June 6, 2025 • 20 mins
Hap Erstein with PalmBeachArtsPaper.com Reviews:
"From the World of John Wick: Ballerina"
"The Phoenician Scheme"
"The Heart Knows"
Honorable Mention:
"Dangerous Animals"
"From the World of John Wick: Ballerina"
"The Phoenician Scheme"
"The Heart Knows"
Honorable Mention:
"Dangerous Animals"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm for wj ando dot com and we're
talking movies with the movie guy Happerstine. He's from Palm
Beach Artspaper dot com and I've been looking forward to
this weekend. I didn't realize it was coming out so soon.
But tell me about this new John wickpit.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, don't let the title Ballerina confuse you. The big
movie this week is no dainty film about skinny women
and tutus. In fact, it is related to the John
Wick franchise, the passing the baton from Kenna Reeves, who
produces the franchise reboot to kick ass alluring Anna de
Armis as a killing machine known simply as Eve. Now
(00:40):
the movie has a rocky history, with substantial reshoots, production delays,
and a chopped, swapped out director, all of which delayed
the release over a year. Now call it a salvage job,
but it worked as long as you're like NonStop action
sequences and excessive violence that describes the John Wick series
(01:02):
fan base to a t. Now Eaves is at the
center of the movie. But make no mistake, this is
a continuation of the Wick franchise, so much so that
the actual title is now from the world of John
Wick Colin Ballerina now the plot, and there's not much
of one. The plot concerns six year old Eve seeing
(01:25):
her father killed before her eyes, leading to a revenge
vendetta that she trains brutally for a little bit of assassin,
a little bit of ballet dancer. Ballerina is directed by
Lenn Wiseman. He's best known for the Underworld series starring
Kate Beckinsale. But the badly kept secret is that Chad Stolenski,
(01:47):
who helmed the previous Whig films, took control of the
movie about a year ago and added substantial new footage.
Whoever was in charge, the result is virtual NonStop action,
a sensory overload that should please Wick hands. The character
was an opera apparently introduced in John Wick three. I'll
admit I dropped out of the franchise long before that,
(02:10):
but she's now recasts and the armis is terrific. Supporting
cast includes Angelica Houston, Gabriel Byrne as plot manipulators, and
yep Keanu shows up briefly for a little bit of
hand to hand compact with Eve. Reportedly, Ballerina two is
already in production perfectly understandable, all right, and what you're
(02:35):
salivating for.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Definitely the one I've been looking forward to for sure. Now,
I don't think I'm giving out any spoilers since it's
been what a couple of years since the last one.
I think I think it was the fourth movie usually yeah,
that John Wick dies, and so it was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Almost apparently this takes place between john Wick three and
John Wick four still with us, Yeah, and he pops
up not much, but he is the producer of the movie,
so yeah, he knows that having him is there and
putting his name in the in the title.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I just remember it was. It was funny after the
other one wrapped up, you know, it was maybe a
week or two later, they were saying, oh, there's talk
of another john Wick, and everybody's going, how is that possible?
He's dead? And so this obviously answers the question. It's
a it's not a prequel, because they're not going back
to the beginning, but it's it's it's a new.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's sort of sandwiched in there. Did they do enough,
Like I say, there's they're going to do another one,
And it's it's a very worthy handoff. And the armors.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She first of all, she's a beautiful woman, but also
seems like really badass on top of that. So I'm
definitely looking forward to, you know where where they take
this series. But uh yeah, so I'm I'm there, I'm
there seeing uh enjoy this one from the John what
is it called? From the John Wick?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
God, from the world of John Wick Ballerina, So looking
for do they do they give you a like world
of John Wick?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, Now do they give you obviously it's not real
flashbacks because they they you said, it's a different actress
that played this character early on. But do they redo
flashbacks and so that you get kind of an idea
of oh that was her?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, no, no question, there's a there's a bit of
sense of that. But you don't need you don't need
that background. You can just start writing in with this one. Okay,
if in case, you've never seen any John Wicks and
I say, I saw the first, maybe the second, and
then gave up on it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right, Now, tell me about a movie that's it
nice back, nicely. Tell me about a movie that I
will be staying away from with Deer for Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Life Understandable, terminally quirky and ravishing to look at. The
movies of Wes Anderson are both enjoyable and off putting,
usually both extremes the same time. So it is with
his latest adventure in Eccentricity, the Phoenician scheme Saga of
(05:11):
Arms Dealer and a toolds Shajah Corda, played for Allsworth
by Benicio del Toro, who survives an assassination attempt in
the film's early months and then decides to hand over
his substantial empire to his only daughter, Lizel, a novice nun.
(05:31):
That's new newcomer Mia three Appleton, another sprightly Anderson discovery.
Together they embark on a journey to Phoenicia, a fictional
nation where Jaja hopes to rebuild his empire. Getting there
involves a typical Andersonian the series of encounters with offbeat
characters played by get this such a list actors as
(05:55):
Tom Hanks, Brian Cranson, f Marie Abraham and Willem Dafoe,
many many more. These people just love to work with
Wes Anderson. I don't get it, but that's what it is.
Anderson typically over herself, is narrative with characters, and you
get the feeling that if anyone shows up on the
set of Finishing Scheme, they get a roll. It's amusing,
(06:18):
but it's also exhausting. I know I'm supposed to explain
what it's all Add's up to, but I really haven't
the foggiest notion. As always, Anderson films are enjoyable to
look at, but more and more they'll just become puzzling
to understand. It opens this week in theaters and will
probably be gone after the Anderson cult comes and goes.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, some of his earlier movies were quite terrific,
but he's really gone off the end, off the twist.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There is one movie that I can actually say I
didn't hate that he's done that I've seen. I haven't
seen all of them, honestly, but sure because some of
them just turned me off so bad. The Steve Zisu,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zisu, and there was just
something very quirky about that I did like. But we
(07:10):
saw The Royal Tannenbaums my father resked in Peace and
I went to the movies and saw that one, and
we really didn't know much about and my dad, you know,
was all in tune to the movies and all that,
but really didn't know about Wes Anderson wasn't too much
and we saw, oh my god, was did we hate
that one? And I don't know what made me watch
(07:31):
Steve Zisu. I guess I said, well, let me get about.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Never tried it, that one, never tried it?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, I understand understandable. At some point most people do.
Turn out that's the one I would recommend to people.
But after that, forget it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's just not enough to tell me, oh, look at
all these names that are in the movie. Because if
I think it's gonna suck, I don't care who's in it.
So it sucked, and it's subjective. And it's subjective because
there are people that love these movies.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't objective.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So you have an art house pick I do.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do. Let's get to let's get to myrow house.
Pic this Week is a romantic drama titled The Heart Knows.
It's about an Argentine construction company CEO, Juan Manuel, who
lives a very privileged but sterile life. Well that all
changes when he suffers a major heart attack and is
able to get an emergency transplant from an impoverished husband
(08:30):
and father who lives in the poor section of the
city known as El Progresso. Juan Manuel, played by an
appealingly understated Benjamin Vicuna, finds himself drawn to El Progresso,
taking on the spirit of a man whose heart he
now carries. He hides his wealth, and pats is pitched
(08:51):
in to help build a stalled medical center in this
Progresso area, even though his company is trying to evict
the Progresso commit unity and take over the land. It's
it's all a bit, you know, improbable, let's say, but compelling.
One is also drawn to the widow of the man
who's herd, who he ticks within him, and a bold,
(09:14):
vibrant woman named Valeria. But Julieta Diaz, who learns of
One's identity, is angry at him, but she cannot stop
from falling in love with him too. The Netflix, the
Spanish language movie on Netflix is actually duged into English,
not very well, and that's it's not prevented from working
(09:36):
a simple effective charms.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The heart knows, yeah, and I know what I won't
be seeing besides Phoenician scheme.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, so you're gonna see Valerin a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Now I got others. So I want to talk about
some some movies and a bone and a bone to
pick with you, mister movie guide. So I went to
see Karate Kid Legends by the way, loved it, and
I told my daughter Ashley, my my older daughter, you
might actually like this one because partly because they play
(10:11):
on you know, they pay pretty good homage, homage if
you will to homage however you want to say it.
They uh to mister Miagi. They you know, I feel
you can feel it through the.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Movie that they actually dredge him up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, well they judge him up, but you can just
feel it was made with love to Pat Marita and
the you know, and the character that he played in
this movie. Maybe not maybe not so much Arnold from
Happy Days, but definitely from the Karate Kid anyway, uh
for the Happy Days fans out there. But anyway, I
but I have bone to pick with you because I
(10:49):
asked you a question. I said, is Billy Zapka in it?
William Zapka. Billy Zapka. He was a blonde kid. He
played Johnny in the very first Karate Kid. He was
the bad kid you know and all that sweep the
leg Johnny, he sweeped the leg, you know or no whatever.
And then at the end of that movie, of course, uh,
what is it the crane or whatever it is that LaRusso,
(11:11):
Danny LaRusso is able to do to him, beats him
and he brings you know, he brings over the trophy
to LaRusso and he gives it to him, and it's
you know, you could see he's kind of changed. And
from what I understand, I've never seen Cobra Kai, but
from what I understand, they're both in Cobra Kai and
they basically run Miyagi's old dojo, is what the deal is.
(11:37):
So at the end credits, right before the credits roll,
and it says Karate Kid Legends at the end of
the movie, and right before the credits roll, they have
a an added you know, a scene there a credits
scene and there's Billy Zapka as Johnny with with Daniel
Daniel LaRusso.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All beating me with a wet nodles.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, and they're in there. Anyway, that's a spoiler for
somebody who hasn't seen the movie yet, but I wanted to,
you know, it's more important that I tell you you
were wrong than you know they're worrying about ruining somebody's
somebody's day, Okay, all right. I also I wanted to
get my daughter out of it, so she didn't see
that one. But on Sunday, I wanted to get my
(12:20):
daughter out of the house and to cheer her up
for something. I'm not going to get into it, but
uh and and really the only thing she didn't want
to see Karate Kid at the time, or maybe I
saw Karate Kid Sunday whatever, and this was Saturday. I
can't recall. I'm old, I can't remember. Regardless, we ended
(12:42):
up seeing Lee Low and Stitch, and I have to
tell you I have another bone to pick with you.
I enjoyed that movie. Now, I never saw the original.
The original, I don't remember it, my daughter says. My
daughter says, I son.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A remake, live remake of an animated movie that improved
upon it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm sorry, maybe it didn't improve upon it, but it
was an entertaining movie, and I thought it was good.
It got me in the fields a little bit too,
just a little bit with fortune too.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Maybe because I have two daughters and they're you know,
I mean they're twenty years apart, and these two aren't
that quite that far apart, but you know, more than
what thirteen or fourteen years apart, So maybe that's what.
But it got me in the fields a little bit.
It got me a little emotional at times, so that
whole storyline with the with the daughters. So I don't know,
I I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You're in the majority, clearly.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Take Mission imp it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I'm not comparing it to it, you know in
any other movie. I'm just when they open.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, but but you had you had to know it
was going to make more money putting it out on
three D screens. They're putting it you know, you got
it's a kid's movie, so you're gonna have kids going anyway. Whatever.
So I did see that. I did enjoy. Uh, I
did enjoy that one. Now coming out besides the ones
you went over, there's a movie called Dangerous Animals. Uh.
(13:59):
It looks very very strange. But the guy that's in
it I think is Jai Courtney. I think is how
you say his first name. He's I believe in Australian dude.
And I recognized him as one of the characters from
the original Suicide Squad movie, not the one that was
r rated later, but the original one with Will Smith
and all of them. And he was I forget the
(14:21):
character's name, but he's the one with the he's the
Australian with the what do you call the thing that
you have? The boomerang and all that. Anyway, he's he's
a really bad guy in this and I guess he
ends up getting these women on his boat and he
ends up feeding them to sharks. That's what it looks like.
I'm not I'll read you the synopsis. Trapped on a
(14:43):
killer's boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must
outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself. Will
she escape or become the next offering to the deep?
Sean Byrn returns with his third visceral feature. Sean Byrn
is the director. I have never heard of Sean Byrne.
Let's look and see what Elsie's. He's probably never heard
(15:05):
of you The Devil's The Devil's Candy in twenty fifteen
and The Loved Ones in two thousand and nine. Do
they ring a bell?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
All right? Lower budget, lower budget fair. I guess is
what this is? Anything else? Let's look hang on, let's
why must you do this to me? Computer? Rewind? There
we go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, computers are giving you a hard time.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well, I'm just trying it. Yeah, I'm just trying to go.
From here we go. Okay, so we got Ballerina. I
don't know what this thing is, but I'm not gonna
this is a anime. I don't care about anime. Oh.
I saw Bring Her Back. I saw Bring Her Back
as well. The horror film. Uh, this is an a
twenty four horror movie and it's very hard to watch,
(15:56):
but it was. It was really good. Sally Hawkins stars
stars in this as the antagonist.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We talked about that yet yes and yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And she's really good in this. I don't know what
made her want to do this.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Not known for our pictures. That's when you were right.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Maybe she just wanted to break out and do something
out of her element. It's very hard to watch, so
bring her Back. This is from the filipo. I think
it might be how you say it, brothers and they
they did another movie called Talk to Me from a
couple of years ago, which was and I mentioned this
last Week, which was a movie about and again another
a twenty four R film about a bunch of kids,
(16:36):
you know, teens and early twenties that find a way
they they find a basically a mummified hand that once
belonged to a person at some point, and they're able
to they have this little game that they play where
they put their hand on it and then they're using
their phones to record it. In all of this, and
they're supposed to be able to see images of dead
(16:59):
people and this and that and the other. Basically and obviously,
bad crap happens. Bad crap happens. Yeah, bad crap happens
when you when you party naked, basically is what. But anyway,
so I gave this one a shot. So in that movie, uh,
I forgot the name of already that I just said,
uh whatever, it was the original the yeah, talk talk
(17:23):
to me, Talk to me in that one. In that one, uh,
there's one there's one, maybe two scenes that are hard,
like really hard to watch from a gore and just
oh my god, how is this happening on screen? Standpoint?
In this movie, it's throughout, so it like levels up.
(17:45):
It's got nothing to do with the The first one.
It's a totally different movies, stories and whatnot. But yeah,
this is this is essentially this foster mother lost her daughter.
I don't want to give away too much, but she
lost to real her birth daughter. I believe it was
her birth daughter. She drowns. But this woman, Sally Hawkins character,
(18:08):
has found a way, suspend your disbelief, has found a
way to bring her back into the body of someone else.
All you got to do is kill the other person.
All you got to do is kill the other person.
You've got to keep. Actually, no, it's put her back
in the original body. She's got her frozen. I got
that confused. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. Who cares what
(18:30):
it's about. If you can't handle stuff that is hard
to watch and you can't handle a lot of gore,
don't watch it. But I enjoyed it. It was just
I had to turn away a couple of times. And
I'm hard to cringe when it comes to movies. But
these guys, these are they're pretty good. I believe they
must be Australian because most of the people in the
(18:51):
movie seem Australian. I don't know if she is.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think she's British, but maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, I don't know. But the kids I think are well,
one kid is Asian, but the other, the boy is
definitely you can tell the Australian accent. I believe the
Filipo brothers must be Danny and Michael must be Australian. Anyway,
that's all I got for that. What do we have
next week?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wow? Well we got Training your Dragon Yeah, number two,
don't care. That's so when I see on the Horizon.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Frankly, I never even saw the animated version of that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, obviously it did make enough.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Money that so it's not just Disney. So it's not
just Disney to do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You can, you know, queue in the family market. It's
not a Disney, but I'm sure they'll be able to
hit after they've seen Lulu and Stitch enough times to
want something new.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, So I guess it's not just Disney that's doing
this where they're saying, hey, we had an animated now
let's make more money that Disney started it, and the
other company is like, yeah, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'm not sure is this this a live action? I
thought it was just another second.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
No, it's a live actionation. No, no, no, it's a
live action. You haven't seen the trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah? Those kids are those kids are real? Either that
or AI. Yeah. Okay, hey, here's one for you. Broke
Back Mountain twentieth Anniversary on Sunday. There coming out, putting
it back out on some theater? Is that all? It
makes you feel that you like broke Anyway, we're done,
we'll wrap up there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh no, I'm blushing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay, all right, we will. We will chat next week.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'll find other stuff besides the dragon to talk about.
We'll catch you later. Have a good weekend.
Hey, Joel Malcolm for wj ando dot com and we're
talking movies with the movie guy Happerstine. He's from Palm
Beach Artspaper dot com and I've been looking forward to
this weekend. I didn't realize it was coming out so soon.
But tell me about this new John wickpit.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, don't let the title Ballerina confuse you. The big
movie this week is no dainty film about skinny women
and tutus. In fact, it is related to the John
Wick franchise, the passing the baton from Kenna Reeves, who
produces the franchise reboot to kick ass alluring Anna de
Armis as a killing machine known simply as Eve. Now
(00:40):
the movie has a rocky history, with substantial reshoots, production delays,
and a chopped, swapped out director, all of which delayed
the release over a year. Now call it a salvage job,
but it worked as long as you're like NonStop action
sequences and excessive violence that describes the John Wick series
(01:02):
fan base to a t. Now Eaves is at the
center of the movie. But make no mistake, this is
a continuation of the Wick franchise, so much so that
the actual title is now from the world of John
Wick Colin Ballerina now the plot, and there's not much
of one. The plot concerns six year old Eve seeing
(01:25):
her father killed before her eyes, leading to a revenge
vendetta that she trains brutally for a little bit of assassin,
a little bit of ballet dancer. Ballerina is directed by
Lenn Wiseman. He's best known for the Underworld series starring
Kate Beckinsale. But the badly kept secret is that Chad Stolenski,
(01:47):
who helmed the previous Whig films, took control of the
movie about a year ago and added substantial new footage.
Whoever was in charge, the result is virtual NonStop action,
a sensory overload that should please Wick hands. The character
was an opera apparently introduced in John Wick three. I'll
admit I dropped out of the franchise long before that,
(02:10):
but she's now recasts and the armis is terrific. Supporting
cast includes Angelica Houston, Gabriel Byrne as plot manipulators, and
yep Keanu shows up briefly for a little bit of
hand to hand compact with Eve. Reportedly, Ballerina two is
already in production perfectly understandable, all right, and what you're
(02:35):
salivating for.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Definitely the one I've been looking forward to for sure. Now,
I don't think I'm giving out any spoilers since it's
been what a couple of years since the last one.
I think I think it was the fourth movie usually yeah,
that John Wick dies, and so it was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Almost apparently this takes place between john Wick three and
John Wick four still with us, Yeah, and he pops
up not much, but he is the producer of the movie,
so yeah, he knows that having him is there and
putting his name in the in the title.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I just remember it was. It was funny after the
other one wrapped up, you know, it was maybe a
week or two later, they were saying, oh, there's talk
of another john Wick, and everybody's going, how is that possible?
He's dead? And so this obviously answers the question. It's
a it's not a prequel, because they're not going back
to the beginning, but it's it's it's a new.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's sort of sandwiched in there. Did they do enough,
Like I say, there's they're going to do another one,
And it's it's a very worthy handoff. And the armors.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She first of all, she's a beautiful woman, but also
seems like really badass on top of that. So I'm
definitely looking forward to, you know where where they take
this series. But uh yeah, so I'm I'm there, I'm
there seeing uh enjoy this one from the John what
is it called? From the John Wick?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
God, from the world of John Wick Ballerina, So looking
for do they do they give you a like world
of John Wick?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, Now do they give you obviously it's not real
flashbacks because they they you said, it's a different actress
that played this character early on. But do they redo
flashbacks and so that you get kind of an idea
of oh that was her?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, no, no question, there's a there's a bit of
sense of that. But you don't need you don't need
that background. You can just start writing in with this one. Okay,
if in case, you've never seen any John Wicks and
I say, I saw the first, maybe the second, and
then gave up on it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right, Now, tell me about a movie that's it
nice back, nicely. Tell me about a movie that I
will be staying away from with Deer for Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Life Understandable, terminally quirky and ravishing to look at. The
movies of Wes Anderson are both enjoyable and off putting,
usually both extremes the same time. So it is with
his latest adventure in Eccentricity, the Phoenician scheme Saga of
(05:11):
Arms Dealer and a toolds Shajah Corda, played for Allsworth
by Benicio del Toro, who survives an assassination attempt in
the film's early months and then decides to hand over
his substantial empire to his only daughter, Lizel, a novice nun.
(05:31):
That's new newcomer Mia three Appleton, another sprightly Anderson discovery.
Together they embark on a journey to Phoenicia, a fictional
nation where Jaja hopes to rebuild his empire. Getting there
involves a typical Andersonian the series of encounters with offbeat
characters played by get this such a list actors as
(05:55):
Tom Hanks, Brian Cranson, f Marie Abraham and Willem Dafoe,
many many more. These people just love to work with
Wes Anderson. I don't get it, but that's what it is.
Anderson typically over herself, is narrative with characters, and you
get the feeling that if anyone shows up on the
set of Finishing Scheme, they get a roll. It's amusing,
(06:18):
but it's also exhausting. I know I'm supposed to explain
what it's all Add's up to, but I really haven't
the foggiest notion. As always, Anderson films are enjoyable to
look at, but more and more they'll just become puzzling
to understand. It opens this week in theaters and will
probably be gone after the Anderson cult comes and goes.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, some of his earlier movies were quite terrific,
but he's really gone off the end, off the twist.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There is one movie that I can actually say I
didn't hate that he's done that I've seen. I haven't
seen all of them, honestly, but sure because some of
them just turned me off so bad. The Steve Zisu,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zisu, and there was just
something very quirky about that I did like. But we
(07:10):
saw The Royal Tannenbaums my father resked in Peace and
I went to the movies and saw that one, and
we really didn't know much about and my dad, you know,
was all in tune to the movies and all that,
but really didn't know about Wes Anderson wasn't too much
and we saw, oh my god, was did we hate
that one? And I don't know what made me watch
(07:31):
Steve Zisu. I guess I said, well, let me get about.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Never tried it, that one, never tried it?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, I understand understandable. At some point most people do.
Turn out that's the one I would recommend to people.
But after that, forget it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's just not enough to tell me, oh, look at
all these names that are in the movie. Because if
I think it's gonna suck, I don't care who's in it.
So it sucked, and it's subjective. And it's subjective because
there are people that love these movies.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't objective.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So you have an art house pick I do.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do. Let's get to let's get to myrow house.
Pic this Week is a romantic drama titled The Heart Knows.
It's about an Argentine construction company CEO, Juan Manuel, who
lives a very privileged but sterile life. Well that all
changes when he suffers a major heart attack and is
able to get an emergency transplant from an impoverished husband
(08:30):
and father who lives in the poor section of the
city known as El Progresso. Juan Manuel, played by an
appealingly understated Benjamin Vicuna, finds himself drawn to El Progresso,
taking on the spirit of a man whose heart he
now carries. He hides his wealth, and pats is pitched
(08:51):
in to help build a stalled medical center in this
Progresso area, even though his company is trying to evict
the Progresso commit unity and take over the land. It's
it's all a bit, you know, improbable, let's say, but compelling.
One is also drawn to the widow of the man
who's herd, who he ticks within him, and a bold,
(09:14):
vibrant woman named Valeria. But Julieta Diaz, who learns of
One's identity, is angry at him, but she cannot stop
from falling in love with him too. The Netflix, the
Spanish language movie on Netflix is actually duged into English,
not very well, and that's it's not prevented from working
(09:36):
a simple effective charms.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The heart knows, yeah, and I know what I won't
be seeing besides Phoenician scheme.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, so you're gonna see Valerin a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Now I got others. So I want to talk about
some some movies and a bone and a bone to
pick with you, mister movie guide. So I went to
see Karate Kid Legends by the way, loved it, and
I told my daughter Ashley, my my older daughter, you
might actually like this one because partly because they play
(10:11):
on you know, they pay pretty good homage, homage if
you will to homage however you want to say it.
They uh to mister Miagi. They you know, I feel
you can feel it through the.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Movie that they actually dredge him up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, well they judge him up, but you can just
feel it was made with love to Pat Marita and
the you know, and the character that he played in
this movie. Maybe not maybe not so much Arnold from
Happy Days, but definitely from the Karate Kid anyway, uh
for the Happy Days fans out there. But anyway, I
but I have bone to pick with you because I
(10:49):
asked you a question. I said, is Billy Zapka in it?
William Zapka. Billy Zapka. He was a blonde kid. He
played Johnny in the very first Karate Kid. He was
the bad kid you know and all that sweep the
leg Johnny, he sweeped the leg, you know or no whatever.
And then at the end of that movie, of course, uh,
what is it the crane or whatever it is that LaRusso,
(11:11):
Danny LaRusso is able to do to him, beats him
and he brings you know, he brings over the trophy
to LaRusso and he gives it to him, and it's
you know, you could see he's kind of changed. And
from what I understand, I've never seen Cobra Kai, but
from what I understand, they're both in Cobra Kai and
they basically run Miyagi's old dojo, is what the deal is.
(11:37):
So at the end credits, right before the credits roll,
and it says Karate Kid Legends at the end of
the movie, and right before the credits roll, they have
a an added you know, a scene there a credits
scene and there's Billy Zapka as Johnny with with Daniel
Daniel LaRusso.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All beating me with a wet nodles.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, and they're in there. Anyway, that's a spoiler for
somebody who hasn't seen the movie yet, but I wanted to,
you know, it's more important that I tell you you
were wrong than you know they're worrying about ruining somebody's
somebody's day, Okay, all right. I also I wanted to
get my daughter out of it, so she didn't see
that one. But on Sunday, I wanted to get my
(12:20):
daughter out of the house and to cheer her up
for something. I'm not going to get into it, but
uh and and really the only thing she didn't want
to see Karate Kid at the time, or maybe I
saw Karate Kid Sunday whatever, and this was Saturday. I
can't recall. I'm old, I can't remember. Regardless, we ended
(12:42):
up seeing Lee Low and Stitch, and I have to
tell you I have another bone to pick with you.
I enjoyed that movie. Now, I never saw the original.
The original, I don't remember it, my daughter says. My
daughter says, I son.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A remake, live remake of an animated movie that improved
upon it.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm sorry, maybe it didn't improve upon it, but it
was an entertaining movie, and I thought it was good.
It got me in the fields a little bit too,
just a little bit with fortune too.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Maybe because I have two daughters and they're you know,
I mean they're twenty years apart, and these two aren't
that quite that far apart, but you know, more than
what thirteen or fourteen years apart, So maybe that's what.
But it got me in the fields a little bit.
It got me a little emotional at times, so that
whole storyline with the with the daughters. So I don't know,
I I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You're in the majority, clearly.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Take Mission imp it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, I'm not comparing it to it, you know in
any other movie. I'm just when they open.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, but but you had you had to know it
was going to make more money putting it out on
three D screens. They're putting it you know, you got
it's a kid's movie, so you're gonna have kids going anyway. Whatever.
So I did see that. I did enjoy. Uh, I
did enjoy that one. Now coming out besides the ones
you went over, there's a movie called Dangerous Animals. Uh.
(13:59):
It looks very very strange. But the guy that's in
it I think is Jai Courtney. I think is how
you say his first name. He's I believe in Australian dude.
And I recognized him as one of the characters from
the original Suicide Squad movie, not the one that was
r rated later, but the original one with Will Smith
and all of them. And he was I forget the
(14:21):
character's name, but he's the one with the he's the
Australian with the what do you call the thing that
you have? The boomerang and all that. Anyway, he's he's
a really bad guy in this and I guess he
ends up getting these women on his boat and he
ends up feeding them to sharks. That's what it looks like.
I'm not I'll read you the synopsis. Trapped on a
(14:43):
killer's boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must
outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself. Will
she escape or become the next offering to the deep?
Sean Byrn returns with his third visceral feature. Sean Byrn
is the director. I have never heard of Sean Byrne.
Let's look and see what Elsie's. He's probably never heard
(15:05):
of you The Devil's The Devil's Candy in twenty fifteen
and The Loved Ones in two thousand and nine. Do
they ring a bell?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
All right? Lower budget, lower budget fair. I guess is
what this is? Anything else? Let's look hang on, let's
why must you do this to me? Computer? Rewind? There
we go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, computers are giving you a hard time.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well, I'm just trying it. Yeah, I'm just trying to go.
From here we go. Okay, so we got Ballerina. I
don't know what this thing is, but I'm not gonna
this is a anime. I don't care about anime. Oh.
I saw Bring Her Back. I saw Bring Her Back
as well. The horror film. Uh, this is an a
twenty four horror movie and it's very hard to watch,
(15:56):
but it was. It was really good. Sally Hawkins stars
stars in this as the antagonist.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We talked about that yet yes and yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And she's really good in this. I don't know what
made her want to do this.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Not known for our pictures. That's when you were right.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Maybe she just wanted to break out and do something
out of her element. It's very hard to watch, so
bring her Back. This is from the filipo. I think
it might be how you say it, brothers and they
they did another movie called Talk to Me from a
couple of years ago, which was and I mentioned this
last Week, which was a movie about and again another
a twenty four R film about a bunch of kids,
(16:36):
you know, teens and early twenties that find a way
they they find a basically a mummified hand that once
belonged to a person at some point, and they're able
to they have this little game that they play where
they put their hand on it and then they're using
their phones to record it. In all of this, and
they're supposed to be able to see images of dead
(16:59):
people and this and that and the other. Basically and obviously,
bad crap happens. Bad crap happens. Yeah, bad crap happens
when you when you party naked, basically is what. But anyway,
so I gave this one a shot. So in that movie, uh,
I forgot the name of already that I just said,
uh whatever, it was the original the yeah, talk talk
(17:23):
to me, Talk to me in that one. In that one, uh,
there's one there's one, maybe two scenes that are hard,
like really hard to watch from a gore and just
oh my god, how is this happening on screen? Standpoint?
In this movie, it's throughout, so it like levels up.
(17:45):
It's got nothing to do with the The first one.
It's a totally different movies, stories and whatnot. But yeah,
this is this is essentially this foster mother lost her daughter.
I don't want to give away too much, but she
lost to real her birth daughter. I believe it was
her birth daughter. She drowns. But this woman, Sally Hawkins character,
(18:08):
has found a way, suspend your disbelief, has found a
way to bring her back into the body of someone else.
All you got to do is kill the other person.
All you got to do is kill the other person.
You've got to keep. Actually, no, it's put her back
in the original body. She's got her frozen. I got
that confused. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. Who cares what
(18:30):
it's about. If you can't handle stuff that is hard
to watch and you can't handle a lot of gore,
don't watch it. But I enjoyed it. It was just
I had to turn away a couple of times. And
I'm hard to cringe when it comes to movies. But
these guys, these are they're pretty good. I believe they
must be Australian because most of the people in the
(18:51):
movie seem Australian. I don't know if she is.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think she's British, but maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, I don't know. But the kids I think are well,
one kid is Asian, but the other, the boy is
definitely you can tell the Australian accent. I believe the
Filipo brothers must be Danny and Michael must be Australian. Anyway,
that's all I got for that. What do we have
next week?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wow? Well we got Training your Dragon Yeah, number two,
don't care. That's so when I see on the Horizon.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Frankly, I never even saw the animated version of that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, obviously it did make enough.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Money that so it's not just Disney. So it's not
just Disney to do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You can, you know, queue in the family market. It's
not a Disney, but I'm sure they'll be able to
hit after they've seen Lulu and Stitch enough times to
want something new.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, So I guess it's not just Disney that's doing
this where they're saying, hey, we had an animated now
let's make more money that Disney started it, and the
other company is like, yeah, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'm not sure is this this a live action? I
thought it was just another second.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
No, it's a live actionation. No, no, no, it's a
live action. You haven't seen the trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah? Those kids are those kids are real? Either that
or AI. Yeah. Okay, hey, here's one for you. Broke
Back Mountain twentieth Anniversary on Sunday. There coming out, putting
it back out on some theater? Is that all? It
makes you feel that you like broke Anyway, we're done,
we'll wrap up there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh no, I'm blushing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay, all right, we will. We will chat next week.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'll find other stuff besides the dragon to talk about.
We'll catch you later. Have a good weekend.
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