LNC is Late for the Tony Nominations

This episode is late because Jonathan had a rough few days, but is feeling much better now. Anyway, apologies for how long it took to get this episode up online -- it was recorded on Friday, May 2, 2025. We talk about the Tony nominations, Avatar The Last Airbender's 20th anniversary, and our weekend plans.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider podcast,
the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me is always
It's been delightful.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Jonathan struct Good morning, Ellen. C.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Have you been watching classic Robin Williams comedies?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, yeah, with like a sad sentimental edge to them.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, why do you ask?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Uh just quoted one?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Because I quoted one? Yeah, I don't know why I did.
I think it's because I came up empty on anything else.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
A fair fair enough, Like if you're.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Gonna if you don't know what to say, just steal
something that Robin Williams once said.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah. Yeah. Today's podcast is brought to you by the
thunderstorm that is very angry outside my house.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
So oh that means it's coming for me. I haven't
heard anything yet.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I mean, it's right now. I like, I don't wanna
so like I'm not superstitious, but I'm also like, what
does it hurt? I mean, Jonathan might disagree with me
because I am a person of faith, so but.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hey, hey, hey, I am I am giving no judgment
here fair.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
But I'm like, so right now, it's it's all sound
and no fury signifying nothing, signify hopefully signifying nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We are here, we are quoting the Scottish play if
if you are at all superstitious, we're just compounding it
as we go along.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Uh So yeah, anyhow, Uh I wasn't trying to throw
you under the bus or anything. Basically, I wanted to
say that it's right now, it's just being angrily loud
and like, there's sun directly in my window, but beyond
that is dark, gray sky. But I hope it stays
that way because I live among a bunch of big trees,
and if this episode cuts short, it's because I've lost power.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, here's hoping that that is not an issue.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I knew we were going to be getting some weather
later today, but I didn't think it was coming this early,
so I was not playing attention to Well, we have
a whole bunch of stuff to talk about today, but
a lot of it is either in our thirty seconds
or less, or it's in our Hey, this doesn't really
fit our show. So the actual show content I think

(02:33):
might be the shortest section of the day. But before
we get to any of that, we like to talk
about the stuff we've watched since the last time we recorded.
I'm just gonna go ahead and go first, because I've
only got the one thing that I can think of.
May maybe I've seen something else but I can't remember,
But I watched a couple more episodes of Harley Quinn
I'm in. I'm in season four at this point, and

(02:56):
so now, like Harley has spoiler alert for the Harley
Quinn series, if you plan on watching it, then you
haven't really gotten into it yet. But in this season,
Harley has joined the bat family and meanwhile, Poison Ivy
is head of Legion of Doom, and so they're in
a relationship together. So they're trying to figure out how

(03:18):
to make their relationship work along with their professional lives.
And yeah, so it's it's still very entertaining to me.
It's really odd to see their take on classic DC characters.
Talia al Ghoul has shown up on this one, and

(03:39):
she's I guess they were like, who can we introduce
who's even a bigger, like nothing can phase me cool
character than Catwoman was. But that's all, well, yeah, but
ca Catwoman comes in and she's just like, nothing phases her.

(04:00):
And then they're like, let's do that again, but let's
do it with Talia Alghol is what it felt like.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Anyway, I'm still enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I do look forward to getting back to watching lots
of other stuff, including some stuff that is related to stories.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
That we have to talk about today.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
What about you, Ariel Nice, I've done pretty well despite
everything this week. I've done pretty well on watching geeky media.
So over the weekend I saw Sinners, which was it
was very good. I went to see it with my
husband and a really good friend of ours, and they

(04:39):
both liked everything without the vampires better than the vampire stuff.
And I thought it would be the exact opposite, because, like,
my husband doesn't like period pieces very much, and he's
since clarified that it's he doesn't like period pieces for
the sake of celebrating the period, but he felt that
the story was beyond that. I understand why some people

(05:02):
said that the movie, like the few negative review got
reviews it got or middling reviews it got, said that
like it was maybe a little slow and that the
moral didn't hit home because the first third of the
movie is introducing the characters, and then the second third
of the movie is setting up. It's not really a spoiler.
The movie takes place at a juke joint, is kind

(05:25):
of like the central location of the movie, so it's
all about that, and then the third part is the
vampires are in other parts of the movie too, but
the third part is like the vampire act. I thought
it was really good. There was one scene that made
me cry and gave me shivers that I could watch
a thousand times over. But the cast scene was really good.

(05:47):
I laughed at the beginning because there's one scene since
Michael B. Jordan plays twins where there's like an opening
scene where one of them rolls a cigarette, hands it
to the other one, the other one takes a puff,
hands it back, and I'm like, you guys are just
showing off, showing off that you can do this seamlessly.
It was a very good movie. It wasn't as gory
or as scary as I expected. It really wasn't like

(06:11):
super graphic in a sexy way either, which can happen
with a lot of like a lot of vampire movies,
because that's a big thing around vampire lore, and I
think the only thing that made it not as amazing
as it could have been for me was that it
was so like built up before I saw it that
I went in with very high expectations, so I was

(06:33):
watching it a little critically. That being said, it was
a wonderful time. I enjoyed it. There are two post
credit scenes. The music was perfection. I also played a
lot of Gates boulders Gate three, although I haven't made
it very far, and further, I haven't made it much
further in the game because it's been a lot of like,

(06:54):
let me spend two hours trying to do this thing
and then realizing it wasn't worth it and then die anyhow,
and forgetting to have saved. I watched the first two
episodes of Bondsman last night, which was the Kevin Bacon
dies and then Hunts Demons. That was gorrier then I anticipated.
The first two episodes don't quite feel like they know

(07:16):
the tone they want to go for, but the person
playing Kevin Bacon's mother and the person playing Kevin Bacon's
dead self handler are both phenomenal, and Jennifer Nettles is
in it, so she's very talented as well. And then
tonight I'm gonna go see Thunderbolts.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, speaking of like post credit sequence or mid credit sequence,
I understand that the Thunderbolts one is the longest one yet.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh interesting. I hope it's better than the Captain America
Red Hulk one because.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I still don't know what that is because I still
haven't seen it.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
But I know you said nothing, Burger.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
I know that's what you've say said multiple times and
I still don't know, Like I have no other reference
for it, which is fine.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
One of these days I will watch it.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I mean, I can tell you because it literally spoils nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
If you want to, oh, it's fine, Like let me,
let me at least have something where I can watch
it and go like, yeah, I look forward to seeing Thunderbolts.
I don't know if I'm going to get a chance
to see it this weekend or not. I hope I can,
but that's definitely on my list of things what I
want to watch. I've watched a lot of the press

(08:34):
like rounds content for it.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
With like Florence Pugh and David Harber and folks like that, and.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
The lot of the commentary I've seen is that this
is perhaps the darkest of the Marvel movies so far.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'm well, I mean, I guess, like.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
If it means that it's even darker than say Infinity
War where half the universe is killed.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean I haven't so. First of all, it's eighty
eight percent fresh critically, and then like ninety eight percent
fresh audience. The friends, the mutual friends that we have,
I know, you don't see their reviews on social media
have said that it feels like Marvel has gotten back
to its roots, that the quipiness is very quippi, and
that it handles mental illness.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
In a great way.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I haven't heard like, oh man, this is super
dark from them.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
But yeah, I mean I've only can tell you from
what I've seen from the press tour stuff. Yeah, I
still am very much looking forward to it. You know,
I'm hopeful that it'll be a really entertaining film, and yeah,
I I can't wait to see how it plays out. Like,

(09:51):
I love that I know a lot about it without
actually knowing how the narrative unfolds, which is nice.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I know I'm going to find Red Guardian really funny,
and I know that Yelena is going to have a
lot of emotional struggles because that's Florence Peugh's like Wheelhouse.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
She I think she said that she would never do
like anything like Midsommar again.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Though, yeah, Midsommar was hard man. That's a that the
opening of that movie destroys me.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Apparently it destroyed her too.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
So well.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean you can tell on screen like she leaves
it all on screen and it's just heartbreakingly brutal. Anyway,
looking forward to hearing what you think about Thunderbolts, hoping
that I get a chance to see it too, I
guess we should move right on into what in our notes.

(10:49):
I just noticed this, even though it's been like this
for ages. In our notes, our lineup it says sixty
seconds or less. Now it does not, but we say
thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Even when did that happen, because like on the template
it's thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't know, but weeks back it says sixty seconds
or less. I went back and.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Looked at a few older lineups to see because I
thought you had done it as like a joke or something,
but it's been there for a while.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, I don't I don't know. I'm going back and
changing it in the next couple so that it's correct
moving forward.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, we're gonna do our thirty
seconds or less and I get to go first, So
here we go. The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Guy Ritchie,
the director of such uber stylized films as Snatch and
lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, we'll be directing Roadhouse too. Jake,
Jill and Hall will be returning as Dalton. Plot details

(11:48):
are being kept under wraps. My hope is that this
is the movie where Dalton learns that pain does hurt.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
That would be a good lesson.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Revenge of the Sith recently re released into theaters and
much to probably ben Afflex I can't even think of
the word probably, making ben Afflex sad. It's made more
money on its re release than The Accountant two has,
and it has now become one of the top fifty

(12:20):
highest grossing movies ever. Kind of surprising to me because
it's to me it's not the best star.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Worth really well known.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Anything outside of four or five or six is oh okay?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing report about how
Metta's celebrity voiced AI chatbots can be convinced to engage
in some very naughty conversations, even when the person chatting
with the bot is underaged. Meta said the journal's testing
methods were quote unquote manipulative. But I call bs on
that since the billions of real world Facebook users which

(12:55):
surely hit every variation themselves in the real world. But yeah,
I would imagine folks like John Cena and Kristen Bell
have to be a little uneasy about all this for sure.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
In news that Jonathan added just to make me sad,
we've hit Avatar the Last Airbender's twentieth anniversary. I can't
believe it. I feel like I was much older when
it started, But that's okay. Anyhow. To celebrate, they are
updating their orchestral concert series that plays the music of

(13:30):
the show, which they launched in twenty twenty four, with
a cinematic experience, so now you can also go on
as as the Hollywood Reporter puts it, a visual journey.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Actually, they're doing a whole concert tour with an orchestra
playing the music live in various theaters, and I just
bought tickets for me and my wife to go see
it in September.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Nice I'm surprised you didn't take that story. Then, I
don't know. I guess I miss I missed that part
because Georgia Kits so many were playing the music to
this movie Things with.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
The Air This is one with a traveling orchestra as
opposed to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But yeah, now, the
reason I didn't take it is because I don't care
about Avatar the Last Airbender, but my wife does, so
it's a present for her, all right. Dev Pattel, known
for his work in films like slun Dog, Millionaire and

(14:25):
Monkey Man, will write, direct, and star in a period
action thriller film called The Peasant. The movie is said
to be a revenge thriller with medieval nights roaming feudal
India in the thirteen hundreds, which sounds dope. Thunder Road,
the production company behind John Wick.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Will produce In Narnia news, we've learned that Greta Gerwig
has cast the White Witch. She's using Emma Macki, who
is an actress from the Substance which I didn't watch.
We have heard news that Greta is not focusing on

(15:04):
the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe because that's done before,
so I guess that leaves the other story she could
be doing as the Magician's nephew. I'm not mad at that.
I like the Magician's nephew. I hope that that's the
movie that she's making and she hasn't just fallen back
into line which in wardrobe territory.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
In our first bit about plays and musicals, Casting News
broke about an upcoming musical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.
It's set to premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington,
d C. And will feature Amber Gray, who originated the
role of Hesephony in the Broadway version of Abystown, as
Missus Watson, and Taylor i'mon Jones, who is Katherine Parr

(15:41):
in Broadways six as Meg Murray. The show opens on
my fiftieth birthday, June twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yay, sounds like it might be a fun show. DC
Studios has canceled the Sargent Rock film, not a huge
surprise considering how well they're their comic movies have done.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Outside of Spider Man's Marvel not DC.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, Oh, I guess you're right. Hey, I was thinking, Sony,
that's really where my head went. Okay, So anyhow, DC
has canceled their Sergeant Rock film. It's still not a
huge surprise because they have had a lot of trouble
keeping like casting the lead, and it's kind of I
don't know, if you are a fan of the comic,

(16:27):
I'm sorry for saying this. It's kind of a like
a not super well known one.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
So yeah, I mean it's like it's like like if
you were to do It's like if you're doing Gi Joe,
but you don't have the rights to g I Joe.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, or like Inglorious Bastards but it's already been done.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah. Well.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
In more musical news, Bob Martin and Rick Elise, who
co wrote the Broadway show Smash, which is based off
the television series of the same name from more than
a decade ago, are working on a musical adaptation of
cult film favorite The Princess Bride. According to them, the
project is currently progressing with the composing team. Considering the
mixed response I've heard from their other shows, I am

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concerned but hopeful.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I was not a huge fan of Smash, though some
of our mutual friends are very big fans. And then
in our last theater News and thirty seconds or less.
The Tony Awards have announced their nominations for the twenty
twenty fifth Extravaganza, including I'm sure you guys are tired
of hearing me talk about it at this point. Andrew

(17:35):
Durand has been nominated the person who I have done
some theater with in Roswell growing Up as a kid.
Nominated for Leading Actor in a Musical for Dead Outlaw's
that's the one based on McCurdy where it's kind of
like the first half he's alive, in the second half
he's dead, So it's vaguely weakened at Bernie's ish. They
probably wouldn't say that, but I'm saying that I haven't

(17:56):
seen it yet, as well as it's also been nominated
for Best Musical A Lot with Death becomes Her Maybe
Happy ending, which is vaguely geeky because it has.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
To do with.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Android's artificial intelligent being intelligence beings something like that. And
then like Oh Mary Romeo and Juliet Dorian Gray Boop,
which is about Betty Boop. Stranger things. Lots of geeky
things nominated this year.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, On an appendent note to that, I saw
just before we started recording that Redwoods, which is the
musical that Idina Menzel is in, is closing on May eighteenth.
Oh wow, Yeah, they didn't get nominated for anything. So coincidence,

(18:46):
not at all, not even a little bit of a coincidence. Yeah,
that show, like it was it was like kind of not.
It wasn't a surprise that it was announcing its closing.
I think the surprise was that it's closing so soon,
like in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, I think because Broadway is my understanding is Broadway
is coming back, but it's slow, so it's still not
where it was pre pandemic. So I guess the funders
for the various shows are like, look, if it's not working,
we're just going to cut our losses because.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, I mean, well, if it's more expensive to run
it than what you're making back, then obviously or have
a money losing situation. This is not unusual, by the way,
like Tony Season, whenever the announcements comes out come out
about who is nominated or what shows are nominated, that
always has an impact on.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
The Broadway itself.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Like if a show was expecting to get nominations and
didn't to see support kind of fade away.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's not unusual.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
There are some shows that absolutely count on having tony
nominations announced so that they can leverage that into more
ticket sales. So this is not unheard of by any
stretch of the imagination. One show that only got one
nomination and I hope does not impact the show at
all was Pirates the Penzance Musical, because I really want

(20:12):
to see it.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
It does seem it does seem like it's got a
very fun cast that is having a lot of fun
with it, like David Hyde, Pierce and Jings Monsoon and
the other guy who also seems like he's having a
lot of fun with.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
The Pirate King. Dude.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, like I've heard nothing but fun things.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I actually listened to.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I found that it was a promotional video that had
little snippets of it, and I was surprised to how
much I did not recognize because I am familiar with
the operetta, but this is it clearly takes lots of
liberties with the operetta.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Now that that's a bad thing. It just I was
surprised at how.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Many little moments I was like, oh, I'm very familiar
with this show, but I don't recognize that exchange at
all interesting.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, that makes it fun. Well, I would say makes
it fun. But like I hate what they've done with
the rewrite of the Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella. I think
it's such as it's really hindered the show.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I mean it can go either way, just like
anything else. Right, Like sometimes you can, you can do
a revamp of a show and it'll breathe new life
into it. Sometimes all you do is alienate the people
who loved that show to begin with.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
So same as it ever was.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
But yeah, that's that's our Broadway news. Well that's enough
of us chatting about Broadway for the moment. Anyway, Let's
let's transition over to talking about some of the stuff
that doesn't really fit our show necessarily. But we did
see some trailers and stuff that we thought were kind
of interesting. And first up is a documentary that's going

(21:50):
to come to Amazon Prime Video, all about the Humble Octopus.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, Like at the Oscars there was a short film
or maybe a documentary or something that won an award
or got nominated about Octopus. So first I thought that
was it, But no, this is a more fun take,
maybe because it not just focuses on octopus experts, but
also octopus enthusiasts, including Tracy Morgan. Yeah, because he owns one.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, Tracy Morgan.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think is gonna be kind of like I don't
I hesitate to say the everyman, because who the heck
can identify with Tracy Morgan, I don't know, like besides
Eddie Murphy, who does an incredible Tracy Morgan impression. Tracy
Morgan is kind of the host, and the narrator is

(22:43):
Phoebe waller Bridge, so another like she's done geek stuff too, obviously.
So the trailer looks really delightful, and I think it
starts on May eighth, So if you have Amazon Prime,
you can watch the Octopus documentary starting on the eighth.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
That looks fun.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Next up it does. I would I was gonna say,
I I think OCTOPI are super cool, but because their
life is so short, I don't know if I can
watch it.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I mean, I'm pretty sure they'll live through the entire special.
I mean it's not that short. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, I don't know if that'll be true or not, Jonathan,
because even documentaries like drama.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, well we'll see or maybe you will but other
people will.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
They'll have to see you have to you have to
go to the website. Does the octopus die?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Uh yeah? Which is which is similar to fish doorbell
but sadder.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah? All right?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, next up, HBO has an original film coming out
called Mountainhead Again. This one is kind of adjacent and
it's it's the story of a bunch of like tech
bro billionaires getting together like a luxury ski cabin resort
thing while the world starts to burn a round them.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
A little too close to home for me right now.
Then we also have a trailer for season four of
Welcome to Wrexham. I think I'm in season three right now.
I loved watching it because I just needed some happy,
happy stuff and I fell off for a while, so
I need you back into it. This season's going to

(24:21):
have Channing Tatum and Tom Brady, one of whom I
love and the other of whom I do not, So
that'll be exciting.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
That comes out May fifteenth. That'll be on FX and
also will be streaming on Hulu.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Look, get Jonathan overachieving with his release date. Notes.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I actually took notes on all these because I know
that I'm the person who can't remember if I watched a.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Trailer sometimes, this time I made sure.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Next up, we have a trailer for a movie called
deep Cover, which appeals to me because the premise is
so silly, where a police officer recruits three improvisational comedians
to work undercover in sort of a sting operation.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I feel like this one possibly could have made it
into our general notes, quite honestly, because one, improv is
considered a very geeky thing, and two it has a
lot of geek actors in it. It's got Orlando Bloom,
it's got Sean Bean, it's got who I know have
They've done plenty of non geeky things, but Lord of
the Rings alone.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
And then it's got Bryce Dallis Howard.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yes, who was recently in like Argyle and Dress?

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Was she in Jurassic Parker? Is that the other one
Jurassic World? She was in Jurassic World?

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Was she? Or was that Jessica Chestain?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
No, she was in Jurassic World.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh, that's right, because she took her shoes off in
Argyle as a joke about not taking them off in
Jurassic World. Yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
And Nick Muhammad, who is in ted Lasso, He's in
it too, Yeah, but it's it's coming out on June
twelfth on Amazon Prime. And this looks very silly, like
they make a lot of improv comedy style jokes about
you know, doing the yes and response to things. Very

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silly and I'm sure it'll be entertaining. Then we have
a trailer for a Max Original series called Duster.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
It stars Josh Holloway who was Sawyer and Lost, along
with Keith David and Rachel Hilson and Sydney Elizabeth. It's
like a nineteen seventies heist movie set in the South.
It feels it feels vaguely like a black exploitation sort
of a vibe, but not very exploitative, so maybe just

(26:52):
seventies period.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, it's got so Keith David's playing a criminal named Ezra,
and Holloway is playing his driver, Gym, so kind of
like drive in a way, like kind of like one
of those movies where you know, the main character is
this very competent driver, and Rachel Hilson is Nina, a

(27:21):
cop who is determined to bring Ezra down. And it's
actually a series, not a film, but it comes out
May fifteenth, so pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Jjre once created the series.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
By the way, I saw like the teaser for it,
and I don't think it made it into our lineup.
Sorry if it didn't, Jonathan, I both forgot. But yeah,
it looks like a lot of it looks. It looks fun,
unlike the next thing we doesn't fit. We've got a
trailer for which is forty Acres. I know Jonathan's going
to have more to say on this, but it's it's
The log line is in the near future, former soldier

(27:50):
in her family make one last stand against the vilicious militia.
And it looks terrifying to me because in my mind,
the scariest thing are people who do bad they like
because people as villains like that could actually happen. A
vampire or a sparkle monster that may not, but like

(28:12):
vicious militia are very real, and so there's an extra
level of terrifying.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
So this is scheduled to come out July second. It
already got screenings in Canada in twenty twenty four. It
is a Canadian film. The title forty Acres references, or
at least I believe it's supposed to be a reference
to General Sherman, who was promising freed slaves, they would

(28:40):
receive forty acres in a mule, a promise that was
never delivered. By the way, here's some ironic twist to
that particular tidbit. Apparently when the film was shooting in Canada,
some of the vendors who worked with the movie ever
got paid. So wow, yeah, yeah, I'm like, wow, you

(29:05):
have the audacity to name your film forty acres, this
famous thing about you know, restitution that never happened, and
then you don't pay all your vendors. That seems like
maybe you didn't learn the lesson that she's trying to teach.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Just a little sus well.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
But anyway, yet, Haylee Freeman is the main character, or
at least a main character in this and she's looking
after her family, and she's very justifiably paranoid, like she
does not trust anyone outside the family and is instilling
that into her family, like you cannot trust anyone from outside.

(29:46):
We don't want to make contact, We don't want anyone
knowing we're here. We want to stay cut off because
that ensures our survival. That's essentially the vibe that's going.
And then, of course, uh events escalate which require interaction
with the outside world, which is already like decimated. There's

(30:08):
there's very few people left.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
From what we can tell.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
We don't know what the nature of the kind of
apocalyptic you know, sequence was like, we don't know if
it's climate.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Related or war related or disease. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
But that's really not important. That's not really the point
of the story. So whether that's a dressed or not
in the film, I don't think really matters.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
It looks intense.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's going to be very good.
I just I it might be Children of Men level
upsetting to me, as opposed to the next trailer, which,
first of all, before like I read it, I was like, ah,
there's a Diablo movie based off the video game. It's
not it. It's an action film and titled Yeah I

(30:59):
watched it, could I tell you anything about it? It
was an action film.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's that's where it fell for me.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's a punch punch kick kick martial arts Columbian American film.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Which, you know, a punch punch kick kick film could
also be like the the Internal Turmoil at the Roquettes,
a movie about like.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
The rockets don't punch they do kick a lot.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
If there was internal turmoil, they might it would be
like a West a West Side story amongst the five
seven Rockettes in the five to ten Rockets.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Well you're yeah, but you're okay anyway, I don't know.
This is a movie that stars Scott Adkins, who people
who are fans of martial arts know who Scott Adkins is.
He's one of those guys who's a martial artist actor
who has been in tons of movies. Marco Zeror is
also in it, playing a one handed unstoppable martial arts

(32:03):
machine like the bad guy. And from what I can tell,
the plot is Scott adkins character is kidnapping the daughter
of a crime boss, claiming that he knew and was
friends with this young woman's mother. And this unstoppable killing

(32:24):
machine is sent by the crime boss to go after
Scott Adkins's character and kicks and sue.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
It comes out June thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, I do like I like Scott Adkins. He's a
very good stunt actor. So a lot of stuff I
like it, just it just it felt kind of generic.
To me.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well that's why I didn't put it in our main
because I know that sometimes we put martial arts films
in our main lineup. But this does feel this feels
like it's an action movie that the action is based
in martial arts. It doesn't really feel like a martial arts.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Movie to me.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Like if you hadn't said it was a martial arts movie,
it would not even have even pinged in my brain
as a martial arts movie.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of punch,
punch kick kick in the in the trailer, just so y'all.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Know, punch face, you can go harder. So now we're
into our regular regular section of the show, irregular regular,
it's fine, where we just talk about more trailers. Yeah,
that's all we're going to do this week. There's no
video game or like other geek news. We should get
some of that back in at some point.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
But yeah, I just I haven't been jumping onto that
largely because there's just been so much in the film
and television worlds. Thanks, it's just hard to But here's
the thing, is that, Okay, well before we jump into
all of these.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
It is it really is.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
The case that twenty twenty five is a year of
horror projects. And I think I know why beyond just
like you know, people kind of kind of responding to
the world around them. Because clearly, when we're talking about
people responding to the world around them, there's lag there, right, Like,
you got to wait a year to really see that
start to crop up.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
So I don't expect yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Don't expect to see the reactions to what is going
on in the world right now really playing out for
another year. But I think the reason is is that
Hollywood and streaming both have been struggling to find a
revenue model that really works. And typically horror movies are

(34:35):
lower budget movies.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
And I think we've talked about that before.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, they're lower budget movies and they have a pretty
good chance of getting a decent return, although a lot
of the movies this year have not seen that, Like
this year has been a pretty crappy year for the
box office. But I think that's why we're seeing so
many horror movies. It's studios saying, look, we're not seeing
a great return at the box office, so let's just

(35:01):
let's pump the brakes on, say the mega movies like
Mission Impossible, Franchise, that kind of stuff. Yeah, but smaller stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, I know, we touched base on that being a
possible reason when when we talked about how horror might
be the thing for this year. But it does, it
does seem to be like that. That's what's happening. Not
to say that all of the horror movies have a
tiny budget.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
But mostly like even the big horror movies tip typically
have a budget that's significantly smaller than say big budget movies. Right,
Like you might you might still talk about a seventy
million dollar movie. That's a heck of a lot of money,
but if you compare it to something like Avengers, it's
it's a drop in the bucket.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah. Well, and I think we can even see that
in the trailer for like Netflix is to Doom twenty
twenty five, which is surprising the first story on our list.
They released the trailer for their to Doom event, and
most of the things that are on there that at
least would ring geeky bells to Jonathan and I are
things we already know about. We maybe get like a

(36:08):
tiny glimpse at the new Frankenstein, and we maybe get
a a tiny glimpse at the new glass Onion, but
everything else is stuff we've already seen.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yeah, new Knives, Out.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yes, Knives Out, the second one.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well this one, this one is Wake Up dead.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Man, same genre, the new Benua Bloc.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
There we go, yeah, yeah, yeah, So this event is
happening on May thirty first. It's streaming live on Netflix
starting at eight pm Eastern five pm Pacific, And as
Ariel mentioned, the teaser just gives us real quick snippets
of stuff. Not all of it is even new footage.
I think some of it is from like like Wednesday

(36:49):
look to me like it might have been from the
first season, but I could be wrong about that. But yeah,
we got quick clips of stuff like Happy Gilmour two.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Wednesday and Wake Up dead Man, which is the Knives.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Out film, one piece, Squid Game three, which I'm really
eager to see. That's going to conclude the squid Game story.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
And can I believe it could have three seasons honestly.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Well, the second one ended in a cliffhanger, so I
definitely want to see what happens Frankenstein, like you said,
stuff like that, and so we'll get we'll get more
information when that goes live on May thirty first. So
if you have Netflix and you're at all interested in
those things, May thirty first eight pm is when it streams.

(37:34):
I'm sure you'll be able to watch it after the fact.
If you're just a junkie like we are, maybe you'll
be glued to the screen when it comes out.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
But I usually don't remember and I have to watch
it later.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, we also got a Last week we talked about
the teaser for Weapons, which didn't show much. This week
we got the full trailer for Weapons as is want
to do. You know, generally, if you get the teaser,
the trailers not far behind, and it shows a lot
more of the story of what's gonna happen without really
telling you much about what is actually happening. It looks intense, y'all.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, it starts off. I love movies that start off
with something like this. But it starts off with a
child saying this is a true story that happened in
my town.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
And I'm like, oh, you got me already. I love it.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
And even though it's not a true story, of that
is making this just for you, Jonathan. Yeah, I mean,
I'm a sucker for certain tropes in movies and trailers,
and I love that one. But yeah, so it's explained
that all the kids in this one class at school
that's you know, led by this one teacher. All of

(38:45):
those children disappear one night. They apparently wake up at
two seventeen in the morning. I don't know how everyone
knows that that's when they woke up and they leave
the house.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
One has a nannycamp.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Maybe it's hard to tell, Like it's hard to tell
when this movie is set, like what the time period is.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
It could also be because the narrator of the trailer,
if I'm recalling correctly, is a kid at least, like
you said, at least for the first part, right, yeah,
and so maybe that's a kid that got away.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah, supposedly.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
The first time I read a synopsis for this, it
was like all the children except for one. So maybe
it's that one child did not was able to resist
whatever this was. But two seventeen in the morning, they
all just started walking out into the night and then
they never came back. And the trailer itself, like that's
already a great premise, like super creepy, and like you

(39:36):
see shots of people in the town understandably demanding that
the teacher tell them everything that the teacher knows, but
the teacher doesn't know anything, like she doesn't appear to
have any connection to it, but you know, obviously, like
that's the one thing in common between all these kids,
so you can understand why everyone would immediately turn to her.

(39:59):
And then you see a bunch of short clips of
really intense horror stuff, like like surprisingly intense horror stuff.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah. Yeah, like it wasn't too much for me to watch. Again,
I because it filmed in Georgia, I know a little
bit more about it.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Than what the trailer shows did. Did it make you
want to take a fork to the face repeatedly?

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I mean so, first of all, great stunt work in
the trailer. You can see a woman put a.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Fork to her face a lot.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
A lot. Honestly, it wasn't that gory, Like that scene
wasn't that gory, And it was mainly a camera angle
because if you actually are hitting yourself in the face
with a fork, it's going to be impossible not to flinch.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
So yeah, but the the it's it was more about
like the how the camera was cranked right, like, because
I don't think it was running at a smooth twenty
four frames per second. It felt like it was under
cranked to me, which gives it that kind of herky
jerky fast appearance at least. I mean, it's such a
short glimpse that you get in the trailer, but it

(41:18):
was one of those moments like I think back to
The Ring, Like there's a moment in The Ring where
there's a corpse reveal early in the film. That was
a really effective jump scare for me. And most of
the time I don't like jump scares, but that one
really impacted me in a way that made me impressed.

(41:41):
And this little moment in the trailer kind of reminds
me of that. It's not so jump so much jump scary,
but exceedingly unsettling.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah, and I really I look forward. It's got a
great cast, and I very much look forward to seeing
everybody like Julia Garner plays a teacher and one of
the main characters, maybe the main character, and just is
killing it in the trailer.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
And Josh Brolin, right, he's in.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
It, Josh Brolin, Benedic Long, Yeah, some other people, a.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Bunch of Marvel people.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
But then the longer Marvel goes, the fewer actors, the
fewer actors out there who are not Marvel people.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, this movie comes out August eighth.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
I definitely want to see it. I have no idea
who would go to see it with me because friend
of the show, shay Lee, she's usually my horror movie buddy,
but this is precisely the kind of movie that she
doesn't look like. For Aerial, like, animal endangerment is a
huge no no. Animal endangerment and cannibalism, two big no
nos for Ariel. For Shae, a big no no is

(42:51):
child endangerment.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I mean, I do care about child endangerment.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
It's just oh sure, I'm just saying, like, for shay
she can't. She can't watch stuff that is centered around
that at all because it impacts her too strongly, which
I understand. I think that you know and I think
it you both have been educators and caretakers of children,

(43:17):
so I mean it's a big understanding there too.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Me.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
I'm a heartless jerk, So I will watch child endangement
all day.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
I think it is just a well, I won't get
into it. I feel like there's a level of helplessness
with a lot of animals.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Sure, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
There's helplessness with kids too, but it's a different it's
a different thing to me.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yeah, kids, if kids are terrible. It could be very
easy to blame the kid for being terrible. If animals
are terrible, you just think, oh, somebody has done something
terrible to you.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah. Yeah, I will need to read common sense media
about it. I might be able to watch this one
with you.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I'll let you know, okay, because yeah, I definitely want
to see it. And I have a feeling Becca Becca's
not a horror person. Like I think I'm going to
be able to get her to watch Companion, which is
not really a horror movie.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
It's more like sci fi thriller.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
I think I'm gonna in fact, i'm hoping we can
do that this weekend too. But I don't think I'm
gonna be able to get her to watch this. I'm
not sure the trailer, and I have a feeling she's
just gonna nope right out.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, So I wish I had noped out of at
least at the time I watched it, the Alien Earth trailer.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, so like not that it was so horrible, but
it was very long, and I was like, so there's
a thing that Tony and I do. We'll sit down
for dinner and we'll sometimes be like well, let's see
what's new on YouTube before we jump into our show,
because there's a lot of YouTube stuff that we both
like to watch. I'm not gonna mention it because it's

(44:56):
very embarrassing, but I was like, well, let's watch this
the new alien TV show we were told a long
time ago when they first announced it is focusing on
Waiala Utani. So I was inspiring something cool and new,
and instead we just watched the the birth of a
new species of alien. At the very end of the trailer,
they're like, oh, wala Utani was behind this and like

(45:19):
manufacturing this, but it really still focused on the alien,
and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, you see a lot of like cells dividing, and
then you see beyond that, you start to see lots
of UI guy stuff. Like I think about the creature
effects that were really effective in the early alien films
and this really reminds me of that. But it just
dwells on it for way longer than the movies ever did.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's not too much, it's
just too long.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
I don't have a release date for this yet. I
tried to look it up, but most most I could
see was this summer on Hulu.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
I just want to see I just I just, I
just I just want to see a remake of Frozen
where it's the Xenomorph Queen and a predator as sisters
in a Frozen because like when when Disney bought everything,
there was this like meme going around that now Aliens

(46:24):
were a Disney princess, Like the Xenomorph Queen was a
Disney princess now because alien because Disney owned it.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Now well, I mean, just the whole this is a
Disney princess now. Joke has has gotten kind of old
to me, like the fact that people are like, well, now,
technically Anastasia is a Disney princess.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
I'm like, no, she's really not.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
She's not she's better than that.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
She No, she's not better than that.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
The music in Anastasia is banging.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
I know that of your generation there's a great love
for the anaesthesia.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
From the bar talk with.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
And I am not a big fan of Anastasia.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Did you like fern Gully?

Speaker 3 (47:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
I did not like Fern Gully. I did love Tim
Curry singing Toxic Love.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
But you didn't like Robin Williams is battye.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
No oh, My God and the Robin Williams rap as Baddie.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
No.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
I did not like that.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
But you see, now we've brought in your your earlier
comment when started the show.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, good good morning Ellen.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
See Yeah, clearly good morning Vietnam and Fern Gully are
two of the same. Well, moving on, we also got
a trailer. I did not realize. I'm sure, I'm sure
maybe we even covered it, but I had no memory
of it.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I didn't know that there was going to be another
fear Street movie. So, uh, fear Street.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
A few years ago, Netflix did a trilogy of fear
Street films, each one set in a different year, but
the three films had overlapping narratives that interconnected them with
each other. Also, I want to say that it went backward,
like the first film was the most recent year, and
then the next film was further in the past, and

(48:09):
then the third film was like in the sixteen hundreds
or something.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
I had forgotten that Fear Street was a thing, But
now you're talking about it. That does sound correct.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Yeah, there's a I watched it and it's a you know,
it's kind of like teens first slasher movie kind of.
I mean, it is r l Stein, right, it is
based off R. L Stein's work, Yes, and I wouldn't
say like when it's one of those young readers series
where I'm talking about like young readers in the form

(48:37):
of young adults, like teenagers, not not like for kids.
Like this is definitely a step above something like Goosebumps
or Are You a Fairy of the Dark. This is
more intense than that. So We've got a trailer for
a new fear Street film called Fear Street Prom Queen,
So technically this would be the fourth film in the

(48:57):
fear Street series and obviously is taking an enormous amount
of inspiration from nineteen eighties era slasher movies. Yeah, also
also taking a lot of inspiration from Carrie because it's
it's prom themed and you've got like the whole prom
thing going on. You've got the mean girl who wants

(49:19):
to be prom queen storyline going on, so you got
a lot of those elements too.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
It is interesting that when you get stuff like this
it so often goes back to like that eighties vibe
of it, because I feel like, if this is focused
at young adults, then the people who appreciated high school
in the eighties are no longer that demographic necessarily.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Yeah, but it's again, honestly, I'm surprised it's not a
nineties one if I'm being Yeah, totally. But like that
nostalgia thing, we see that in waves too, right, Like
when I was a kid, one of the biggest movies
to come out was the film adaptation of Greece the
musical Grease, and that was set in the fifties, and
I was born in the not the fifties.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Did you're in the seventies, Did.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
You relate to that high school experience of the fifties.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
No, because I was a child.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I had I had no high school to relate to
at all.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I was a child who did not understand the more
adult themes of Greece. I would not understand them for
many years. But anyway, like, I think part of this
is that the people who are making the stuff that's
the nostalgia nostalgia they feel, they feel nostalgia for the
nineteen eighties because that's these are filmmakers who are emulating

(50:39):
the films that they grew up with. That's what I guess.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
I guess it just I would need to talk to
somebody who is currently like in high school and in
that place where this would super be in their wheelhouse
if they do still relate to it despite the several year.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Gap, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Like, there's so many there's so many horror movies that
have come out over the last like five to ten
years that have been set in the eighties where I'm like,
if you're trying to appeal to young people today, do
they resonate with this, do they care at all? Or
is it just like weird for them to watch? Because
if you're not, then just be honest with yourself, like, no,

(51:20):
we're aiming at the gen X crowd right now.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, Hey, if you're young and you listen to this show,
let us know, because I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
If you're curious about Fiar Street prom Queen. It comes
out May twenty third on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
The next thing, I was like, as I'm going through
this lineup, I'm like, did Jonathan tell me not to
watch any of these? But no, So I did watch
the trailer for a series called Hell Motel that will
be on Shutter, which is just a bunch of people.
It's kind of clue but scary ish, where a bunch
of people get put into a hotel with that a

(51:57):
very famous murder happened.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
In Yes, so I can give a little more context.
So apparently it's like this sort of satanic mass murder
event happens like thirty years ago in this motel. And
it's called Hell Motel, by the way, and it is
not I thought it was. I well, I was just
gonna say it's Hell Motel.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Related to the nineteen eighty comedy horror movie Motel Hell.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
And neither is it related to has Been Hotel as
far as I can.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Tell, well, no, it's not related to has Been Hotel.
First of all, that's a hotel. We're talking about a motel.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Oh you know what. Yeah, but I got the M
and the H like confused.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
So hotel.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
When I saw Hell Motel, I thought for sure this
was gonna be a reboot of Motel Hell. And I'm like,
oh my gosh, they're rebooting a cult horror comedy film
from the nineteen eighties. And then I watched I was like, huh,
this doesn't seem to be connected to Motel Hell at all.
And then I looked at him like, oh, it's not.
It's just Hell Motel. They probably wanted to call it motel. Hell,

(53:02):
but that name was already taken anyway.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
But but cult movies do get rebooted. I mean they
were looking at making a Clue reboot that got rebooted.
Yeah maniac.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Yeah Wood was in that one. Yeah, a little of horrors. Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Anyway, So this mass murder happens, the Satanic mass murder happens,
and then years later, a bunch of influencers, like true
crime influencers, are invited to come to this motel which
is known as this famous murder site, and they're going
to be like streaming from there and like doing their

(53:39):
influencer thing, except then the killing start up again, which,
you know, not a bad premise for a film. I
am getting a little tired of films that have influencers
as a character. There have been so many of those,
it's it's getting a little tired, more than a little.
But maybe this is a good one. I haven't seen it.

(54:00):
So the trailer looks intense, lots of characters who you
will come to hate and root for them to be
next on the murder list. This one is set to
come out June seventeenth on Shutter.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
So yeah, so the next thing we've got is a
trailer for a movie called tim Travers in the Time
Travelers Paradox. The teaser was a little dorky. It honestly
felt like a B movie passion project of a bunch
of geeks, Like is it Tim McHale, Joel Joel McHale
and Felicia Day and Danny trey Hoe Danny trey Hoe

(54:40):
and and.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
My man, he's in here twice this today in this
episode Keith David.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Oh is it Keith David, Keith David. Isn't it man, Keith?
Give Keith David all the work?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
I love him anyhow. Yeah, it's it's it's a little
sci fi movie about a guy who uses a time
machine powered by radioactive material.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
And like, yeah, stolen plutonium.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I don't know if that sounds familiar to you, a
time machine that runs on stolen plutonium and then the
people who had the plutonium are coming after it.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Does that sound like anything?

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Run for it, Mary, Yeah. And then like it's weird
because he kills multiple versions of himself going through time,
but then he also doesn't, but then somebody else does,
but then they judge them on killing the other version
of themselves so quickly, and I'm like so the trailer
felt a little unbalanced. It does vaguely, It does vaguely

(55:44):
give me vibes of like John dies at the end,
just from the pacing.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
It was giving me.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
So it was giving me mash up vibes of Back
to the Future and Mickey seventeen a little bit.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
But did you watch Mickey seventeen?

Speaker 3 (55:58):
No? But I know how it.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
I know the deal now. But yeah, so's he tells
about what the time travelers paradox is, and in this case,
it's like, so a guy builds a time machine, uses
the machine to travel back in time by like a minute,
kills his younger self, which means there's no way he

(56:20):
could have gotten into the time machine to travel back
and do it. So you've created a paradox, right, This
person who has traveled back cannot exist because of changing
the causality. And so you get the feeling that the
film is playing off this idea and explaining that somehow
that's not how time travel works.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Because there's like a shot here.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
But there's like twenty of Tim Travers standing around talking
about they just plain forgot about the plutonium.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yeah, yeah, And then who plays Tim Travers?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
I don't know. That actor, like, that was the one
actor I did not recognize.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
I was like, oh, look, it's Felicia Days, Danny Treo,
it's my man, Keith David.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Samuel Dunning. I do like Keith David. I just missed
that he was in it. Yeah, Samuel Dunning has also
done The Equalizer and or No, that hasn't come out yet.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Stuff. Okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
So this, this particular film has already played on festival circuits.
So this is one of those that has just recently
secured distribution, and it's set to be released in New
York and Los Angeles on May thirtieth, and then we'll
expand beyond that, assuming that, you know, theaters are still
in business at that point.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Apparent. I hope that's I'm going to go see good movies.
Apparently it started as a shortened twenty twenty two and
then made it to a full length. So that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
I like it when those work. But man, like, sometimes
you go to see a movie where it was inspired
by a short and you're just like, wow, I can
see where the short movie was because that was the
one good part of this film and the rest of
it was adding night Swim. What was the one with
the hallway where the light like whenever the light is
turned off, you can see the silhouette of like a creature.

(58:16):
And then we turned the light on, it's gone.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
I know what you're talking about. And I don't remember
the name of.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
It, but it was.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
That was another like YouTube short horror movie that was
incredibly effective as a short film and not so good
as an actual feature length movie, because it turns out
that's a premise, not a plot.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
It's two different things.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Yeah, well, you're at least for horror versions of that,
you are more in the.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Know than me.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Well.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Next up is a trailer that Ariel added to our list,
and it looks really sweet and sad and gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Yeah, it's a Korean film. It's set in twenty five
fifty in Soul. Is called Lost in Starlight, which follows
an astronaut, an astronaut and a musician who become friends
and then the astronaut goes to space and it's kind
of just this story about like being From the trailer,

(59:16):
it looks like being supportive of each other no matter
how far apart you are. It looks very heartwarming to me.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Yeah, it's like two people who fall in love or
or they're on the verge of falling in love. But
the young woman who is the astronaut is explained like,
we can't get too close because I have I'm obligated
to go on this mission to Mars, and so like, obviously,
it's that idea of if we let ourselves, if we

(59:43):
let our relationship grow and become more romantic, or just
even we just become closer as people. It's going to
hurt more when I have to leave, because I'll be
gone for a long time.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
It's an animated film.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Don't know if we mentioned that, but it looks really
like I love I love that they're taking sort of
a science fiction world. But it's not a science fiction like,
it's not that's not the focus of the film. That's
just where it takes place. It's really a human story
that's unfolding. And it looks very very sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yeah, and the animation is beautiful, it's very colorful.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
I just I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, it's coming out May thirtieth on Netflix. So I'm
glad that you found this because I did not come
across it when I was looking at trailers and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
I found two things that you hadn't already put on
the list. This I mean I found the things you
also put on the list, but you had put them
on the list before I could add.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Them, So that technically you did three things. But one
of them I knew was happening already. I just hadn't
seen the trailer, which was the third ones, the spinal tap.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Oh okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
But but hold on, hold off on that, guys, we
have another trailer talk about first.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
So the there's a trailer for Now You See Me three,
which is a magic movie, a movie about magicians.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Yeah, it's the subtitle is now You Don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yeah, honestly, I don't know what's going on because I'm
not for like, I watched the trailer. I'm like, hell
if I know what's happening, I didn't watch the previous
two movies.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Yeah, it's a So all the films are about like
stage magicians doing typically some sort of heist kind of
thing and using their skills as magicians and illusionists to
pull off crazy heists. And in this case, it's a
heist where there's this this family that is like neck

(01:01:43):
deep in funding various illegal activities, everything from you know,
military uprisings to human trafficking like all this horrible stuff, drugs,
all this kind of stuff, and they use diamonds. They
they purchase and trade in diamonds in order to launder
their money. And the biggest diamond, the heart diamond, is

(01:02:09):
kind of the centerpiece of their their fortune. And so
the feeling I get is that these magicians are are
brought together in order to pull off a heist of
that diamond. There are a couple of returning characters from
previous Now You See Me films, played by Jesse Eisenberg

(01:02:29):
and Woody Harrelson. Morgan Freeman is also in it. I
wrote this looks dumb, well because.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Also like maybe magic's real, maybe it's not. I think
one of the the Redheaded Woman, is also a returning character.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Yeah, it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
The magic's not real. That these are stage magicians, but
they do stuff that is literally impossible to pull off,
like like that, the idea is that they're using stage
magic tricks to pull off these effects. It's just that
they're doing things that are just not in the realm
of possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Yes, but also in this trailer for the third one,
they're like, oh, we're doing this heist because a tarot
card told us to do so. Because this magic card
magic said.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
I think that's just whoever wanted to put them together
use the tarot card as the method of delivering the message,
and so like, it's just the trappings of magic.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Yeah, I think I think the position of the now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I say this as someone who also has not seen
the movies, but my understanding was that no, in the
fiction of the films themselves, it's supposed to be stage
magic effects and techniques that they use in order to
do their various stuff, and that it's just that it

(01:03:53):
turns out that's not exciting enough for Hollywood, so they
have to crank it up to the point where you
would never actually see this done on stage, because it's
impossible to do on stage.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Would you say that they're cranking it up to eleven?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
I would say they were a cranking it up to
eleven because this one goes to eleven because eleven is
one louder than ten.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Which brings us to the next story, which is Spinyl Tap,
the original, not the second one, which.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Is also still coming out this year.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Yeah has hit its forty first anniversary, which, first of all,
I love that they're celebrating their forty first anniversary because
it's one more than a fortieth anniversary.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
That's very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Yeah, So they've re released the trailer, which is just
the spinal like bits from Spinal Tap, maybe just the
original Spinal Tap trailer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Remember it is just well it's not the original Spinal
Tap trailer.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
It is recut. It's not, but it's it is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
All the bits from or all the bits in the
trailer are from the film cut of this is Spinal Tap.
Because if you ever got the special edition DVD, which
I did have, I don't think I own it anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
I think it disappeared, which is unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
There was cut footage from that that was almost long
enough to be a film by itself.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Nice. Well, they've released it, they've rereleased.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
It's coming out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
It's going to be a Fathom Event screening event where
it comes out July fifth through seventh. So if you
want to see this as Spinal Tap on the big screen,
the original comedy film, July fifth through seventh, special theaters
through Fathom Events, they are doing screening, So I hope
I can do that. I mean that's fourth of July weekend,
so I hope I'm able to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
I hope you are too. I forgot that Fran Dresher
was in that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Yeah, Frand Dresher's in it, Billy Crystal's in it, Dana
Carvey's in it. There's a ton of people, most of
whom have like cameos and stuff. Yeah, but there are
a ton of people who were who are really influential
in the world of comedy in various ways, whether it's
sketch comedy films whatever. Rob Ryaner obviously in it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
It's it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
It's one of my favorite comedies ever, and it's it's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
Really the film.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Like it's not like it was the first mockumentary, but
it was a film that was really successful and kind
of served as the template for mockumentary movies.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Yeah, I didn't see Spinal Tap, I think until I
started dating Tony. Potentially, I don't remember it like in
my adult life was the first time I saw it.
I think I saw Waiting for duff Men beforehand, and
I liked that one a little better just because it
was the first one I was introduced to.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
But yeah, see, I like, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
Spinal Tap is objectively a better movie.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
It's got so many quotable lines. It also, I mean,
like one of the one of the stage acts at
the Renaissance Festival lifted one of the not just one
of the jokes, but a song from Spinal Tap.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
They did stone.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Hinge, Yeah, which is a great song if you haven't
listened to it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Yeah, And they included a tiny little stone hinge as
part of their act. They would lower it from Greenwood stage,
which was not very tall.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Good old days, oh yeah, way back when.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
But yeah, I'm looking forward to that. If you haven't
seen this is Spinal Tap, I recommend it. Actually, I
kind of recommend you watch it like on DVD or
something first, only because I worry for these big screenings.
I always worry about people going in and like shouting
out lines and stuff and like that ruins it if
it's your first experience, right, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I'm shocked not to go off on our bunny trail
or anything. But I'm surprised we haven't heard about any
fiftieth anniversary screenings for Jaws. Yeah, me too, because that
movie came out literally the week I was born.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Maybe maybe there will be and it just hasn't hit yet.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Could be we got a couple more stories and then
we're gonna be all done. So next up, we saw
a trailer for a documentary about the making of John Wick.
It is called Wick is Pain, and I did not
realize that that movie almost didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Yeah, so, like at the beginning of this trailer for
this documentary, they're like one of the greatest action movies.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Of all time. I wouldn't say that, No, neither would I, but.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
It was the first one was a lot of fun,
and it was a lot of fun because it was
a bunch of stunt people making a movie with a
lot of stunts because they.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Were passionate about it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
The story was fine, but like the behind the scene
of what we knew at the time was the most
fun part. Knowing that it almost didn't get made is
less fun but super interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Yeah, Like, if you're at all interested in what it
takes to get a movie made and like the sort
of things that can almost derail a movie, I think
this documentary would be interesting to you because, like it
looks to me like it includes things like producers falling
out with each other, which there was something else that

(01:09:25):
we've talked about recently where producers. Oh it was one
of the is the next Saw movie. The next Saw
film is in jeopardy because the producers for that film
had a big falling out and apparently can't find a
way to reconcile. And so it looks like the next
Saw film is not going to happen, or at least

(01:09:47):
it's certainly not going to happen on the timeline they expected.
So this documentary, I think is going to give a
little insight into the sort of things. I don't know
how much detail they'll go into, but it looks like
it'll at least kind of give you a hint at
the sort of thing that can go wrong. And at
least with John Wick's case, they were able to still
get the movie to come out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Yeah, yeah, it looks very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Yeah, this way it's weird because it's also going to
be on Fandango at Home.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
I had never even heard of that service.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Oh you hadn't, No, Yeah, it's I think it. I
think I've heard of the service. I think it might
have been a production of the product of the Pandemic,
but I don't quote me on that because I don't
know for sure. The last thing we have is a
trailer dropped for season four Resident Alien. I've only watched

(01:10:39):
one and a half seasons of this, so I don't
know what's going on, and this trailer just reaffirms for
me that the show is just entirely a vehicle for
Alan Tudic to try to act as weird as he
possibly can.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Which I'm all in favor of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
By the way, I have no objection, like it's all
Harley Quinn. Honestly, like every episode of Harley Quinn that
has like Clay Face in it or Joker, I'm like, oh,
there's Alent Tudic being weird again. So Resident Alien, yeah,
I have I am. I need to get back onto
watching it because I was watching I don't think I
even finished the first season. I got decently into it,

(01:11:20):
but I don't think I finished the first season.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
I wasn't enjoying it. It's just one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Where it kind of like I I didn't watch the
next episode, and then more and more time kept going by.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
But uh, this trailer spoiler alert.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
If you're wanting to watch Resident Alien, they haven't gotten
into it yet, but I got spoiled, so now you
get to be too. I'm sorry, No, no, I didn't
finish the first season, so but he he is apparently
jailed on the moon. And meanwhile, another alien shape shifter

(01:11:53):
has taken on his human form and taken his place.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
So now.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
The original Alentutic character has been impersonated by two different aliens.
Because like the series opens with you discovering that this
Alentutic's character is an alien and has in fact killed
a human being and taken on that human beings form.

(01:12:20):
You later find out that human being was a really
terrible person, but you don't know that at the beginning anyway.
So the alien number one, the original alien, has been
imprisoned on the moon. Alien number two has taken over
his spot on Earth, which means that you get to
redo all the fish out of water stuff, right yeah,

(01:12:42):
because that alien has slowly become more and more familiar
with what it is to be human. But now you've
got a new alien coming in, so they get to
peak crazy all over again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
They get to be crazy. But this new alien, at
least from the trailer, seems like while the original alien
was fish out out of water curmudgeony, this new alien
is like fish out of water but also kind of
suave and self assured.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Or how about as Beetlejuice would say, anxious.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
I mean there's a moment where he's gyrating his hips
and talking about how sexy is he is an anxious
kind of dude.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Yeah, I I there were a couple of moments that
made me laugh overall. To me, resident I want the
thing is I want to like the show because I
have so many friends who enjoy it. It feels like
it's trying too hard and it feels a little too
cheesy for me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
I m joy it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
I don't know, maybe I just don't have whatever that
block is it's I don't think it's fantastic. I don't
think it's the best. I don't think it's the best
thing Alan Tudik's been in. I think Alan Tudic's the best,
the best component in it. But I also think everyone
else who's in it is doing a great job. But
I don't I think the material is okay. The performance

(01:14:00):
are better than okay, Like they're better than what the
material is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
Like the sheriff is so over the top for me,
it's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Sure, I mean, like I get it is. It is
one of those things where all the situations and characters
are sort of heightened where you know, like if you
sit there and dedicate any thought to it whatsoever, you'd
be like okay, but no human being would ever behave
this way, And this is supposed to be a human being,
not an alien posing as a human being, Like no

(01:14:34):
human being would Actually, this is too cartoonish because it's
so over the top. I get that, and sometimes I
struggle with that too, Like it's like if you watched
someone try to take a Cohen Brother's script but they
were not one of the Coen brothers, and then they
tried to make the movie, you get the feeling like

(01:14:55):
they'd make the same sort of choices where things that
the Cohen Brothers can do, where people are weird and quirky,
but you still believe in them, like in a lesser
a lesser sure director's hands would probably come off as
over the top and unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Yeah, that being said, like I said, I want to
like it. I'm not yucking anybody's yum. I get that
it is a lot of fun for a lot of people. Sure,
the trailer looks interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Yeah, and Alan Tuta gets to act against himself, so
that's going to be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Yeah, I yeah, I think I agree with you mostly.
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
I think it's like you and I are pretty much
in agreement about the series. It's just that I'm slightly
more in the I find this entertaining and you're slightly
less there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Like it's just we're just like splitting the seesaw and
I'm on I'm on the side that's going up, and
you're on the side that's going down, but just barely.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
But I mean that it's usually the other way, so
I'm fine to be on the downside of it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Yeah, usually I'm Debbie Downer, so that's totally totally fine.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
But I mean also, like I stopped watching it, so
it's obviously it didn't gets hooks into me deeply enough
for me to stick with it and catch up. Right,
I'm still in season one, so but the trailer looks funny.
If you are someone who's a fan of Resident Alien,
I think you're going to have a good time when
it comes out. I didn't write down when this one

(01:16:27):
comes out.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
That's weird. I did it for everything else. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
It was also a last minute add but you know,
if you if you don't want to google that yourself.
You can reach out to us and we can you know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Yeah, Like, that's there's way less effort if you want
to reach out to us and find out rather than
using Google.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, Jonathan tell us about that less effort.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah, So what you're gonna do is you're gonna go
to Google and you're gonna type in how do I
contact Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Now here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Your computer is going to immediately shut down, and I'm
sorry to tell you this, but it will be unusable
from that point forward.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
So that's the bad news.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
But the good news is you'll hear a tapping coming
from behind you, and you'll turn around and you'll see
that there is a bird perched right outside your window,
tapping this weird little tap on the glass. And then
as you listen, you'll realize it's actually a message. You'll
start to jot down dashes and dots, and then, unless

(01:17:32):
you're really well versed in Morse code, you're going to
need to look up the message bad news as your
computer just died, so you're gonna have to go get
your phone, find a Morse code thing and start translating it.
This is going to spell out a long detailed message
for you, specifically on how to find me. I don't

(01:17:52):
want to spoil everything, because honestly, the journey itself is
kind of one that embraces the joy of discovery. But
just make sure you're wearing comfortable shoes and breathable clothing.
There will be a troll and you will have to
answer his riddle. You will have one point where you

(01:18:13):
will find yourself in the actor's nightmare, where you will
be instructed to walk through a door and then people
will suddenly grab you and throw you on stage. Because
you are there to be in the centerpiece of this
play that doesn't exist, and if you're expected to know
all your lines, you're gonna have to just muscle your
way through that. It's going to take about two and

(01:18:35):
a half hours with interval. It's going to be a
very small house. And the applause you get, honestly, you
can tell it's out of pity and not that they
actually enjoyed everything. Once that's done, you're going to be
exiting out of the theater. I don't want to tell
you a whole lot more. There will be a police
car chase. You will be on the lamb for crimes

(01:18:58):
You did not commit plus one you did. Don't want
to spoil what that is, but your pockets will be
heavy for a reason. Once all that is done, you're
going to find yourself exhausted, on the brink of a
total collapse. And it's at that point that you're going
to see me standing there saying, Okay, I looked it up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Was it that you wanted? Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
When Resident Alien season four comes, I forgot? Can you
hold on a second?

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
And if that was too traumatizing for you, because it
was for me. You can reach out to us on
social media on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We're Large
nerdrun Collider. That's also our handle on discord. You can
find that invite on our website www dot large nur
drunk colider dot com. You can also email us at
large neurdroun pod at gmail dot com. We love hearing

(01:19:53):
from you. Thank you for listening, thank you for geeking
out with us. And until next time, I'm gonna be
until next time, I'm Auriel Caston, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Oh easy, and I am Jonathan. I am the Actor's.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Nightmare Almost disassociated.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
The Large nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and
produced edited published, deleted, undeleted, published again. Curse That by
Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin McLeod of incomptech dot Com