August 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Joe tells you what is worth your time to watch this weekend! There's a Jaws documentary that is getting a lot of attention!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we have a three day weekend and you're probably
trying to figure out what you could watch in the
movie theaters, what you could watch online, what you could stream.
And the guy with all the answers about that is
Joe Numeier, film journalist and host of the wor Movie Minute.
He's with us every Friday at this time. So, Joe,
(00:22):
what's worth our time this weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, Arry? Well, I'm gonna start off by saying
that the thing that's worth your time actually is that
there's a great documentary about Jaws, and Jaws is in
the movie theaters again this weekend. I'm not sure why
they didn't re release it back in May when that
actually was the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. I remember you
and I talking about it at the time. But it's
back in theaters again this weekend, Steven Spielberg's original terrific
(00:46):
nineteen seventy five film. But there's a documentary on Hulu
and streaming called Jaws at fifty that's a lot of
fun and really terrific. And even for people like me
who know a lot about Jaws, know all about the Lord,
there's still things you can learn about it and it's terrific.
Be the thing that I would say is a great
way to close out summer or a movie summer specifically,
is to watch Jaws at fifty this great documentary on Hulu,
(01:09):
because I really think it's terrific. It's a lot of fun.
And then if you want to go to the movie
theaters and see Jaws, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But that's that's that's a horrible that's that's horrible for
what's in the theaters. You're saying, just go online, don't
go to the theaters because it's all junk.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Just when you thought it was safe to go back
to theaters, you know. Well, except I will also say
that that in fifty years, I'm not quite sure that.
I mean, there obviously has been, but I'm not sure
there's anything as fun as Jaws in the last fifty years.
But right, the big movie this weekend is called Caught Stealing.
I don't know big as sort of the right adjective
for it. I haven't had a chance to see it,
but it's a heist movie. And if there's Austin Butler,
(01:49):
who was really good as Elvis a couple of years
ago in the in the Elvis movie, that baz Lerman
did so. He plays a guy in the in the
late nineties movie set in the late nineties in the
East Village, which I was in the East Village in
the nineties. I don't know how good of a job
it does of recreating it and who kind of runs
a foul of some Russian mobsters when you finds some
(02:10):
drugs and there's a runaway cat that causes problems. I
don't know. You know. The biggest thing I would say
is A, keeps the runaway cats out of your heist movies,
and B if you're looking for great heist movies. My
movie minute this weekend talks about some of the greats,
and just to rattle off a few of them. I
know you've probably seen a whole bunch that I maybe forgot,
(02:31):
but let's throw them in there. Obviously, there's Heat, the
great nineteen ninety five film with Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino teaming up for the first time technically on screen,
not you know, Godfather Part two doesn't count, which has
got one of the great cinematic shootouts in history. Then
there's of course the original Thomas Crown Affair from nineteen
sixty eight with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, which I
(02:52):
think is terrific and is far better than the remake
that they did back in the late nineties with Pierce Brasman.
That first timeAs Crown Affair is great. I also like
there's a very fun nineteen seventy film called Kelly's Heroes
with Clint Eastwood. He's a World War Two soldier who
gets a bunch of military misfits to steal Nazi gold.
It sort of was around the same time as as
(03:15):
The Dirty Dozen and kind of gets forgotten a little bit,
but I like Kelly's Heroes. Then there's a great two
thousand and six film with Denzel Washington called Inside.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I love that likely.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, that was the top of my list. I love
that movie.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, terrific film. Jody Foster's in it, He's really great,
Denzel is really fantastic in it. Clive Owen is the
thief in there. I also want to sort of point
out you gotta watch out because movies like that. Sometimes
there have been movies that have been incredibly successful and
then they have weird sequels or direct to what used
to be called direct to video sequels. Now they wouldn't
be called I guess direct to streaming sequels. So Inside
(03:50):
Man is one of those where if you're kind of
cruise around on the on the on the cable schedule
a little bit, you'll see like that there's sort of
an unofficial sequel or a sequel is called, like, you
know whatever, Inside Man two, Electric Googloo or something. I
don't know. Just stick with the original. Find that one
on tables. That's really great.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know what movie I really loved. I loved the
movie Town, which didn't do well because I think it, yes,
Ben Affleck, I think it was in the middle of
the I hate Ben Affleck thing, but he he was
good in it and it was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Totally agree. And in fact, that's the movie that he
did just before Argo, which of course got Best Picture
in twenty twelve. So the Town in some ways led
to Argo. I like the Town as well. I think
it's really good. The other thing is that, you know,
people sort of have to remember because some people say, oh,
you know, is the is the Sting the great you know,
card game movie a heist movie and it's not. I mean,
it's sort of that's that's a slightly different genre. That's
(04:44):
sort of a scam or a caper kind of thing.
So I would while I like this thing, I wouldn't
come as a heist movie. Same thing with Dog Day Afternoon.
As much as I love Dog Afternoon, and it's it's
about a heist going wrong, it's not technically about a heist.
You know, the Pink Pants through the original Pink Panther
also sort of about a heist, but not quite the
same thing. But you know, David Niman is stealing the
(05:06):
diamond in there that's originally called the Pink Panther. And
then Ocean's eleven eleven as movie of course, right, yeah,
that's got to be in there. The original is a
lot of fun because of the nineteen sixty feel of
it in the rat pack, but I think that that
the two thousand and one remake is actually better because
it's a little bit more streamline. It's more fun. But
the but either version you kind of can't go wrong
(05:28):
with either. Either the nineteen sixty or the two thousand
and one version are both terrific. Right, you love both
of those, I'm sure, and even the sequels, I'm sure, Larry, Right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I Also, there was a movie that didn't I don't
think people are going to remember and people probably didn't
see Called Thief with James Kahn, remember that a long
time ago?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
One? Yeah, you same director as Thief, as as as Heats.
In fact, Michael Mann, it's a great film, yeah, with
James Kahn. Tuesday, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And also if you're into these type of movies, den
of Thieves. Most people, the critics probably hated it, but
I'm a sucker for these movies these completely.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I like that, and the Theeves as well. I also think,
you know, there there's there's things like The Italian Job,
which was a lot of fun, like both the nineteen
sixty nine original and the two thousand and four remake
is good. And then there's a film that that people
you know, really didn't like, but I thought it was
okay back in twenty eleven called Tower Heist with Ben
Stiller and Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda and and Stiller
(06:21):
is a security guy who decides to rob one of
his rich tenants in this during the Thanksgiving Day parade
on Fifth Avenue, And that's a lot of fun. It's
got a very fun New Yorky sort of feel to it.
And then of course you kind of go back to
like the classics and things like. There's a great film,
the nineteen fifty film The Asphalt Jungle, which is kind
of a footnote because it's really the first Marilyn Monroe appearance.
(06:45):
I mean, even though she was in all about even
a few other things, she's really build in there for
the first time. And that's a John Houston film from
nineteen fifty. One of the greats too. Also another one,
the Taking of Pelham one, two three, Remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh that was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes, yes, yantastic films, right, And also one of the
great New York movies. You know that Subway, the whole
Subway sequence of Walter Mathow and Robert Shawn everything. It's
a great film.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So you are amazing. You are just amazing. You're like
an encyclopedia. It's unbelievable to hear you go through all
of this. Joe Numai are film journalist and wo R
Movie Minute host. He is with us every Friday at
nine thirty nine.
So we have a three day weekend and you're probably
trying to figure out what you could watch in the
movie theaters, what you could watch online, what you could stream.
And the guy with all the answers about that is
Joe Numeier, film journalist and host of the wor Movie Minute.
He's with us every Friday at this time. So, Joe,
(00:22):
what's worth our time this weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, Arry? Well, I'm gonna start off by saying
that the thing that's worth your time actually is that
there's a great documentary about Jaws, and Jaws is in
the movie theaters again this weekend. I'm not sure why
they didn't re release it back in May when that
actually was the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. I remember you
and I talking about it at the time. But it's
back in theaters again this weekend, Steven Spielberg's original terrific
(00:46):
nineteen seventy five film. But there's a documentary on Hulu
and streaming called Jaws at fifty that's a lot of
fun and really terrific. And even for people like me
who know a lot about Jaws, know all about the Lord,
there's still things you can learn about it and it's terrific.
Be the thing that I would say is a great
way to close out summer or a movie summer specifically,
is to watch Jaws at fifty this great documentary on Hulu,
(01:09):
because I really think it's terrific. It's a lot of fun.
And then if you want to go to the movie
theaters and see Jaws, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But that's that's that's a horrible that's that's horrible for
what's in the theaters. You're saying, just go online, don't
go to the theaters because it's all junk.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Just when you thought it was safe to go back
to theaters, you know. Well, except I will also say
that that in fifty years, I'm not quite sure that.
I mean, there obviously has been, but I'm not sure
there's anything as fun as Jaws in the last fifty years.
But right, the big movie this weekend is called Caught Stealing.
I don't know big as sort of the right adjective
for it. I haven't had a chance to see it,
but it's a heist movie. And if there's Austin Butler,
(01:49):
who was really good as Elvis a couple of years
ago in the in the Elvis movie, that baz Lerman
did so. He plays a guy in the in the
late nineties movie set in the late nineties in the
East Village, which I was in the East Village in
the nineties. I don't know how good of a job
it does of recreating it and who kind of runs
a foul of some Russian mobsters when you finds some
(02:10):
drugs and there's a runaway cat that causes problems. I
don't know. You know. The biggest thing I would say
is A, keeps the runaway cats out of your heist movies,
and B if you're looking for great heist movies. My
movie minute this weekend talks about some of the greats,
and just to rattle off a few of them. I
know you've probably seen a whole bunch that I maybe forgot,
(02:31):
but let's throw them in there. Obviously, there's Heat, the
great nineteen ninety five film with Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino teaming up for the first time technically on screen,
not you know, Godfather Part two doesn't count, which has
got one of the great cinematic shootouts in history. Then
there's of course the original Thomas Crown Affair from nineteen
sixty eight with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, which I
(02:52):
think is terrific and is far better than the remake
that they did back in the late nineties with Pierce Brasman.
That first timeAs Crown Affair is great. I also like
there's a very fun nineteen seventy film called Kelly's Heroes
with Clint Eastwood. He's a World War Two soldier who
gets a bunch of military misfits to steal Nazi gold.
It sort of was around the same time as as
(03:15):
The Dirty Dozen and kind of gets forgotten a little bit,
but I like Kelly's Heroes. Then there's a great two
thousand and six film with Denzel Washington called Inside.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I love that likely.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, that was the top of my list. I love
that movie.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, terrific film. Jody Foster's in it, He's really great,
Denzel is really fantastic in it. Clive Owen is the
thief in there. I also want to sort of point
out you gotta watch out because movies like that. Sometimes
there have been movies that have been incredibly successful and
then they have weird sequels or direct to what used
to be called direct to video sequels. Now they wouldn't
be called I guess direct to streaming sequels. So Inside
(03:50):
Man is one of those where if you're kind of
cruise around on the on the on the cable schedule
a little bit, you'll see like that there's sort of
an unofficial sequel or a sequel is called, like, you
know whatever, Inside Man two, Electric Googloo or something. I
don't know. Just stick with the original. Find that one
on tables. That's really great.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know what movie I really loved. I loved the
movie Town, which didn't do well because I think it, yes,
Ben Affleck, I think it was in the middle of
the I hate Ben Affleck thing, but he he was
good in it and it was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Totally agree. And in fact, that's the movie that he
did just before Argo, which of course got Best Picture
in twenty twelve. So the Town in some ways led
to Argo. I like the Town as well. I think
it's really good. The other thing is that, you know,
people sort of have to remember because some people say, oh,
you know, is the is the Sting the great you know,
card game movie a heist movie and it's not. I mean,
it's sort of that's that's a slightly different genre. That's
(04:44):
sort of a scam or a caper kind of thing.
So I would while I like this thing, I wouldn't
come as a heist movie. Same thing with Dog Day Afternoon.
As much as I love Dog Afternoon, and it's it's
about a heist going wrong, it's not technically about a heist.
You know, the Pink Pants through the original Pink Panther
also sort of about a heist, but not quite the
same thing. But you know, David Niman is stealing the
(05:06):
diamond in there that's originally called the Pink Panther. And
then Ocean's eleven eleven as movie of course, right, yeah,
that's got to be in there. The original is a
lot of fun because of the nineteen sixty feel of
it in the rat pack, but I think that that
the two thousand and one remake is actually better because
it's a little bit more streamline. It's more fun. But
the but either version you kind of can't go wrong
(05:28):
with either. Either the nineteen sixty or the two thousand
and one version are both terrific. Right, you love both
of those, I'm sure, and even the sequels, I'm sure, Larry, Right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I Also, there was a movie that didn't I don't
think people are going to remember and people probably didn't
see Called Thief with James Kahn, remember that a long
time ago?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
One? Yeah, you same director as Thief, as as as Heats.
In fact, Michael Mann, it's a great film, yeah, with
James Kahn. Tuesday, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And also if you're into these type of movies, den
of Thieves. Most people, the critics probably hated it, but
I'm a sucker for these movies these completely.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I like that, and the Theeves as well. I also think,
you know, there there's there's things like The Italian Job,
which was a lot of fun, like both the nineteen
sixty nine original and the two thousand and four remake
is good. And then there's a film that that people
you know, really didn't like, but I thought it was
okay back in twenty eleven called Tower Heist with Ben
Stiller and Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda and and Stiller
(06:21):
is a security guy who decides to rob one of
his rich tenants in this during the Thanksgiving Day parade
on Fifth Avenue, And that's a lot of fun. It's
got a very fun New Yorky sort of feel to it.
And then of course you kind of go back to
like the classics and things like. There's a great film,
the nineteen fifty film The Asphalt Jungle, which is kind
of a footnote because it's really the first Marilyn Monroe appearance.
(06:45):
I mean, even though she was in all about even
a few other things, she's really build in there for
the first time. And that's a John Houston film from
nineteen fifty. One of the greats too. Also another one,
the Taking of Pelham one, two three, Remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh that was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes, yes, yantastic films, right, And also one of the
great New York movies. You know that Subway, the whole
Subway sequence of Walter Mathow and Robert Shawn everything. It's
a great film.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So you are amazing. You are just amazing. You're like
an encyclopedia. It's unbelievable to hear you go through all
of this. Joe Numai are film journalist and wo R
Movie Minute host. He is with us every Friday at
nine thirty nine.
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