April 27, 2025 • 44 mins
On this week's episode: We talk about the movie that's chewing up the box office... Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's "Sinners!" Seasons two of "The Last of Us" and "Andor" have us shedding tears of joy and sorrow, an update to the chicken tenders controversy and more!
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The podcast insights into New England’s growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. Subscribers can access the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and follow the hosts on Instagram and TikTok for updates.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
On this week's episode, a non spoiler review of Sinners,
the new Ryan Coogler Michael B. Jordan film that everybody
is talking about. It's fantastic. I love this movie. I
can't wait to get into it and gush all over it.
The Last of Us has many of us gushing tears
from our faces after the last episode and or season
two is out and it is andorrific and amazing. Okay, Okay,
(00:42):
well accept that work, all that, all that stuff and more.
But first, Jamie, I think we have to address our audience. Okay,
issue an apology, an apology per last week's episode. Okay,
we said something controversial. Oh no, are not happy with us,
and that is regarding the topic of chicken tenders.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh god, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You you shook the beehive, you shucked the hornet's nests.
And they're all coming after us right now. Because after
after the episode came out and we posted some videos
on social media, the people were uproared, were angry, especially
including the ambassador the chicken tender Ambassador of America himself
Wicked Joyful. He commented on our on our Instagram, and
(01:30):
we do have to address it because we are people
who are you know, we are.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We have integrity.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You know, it doesn't look like it, but we do.
Now the controversial statement that Jamie made. The controversial statement
that Jamie made was that she doesn't believe that that
Puritan back room in Manchester, New Hampshire created the chicken tender.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I feel like I had legitimate questions, that's all.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh no, A lot of a lot of bad things
happen with people just asking questions. But yeah, so we
have Wicked Joyful. He actually commented on our posts on Instagram,
which if you're not following at hub on Hollywood, check
it out. But he goes and this is quote fried
chicken and perhaps even chicken fingers may have existed before it,
but specifically the chicken tender was invented at the Puritan
(02:20):
Backroom in Manchester, New Hampshire in nineteen seventy four. Yes,
there's a difference, and fortunately I've done the research, read
the articles published in the New York Times, New Hampshire
Magazine and more. They're linked on his website wicked Joyful
dot com. He also puts some emojis of a chicken wing,
earth and a crown. Also, I'd invite you to be
the chicken tender capital, to the chicken tender capital of
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the world, to have ten d's with me, tandies with me.
And I'm sorry before you, before you try to defend yourself,
because this is the quote of public opinion, I want
you to press the space bar right here and put
your microphones to the Okay, yeah, to the computer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm sorry, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Okay, James, Jamie, it's Matt Sheer. Listen. I heard you're
a little debate about chicken tender lore. So I just
want to clear up where I stand on this issue,
because it seems like what people are the most hung
up about is how you define a tender, you know,
versus a finger or a strip, all of which sound
very sensual but mean very different things when you're talking
about the shape of the chicken. Now, was the Puritan
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back room the very first place to throw chicken in
a fryolator? Probably not. Were they the first to take
a specific cut of chicken, fry it up and call
it a chicken tender? Probably, and I'm willing to be
wrong if anyone can provide concrete evidence against this claim.
But for now, and this message is specifically to you, Jamie,
because I know you're the most skeptical here, just let
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them have this. Seriously, Manchester is trying so hard to
get out of Boston's shadow, and if this gives them
a sense of identity and hometown pride, then you know what.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hell yeah, shout out to Matt Shearer, Jamie, defend yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay. I respect the research. I respect the claim, I
respect the lore. Okay, I respect the tends I respect
the tendis I do. I just need a little clarification
on the history yet research. Like Matt said, you know,
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there's there's different terminologies and things like this, and people
have been eating chicken for all of time. And if
my research requires me to go and eat tendies and
get educated at the same time, I think that that
is a worthwhile endeavor. I think that maybe I need
(04:47):
to go up and and and have that journey.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I need to go on that journeyings.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, I need to spend spread my crispy wings, yes,
and discover the the answer for myself. So perhaps we
should like, I don't think you're with me.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, no at all. Well I'm not. I'm not questioning
the legitimacy of the claims of a Puritan ballroom. But
and I'm also no longer I'm vegan right now. So
this is this is a journey you must go on
your own, with yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And and maybe some audio equipment.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, we'll send you, We'll send you all.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We've got to like connect this to movies somehow. Yeah,
but look, I'm not trying to stir the friar here.
I'm not trying to stir the friar. I just had
some questions. Okay, all right, all right, Manchester, forgive me,
forgive me, but I feel like I'm still not one
hundred percent there. I'm not one hundred percent there. But
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you know, perhaps with some education and some some meals,
we can get there excellently.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well. Comment down below, those listening and those watching the
help on Hollywood, where do you stay? And on this
chicken tender controversy, this chicken tender travesty, that that we've unleashed,
we've opened this can of chicken worms. Oh that does
so I apologize for the last part. What we will
we will not apologize for is bringing you the latest
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filmmaking filmmaker news happening here in Boston and in New England.
To reiterate, we have some casting calls locally for some
projects right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes, exactly, And I think what got us on Chicken
Tenders originally was the fact that the Jersey Shore was
here and they were at the Puritan Back.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Do you're finding a coincidence that wherever the Jersey Shore
pops up drama?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Is it really my fault? Probably? But anyways, there are
great casting calls. Perhaps people will forgive me, you know,
if I get them some work movie.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Great films here in town starting up this month and next.
Last episode, we had the detailed listing of the casting calls.
But just to remind everyone, we've got m Night Shyamalan
filming a movie in Rhode Island starring Jake Chillenhall. The
Rhode Island Film Office keep an eye on that. They
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had put out an email for people to reach out
to if they would want it to be background on
this really exciting project.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Have you ever noticed that we've never seen M. Knight
Shyamala in the same room as Timothy SHALAMAI.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Shalo may Salama char Salama.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Have we not?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay? They that's another I think that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think they're the same person.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Something. You need to research, James and do your own research.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I will, I will report back.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. And Also the hold Hover's star, Dominiccessa is
back town. He's going to be playing Anthony bourn Ay.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's perfect casting. That is I forgot to bring that up.
That is perfect casting. I think he's uh. He was
fantastic in The Holdovers, his first feature film ever, and
he knocked it out of the park. And I think
he has what it takes. He has the look for
Anthony Bourdain. I think he has the acting chops to
do some chopping. Yeah. Action, Yeah, he'll chop up some chicken.
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Tenda's Jamie over here.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Can we let the chicken go? Just let the chicken
go or not? It's fine. We're definitely gonna do that, okay,
Anthony Burdaine. The movie is called Tony being produced by
A twenty four. Also your your Hero Zoro himself. Antonio
is going to be in the film. The details are
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mostly under wrapped, but this is going to be getting
underway filming in New England shortly excellent. Check out the
local casting agencies Boston Casting Slate, Kendall Cooper, there's a
bunch sign up for free on any of them and
look out for your emails. And James, one other really
(09:03):
exciting thing that I wanted to mention. We had mister
Russ Gannon on local actor from Needham and it was
thank you very much. Check out his interview in our
last episode. He is in this fantastic film called Ephus
Uh Rotten Tomatoes. They just wrapped up a theatrical release.
(09:24):
You can watch it now on Apple TV. And James,
they've just announced that Ephis is going to Can's screening
at Cans next month. So just congratulations to all of them,
all of the local principal talent. UH filmed here in Massachusetts,
and just it's really exciting to see this local project
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getting so much love and accolades and and and whatnot
great reviews. So hoping to have more of the cast
on as well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So wait to Ethhis Go Go go Yeah. And speaking
about theatrical releases, let's go back to the box office,
because what is coming back to the movie theaters is
one of the best films ever in history. Depending who
you ask and how old you are. But Star Wars
episode three, Revenge of the Sith, coming back to theaters
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for its twentieth twentieth anniversary, and that's a typo, right
that that stings. Yeah. The re release of the two
thousand and five Star Wars film had a pretty good
Thursday preview three point four million dollars last night, while
The Accountant, the new Ben Affleck our Boston Boy his
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film came in with a two and a half million Again,
this is just like the first day release for that
The Accountant too, which stars John Bernthal mister Punisher himself.
Also though they are not making as much money as
this film that we're going to be reviewing at the
LA in this episode, Sinners. Ryan Coogler, the director of
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Black Panther, the director of Creed. Now this amazing film,
really really good turnout. This is a second week in
the theaters and it's already made around eighty four million
dollars domestically and one hundred and eighty million dollars globally.
This is with a budget of around ninety to one
hundred million dollars, so already making its money back and
word of mouth is fantastic And I'm only going to
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further that word of mouth because I loved this film,
just watched it last night, and so much, so much
to get into, which we will also get into. But
sticking on the box office really quick. I heard that
there's some controversy. Of course again again there's always controversy,
but this time Netflix is bringing the boxing gloves right.
(11:48):
These are some fighting words.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The co CEO of Netflix, and I feel like Netflix
is just trying to rub salt in the wound of
movie theaters that are you know, have been struggling for
years trying to get people back in. But anyways, Netflix
co CEO Ted Sarandos says that the struggling global box
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office is a sign that consumers just want to watch
movies at home, thank you very much. And that and
this as the studios and theaters are duking it out
over trying to preserve the forty five day window right
for releases that we had talked about before, and he
called it completely out of step with the consumer experience
(12:32):
of just loving a movie and being able to love
that movie at home.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
See. So the thing is, yeah, well there are two things.
One that's clearly false just given the fact that there
are so many movies recently that people are flocking to
fill those seats. You know, minecraft that made or is
about to make a billion dollars, people flooding to the
movie theater to go see that. As I said, sinners
getting great word of mouth. People are willing to go
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to the movie theater for a great or even at
the very low bar and a good movie. And so
when you have these very popular ips popular movies or
great reviewed and critically acclaimed films that are that are
you know people are just talking about, people show up,
they're going I went to Imax and I'll say over
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half of the movie theater was filled. And this was
on a Thursday afternoon, on Thursday afternoon, and people are there.
And so yeah, of course, the person in charge of
a streaming service, would you're saying people love streaming services
so much that they're not going to the movie theaters.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The reason is there are a lot of stinkers out there,
a lot of movies that are just being you know,
rebooted or spun off, and people are tired of those
films or they're just not good, and so they'd rather
wait two weeks or three weeks for it to come
to streaming. But when you have something that is that
feels like an experience, people are willing to go out
there to watch the film.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So yeah, it's also the price too, says skyrocketing, the food,
the things, But what they're selling is the experience, right
And you and I both love the movies. You can't
have them. You can't have movies without the movie theater.
You cannot have movies without the experience, right there. Movie
theaters are never going to go the way of the Dodo.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Don't you dare to say that. I was just thinking, like, imagine,
like fifty years somebody plays the video again, they're like,
look at those idiots talking about movie theaters existing now
we have.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Do you think do you think that Dodos like they
they had no wings because they got turned into Tende's.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yes way back. Yes, and they're delicious, right, but they
but they.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Like existed back then, and like, so who invented the tendies? Anyway,
We're just gonna keep mking them.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, we're gonna make this entire episode with tickettenders. But yeah,
so I think of course, again, the guy in charge
of the streaming service is gonna tell people that streaming
services are great and that you really don't like the
movie theater experience.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Don't listen to him, listen to he just wants you
to watch everything on Netflix on your I.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Got rid of my tell you, I got rid of
my Netflix.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No, I always teetering.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I was always teetering. And then I finally taught it
over and I got rid of Netflix, though I replaced
it for another streaming service. I got back to Max hbos.
So I got rid of HBO Max like last year,
and and now I'm back on it just because the
Last of Us is back, right, so that may be
a good transition. I'll just leave the CEO Netflix thing
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by saying you're wrong, You're wrong. Yeah, great movies are made.
People will come if they if you build it, if
you make it, they will come. And speaking of again
HBO Max, And my reasoning for resubscribing is the Last
of Us Season two is out. Last week. We talked
about the first episode, which was a good kind of like,
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you know, resetting of the scene, catching us up with
where the characters are five years later, sending setting up
the conflict and the drama that will that will erase
literally in some cases, and in this episode spoilers, we're gonna,
we're gonna, we're gonna touch on spoilers for nine to
Go two two in death. But this is the main spoiler.
(16:11):
For those who are not familiar with the video game,
what happened in the video game to one of the
main characters happened viciously, ruthlessly.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
See, I've known. I've known for the last couple of years.
I watched like all the cut scenes from the video game,
which you can watch on YouTube like a movie. So
I've known, and I've been hoping upon hope that they
would change something right, that maybe this didn't need to happen.
(16:43):
And I guess that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
See, I'm on the other I'm on the other end.
It sucks that it happened, but I think it's critical
to the story, it's important to the character arc for Ellie,
and so changing it would piss off a lot of people,
even though people love the certain actor and the character,
of course, and especially for those who had no idea
what happened in the video game, never played, it, never
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looked at videos or whatnot, and so the shock, especially
episode two, episode two of the of the second season,
Big Big surprise to a lot of people. So I
think they had to keep it in and I'm glad
they kept it in. It had that emotional weight, had
that emotional impact. I can't wait for the next episode. Yeah,
you haven't watched the episode now. So this is the
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next discussion, next point of discussion regarding this because people
people are saying, you know, people who especially played the
video game and are watching the series. That kind of
brought this to light, saying that there are people online
who've been saying that they no longer want to continue
watching the series after this big event occurred, because obviously,
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you know, it's it's a very favorite character. Again, if
we're dancing around it, but you may be able to
deduce what we're talking about. And so there are people
saying that they have no reason to watch it because
a certain character was their main reason for one to
watch it. And these people reviewers and video game players,
they were saying, you know, it happening in the video game.
(18:12):
It's much easier to continue with the story because you're
you're physically playing the game, you're moving characters, and you're
prolonging the story. When you're when you're when you when
it's translated onto the screen. It's much easier for somebody
to just put the quote controller down to put the
show away, because you know, they've lost investment in it,
and they likened it to what happened with the Walking Dead.
(18:35):
This is you know, Walking Dead, it's over. I mean,
it's still going on still. But Glenn, the character Glenn,
when Glenn was killed off in season four or five
or when not Walking Dead, they they basically died or
became a became a you know, a shadow of itself
became a walker. Because after Glenn died, one of the
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most favorite characters of the show has been there since
since episode one. They lost like two million viewers the
next week and every week since then. Yeah, and so
people are saying, you know, online that they either don't
want to continue the story or they're so shocked by it.
And then because again they had no idea that that
they that they're dropping off. That's is that how you feel?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I would say that, you know, even even in the
video game, yeah, I think you described it very well.
You know, you can remain invested and keep playing it.
But even even so, that storyline was very unpopular and
controversial when when the game came out, so I was
hoping that they could dance around it somehow or push
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it back to further in the season, or we can
have sort of like forward flashes backward flashes where we
keep this character sort of invested, keep the audience invested
in this character because we continue to show him throughout
the season. Yeah, just in like flash and things like that. Look,
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this character has died on screen before in equally brutal,
in horrific ways, and people were able to continue being
invested in the show. But that's because that show had
a lot more characters to be invested in a much
broader world. So look, I'm gonna keep watching the show.
(20:26):
I just I haven't watched episode two because I can't
stand to see it this part. Like, I know it happens,
I know it's brutal, I know it's like just the
worst thing ever. I will continue watching after episode three,
you know. But I don't think for me personally, it's
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gonna turn me off from watching the rest of the show,
because I think it's a really excellent show with a
really excellent story. I love Bella Ramsey so much and
I want to see what happens next. But I just
can't watch the violent part. This particular violent part. I
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love the clickers.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I really am is a really good because that's that's
one part of this episode. But the rest of the episode,
you know, the town becomes like under siege of thousands
of walkers. They're not walkers, so they're like infected. I
think the clickers clickers. They're clickers.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's a type of Oh that's the bigger ones.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, well, the bigger ones are called something else. The
clickers are the ones that click and like the use sonar.
Yeah exactly, but yeah, but I think they're in Generally
they're referred to as infected or the infected. Okay, anyway,
not important, but the thing is. But the a lot
of other things that happen in the episode. Again, the
town becomes you know, under sieged by thousands of infected,
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and it's a very gripping scene of people trying to
survive and defend the town and defend each other. And
there are moments where you're like, you know, you know,
clenching the side of the couch because you don't know
what's gonna happen. So it's a great episode all around, and.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Uh, great zombies.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like, yeah, I will say, I do think we are
going to get more Pedro. I think we're gonna get
more Pedro through flashbacks. There's a scene in the first episode,
at the end of the first episode where after the
confrontation inside the church, Ellie Walks is walking back home
and she sees Joel on the porch with the guitar
and and they kind of ends right there. So I
think they're gonna flash back to them having a discussion.
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I think they're gonna have flashbacks to other moments.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So it's not the end, people, it's not the end.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's still going to be you don't know, We're just
gonna flat out he said the name.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah, he's still going to be this great emotional motivator.
You know for Ellie.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
What if they force ghost him, what if they what
if they he just he just comes back as a
force ghost. If you have a giving Ellie advice on
top of that clicker exactly. Yeah. Great, Well, the Last
of Us. It's fantastic show. It's it's great so far,
and I can't wait for episode three. But speaking about
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another great show and episodes three, one, two, and three
and or season two came out this week and they
released the first three episodes, which which I love because
like the previous season, have you seen the first season?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, I'm a terrible Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Fan, terrible. This is the best Star Wars ever.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I know it is.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I know it is.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
My aunt's been trying to get me to watch it forever.
I feel like my heart still wasn't healed completely after
the last trilogy, but here's a great opportunity to finally, finally,
finally get into it. But I will let you take
it away because you are much better for Star Wars
man than I.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I won't give a way too much spoilers, but I
do love that they released the first three episodes of
the season two one time because in the previous season
and those who've watched the first one, they know that
there were nine episodes and they were broken down in
three kind of in three three sections, and so the
first three episodes follow one arc, and then the next
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three episodes, so four or five, six follows another arc.
All the same characters are there, but different different different
points on their mission of the story are broken up
into three sections, and it feels like a movie. So
each section is like you know, you have like thirty
forty five minutes, so it kind of builds up to
like a short movie. The first three episodes followed by
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the next three and then the last three, And so
with this season they released the first three and you
follow this arc of you know, this is a year
after the events of the previous season. We see it
opening up with Cassie and Or on board at this
rebel sorry, this Empire base, and he's there to steal
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a new prototype of an X wing fighter. Sorry, what's
the what's the tie fighter?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
This?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This is an experiment like prototype of a tie fighter,
And so it opens up. But that is very exhilarating
and very exciting, and I think it's off to a
great start. It's already getting wicked crazy, wicked awesome reviews.
Metacritic is like through the Roof is like an a
which is like very rare and unheard of for any
show or any movie, so not can attest. It's a
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great It's a great show off to a great start.
And the acting is phenomenal, the actions phenomenal, the visual effects,
and the cgi phenomenal. It makes me wonder again. I
think I mentioned it last week with I forget what
we were talking about but oh, with Daredevil, they're able
to do this for Star Wars, for and Or, make
everything look fantastic, make it look make it look like
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and I'm sure a lot of it was shot on
location in fields, on mountains and all these different places.
Why can't they do these with the actual big movies
they're promoting. It's mind boggling the night and day contrast
between the quality of the storytelling and all this other
stuff between and Or and the rest of the rest
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of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I feel like these shows get a little bit more leeway, right,
They have a little bit more freedom to tell the
story that they're telling, whereas like the mainstream Skywalker, you know, Saga,
who was just all tied up with like corporate executives
putting in you know, like oh this, it has to
have this, and has to have It's just way too
(26:21):
much meddling, you know. And uh, yeah, the story didn't
the story's not there. Nothing else falls into place either.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So so yeah, I don't know, they need to study
and Or and just repeat and just do that just again,
not repeat the beats, but just repeat the quality and
investment and the love and dedication that's put into this series.
Because there's no reason why it should be this good.
There's no reason why a Star Wars product should be
this good, but it is. So I think everybody does great.
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I can't wait to see more of the.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well and Rogue one was good good. This is leading up.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
To correct yeah, yeah, So this would be I think
the final season and then and then after this it'll
lead directly into Rogue one. And from my my understanding
is there's gonna be a mini time jump. I think
in between each of the three episodes. So these first
three episodes aired, uh, and when we come back to
episode four, there will be some sort of time jump
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because right now they're they're in bb BB Y four,
which is like four years before the Battle of Yavin,
So I think they may jump maybe two years. And
whatever they do, I'm excited for it. So let us
know what you think about The Last of Us and
what do you think about and or because this is great,
great television that I can't get enough of, and I'm
trying to, you know, just soak it all in while
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while it lasts. All this good stuff lasts, from.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Great television to great movies, great movies.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
This is probably my favorite movie of the year. So far,
I would say the best movie of the year so far, Sinners.
Sinners the latest film from Ryan Coogler, again, the director
of Black Panther of read of Fruit Veil Fruit Veale
Station that this is probably his best film. And I
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can't speak highly more highly of this one. And this
is going to be a non spoiler review. I would
recommend it. Don't watch the trailers. You could watch the
first trailer it's it's like a teaser kind of trailer
for the movie. The second one gives away spoilers and
a lot of people and I myself went into the
movie knowing what the what the actual plot was, or
(28:30):
more the plot details and you know, things to expect.
That didn't change my experience. But if you went into
this movie cold, you would be I think hit with
this amazing twist, this amazing development that would just knock
your socks off. And again, so if you can try
to avoid watching trailer two, try to avoid watching any
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other reviews or spoiler reviews before watching this. But this
stars Michael B. Jordan. He plays not one person, he
plays two people. He plays twins, the twin brothers, Smoke
and Stack Hailey Steinfeld. In this film, Delroy Lindo, Jack
O'Connell and introducing for his first film ever, Miles Cayton.
(29:12):
I believe it's Miles Caton c at o n. He
plays Sammy Moore, this young blues guitarist. He wants to
be a musician. He's the son of a preacher and
so his nickname is Preacher Boy. But he doesn't really
want to follow in the preacher's footsteps, his father's footsteps.
He wants to, you know, do what his heart's telling him,
and that's to play blues music, to play music. And
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this story is basically it's a historical rated R horror
film takes place in nineteen thirty two Jim Crow era Mississippi.
The story follows the brothers of Smoke and Stack again
played by Michael D. Jordan, who in You know, there
are many films where like the same actor kind of
plays a twin recently Mickey seventeen, where you have Robert
(29:54):
Pattinson playing himself, you have like clones, or you have
The Flash Ezra Miller, like there's like two versions of
the Flash. And but in those films, I don't know
I've seen. I haven't seen Mickey seventeen to be fair,
I haven't seen the Flash, but I've seen many clips
of the Flash, and it just kind of doesn't look
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very great the CGI work in general, but also just
kind of like them being next to each other. It
feels like you can tell one was filmed on this
side and then they were but the other you know,
he redid his shot on this side. It didn't look
that really that smooth, or it took a lot of
effort to make them both fit in that screen, is
what I'm trying to say. But for this film, Michael B.
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Jordan interacting with Michael B. Jordan so well, and even
after like the first minute, after seeing these two, you
kind of forget of how that that this is the
same actor playing two different people. Like the character like,
personality wise, they're different and they look very they look
they're identical twins, but they but he's able to portray
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each other, each brother differently enough where there's no mistaking
which ones which and who's with who and all this stuff.
So that worked out so well. Basically, the two brothers
smoke and stack their nicknames. They return home from to
their small talent in Mississippi after being in Chicago for
seven years. This is also after fighting in World War One,
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they come back with the goal of opening up a
juke joints basically like a nightclub for blues players or
so people, so the black community can come in party,
spend their money, drink, dance and have a good time. However,
things turn upside down when a greater evil awaiting welcomes
them back home. So many great things to talk about
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this film, and I will break this up in different categories. Again,
I won't go in depth all. All I'm saying is
I love this film. The action. If you're looking for
a great action film, this has a lot of great
stuff and creative. Again, it's so hard to to talk
about what they're fighting without spoiling it, so I won't
go in too much detail. But the action is great.
(32:07):
A lot of like hand to hand action, gun fight action,
you know, wooden bats and sticks action, all that stuff
that's great. There's a there's an element of drama in
this film because the stack, the smoke and Stack the
brothers they were turned home, and they've burnt a lot
of bridges when they left, and so they're coming back
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into this small town where everybody knows they're back, and
and these guys are they're tough guys, you know they
they are on the more on the crime side of
the law. I guess they were lawbreakers. I guess you
could say and so. But they're rough and tough kind
of guys who people don't want to mess with. But
they've also burned a lot of bridges and so there
are a lot of people that are just not happy
with them being back. The horror aspect of this film,
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I wouldn't say it's straight full blown horror. If you
have any questions, please let me know. There's this isn't
there's so much fun elements in this, but when the
horror cranks up, it cranks up to a ten. And
there are moments where I'm literally like my heart is
beating because there's a moment where there's one character on
the side of a door and there's another on the
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other side, and there's a small hole that was punctured
by by a knife and one character.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Never look in the hole, never look in the hole,
but this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Character, several characters get right up closer into it, and
I'm not gonna say anything, but like it's tense, Like
I was like, like, what are you guys doing That's
just one example of like a.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Tense team you're in a horror I know that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know, there's a lot of thrilling stuff in this
film as well. But the one part that everybody is
talking about and that I that impacted me the most
of this film was the music. As I mentioned, there's
this character named Sammy. He's a young guy, you know,
twenty something years old, and he has in his it's
in his blood to sing, to perform, to play the guitar,
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and and in the beginning of the film, and this
is a spoiler, but in the beginning of the film,
there's a voiceover that describes people with a certain supernatural
gift throughout the millennia. So it goes back to like
two African tribesmen to Native Americans, to people you know.
Ever since humans could play music, there have been people
with the ability to through their performing of music, whether
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it's singing and or playing an instrument, they're able to
transcend space and time and dive into or connect with
spirits of the past, present, in the future. And there's
a sequence, a one shot sequence in this film where
music captures those who are in this juke joint, in
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this nightclub and everybody's entranced by this music. And this
is the first time, and I'm being pletty honest, this
is the first time I felt kind of hypnotized while
watching a film. Like I'm not even joking, like it,
I felt the music through my body while watching this film.
After the film, I go check out some reviews I'm
(35:10):
reading online or read it what people are saying. Every
comment was bringing up this sequence, that it has such
a physical and emotional impact to them. I'm trying not
to hype this up too much because I've been tied
to my wife, but it's it's a it's a very
transformative sequence in this film that that's really hard to explain,
and I can only say, just go in and experience
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because it's it's such creative filmmaking, not only in the
technical sense in the work of the one shot that
Ryan Coogler was able to direct, but also the technical sense,
the musical sense, the score or the song, the visually
it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
So you would say it's a very unique experience.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
It's a very unique experience that I and that's incredibly
difficult to pull off. And again, I'm not the only
person who thought this, Like again, this is what I
found in the theater, and right after I had to
look up to see what people were saying about this.
Every top comment on Reddit, So don't look at Reddit
before you watch this film. But if every top comment
on Reddit was describing and talking about this sequence, so
(36:18):
it was like, it's not just me feeling this like
many people have felt this.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I feel like this movie came out of nowhere, though
I don't remember like hearing the marketing or build up
for it, so it's kind of a sleeper. When did
you hear about it? And so you were talking about
the word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, So the thing is, I actually saw the first
trailer several weeks ago, maybe three or four weeks ago,
and I'll be honest, I watched the trailer and I
wasn't that My interest wasn't peaked. It really wasn't. I
thought Ryan Coogler is a great director, blackel b Jordan,
He's fantastic. It just didn't like, it didn't make me
think about, you know, I'm gonna definitely get into go
(36:56):
see this movie in theaters. But then word of mouth,
the word of mouth on this film is doing wonders
for it, and this is why it's doing so great
at the box office, and I imagine this is one
of those films that will be kept in theaters for
a longer period, for that at least forty five day period,
because people are wanting to go watch this, especially in Imax.
I didn't even talk the Imax. This was filmed for Imax,
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and one great thing that they do again visually speaking
and technically speaking, cinematography speaking, there are moments where you
have the aspect ratio you know, go down, where you
have the black bars on the top and bottom of
the of the screen, and then there are sequences where
those black bars rise up and you have the entire
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IMAX screen available. And it's during these sequences where, for example,
the music sequence or dance sequences, or certain important moments
where like you feel that I think that's part of
what got people like myself feeling like hypnotized by this
film because you're involved by it. But the use of
Imax and the format is done perfectly in this film.
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And so that's why I recommend not only watching this
in theaters, but watching it on an Imax if you can,
because that experience was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's right, not just it's not just waiting for it to.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Be watching it on your phone. No, absolutely not IMAX. Again,
I'm not gonna give away spoilers if you if you don't,
If you do know, like the quote twists or whatnot,
it does not ruin the film for you, because I
knew it going in, and this is this is a
great movie. If you're a music fan, if you're a
blues fan, specifically, wait for the end of the movie.
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There's there's a mid credit scene, like after credits scene.
Wait for that. You will be rewarded if you are
a blues fan. If you are a music fan, Uh,
it's a it's a beautiful ending. I was telling my
wife because because I'm describing the sequence to her and
the vibe, it's all about vibes during the sequence and
during other parts too. But I'm telling her about this
(39:00):
and she and I showed her the trailer and she goes,
this is not what you described to me at all,
And I said, yeah, the trailer doesn't, doesn't you know,
It isn't what I described, wasn't the horror film that
I watched, And so she was kind of taken it
back by the trailer. But the more I'm talking about it.
And even before this podcast, I was telling you, I
keep thinking about the sequence, I keep thinking about this movie.
(39:21):
And she's not a big fan of horror films, but
she says, and I told her, I don't want to
give away any spoilers or anything, and she says, no, no,
I don't want, I want. I don't want to go
I don't want to know anything. I want to go
in cold. So this is a film that she actually
wants to watch now, which I'm more than willing to
end happy to take her to go watch again, just
because there aren't that many films that stick with you
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that like that. This film is sticking with me. So
if you are a fan of horror, if you're a
fan of action, if you're a fan of history. Again,
this takes place during nineteen thirties, you know, segregation, Jim
Crow era Mississippi, so it has that aspect to it
as well. And there are a lot of messages and
and you know, things that you can dissect talking about
(40:03):
you know, current day politics, past day politics and whatnot
that you can decipher. So if you're into any of
the stuff, there is something in this film for you.
I get I feel like I could talk for hours
about this film, and I would love to talk about
a spoiler, you know, going definitely going stuff, you know,
down down the road. But like I said, I think
this is a nine out of ten, if not a
(40:24):
ten out of ten film. You should watch it right
now and and just you know, so Oscar I, oh
my god, Ryan, Ryan Coogler, I'm saying right now, has
to be nominated for Best Director, has to be directed,
nominated for Best Writer. He also wrote this film. The
cinematography needs to be nominated, the the the attire, everything
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about this film is nearly perfect. There's one little thing
that I could quote maybe nitpick that kind of felt
forced near the but even then it is an enjoyable sequence. Yeah,
isn't enjoyable sequence that I think they're The director was like,
you know, we still got time. Let's let's throw this
in here, and like does he need to throw it
in there?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Not really, but he does. And you know what, I'm
not complaining about it. I won't complain about it because
it's a really fun and like we're we're to say,
feel good moment in this film, But sinners, go watch
it in theaters while you can. Before I get snatched
out of theaters and put on some streaming service watch
the Imax.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
James loves this movie, and if you love movies, continue
to hang out with us here on the Hub on Hollywood. Yes,
because we will bring you these reviews, passion, this passion
right see, and we will bring you reviews. We will
(41:52):
bring you casting calls, we will bring you interviews. We've
got more exciting interviews with great local filmmakers coming up
in the weeks ahead, so stick around for that. James,
Where can they find us?
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Speaker 2 (43:16):
So yeah, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Great stuff right now. I'm feeling euphoric right now, we're
talking about centers and all this great stuff that we're
watching the last of us and or uh it.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Is raining down upon us, this great rain on me,
whatever that is. Yes, so we will continue to have that.
We'll have some some movie time, right some movie time
at home, and then maybe.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Some chicken tenders after that, you know it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
From the Puritan back room.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Get the AMC Chicken nuggets, the impossible Nuggets, posible nuggets,
impossible nuggets, diggity, don't read, don't read the nutrient facts,
the nutritional stats and information for the impossible nuggets.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Are they that impossible? Are they like not real like
veggies and stuff?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I don't know. They're they're sawdust. No, no, they're they're vegan.
It's just like they taste very good for a reason.
They taste unbelievably good for a reason. So just okay,
don't eat it, don't eat it often. But I mean
you can eat it in the other movie theaters. It's
so good. My wife and I were talking about it,
like they should make these AMC Impossible night gets available
(44:26):
to the stores to you know, sell it more money.
They should, However, that'd be bad for my health. That's
how good they are. Bad they are for you. Okay,
oh goodness, Well let's know what you think. Thanks again
for stopping Buy the Hub on Hollywood until next week.
I'm James, I'm Jamie. See u.
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
On this week's episode, a non spoiler review of Sinners,
the new Ryan Coogler Michael B. Jordan film that everybody
is talking about. It's fantastic. I love this movie. I
can't wait to get into it and gush all over it.
The Last of Us has many of us gushing tears
from our faces after the last episode and or season
two is out and it is andorrific and amazing. Okay, Okay,
(00:42):
well accept that work, all that, all that stuff and more.
But first, Jamie, I think we have to address our audience. Okay,
issue an apology, an apology per last week's episode. Okay,
we said something controversial. Oh no, are not happy with us,
and that is regarding the topic of chicken tenders.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh god, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You you shook the beehive, you shucked the hornet's nests.
And they're all coming after us right now. Because after
after the episode came out and we posted some videos
on social media, the people were uproared, were angry, especially
including the ambassador the chicken tender Ambassador of America himself
Wicked Joyful. He commented on our on our Instagram, and
(01:30):
we do have to address it because we are people
who are you know, we are.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We have integrity.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You know, it doesn't look like it, but we do.
Now the controversial statement that Jamie made. The controversial statement
that Jamie made was that she doesn't believe that that
Puritan back room in Manchester, New Hampshire created the chicken tender.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I feel like I had legitimate questions, that's all.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh no, A lot of a lot of bad things
happen with people just asking questions. But yeah, so we
have Wicked Joyful. He actually commented on our posts on Instagram,
which if you're not following at hub on Hollywood, check
it out. But he goes and this is quote fried
chicken and perhaps even chicken fingers may have existed before it,
but specifically the chicken tender was invented at the Puritan
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Backroom in Manchester, New Hampshire in nineteen seventy four. Yes,
there's a difference, and fortunately I've done the research, read
the articles published in the New York Times, New Hampshire
Magazine and more. They're linked on his website wicked Joyful
dot com. He also puts some emojis of a chicken wing,
earth and a crown. Also, I'd invite you to be
the chicken tender capital, to the chicken tender capital of
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the world, to have ten d's with me, tandies with me.
And I'm sorry before you, before you try to defend yourself,
because this is the quote of public opinion, I want
you to press the space bar right here and put
your microphones to the Okay, yeah, to the computer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm sorry, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Okay, James, Jamie, it's Matt Sheer. Listen. I heard you're
a little debate about chicken tender lore. So I just
want to clear up where I stand on this issue,
because it seems like what people are the most hung
up about is how you define a tender, you know,
versus a finger or a strip, all of which sound
very sensual but mean very different things when you're talking
about the shape of the chicken. Now, was the Puritan
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back room the very first place to throw chicken in
a fryolator? Probably not. Were they the first to take
a specific cut of chicken, fry it up and call
it a chicken tender? Probably, and I'm willing to be
wrong if anyone can provide concrete evidence against this claim.
But for now, and this message is specifically to you, Jamie,
because I know you're the most skeptical here, just let
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them have this. Seriously, Manchester is trying so hard to
get out of Boston's shadow, and if this gives them
a sense of identity and hometown pride, then you know what.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hell yeah, shout out to Matt Shearer, Jamie, defend yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay. I respect the research. I respect the claim, I
respect the lore. Okay, I respect the tends I respect
the tendis I do. I just need a little clarification
on the history yet research. Like Matt said, you know,
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there's there's different terminologies and things like this, and people
have been eating chicken for all of time. And if
my research requires me to go and eat tendies and
get educated at the same time, I think that that
is a worthwhile endeavor. I think that maybe I need
(04:47):
to go up and and and have that journey.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I need to go on that journeyings.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, I need to spend spread my crispy wings, yes,
and discover the the answer for myself. So perhaps we
should like, I don't think you're with me.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, no at all. Well I'm not. I'm not questioning
the legitimacy of the claims of a Puritan ballroom. But
and I'm also no longer I'm vegan right now. So
this is this is a journey you must go on
your own, with yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And and maybe some audio equipment.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, we'll send you, We'll send you all.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We've got to like connect this to movies somehow. Yeah,
but look, I'm not trying to stir the friar here.
I'm not trying to stir the friar. I just had
some questions. Okay, all right, all right, Manchester, forgive me,
forgive me, but I feel like I'm still not one
hundred percent there. I'm not one hundred percent there. But
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you know, perhaps with some education and some some meals,
we can get there excellently.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well. Comment down below, those listening and those watching the
help on Hollywood, where do you stay? And on this
chicken tender controversy, this chicken tender travesty, that that we've unleashed,
we've opened this can of chicken worms. Oh that does
so I apologize for the last part. What we will
we will not apologize for is bringing you the latest
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filmmaking filmmaker news happening here in Boston and in New England.
To reiterate, we have some casting calls locally for some
projects right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes, exactly, And I think what got us on Chicken
Tenders originally was the fact that the Jersey Shore was
here and they were at the Puritan Back.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Do you're finding a coincidence that wherever the Jersey Shore
pops up drama?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Is it really my fault? Probably? But anyways, there are
great casting calls. Perhaps people will forgive me, you know,
if I get them some work movie.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Great films here in town starting up this month and next.
Last episode, we had the detailed listing of the casting calls.
But just to remind everyone, we've got m Night Shyamalan
filming a movie in Rhode Island starring Jake Chillenhall. The
Rhode Island Film Office keep an eye on that. They
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had put out an email for people to reach out
to if they would want it to be background on
this really exciting project.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Have you ever noticed that we've never seen M. Knight
Shyamala in the same room as Timothy SHALAMAI.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Shalo may Salama char Salama.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Have we not?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Okay? They that's another I think that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think they're the same person.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Something. You need to research, James and do your own research.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I will, I will report back.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. And Also the hold Hover's star, Dominiccessa is
back town. He's going to be playing Anthony bourn Ay.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's perfect casting. That is I forgot to bring that up.
That is perfect casting. I think he's uh. He was
fantastic in The Holdovers, his first feature film ever, and
he knocked it out of the park. And I think
he has what it takes. He has the look for
Anthony Bourdain. I think he has the acting chops to
do some chopping. Yeah. Action, Yeah, he'll chop up some chicken.
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Tenda's Jamie over here.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Can we let the chicken go? Just let the chicken
go or not? It's fine. We're definitely gonna do that, okay,
Anthony Burdaine. The movie is called Tony being produced by
A twenty four. Also your your Hero Zoro himself. Antonio
is going to be in the film. The details are
(08:41):
mostly under wrapped, but this is going to be getting
underway filming in New England shortly excellent. Check out the
local casting agencies Boston Casting Slate, Kendall Cooper, there's a
bunch sign up for free on any of them and
look out for your emails. And James, one other really
(09:03):
exciting thing that I wanted to mention. We had mister
Russ Gannon on local actor from Needham and it was
thank you very much. Check out his interview in our
last episode. He is in this fantastic film called Ephus
Uh Rotten Tomatoes. They just wrapped up a theatrical release.
(09:24):
You can watch it now on Apple TV. And James,
they've just announced that Ephis is going to Can's screening
at Cans next month. So just congratulations to all of them,
all of the local principal talent. UH filmed here in Massachusetts,
and just it's really exciting to see this local project
(09:48):
getting so much love and accolades and and and whatnot
great reviews. So hoping to have more of the cast
on as well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So wait to Ethhis Go Go go Yeah. And speaking
about theatrical releases, let's go back to the box office,
because what is coming back to the movie theaters is
one of the best films ever in history. Depending who
you ask and how old you are. But Star Wars
episode three, Revenge of the Sith, coming back to theaters
(10:20):
for its twentieth twentieth anniversary, and that's a typo, right
that that stings. Yeah. The re release of the two
thousand and five Star Wars film had a pretty good
Thursday preview three point four million dollars last night, while
The Accountant, the new Ben Affleck our Boston Boy his
(10:43):
film came in with a two and a half million Again,
this is just like the first day release for that
The Accountant too, which stars John Bernthal mister Punisher himself.
Also though they are not making as much money as
this film that we're going to be reviewing at the
LA in this episode, Sinners. Ryan Coogler, the director of
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Black Panther, the director of Creed. Now this amazing film,
really really good turnout. This is a second week in
the theaters and it's already made around eighty four million
dollars domestically and one hundred and eighty million dollars globally.
This is with a budget of around ninety to one
hundred million dollars, so already making its money back and
word of mouth is fantastic And I'm only going to
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further that word of mouth because I loved this film,
just watched it last night, and so much, so much
to get into, which we will also get into. But
sticking on the box office really quick. I heard that
there's some controversy. Of course again again there's always controversy,
but this time Netflix is bringing the boxing gloves right.
(11:48):
These are some fighting words.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The co CEO of Netflix, and I feel like Netflix
is just trying to rub salt in the wound of
movie theaters that are you know, have been struggling for
years trying to get people back in. But anyways, Netflix
co CEO Ted Sarandos says that the struggling global box
(12:11):
office is a sign that consumers just want to watch
movies at home, thank you very much. And that and
this as the studios and theaters are duking it out
over trying to preserve the forty five day window right
for releases that we had talked about before, and he
called it completely out of step with the consumer experience
(12:32):
of just loving a movie and being able to love
that movie at home.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
See. So the thing is, yeah, well there are two things.
One that's clearly false just given the fact that there
are so many movies recently that people are flocking to
fill those seats. You know, minecraft that made or is
about to make a billion dollars, people flooding to the
movie theater to go see that. As I said, sinners
getting great word of mouth. People are willing to go
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to the movie theater for a great or even at
the very low bar and a good movie. And so
when you have these very popular ips popular movies or
great reviewed and critically acclaimed films that are that are
you know people are just talking about, people show up,
they're going I went to Imax and I'll say over
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half of the movie theater was filled. And this was
on a Thursday afternoon, on Thursday afternoon, and people are there.
And so yeah, of course, the person in charge of
a streaming service, would you're saying people love streaming services
so much that they're not going to the movie theaters.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The reason is there are a lot of stinkers out there,
a lot of movies that are just being you know,
rebooted or spun off, and people are tired of those
films or they're just not good, and so they'd rather
wait two weeks or three weeks for it to come
to streaming. But when you have something that is that
feels like an experience, people are willing to go out
there to watch the film.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So yeah, it's also the price too, says skyrocketing, the food,
the things, But what they're selling is the experience, right
And you and I both love the movies. You can't
have them. You can't have movies without the movie theater.
You cannot have movies without the experience, right there. Movie
theaters are never going to go the way of the Dodo.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Don't you dare to say that. I was just thinking, like, imagine,
like fifty years somebody plays the video again, they're like,
look at those idiots talking about movie theaters existing now
we have.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Do you think do you think that Dodos like they
they had no wings because they got turned into Tende's.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yes way back. Yes, and they're delicious, right, but they
but they.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Like existed back then, and like, so who invented the tendies? Anyway,
We're just gonna keep mking them.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, we're gonna make this entire episode with tickettenders. But yeah,
so I think of course, again, the guy in charge
of the streaming service is gonna tell people that streaming
services are great and that you really don't like the
movie theater experience.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Don't listen to him, listen to he just wants you
to watch everything on Netflix on your I.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Got rid of my tell you, I got rid of
my Netflix.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No, I always teetering.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I was always teetering. And then I finally taught it
over and I got rid of Netflix, though I replaced
it for another streaming service. I got back to Max hbos.
So I got rid of HBO Max like last year,
and and now I'm back on it just because the
Last of Us is back, right, so that may be
a good transition. I'll just leave the CEO Netflix thing
(15:29):
by saying you're wrong, You're wrong. Yeah, great movies are made.
People will come if they if you build it, if
you make it, they will come. And speaking of again
HBO Max, And my reasoning for resubscribing is the Last
of Us Season two is out. Last week. We talked
about the first episode, which was a good kind of like,
(15:50):
you know, resetting of the scene, catching us up with
where the characters are five years later, sending setting up
the conflict and the drama that will that will erase
literally in some cases, and in this episode spoilers, we're gonna,
we're gonna, we're gonna touch on spoilers for nine to
Go two two in death. But this is the main spoiler.
(16:11):
For those who are not familiar with the video game,
what happened in the video game to one of the
main characters happened viciously, ruthlessly.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
See, I've known. I've known for the last couple of years.
I watched like all the cut scenes from the video game,
which you can watch on YouTube like a movie. So
I've known, and I've been hoping upon hope that they
would change something right, that maybe this didn't need to happen.
(16:43):
And I guess that.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
See, I'm on the other I'm on the other end.
It sucks that it happened, but I think it's critical
to the story, it's important to the character arc for Ellie,
and so changing it would piss off a lot of people,
even though people love the certain actor and the character,
of course, and especially for those who had no idea
what happened in the video game, never played, it, never
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looked at videos or whatnot, and so the shock, especially
episode two, episode two of the of the second season,
Big Big surprise to a lot of people. So I
think they had to keep it in and I'm glad
they kept it in. It had that emotional weight, had
that emotional impact. I can't wait for the next episode. Yeah,
you haven't watched the episode now. So this is the
(17:29):
next discussion, next point of discussion regarding this because people
people are saying, you know, people who especially played the
video game and are watching the series. That kind of
brought this to light, saying that there are people online
who've been saying that they no longer want to continue
watching the series after this big event occurred, because obviously,
(17:49):
you know, it's it's a very favorite character. Again, if
we're dancing around it, but you may be able to
deduce what we're talking about. And so there are people
saying that they have no reason to watch it because
a certain character was their main reason for one to
watch it. And these people reviewers and video game players,
they were saying, you know, it happening in the video game.
(18:12):
It's much easier to continue with the story because you're
you're physically playing the game, you're moving characters, and you're
prolonging the story. When you're when you're when you when
it's translated onto the screen. It's much easier for somebody
to just put the quote controller down to put the
show away, because you know, they've lost investment in it,
and they likened it to what happened with the Walking Dead.
(18:35):
This is you know, Walking Dead, it's over. I mean,
it's still going on still. But Glenn, the character Glenn,
when Glenn was killed off in season four or five
or when not Walking Dead, they they basically died or
became a became a you know, a shadow of itself
became a walker. Because after Glenn died, one of the
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most favorite characters of the show has been there since
since episode one. They lost like two million viewers the
next week and every week since then. Yeah, and so
people are saying, you know, online that they either don't
want to continue the story or they're so shocked by it.
And then because again they had no idea that that
they that they're dropping off. That's is that how you feel?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I would say that, you know, even even in the
video game, yeah, I think you described it very well.
You know, you can remain invested and keep playing it.
But even even so, that storyline was very unpopular and
controversial when when the game came out, so I was
hoping that they could dance around it somehow or push
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it back to further in the season, or we can
have sort of like forward flashes backward flashes where we
keep this character sort of invested, keep the audience invested
in this character because we continue to show him throughout
the season. Yeah, just in like flash and things like that. Look,
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this character has died on screen before in equally brutal,
in horrific ways, and people were able to continue being
invested in the show. But that's because that show had
a lot more characters to be invested in a much
broader world. So look, I'm gonna keep watching the show.
(20:26):
I just I haven't watched episode two because I can't
stand to see it this part. Like, I know it happens,
I know it's brutal, I know it's like just the
worst thing ever. I will continue watching after episode three,
you know. But I don't think for me personally, it's
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gonna turn me off from watching the rest of the show,
because I think it's a really excellent show with a
really excellent story. I love Bella Ramsey so much and
I want to see what happens next. But I just
can't watch the violent part. This particular violent part. I
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love the clickers.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I really am is a really good because that's that's
one part of this episode. But the rest of the episode,
you know, the town becomes like under siege of thousands
of walkers. They're not walkers, so they're like infected. I
think the clickers clickers. They're clickers.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's a type of Oh that's the bigger ones.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, well, the bigger ones are called something else. The
clickers are the ones that click and like the use sonar.
Yeah exactly, but yeah, but I think they're in Generally
they're referred to as infected or the infected. Okay, anyway,
not important, but the thing is. But the a lot
of other things that happen in the episode. Again, the
town becomes you know, under sieged by thousands of infected,
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and it's a very gripping scene of people trying to
survive and defend the town and defend each other. And
there are moments where you're like, you know, you know,
clenching the side of the couch because you don't know
what's gonna happen. So it's a great episode all around, and.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Uh, great zombies.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like, yeah, I will say, I do think we are
going to get more Pedro. I think we're gonna get
more Pedro through flashbacks. There's a scene in the first episode,
at the end of the first episode where after the
confrontation inside the church, Ellie Walks is walking back home
and she sees Joel on the porch with the guitar
and and they kind of ends right there. So I
think they're gonna flash back to them having a discussion.
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I think they're gonna have flashbacks to other moments.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So it's not the end, people, it's not the end.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's still going to be you don't know, We're just
gonna flat out he said the name.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah, he's still going to be this great emotional motivator.
You know for Ellie.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
What if they force ghost him, what if they what
if they he just he just comes back as a
force ghost. If you have a giving Ellie advice on
top of that clicker exactly. Yeah. Great, Well, the Last
of Us. It's fantastic show. It's it's great so far,
and I can't wait for episode three. But speaking about
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another great show and episodes three, one, two, and three
and or season two came out this week and they
released the first three episodes, which which I love because
like the previous season, have you seen the first season?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, I'm a terrible Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Fan, terrible. This is the best Star Wars ever.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I know it is.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I know it is.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
My aunt's been trying to get me to watch it forever.
I feel like my heart still wasn't healed completely after
the last trilogy, but here's a great opportunity to finally, finally,
finally get into it. But I will let you take
it away because you are much better for Star Wars
man than I.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I won't give a way too much spoilers, but I
do love that they released the first three episodes of
the season two one time because in the previous season
and those who've watched the first one, they know that
there were nine episodes and they were broken down in
three kind of in three three sections, and so the
first three episodes follow one arc, and then the next
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three episodes, so four or five, six follows another arc.
All the same characters are there, but different different different
points on their mission of the story are broken up
into three sections, and it feels like a movie. So
each section is like you know, you have like thirty
forty five minutes, so it kind of builds up to
like a short movie. The first three episodes followed by
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the next three and then the last three, And so
with this season they released the first three and you
follow this arc of you know, this is a year
after the events of the previous season. We see it
opening up with Cassie and Or on board at this
rebel sorry, this Empire base, and he's there to steal
(24:49):
a new prototype of an X wing fighter. Sorry, what's
the what's the tie fighter?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
This?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This is an experiment like prototype of a tie fighter,
And so it opens up. But that is very exhilarating
and very exciting, and I think it's off to a
great start. It's already getting wicked crazy, wicked awesome reviews.
Metacritic is like through the Roof is like an a
which is like very rare and unheard of for any
show or any movie, so not can attest. It's a
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great It's a great show off to a great start.
And the acting is phenomenal, the actions phenomenal, the visual effects,
and the cgi phenomenal. It makes me wonder again. I
think I mentioned it last week with I forget what
we were talking about but oh, with Daredevil, they're able
to do this for Star Wars, for and Or, make
everything look fantastic, make it look make it look like
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and I'm sure a lot of it was shot on
location in fields, on mountains and all these different places.
Why can't they do these with the actual big movies
they're promoting. It's mind boggling the night and day contrast
between the quality of the storytelling and all this other
stuff between and Or and the rest of the rest
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of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I feel like these shows get a little bit more leeway, right,
They have a little bit more freedom to tell the
story that they're telling, whereas like the mainstream Skywalker, you know, Saga,
who was just all tied up with like corporate executives
putting in you know, like oh this, it has to
have this, and has to have It's just way too
(26:21):
much meddling, you know. And uh, yeah, the story didn't
the story's not there. Nothing else falls into place either.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So so yeah, I don't know, they need to study
and Or and just repeat and just do that just again,
not repeat the beats, but just repeat the quality and
investment and the love and dedication that's put into this series.
Because there's no reason why it should be this good.
There's no reason why a Star Wars product should be
this good, but it is. So I think everybody does great.
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I can't wait to see more of the.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well and Rogue one was good good. This is leading up.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
To correct yeah, yeah, So this would be I think
the final season and then and then after this it'll
lead directly into Rogue one. And from my my understanding
is there's gonna be a mini time jump. I think
in between each of the three episodes. So these first
three episodes aired, uh, and when we come back to
episode four, there will be some sort of time jump
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because right now they're they're in bb BB Y four,
which is like four years before the Battle of Yavin,
So I think they may jump maybe two years. And
whatever they do, I'm excited for it. So let us
know what you think about The Last of Us and
what do you think about and or because this is great,
great television that I can't get enough of, and I'm
trying to, you know, just soak it all in while
(27:39):
while it lasts. All this good stuff lasts, from.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Great television to great movies, great movies.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
This is probably my favorite movie of the year. So far,
I would say the best movie of the year so far, Sinners.
Sinners the latest film from Ryan Coogler, again, the director
of Black Panther of read of Fruit Veil Fruit Veale
Station that this is probably his best film. And I
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can't speak highly more highly of this one. And this
is going to be a non spoiler review. I would
recommend it. Don't watch the trailers. You could watch the
first trailer it's it's like a teaser kind of trailer
for the movie. The second one gives away spoilers and
a lot of people and I myself went into the
movie knowing what the what the actual plot was, or
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more the plot details and you know, things to expect.
That didn't change my experience. But if you went into
this movie cold, you would be I think hit with
this amazing twist, this amazing development that would just knock
your socks off. And again, so if you can try
to avoid watching trailer two, try to avoid watching any
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other reviews or spoiler reviews before watching this. But this
stars Michael B. Jordan. He plays not one person, he
plays two people. He plays twins, the twin brothers, Smoke
and Stack Hailey Steinfeld. In this film, Delroy Lindo, Jack
O'Connell and introducing for his first film ever, Miles Cayton.
(29:12):
I believe it's Miles Caton c at o n. He
plays Sammy Moore, this young blues guitarist. He wants to
be a musician. He's the son of a preacher and
so his nickname is Preacher Boy. But he doesn't really
want to follow in the preacher's footsteps, his father's footsteps.
He wants to, you know, do what his heart's telling him,
and that's to play blues music, to play music. And
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this story is basically it's a historical rated R horror
film takes place in nineteen thirty two Jim Crow era Mississippi.
The story follows the brothers of Smoke and Stack again
played by Michael D. Jordan, who in You know, there
are many films where like the same actor kind of
plays a twin recently Mickey seventeen, where you have Robert
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Pattinson playing himself, you have like clones, or you have
The Flash Ezra Miller, like there's like two versions of
the Flash. And but in those films, I don't know
I've seen. I haven't seen Mickey seventeen to be fair,
I haven't seen the Flash, but I've seen many clips
of the Flash, and it just kind of doesn't look
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very great the CGI work in general, but also just
kind of like them being next to each other. It
feels like you can tell one was filmed on this
side and then they were but the other you know,
he redid his shot on this side. It didn't look
that really that smooth, or it took a lot of
effort to make them both fit in that screen, is
what I'm trying to say. But for this film, Michael B.
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Jordan interacting with Michael B. Jordan so well, and even
after like the first minute, after seeing these two, you
kind of forget of how that that this is the
same actor playing two different people. Like the character like,
personality wise, they're different and they look very they look
they're identical twins, but they but he's able to portray
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each other, each brother differently enough where there's no mistaking
which ones which and who's with who and all this stuff.
So that worked out so well. Basically, the two brothers
smoke and stack their nicknames. They return home from to
their small talent in Mississippi after being in Chicago for
seven years. This is also after fighting in World War One,
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they come back with the goal of opening up a
juke joints basically like a nightclub for blues players or
so people, so the black community can come in party,
spend their money, drink, dance and have a good time. However,
things turn upside down when a greater evil awaiting welcomes
them back home. So many great things to talk about
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this film, and I will break this up in different categories. Again,
I won't go in depth all. All I'm saying is
I love this film. The action. If you're looking for
a great action film, this has a lot of great
stuff and creative. Again, it's so hard to to talk
about what they're fighting without spoiling it, so I won't
go in too much detail. But the action is great.
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A lot of like hand to hand action, gun fight action,
you know, wooden bats and sticks action, all that stuff
that's great. There's a there's an element of drama in
this film because the stack, the smoke and Stack the
brothers they were turned home, and they've burnt a lot
of bridges when they left, and so they're coming back
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into this small town where everybody knows they're back, and
and these guys are they're tough guys, you know they
they are on the more on the crime side of
the law. I guess they were lawbreakers. I guess you
could say and so. But they're rough and tough kind
of guys who people don't want to mess with. But
they've also burned a lot of bridges and so there
are a lot of people that are just not happy
with them being back. The horror aspect of this film,
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I wouldn't say it's straight full blown horror. If you
have any questions, please let me know. There's this isn't
there's so much fun elements in this, but when the
horror cranks up, it cranks up to a ten. And
there are moments where I'm literally like my heart is
beating because there's a moment where there's one character on
the side of a door and there's another on the
(33:11):
other side, and there's a small hole that was punctured
by by a knife and one character.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Never look in the hole, never look in the hole,
but this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Character, several characters get right up closer into it, and
I'm not gonna say anything, but like it's tense, Like
I was like, like, what are you guys doing That's
just one example of like a.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Tense team you're in a horror I know that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know, there's a lot of thrilling stuff in this
film as well. But the one part that everybody is
talking about and that I that impacted me the most
of this film was the music. As I mentioned, there's
this character named Sammy. He's a young guy, you know,
twenty something years old, and he has in his it's
in his blood to sing, to perform, to play the guitar,
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and and in the beginning of the film, and this
is a spoiler, but in the beginning of the film,
there's a voiceover that describes people with a certain supernatural
gift throughout the millennia. So it goes back to like
two African tribesmen to Native Americans, to people you know.
Ever since humans could play music, there have been people
with the ability to through their performing of music, whether
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it's singing and or playing an instrument, they're able to
transcend space and time and dive into or connect with
spirits of the past, present, in the future. And there's
a sequence, a one shot sequence in this film where
music captures those who are in this juke joint, in
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this nightclub and everybody's entranced by this music. And this
is the first time, and I'm being pletty honest, this
is the first time I felt kind of hypnotized while
watching a film. Like I'm not even joking, like it,
I felt the music through my body while watching this film.
After the film, I go check out some reviews I'm
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reading online or read it what people are saying. Every
comment was bringing up this sequence, that it has such
a physical and emotional impact to them. I'm trying not
to hype this up too much because I've been tied
to my wife, but it's it's a it's a very
transformative sequence in this film that that's really hard to explain,
and I can only say, just go in and experience
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because it's it's such creative filmmaking, not only in the
technical sense in the work of the one shot that
Ryan Coogler was able to direct, but also the technical sense,
the musical sense, the score or the song, the visually
it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
So you would say it's a very unique experience.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
It's a very unique experience that I and that's incredibly
difficult to pull off. And again, I'm not the only
person who thought this, Like again, this is what I
found in the theater, and right after I had to
look up to see what people were saying about this.
Every top comment on Reddit, So don't look at Reddit
before you watch this film. But if every top comment
on Reddit was describing and talking about this sequence, so
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it was like, it's not just me feeling this like
many people have felt this.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I feel like this movie came out of nowhere, though
I don't remember like hearing the marketing or build up
for it, so it's kind of a sleeper. When did
you hear about it? And so you were talking about
the word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, So the thing is, I actually saw the first
trailer several weeks ago, maybe three or four weeks ago,
and I'll be honest, I watched the trailer and I
wasn't that My interest wasn't peaked. It really wasn't. I
thought Ryan Coogler is a great director, blackel b Jordan,
He's fantastic. It just didn't like, it didn't make me
think about, you know, I'm gonna definitely get into go
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see this movie in theaters. But then word of mouth,
the word of mouth on this film is doing wonders
for it, and this is why it's doing so great
at the box office, and I imagine this is one
of those films that will be kept in theaters for
a longer period, for that at least forty five day period,
because people are wanting to go watch this, especially in Imax.
I didn't even talk the Imax. This was filmed for Imax,
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and one great thing that they do again visually speaking
and technically speaking, cinematography speaking, there are moments where you
have the aspect ratio you know, go down, where you
have the black bars on the top and bottom of
the of the screen, and then there are sequences where
those black bars rise up and you have the entire
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IMAX screen available. And it's during these sequences where, for example,
the music sequence or dance sequences, or certain important moments
where like you feel that I think that's part of
what got people like myself feeling like hypnotized by this
film because you're involved by it. But the use of
Imax and the format is done perfectly in this film.
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And so that's why I recommend not only watching this
in theaters, but watching it on an Imax if you can,
because that experience was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's right, not just it's not just waiting for it to.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Be watching it on your phone. No, absolutely not IMAX. Again,
I'm not gonna give away spoilers if you if you don't,
If you do know, like the quote twists or whatnot,
it does not ruin the film for you, because I
knew it going in, and this is this is a
great movie. If you're a music fan, if you're a
blues fan, specifically, wait for the end of the movie.
(38:40):
There's there's a mid credit scene, like after credits scene.
Wait for that. You will be rewarded if you are
a blues fan. If you are a music fan, Uh,
it's a it's a beautiful ending. I was telling my
wife because because I'm describing the sequence to her and
the vibe, it's all about vibes during the sequence and
during other parts too. But I'm telling her about this
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and she and I showed her the trailer and she goes,
this is not what you described to me at all,
And I said, yeah, the trailer doesn't, doesn't you know,
It isn't what I described, wasn't the horror film that
I watched, And so she was kind of taken it
back by the trailer. But the more I'm talking about it.
And even before this podcast, I was telling you, I
keep thinking about the sequence, I keep thinking about this movie.
(39:21):
And she's not a big fan of horror films, but
she says, and I told her, I don't want to
give away any spoilers or anything, and she says, no, no,
I don't want, I want. I don't want to go
I don't want to know anything. I want to go
in cold. So this is a film that she actually
wants to watch now, which I'm more than willing to
end happy to take her to go watch again, just
because there aren't that many films that stick with you
(39:42):
that like that. This film is sticking with me. So
if you are a fan of horror, if you're a
fan of action, if you're a fan of history. Again,
this takes place during nineteen thirties, you know, segregation, Jim
Crow era Mississippi, so it has that aspect to it
as well. And there are a lot of messages and
and you know, things that you can dissect talking about
(40:03):
you know, current day politics, past day politics and whatnot
that you can decipher. So if you're into any of
the stuff, there is something in this film for you.
I get I feel like I could talk for hours
about this film, and I would love to talk about
a spoiler, you know, going definitely going stuff, you know,
down down the road. But like I said, I think
this is a nine out of ten, if not a
(40:24):
ten out of ten film. You should watch it right
now and and just you know, so Oscar I, oh
my god, Ryan, Ryan Coogler, I'm saying right now, has
to be nominated for Best Director, has to be directed,
nominated for Best Writer. He also wrote this film. The
cinematography needs to be nominated, the the the attire, everything
(40:50):
about this film is nearly perfect. There's one little thing
that I could quote maybe nitpick that kind of felt
forced near the but even then it is an enjoyable sequence. Yeah,
isn't enjoyable sequence that I think they're The director was like,
you know, we still got time. Let's let's throw this
in here, and like does he need to throw it
in there?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Not really, but he does. And you know what, I'm
not complaining about it. I won't complain about it because
it's a really fun and like we're we're to say,
feel good moment in this film, But sinners, go watch
it in theaters while you can. Before I get snatched
out of theaters and put on some streaming service watch
the Imax.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
James loves this movie, and if you love movies, continue
to hang out with us here on the Hub on Hollywood. Yes,
because we will bring you these reviews, passion, this passion
right see, and we will bring you reviews. We will
(41:52):
bring you casting calls, we will bring you interviews. We've
got more exciting interviews with great local filmmakers coming up
in the weeks ahead, so stick around for that. James,
Where can they find us?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
You can find us anywhere anywhere you get your podcast
So whether you listen to us on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
we are there anywhere you get your podcasts. You can
also find us on all the social media's at Hub
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You're on Twitter x all that jazz, Instagram, Twitter, I'm
(42:29):
calling you Twitter still and again, the most important part
is if you are watching us on YouTube, thank you
for the support. Subscribe and join us. We are on
a mission to reach five hundred subscribers this year. As
we mentioned in like two episodes ago, we broke four
hundred after four months of after breaking three hundred before that.
(42:49):
So right now we're at last check, four hundred and
thirty six subscribers in the past two weeks. So help
us get to five hundred. When we get to five hundred,
we're gonna we're gonna, you know, talk about a criteria
of sorts, but we're gonna pick somebody, a lucky listener,
a lucky viewer, and you had the chance of winning,
you will win. Whoever we pick, we'll get a shirt
(43:12):
and a help on Hollywood hat on us, merch merch.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
So yeah, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Great stuff right now. I'm feeling euphoric right now, we're
talking about centers and all this great stuff that we're
watching the last of us and or uh it.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Is raining down upon us, this great rain on me,
whatever that is. Yes, so we will continue to have that.
We'll have some some movie time, right some movie time
at home, and then maybe.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Some chicken tenders after that, you know it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
From the Puritan back room.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Get the AMC Chicken nuggets, the impossible Nuggets, posible nuggets,
impossible nuggets, diggity, don't read, don't read the nutrient facts,
the nutritional stats and information for the impossible nuggets.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Are they that impossible? Are they like not real like
veggies and stuff?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I don't know. They're they're sawdust. No, no, they're they're vegan.
It's just like they taste very good for a reason.
They taste unbelievably good for a reason. So just okay,
don't eat it, don't eat it often. But I mean
you can eat it in the other movie theaters. It's
so good. My wife and I were talking about it,
like they should make these AMC Impossible night gets available
(44:26):
to the stores to you know, sell it more money.
They should, However, that'd be bad for my health. That's
how good they are. Bad they are for you. Okay,
oh goodness, Well let's know what you think. Thanks again
for stopping Buy the Hub on Hollywood until next week.
I'm James, I'm Jamie. See u.
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