April 4, 2025 • 26 mins
Hap Erstein Reviews:
"The Penguin Lessons"
"The Friend"
"A Working Man"
"Holland"
Honorable Mentions:
"A Minecraft Movie"
"Hell of a Summer"
"The Penguin Lessons"
"The Friend"
"A Working Man"
"Holland"
Honorable Mentions:
"A Minecraft Movie"
"Hell of a Summer"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm Ford w JNO dot com. And while
he was out last week, not a whole lot to
talk about anyway, but he'll.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Catch us up with whatever there might have been hap
ersty in the movie, Guy Pompy chartspaper dot com.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Not a whole lot going on. You had that snow
White movie.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It kind of bombed after you know, I mean it
bombed in general if you're talking about making a profit.
But you were saying that you thought it did a
little bit better than you would have expected based on
all the press.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well indeed, I mean the people were dumping on this
movie left and right. But again there is yet to
be I think, a live action remake of a Disney
animated feature that's better than the original. And that's during
the case. Again, this one goes back to nineteen thirty seven. Yeah,
the very first full length feature. That's the one to
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go see. Don't follow with this one.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I yeah, you know, so you're saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean, maybe there was a lot of the negative
press and actress Rachel Zegler and some of the you know,
in mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Disease, but it's not really footing mouth. It's not really
foot in mouth disease.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If if she doesn't feel like she put her foot
in her mouth because she doubled down on it. And
you know, she's really an odd duck. I looked up
IMDb or Internet Movie Database page. She's got nothing in
the works, so and I know she's getting ready to
She's already done one or two shows on Broadway, and
I believe she's getting ready to do another one.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I forget what it is. I think for for the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Distant future, at least, I think that's where her calling
is going to be at this point. Maybe eventually she gets.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Careers over yet, but she has she learned to shut
up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, maybe maybe she'll get back on screens at some point.
By the way, I saw snow White. I saw snow White,
and I will after you do your stuff, I will,
I will share my share my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'm in suspense. I'll wait a minute. Okay, let's talk
about this. Though it says, the best of admittedly slow
week at the movies includes a couple of worthy films
that are have prompintly feature animal pets, like the drama
The Penguin Lessons. It's set in nineteen seventy six, Argentina
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during a time of military coup space in our real
life memoir. The film stars Britz Steve Coogan. He's the
guy that made his amusing food trips movies, The Trip
to Italy, then to Spain the de Greece with Rob Brydon.
He replays Tim Michelle, who takes a job at an
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upscale private school trying to teach English to privileged Argentine boys.
When the military takes over, though closing the school for
a while, Tom takes a trip to Uruguay where he
rescues a tiny, adorable penguin on the beach, caught up
in an oil slick. He manages to smuggle the bird
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back to Buenos Aires and into his college apartment, where
the bird all but takes over the movie, charming every
one of the encounters except the brusque rout by the
rules Headmaster played by the very great down Jonathan Price.
Cougan gets top billing, but the movie belongs to the penguin.
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As dubbed Juan Salvador, The film is directed by a
guy named Peter Katanio, probably best known for the Full Monty,
but that was almost thirty years ago. He juggles to
dry comedy and the political drama pretty well though, which
is not an easy feat. The Penguin Lesson is a
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small picture, but I think it's what worth taking a
look at. It's in theaters only now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Why am I flaking? On the movie that Steve Coogan did?
It wasn't in a whole lot because he loses his head.
The comedy oh Man years ago that people say they
couldn't make today with Robert Downey Junior playing the dudes
playing the dude who's playing the other dude? You know
what I'm talking about. I'm flake and on the it
was the comedy the uh, it was like a Vietnam pick. Oh,
(04:05):
Why am I no Tropic Thunder? Tropic Thunder, the Tropic Thrunder. Yeah, well,
the Pineapple Express guy, the Pineapple Express guy was in it.
Whatever his name is the hack, but he's he's funny,
I guess, but he doesn't have a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I forget the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Cougan's quite good too, and I like this movie. It's
just it's uh, it's just gonna be lost, and I
think I'm afraid. Then there's the friend about a single
woman who's named Irish, played by Touching it by Naomi Watts,
a New Yorker who inherits Apollo, a huge Great Dane
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with no spoiler here. Her friend and writing mentor played
by Bill Murray, commits suicide and uh and leaves the
dog in her care. The dog is the last thing
she needs. He tears up her torny apartment when she
leaves him alone by day, and since Pencer prohibited, she
is threatened with eviction by her landlords. Murray's only seemed
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briefly in a few flashbacks, So the movie really belongs
to Iris and to Apollo. Yeah, they learned to live
with each other, you know, YadA YadA. But thanks to
ed director David Siegel and Scott McGhee, the film's not
nearly as sentimental as all that sounds. The Friend's based
on her novel by Sigared Nunez, and it fords Watt's
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probably her best role in years. Irish has never had
a dog, never wanted a dog, but from beyond the grave,
Bil Marry character really knows what she needs understood the
dog would really make an important contribution to her life.
It probably helps if you are a dog person, but
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even if not, the friend isn't enjoyable if you know,
kind of a jaunty little move of self discovery. It's
in theaters currently, but if it's probably you could wait
a while, let it arrive on some streaming service that'd
be okay to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It doesn't sound like like it's a you know, action pick.
It's not something that you need the big screen for, right,
you know, there's no.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Always turns down. Most of the things he's offered is
so rare that you see him even a short bit
of him goes a long way. No, it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Bad, and he's done.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's a week of not bad.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He's done non comedic roles in the past. What was
the big movie that I don't think he won?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Did he? But he? Ah? What's her name? No, but
I think the director did.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Nicholas Cage's niece, not Nicholas Cage's niece, Coppola's niece, her
daughter or daughter maybe whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What was that movie that he was in lost in
translation translation that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Early film Bize Cat Charlotte Johansson, And yes, that was
certainly it was. There was committed bits to it, but
it's more drama. And yes, that was a very nice
performance on both their parts.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I took a chance on that. I didn't see the movies.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I was in the theaters because I was like, this
looks boring or whatever, and you know me, I have
no well just leave it at you know me, no chase, Yeah,
maybe so. But I ended up I watched it on
one of the streaming I wanted, and I was like, Wow,
this is actually a really really good movie. It's it's
an intest. It was an interesting acting piece, if nothing else,
for both of.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Them, and a great introduction to to Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Absolutely, yeah, it was a It was a pretty cool plus.
Giovanni Rabisi was in it. I always liked him. It's
a name of people are people are like, who the
heck is that?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But you know him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you saw Giovanni Rabisi, he's been He's been doing
movies since what the nineties, early nineties maybe, And and
from the name.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He's got to be a foreign actor. I think he
was born in Long Island.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, no, he's just a taste and an Italian American.
But all right, what else did you have an art
house pick?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, let me go back to last week before artistic
I got that Jason Stath in the action picture A
Working It opened last week and if you ever seen
one of his movies, you've seen you know exactly what
to expect from this one, as he really doesn't. He's
not an actor of much range, let's face it, which
he acknowledges because he habitually keeps making the same movie
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over and over again. Maybe he'll get Gilliam Neeson Award
worthy plays Levon Cade, former British Army warrior now working
in construction in Chicago. The plot kicks in when the
teenage daughter of his boss, played by the reliable Michael Pena,
is kidnapped by Russian gangsters and Levon is enlisted to
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try and find her and rescue her. Can you imagine
a more generic storyline than that? It's an excuse for
fight scenes and other resorted violence, much of which is
pretty well staged by director David Ayres, who previously worked
with Satan on The Beekeeper last year. And if A
Working Man reminds you of the Expendables the multi part
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franchise has been over the past three decades or so,
that could be because Dathan's co star in that series.
So Investors Tallone co wrote this script. It was one
of its producers, everyone involved. The team's worked at delivering
more of the same. And if that's what you're in for,
you know what, no surprises a working man has probably
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won't disappoint you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, I hadn't seen it yet. I'm going to talk
about some of this stuff I saw. Let's give an
honorable mention to the movie I think is going to
win the box office this week if for two reasons.
One it's you know, it's a kids movie, so people
are going to bring two, three, four kids, you know,
maybe the neighborhood kids. Maybe you know, mothers and parents
that don't want to go a lot of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They'll shove the kids on their neighbors and say, hey,
take take mine with your kids. Here here's you know,
here's some money. But a minecraft movie. The other reason is,
and you mentioned this earlier, there's not there's no competition.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
So it's a video game turned into a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, come on, yeah, Well it doesn't mean it's going
to be good.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, it's going to sell a lot of tickets.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But well the Mario, the Mario movie made a lot
of money. And I don't know if I don't I
didn't see it, so I don't know if it was good.
I know people that did see it and liked it,
but they are people that are fans of the game.
So if you're fans of the game and they keep
the movie close to the game, then they usually, you know,
people enjoy it. If they don't, there, I can't remember
there was one a.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Year or so a day.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Jumanji was a big series.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, the Jumanji movies did well, right.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I guess that was more of a board game, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, it was an old, old board game. And I
never saw the newer Jumanji. I just I remember the
Robin Williams one. I didn't want to taint taint my
memories of that one, and it was a pretty good
movie back in the day. So but uh, well, speaking
of Jumanji, I think Jack Black is in that one, right,
and he's in this Minecraft movie.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I could be wrong. Are you sure Jack Black is?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh that's always a mark of quality Jack Black.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, well you know that.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And he's I mean, he's the and and you know
when you got Jack Black, you know you figure he's
going to be the star. Nope, Jason Momoa, how the
hell did they get Jason Momoa.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
To do this, not that he's.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well demand.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I guess, I mean, I guess, all right, never mind,
I don't know. And anyway, there's not a whole lot
to say about this. It's a live action adaptation of Minecraft,
the best selling video game of all time. Jennifer Coolidge,
I'm assuming puts her voice in this. Kate McKinnon, same thing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah. Anyway, you know, I've just.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Been watching a series called White Lotus.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I never saw that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Coolidge is just terrific in that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No, I've never watched it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Okay, it's it's it's really quite something. But I'm two
seasons in. Jennifer Colich is great.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She's definitely made a you know, name for you know,
Stiffler's was her big thing, you know, in the early
two thousands, and now she's more known for the White
Lotus and the Discover commercials. But Minecraft, Minecraft, I am
I'm going to be spending time with my twelve year
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old daughter this weekend, and I'm hoping this is not
a movie she wants to see. I know she's familiar,
I know she's played the game. We've watched the trailer
for this before, and she didn't seem really anxious about
seeing it, like she didn't go, Oh, I definitely want
to see that, So I'm hoping that's probably the.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Best thing for a twelve year old, though these others
really inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll be honest with you, if I was going to
see anything with her this weekend, if she wanted to,
I would see snow White again. And I know you're
going to think I'm crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, you're a good father. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, I'll tell you why. I enjoyed the movie. I
saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I went a fifty five year old man sitting alone
in a movie theater, not alone in them because there
were other people, although not that many in the theater,
but I was by myself.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you think your daughter has seeing the original cartoon?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I think she's probably seen scenes from it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Don't you rent that instead? Just stay home?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, we're not going to be home. I guess I
could find it on the phone. We could watch it
on the phone somewhere. Yeah, I guess, I don't know.
I want to see what she thinks. Some of the
newer musical numbers are pretty good. I'm going to give
Rachel Zegler for as for as much as you could
say about her potentially on a personal level, foot and
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mouth disease, whatnot. She's a talented.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Singer, very talented young lady.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, yeah, she's a talented singer. I thought I thought
it was an entertaining movie. I was surprised I liked
it as much as I did because I went in
expecting to hate it. Maybe that was the trick, Maybe
because I was expecting to hate it and.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But you know, I didn't think think it was you
know that quote unquote woke You know, I didn't. I
didn't think they Disney. Maybe they tweaked some stuff down, but.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, there's no longer a Prince Charming, well there, and
she's a much more active takes care of her own
problems correct.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
However, And I'm gonna, you know whatever, whatever. Man, if
you were going to see this movie, you already saw it.
Spoiler alert, Okay, tune out if you don't want to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was shocked. I was.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was shocked by this because she made a big
deal about there's no prince coming to kiss me to
wake me up. The boyfriend kissed her and woke her up.
Trueloves kiss. He's still a boyfriend. Okay, he was a
He was a flawed individual. So is every prince, by
the way, look at Prince Andrew. But anyway, well we'll
get past that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But anyway, yeah, yeah, known as Prince Andrew.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah yeah, But but nonetheless, she's still there's still a
man that has to save her.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, well, it doesn't have to savor it has to
wake her up. Okay, she takes care of her own
kind of.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
If he didn't see her, is the movie not over?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I don't want to say, did were you say it? Again?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But who did you? Who? Did you tell me? The
dope he looks like in this movie? Did you tell me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Though? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I did?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I did.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I's thinking that the whole time the Mad magazine, Mad Magazine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yes, hundred percent, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
They really meant that had that in mind or just
that's where my mind took it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I think they just kind of I think they didn't
know exactly where they were going from the beginning with
that whole thing, because of all the uproar from the
the many people in Hollywood. Of obviously Peter Dinklage, the
biggest voice among them, the biggest star among them. Uh,
but uh and I I just wonder if they just can't.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, you can't do movies with little people in them.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I mean, are there seven of them that are? I mean,
are are there that many in Hollywood? Maybe there are?
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
She sleeps with seven guys. It's true, really.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Quick one movie I saw. I don't recommend this past weekend,
Death of the Unicorn. I took a chance on it.
I took a chance on it. I think it can't
decide what it wants to be. So this is Jenna
Ortega and Paul Rudd daughter father. They hit and kill
a unicorn. They didn't know there were unicorns either. If
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you're going there's no unicorns, they thought the same thing.
But they go to this forest. They're on their way
to a weekend retreat. There's a billionaire, Richard Grant, seeks
to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties because he is
in pharmaceuticals. So they have that one message going where
they want to say the pharmaceutical billionaires are trash, which
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many of them are. Let's face it, maybe not all
of them, but it's well, we know, you know, there've
been dope sick and all the other well, you know,
we're looking at Dope, Sick and some of the other
when we talk about some of those some of those folks.
But they don't know if they want to make it
about that, or if they want to make it about
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the father daughter, or if they want to make it
into like a Jurassic Park movie, because that's what it
becomes later in the movie. It's like, all of a sudden,
you're watching an action film with these unicorns chase, you know,
killing everybody. That's what it turns into.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The nicorns.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There are real well i mean Hollywood real unicorns. Yeah,
there are real unicorns running. I mean they're cgi. Nonetheless,
it just they doesn't know what it wants to do.
Paul Rudgen Ortega. But you know who does a really
Taylor Leone's in it. She's fine, you know, doesn't have
to do anything special. You know who does a really
good part in this, a really good part in this understated,
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but he's really good. Will Poulter. Will Poulter does a
really good role in this. He's the son of the
of Tayleone and Richard Grant, the billionaires, and he you know,
he works for the company and whatnot, and he's he's
an interesting character in this movie.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, I like Will Poult it town Little Jurassic Party.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, it is, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's like you're watching it, it's you know, it's a
twenty four, so it's not the biggest budget, although I
mean they're they're paying for Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega,
so they obviously have some money, so you expect it
to be a little more artsy. And then all of
a sudden they make it into this action picture and
it's like, wait, a.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Twenty fours on top of the world. They just won
the OSK Top Picture and Nourra.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, they're doing, they're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They've got more and more stuffs, you know, the more
of that stuff and the you know, more word of mouth,
then people spend more money on movies. But I wish
I didn't see Death of a Unicorn. Just wasn't that
good anyway, all right, anything you can't it anything on
the horizon. What do we we got something to wait?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I've still got my sort of art house. Picky.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh, I interrupted you. I'm sorry. I didn't realize you
weren't done really an our house pick, I could have
slept on it caled.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Kidman has to start choosing her movies more better. Lately,
she stumbles again with her latest called Holland, which is
an art house item not really a pick. Holland is
the film's setting, but it's Holland, Michigan, a fictional small
town what does what it can to tie itself to
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the namesake European country. The town is full of windmills,
its locals who dress up in quaint little UH picture
of picture book costumes, and UH has frequent parades just
for the tourist bait. So despite this, in wanraies to Holland.
What What What happens is Uh It's much more like
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Separate Wives, another Kidman flick. She plays Nancy Vandergrut and
idealize how wife and mother, as well as the home
economic teacher in the local high school. Now she's married
to Fred, an optometrist played by the amiable Matthew mcphaden
who keeps going away on professional conferences. Eventually, Nancy figures
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out he must be having an affair, so she goes on.
Nancy drew snooping for evidence and his infidelity, aided by
the shop teacher Dave Delgado played by quirky g Gabriel
Garcia Barnald with whom she is sun locking lips. Quirky
is a good description of the whole movie, which takes
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some unexpected plot turns and you know it's okay, but
it just doesn't really add up too much. Apparently, the
script for Holland has been kicking around Hollywood for years,
waiting for an off a main star like Kidman to
sign on and get a produced. Director Mimi Cave gives
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the movie as need a tongue in cheat tone, but
Alan must have looked better on the page it does
it on the screen. Understandably, Allen has gone straight to streaming.
It's available on Prime Video. Yeah, so I just love
Nicole Kidman to bother?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Does Nicole Kidman tease us as if she's gonna get
naked and do some sex stuff and then doesn't like
she did in her last movie?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
She got pretty naked in her last movie that they.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Don't remember seeing. I don't remember seeing any parts, but
I could be wrong. Maybe I have to go back
and watch it again.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think you need to watch it again. It doesn't
come close in this one. No, this is maybe PG thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I guess all right, she might have gotten nude if
maybe I forgot because there wasn't a whole lot there, but.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
She didn't watched it though there was no sex and
not on screen.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So anyway, okay, this is mostly kissing. Oh okay, I'll
skip it. It's fine. I think I'd rather watch Penguin Lessons.
And I didn't want to see Penguin Lessons. But you
make it sound actually somewhat decent.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
No, it's it's it's it's it's much better than it's
probably the best of the week.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, what do you What do you have on
the horizon?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, we've got something called The Amateur next week. Oh yes,
Robby Mallock thriller. Looking forward to that one, another kind
of mystery thriller called Drop. And there's a Marble thing
documentary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, apparently back from
the time they did their own single concert together. So
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who knows what's going to come of it, but at
least there's three interesting movies opening up.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Speak really quick for I let you run. I know,
I know you're you know you're you're just dying to
get out of here. Uh myution demand, Yes you mentioned
the uh you just mentioned the Beatles. Did you hear
the news this week?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
They and they're getting together again.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
On on April Fool's Day, they made this announcement. So
folks thought it was a thought, it was a joke.
But there are actually four and I think we might
have talked about this before, and I knew this was
on the horizon. Sam Mendez, the director producer, is putting
out the four. He's making him into four different movies,
which is interesting to do it this way, biopics on
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Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. And
they've named all of the all of the star actors
that are going to play these so I will give
them to you here. They've just came out. I guess
with all the names, I think they had some of
them before. Joseph Quinn and I have to remind myself
(23:34):
of where I've seen some of these people. But Joseph
Quinn as George Harrison, let's see, he's he's going to
be in something upcoming, no doubt. Oh, he was in
the he was in a Quiet Place day one. He
was the dude in the Quiet Place Day one. That
(23:55):
was out Okay, so Joseph Quinn's going to play George Harrison.
I don't know how to say this Ringo star played
by Barry Keyoakin he owen Irish name.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You've seen him, Yeah, I'm picturing the names like joy Keene.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I think, okay, Yeah, I don't know how to say
his name. I always see it and I've never heard
anybody pronounce it. He's in at the end of You
don't really see him at the end of The Batman,
but that was the thing that I remember him from
because it's a they kind of teased it unseen Arkham Prisoner.
He's essentially the He's essentially the Riddler at.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The end of The Batman.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know whether they're going to add him into
the second because I know they're working on another The Batman.
He's in Dunkirk and some other stuff, so that's uh.
He is going to play Ringo Paul Mescal Paul McCartney.
Now he I just watched him not long ago in
the Gladiator two movie Lucius. He's the star of that
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one and Harris Dickenson and plays John Lennon. This guy,
I have to plead ignorance on. Let me look at
his IMDb.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh, he's a running name.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
He's in Baby Girl. Samuel is he the guy? Is
he the dude? He's the dude.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
He's the dude that try that gets that sexes up
Nicole Kidman. So the dude that sexes up gold Nicole Kidman,
even though you don't see it in the movie Baby Girl.
Harris Dickinson is going to be playing John Lennon and
the John Lennon bio pick. But they're all in each
of the picks apparently, so each one is going to
be I mean, I saw.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
A reference that the casting is very good, apparently, that
he really has come up with some good people.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
To play these They don't look anything like them, though.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Are we going to get them one one per year?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I don't know how that George is twenty twenty eight.
It looks like they all have twenty twenty eight written
on them. I think they're all coming out. I'm guessing
this is going to be a streaming thing. I don't
even know. They haven't given a whole lot of info
on it. But each movie is from that that Beatles
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point of view, So why couldn't they just make it
all in one movie?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It is, but I'm just I yeah, continues to be
interested in the Beatles, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm a big Beatles fan, so I'm looking forward to these.
It's just why do we need four of them? And
who's going to watch the Ringo and who's going to
watch the Ringo movie? I mean really, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It probably won't be the best in the box office,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
On that note, I will let you run. Nice chatting
with you since I missed you last week. We had
a nice long time next week, all right, care bye bye,
Hey, Joel Malcolm Ford w JNO dot com. And while
he was out last week, not a whole lot to
talk about anyway, but he'll.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Catch us up with whatever there might have been hap
ersty in the movie, Guy Pompy chartspaper dot com.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Not a whole lot going on. You had that snow
White movie.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It kind of bombed after you know, I mean it
bombed in general if you're talking about making a profit.
But you were saying that you thought it did a
little bit better than you would have expected based on
all the press.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well indeed, I mean the people were dumping on this
movie left and right. But again there is yet to
be I think, a live action remake of a Disney
animated feature that's better than the original. And that's during
the case. Again, this one goes back to nineteen thirty seven. Yeah,
the very first full length feature. That's the one to
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go see. Don't follow with this one.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I yeah, you know, so you're saying a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean, maybe there was a lot of the negative
press and actress Rachel Zegler and some of the you know,
in mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Disease, but it's not really footing mouth. It's not really
foot in mouth disease.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If if she doesn't feel like she put her foot
in her mouth because she doubled down on it. And
you know, she's really an odd duck. I looked up
IMDb or Internet Movie Database page. She's got nothing in
the works, so and I know she's getting ready to
She's already done one or two shows on Broadway, and
I believe she's getting ready to do another one.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I forget what it is. I think for for the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Distant future, at least, I think that's where her calling
is going to be at this point. Maybe eventually she gets.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Careers over yet, but she has she learned to shut
up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, maybe maybe she'll get back on screens at some point.
By the way, I saw snow White. I saw snow White,
and I will after you do your stuff, I will,
I will share my share my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'm in suspense. I'll wait a minute. Okay, let's talk
about this. Though it says, the best of admittedly slow
week at the movies includes a couple of worthy films
that are have prompintly feature animal pets, like the drama
The Penguin Lessons. It's set in nineteen seventy six, Argentina
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during a time of military coup space in our real
life memoir. The film stars Britz Steve Coogan. He's the
guy that made his amusing food trips movies, The Trip
to Italy, then to Spain the de Greece with Rob Brydon.
He replays Tim Michelle, who takes a job at an
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upscale private school trying to teach English to privileged Argentine boys.
When the military takes over, though closing the school for
a while, Tom takes a trip to Uruguay where he
rescues a tiny, adorable penguin on the beach, caught up
in an oil slick. He manages to smuggle the bird
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back to Buenos Aires and into his college apartment, where
the bird all but takes over the movie, charming every
one of the encounters except the brusque rout by the
rules Headmaster played by the very great down Jonathan Price.
Cougan gets top billing, but the movie belongs to the penguin.
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As dubbed Juan Salvador, The film is directed by a
guy named Peter Katanio, probably best known for the Full Monty,
but that was almost thirty years ago. He juggles to
dry comedy and the political drama pretty well though, which
is not an easy feat. The Penguin Lesson is a
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small picture, but I think it's what worth taking a
look at. It's in theaters only now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Why am I flaking? On the movie that Steve Coogan did?
It wasn't in a whole lot because he loses his head.
The comedy oh Man years ago that people say they
couldn't make today with Robert Downey Junior playing the dudes
playing the dude who's playing the other dude? You know
what I'm talking about. I'm flake and on the it
was the comedy the uh, it was like a Vietnam pick. Oh,
(04:05):
Why am I no Tropic Thunder? Tropic Thunder, the Tropic Thrunder. Yeah, well,
the Pineapple Express guy, the Pineapple Express guy was in it.
Whatever his name is the hack, but he's he's funny,
I guess, but he doesn't have a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I forget the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Cougan's quite good too, and I like this movie. It's
just it's uh, it's just gonna be lost, and I
think I'm afraid. Then there's the friend about a single
woman who's named Irish, played by Touching it by Naomi Watts,
a New Yorker who inherits Apollo, a huge Great Dane
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with no spoiler here. Her friend and writing mentor played
by Bill Murray, commits suicide and uh and leaves the
dog in her care. The dog is the last thing
she needs. He tears up her torny apartment when she
leaves him alone by day, and since Pencer prohibited, she
is threatened with eviction by her landlords. Murray's only seemed
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briefly in a few flashbacks, So the movie really belongs
to Iris and to Apollo. Yeah, they learned to live
with each other, you know, YadA YadA. But thanks to
ed director David Siegel and Scott McGhee, the film's not
nearly as sentimental as all that sounds. The Friend's based
on her novel by Sigared Nunez, and it fords Watt's
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probably her best role in years. Irish has never had
a dog, never wanted a dog, but from beyond the grave,
Bil Marry character really knows what she needs understood the
dog would really make an important contribution to her life.
It probably helps if you are a dog person, but
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even if not, the friend isn't enjoyable if you know,
kind of a jaunty little move of self discovery. It's
in theaters currently, but if it's probably you could wait
a while, let it arrive on some streaming service that'd
be okay to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It doesn't sound like like it's a you know, action pick.
It's not something that you need the big screen for, right,
you know, there's no.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Always turns down. Most of the things he's offered is
so rare that you see him even a short bit
of him goes a long way. No, it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Bad, and he's done.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's a week of not bad.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He's done non comedic roles in the past. What was
the big movie that I don't think he won?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Did he? But he? Ah? What's her name? No, but
I think the director did.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Nicholas Cage's niece, not Nicholas Cage's niece, Coppola's niece, her
daughter or daughter maybe whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What was that movie that he was in lost in
translation translation that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Early film Bize Cat Charlotte Johansson, And yes, that was
certainly it was. There was committed bits to it, but
it's more drama. And yes, that was a very nice
performance on both their parts.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I took a chance on that. I didn't see the movies.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I was in the theaters because I was like, this
looks boring or whatever, and you know me, I have
no well just leave it at you know me, no chase, Yeah,
maybe so. But I ended up I watched it on
one of the streaming I wanted, and I was like, Wow,
this is actually a really really good movie. It's it's
an intest. It was an interesting acting piece, if nothing else,
for both of.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Them, and a great introduction to to Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Absolutely, yeah, it was a It was a pretty cool plus.
Giovanni Rabisi was in it. I always liked him. It's
a name of people are people are like, who the
heck is that?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But you know him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you saw Giovanni Rabisi, he's been He's been doing
movies since what the nineties, early nineties maybe, And and
from the name.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He's got to be a foreign actor. I think he
was born in Long Island.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, no, he's just a taste and an Italian American.
But all right, what else did you have an art
house pick?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, let me go back to last week before artistic
I got that Jason Stath in the action picture A
Working It opened last week and if you ever seen
one of his movies, you've seen you know exactly what
to expect from this one, as he really doesn't. He's
not an actor of much range, let's face it, which
he acknowledges because he habitually keeps making the same movie
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over and over again. Maybe he'll get Gilliam Neeson Award
worthy plays Levon Cade, former British Army warrior now working
in construction in Chicago. The plot kicks in when the
teenage daughter of his boss, played by the reliable Michael Pena,
is kidnapped by Russian gangsters and Levon is enlisted to
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try and find her and rescue her. Can you imagine
a more generic storyline than that? It's an excuse for
fight scenes and other resorted violence, much of which is
pretty well staged by director David Ayres, who previously worked
with Satan on The Beekeeper last year. And if A
Working Man reminds you of the Expendables the multi part
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franchise has been over the past three decades or so,
that could be because Dathan's co star in that series.
So Investors Tallone co wrote this script. It was one
of its producers, everyone involved. The team's worked at delivering
more of the same. And if that's what you're in for,
you know what, no surprises a working man has probably
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won't disappoint you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, I hadn't seen it yet. I'm going to talk
about some of this stuff I saw. Let's give an
honorable mention to the movie I think is going to
win the box office this week if for two reasons.
One it's you know, it's a kids movie, so people
are going to bring two, three, four kids, you know,
maybe the neighborhood kids. Maybe you know, mothers and parents
that don't want to go a lot of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They'll shove the kids on their neighbors and say, hey,
take take mine with your kids. Here here's you know,
here's some money. But a minecraft movie. The other reason is,
and you mentioned this earlier, there's not there's no competition.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
So it's a video game turned into a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yes, come on, yeah, Well it doesn't mean it's going
to be good.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, it's going to sell a lot of tickets.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But well the Mario, the Mario movie made a lot
of money. And I don't know if I don't I
didn't see it, so I don't know if it was good.
I know people that did see it and liked it,
but they are people that are fans of the game.
So if you're fans of the game and they keep
the movie close to the game, then they usually, you know,
people enjoy it. If they don't, there, I can't remember
there was one a.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Year or so a day.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Jumanji was a big series.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, the Jumanji movies did well, right.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I guess that was more of a board game, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, it was an old, old board game. And I
never saw the newer Jumanji. I just I remember the
Robin Williams one. I didn't want to taint taint my
memories of that one, and it was a pretty good
movie back in the day. So but uh, well, speaking
of Jumanji, I think Jack Black is in that one, right,
and he's in this Minecraft movie.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I could be wrong. Are you sure Jack Black is?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh that's always a mark of quality Jack Black.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, well you know that.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And he's I mean, he's the and and you know
when you got Jack Black, you know you figure he's
going to be the star. Nope, Jason Momoa, how the
hell did they get Jason Momoa.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
To do this, not that he's.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well demand.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I guess, I mean, I guess, all right, never mind,
I don't know. And anyway, there's not a whole lot
to say about this. It's a live action adaptation of Minecraft,
the best selling video game of all time. Jennifer Coolidge,
I'm assuming puts her voice in this. Kate McKinnon, same thing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah. Anyway, you know, I've just.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Been watching a series called White Lotus.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I never saw that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Coolidge is just terrific in that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
No, I've never watched it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Okay, it's it's it's really quite something. But I'm two
seasons in. Jennifer Colich is great.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
She's definitely made a you know, name for you know,
Stiffler's was her big thing, you know, in the early
two thousands, and now she's more known for the White
Lotus and the Discover commercials. But Minecraft, Minecraft, I am
I'm going to be spending time with my twelve year
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old daughter this weekend, and I'm hoping this is not
a movie she wants to see. I know she's familiar,
I know she's played the game. We've watched the trailer
for this before, and she didn't seem really anxious about
seeing it, like she didn't go, Oh, I definitely want
to see that, So I'm hoping that's probably the.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Best thing for a twelve year old, though these others
really inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll be honest with you, if I was going to
see anything with her this weekend, if she wanted to,
I would see snow White again. And I know you're
going to think I'm crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, you're a good father. What can I say?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
No, I'll tell you why. I enjoyed the movie. I
saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I went a fifty five year old man sitting alone
in a movie theater, not alone in them because there
were other people, although not that many in the theater,
but I was by myself.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Do you think your daughter has seeing the original cartoon?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I think she's probably seen scenes from it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Don't you rent that instead? Just stay home?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, we're not going to be home. I guess I
could find it on the phone. We could watch it
on the phone somewhere. Yeah, I guess, I don't know.
I want to see what she thinks. Some of the
newer musical numbers are pretty good. I'm going to give
Rachel Zegler for as for as much as you could
say about her potentially on a personal level, foot and
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mouth disease, whatnot. She's a talented.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Singer, very talented young lady.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, yeah, she's a talented singer. I thought I thought
it was an entertaining movie. I was surprised I liked
it as much as I did because I went in
expecting to hate it. Maybe that was the trick, Maybe
because I was expecting to hate it and.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But you know, I didn't think think it was you
know that quote unquote woke You know, I didn't. I
didn't think they Disney. Maybe they tweaked some stuff down, but.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, there's no longer a Prince Charming, well there, and
she's a much more active takes care of her own
problems correct.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
However, And I'm gonna, you know whatever, whatever. Man, if
you were going to see this movie, you already saw it.
Spoiler alert, Okay, tune out if you don't want to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was shocked. I was.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was shocked by this because she made a big
deal about there's no prince coming to kiss me to
wake me up. The boyfriend kissed her and woke her up.
Trueloves kiss. He's still a boyfriend. Okay, he was a
He was a flawed individual. So is every prince, by
the way, look at Prince Andrew. But anyway, well we'll
get past that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But anyway, yeah, yeah, known as Prince Andrew.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah yeah, But but nonetheless, she's still there's still a
man that has to save her.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, well, it doesn't have to savor it has to
wake her up. Okay, she takes care of her own
kind of.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
If he didn't see her, is the movie not over?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I don't want to say, did were you say it? Again?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But who did you? Who? Did you tell me? The
dope he looks like in this movie? Did you tell me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Though? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I did?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I did.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I's thinking that the whole time the Mad magazine, Mad Magazine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yes, hundred percent, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
They really meant that had that in mind or just
that's where my mind took it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I think they just kind of I think they didn't
know exactly where they were going from the beginning with
that whole thing, because of all the uproar from the
the many people in Hollywood. Of obviously Peter Dinklage, the
biggest voice among them, the biggest star among them. Uh,
but uh and I I just wonder if they just can't.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, you can't do movies with little people in them.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I mean, are there seven of them that are? I mean,
are are there that many in Hollywood? Maybe there are?
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
She sleeps with seven guys. It's true, really.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Quick one movie I saw. I don't recommend this past weekend,
Death of the Unicorn. I took a chance on it.
I took a chance on it. I think it can't
decide what it wants to be. So this is Jenna
Ortega and Paul Rudd daughter father. They hit and kill
a unicorn. They didn't know there were unicorns either. If
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you're going there's no unicorns, they thought the same thing.
But they go to this forest. They're on their way
to a weekend retreat. There's a billionaire, Richard Grant, seeks
to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties because he is
in pharmaceuticals. So they have that one message going where
they want to say the pharmaceutical billionaires are trash, which
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many of them are. Let's face it, maybe not all
of them, but it's well, we know, you know, there've
been dope sick and all the other well, you know,
we're looking at Dope, Sick and some of the other
when we talk about some of those some of those folks.
But they don't know if they want to make it
about that, or if they want to make it about
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the father daughter, or if they want to make it
into like a Jurassic Park movie, because that's what it
becomes later in the movie. It's like, all of a sudden,
you're watching an action film with these unicorns chase, you know,
killing everybody. That's what it turns into.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The nicorns.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There are real well i mean Hollywood real unicorns. Yeah,
there are real unicorns running. I mean they're cgi. Nonetheless,
it just they doesn't know what it wants to do.
Paul Rudgen Ortega. But you know who does a really
Taylor Leone's in it. She's fine, you know, doesn't have
to do anything special. You know who does a really
good part in this, a really good part in this understated,
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but he's really good. Will Poulter. Will Poulter does a
really good role in this. He's the son of the
of Tayleone and Richard Grant, the billionaires, and he you know,
he works for the company and whatnot, and he's he's
an interesting character in this movie.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, I like Will Poult it town Little Jurassic Party.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, it is, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's like you're watching it, it's you know, it's a
twenty four, so it's not the biggest budget, although I
mean they're they're paying for Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega,
so they obviously have some money, so you expect it
to be a little more artsy. And then all of
a sudden they make it into this action picture and
it's like, wait, a.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Twenty fours on top of the world. They just won
the OSK Top Picture and Nourra.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, they're doing, they're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They've got more and more stuffs, you know, the more
of that stuff and the you know, more word of mouth,
then people spend more money on movies. But I wish
I didn't see Death of a Unicorn. Just wasn't that
good anyway, all right, anything you can't it anything on
the horizon. What do we we got something to wait?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I've still got my sort of art house. Picky.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh, I interrupted you. I'm sorry. I didn't realize you
weren't done really an our house pick, I could have
slept on it caled.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Kidman has to start choosing her movies more better. Lately,
she stumbles again with her latest called Holland, which is
an art house item not really a pick. Holland is
the film's setting, but it's Holland, Michigan, a fictional small
town what does what it can to tie itself to
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the namesake European country. The town is full of windmills,
its locals who dress up in quaint little UH picture
of picture book costumes, and UH has frequent parades just
for the tourist bait. So despite this, in wanraies to Holland.
What What What happens is Uh It's much more like
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Separate Wives, another Kidman flick. She plays Nancy Vandergrut and
idealize how wife and mother, as well as the home
economic teacher in the local high school. Now she's married
to Fred, an optometrist played by the amiable Matthew mcphaden
who keeps going away on professional conferences. Eventually, Nancy figures
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out he must be having an affair, so she goes on.
Nancy drew snooping for evidence and his infidelity, aided by
the shop teacher Dave Delgado played by quirky g Gabriel
Garcia Barnald with whom she is sun locking lips. Quirky
is a good description of the whole movie, which takes
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some unexpected plot turns and you know it's okay, but
it just doesn't really add up too much. Apparently, the
script for Holland has been kicking around Hollywood for years,
waiting for an off a main star like Kidman to
sign on and get a produced. Director Mimi Cave gives
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the movie as need a tongue in cheat tone, but
Alan must have looked better on the page it does
it on the screen. Understandably, Allen has gone straight to streaming.
It's available on Prime Video. Yeah, so I just love
Nicole Kidman to bother?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Does Nicole Kidman tease us as if she's gonna get
naked and do some sex stuff and then doesn't like
she did in her last movie?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
She got pretty naked in her last movie that they.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Don't remember seeing. I don't remember seeing any parts, but
I could be wrong. Maybe I have to go back
and watch it again.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think you need to watch it again. It doesn't
come close in this one. No, this is maybe PG thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I guess all right, she might have gotten nude if
maybe I forgot because there wasn't a whole lot there, but.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
She didn't watched it though there was no sex and
not on screen.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So anyway, okay, this is mostly kissing. Oh okay, I'll
skip it. It's fine. I think I'd rather watch Penguin Lessons.
And I didn't want to see Penguin Lessons. But you
make it sound actually somewhat decent.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
No, it's it's it's it's it's much better than it's
probably the best of the week.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, what do you What do you have on
the horizon?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, we've got something called The Amateur next week. Oh yes,
Robby Mallock thriller. Looking forward to that one, another kind
of mystery thriller called Drop. And there's a Marble thing
documentary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, apparently back from
the time they did their own single concert together. So
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who knows what's going to come of it, but at
least there's three interesting movies opening up.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Speak really quick for I let you run. I know,
I know you're you know you're you're just dying to
get out of here. Uh myution demand, Yes you mentioned
the uh you just mentioned the Beatles. Did you hear
the news this week?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
They and they're getting together again.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
On on April Fool's Day, they made this announcement. So
folks thought it was a thought, it was a joke.
But there are actually four and I think we might
have talked about this before, and I knew this was
on the horizon. Sam Mendez, the director producer, is putting
out the four. He's making him into four different movies,
which is interesting to do it this way, biopics on
(23:13):
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. And
they've named all of the all of the star actors
that are going to play these so I will give
them to you here. They've just came out. I guess
with all the names, I think they had some of
them before. Joseph Quinn and I have to remind myself
(23:34):
of where I've seen some of these people. But Joseph
Quinn as George Harrison, let's see, he's he's going to
be in something upcoming, no doubt. Oh, he was in
the he was in a Quiet Place day one. He
was the dude in the Quiet Place Day one. That
(23:55):
was out Okay, so Joseph Quinn's going to play George Harrison.
I don't know how to say this Ringo star played
by Barry Keyoakin he owen Irish name.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You've seen him, Yeah, I'm picturing the names like joy Keene.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I think, okay, Yeah, I don't know how to say
his name. I always see it and I've never heard
anybody pronounce it. He's in at the end of You
don't really see him at the end of The Batman,
but that was the thing that I remember him from
because it's a they kind of teased it unseen Arkham Prisoner.
He's essentially the He's essentially the Riddler at.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The end of The Batman.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know whether they're going to add him into
the second because I know they're working on another The Batman.
He's in Dunkirk and some other stuff, so that's uh.
He is going to play Ringo Paul Mescal Paul McCartney.
Now he I just watched him not long ago in
the Gladiator two movie Lucius. He's the star of that
(24:55):
one and Harris Dickenson and plays John Lennon. This guy,
I have to plead ignorance on. Let me look at
his IMDb.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh, he's a running name.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
He's in Baby Girl. Samuel is he the guy? Is
he the dude? He's the dude.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
He's the dude that try that gets that sexes up
Nicole Kidman. So the dude that sexes up gold Nicole Kidman,
even though you don't see it in the movie Baby Girl.
Harris Dickinson is going to be playing John Lennon and
the John Lennon bio pick. But they're all in each
of the picks apparently, so each one is going to
be I mean, I saw.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
A reference that the casting is very good, apparently, that
he really has come up with some good people.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
To play these They don't look anything like them, though.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Are we going to get them one one per year?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I don't know how that George is twenty twenty eight.
It looks like they all have twenty twenty eight written
on them. I think they're all coming out. I'm guessing
this is going to be a streaming thing. I don't
even know. They haven't given a whole lot of info
on it. But each movie is from that that Beatles
(25:59):
point of view, So why couldn't they just make it
all in one movie?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It is, but I'm just I yeah, continues to be
interested in the Beatles, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm a big Beatles fan, so I'm looking forward to these.
It's just why do we need four of them? And
who's going to watch the Ringo and who's going to
watch the Ringo movie? I mean really, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It probably won't be the best in the box office,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
On that note, I will let you run. Nice chatting
with you since I missed you last week. We had
a nice long time next week, all right, care bye bye,
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