will Never Die.
00:42:20
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, I've heard buzz around that as well. Filipino woman, I think. Yeah, Filipino. Yeah. And the story is just this. It borders on a bit of this kind of similar storyline or set up of something like everything everywhere. But this is its own. Right. This stands on its own. But the idea is it's this woman who was a
00:42:42
Speaker
an action, a filmmaker, action filmmaker, many years before, and she's just getting old, getting forgetful. Her son lives with her, but one of her sons is no longer around, but the ghost of him shows up and everybody can talk to him. Apparently. Right. But she's
00:43:03
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She gets a traumatic head injury when a TV goes flying out of a window and hits her on the head. So she's in a coma. So she's in the, she was in the middle of, uh, when she gets hit the head, she was taking a break from writing. She was getting back into it and writing a new story. So she's trying to finish a story, but what it becomes is her kind of wrapping up, uh, this whole idea of your life flashing before you and the important things of her life.
00:43:26
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And so combining those elements and so what's real, what's not, how she's able to rewind or redo is like, oh, I don't like that scene. Or, you know, somebody will say something or do something. They'll look at her like, you know, like the character looking at the animator, like, what am I supposed to do now? And she's like stuck, you know, it goes through that. So like Juan, he just starts dancing. He starts dancing around because there's nothing else to do.
00:43:50
Speaker
And in the end, they're like, and it's the filmmaker in there talking about, should we end it here? Or should there be something more? And they're like, well, I don't know. You know, like, if we do like, she's like, okay, well, if it is, then you're gonna get a phone call right now. And the guy's phone buzzes. She's like, okay, I guess we're doing something more. You know, they cram this in as well. So it's very, again, very confident in its freedom to not
00:44:13
Speaker
be tied down to practically anything. But again, the story is not the story is very linear. It's very easy to follow. But it is, you know, kind of a scattered thing, but not because it's mostly told through the main character, Leonore, this fantastic performance from this older actors, her perspective and her story. And so the fact that she was writing a story, a film story,
00:44:42
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Yeah, you know, it follows that contrivance as well. So it uses a piggybacks on just the regular, typical, you know, basic schlocky B movie action structure. But then, you know, I was able to
00:45:00
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mine a lot more depths and then and then end on a really beautiful note, like in a really beautiful way. They really make it into something. They're like, yeah, like, oh, so we can do whatever we want. Yeah. You've seen the fall bright. Yeah, I did. I got to watch it. So it's been released over here yet, or I've not seen it. I found a way to watch it. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I might have to find a way. Yes, it's because it's worth it. I think you'd really enjoy it. Cool. You know, what was the one bond me in his past lives or what was the
00:45:30
Speaker
Oh, uncle booed me in his past lives. Yeah, there's some recall his past lives recall his past lives. Yeah, kind of that's what I kept feeling when I was watching this, but it's far more fluid, fun, kind of having fun with itself. There's a lot looser to it again, a female director, writer director as well.
00:45:52
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who apparently had to sell her car to finish paying for production. And everything and then nobody would touch her. And then now she's like toast to the festival circuit. Amazing. Yeah, it's like a really good, you know, turn around one of those good turnaround stories.
00:46:07
Speaker
Like, it's clear that she knows what she's doing and very talented. But yeah, this one is, I mean, the movie is not for everybody. It's not like, oh, you know, little old lady movie. And isn't it funny? It's like, well, no, it's more than that. But it's also you got to have an appreciation at some level for, well, lack of a better term, indigenous cinema. You know, like, you know, Philippines churns out, has churned out tons of crap.
00:46:33
Speaker
over the years, but I mean, but they love it. Their needs are, filmically, are very simple. You know, just a simple good, good, just a good guy story, good guy will probably die, but they'll do the right thing and you know, that's it. That's it. And I mean, nothing necessarily wrong with that. It's just, again, it's kind of like, I think it's their version of what we kind of disdainfully toss off for like the, like I mentioned before,
00:47:01
Speaker
the Hallmarker Lifetime channel movies, you know, where it's just like, oh, it's just a pattern. It's the same thing. You see one, you've seen them all. Did you see the trailer, by the way, this week for True Detective Night Country? I did. And actually, I skipped the third season because the second season of that show was so disappointing. And I heard the third season was very good.
00:47:27
Speaker
But this looks very good. I mean, the synopsis sounds great. Yeah. Long winter. 30 days a night. Operating at an Arctic research station, vanished without a trace. I said vampires. I like how we've seen that. It's 30 days a night. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Mystery solved. Done. For vampires, you'll be fine. Get Josh Hart in it and he'll be fine. He'll sacrifice himself and you'll be good.
00:47:54
Speaker
But it's funny because we were talking about sort of the Philippines stories as well, is today I'm just going to look at my shelf here, go into other media.
00:48:05
Speaker
Uh, what is it called? Let me look it up here. Um, is a manga that I was reading today. It's a horror manga and it is called, um, the drifting, the drifting classroom. And, and the whole premise is basically, um,
00:48:28
Speaker
that there's this school. It's a grade school. And one morning, it disappears. There's a hole in the ground where the school is. And we see it from the perspective as well of the students who are in the school that ends up being dropped in this weird wasteland. And the whole story
00:48:53
Speaker
is kind of it made it made me think of the mist, you know, when they're all in the store, because they're not in the right place, something's going on, but it gets more complicated than I expected, because I knew it was older.
00:49:08
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It was actually written in 1974, and it has twists and turns and dark themes in there that Western media still to this day hasn't been able to sort of pick up because it would make a great television series if it weren't for all like the children dying, which I think might sort of put off a lot of people. But it's really good. It's kind of like Lord of the Flies, The Mist,
00:49:35
Speaker
with more in there because that's what I thought is like, okay, I know where this is going kind of thing. And then I was like, no, I really don't. You know, the whole survival thing of like, how much food do we have in the school? You know, it's just a wasteland all around. What is out there? But then things start to get more complicated, including, you know, a way to kind of communicate back to the proper world as well.
00:50:03
Speaker
Uh, and it's really, and all sort of time fluctuation stuff going on as well. So it's, it's, it's really interesting. So that was, I read the first volume today, I've ordered the two other volumes, uh, so I can finish it. But yeah, I mean, and some of these other countries have done things for a long time that still haven't made it through to mainstream media on our side, you know?
00:50:25
Speaker
I think that's probably like why the Korean and Japanese stuff ends up getting so much traction because it feels really fresh. But I think maybe to people there, it probably doesn't feel as fresh. I might be wrong, but. Yeah, exactly. Tired of them, but new for us. Yeah. Yeah. Which is fine because, hey, we don't get to see it otherwise. Right.
00:50:49
Speaker
and uh yeah i mean i mean i i mean that i i still i'm trying to get the bad taste of the outwaters out of my head um so uh what else i watch this week so i did the free tickets that i get uh one of my cinema membership
00:51:07
Speaker
I went to go see Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy, which was remastered and still great, still terrific. Still really good, good trilogy of movies there. And I also went to see Mia Love's One Fine Morning, which is a very French movie, but is actually a French movie that I could kind of
00:51:32
Speaker
that didn't annoy me. It's got Lea Seydoux in it, and it is pretty much just about relationships, but it kept me, you know, invested through the whole film, which is something because I hate those French movies that do that, because they feel like it's almost a pantomime of, like, the classic movies, and it doesn't really bring anything new to the table, whereas I think this one did, so.
00:52:00
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. Anything else you've seen this week? Anything that sort of jumps out at you? Nothing to really stand out. We finished off, you know, like a show like Ozark, we finally finished that off. See, that's the one I need to finish now. Because I know I need to sit down and watch the whole thing. You know, a series in one. I've watched the first three series.
00:52:26
Speaker
And it was good, but there's some problems I have with it, much beyond where my family's from. So some of the accents are like, really? That's supposed to be Missouri? Okay. That's supposed to be, okay, whatever, I'm gonna let it pass. It's Hollywood, they don't know what they're doing. But some of those things too, but it actually kind of works more so than like, tried watching through Sons of Anarchy. Had a hard time with it because they were like the dumbest
00:52:53
Speaker
gang on the planet. Like, they should be gone 100 times over. Yet somehow something happens and they're still alive and still able to and like, no, come on. So that's what some of this is. And those are if they were like, really, but their motivations and why they succeed, you know, it's more like a testament to like, you know,
00:53:15
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affluent white family uh has a better chance of making it through than anyone else it's like okay that that's fair and and their motivations for when they do stuff behind each other's backs or to each other something like that is very uh organic to the story you're very intrinsic right to the dynamic family dynamic and such too so it kind of works but some of it you know at some point you're just like there is no way they could you know they would not pull this off they they they just they're like the luckiest family on earth
00:53:43
Speaker
I dropped out of the first series. I yeah, I Yeah, it didn't it didn't didn't really sort of grab me. It's it's well done. You know, the especially some of the roles, you know, like especially the women. Yeah, Laura Linney and Ruth was a gardener Julia Garner, right? I kept wanting to call Jennifer Garner. I'm like, No, that's different actors. Very she's they're both very good.
00:54:10
Speaker
just consistently and they get the most like I think they really get the most to do as well in terms of character development and arcs and that sort of thing so at least that was refreshing but but yeah and it's all also shot everything's like blue I don't know why Ozark everything is blue
00:54:30
Speaker
Um, that, yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't understand that either, but okay, whatever. Um, we're going to move on. It's the Izers, you know? That's right. It's just a, yeah. It's the anti Wes Anderson. Actually, if you overlaid them both, you'd probably get them.
00:54:47
Speaker
get something good. So, uh, and you mentioned this week, um, that upcoming Pedro Almodovar short stranger of life with Pedro Pascal and
00:55:05
Speaker
Yeah. Strange way of life, right? I think that's coming to movie, which I've got a subscription for. It's really cheap over here, movie. It's, it's, it's like five bucks a month. Uh, but you know, and every now and again, there's like a, like a decent big movie on there, but most of it is kind of well respected art house kind of stuff.
00:55:24
Speaker
international movies and all this, but, uh, it's been good for me to kind of catch up on all this stuff. Um, but yeah, looking forward to that one. Yeah. I mean, Pedro Pascal though, it just, it's probably the most watchable person, uh, on their screens at the moment, you know? Yeah. Oh, and Mia Goth is going to be in, uh, Marvel's blade in the new blade movie. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Which is perfect.
00:55:50
Speaker
And, uh, oh, the, the dude, uh, and I forget his character name from the expanse. Uh, the bad-ass guy from the expanse is going to be, uh, the Ron second in command in Ahsoka, uh, as well. Yeah. Oh, cool.
00:56:09
Speaker
Got the Ahsoka series though. I remember, got such high hopes for that one. Just because, I mean, for one, Dave Velloni, if you've given him a hundred percent control over anything, cause he's, he's, he probably hasn't had much time to, you know, do as much as he'd like in all the series. Cause he is yet, but one man and he's been focusing on Ahsoka. So, um,
00:56:33
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, and then also then the news that all these series, The Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Ahsoka and all that is going to conclude in his first feature. Phil's going to do them all in one movie. Yep.
00:56:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. We'll see if it turns into one. Right. Yeah, I imagine it's going to be the end of the Thrawn, you know. Yeah. Explain, basically, where Thrawn goes and how the First Order comes to power. Yeah. Which will then lay into the, because they've announced the other movies with, or at least one other movie with Daisy Ridley returning.
00:57:15
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as Rey, like 15 years after the Rise of Skywalker. Starting up the sort of Jedi Order again basically. Exactly, but this new version of it, you know.
00:57:29
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But one would hope that in there, we've got room for Grogu and Ahsoka, maybe, if she survives that long. Ahsoka, yeah. There's some characters out there that are like, you know, some good ones like that. Like, yeah. Them, Cal Kestis from the Fallen Order. That's it. That new game comes out end of this month.
00:57:54
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And he is meant to be making a live action debut with the same actor who did the voice as well. Ezra Bridger. He'll be back at some point.
00:58:09
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Ooh, a bit of a mystery. We've got that one more series. We don't know how that's going to end. It's going to happen to her. But I would hope, I mean, the films where you probably need to get the most concentration and thought going into it has to always be whatever is latest in the timeline, right? Right. Because it's going to affect everything that's come before.
00:58:35
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Yeah, well, we'll see. I can't remember who the writer is on it. Hopefully just keeping JJ Abrams far, far away. Oh, yeah. I mean, people should have learned by that point. Look at the acrobatics Dave Filoni and John Favreau are having to do to fix your fucking mess.
00:59:01
Speaker
trying to find them. Also, I also want to see just I would pay to see Ryan Johnson just punch him in the face. Oh, totally, totally. Ryan Johnson is as established himself as a fantastic director. So the screenwriter of that new one is Steven Knight, who I don't know if he's a movie called Lock.
00:59:24
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Um, one of my favorite movies and it's with Tom Hardy. He's basically, uh, this can be construction, uh, bill managers or builder. Um, and he's basically just driving his car. It's just him. It's a solo. Yeah. That's what he's in the car.
00:59:42
Speaker
But that was really, really well written, right? And just with someone in a car having a conversation with people on the phone, it's fantastic. And he's done quite a bit of Peaky Blinders as well. Yeah, that's right, Peaky Blinders. And yeah, a few other bits. So I'm hopeful for that one because someone who knows how to tell a decent story. Now, the director is...
01:00:12
Speaker
Since it doesn't have a name, it's hard to find this information. Is the woman who directed the Ms. Marvel series?
01:00:20
Speaker
Oh, okay. So, yeah, I mean, it's a really interesting pairing that kind of depends on what sort of tone that they're going for. But yeah, I'm on board for that. I mean, there are a lot of people, you know, from the more poisonous part of the Star Wars community who felt that there shouldn't be another Rey movie. But again, it's like,
01:00:43
Speaker
You know, I sort of complain about characters not being developed enough in the last trilogy, which is completely true. And now they're trying to sort of remedy that. So, you know, you know, at least there's a chance that they might do it. I mean, look what they did with the prequels with the Clone Wars. Right. Right. Exactly.
01:01:02
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Cool. Stephen Wright also did the SAS Rogue Heroes series. What was that? The SAS Rogue Heroes series, which was very good. Oh, I haven't seen that one.
01:01:19
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And also behind the with Ridley Scott, that show Taboo, the basically let Tom Hardy chew all scenery and people show that's supposed to be getting another season. Well, Tom Hardy would be great. And I can you imagine just, yeah, they haven't had like that level of actor.
01:01:46
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Christopher Lee, yeah, okay, but he's not going to chew scenery. He's going to do his job and he's going to do it, you know, where he mattered, not Tom Hardy level of crazy.
01:01:57
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Basically, if you had a scene with him and Forrest Whitaker, then you'd have a hard time having anybody survive. I mean, Saw Gerrera, come on. Oh, man, after the events of Bad Batch, there were a lot of people who were no longer fans of Saw Gerrera. Well, they get it, right? That's what they've always said. He was like, ah. Yeah, he's a loose cannon entirely.
01:02:22
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Cool. Well, we've just gone over the hour, um, kind of chaotic episode. It was okay. I think we brought people up to speed on all kinds of stuff. All kinds of, yeah, it's not a bad, uh, not bad way to approach every so often.
01:02:39
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Yeah, yeah, it's not too bad. So just I suppose another thing to let listeners know is that we'll be going on to a roughly kind of monthly interval as we go into the summer and we kind of want to enjoy ourselves outside and we'll reevaluate when we get to the autumn. Maybe move to that morning again, especially when our equipment doesn't fight with us. So.
01:03:42
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I'll tell you, somebody's gonna understand.