MC Special: Cole Stratton's 100 Lesser Known Movies

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.

(00:29):
Hey everybody, and welcome to the show. This is uh
sort of a special a dish with Cole Stratton in
the house. Hi, Cole, great to be back. Uh not
sort of a special edish. It's really a special edish
because here's how this came out or came about. I
was looking at your Facebook feed. It popped up on

(00:50):
my in front of my eyeballs, and I saw that
you were putting together a list of one hundred lesser
known movies, and I meet Elite chimed in and said, well, man,
we gotta, we gotta get you on the show and
let's talk about this. Yeah. Basically, like I was kind
of thinking about it because you know, it's kind of
running out of things to watch in a sense that

(01:12):
I'm just trying to find new stuff, even to me initially,
So every time I looked on the internet for a
list of like movies to watch or whatever, they're almost
all like the same. They're all like Blade Runner and
like things that we're all aware of. So yeah, great movie.
But you know, I just anybody who you know likes
movies a bit as seen of those things that they're listing.

(01:34):
So my thought was like, well, there's a lot of
movies out there that didn't quite get the recognition when
they're in the theaters, or they had a weird distribution,
or just a little film that kind of found legs
later and never did um So I thought it would
be handy to put together a list of those. Um
So I kind of asked on Facebook at people would
even be interested in reading it, because I didn't want

(01:54):
to put the time in if nobody gave two ships.
But people seem to be enthusiastic about it. So people
gave many ships they did, and many suggestions, which I
was like, kind of not what I was asking, but
oh interesting. I didn't look I did not suggest anything. Uh.
And I even thought about it because I have a
go to little known movie that I always will guide

(02:15):
people toward. And I was like, this is Cole's list,
but you know some of them, like I had already
kind of figured out what the list was, but who
were still commenting. I would just kind of read like
one of those is on there, Like I wasn't going
to go back and change anything. And I also like,
because the main thing was being able to watch them
at home I did. I looked up where they were
all streaming and listed them next stage titles people could

(02:37):
check them out and then so helpful things that were
on the list. Was like another twenty movies that would
have been on the list that just weren't streaming anywhere,
so I just didn't include them, which is kind of
a bummer, But there's still plenty of stuff. So what
we ended up with everyone is is a public service
uh here during pandemic lockdown where if you think you're
running out of things, you can just go to col

(03:00):
Stratton dot com. Uh Like, I go straight to that
link now just because I've seen it so many times
in my browser history, But how do you navigate it
from cool Stratton dot com. At first, I wasn't sure
where I wanted to house this thing because I knew
it would be pretty long because as I was writing
it up, each thing gets like a paragraph right up
and stuff. It was like twenty six pages on my
word doc or whatever. So I was trying to figure

(03:22):
out where I could land. I was like, oh, my
website has a blog on it, even though don't really
blog anymore on it, but I just put it there.
So what I would do is. You can go to
cold Stratton dot com. Just click on blog when you
get to the main navigation and it will be the
first thing up. Um also follow me at any socials
I've linked to them, so Facebook or Twitter or Instagram,
you can find a link to him there pretty early

(03:43):
on in my feeds. Yeah, it looks fantastic. You did
a really good job, Like you can tell. This took
a lot of work, a lot of effort, and I'm
glad that that we're getting it out there to a
bit of a larger audience, the movie crushers at least. Yeah,
I figured they'd have a lot of interest. So thank
you for covering it, of course, And so we we
kind of went back and forth on the best way
to do this because I can't talk about a hundred

(04:04):
movies because that would be like four episodes. So what
we settled on, you're kind of enough to go with
my idea, which was I would put together like ten
or twelve movies from the list that I love, and
we kind of briefly chat about them, and then ten
or twelve that piqued my interests that I have not seen,
and you could chat about those and sell me and
then just a kind of a handful of others that

(04:26):
I guess honorable mentions that I like. There are a
lot of these that I haven't seen, so well done. Yeah.
That was the thing is I wasn't sure what people
would have seen, and most people were up back. I
think the most people had seen him was like fifty
of them, like kind of half or whatever. One guy
I know who's like a super filmmaker something, he's like ninety.
But other than that, it had been like it's pretty

(04:47):
low for people, and they were kind of like surprised.
They thought they were just going to kind of know everything.
So I'm glad that hopefully they find some new favorites
by checkout mount. Yeah. And and uh, when we're done
here at the end, two, if there are a few
more that you want shout out too, that you feel,
you know, need a shout, then we can do that too,
of course. Cool. So we're gonna get going here. And

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these are not ranked, they're just listed alphabetically. Yeah, yeah, alphabetically.
So up top, I have the movie Blue Ruin. Uh boy, Jeremy, Uh,
how do you pronounce that? Sir? Sir? I think such
a good movie. Yeah he uh it kind of launched
a bit of a niche indie career for him because

(05:29):
he did Green Room afterwards, which I can't bring myself
to watch because I heard you haven't seen it now
it's this intensely brutal, but it's so good. I know,
that's what I've heard. I haven't watched it yet. And
he didn't take a third one with Making that Making
Blair Road that takes place like in the wilderness. I
can't read the title of it, but um, you could
tell by that by this movie that there was like
something great in him as a filmmaker and his partnership

(05:51):
with Making Blair, who starred in it. Yeah, it's just
it's such a good thriller, um, and a basic you know,
the plot is very a sic in a sense. It's
literally like he's a drifter. Uh. His parents were murdered
twenty years previously, and the guy who got out or
did it, got out, and then it's just a tail
of revenge that spirals out of control after that. Yeah,

(06:14):
I mean, that's the best way to say it. I
love a good revenge movie. I love a good indie
kind of slow burned thriller. Uh, this is all those
all those things. It's just that something about it. It It
was just had this special quality, um, very tense, very taught.
Uh and and and you just you're not sure what's
going to happen next, which is like the perfect quality

(06:35):
in the thriller. I think, Yeah, I mean it's tense
and taught, but it's not uncomfortably so, which I think
is good because there's some movies that just put me
on edge so much I can't watch them, and not necessarily,
I mean for me, it's one more so when people
are embarrassed, Like I don't like embarrassment humor, Like I
just have a heart cringe e things I just have
a hard time watching. But um, in general, like if
things are just too taught in a sense that you're

(06:58):
just like, oh, come on, like you're waiting for somebody,
did you on? Out of the Shadows? Like I don't
love that. But this is just so well done. It's
such a slow burner, but it's never boring and it
kind of just gets under your skin. It's totally worth watching. Yeah,
and making Blair's just awesome. I keep waiting for him
to kind of blow up in a bigger way, but
I'm not sure that he will or maybe he wants to. Yeah,
I'm not sure either. I mean, it's weird because he

(07:18):
has this big, bushy beard and like it's just if
you've ever seen him without it, it just looks like
a totally different dude. I think he's directing now too.
Didn't he direct something or was that the third movie
you were talking about. I think he definitely Jeremy directed that.
He by making relative, but I think he is starting
to direct in things too. But he's definitely something awesome,

(07:40):
good stuff Blue Ruin and check it out. You can
find that well, just go to the blog to see
where you can find it. I'm not gonna read all these. Yeah,
there's a kind of a pretty It kind of included
everything that was listed, and most of this came from
just watch dot com, which you just have in a
title and we'll show you where it is. So some
things I'm sure we'll update or change because streaming services
change change. And like the Peacock launched when I was

(08:01):
like three quarters of the way through this, a couple
of the end had Peacock listed, but I didn't go
back for the other ones in add Peacock if they're
on there. But yeah, you can always check there for
the most up to date things if you can't find it. Alright,
So the next one, you know what, let's maybe let's
go back and forth with movies I haven't seen. So
the first one on my list, and I can't believe
I haven't seen it because I love Westerns and I

(08:23):
love it Ed Harris. It's a movie called Appaloosa. Yeah,
it's really good. Ed Harris wrote it, directed it, stars
in it, and I put my thing catered it probably.
Um it's it's really good. I love Westerns. I know
people are pretty like torn on them. Um and I
don't love all Westerns, but I generally like them. And
there's quite a few Westerns made appearances on this list,
which I was surprised by, but but not at the

(08:44):
same time because I knew I liked Westerns. But um,
it's it's a good combination of being character driven but
also some good exciting spurts of action. Um. And they're
done more realistic, which I like. I prefer it when
the shootouts don't feel like crazy stage and they feel
like they happen in real time or um. And then

(09:04):
it's it's also sort of a slow burn in a sense. Too,
because Jeremy Irons is like, you know, the villain of
the piece and great. Yeah, the cast is fantastic, and um,
Vigo is great, and I'm I always think Vigo is good,
but I never like, oh Vigo. But in this movie,
I was like, oh yeah, Vigo. Okay, it's it's great. Um, yeah,
it's really great if you like westerns, and uh, I
definitely recommend it. Have you seen Captain fantastic? I just

(09:28):
watched that like a month or two ago. Yeah. I
love that movie. Yeah, it's really good. That was what
I missed that everybody kept telling me I should see.
So I finally got a runto it. Yeah, fantastic. Who
else is in that? Reneez Elwigger? Um, of course it's
a Western, So lance Einrikson's in it. Yep, he's got
to be. I think that's I think that's the rule. Um,
trying to think who else? It's it's all great character actors. Um,

(09:51):
James Gammon, who I love, you know, the coach and
major League and oh yeah of course. Um. I got
to work with him once when back when I was
acting in San Francisco as on nash Bridge is a
couple of times and one time I was in the
b storyline, and that was with James Gamman, who plays
his grandfather, and like, I was a huge fan of him,

(10:11):
just because he's in so many He's a great character
actor in so many Westerns. He's some dove, all sorts
of stuff, Silverado and I just kind of shot the
ship with him. I think it was it was March,
so we're talking March madness in Michigan State was good
at the time. I remember that, but still it is
just like such a pleasure. And then he died like
a year later, and that is so cool. I don't
know that I would have been able to work with
him without saying, can you please say you may run

(10:33):
like Hayes, but you hit like shit. And I justever
fucking do it again. Such a great movie. Uh, you know,
we're gonna have to do like sports movies at some point.
I know we've talked about it, but yeah, I love
that will come along, all right. The next one on
my list that I love is a movie from two
thousand five set in France from director Michael Hanicky. I

(10:57):
think that's I pronounced it. I've heard it many different
ways it and how he pronounced the movie. Is it
cache what I would say, I don't so I'm not
good with the French. But it is a thriller. Um.
If you've never seen any of his films before, you
should because they are fully and wholly unique. Um. He's

(11:18):
a very uh, he's just a very unique director. He
locks the camera down, he lets these scenes play out
over long periods of time. Um, and he's just I
don't know. He seems he has a knack for getting
under your skin, under the skin of a viewer. He
also does similar to what like Ozo does, because Ozio's
stuff is super boring a lot, but he does a

(11:41):
thing where like it will be very kind of slow
charactery and then something shocking will just happen, right, it's
the saying so that makes the shocking thing even more
shocking because it didn't ramp up to it. It just occurs.
And there's definitely moments of that in this movie too
that are like, what what just happened? Um? And it's
it's really it builds really really well. Yeah. I mean,

(12:02):
I don't want to give away too much, but the overall,
if you're interested in seeing it, the overall plot is
that a family starts getting video tapes of themselves in
the mail, and that's just it's kind of all you
need to say. It's sure, that's creepy and should be
enough to bring you in. Yeah, and it also features
one of the best last shots in a movie ever,

(12:23):
I think. Yeah. And also this has made in two
thousand five, so you have to think that the culture
of everybody recording themselves wasn't as prevalent then. So you know,
everybody's got their cameras on now taking video, but the
fact that the little recordings would show up of them
and when at a time when things weren't there, weren't
nest cameras and everything that wasn't like someone had a

(12:43):
video camera, right exactly. So it's it's pretty rad alright.
Next movie that I have not seen is City of Ember. Yeah.
It's a fun it's based on some young adult novels
I believe, um. And it's Gil Keenan did it, who
did Monster House and a bunch of other stuff. You Um,
it's good world building. It's it's a fantasy thing or
takes place in the future and humanity has moved underground. Um.

(13:09):
And the two teams are the leads search Ronian and
Harry Treadway, and then yeah, she's really good. This is earlier,
so it's young sarsha Um, which to be the longest
side of realist. That was searsha seeing it typed out
um heard her name. Oh I for the longest somebody like,
what is how do I pronounce it? Um? And yeah,
it's just it's got a like character actor who's who.

(13:32):
Bill Murray plays an eccentric mayor who's really fantastic in it.
And then all these people keep popping up that you're
like Tim Robbins, Toby Jones, Martin Landau, Mary kay Place,
Mackensick Brook, Maryan John Baptiste. It's really good, and it's
the world building is fantastic, and it's a family movie,
so you can kind of watch it with anybody. Cool,

(13:52):
all right, and I check that out. She's just so great.
I'll see anything she's in. Yeah, she's wonderful. Alright, movie
I love. My third pick is the movie Hostiles. Uh.
It's a it's a western, another Western that I don't
know somehow just it seemed to fly under the radar
a bit. I saw it on a plane and then
did it the service of watching it again, because you

(14:14):
know how plane experiences can be. And I was like,
I really want to see this at home and like
a really nice big TV. And boy, I just thought
it was fantastic. I watched it at like an AMC
as a matinee by myself because I knew, like my
wife was probably not be too excited about it because
she's just so so on westerns, and um, I just

(14:34):
thought it looked really good and it's shot beautifully. It's
really dark. It's it's a very bleak movie. Um, like
a bleak western though. Yeah, it's super bleak. Um. But
the performances are great. Christian Bale, you see his transformation,
as you know, going from a guy who absolutely hates hates,

(14:55):
hates hates the you know, West studio and the people
that he's just trying taking across country to learning to
understand one another. Um. But to me, the real star
of this was Rosamond Pike um who and she was good,
oh man. And I mean it starts out with her
and a very kind of like, oh this is what
we're in store for beginning. Um. But she's just in

(15:16):
top form here like that. It's so impressive. Yeah, she's
really uh I think just now kind of getting cranking
with the career, like I think there's an oscar in
her future once everyone realizes how great she is. Totally,
and Timothy Shalom is in it. If you're Timothy Shalom,
a head check that out. We all are little guy

(15:38):
and Ben Foster, who was just one of my favorite
favorite actors. He's fantastic. He pops off on this list
several times. I believe I realized it as those writing
them up, like, oh now they're Ben Foster performance. Yeah,
that's no accident. He and Scoot McNary I think pop
up the most in this list because they're just always
in the cool Innie films totally alright. Number three are
the next pick for a movie I haven't seen, Critical

(15:59):
care tell me about it. Yeah, So it's Sidney Lumet,
who I think is He's like my second favorite director
behind Frankenheimer. I think he's just one of the most
amazing UH filmmakers ever. And he would release movies every
couple of years that weren't necessarily big mainstream movies, and
a lot of them, you know, febble on the radar,

(16:21):
including this one. When it came out it was like
late nineties I believe the cast is nuts, and at
the time that cast didn't seem as nuts, but when
you look at it now, it's just crazy. But it's
like a it's a dark comedy, um, and it's also
very dramatic, so kind of shifts tones a lot, but
not in a way that I think is distracting. M

(16:43):
Albert Brooks just steals every scene he's in, but it
always does. But he just kind of plays the head
administrator at the hospital who's just looking about his budget, budget,
budget all the time, and he's just hilarious. Dr Butts
I think is his name. Um, So there you go.
But James Fader is the main guy and mostly follows
a family that their dad is basically like a vegetable.

(17:05):
He's comatose and they're trying to fight over whether they
should pull the plug or not. But because there's a
big inheritence in the line and so it's like Kara
Cedrick versus Margot Martindale as those two, but it's just
it's killer like Helen Mirren is there and Bancroft, Jeffrey
Wright and Herman Philip Bosco um, while Sean I mean,
it's just it's stacked and I know people are pretty

(17:27):
split on it because I don't think they knew what
they were expecting. But I think it's a pretty beautiful
little film. All Right, I'm gonna see all these by
the way, just podcast one, all right, movie I love.
The next one is in Bruge. Um. This one. You know,
I think it it managed to break out enough among
people who love movies, but still it wasn't some big

(17:51):
hit or anything like I think deservedly on the list
of underseeing. Um just fantastic, fantastic movie and maybe my
favorite thing that of ever seen with it's his best.
I think it's just the best performance. It totally reminded
me like, oh, like this guy is amazing because he
kind of got into like kind of shitty blockbuster movies

(18:13):
for a while, and you started in tiger Land, which
is a nice indie film too from Schumacher. Um. But
this to me was just like, oh, he's super charming
and a depth with the language. And you can kind
of see it from this point on because like he
shows up in The Gentleman, that new guy. Uh, let's
just say it's this movie. Um, so like, yeah, I
love him in and I think he's just he and

(18:34):
Brendan Gleason just play so well off of each other. Yeah,
Brittan Gleason's a treasure. And this is a movie. May
want to take advantage of the subtitle feature to really
get it all. Yeah, it's pretty thick brogues half the time,
and the language it's you know. Martin McDonogh wrote in
direct that he us a playerright, like cripple nishment and
a bunch of other stuff. Um So it's got like

(18:57):
a play like feel to it in terms of the dialogue,
but it also still feels like a movie because sometimes
when they like do plays, it just feels like a
film to play it's very static or whatever. But this
is super dynamic. Bruiges like a fairy tale town. They
say that quite often. Um So it's beautiful to look
at two and it's just yeah, it's just killer and

(19:19):
um ye finds just like he's great. He's he's only
in it for like a third of it, but he
just completely like dominates every scene he's in. Yeah, he's awesome.
It's about a couple of hitman kind of ling low
in Bruges, which is in Belgium. So if you're into
dark comedy, Hitman movies. This is one of the best. Yeah,

(19:39):
I agreed. Let me see here. What have we got next?
We got a movie I haven't seen called Hearts Beat Loud.
I don't know how I don't know about this movie
because it's got some people that I love in it. Yeah,
it came out I think like two years ago. It
was two eighteen. Yeah, so it was one of those

(20:01):
things I was playing at the Landmark here. I didn't
even really know about it, but I saw, you know,
soon as I'll just checked as he was playing, and
I was like, oh, Nick Offerman, cool, curiously clemmen, and
she's really good. I'll check it out. And it's just
like this nice sweet indie film that's shot like in
Red Hook area of of New York. And um, it's
basically a father daughter tail because they kind of bond

(20:25):
through music, you know, they don't have that much in
common anymore. And she's about to go off to college
and they're his wife had died, you know, years before,
so he's kind of by himself and he's he's he
owns a vinyl record shop and he's faces closing it
down forever. So he's transitioning in a life she's transitioning
into life, and it's sort of her becoming who she's
going to be and him and trying to embrace the

(20:47):
changes in his life and how they end up kind
of bonding together and saying farewell and you know, not
farewell over music and stuff. It's really a beautiful little movie. Yeah.
It sounds super sweet. Yeah, and it sounds are actually
good too. They play some of the music live and stuff,
and um, I am, I really enjoyed it. I gotta
check it out. Tony Collette, she's one of the best.

(21:09):
Ted Danson plays a bartender. He's activiting Sam Nice so
I really, I really enjoyed it. And Jeff Tweete shows up.
If you like Wilco, love Wilco? I read? Uh, are
you into Wilco? I am? Yeah? Did you read his book?
I have not. It's great. Yeah, Yeah, he's he's Uh.
If you like Jeff Tweetie, you will love him after

(21:29):
you read the book. It's just it makes uh. He's
just a likable guy, very upfront about his faults as
a human, which is endearing. Nice. I have to check
that out. I love him all right. Movies. I love
um A little indie film and I know people on
this that listen to the show are tired of me
harping about the indie films of the nineteen nineties. But

(21:53):
a movie called Living in Oblivion that was pretty instrumental
film for me. Uh from sort of one of the
one of the great in a slew of great indie
films from the early to mid nineties. Yeah, I think
this movie, more than anything else can capsulates the nineties
indie movie like. Um, and that time was big for

(22:15):
me too, because you know, I started in college and
ninety four and I worked at indie video stores for
you know, ten years after that. So to me, this
was like, you know, we had sections for Tom to
Shilo and people like that, and um, it's so good.
It's a little inside baseball in the sense that you know,
it goes deep into the filmmaking process for indie films
and stuff, but you don't need to know anything about filmmaking.

(22:37):
It's super funny. Um. And I heard that James Legros
character who was like one of the lead guy who's
way over the top actor or like egotistical stuff was
basically based on Tom to Shilo's first film, Johnny Swade
with Brad Pitts. He's based on Brad Pitt's behavior, I
guess at that time, So knowing that, maybe like look

(22:58):
at it in a slightly different way when I rewatched it. Yeah,
good stuff and and just a murderers row of of
indie film actors from back then. Steve Bashimmy, who at
the time was still, you know, not not a big
star like he is now. Um. Kevin Corrigan has always
just been one of my fay real good. Yeah, he's wonderful.
I love him and everything. And you got Dinkledge, So

(23:22):
that's right, And that's a pretty pretty funny sequence. It
was early early Dinkie. Yeah. He also appeared on Safe
Men on my list too, right around that same time,
which is another like little movie that no one saw
but it's really funny and Station Agent, which we'll get to.
That's true. I think that's one of my shout outs.
Oh no, that's actually on my list. Um. So the

(23:42):
next one I haven't seen is a movie called The Rover. Yeah,
so I found when I was making this list, I
ended up with a bunch of kind of Australian Westerns
or there the equivalent of. They're not quite Westerns, but
they have that out back desert feel to a lot
of and Um, the Rover is David Mishad, who did um,

(24:03):
Animal Kingdom, which I thought about putting on this list,
but I feel like you should see Animal Kingdom. Watch
that before he watched The Rover, honestly, Um, but you know,
Jackie Weavers animated for an Oscar for that movie and stuff,
and I kind of felt like it broke out enough
to not put it on this list, though I would
easily have put it on. Um. So this one is
basically it's kind of a post apocalyptic kind of Western

(24:24):
anything where, um, this guy Pierce is kind of traveling
throughout the outback and um, he's basically he's just trying
to find the gang that stole his carve. That's all
you really know. Um. And he ends up kind of
tracking them down and one of the gangs played by
Robert Pattinson, Um, he has an intellectual disability. Um. And

(24:46):
so they kind of pair up together to kind of
go on this journey together. And Robert Pattinson is like
so good in it. And it's the movie that literally
made me go like, oh wait, he can really act.
He's not just Edward Cullen like he's got some man,
He's I talked about him a lot. Has any actor
in recent memory shed their previous skin more so than

(25:08):
he has as far as like kind of being Twilight guy,
and then almost everything he does now is just amazing. Yeah.
I mean, I I can't think of anybody else, but like,
I feel like he's just made such good choices that
were ye off. And I don't know if, like he says,
he has a really good manager helping to guide his career,
or if he's just like really finicky about what he does.

(25:29):
But um, like good Time is really good too, that
could have been on this list, um, And I think
he's been picking really interesting projects that aren't necessarily mainstream.
He's not doing these big budget movies. He's doing these
indie flicks that he used to show off what a
good actor he actually is. Well I think, yeah, it
feels like a purposeful shedding of Edward Cullen. And uh,

(25:50):
I assume he made a boatload of money with those movies.
And you know he's not doing the one for them,
one for me, He's like three for them and then
like twelve for me. Right, Yeah, he fully just did
that whole series and then now he's just whatever he
wants to do. Um On. Scoot McNary is in it too,
so it's a Scoot sighting. Yeah, if you're listening you

(26:11):
don't know who Scoot McNary is, just google him. You'll
recognize his face. One of the great indie character actors.
He pops up all over the place, it seems like.
Yet it's still sort of unknown, you know, and one
of the best names in Hollywood. Yeah, I can't. I
love it so much, all right, movie, I love Local Hero.

(26:32):
It's just magic. Yeah. I saw this one way back then.
Um and what your was that? I'm trying to find
it on your list now. I think it's eighty three. Yeah,
so I did eight three. I didn't see it in
eighty three, but I definitely saw it in the eighties somehow.
It had to have been on HBO or something, and

(26:55):
before I really understood uh, sort of smaller, quirky indie
films like this, I watched it and it struck a
chord with me. I didn't know how to talk about
it yet, but I love this movie from the first
time I saw it when I was like fourteen or
fifteen years old. It's one that my dad introduced me
to was one of his favorite movies. So, um My

(27:17):
dad's dream initially was to like get a like have
all the movies you could get, and then VCRs were invented,
so he bought one of those top loaders that was
crazy expensive and it sounds like an aircraft carrier when
it rewinds things. Um but he he really scores by
this movie. So we definitely watched it a lot around
the house um in the eighties, and I've just grown
to love it. We did at sketch Fest two years ago.

(27:38):
We did uh anniversary screening with Peter. It was really
cool and it was actually pretty well attended. I just
wasn't sure like what the populace would be towards this movie,
but people really enjoyed it, and it's just it's just
a beautiful little movie. And the score Marketing Offler score
is just fantastic. I'm a big Dark Straits guy, so
it really really hits me in all the right places

(28:00):
and it's it's honestly, I think it's like the godfather
of like a little town eccentric people movies, you know
what I mean. It's just such yeah, like little Hamlet people.
It feels like one of the first. I mean, I
think Local Hero might have started this trend, because I
feel like I've seen quite a few movies like this
where and the and the plot of this movie is

(28:22):
there's a uh an oil company guy, Burt Lancaster, who
you know, it's great seeing him in his older age.
Uh sends a guy to Scotland to um and that's
Peter Reagert, to sort of check out this town because
he wants to put a refinery there and and he
gets charmed by the locals. And I feel like I've

(28:44):
seen a lot of movies that kind of dance around
the same sort of vibe, and I feel like Local
Hero might have started it. I think so too. Yeah,
and like this one was a little different in the
sense that, like you think it's gonna be he goes
there and all the villagers like, no, we love our Hamlet,
but they all want to sell safe for one and
that's what they hang up is um and uh yeah,
it's just it's it's just gorgeous. And the Northern lights

(29:06):
play a role in this and a scene that's just
like it just floors you. Um it's so so good.
Great movie. Check it out. Um. All right. The next
one on the list of movies I haven't seen, and
this one is been on my list. It's not one
that flew under my radar because my friend actually I
think he was a productive unit the U P m

(29:26):
UM for Leave No Trace. Uh. He also did Knives
Out and he's he's kind of got like a nice
resume under his belt at this point. But I did
not see Leave No Trace yet, but it's happening soon.
It's really really good. It's Ben Foster as always um
and Thomas and Mackenzie who people know from Jojo Rabbit. Um,

(29:49):
but she's like really good on it. I think she
wants some like awards when this came out. Um, it's
a definitely a little movie. Never got like really a
mainstream thing, but it was, like I think it was
one of the movies. This is funny. The year it
was released in two thousand and eighteen, there were two
movies that were a hundred percent and Rotten Tomatoes, this
one in Paddington Too, which I just saw recently, which

(30:09):
is really good. But crazing that that would be those two.
But it's such a it's a nice it's a character study.
It's it's about kind of him and his daughter and
he's a vet who has PTSD and they live off
the grid in like Portland, in the in the woods
there and you know, they're told that they get you
have to move around because they're not allowed to live
there it's public land or whatever. And they get reintroduced

(30:31):
into society and it's about whether they can do that
or not. Um. And it's about her kind of coming
to terms with lifestyle as if for her is it not?
And um, it's kind of a Captain fantastic vibe it really,
it really kind of is. Yeah. And it's you know,
beautifully shot and just incredibly well acted. You know, it's
it's a character piece. It's the woman, Democratic Directory, the

(30:54):
Winner's Bone. Um. So it's it's it's more of a
feel of a location in a time and less about
like massive driving plot. But um, enough does happen. You
won't be bored. Um. I just think it's it's a
wonderful movie. Alright, I'm seeing that soon. The next one
for movies I love from. I know you and I

(31:16):
are both big, big, big fans of Albert Brooks. Um
and this it's hard to pick a favorite, but modern romance.
You could make an argument for for his best movie. Yeah,
I think it's I think it's definitely the least heralded
of his masterpieces. Um, but I think people that are
real big fans of Albert might have it at the top. Um.

(31:39):
It's just it's so good, it's so funny and so Albert.
I think it's the most Albert of any of his movies.
And they're all Albert, they're all Albert, but it's definitely
the most Albert I think. Um. And you know, it's
really kind of about his relationship and or non relationship.
However you look at it, um, and there's just a

(32:01):
couple of great sequences to where he gets like stoned
and get to listen to his albums. Um. But my
favorite thing is like he's a film editor or whatever.
So there's this whole sequence so they're trying to do
some fully work on the Hulk running down the hallway
and they're trying to figure out what that would sound like,
and it's so funny. Um. You have one of my
favorite lines in here. Two. Uh, you've heard of a No.

(32:23):
One situation, right, no Vietnam? This so good plus super
Day of his brothers in it like works with the
supporting good story. He's buying some stuff that's funny little
scene where he's trying to get him to upsell, but
Albert doesn't want to get the thing, and he's like,
I've misjudged you. I'm not perfect. It's so good. Um. Yeah.

(32:44):
And and you know, my favorite piece of Triviata, which
most people know but some of the listeners might not,
is that Yes, super Dave Osborne is Albert Books his
brother in real life Bob Einstein. And yes, his name
was Albert Einstein. Yea, and I feel changed. You know,
his dad was in show business or what. Already probably
did that as like why not you so obviously changed

(33:04):
it to Albert Brooks. Um. And yeah, this is definitely
I thought was one of the ones to include because
a little more off the beaten path. I think Defending
Your Life might be my favorite. But but yeah, I
kind of most love almost everything he's never done. Yeah, Mother,
another great one. Yeah, oh yeah, fantastic. So the movie

(33:25):
that I haven't seen that it's on my list. Next
is a movie called The Lookout. Yeah. Um, I thought
about putting Brick in because it's sort of similar and
it's that I also was like, what about the other
Joseph Lot Gordon Lovett movie that's very noir. E. I
don't know how this got by me. I guess it's yeah,
I'm not sure, Like I didn't see it until it

(33:45):
was on demand or whatever, like I saw it on
cable or something. I definitely didn't see it when it's
on in the theaters two thousand seven. Um, and it's
it's like a modern film noir caper film, um, where
it's just kind of another one, sort of like Ruin
where things kind of spiral out. Um. But he plays
he was like a star athletes, a hockey player who

(34:06):
has like a car accident and then now he um
has a brain injury, so he can't remember things, so
he kind of writes them all down in a little
book as he goes. And his character's name is Chris Pratt.
So there's that. And Chris pat Pratt auditioned for it
and thought it would get it because he's like, I'm
Chris Pratt, but he didn't. That isn't the trivia. Evidently

(34:28):
you know now that you're talking about the plot, it
is ringing a bell now, um, Because at first I
thought I had not even heard of it, but I
think I think, I uh, does he sort of get
brought along? Yea, yeah, he works in a bank at night,
like as a janitor, so they cozy up to him.
It's Matthew Good and then Ella Fisher. Um might have

(34:49):
seen this. I'm thinking about it. Jeff Daniels as a beard. Um,
and yeah, it's just really it's really good. It just
it builds really well. Um, I've seen this movie. Yeah,
there you go. Yeah, I mean it was thirteen years
ago when it came out. Yeah, Carla Gugino totally, Alex

(35:10):
porsnein great cast, good movie. I forgot all about it
all right. Next movie I love is a movie called
My Favorite ear so Good, one of the classic classic
comedies in a in a comedy that's from two that
feels it's very much a throwback to the Golden Age,

(35:33):
and it's it's plot is about that, but the movie
ends up feeling like that as well. Yeah, it's sort
of like it takes place in like a live show,
sort of like your show of shows. I think that's
kind of what they were modeling it on. Um and
Peter O'Toole plays this great actor, play plays himself basically
who then comes to sort of guest host. It's a

(35:54):
cool VESNL in that sense. Um, but he's a notorious
like womanizer and alcoholic and stuff. So uh, Mark lind Baker,
Yes from Perfect Strangers, UM gets a signed to kind
of keep tabs on him and Uh, it's really really funny. Um.
And I think he was nominated for an Oscar for
Peter Artol didn't win, but I think it's his best performance. Um.

(36:19):
And it's infinitely quotable to UM. My favorite line from
it is there's like this this party where he ends
up like hanging off the balcony and the thing, and
two of the party guests looked down and one of
them goes, I think Allan swants beneath us, and the
other one says, of course he's beneath us. He's an actor.
It's such a good line. That's so good. It's chock
full of things like that, and one of the great posters.

(36:41):
To do you have this one in your collection? I do? Yeah, Yeah,
it's pretty classic. And Lanny Kazan is great too as
his mom and comes out wearing a wedding dress. Doesn't
It's so good. I love it all right. Next movie
I haven't seen as a movie called The Predestination. And

(37:02):
I don't know how this got by me because it's
got a lot of things that I love see. I
only saw this recently. I saw this like a month
or so ago, and I was just blown away by it. Um,
And it was one that I saw. I saw it
pop up like when it came out, but I just
didn't really resonate with me. I don't think. I think
he had a very limited, limited theatrical run Um. But

(37:24):
I finally just got around to watching it and I
was just like, oh my god, this is amazing so
sci fi. Yeah. It's based on a short story by
Robert Ahinland Um and it's basically Ethan Hawk plays this
guy who is a temporal agent basically time travels to
try to fix some things. And the central part of
this is that there's a bomber that and like the

(37:48):
seventies or whatever, is responsible for things that are like
loss of human lives, massive loss. So he's been trying
to stop this bomber but can't seem to get it right. Um.
And then Sarah Snook, who gives like the best performance
of that year. I think if you watch it you'll
just be like blown away by it. Um plays Uh,
they don't actually have the names and it she pays

(38:08):
the unmarried mother and he's like like known as the
bartender because the central part of this is them talking
in this bar for a while and then you see
slashbacks and things spiral out. Um. But it involves like
you know, time travel in ways that it's I mean,
it's just it's just killer. It takes a little while
at first She'll be like, Okay, what is this leading

(38:28):
up to? But then when it starts to go, it's
just like one twist top after another to like it'll
just like you can't shake it. It'll stay with you
and you'll be thinking about it and maybe you want
to watch the show Dark afterwards, because people recommended like,
if I like this, A should watched Dark because there's
some similar themes. And I watched Dark and was just
like we watched the three seasons in like two weeks,
and that was phenomenal to which a show on Netflix. Um,

(38:51):
I've heard of that, I've seen people chatting about it.
So yeah, but this one, I think you should watch
like pretty immediately because I think he'll dig it all right,
move that to the top of the list. I love
Ethan Hawk. He's great, He's he's an actor. I think
he was made really interesting choices over the years, because
even the big movies that he've done, I think have
been pretty interesting. Like there's not a lot of films

(39:14):
he's done that or I think just sort of big
budget stinkers. Yeah, I mean, I agree, he's done very
very interesting work throughout the years, and he's always He's
done tons of little indie movies Richard linklater, um, but
then a bunch more too. I mean, the entire Before
trilogy could be on here, Before Before Center. Those are

(39:35):
so good. I hope they've never stopped making this. And
one of your honorable mentions is an Ethan Hawk movie, Gatica,
which I think is one of the most underrated sci
fi movies out there. Yeah. Gatica. Boy, that's a movie
I've seen probably four or five times, and we'll we'll
always watch it if I happen to catch it at
the right time. Yeah, it's really really good. Alright, movie

(39:56):
I love seems like old times, the Neil Simon classic,
Uh Chevy Chase at his best, Goldie Hawn at her best,
Charles Groden at his second best. I know that's your
favorite role of Groden's, but I'm gonna have to go
with Midnight Express, Midnight Run or Midnight Run. Yeah. We

(40:18):
literally just watched that like two weeks ago because my
wife hadn't seen it and I was doing this list
together and I was like, it's really good. What Midnight Run? Yeah? Yeah, man,
I mean it's just one of my favorite movies. It's
ever definitely fine. But to me, this is like Pete Grodin,
But Midnight Run, I feel, is like the one that
made people go like, oh, we like Charles Grodin a lot,
even though we always did, but we didn't wouldn't vocalize it. Um. Yeah,

(40:39):
it's just I think it's so funny, it's so screwball
and great um and again super quotable. Um. I always
say love that chicken pepperoni all the time Robert GAM's line. Um, Yeah,
it's it's I think it's one of the ones that
for some reason people just don't really know it when
they should. Um, because it's it's a classic comedy, no,

(41:03):
total classic, and Goldiehunt is just so funny. Yeah, she's
really really wonderful. Vintage vincage Goldie hun Yeah, alright, a
movie I have not seen a movie called Promised Land. Yeah,
speaking of I don't know how I didn't see this
Gus Fanzana love him. Speaking of local hero. Um, it's
similar in the sense that basically Matt Damon Um work

(41:26):
as a sales when he works for like this company
that basically wants to like freck the properties of the
people in a small town. So he's tasked with going
there and trying to get them to sell and change
their minds on basic positions. So and then Hal Holberg
plays this retired teacher who's really kind of against it.
So in a sense, it's sort of borrows that plot
of local hero in a lot of ways. UM. And

(41:48):
Frances McDorman plays like his sale buddy too, and she's
just like beyond funny in this Um she's just so
good and everything she does obviously, but UM, and you know,
it's just like a it's like a little, quiet, nice,
like small town kind of movie. But it also kind
of plays with the themes of like, you know, energy,
energy sources and moving forward and you know, what's what's

(42:10):
worth sacrificing in order to keep things going and um
and there's some you know, good little twists in there too.
And I love Matt Damon too. I think he's one
that's just like really done interesting work outside of Blockbusters too, absolutely,
and Scoop mcnary's in it, and Scoot McNary and an
actor that I think is really really underrated somehow. Still,

(42:34):
Rosemary DeWitt is so good and everything she does, uh,
And I feel like, if you know who she is,
you're a fan of hers, and you and you like
seek out her material. But if you're not, she just
google her and you'll see that face. I'm like, Oh,
that lady from that thing that's so great always. Yeah,

(42:54):
she's wonderful and everybody, everybody's really good in it, and
you know, it's it's definitely like a more slight thing
from Gus Van Sant, you might say, but I think
it's like one of his best. Honestly, is this his
straight story? It kind of is, yeah, kind of is
all right, I'll check it out. I love Gus Van's aunt.
I just recently saw for the show. I saw Paranoid

(43:18):
Park for the first time. Oh wow, so good. All right.
Next one on my list of movies I love is
sing Street another movie I saw on a plane that
you know, if you grew up in the eighties C. C.
Street period, full stop, especially if you like music and

(43:40):
you grew up in the eighties, you'll love this movie.
It's a very sweet story. It's a it's a coming
of age movie. It's a romantic comedy in some ways,
but that you know, don't hold that against it. Uh
set in in Ireland, what in Scotland was it was
sight and yeah in Dublin in the eighties, and it's

(44:03):
just everyone in it is fantastic and it's just uh,
the soundtrack is great. It's just such a sweet, lovable
movie and you just root for these characters so so hard.
It was my favorite movie that year. And um, I
love I mean The Frames is my favorite all time
band and that's Glenn Hansard and John Karney, who directed this,

(44:24):
was also in The Frames really on but he directed
once and then he did Begin again and then this one,
this is his third and they just made a Broadway
musical out of it, which was just about to open
when the pandemic hit. Yeahould love to see because the
music is really really good too. Oh it never got
to open. Huh No, but Yeah, this movie just like

(44:45):
really resonated with me, like anybody who's tried to like
figure out who they are through music. Yeah, like that's
what this movie is. Um, especially at the time period too.
It's just like you know, because obviously we both grew
up in the eighties and stuff, so this is this
is where it on. So yeah, and it feels very authentic,
like I think in Hollywood, this could have been a

(45:07):
really bad movie almost, it could have been just to uh,
it just feels real. It feels like real eighties and
not showy, like let's do like a Hollywood version of
what the eighties look like. Like Adam Sandler, I love
that Adam Sandler, but you know what I mean. Yeah,
there's yeah, I get my One of my pet peeves

(45:27):
and movies is when they're a period piece and they
like shout it out all the time instead of just
being in there, like I don't need you to be like, wow,
this bubble tape is crazy, right, Like, don't don't shout
out the things. Just have bubble tape there and don't
draw attention to it. We'll notice. Yeah. That was like
everything I hated about the wedding singer, you know. Yeah,

(45:48):
I mean I was only okay with it because of
such a broad comedy and not at all based in anything.
But it was fine. I didn't hate it or anything.
But yeah, but yeah, I hear you're saying, I just
I really don't like it when they draw attention to
the time period you're in the time period, it's it's
right on, yeah, because when you were in the time period,
no one would sit around and say, Wow, look at
this thing that we all just have every day, right, wow,

(46:11):
this one venture as well? All right. The next movie
is a movie starring Franklin Angela called Robot and frank
that I have never heard of. Ah, well, this is
what I saw on a plane, so there you go.
Um And it was one that you know, briefly play
at the Landmark down here. Wasn't around for very long,
but got generally good reviews. Um. And it felt like

(46:33):
a plane movie in a sense that like, it's not
a big screen thing, it's a very small movie. Um.
But it put Franklin Ngella front and center, which doesn't
happen that often, and it should because he's just so
so good. Um. And it's it's a lot of basically
like he's a jewel thief, a retired jewel thief I
can't burglar if you will, who's starting to suffer dementia

(46:57):
and Alzheimer's and stuff, so he kind of can't be
kept left alone. And James Marsin's is sombod. He drives
really far away to come and care for him periodically,
so instead of doing that, he gets him basically a
caretaker in this advanced AI robot um who was Peter
Star's guard voices and uh. At first he's, you know,
doesn't want to deal with it because the technology and

(47:20):
feeling not personal or whatever. But then he realizes that
the role that's capable of things and can help him
get back to his life of crime, so it's it's
pretty great. Yeah, it's a nice little movie. I waited
on him once as a as a waiter at a
restaurant in New Jersey. Franklin Jella came in for lunch
one day. Oh nice and sat in my section. That's great, nice,

(47:41):
gotta love that. But the tipper tips, well, very nice guy,
very kind, and he ate steak for lunch, which I
thought was I don't know, it just seemed like a
very Franklin Jella Hollywood sort of move. It does it
does all right. Next movie that I love is we

(48:06):
referred to earlier. Um, a movie called The Station Agent
that is also Peter Dinklage jam and has some of
my favorite I was gonna say indie actors, but they've
kind of all gone on to be in bigger things
since then, but at the time they were pretty indie.
I think, Um Dinklage of course, Patricia Clarkson, who I've

(48:30):
had a massive crush on my whole life, I feel like.
And Bobby kind of VOLLI. He was just fantastic. I
think it's the first thing I saw him in. Actually, yeah,
I think it might be in the case with me too. Yeah,
none of them, Like, we're only sort of on my
radar at the time. It's two thousand three or whatever. Um.
In fact, the one the biggest name in it for
me at the time is Michelle Williams because she's breaking

(48:51):
out and stuff, and that's right. She's got a nice
supporting role as kind of a love interest for Peter
Dinklich's character. Um, but it's just one of those at
Tom McCarthy directed it. Because only made a couple of movies,
but two of the three of them make an appearance
on this list. I did the visitor, Um, the great
movie People Love, and then Win Win, which makes an

(49:12):
appearance here too. I've not seen that one. It's good.
It's really really good. Um. But yeah, Station Agent, I
think is his crowning achievement and it's it holds up. Yeah.
I lived in the Middle Jersey and Central Jersey for
a few years too after college, and this movie just
really kind of kind of nailed that. That scene of

(49:33):
these small townships with the that have a train station,
and if it were not for the train station, the
town may not even be there anymore. Uh. Just fantastic movie.
Loved it, loved it. One of the great indies from
the early odds. Yeah, it's it's wonderful, all right. A
movie that I don't know how I haven't seen because

(49:54):
it takes a lot of boxes for me called Son
of Rambo R A M B W. I think that
was for copyright reasons. I think so too. Uh. Yeah,
it's just this little like British comedy um that came out,
you know, two seven I think, um, which shows a

(50:14):
young Will Poulter. I love Will Poulter. I think he's
a great little actor who's starting to kind of break out.
He was supposed to play penny Wise uh and Hit
movies when Karrie Fukiama was attached to it and supposed
to he gave like the creepiest audition ever and it
was gonna really be great. Um. So I kind of
bummed out that that didn't happen. He's got those eyebrows.

(50:34):
He does. He fully does. You can kind of see
it if you look at the photo on the thing,
the photos penny Wise. Um. But this literally like will
resonate with you if you were like into movies and
trying to make little movies when you're a kid, because
that's what this is. Um. They're inspired by, you know,
the first Blood in the Rambo movies, so they kind
of make their own version where he's like the son
of Rambo. Um and they try to do their own

(50:57):
special effects and stuff and try to produce this thing,
and um, it's yeah, it's it will really definitely resonate
with you if this was a thing you tried as
a kid, which I think a lot of us did.
And I definitely have one of the giant Panasonic um cameras,
you know, shoulder cameras, shoulder cameras you put the tape
in and stuff. So um yeah, so it's it's and

(51:18):
it's really wonderful, a lot, a lot of imagination in it.
Stuff that's great. I can't wait to see that right
at my alley, all right. The next one that I
loved was a was a big HBO movie for me
in the eighties. It came out in seventy nine but
had a very healthy run on HBO. And like the
early eighties, a movie called Time after Time, which is

(51:43):
and you kind of put it perfectly, it's h. G.
Wells versus Jack the Ripper in nine San Francisco. Really
unique time travel sort of plot, uh, featuring Malcolm McDowell
and David Warner, one of the great bad guys in
movie history. Yeah. And my only thing is I just

(52:03):
I haven't seen it so long. I wonder how it
holds up. I just watched it a couple of weeks
ago because um, Jenny had never seen it and she
was interested in it. And it it does hold up,
It definitely does. What was interesting to me is, like,
you know, I spent a lot of time in the
Bay Area and it's shot in San Francisco, so some
of the locations are like there's a chasing in the

(52:23):
Embarcadero and this is the nine nine, and it looks
like it doesn't like that area has not changed much
at all, so it's just weird to see it from
that era. And then they go to different areas to like,
oh that thing's not there, that things there now or whatever.
So you spend time in the Bay Area. That's kind
of fun too. But just the idea, it's it's it
almost feels like a Twilight Zony kind of idea. UM,
and it's really well done. And Mary Stein Virgin is

(52:45):
the love interest and also the one who kind of
gets in the way of everything. And there's some time
travel paradoxes that happened, but nothing major. It doesn't rely
on that like a lot of time travel movies do. UM,
but it's definitely really imaginative. And Nicholas Meyer did it,
who it star Trek two and stuff, so it's it's
really good. You know, what I'd watched the other night
that somehow I had never seen before another San Francisco

(53:08):
movie e from back then is Bullet. Yeah I've never
seen Bullet And I was like, wait a minute, of
course I've seen Bullet, but I hadn't seen Bullet. It's
so much. It's so I love the car chases, even
though they jump around like they're not realistic as supposed
to where they are and Sarrancisco, it'll be like they've
rounded the corner right another emails on there. Okay, cool,

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but it's really like amazing. There's a movie called The
Laughing Policeman from the seventies with Walter Mathou, which where
he's not comic at all, like he plays a detective
in San Francisco. Um, and there's some chase scenes in
that that are very realistic in terms of the geography,
like the follow up trajectory, which I appreciated. Um, that's

(53:50):
when I thought about putting out here too. Um, it's
pretty pretty cool. I love Mathow all right. And the
last one I have on my list of movies I
haven't seen is a movie called Starter for ten. This
is another one of those Oh my gosh, the cast
is stacked, but you didn't necessarily know it at the
time because he came out in two thousand and six.

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And um again it's it's sent in the eighties, so
it's got an awesome new wave soundtrack. But James McAboy
is the lead and he enrolls at Bristol and he
tries out for their their quiz team which is called
University Challenge UM, and it's sort of like you know,
pub quiz stuff. But then they go and competing things.
And Alice Eve is the love interest initially, but also

(54:33):
Rebecca Hall is the one that like he should be right,
you know. And benedictomber Batch plays a really nerdy member
of the thing. Um James Cordon shows up, UM. Mark
gaddis also from UM Sherlock. It's it's just it's really
really good. UM. So it's it's just like a fun,
pleasant romantic comedy with that kind of eighties backdrop and

(54:55):
a bevy of great comedic character actors from Britain. Sign
me up. All you had to say it was eighties
new wave. There you go. All right, those are all
on those two lists. And then a few honorable mentions
I have and you can chime in with some too. Uh.
Midnight Special a movie that I thought it was really

(55:16):
good and I feel like it got kind of mixed reviews, um,
but I thought it was really a pretty good movie.
I thought it was too it really reminds me of
Star Man. I think I put that in there, but
has the same kind of feeling very John Carpenter esk
and it's delivery and stuff. Um, but it's got a
great cast, like it's stacked and it's really interesting to watch. Um.

(55:39):
I think it suffers from the when the reveal isn't
it can never be what you wanted to be in
your mind. I didn't mind it, but then I don't
don't give anything away, but like it's the same thing
of like if you talk something up for a long
time and it's in your imagination, the reveal at the

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time is not going to be satisfied to you. That's
why shows that are predicated on not knowing stuff and
figuring stuff out the conclusions you're really tough. That's why
Lost kind of suffered at the end because it was
about not knowing and trying to figure things out, and
then when they kind of explain things, that's the explanation.
Will never be what you wanted to be, and you
have to realize it was the journey, it's not the destination.

(56:22):
That was what it was. And I think that's the
same way I've been nice special. Yeah, really good movie.
Directed by Jeff Nichols, who did another movie with Michael
Shannon who was in this called Take Shelter, which is
a great, great movie as well. Um, and Michael Shannon
is just he's he's one of the best. Everything he's
in his great and Jel Edgerton too, I love him
a lot. Yeah. Did you see the one he directed

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with the Bateman. No, the Gift I've been meaning to.
I've heard really really good too. Yeah, it's been sitting
in my queue for a long time and I've turned
on it yet. But alright, so another honorable mention? Uh,
why not more Scoot McNairy. That's right, And we can
talk about the movie Monsters director Gareth Edwards. I guess

(57:09):
it was his first movie, right, Yeah, I think so
at this is the one that put him on the map. Yeah,
a movie about well monsters, it's it's a it's a
creature movie, but a creature movie done on a budget.
And he really and this is why he went on
to get big, big jobs, because they're like, how did
you do this movie for the for the amount of
money that you did it with? Yeah, I mean he

(57:31):
got tapped to do Godzilla reboot right after this um,
which is like pretty you would never hear that. Usually
a studio wouldn't be like, oh, the guy that did
that little movie that no one saw, I'm sure, let's
give him the reins of a massive franchise reboot. But
there is like, the effects work on this, considering what
he had to work with, is phenomenal. The creatures when

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you do see them, are rendered in such a way
that it's like they look great and and an interesting
creature design. It's not something you've seen him before or yeah, yeah, totally,
and that's hard to do. There's only so many directions
you can you can go there. The next one, from
my honorable mention is a perfect Getaway And I'm glad

(58:12):
you put this on the list because at first Blush
you see a movie about this, uh a couple that
goes in this vacation and they meet some people and
then things go bad. It like it just sort of
reeks of of could be a pretty bad movie, but

(58:33):
it's it's a lot of fun. Actually it is. I
think it's actually the David Twoy directed it, and he's
also on this list with The Arrival, that Charlie Sheen
sci fi movie from the nineties, which I really enjoy
did not see that either. You should check it out.
It's way better than you think it would be. Um.
But it's uh, it's really well done and it has

(58:54):
twists in it that are great. Um. And the cast
is just like superb Um. I mean if you like
Timothy Oliphant, which I really do, it's to like Yeah,
and Chris Hemsworth shows up before you really know who
Chris Hemsworth was. Totally thousand nine Um. But yes, yeah,
it's super super enjoyable and like I say here, it

(59:17):
goes off the rails in the last third, so it
will reward you sticking with it even though it's never boring,
but it just it goes crazy. Yeah. I think that's
a like if that was over a director. One thing
I would love to hear people say is, um, the
movie was a lot better than I thought it was
gonna be because this is sort of a premise where

(59:39):
it looks like it could be like a Eli Roth
kind of thing, right, but it's much much better than that. Yeah.
It's suspenseful, it's funny at times. Um, and it's character
driven but not in a way that slows anything down. Yeah, totally.
The proposition is another honorable mention, another outback sort of
noir western with Guy Pierce. Just fantastic, fantastic movie. If

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you love westerns like me. You got to see the proposition. Yeah,
and it's a different kind of Western. It's super brutal.
Um but Nick Cave wrote it in like three weeks, um,
and Nick Cave is the man, so he is. And
the score is great too because he did it with um. Yeah,
it's so good. And uh, don't let it. Don't let

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the violence put you off. It's not that bad. But
it's really really well done. Yeah, it's no Bone Tomahawk,
which I'm surprised isn't on your list. Actually, I can't
get I can't make myself watch it. Oh you haven't
seen it, no, because I just know kind of I've
been told kind of what happens, and I'm like, yeah,
I can't really handle that. I'm not good with gore,
all right. I mean there is that one thing, but

(01:00:46):
it is such a good movie, dude. I love Kurt
Russell and I love westerns. So you got to see
it and just look away during that scene because that's
really I mean, it's violent, of course, but that yeah,
that scene is pretty legendary at this point. Yeah. And
then the last honorable mention I have is a movie
that I don't know how it It sort of flew

(01:01:07):
under the radar, but because it had a lot of
big stars in it and it was very funny. A
movie called Zero Effect. Yeah. That's Jake Hasnan, who um
has made a lot of little, cool, little movies that
people aren't that aware of. Um, but this to me
is the best. Um both Bill Pullman performance NFL so good.

(01:01:31):
He's so good in it, playing an eccentric detective that
is beyond eccentric. Like if you thought Shruck Holmes was eccentric,
you have not met Darryl Zero. Um and Ben Stiller
kind of plays is perfectly cast as he basically his
assistant who was just perturbed by everything all the time,
and he is on his last nerves with him. Um.

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But I'm looking at Jake Caston's list, he's I thought
Orange County was kind of funny even. Yeah, and another
of the movies I had on this list is that
Jake has a movies the t V Set. I didn't
see that. You should see that. It's really funny and
it's uh, I mean, it's against an insight baseball and
how a TV pilot has made But it shows you,
like how much in studio interference there is everything that

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he has to try to figure out how he basically
has to sell his soul down the river a little
bit each day to make Tabott go um to turn
out to be like is this something he's proud of?
Is it his vision? How much will he compromise? Um?
And it's really funny too, So yeah, I recommend that
a lot. Did you have any other honorable mentions you
want to throw out there? Um? Yeah. One of my

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favorite westerns is on here, which is from the sixties,
which is The Professionals. It's Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster,
um Wood, he Strode, Robert Ryan, Jack Plants. Um. It's great.
It's like super Richard Brooks directed it, who did a
lot of like a lot of the Tennessee Williams movies
in the sixties and sixties. But it's definitely a ripperer

(01:03:01):
and western, I would describe it that way. It's action
packed and it moves. It a good clip and they
you know from the first ten minutes without how the
all the characters introduced that you're in for a fun time. Alright,
the professionals. What else you got? Um, let's see. I
would say Frank, I enjoyed a lot. I don't know

(01:03:21):
if you saw that. I haven't, you know what I
did see? Frank Um and John Ronson is actually a
loose pal of mine. I've hung out with him a
few times. He's been on the show before, and Uh,
it's just a great great dude. Yeah, it's Um, it's
I think is my favorite Michael Fassbender performance, even though
he's under a giant papermate mache head for nine percent

(01:03:43):
of the movie. Um. But it's again like it's an
eccentric movie about a band and led by Frank who
has some mental issues, but it is also a very
creative UM guy. And then Domino Gleeson kind of plays
the kid who kind of gets involve with them. And
in the first like five minutes of the movie you

(01:04:03):
kind of hear Donald Gleason trying to write a song
by what he's looking at at the beach and it's
just so funny to me. Um and Scoop McNary, you
can't do that. So you know the story there, it's
based on a true story. Um. John Ronson wrote it
and John knew, uh the guy in real life who

(01:04:25):
he wasn't what was his name? I'm trying to look
it up. Now do you know this? Did you know
Frank's side bottom? That's it? Okay, Frank's side bottom in
the uh in England did the same thing, and Ronson
was friends with him and then ended up writing this
movie sort of about a character like completely based on him. Basically. Yeah,

(01:04:48):
it's really The music is actually really good. I mean
it's experimental at times and you're just like, what are
they doing? Um? And then they record an album and
like the we're gonna go into the wilderness and use weird,
unconventional instrument monts and all sorts of strangeness, which is
pretty funny too. Um. But I recommend that one. Yeah,
just go down to Frank's side bottom google rabbit hole

(01:05:09):
at some point and it's uh, it's it's pretty interesting stuff.
I'll have to do that. Um. I also recommend I
just watched this one a month ago, The Last Black
Man in San Francisco. Yeah, I haven't seen that. Somehow
I heard it was great. It's beautiful to look at,
like it's one of the best looking movies I've ever
seen in terms of like shooting a city. Um. And

(01:05:30):
it's like the first five minutes that it's got an
opening sequence that's just like breathtaking. Um. And it's it's
definitely a kind of a bit of a character study.
It's about um, this guy who uh he's kind of
crashing with a friend, um up at Hunter's point. Um.
It's basically about gentrification and how the city changes. But

(01:05:51):
there's a big house, is beautiful house done like the
not hill area that the main character of the jum
if who's name Kemain roofs so my head, I'll check
it on a second. He basically believes his grandfather built
it and he constantly goes to the outside and tries
to improve it because the current tenants aren't doing enough.
And um then early on they move out, and so

(01:06:12):
it's about him trying to like kind of restore this
house and kind of feel normal again, feel back like
he's part of the city again. Um. So it definitely
does a lot um with Like I said, I think
it's like a love letter and a letter to the
editor to San Francisco. So it's definitely has his critiques
on it, but it's also just like so loving um

(01:06:34):
and just so well executed. UM. Jimmy Fails is the
main guy, and he also wrote the film and it's
loosely based on his story. UM. And Jonathan Majors is
his best friend in it, who's kind of blown up
right now. He was into Five Bloods and he's going
to be in that Lovecraft com country UM show on HBO.

(01:06:55):
I haven't seen to Five Bloods yet. That's it's really
good too. It can be it's it's it can be
a tough watch at times, but Delroy Lindo is like
the next level. Like it's I don't know how the
Oscars are gonna be this year. I don't know how
that's gonna shake out, but I if there's a lock
it's Delroy Lindo being nominated at least and maybe great. Yeah, yeah,

(01:07:17):
I think the last thing I heard was that they
were delaying the Oscars and extending the UH qualification period
into next year a little bit. UM, But even that,
it's gonna be like, it's gonna be weird, it's gonna
be strange. I mean, it's gonna be weird to see it,
like the Netflix Academy Awards, but it's probably envy they're

(01:07:38):
loving it, and I think I'll shut out one more. Um,
and that's The Hunt for the Wilder People. Yes, of
course she is like the like early Teco A t D.
It's so great. Um. Julian Dennison who plays Ricky Baker
is so funny in it. Um, and it's just charming

(01:07:59):
and like goofully told. Yeah, and like great you know
New Zealand cinema, and plus you get Sam Neil is
like a crotchety old farmer. So it's it's it's really great.
It's it's just like a wonderful little movie. It is,
and it's it was it really like encapsulated the promise
of what was to come from with Tita. It's just amazing. Yeah,

(01:08:22):
there's there's. I mean, it's hard to like only shout
out a few things because I love everything in this list,
but um, but yeah, that that's definitely one of my
favorites on here. Yeah, and we gotta leave stuff for
people to go, uh you know, throw back to the
early odds and get you some some blog web hits,
get some page views there you go. Yeah, I'm hoping that,

(01:08:44):
you know, people, the feedback has been really positive so far.
People have just kind of said like, these are greater,
I love some of these movies, or there hasn't been
I think the only sort of pushback I got it
all with something people being surprised that I had like
Hell or high Water on here because it's not a
for an oscar, and I was like, yeah, but it's
still pretty. So many people I talked to have never
seen it. Uh, same thing Short Term twelve, which I love, love,

(01:09:07):
great movie. It's so good. It was my favorite movie
that year, but it didn't really No one's releasing that either.
So there's some stuff that's a little more populous in
a sense that it was acclaimed. It is on a
lot of people's radars, but it's still not on other people.
The list was not obscure films from Cold Stratton. It
is lesser known, and I think I think it qualified perfectly.
I think you did a great job. Thank you. And

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I also try to pick stuff that's relatively entertaining, you know,
that isn't like so argy that you're going to be
like why am I watching the paint dry here? You know,
some movies are I feel like most of these movies
are a good time um or at least we'll get
an emotional reaction out of you. Totally. Man, Well, you
spend a lot of time on it. It's a great list. Um.

(01:09:49):
I think it's going to serve this audience well because
people are always sharing great recommendations on the movie Crushers
page and so go check out at cold Stratton dot
com or where can they pick you up on Twitter? Yeah,
I'm at Cole Stratton on Twitter and I'm at Stratton
Cole on Instagram. I believe I was gonna infuse, but
I'm pretty sure that he said that last time you

(01:10:11):
were confused. Yeah, um, yeah, I think I got cold
Stratton because I was on early on that train and
I came later to Instagram and that was not available.
So that's why other Coal Stratton there is, there is.
I'm friends with him on Facebook, one of them, and
he uh, he's like a snowboarder in like Colorado or something.
Of course he is, you have a very snowboarder name.

(01:10:31):
But he like he like requested me, so I was like,
I would be funny or whatever. But then sometimes my
family will be like saying something that hill weigh in
just to be a jerk and like like look like cool.
What do you when? I was like, it's not it's
not me the other just shut up and go go snowboards.
It's pretty pretty smart, pretty funny. But all right, thank

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you Cole, thanks for coming on. Go check out that
list and watch these movies and we'd love to hear
back from you. I'll post it on the UH. I
was gonna wait to post it until this episode came out,
so I'll post it I think in a couple of
weeks and this comes out awesome, sounds great, man, all right,
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