Hottest Movies To Watch This Holiday Season

Harry Medved from the Cinema Foundation joined us to talk about the movies you need to go see in the theater this holiday season.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of six point seven Light Off m Good morning,
it's Kobe, Christine, producer Kristen and our dear friend Harry
Medvid from Hollywood and the Cinema Foundation. Hi, Harry, Hey,
I love it when you say from Hollywood. Yes, you're
from Hollywood, not Hollywood, Florida, by I just make that right,
very true, though I don't know the way the Hollywood's
going is coming to the East coast. You can movies
shot out here. We're gonna hear it to New Jersey. Yeah,

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in New Jersey. We're here a couple of weeks ago,
and now we got you back. Well because it's movie
time and this is our final show of the year,
by the way, So Christine, what a perfect way to
end there. Yes, this is great, very medvent in all
the movies. And everyone's talking about Avatar today. Well there's
a reason for that. A lot of times you go
to the movie theater and you pay I don't know,
sometimes twenty dollars a ticket, sometimes more in New York City, right,
and he's like, well, what am I getting for my ticket? Is?

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Is the action up on the screen. Well, when you
see a film like Avatar, Fire and Ash, Holy cow,
really the money is up on the screen. You are
getting your money. First of all, do you know that
the movie is three hours and seventeen minutes. Oh gosh,
should they give us a bathroom break? No, that's that's
my biggest problem with Avatar, Fire and Ash. There's I
had to run to the bathroom like three times. There's

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no tough. Well, I'll tell you it's so good it
flies by. I think that there's so much NonStop action
you won't you won't notice it. It's three hours and
seventeen minutes. Although I did look at my watch at
the two hour and forty five mark. There's one character says,
we're not over yet. There's more battle than doing. Another
character says seriously, and I'm thinking like, yeah, like seriously,
there's more. You gave us enough, Jim Cameron, thank you

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so much. But it's a full meal of a movie.
I'm telling you. It's like, first of all, I felt
like it was going scuba diving, because you enter this
world of Pandora again and he has this incredible uncanny ability,
especially in three D, where you've got the camera like
it is half underwater and half out of the water,
and you really feel like you're in the water with everyone.
I mean, you can kind of feel like the ocean's

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spraying on you. Do you know how much money it
costs to make this movie? I don't know, if you know,
over like three hundred million usually expensive. You know, I
didn't realize that Sigourney Weaver, who's briefly in the film
on camera, she's playing a fourteen year old girl in
the movie. She's one of the novis, one of the
blue people. So I think Sigourney's like seventy four years
old or something. But she's really good at playing her

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fourteen year old self. That's great. She's amazing. And I'll
tell you another one who's really this superstar of the
film who just stole the movie for me, and I
didn't really know her work. She's a dancer and actor,
Una Chaplin. She is the daughter of Geraldine Chaplin, so
the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. Plays like the villainous in
the movie and she's so good. Well, after talking about this,
is there anything else to talk about? I mean, no,

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there's no other movie. Ye no, Well, if you have
younger kids then they don't want to go to a
PG thirteen movie, then of course you've got the SpongeBob movie,
which is also doing very well of the advanced ticket sales,
Or if you won something for the more adult audience,
you've got Song Sung Blue, which is not about Neil Diamond.
It's about Neil Diamond impersonators. So it's Hugh Jackman and

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Kate Hudson, who, by the way, will get a Best
Actress nomination one hundred percent. There are this couple in
Milwaukee known as Thunder and Lightning, and I can't think
of a more enchanting couple than Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman.
They're wonderful. It's a cheer jerker, though they go through
a lot of tough stuff in their life. Do we
know if there's been a Neil Diamond reaction or anything.
I'm sure Neil Diamond loves this movie, very kidding. Every

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one of his songs is the film. But it is
so in some ways, it's kind of like a musical,
but it's so much better than the typical musical biographies
that you've seen, and it's based on a true story.
It is based on a true story. But again, Avatar
is really three hours and seventeen Then if you like
long movies. There's also Marty Supreme with Timothy Shalomey and
I have to give you something from A twenty four.

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The movie is about ping pong, so a twenty four
Oh pingo full mention. H Like, I've got forty of
these orange Marty Supreme table tennis. I don't know what
else to do except to give them to you. Kuppy
and Christine, thank you. But oh I U still love
playing ping pong. It's been while for me. And you
would not think that you would go to see the
movie about ping pong and that would be exciting. Sound

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was like, tittley wings, How are you gonna make a
movie about a tennis tournaments? But Timothy Shalomey is the salesman,
will pick a ball? Coming? Hey, Harry, what do you
have playing for the holiday? We got to let you go.
You're flying back today. I am flying back actually tomorrow morning. Okay, yeah,
but hanging with the family. I'm gonna go to New
Orleans for our winning anniversary. Ok thank you twenty five

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years now. Well, here's to everybody having a wonderful time
with family and loved ones during the holidays. Absolutely time together.
Good to see you guys. Thank Gary, Marry Christmas, you too.