August 9, 2025 • 10 mins
This week’s KFI's Heather Brooker is getting Freaky on the Gary and Shannon show. Heather dives into three very different but equally buzzworthy releases in her weekly entertainment report. The hilarious and heartfelt Freakier Friday, the unnerving thriller Weapons, and the touching drama My Mother’s Wedding. Plus, there’s a sly hint about Heather's possible appearance in the soapy, sexy, suspense-packed series The Hunting Wives.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to entertain Me. I'm Heather Brooker. This is the
show where we talk about all things entertainment, from SoCal
to the silver screen, and this week it's all about
your box office report. Freaky Friday opens in theaters this weekend.
Of course, this is the sequel to the film from
twenty I guess it's been twenty three years ago now
that Freaky Friday came out, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie
(00:23):
Lee Curtis. I took my twelve year old daughter to
see it. Now. Of course, she wasn't alive when the
original movie came out, so she doesn't have that same
sort of nostalgia and connection for it that some people might.
But you know what, she really enjoyed it. We both did.
I thought it was a lot of fun and I'm
going to share more about that on this week's entertainment
(00:44):
segment with Gary and Channon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Heather Brooker is here for our entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sorry, I realized I did that map yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What is your head?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh, Heather open, this is entertainment news.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh well, that's fun and it starts with heathers.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What's your damage? Heather?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's a pillowcase.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
There's so many lines for that movie that were the
f me gently with a chainsaws.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I did not get that movie.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Come, I did not get the movie.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh my gosh, really such a pillow movie.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I thought I was in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I felt like I was.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I watched that movie so many I played that thing
out like I had on VHS, and I would put
it in to go to sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Did you want to date that bad boy? Jd you
and your bad boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You were never in the bad boys, never in that face.
I never had a bad boy face.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I did you, guys. I was in love with Donnie
Wall from New Kids on the Block because he was
the bad boy. He had that rattail in the macana.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That was my damn.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was like, ooh, he's so rebellious. Wow, yeah, I
like Jordan, Oh Jordan, Yeah, I know, sweet, it's a problem.
Thank you Elmer. I loved that intro. That sounded great.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is your husband like a drug dealer or something? Yes,
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
To talk about movies and entertainment. Stuff that's coming a
Freaky or Friday is coming out. Lindsay Lohan and the
incredible Jamielee Kurdach.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
She is everywhere. Everyone loves the redemption story. Everyone to
love to delight in Lindsay Lowan's troubles. I covered all
of her court appearances there at the Airport Courthouse.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And now you see her on the daytime.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
She looks beautiful, she's a mom, she is doing it.
She is back, and what a great story she I mean,
you want to talk about like an inspiring story where
she really went through it, you guys. And now she
is back and she looks amazing and she is really
having a good time in this movie. So the original
Freaky Friday came out about twenty three years ago. Lindsay Lohan,
(03:05):
Jamie Lee Curtis, you know the body swap story. Remember
there was a time and there was like every movie
was a body swap movie. Yes, Fred Savage was in one,
two and like all that. So this one, though, really
struck a chord with like the millennial generation. And now
they have brought it back and you don't have to
be a huge fan of the first one to enjoy
this one. I think it. You know, a little bit
(03:26):
of context helps, But it's a fun movie. It's cute,
it's silly, it's they've got some gen x jokes in there,
They've got some millennial jokes in there, and it's not
taking itself too seriously. Jamie Lee Curtis looks like she's
having the time of her life. Yeah, and they brought
back bloopers at the end of the movie, which I
don't know about you guys, but I will sit there
(03:47):
for an extra five ten minutes and I will watch
people like mess around and laugh at themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You want to see them as real people. Yeah, Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They play that at the end, So stick around at
the end of the movie if you want to see
the bloopers there. But it's a fun story. Bring in
their daughter, and Lindsay Lohan's character is getting married, and
so they bring in the guy she's marrying his daughter
as well. There's some conflict there and they all swap bodies.
So there's like a foursome swap going on in this one.
They kind of up the ante. But it's a lot
(04:14):
of fun. It's not gonna win any awards, but you know,
you'll have a good time.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I'm not gonna win any awards.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Let's be real. What else is going on? What is
my mother's wedding?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
What is that about So this is going to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Feel very familiar. It is the family that comes together
for mom's wedding after you know, dad died many years ago.
And it's got Scarlett Johansson in another movie this summer,
big Time, but she's playing a British gal, so it's
a little jarring. Her accent is just a little daring
(04:50):
because we're not quite used to hearing her with her
British accent. But it's her and her two sisters. They've
had some trauma that they're dealing with in their lives
and they can't quite come together to sell a break
their mom's new husband and new life. And yeah, it's
it's a typical like British kind of a feel to it.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So this is trauma working its way into a wedding movie.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yes, okay, Yeah, it's gonna feel very familiar. It's not
you know, breaking the genre wide open or anything like that.
It's a very sweet movie.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I saw that's Carlo Johansson's getting quite the rip for
her British accent.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh oh is it not good?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Not good? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I haven't seen it, but.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's a little jar Like I said, it's a little jarring.
She's not it's not great, I think mostly because we're
just not used to hearing her sound like that. Yeah,
but it's it's not terrible. I've heard worse.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I heard an interview with Julia Garner about this movie Weapons, Yes,
and she loves it. I've seen some great reaction to
it that it is by far the best horror thriller
movie that we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Absolutely, it's getting rave reviews. I mean, speaking of another
actress who's got another movie out this year, Julia Garner
just was in The Fantastic four or as a Silver Surfer,
and now she is in Weapons. This is a horror
movie that is not told in a typical like a
to B style format. It gives like chapters of each character,
(06:13):
so it tells it this horror story in a different way,
so that the ending can really catch you off guard
a little bit, catch you by surprise, which you want
in a horror movie, Like you don't want to see
it coming a mile away, right, There's always somebody who
will go, oh, I knew it, you know, I knew
it was gonna happen. But this is a unique way
to tell this story. Julia Garner is fantastic. Josh Brolin
is in it as well. It's dramatic, it has lighthearted moments,
(06:36):
which is, you know, also fun in a horror movie
because it kind of makes the horror more exciting when
you have those moments of levity. Yeah, so, uh, a
little bit of that's right. That's right. It's got a
little bit of both in it. It's a really good
movie and it's getting a lot of really great reviews.
She's a fantastic actress. The story, I don't think I
(06:56):
mentioned what the story is. The story is about a
classroom of kids that all disappear in the middle of
the night at two seventeen in the morning. They all
wake up in their beds and they leave, and they
disappear off into the night except for one kid. And
it's all the kids that are in Julia Garner's characters classroom.
And so there are some allegories made to school shootings,
(07:18):
there's some allegories made to COVID how people respond to
this tragedy in this community. But there's horror elements sprinkled
throughout it, so it doesn't hit you over the head
with any sort of preachy message where DS go where
them kids go? That's right, that's the question. Where do
these kids go?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Wait, they come back?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm gonna tell you, or is it did they ever leave?
Or did they ever leave?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
That's a better question.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'll tell you if you watch the trailer. It's very suspenseful.
It's very teaching.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is it teacher's mental illness come home to roost?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Trauma?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't have to watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
There you go, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I also had a blanket given to me by a
hey mom in high school who wanted me to date
her son. Yeah, she made.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
On personal text.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
People, but she wanted you. This was like a dowry.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
She was off.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
She and my mom were good friends and they wanted
us to date. So she made me a blank hand
made this blanket for my graduation gift off to college,
so that I would keep in touch with them back
before the internet, back in the old name.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What did it say?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I had been dating, hold on dating this girl for
two years before I got a comfort or a quilt
from them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was a quilt. Yeah, she made a quilt and
it was one of those ones that you can fold
up into a pillow. So it was really creative.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's like a transformer quilt.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I got a couple of messages from friends that had
blankets made for them by exes, family like moms that
kept them so you're not alone, just to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Way to like, you know, keep that connection and wrapped up,
feel loved.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I wish I had a blanket from an ex I
could throw around the house. I don't think you do, No,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
It's more trouble than it's work. It's more trouble than
the warmth they would one provide every one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I have a blanket from your wife. I slept with
it last night. Is that weird?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
From my wife?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
What is the blanket?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
When did this happen?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Where did you get this blanket? Okay, well you guys
don't need to know everything.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
It was a Christmas gift a couple of years ago.
It's a nice, like chunky, like warm blanket.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That sounds nice.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's amazing. I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Get that blanket and watch a movie and I do
we need to talk about to at some point whenever
you guys have time. The hunting wives.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Oh yeah, we've blocked all next weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I auditioned for that, so yeah, I know I've known
about this show since last summer and I've been waiting
at boy, were they.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Stopping story time next week? That's for sure, Heather, Thank.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You, Thank you guys. A lot of great options for
you at the box office this weekend. Let me know
what you decide to go and see. I would love
to hear from you. You can follow me on social
media at the Heather Brooker on Instagram and Facebook and
Heather Brooker on TikTok. And don't forget to subscribe to
Gary and Shannon's show. They have a lot of fun
on their show and also give you lots of great
(10:17):
news information throughout the week. And subscribe to entertain me
and share it with friends. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
You can listen anywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Welcome to entertain Me. I'm Heather Brooker. This is the
show where we talk about all things entertainment, from SoCal
to the silver screen, and this week it's all about
your box office report. Freaky Friday opens in theaters this weekend.
Of course, this is the sequel to the film from
twenty I guess it's been twenty three years ago now
that Freaky Friday came out, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie
(00:23):
Lee Curtis. I took my twelve year old daughter to
see it. Now. Of course, she wasn't alive when the
original movie came out, so she doesn't have that same
sort of nostalgia and connection for it that some people might.
But you know what, she really enjoyed it. We both did.
I thought it was a lot of fun and I'm
going to share more about that on this week's entertainment
(00:44):
segment with Gary and Channon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Heather Brooker is here for our entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sorry, I realized I did that map yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What is your head?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh, Heather open, this is entertainment news.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh well, that's fun and it starts with heathers.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
What's your damage? Heather?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's a pillowcase.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
There's so many lines for that movie that were the
f me gently with a chainsaws.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I did not get that movie.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Come, I did not get the movie.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh my gosh, really such a pillow movie.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I thought I was in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I felt like I was.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I watched that movie so many I played that thing
out like I had on VHS, and I would put
it in to go to sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Did you want to date that bad boy? Jd you
and your bad boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You were never in the bad boys, never in that face.
I never had a bad boy face.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I did you, guys. I was in love with Donnie
Wall from New Kids on the Block because he was
the bad boy. He had that rattail in the macana.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That was my damn.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was like, ooh, he's so rebellious. Wow, yeah, I
like Jordan, Oh Jordan, Yeah, I know, sweet, it's a problem.
Thank you Elmer. I loved that intro. That sounded great.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is your husband like a drug dealer or something? Yes,
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
To talk about movies and entertainment. Stuff that's coming a
Freaky or Friday is coming out. Lindsay Lohan and the
incredible Jamielee Kurdach.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
She is everywhere. Everyone loves the redemption story. Everyone to
love to delight in Lindsay Lowan's troubles. I covered all
of her court appearances there at the Airport Courthouse.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And now you see her on the daytime.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
She looks beautiful, she's a mom, she is doing it.
She is back, and what a great story she I mean,
you want to talk about like an inspiring story where
she really went through it, you guys. And now she
is back and she looks amazing and she is really
having a good time in this movie. So the original
Freaky Friday came out about twenty three years ago. Lindsay Lohan,
(03:05):
Jamie Lee Curtis, you know the body swap story. Remember
there was a time and there was like every movie
was a body swap movie. Yes, Fred Savage was in one,
two and like all that. So this one, though, really
struck a chord with like the millennial generation. And now
they have brought it back and you don't have to
be a huge fan of the first one to enjoy
this one. I think it. You know, a little bit
(03:26):
of context helps, But it's a fun movie. It's cute,
it's silly, it's they've got some gen x jokes in there,
They've got some millennial jokes in there, and it's not
taking itself too seriously. Jamie Lee Curtis looks like she's
having the time of her life. Yeah, and they brought
back bloopers at the end of the movie, which I
don't know about you guys, but I will sit there
(03:47):
for an extra five ten minutes and I will watch
people like mess around and laugh at themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You want to see them as real people. Yeah, Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They play that at the end, So stick around at
the end of the movie if you want to see
the bloopers there. But it's a fun story. Bring in
their daughter, and Lindsay Lohan's character is getting married, and
so they bring in the guy she's marrying his daughter
as well. There's some conflict there and they all swap bodies.
So there's like a foursome swap going on in this one.
They kind of up the ante. But it's a lot
(04:14):
of fun. It's not gonna win any awards, but you know,
you'll have a good time.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I'm not gonna win any awards.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Let's be real. What else is going on? What is
my mother's wedding?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
What is that about So this is going to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Feel very familiar. It is the family that comes together
for mom's wedding after you know, dad died many years ago.
And it's got Scarlett Johansson in another movie this summer,
big Time, but she's playing a British gal, so it's
a little jarring. Her accent is just a little daring
(04:50):
because we're not quite used to hearing her with her
British accent. But it's her and her two sisters. They've
had some trauma that they're dealing with in their lives
and they can't quite come together to sell a break
their mom's new husband and new life. And yeah, it's
it's a typical like British kind of a feel to it.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So this is trauma working its way into a wedding movie.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yes, okay, Yeah, it's gonna feel very familiar. It's not
you know, breaking the genre wide open or anything like that.
It's a very sweet movie.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I saw that's Carlo Johansson's getting quite the rip for
her British accent.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh oh is it not good?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Not good? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I haven't seen it, but.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's a little jar Like I said, it's a little jarring.
She's not it's not great, I think mostly because we're
just not used to hearing her sound like that. Yeah,
but it's it's not terrible. I've heard worse.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I heard an interview with Julia Garner about this movie Weapons, Yes,
and she loves it. I've seen some great reaction to
it that it is by far the best horror thriller
movie that we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Absolutely, it's getting rave reviews. I mean, speaking of another
actress who's got another movie out this year, Julia Garner
just was in The Fantastic four or as a Silver Surfer,
and now she is in Weapons. This is a horror
movie that is not told in a typical like a
to B style format. It gives like chapters of each character,
(06:13):
so it tells it this horror story in a different way,
so that the ending can really catch you off guard
a little bit, catch you by surprise, which you want
in a horror movie, Like you don't want to see
it coming a mile away, right, There's always somebody who
will go, oh, I knew it, you know, I knew
it was gonna happen. But this is a unique way
to tell this story. Julia Garner is fantastic. Josh Brolin
is in it as well. It's dramatic, it has lighthearted moments,
(06:36):
which is, you know, also fun in a horror movie
because it kind of makes the horror more exciting when
you have those moments of levity. Yeah, so, uh, a
little bit of that's right. That's right. It's got a
little bit of both in it. It's a really good
movie and it's getting a lot of really great reviews.
She's a fantastic actress. The story, I don't think I
(06:56):
mentioned what the story is. The story is about a
classroom of kids that all disappear in the middle of
the night at two seventeen in the morning. They all
wake up in their beds and they leave, and they
disappear off into the night except for one kid. And
it's all the kids that are in Julia Garner's characters classroom.
And so there are some allegories made to school shootings,
(07:18):
there's some allegories made to COVID how people respond to
this tragedy in this community. But there's horror elements sprinkled
throughout it, so it doesn't hit you over the head
with any sort of preachy message where DS go where
them kids go? That's right, that's the question. Where do
these kids go?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Wait, they come back?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm gonna tell you, or is it did they ever leave?
Or did they ever leave?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
That's a better question.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'll tell you if you watch the trailer. It's very suspenseful.
It's very teaching.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is it teacher's mental illness come home to roost?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Trauma?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't have to watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
There you go, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I also had a blanket given to me by a
hey mom in high school who wanted me to date
her son. Yeah, she made.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
On personal text.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
People, but she wanted you. This was like a dowry.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
She was off.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
She and my mom were good friends and they wanted
us to date. So she made me a blank hand
made this blanket for my graduation gift off to college,
so that I would keep in touch with them back
before the internet, back in the old name.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What did it say?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I had been dating, hold on dating this girl for
two years before I got a comfort or a quilt
from them.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was a quilt. Yeah, she made a quilt and
it was one of those ones that you can fold
up into a pillow. So it was really creative.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's like a transformer quilt.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I got a couple of messages from friends that had
blankets made for them by exes, family like moms that
kept them so you're not alone, just to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Way to like, you know, keep that connection and wrapped up,
feel loved.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I wish I had a blanket from an ex I
could throw around the house. I don't think you do, No,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
It's more trouble than it's work. It's more trouble than
the warmth they would one provide every one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I have a blanket from your wife. I slept with
it last night. Is that weird?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
From my wife?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
What is the blanket?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
When did this happen?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Where did you get this blanket? Okay, well you guys
don't need to know everything.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
It was a Christmas gift a couple of years ago.
It's a nice, like chunky, like warm blanket.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That sounds nice.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's amazing. I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Get that blanket and watch a movie and I do
we need to talk about to at some point whenever
you guys have time. The hunting wives.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Oh yeah, we've blocked all next weeks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I auditioned for that, so yeah, I know I've known
about this show since last summer and I've been waiting
at boy, were they.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Stopping story time next week? That's for sure, Heather, Thank.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You, Thank you guys. A lot of great options for
you at the box office this weekend. Let me know
what you decide to go and see. I would love
to hear from you. You can follow me on social
media at the Heather Brooker on Instagram and Facebook and
Heather Brooker on TikTok. And don't forget to subscribe to
Gary and Shannon's show. They have a lot of fun
on their show and also give you lots of great
(10:17):
news information throughout the week. And subscribe to entertain me
and share it with friends. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
You can listen anywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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