April 11, 2025 • 22 mins
Hap Reviews:
"The Amateur"
"Drop"
"One To One: John and Yoko"
Honorable Mentions:
"Warfare"
"The King of Kings"
"The Chosen: Last Supper Part 3"
"The Amateur"
"Drop"
"One To One: John and Yoko"
Honorable Mentions:
"Warfare"
"The King of Kings"
"The Chosen: Last Supper Part 3"
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Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w J and O dot com,
and it's time to go to the movies with Hapburstine,
the movie guy from Pombe Chartspaper dot com. Hap, I
gotta tell you I am backed up, I mean really
badly backed up. Right now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You know, I've got some uh some some drugs that
will clean you out.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I set them. I set them up. He knocks them down. No.
I So last weekend the only movie I saw was
Snow White, which of course I had already seen and
I actually enjoyed. And I told you about that, uh
Orlando with the daughters, and I wanted to take them
so I did.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So you saw. Did you enjoy it the second time
that much?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah? I did. I was. I mean I saw I
saw some of the more political stuff in it. You know, Hey,
socialism is great. Look at this queen. She wants to
take us away from socialism. But it's whatever as a
fairy tale. It's a fairy tale, so that's okay. And
you know, as far as the changes from the original movie,
I'm sure there were plenty. I don't remember it. So whatever,
(00:55):
you know, you're gonna have. Charge was nineteen after all,
I think the beer.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Excuse for not.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Bring it, I think the biggest problem.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Release every nine years.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, well it's and it's still.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Better than the action. But the life actually isn't terrible
like some people want us to believe.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
My older daughter told me that the nineteen thirty seven
version is just really slow, which I believe because it's
from nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's the way movies have moved then.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, sure, yeah, eighty one eighty one is when they
is when they started. You know, I did some research
into this. You know why when movies eighty one on
because of MTV. When MTV came around with the music videos,
that's when movies started getting the d within the first
within the first ten unless it's a slow drama. Within
the first ten minutes, something happens to get your attention
(01:42):
in that movie, something dramatic of some sort. So anyway,
I can really start with MTV. Yeah, yeah, according to
what I've read. I did a little tutorial one day
on film writing. I wanted to. I was like, I
came home from the movies, I said, I see so
many I want to write a movie one day, and
I came home. I haven't told a lot of people
this I came this is years ago and I came
home and it was like a Friday night maybe, and
(02:03):
I was like, you know what, I want to write
a movie and I can do that. I said, let
me see, let me do a tutorial, and there's like
free tutorials online or there were, I don't know, and
just kind of like, you know, just the basics of it.
And what it said was after MTV came around, that
was when movie started to pick up. And you can
see it if you go and you see older movies
(02:24):
and you see how slow, slow they are, and then
you see movies from you know, the mid eighties especially,
you see them.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But think about the early James Bond movies. They would
always start with a little scene that had nothing to
do with the rest of the movie, but it would
get this story Joe.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They were ahead of there. They were ahead and then
they were.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Into the plot, the same thing that MTV did.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
But they were ahead of their time. It was just
you didn't see that a lot. Jaws.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They were ahead of their time. So it doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm just saying it doesn't and not that it doesn't count,
but most most film writers, they didn't do that. Most
filmmakers Jaws, How slow is Jaws for the first half
hour or so house.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Because the shark wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, but you could have a anyway whatever. I went
home and I did that, and I wrote about fifty
pages of a script, and then I threw that computer
and then I threw that computer out. So anyway, No,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Why you're stuck during a radio show.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, yes, that's it. That's like, okay, all right, allows,
there you go. Hey, I shared something today. Now when
we're done here, you have to share. You have to
share something with you at the point. But meanwhile, tell
us what's at the movies, because I am backed up.
I haven't seen I'm missing so many movies that I've
been wanting to see. But tell us about the new
There are a.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Couple of okay movies I would recommend, but I'm sort
of guilty. Pleasures in the Amateur a pretty good Tichno thriller.
Rami Malloch, you know he's the Oscar winner for Brahamian Rhapsody,
stars as a computer analyst at Charlie Heller, who spends
his days hunched over a laptop in a windowless sub
basement office at this CIA, and that's where he would
(04:02):
still be if his wife maybe by Rachel rut Brosnahan.
You know, marvelous miss Mabel Masel if she hadn't been
killed by terrorists in a hotel attack in London. So
Charlie turns almost catatonic. But when his bosses refused to
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investigate the attack, Charlie takes matters in his own hands,
getting out from under his computer to try around the
globe as an amateur secret agent. Now he uses the
one skill he has. He's a computing nerd and he
knows how to blow stuff up. He gets training support
but from the much much needed being Spy of the
(04:46):
Skills by Laurence Fishburne, a CIA operative who manages to
pop up and opportunities every now and again. Charlie's an
interesting character. He most intriguing thing about the amateur Frank
and Mallik carries the role quite handily. Otherwise, the film
is pretty standard stuff. If it sounds at all familiar,
(05:08):
maybe you can recall an earlier version of this same
story from nineteen eighty one starring John Savage. I don't
personally remember it at all, but those who do say
that this Mallet version is superior. So your lower expectations
enough and get a big bucket of popcorn. Yeah, amateur
will keep you amused.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
From the trailer. It reminds me every time I see
the trailer, I go this, this kind of looks similar
to like a Jason Bourne type of movie, Jase Feeling movies.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But of course Jason Bourne really was.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, he had all that operative, he had all that training.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This guy is a computer nerd, and that's what makes
it interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It looks good. It's a movie I've been wanting to see.
Rommy Malick has been one of those actors that I mean,
obviously you know in the Freddie Mercury movie, the Bohemian Rhapsody,
the Queen movie. I should say he got very lucky
there he was.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, he hasn't really cashed in on his Oscar.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, But even in other movies that I've seen him in,
he's just I never saw the Robot. I think that
was the show he was from the Robots or mister Robot, mister.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Robot, mister robot, yes, mister robot to you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But one movie that I did see him in, what
was this twenty twenty one? That and it was kind
of like a slow moving thriller. I would call it
with Denzel Washington the Little Things. He was really good
in it. But he's just odd. He's like an odd
duck is. I don't know if it's just the characters
he plays, or if it's just the way he is.
It's just, you know, I don't know how to describe him.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He's turning not classically good looking, and yeah, I think
he chooses these offbeat characters and does them well.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He's got a good agent.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Although you're you're right, he hasn't really you know, usually
you win an oscar, not not always, but you win
that oscar and then the next things you do are
pretty you know, they're they're good acting for the money. Yeah,
all right, you have another one that I hate the title,
but I really am. I want to say well.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Drop is a simple name for an Outlander's thriller that
grows increasingly preposterous, but never less than than entertaining. I
think it's about. What's it about. It's about a widowed
mom of a five year old boy who has no
social life since her husband died of mysterious circumstances. But Violet,
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played by Megan Fahey. She has a nice featured role
in HBO's The White Lotus. Is playing to dip their
toe back into drading pool with a guy named Henry
played by Brandon Splainer, who she's been talking to online.
With understandable apprehension, she agrees to a first date at
an upscale restaurant in Chicago's Skyscraper. The hitches that someone
(07:57):
has his eye on her, and he has control of
her phone, and he has an accomplice at her home,
ready and eager to do serious harm to Violet's son.
So Drop is a bit of a who done it?
Who is the guy harassing her electronically with personal threats
and demands that she poisoned Henry? Will she commit murder
(08:20):
if it means keeping her son safe? And who is
the guy harassing her? Now? Because of the limited range
of the DROP program, we know that someone is in
the restaurant, but I DUTs she'll guess who it is anyway,
The movie eventually gets pretty silly. Violet commandeers a car
drives like a maniac through the streets of Chicago to
(08:43):
get to her home. Confident that the the henchman, She's
be able to confront him and save her son. It's silly,
but sill entertaining, and I'm not proud of it. But
I had a good time at Drop.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So you wouldn't call it like a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't know, no, no, not who done it? Thriller?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
An action thriller? I would say probably based on the trailer,
I of course, no. Can they make it look like it?
In the trailer, she's hanging off the side of that skyscraper.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And there is a moment where that that's as it
gets sillier and sillier. Yes, she's hanged over with a skyscraper.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did they ever explain why? Here? There's one thing about
that trailer for that movie that I've wondered, do they
ever explain why the babysitter. I guess she's the girlfriend
and you know her friend? Okay, well why is she
dressed like the good guys? Like like chucky? Her her
overalls that's chucky.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, you know it's interesting because she is am I crazy?
You know what her sister telling Getty. I agree, I
never I think about it. I completely agree with you.
But she she's trying to get her sister to dress correctly.
A little little more revealing while she, yeah, is dressed.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Like she's dressed like Chucky. But that's the that's the
Chucky overall, or at least they're very similar, because that's
the first time I saw it, And every time I
see that, I'm like, Okay, are they gonna? Why are they?
I wonder if it's just some sort of an easter egg.
Maybe somebody involved in this movie has a connection to
those movies or that show, The Chucky Show, which may
or may not still be on. I watched like the
(10:28):
first half of the first season, and then I just.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Got we Well, I assure you, they don't go into
it much.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, all right, I think you made right though it
is interesting. All right, you have an art house pick
or I don't know, this doesn't really know I do.
I absolutely do, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
My art house pick this week is a documentary about
John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono from the early
nineteen seventies that makes it post Beatles. It's called One
to One John and Yoko Simple simple title. What is
the name of a concert they organized to benefit the
children of Willowbrook, criminally abusive warehouse of disabled kids. The
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concert would be Lenin's only full length live performance after
the Beatles, and he sings everything from Come Together to
hound Dog. And then there's Yoko who often joins in
with her just a tonal yowling like that woman can
sing in between concert clips. Director Kevin MacDonald broadens out
(11:25):
the film to include archival material, home movies, TV excerpts,
adding up to what it's like in John and Yoko's
adapted city of New York in the early seventies. John
was going increasingly politicize as the Vietnam War was raging
and Richard Nixon was fighting his own war against the counterculture. Frankly,
(11:48):
the movie is a mess with just no sense of
how the scenes have any discernible order. It's a collage
of what those days were like, so one on one
gets no points for neatness. But Beatles fans will absolutely
appreciate the sense of the time period and the portrait
(12:12):
of these two world famous artists and their revolutionaries working
in the media. It's not a very well made film,
but it is fascinating one to one.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And where'd you say? Is this in theaters?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, it's on some streaming service. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay. I as a huge Beatles fan. I'm ashamed of myself.
I didn't realize that. You say this was his only
full length show, live show. I did not realize. I
didn't do any solo. He didn't do any solo that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Madison Square Garden and again, a lot of it was
filmed and it goes throughout the movie.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Interesting. I know he came out during a he came
out and performed during another. I think it might have
been an Elton John show back in the day as well,
when did whatever gets you through the night? But yeah,
I guess, Wow, that's interesting. Okay, some honorable, some honorable mentions. Here.
(13:11):
There's a movie called Warfare. It's an R rated movie.
Let's see here. No, I don't want to rate the movie.
I clicked on the wrong thing. Hang on, I'm on
fandango here. Uh oh, it's got elbows, I says.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
This has billed as action adventure drama. Alex Garland is
the director. I know his name. I'm going to click
on that really fast here because I know his name.
That's the movie I was trying to think of before
we started talking. Uh here, officially, half I was saying
Civil War. So this is the guy that directed he
did Civil War and he's doing this one. That was
(13:48):
the movie that I was thinking of earlier that people
listening are going, what are you talking about? But we
were talking about because.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I and there was a photojournalist, Yeah, the photojournalist.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, yeah, the photojournalist. And this was like kind of
like the end of the world kind of thing because
it was a literal civil war going on in the
country and it had some you know, political bend to it.
Will Poulter shows up in this one though this is
not that one, but Alex Garland directed that one as well,
and he's directing this. But Will Poulter shows up in
(14:19):
this one. This is about an Iraq war well wait,
written and directed by a rock war veteran Ray Mendoza
and Alex Garland, so he's got a second director with him,
Harry Harry's George Interesting Warfare. I'm going to read this
warfare and beds audiences with a platoon. Get it of
(14:39):
American Navy seals on a surveillance mission gone wrong, uh
in insurgent territory, a visceral boots on the ground story
of modern warfare and brotherhood told like never before, in
real time, in real time that's and based on the
memory of the people who lived it. It's the only
(15:03):
name I recognize. Yeah, the only name I recognize is
Will Poulter in this movie. I'm not going to read
the others, and I can't read some of them, to
be honest with you. Uh, let's see anything else. Well, yet,
The Chosen. The Chosen's Last Supper series has been out,
and they've been it's the Last Supper Parts one two.
I guess Part three drops this weekend. I haven't watched them.
(15:24):
Uh there's another one. Is this one just come out? Uh?
Let's see. Is this just opening or has it been out?
I haven't been paying attention. Uh no, this is just
coming out. This is an animated religious movie called The
King of Kings and Uma Thurman. Actually uh, actually I
(15:45):
thought it was religious. Now they're saying Charles Dickens, Catherine Dickens.
I'll just read the synopsis because it's called King of
Kings and it looks like Jesus in the front. Oh,
here's why. A father tells his son the greatest story
ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes
a life changing journey through wild imagination. The boy walks
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alongside Jesus, witnessing his miracles, facing his trials, understanding his
ultimate sacrifice. King of Kings invites us to rediscover the
enduring power of hope, love, and redemption through the eyes
of a child. Kenneth Brannaw plays Charles Dickens or does
the voice of Charles. So I guess Charles Dickens is
the choice.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wait. Wait, Charles Dickens and Jesus were together in the
same movie.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Charles Dickens and Catherine Dickens. Well it's remember it's a fantasy.
So the boy, through his imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus.
So I don't know what's going on here. All I
know is I'm just going to reach you the cast
of voices.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
In my Sunday school that never happened.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hang on a minute, half, I'm gonna just read you
the sonon. I'm going to read you the name. Sure,
Kenneth Branna.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You're not going to convince me to go see it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That's kind, But just Kenneth Brannaw, Uma Thurman, Mark Mark Hamill,
Year Sprosnan, Forest Whitaker Forrest Whitaker.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Voice challenge.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm yeah, I'm assuming it's an animated Ben Kingsley, oscar
Oscar Isaac. This cast is like if you just got
a bunch of some of the best actors.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You know, they must have just popped into the recording
studio and then left their their their voices and left.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's just incredible. This cast. I'm like, looking at this,
going I might have to see this. I mean, I
never thought I'd go see an animated religious pick. But
it's an Easter so it's it's coming out now and
it's ahead of Easter another a little over a week
off from this weekend. But I guess that's yeah, that's
what they have Easter written on there, so that makes sense.
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But it's interesting that that is a yes, the heck
of a cast. I won't say that the other h
word since it's a religious movie, so the movies I
have to catch up on, not a minecraft. I was
so happy, so happy to hear my twelve year old
daughter when I said to her when I picked her
up on Friday, if you're going to see any movie,
(18:08):
what would you want to see? And she did not
say minecraft. She said, well, I don't I know people
are talking about, you know, it not being build to
know people are saying, snow White's not very good, but
I want to see it, and I'm like, okay, And
it's because her best friend liked it, so that's probably why.
But she enjoyed it. I said, Oh, I was thinking
you wanted to see that Minecraft movie. I'm glad you don't.
She says, no, that looks horrible. It looks very stupid.
(18:31):
So I have a very smart daughter, because it does
look very stupid. Although it's raking in the bucks. It's
a very successful movie already.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, exactly, but exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I agree with she plays or has played Minecraft,
so and the other one.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I get her onto the show and have her do
some reviews.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I do.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I have to get her and except she she goes
to something called school, so we might have to wait
till summer. The Woman in the Yard I still have
not seen, so I want to catch up on that one.
I still haven't seen the Friend. But you're you're basically
saying I can wait till it's on streaming, even though
I do have the young living.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, it doesn't need a big, big screen, so anything
should be seen in a theater revan streaming, but yeah,
it's we're.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Seeing and a working Manury and a working man. I
still have to see. So I'm now I'm like backed
up by like five movies with the two new ones.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, then your work has cut out for you.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is, and here's the good news. It would be
uh tax filing weekend if it wasn't for the fact
that Florindians get an extra two weeks. May first is
our deadline. If you didn't know, why is that because
of hurricanes Milton and Helene essentially affected every county between
the two of them, and Palm Beach County affected. I
want to say it was Milton that spurred those tornadoes
(19:49):
that devastated parts of Palm Beach and into the Treasure Coast.
So we got we were in an emergency situation.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So wait a minute, so the governor can just wave
his arms and say, you get an extend.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We're the I R S.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
The I R S did it, my friend, there's nobody
there anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's a there's still a few thousand. There's not that
many anyways, the year to cheat anyway. First May first
is our deadline. I'm not saying people should put it off,
but I damn sure will I don't get anything I
don't get anything back, so I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, I didn't get I didn't make anything in the
first place. I've already filed.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh, they don't pay over there at Pombee charges not.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Hardly okay, Now, and your radio station is pretty cheap too.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah. Well we give you free popcorn every once in
a while. Well, oh wait where somebody who still for ones?
They give it, They give it to me to give
to you, and I end up beating it. Sorry, I
wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I never hardly ever get it.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I got it, all right? Anything anything good next week?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, there's something called Sinners I'm seeing on Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael uh, Michael B. Jordan, Michael B.
Jordan playing two parts. He plays himself and his brother
twin brothers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You know about this?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, the screen, the trailers all over the place.
We want to go to the movies. Yeah, it's a
kind of horror looking, a little horror looking.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So and I don't know it's.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah and the girlfriend one week.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It sounds like in any event.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The wife or the Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Bills,
his wife or girlfriend or I guess they're engaged. Maybe
they're married. Uh, and I'm forgetting her name. Haley Steinfeld
is in that as well.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She was from.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
What she did that western, that western? Yeah, yeah, and
I forget it too, but yeah that was No I
don't remember what it was called, but whatever, who cares,
I'll look it up. Hang on, before we wrap, we're already,
we're already into overtime. Here, got to pay you some
more popcorn so I can eat some more of your
Uh Haley, God, I don't remember how you spell her name.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Oh there she is, HJ I l ee.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So many different ways these kids spell their names these days,
you know, Haley Haley Gosh, I gotta go back. She's
been working. She started quite young, true grit. It was
true grit twenty ten, right of course, yeah, fifteen years ago,
true grit. And she's grown up and she's in Sinners
and yeah she's she was in the Marvels too, but
(22:25):
we'll forgive her for that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
So you're so easy going, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well we will. We will chat about sinners. Looking forward
to that one.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let's try it, Okay, all right, talk to you then,
have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Byee.
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w J and O dot com,
and it's time to go to the movies with Hapburstine,
the movie guy from Pombe Chartspaper dot com. Hap, I
gotta tell you I am backed up, I mean really
badly backed up. Right now.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You know, I've got some uh some some drugs that
will clean you out.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I set them. I set them up. He knocks them down. No.
I So last weekend the only movie I saw was
Snow White, which of course I had already seen and
I actually enjoyed. And I told you about that, uh
Orlando with the daughters, and I wanted to take them
so I did.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So you saw. Did you enjoy it the second time
that much?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah? I did. I was. I mean I saw I
saw some of the more political stuff in it. You know, Hey,
socialism is great. Look at this queen. She wants to
take us away from socialism. But it's whatever as a
fairy tale. It's a fairy tale, so that's okay. And
you know, as far as the changes from the original movie,
I'm sure there were plenty. I don't remember it. So whatever,
(00:55):
you know, you're gonna have. Charge was nineteen after all,
I think the beer.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Excuse for not.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Bring it, I think the biggest problem.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Release every nine years.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, well it's and it's still.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Better than the action. But the life actually isn't terrible
like some people want us to believe.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
My older daughter told me that the nineteen thirty seven
version is just really slow, which I believe because it's
from nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's the way movies have moved then.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, sure, yeah, eighty one eighty one is when they
is when they started. You know, I did some research
into this. You know why when movies eighty one on
because of MTV. When MTV came around with the music videos,
that's when movies started getting the d within the first
within the first ten unless it's a slow drama. Within
the first ten minutes, something happens to get your attention
(01:42):
in that movie, something dramatic of some sort. So anyway,
I can really start with MTV. Yeah, yeah, according to
what I've read. I did a little tutorial one day
on film writing. I wanted to. I was like, I
came home from the movies, I said, I see so
many I want to write a movie one day, and
I came home. I haven't told a lot of people
this I came this is years ago and I came
home and it was like a Friday night maybe, and
(02:03):
I was like, you know what, I want to write
a movie and I can do that. I said, let
me see, let me do a tutorial, and there's like
free tutorials online or there were, I don't know, and
just kind of like, you know, just the basics of it.
And what it said was after MTV came around, that
was when movie started to pick up. And you can
see it if you go and you see older movies
(02:24):
and you see how slow, slow they are, and then
you see movies from you know, the mid eighties especially,
you see them.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But think about the early James Bond movies. They would
always start with a little scene that had nothing to
do with the rest of the movie, but it would
get this story Joe.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They were ahead of there. They were ahead and then
they were.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Into the plot, the same thing that MTV did.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
But they were ahead of their time. It was just
you didn't see that a lot. Jaws.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They were ahead of their time. So it doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm just saying it doesn't and not that it doesn't count,
but most most film writers, they didn't do that. Most
filmmakers Jaws, How slow is Jaws for the first half
hour or so house.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Because the shark wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, but you could have a anyway whatever. I went
home and I did that, and I wrote about fifty
pages of a script, and then I threw that computer
and then I threw that computer out. So anyway, No,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Why you're stuck during a radio show.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, yes, that's it. That's like, okay, all right, allows,
there you go. Hey, I shared something today. Now when
we're done here, you have to share. You have to
share something with you at the point. But meanwhile, tell
us what's at the movies, because I am backed up.
I haven't seen I'm missing so many movies that I've
been wanting to see. But tell us about the new
There are a.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Couple of okay movies I would recommend, but I'm sort
of guilty. Pleasures in the Amateur a pretty good Tichno thriller.
Rami Malloch, you know he's the Oscar winner for Brahamian Rhapsody,
stars as a computer analyst at Charlie Heller, who spends
his days hunched over a laptop in a windowless sub
basement office at this CIA, and that's where he would
(04:02):
still be if his wife maybe by Rachel rut Brosnahan.
You know, marvelous miss Mabel Masel if she hadn't been
killed by terrorists in a hotel attack in London. So
Charlie turns almost catatonic. But when his bosses refused to
(04:23):
investigate the attack, Charlie takes matters in his own hands,
getting out from under his computer to try around the
globe as an amateur secret agent. Now he uses the
one skill he has. He's a computing nerd and he
knows how to blow stuff up. He gets training support
but from the much much needed being Spy of the
(04:46):
Skills by Laurence Fishburne, a CIA operative who manages to
pop up and opportunities every now and again. Charlie's an
interesting character. He most intriguing thing about the amateur Frank
and Mallik carries the role quite handily. Otherwise, the film
is pretty standard stuff. If it sounds at all familiar,
(05:08):
maybe you can recall an earlier version of this same
story from nineteen eighty one starring John Savage. I don't
personally remember it at all, but those who do say
that this Mallet version is superior. So your lower expectations
enough and get a big bucket of popcorn. Yeah, amateur
will keep you amused.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
From the trailer. It reminds me every time I see
the trailer, I go this, this kind of looks similar
to like a Jason Bourne type of movie, Jase Feeling movies.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But of course Jason Bourne really was.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, he had all that operative, he had all that training.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This guy is a computer nerd, and that's what makes
it interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It looks good. It's a movie I've been wanting to see.
Rommy Malick has been one of those actors that I mean,
obviously you know in the Freddie Mercury movie, the Bohemian Rhapsody,
the Queen movie. I should say he got very lucky
there he was.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, he hasn't really cashed in on his Oscar.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, But even in other movies that I've seen him in,
he's just I never saw the Robot. I think that
was the show he was from the Robots or mister Robot, mister.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Robot, mister robot, yes, mister robot to you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But one movie that I did see him in, what
was this twenty twenty one? That and it was kind
of like a slow moving thriller. I would call it
with Denzel Washington the Little Things. He was really good
in it. But he's just odd. He's like an odd
duck is. I don't know if it's just the characters
he plays, or if it's just the way he is.
It's just, you know, I don't know how to describe him.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He's turning not classically good looking, and yeah, I think
he chooses these offbeat characters and does them well.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
He's got a good agent.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Although you're you're right, he hasn't really you know, usually
you win an oscar, not not always, but you win
that oscar and then the next things you do are
pretty you know, they're they're good acting for the money. Yeah,
all right, you have another one that I hate the title,
but I really am. I want to say well.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Drop is a simple name for an Outlander's thriller that
grows increasingly preposterous, but never less than than entertaining. I
think it's about. What's it about. It's about a widowed
mom of a five year old boy who has no
social life since her husband died of mysterious circumstances. But Violet,
(07:32):
played by Megan Fahey. She has a nice featured role
in HBO's The White Lotus. Is playing to dip their
toe back into drading pool with a guy named Henry
played by Brandon Splainer, who she's been talking to online.
With understandable apprehension, she agrees to a first date at
an upscale restaurant in Chicago's Skyscraper. The hitches that someone
(07:57):
has his eye on her, and he has control of
her phone, and he has an accomplice at her home,
ready and eager to do serious harm to Violet's son.
So Drop is a bit of a who done it?
Who is the guy harassing her electronically with personal threats
and demands that she poisoned Henry? Will she commit murder
(08:20):
if it means keeping her son safe? And who is
the guy harassing her? Now? Because of the limited range
of the DROP program, we know that someone is in
the restaurant, but I DUTs she'll guess who it is anyway,
The movie eventually gets pretty silly. Violet commandeers a car
drives like a maniac through the streets of Chicago to
(08:43):
get to her home. Confident that the the henchman, She's
be able to confront him and save her son. It's silly,
but sill entertaining, and I'm not proud of it. But
I had a good time at Drop.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So you wouldn't call it like a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't know, no, no, not who done it? Thriller?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
An action thriller? I would say probably based on the trailer,
I of course, no. Can they make it look like it?
In the trailer, she's hanging off the side of that skyscraper.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And there is a moment where that that's as it
gets sillier and sillier. Yes, she's hanged over with a skyscraper.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did they ever explain why? Here? There's one thing about
that trailer for that movie that I've wondered, do they
ever explain why the babysitter. I guess she's the girlfriend
and you know her friend? Okay, well why is she
dressed like the good guys? Like like chucky? Her her
overalls that's chucky.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Well, you know it's interesting because she is am I crazy?
You know what her sister telling Getty. I agree, I
never I think about it. I completely agree with you.
But she she's trying to get her sister to dress correctly.
A little little more revealing while she, yeah, is dressed.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Like she's dressed like Chucky. But that's the that's the
Chucky overall, or at least they're very similar, because that's
the first time I saw it, And every time I
see that, I'm like, Okay, are they gonna? Why are they?
I wonder if it's just some sort of an easter egg.
Maybe somebody involved in this movie has a connection to
those movies or that show, The Chucky Show, which may
or may not still be on. I watched like the
(10:28):
first half of the first season, and then I just.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Got we Well, I assure you, they don't go into
it much.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, all right, I think you made right though it
is interesting. All right, you have an art house pick
or I don't know, this doesn't really know I do.
I absolutely do, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
My art house pick this week is a documentary about
John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono from the early
nineteen seventies that makes it post Beatles. It's called One
to One John and Yoko Simple simple title. What is
the name of a concert they organized to benefit the
children of Willowbrook, criminally abusive warehouse of disabled kids. The
(11:03):
concert would be Lenin's only full length live performance after
the Beatles, and he sings everything from Come Together to
hound Dog. And then there's Yoko who often joins in
with her just a tonal yowling like that woman can
sing in between concert clips. Director Kevin MacDonald broadens out
(11:25):
the film to include archival material, home movies, TV excerpts,
adding up to what it's like in John and Yoko's
adapted city of New York in the early seventies. John
was going increasingly politicize as the Vietnam War was raging
and Richard Nixon was fighting his own war against the counterculture. Frankly,
(11:48):
the movie is a mess with just no sense of
how the scenes have any discernible order. It's a collage
of what those days were like, so one on one
gets no points for neatness. But Beatles fans will absolutely
appreciate the sense of the time period and the portrait
(12:12):
of these two world famous artists and their revolutionaries working
in the media. It's not a very well made film,
but it is fascinating one to one.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And where'd you say? Is this in theaters?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, it's on some streaming service. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay. I as a huge Beatles fan. I'm ashamed of myself.
I didn't realize that. You say this was his only
full length show, live show. I did not realize. I
didn't do any solo. He didn't do any solo that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Madison Square Garden and again, a lot of it was
filmed and it goes throughout the movie.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Interesting. I know he came out during a he came
out and performed during another. I think it might have
been an Elton John show back in the day as well,
when did whatever gets you through the night? But yeah,
I guess, Wow, that's interesting. Okay, some honorable, some honorable mentions. Here.
(13:11):
There's a movie called Warfare. It's an R rated movie.
Let's see here. No, I don't want to rate the movie.
I clicked on the wrong thing. Hang on, I'm on
fandango here. Uh oh, it's got elbows, I says.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
This has billed as action adventure drama. Alex Garland is
the director. I know his name. I'm going to click
on that really fast here because I know his name.
That's the movie I was trying to think of before
we started talking. Uh here, officially, half I was saying
Civil War. So this is the guy that directed he
did Civil War and he's doing this one. That was
(13:48):
the movie that I was thinking of earlier that people
listening are going, what are you talking about? But we
were talking about because.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I and there was a photojournalist, Yeah, the photojournalist.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, yeah, the photojournalist. And this was like kind of
like the end of the world kind of thing because
it was a literal civil war going on in the
country and it had some you know, political bend to it.
Will Poulter shows up in this one though this is
not that one, but Alex Garland directed that one as well,
and he's directing this. But Will Poulter shows up in
(14:19):
this one. This is about an Iraq war well wait,
written and directed by a rock war veteran Ray Mendoza
and Alex Garland, so he's got a second director with him,
Harry Harry's George Interesting Warfare. I'm going to read this
warfare and beds audiences with a platoon. Get it of
(14:39):
American Navy seals on a surveillance mission gone wrong, uh
in insurgent territory, a visceral boots on the ground story
of modern warfare and brotherhood told like never before, in
real time, in real time that's and based on the
memory of the people who lived it. It's the only
(15:03):
name I recognize. Yeah, the only name I recognize is
Will Poulter in this movie. I'm not going to read
the others, and I can't read some of them, to
be honest with you. Uh, let's see anything else. Well, yet,
The Chosen. The Chosen's Last Supper series has been out,
and they've been it's the Last Supper Parts one two.
I guess Part three drops this weekend. I haven't watched them.
(15:24):
Uh there's another one. Is this one just come out? Uh?
Let's see. Is this just opening or has it been out?
I haven't been paying attention. Uh no, this is just
coming out. This is an animated religious movie called The
King of Kings and Uma Thurman. Actually uh, actually I
(15:45):
thought it was religious. Now they're saying Charles Dickens, Catherine Dickens.
I'll just read the synopsis because it's called King of
Kings and it looks like Jesus in the front. Oh,
here's why. A father tells his son the greatest story
ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes
a life changing journey through wild imagination. The boy walks
(16:06):
alongside Jesus, witnessing his miracles, facing his trials, understanding his
ultimate sacrifice. King of Kings invites us to rediscover the
enduring power of hope, love, and redemption through the eyes
of a child. Kenneth Brannaw plays Charles Dickens or does
the voice of Charles. So I guess Charles Dickens is
the choice.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wait. Wait, Charles Dickens and Jesus were together in the
same movie.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Charles Dickens and Catherine Dickens. Well it's remember it's a fantasy.
So the boy, through his imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus.
So I don't know what's going on here. All I
know is I'm just going to reach you the cast
of voices.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
In my Sunday school that never happened.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hang on a minute, half, I'm gonna just read you
the sonon. I'm going to read you the name. Sure,
Kenneth Branna.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You're not going to convince me to go see it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That's kind, But just Kenneth Brannaw, Uma Thurman, Mark Mark Hamill,
Year Sprosnan, Forest Whitaker Forrest Whitaker.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Voice challenge.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm yeah, I'm assuming it's an animated Ben Kingsley, oscar
Oscar Isaac. This cast is like if you just got
a bunch of some of the best actors.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You know, they must have just popped into the recording
studio and then left their their their voices and left.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's just incredible. This cast. I'm like, looking at this,
going I might have to see this. I mean, I
never thought I'd go see an animated religious pick. But
it's an Easter so it's it's coming out now and
it's ahead of Easter another a little over a week
off from this weekend. But I guess that's yeah, that's
what they have Easter written on there, so that makes sense.
(17:48):
But it's interesting that that is a yes, the heck
of a cast. I won't say that the other h
word since it's a religious movie, so the movies I
have to catch up on, not a minecraft. I was
so happy, so happy to hear my twelve year old
daughter when I said to her when I picked her
up on Friday, if you're going to see any movie,
(18:08):
what would you want to see? And she did not
say minecraft. She said, well, I don't I know people
are talking about, you know, it not being build to
know people are saying, snow White's not very good, but
I want to see it, and I'm like, okay, And
it's because her best friend liked it, so that's probably why.
But she enjoyed it. I said, Oh, I was thinking
you wanted to see that Minecraft movie. I'm glad you don't.
She says, no, that looks horrible. It looks very stupid.
(18:31):
So I have a very smart daughter, because it does
look very stupid. Although it's raking in the bucks. It's
a very successful movie already.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes, exactly, but exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I agree with she plays or has played Minecraft,
so and the other one.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I get her onto the show and have her do
some reviews.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I do.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I have to get her and except she she goes
to something called school, so we might have to wait
till summer. The Woman in the Yard I still have
not seen, so I want to catch up on that one.
I still haven't seen the Friend. But you're you're basically
saying I can wait till it's on streaming, even though
I do have the young living.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, it doesn't need a big, big screen, so anything
should be seen in a theater revan streaming, but yeah,
it's we're.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Seeing and a working Manury and a working man. I
still have to see. So I'm now I'm like backed
up by like five movies with the two new ones.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, then your work has cut out for you.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is, and here's the good news. It would be
uh tax filing weekend if it wasn't for the fact
that Florindians get an extra two weeks. May first is
our deadline. If you didn't know, why is that because
of hurricanes Milton and Helene essentially affected every county between
the two of them, and Palm Beach County affected. I
want to say it was Milton that spurred those tornadoes
(19:49):
that devastated parts of Palm Beach and into the Treasure Coast.
So we got we were in an emergency situation.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So wait a minute, so the governor can just wave
his arms and say, you get an extend.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We're the I R S.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
The I R S did it, my friend, there's nobody
there anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's a there's still a few thousand. There's not that
many anyways, the year to cheat anyway. First May first
is our deadline. I'm not saying people should put it off,
but I damn sure will I don't get anything I
don't get anything back, so I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, I didn't get I didn't make anything in the
first place. I've already filed.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh, they don't pay over there at Pombee charges not.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Hardly okay, Now, and your radio station is pretty cheap too.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah. Well we give you free popcorn every once in
a while. Well, oh wait where somebody who still for ones?
They give it, They give it to me to give
to you, and I end up beating it. Sorry, I
wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I never hardly ever get it.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I got it, all right? Anything anything good next week?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, there's something called Sinners I'm seeing on Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael uh, Michael B. Jordan, Michael B.
Jordan playing two parts. He plays himself and his brother
twin brothers.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You know about this?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, the screen, the trailers all over the place.
We want to go to the movies. Yeah, it's a
kind of horror looking, a little horror looking.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So and I don't know it's.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah and the girlfriend one week.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It sounds like in any event.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The wife or the Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Bills,
his wife or girlfriend or I guess they're engaged. Maybe
they're married. Uh, and I'm forgetting her name. Haley Steinfeld
is in that as well.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She was from.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
What she did that western, that western? Yeah, yeah, and
I forget it too, but yeah that was No I
don't remember what it was called, but whatever, who cares,
I'll look it up. Hang on, before we wrap, we're already,
we're already into overtime. Here, got to pay you some
more popcorn so I can eat some more of your
Uh Haley, God, I don't remember how you spell her name.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Oh there she is, HJ I l ee.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So many different ways these kids spell their names these days,
you know, Haley Haley Gosh, I gotta go back. She's
been working. She started quite young, true grit. It was
true grit twenty ten, right of course, yeah, fifteen years ago,
true grit. And she's grown up and she's in Sinners
and yeah she's she was in the Marvels too, but
(22:25):
we'll forgive her for that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
So you're so easy going, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well we will. We will chat about sinners. Looking forward
to that one.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let's try it, Okay, all right, talk to you then,
have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Byee.
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