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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm for WJ and O dot com. And
we do have the movie guy with us from pombechartspaper
dot com. His name, of course, hap Erstine and uh halp.
I gotta tell you after we're after we get all
of your movies, uh hear about them? I want to
tell you about my four movie weekend WOA marathon or
(00:21):
Another Way or a subtitled Joel has absolutely no life
And if there was ever any doubt to it, now
there isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So four movies, how many buckets of popcorn?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Uh two? Because I went I actually only ate the
one bucket for all three movies on Saturday. I never
refilled it. I never refilled it, which I was pretty
proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And then you went back for a fourth movie and
got another bucket.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And then on Sunday I took my daughter to the
fourth one and we and we shared a bucket.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
By the way, By the way, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That cheap and stands making some money off you, because
I know they're not getting on the ticket price.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
By the way, yeah, with the unlimited but by the way,
you know they do the free refills on the bucket
at real I'm that cheap guy that fills up the
bucket before he leaves and then pours it into ziplock
gallon bags. And I don't know, They've never said anything,
but I go out the side door just in case
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they do. But but now you know, and then I
have a snack all week. So I'm sitting watching it.
And it holds as long as you put him in
those zip bags. It holds, so I can if I
can help anybody save some money. They charge enough for
those things, So.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Martin knows, all right, what do you got for us?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Fans of Creed and Black Panther were full of anticipation
with the news that director Ryan Coogler and his go
to star Michael B. Jordan had teamed up again for
a kind of multi genre action and drama packed period
thriller called simply and provocatively Sinners. Jordan plays twin brothers
named smoke Stack, veterans of World War One and of
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the Roaring twenties Chicago. Now successful and wealthy, they return
to their Mississippi Delta hometown of Clarksdale with a truckload
of liquor, intent on opening a juke joint. Now aware
that they will encounter pushback from the Ku Klux Klan
that they're ready for What they did not figure on, however,
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was an onslaught of wait for it, vampires. Now if
you're looking for it. The vampires can be seen as
kind of a metaphor for racism. If not, there just
be thirsty bloodsuckers. Either way, it makes her powerful entertainment.
In addition to the Jordan Twins, stand outs in the
sizeable cast including a guy named Mike Cayton as a
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victimized sharecropper and Hailey Steinfeld never heard from Truegrid. Hailey
Steinfeld as the former lover of Stacks Senators, refers to
several of the characters. There are a lot of sinners
in this in this movie. And but it's a seamy
tail of the Bikene South. I think it'll drab you.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So Haley's a she's on the good side or the
bad side or we don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
A little the beach.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I don't want to go too much, Okay, it's it's
definitely a well dimensional character.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
She's been getting Yeah, she is, she is, but she's
she's done some other work and you know, as a
grown up. But uh, and she sings you know, she's
had some some pop songs out there. I couldn't name
you one.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I didn't really that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, yeah, I couldn't name you one. But I know
she's done a few of those. But she she is
engaged to Josh Allen, one Buffalo Bill's quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So my goodness, Well you've been going to the beauty
parlor and.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Miami Dolphins fans, so I have to I have to hear,
you know, from from all the Bills fans because they're
in our division, a FC, so I have to hear
all about you know, Josh Allen and how great he
is a quarterback and oh is you know, well, you
know what the thing is you hear during the season
about Taylor Swift showing up at the Chiefs game, and
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but you say, you know, you don't you don't see
that with Haley, not that she's you know, she's obviously
not as big a name as Taylor Swift, and I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Until she attends the games, I.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Don't she not really, they don't like show her because
she's not I guess because she's not as obviously she's
not as big a name. But I don't know. That's
the thing I don't know whether she's there. I think
I've seen her. Maybe they've showed it once or twice.
But I mean, I don't watch all the Bills games anyway,
but the Chiefs games are always, you know, they're always
right there for you to see on prime time. So yeah,
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because they you know, won so many Super Bowls. But anyway, No,
So she's been making the rounds that she's been making
the rounds she was. She's on my Facebook, keeps showing
me an ad for the movie. And she's there in
London at the premiere.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Interesting, somebody said, definitely got yourself and I his career.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Absolutely, I might ask you this. Somebody asked a question
that so she's on a video, quick short video going hey,
this is Haley and we're at the premiere in London,
having a great time and you should see sinners, blah
blah blah. And somebody said, isn't that Kate Bishop. Who
is Kate Bishop? Why does that name sound familiar?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you have any Bishop?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah? And I had to go, No, that's Hailey Steinfeld.
She's the Buffalo Bill's quarterbacks fiance.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And you're saying she's a dead ringer for Kate Bishop.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I don't know who Kate Bishop is.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Neither do I.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Somebody else said Kate, it must be somebody somebody knows,
all right, whatever, not.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That research, So Sinners. When I do my art house pick,
you got time to look her up.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So Sinner's Good Sinners is okay?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I did enjoy it because it's not your type with vampires.
That kind of makes it on the horror.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So it moves in.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That direction certainly, and there is some there is some gore,
but Michael B. Jordan is such a compelling little actor
that I think is what we're saying.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And this is Kugler's and I saw this somewhere. This
is Kugler as the writer. I know he's the director too,
but as a writer, I believe I saw this is
his first all original story, because he did the Creed movie,
which was you know, based off of the Iraqi movies,
and then and then the Black Panthers based off of
the comics. Yeah, so this was his first, you know,
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all original, so it'd be interesting, interesting, And they've been
working together forever, these two, because he directed Michael B.
Jordan in Fruitvale Station back in Like God. I want
to say it was twenty eleven or twenty twelve. So anyway, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, now the better thing going well hey wait.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wait, waitit Now, when you say a thing, what else
you got?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Go ahead? We begin as directors of low budget independent films,
then graduate to make a mega major Marvel Universe movie,
like Anna bo and Ryan Fleck did with twenty nineteen's
Captain Marvel. You rarely go back to your indie roots.
But that's exactly what this directing dua has done with
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Freaky Tales. It's a four part free fisky anthology flick
that is both off beat and action packed. Now, all
four stories are set in nineteen eighty seven Oakland. That's
apparently where Fleck grew up. Now, it probably helps if
you're familiar with the area, but like all good screenplays,
Freaky Tales is both specific and universal. Now the stories
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range from a saga of street punks defending their turf
to one about a basketball all star seeking vengeance. Inevitably,
not all four stories are equally effective. I particularly like
the second tale, about a couple of female rappers that's
Dominique Thorne and Normani. Going ahead to add in a
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musical battle, but there's really not a clunker in the bunch.
Each of the tale could easily be expanded to a
full length film, and if Freaky Tails catches on, I
think that's exactly what will happen with him.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So sies Pedro Pascal shows up in one of these.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yes, indeed there's a bunch of nice people in this
is good swell cast. But they just go by like
a sono a gun for movies and about ninety minutes
or so.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh, I guess there's a Uh, there's a cameo in
one of them that I'm not allowed to spill. Huh.
As I look at the now it's not a drastic surprise,
Tom Hank's video store owner. He plays Hank. Go figure. Interesting,
this is not playing anywhere when I pull it up,
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so maybe we have to wait, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Maybe now they get it it opened.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Maybe I'm not your where, but I think I think
it's available out. It says release date was April fourth,
So for some reason, I'm not seeing it by me,
but you know, look for it. Freaky Tales, Okay, actually
sound it interesting. Here's the synopsis from Fandango. You gave
us a lot more information than this. Four interconnected stories
set in nineteen eighty seven Oakland, California, will tell about
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the love of music, movies, people, places, and memories beyond
our noable universe.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Okay, yah, I don't die. I don't disagree with that,
but that doesn't really tell us much.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, let's sit his action adventure comedy all right.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Anyway, Yeah, it's got a bit of a bit of
all that niche of the stories you have an art
house pick, Well, my art house pick this week is
called Sacramento, and it's essentially a road trip movie, but
it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
A few cuts above the usual.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Stars Michael Sarah and as a much married guy about
to have his first child, which means he'll be forced
to leave irresponsible behind and grow up. But before he does,
he reconnects with a childhood friend played by the director
and co writer Michael Angarano. Now they meet for lunch
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at which Ricky that's the Angaroo character persuades Glenn that's Sarah,
pretty much as we've always seen him. Frankly, they persuades
him to hit the road and travel from La to
the title city, Sacramento. Along the way, they catch up
with about their lives and their mutual apprehensions about growing up.
The dialogue is really well written and delivered and it's
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easy to relate to. And Sacramento is a really largely
male centric movie, but the guy's partners make a definite
impression too. Kristin Stewart is the first rate is Sarah's
pregnant wife, and Maya Erskin, She's wife, kills every scene
that she's in as a long time but unwed significant other.
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Sacramento is is geared to millennials, but I think it's
worth watching for viewers of all ages. Zackamento. Nice, nice
small independent movie.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right, some honorable mentions. One movie that is playing
by me is Sneaks Sneaks. This is Yah, yes, short
for Sneakers, essentially Sneaks. It's animated PG PG, and it's
it's essentially Sneakers with personalities and voices. So I'll read you.
(11:35):
I'll read you the synopsis, but then i'll read you
you know some of the cast members, uh, and you'll
be surprised. Maybe Sneaks follows Yeah follows the adventures of Tie,
a misguided designer sneaker who doesn't know life outside the
comforts of his velvet lined shoe box. After his sister
is stolen by a shady collector, Tie must venture into
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New York City to find and rescuer. In his adventure,
Time meets a ragtag group of footwear friends from all
walks of life who help him find the courage to
step outside of his shoe box and find his soul
mate sol E.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Fun fun.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So here's the good part. Anthony Mackie is Tye Nice,
Lawrence Fishburne, Martin Lawrence, Martin Lawrence, and Keith David. Remember
Keith David.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, this is quite a guest.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
My favorite line from Keith David in any movie. And
I know he's been in so many good ones. But
there was a movie and it wasn't It wasn't a
necessarily good one, but there was the the a Superhero
Movie if you remember. It was a parody of the
superhero movies. Anyway, Yeah, I remember it. But Keith David
was in this as like the Police Chief and there's
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it's called a superhero movie. It was a it was
a parody movie about Yeah, that was the name of it,
I think, or the Superhero Movie maybe. But Keith David
is is like I think he was like the police chief,
or he's somebody and he he goes, what the she
plays a villain he does, or or a cop. He
was a cop in Crash if you remember, he was
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like a captain in the movie Crash with okay, okay, yeah,
but he his line, somebody says something, you know, they're
talking about the crime, and he says, what this city
needs more police and a Hooters. It's my favorite. There's
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a pause in there, but I didn't want you know there,
So it's essentially it's and it's that pause that pays
it off. What this city needs is more police and Hooters.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He realized that somehow other Hooters is going bankrupt.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah yeah, but several of them around the state at
least are staying in business. I can tell you that
we lost him in this area anyway, years ago because
they had the one on Palmbach Lakes and it's been
gone for a while. Well let's just say that most
people never went in for the for the wings specifically.
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All right, here we go. Let's see what else. The banquet,
the wedding. Okay, this is an Asian film. It looks like,
uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, that's it must be a remake. It wasn't an
Asian film called The Wedding Banquet many years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, this is a new one because it's got Bowen
Yang from Saturday mo Night Live. Uh, okay, most of
them looking Asian, but we have a native American in there.
Lily Gladstone shows up in this.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Wow, I'm Gladstone. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Some other names I don't know, but Kelly, Marie Tran,
Joan Chen. That name sounds familiar.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Joan Chen is a classic joy luck club.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yes, okay, all right, I knew the name, but I'll
read you that. It's called The Wedding Banquet. It's a
joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural
identity queerness. So there you go. Have that's you know,
you'd want to see it. I'm not saying you're but
you know, anytime that kind of stuff, anytime that stuff's
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in the movies, you know, and family expectations. Frustrated with
his commitment, phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time,
men makes a proposal a green card marriage with their friend.
Oh I'm sure there's some anti Trump in this, uh,
with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's
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expensive IVF Oh my god, can I just stop reading
this now? A little bent plans are upended, however, when
Men's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet,
and yeah, they call it a poignant I.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Think you look into this is the remake.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, a poignant and heartful, heartfelt reminder that being part
of a fan family means learning to both accept and forgive.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's nice. Okay, that's from a homework card.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Probably. Yeah, that's all that's new pretty much. No, No,
there's something else, but I don't I don't know what
the hell it is.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So oh it looks pretty spars for next week too?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh does it all right?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I want to tell you about the four movies I saw,
and I'll try to make it quick.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh yeah, okay, go for it, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So I have to remember again because I saw three
movies on Saturday, So let me do that first, all right.
So I saw a working Man, I saw the Amateur,
and I saw the Woman in the yard. And I'm
not going to go into what they're all about. You've
covered a couple of them already. You the only when
you didn't cover with a woman in the yard. You
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covered A working man and the amateur amateur, good movies,
both of them.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
A working man, it's particularly the amateur, it seems to me.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I was just gonna say A working Man is
more of the same if you But I enjoyed it.
I thought it had some heart to it. I thought
it had a little more heart than the last one.
What was it? The same director, same people, except for
sliced the loan slipped in there as a writer co writer.
The one he the one he did previous, uh, the bees,
the bee keepers thing, the bee Keeper. To me, this
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one had a little more uh in there because he
has a daughter of his own and then he's trying
to rescue the daughter, the nineteen year old daughter of
the Uh. And I like Michael Pena ever since the
talk about the movie Crash, talk about the movie Crash,
ever since I saw that movie. That was the first
thing I think I ever remember seeing him.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
In for most of Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, it is so many people in that Yeah. Anyway,
So Workingman was good. It was action packed. And if
it's if you like the stuff that Ja or another
Jason State of movie, right, that's what you know. That's
what he that's what he does. I saw the woman
in the yard and this is a this is a movie.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't know this one.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Essentially, it's it's like a black horror film, is how
it's built. It's you know, this is a black family,
mom and her two kids, a teenager and then a
very young daughter and a teenage boy and a young daughter.
And the husband is dead and a car crash, and
there's a woman cloaked in black, covered like with a
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veil over her head so you can't even see her,
and she's sitting in a chair in their yard. And
as the movie goes on, she gets closer and they're
trying to deal, you know, figure out how to they
can't call the cops because the mom's phone is dead. Yeah, okay, anyway,
and uh, are you.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Very particular about your horror films that it live up
to your love?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Not really, it's not even really horror. They're building it
as that, they're making it seem like that. It's it
was okay, it wasn't horrible. Let me that's my that's
my synopsis on it. It wasn't horrible.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Uh, won't get your quoted on the.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Ad The amateur horrible. The Amateur was a much better movie. Uh.
The only my only knit to pick with The Amateur
is that it could have moved faster for me, But
that's probably a me thing. I just felt like it
dragged a little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It's kind of a basic plot, but Robbie Marlott really
takes it to a different level. His character is so interesting,
and boy does he know how to blow stuff up.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it's it is. It's it's basically death wish. But
for nerds that's right, right, you know, like nerds it's
death wish. Yeah, I mean that's right. I mean, that's
that's what I was thinking. So then I went on Sunday.
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So that was my Saturday?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Gotcha?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I told And I went back again. I told a
friend of mine, well, what did you do on your Saturday?
At Fred, I said, I saw three movies? Three movies.
What I just want to make it known, I have
the unlimited so I did not sneak into any of these.
All right, okay, Sunday Drop I saw with my my dad,
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my older daughter Ashley.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And probably your favorite of all four.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We really liked it. Yeah, I would say it, you
know what I would. The Amateur was good. Uh, the
the state of the movie was good, was entertaining. More
of the same, but I really enjoyed it. But Drop
was just different. Drop is different than a lot of
than a lot of movies. I call it a suspense
like a suspense thriller. I don't know how they're but
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I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I liked it as well, with a caveat that you
shouldn't look too closely at some of these plot points, yeah,
or it'll break down. But it's it's an enjoyable movie
as it goes along. I hope you had a bugget
of popcorn with you.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You It does keep you guessing as to you know,
who's doing this, who's sending these drops.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And who's who's the one in the lounge shoes after her.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
If you're looking for a bunch of action, this is
not the film. Happy You were right, I thought in
the trailer it makes it look like there's action in
this and most of the movie does take place in
that fancy schmancy restaurant up on top of a skyscraper,
So just be prepared, or at least high up, be
prepared for that. But it's it's entertaining, It was suspenseful, and.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
You didn't know who done it. You were surprised when
they did the reveal.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, my daughter about twenty minutes prior to it
busts out with what if it's this person? And I
hadn't thought about it, And it was about fifteen that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
She has a future it's a movie critic.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
She well, she, you know, I mean, you see enough movies. Yeah,
but still so, Megan.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Fay, he was a nice misdirection.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Megan Fay. He is good in this. She plays the
leading role here. And I looked her up afterwards because
my daughter said, you know, she looked familiar for some reason.
And I don't think she saw this other movie, but
I but Unbreakable Boy was a movie that came out
earlier this year. I believe. I saw it with my
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twelve year old and we liked it. We enjoyed it.
It was a Zachary Levy movie, and it's it's a
boy that has autism. I have a son with autism,
so it was a boy with autism. He's on the
spectrum because he can, you know, talk or whatever, but
he's very he breaks his bones very easily, and so
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that's and he's telling the story of his parents meeting
and this and that and the other, and she plays
the mother and so that's you know.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
She's also in White Lotus, which is it? Yeah, that
I'm really crazy about. Just recently binged on it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Very popular, very popular.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I think she's got a future.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, I really liked. I really liked the guy. Was
was it Henry the guy that played the date? I
thought he was really good. I've never I don't remember them.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Before, but yes, he was a perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Spoil you know, you got of why is he so
being so patient? You wonder? But well we can say
no more. It should come most you should come as
surprise to you just to watch the movie.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Am I a geek? Because I thought that this was
kind of funny that Megan Fayhee is the star. She's
playing a character named Violet, and her sister's character's name
is Jen, but the girl playing her the woman, her
name is Violet in real life? Is that just kind
of geeky?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yes, you're a geek?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yes, absolutely, Okay, Anyway.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
They changed the name midway. When did you realize who
was playing they have a character?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Find it? I just found it kind of funny, or
they cast the.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Other character because there was already a woman there.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh, one more, one more tidbit for you. Christopher Landon
is the director of this. He also he comes from
Happy Death Day and a couple of other those. I
think there was a movie called Freaky that was along
those same lines and he was he was around for
that behind the scenes director or and or writer. But
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he is the son of Michael Landon that Michael and yes,
House only went on to.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Do some some directing before.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
He passed away.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, so there you go. Just thought i'd passed that on.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
All right, Nothing next in interesting in kidbit.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Thank you, You're welcome. Nothing next week, huh.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Pretty much not. I mean, I'll find something for you.
But it's not going to be at a three movie
weekend for you, I assure you. No.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, I had to catch up, so that's the only
reason I did that. I hadn't done the three movies
in one day in years, but I was like, you
know what, let me catch up. So I had movies
that I want. And now I'm kind of sad that
I did that because I'm looking, I'm like, okay, Sinners
is there.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Now you're stuck for this week, right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm like, Sinners is really the only thing. Maybe I'll
get to the gym for a fear.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Now that's not gonna happen. Unlikely.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
All right, well Sinners it is.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Check out Sinners absolutely definitely.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
All right, Well, chat next week about.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All right, we'll come up with something next week. Happy
to see you man,