May 2, 2025 • 19 mins
Hap Erstein Reviews:
"Thunderbolts"
"The Surfer"
"Greek Mothers Never Die"
Honorable Mention:
"Rosario"
"Thunderbolts"
"The Surfer"
"Greek Mothers Never Die"
Honorable Mention:
"Rosario"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm for w J and O dot com,
and we have a special treat in speaking movies today
with the movie guy Hapberstita pompeechartspaper dot com. Not only
do we have him, we have him from the streets
of I'm guessing Manhattan. It's either that or you were
standing in the Bronx somewhere.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No, it's Manhattan, baby, Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I did not know you were going. Was this like
a last minute trip?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No, No, I just don't tell you everything about my
my whereabouts.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My oh a gendi, Yeah, I guess my stalking ways
have come up. All right? Uh, what are you doing
in New York? You're gonna You're gonna see some shows.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm going to the theater saying six shows and seven days?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yes, can you share some of them with us? At sunset? Sunset?
Something is a big one right now? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No? No, No, The big thing is Audrey McDonald in Gypsy.
I'm one of the best performances I've ever seen in
my life. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What else are you planning to see that you haven't yet?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm gonna see Boop you know about that?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah? They've yeah, yep, yep, they've Yeah, go ahead. What else?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
One based on a movie? Real women have curves? Remember
the TV shows smash Master was a thing about the
making of a musical about Marilyn Monroe and buying the role,
and uh, and actually seeing a play, a play called
Purpose about a black dysfunctional family.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What was it that I saw that I was telling you?
And I don't know. I think you you saw the
Michael Jackson one, or you just have no interest in it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm going to see it when it comes to Cravis,
this this next, okay, all right, I've never seen it. No.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And then of course I saw the very old the
one that I'm probably the last one to have seen
it for the first time from the South Park Guys,
Book of More, Book of Mormon. Yeah, did you remember
my tip? Did you remember my tip about about if
you're going to the tickets place.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There in times back, you don't have to pay.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, you good? No, you bring your bring your stub
or your tickets from the previous show. And if it's
within a certain you know, like a quick amount of time, Uh,
they will, they'll let you avoid the line. If you're
there at a time where there's a long line. Oh no,
I told you that, I told you that you just forgot.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Is that just what the Book of Mormon does? Or
everybody does?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, no, no, that's any it does. They don't ask you what
you're buying if you show them a receipt. Some people
there in New York told us this, and we tried
it and it worked. We had seen the first show,
and then we went a couple of days later, and
we brought our stubs or tickets. I think, hold on
to the stub just in case. And you know, they
could see that you were just there within the last
(02:44):
couple of days. And you can and they'll let you.
They'll put you on. There's a shorter line there. There's
a second line that you can avoid. Yeah, the long one.
All right, try it out.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't stand it in mind anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, try it out. If it doesn't work, I'm sure
I'll be hearing about it. But it should work. It
works for It worked for us, so you know it
should work well that it should work for anyone. It
should it should.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right, make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's it. Well here in a couple of weeks, when
when we speak to you again, I look forward to
getting uh getting hearing about some of these shows, so
that would be okay. Meanwhile, what do you got at
the movies right now?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So so bound to dominate the box office this weekend
is Thunderbolts. It's the latest from the Marvel cinematic universe,
and I think the best from that that comic world
in quite a long time. In part that's because of
the increased humor level, and in part because it does
a better job of filling us in on the many
characters and their backgrounds. Now it helps us here up
(03:44):
on the cumulative Marvel world, but it feels less necessary
for this movie. At the center is uh Bolts is
Yolena Thelova, sister of a late black widow, played by
Florence Pume. Florence Pugh. We first saw her as an
Oscar nominated role in Little Women, and now she's an
(04:05):
action hero, go know. Then there's John Walker, former Captain America,
played by Wyatt Russell. There's Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier,
that's Sebastian Stan who's now a congressman no less, and
mysterious young guy known only as Bob. Anyway, the Thunderbolts
(04:26):
are tasked by former Cia director Julia Louis Dreyfus. Interesting casting,
and she's usually good and fitting into the universe. She
wants them to be her pupils, perhaps for world security
and perhaps for her own service selfish reasons. Saw us
in some nice action sequences thanks to director Jake Shearer,
(04:49):
and you have the start of I think a very
promising new franchise. It opens in theaters only this weekend,
and I think it will prove very very popular. Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I wonder if I think I remember hearing or maybe
it was just my speculation. This wasn't going to do
great like it'll obviously, you know, rule the weekend of
the box.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That much competition, but I think it would do well
either way. I think it's a real bounce back to Marvel.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Interesting. Interesting. I remember Florence Pew in the also Oppenheimer, right,
I remember I remember them? Well, yes, yes, you're not
picking up on my joke, all right, I remember them?
All right? So Thunderbolts. Yeah, this one's on my radar,
I think I might. Now does this you talk about
(05:35):
the sister of Black Widow? Does this take place after
Black Widow's death?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, all right, and then her dad, the character that's
supposed to be her father, is in this as well,
so I forget his.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I mean it's a specific time and currently.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, so it might. I wonder if there's any setup
between this and setting up the next Avengers movie that
they're making.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh indeed, yeah, don't thrush out of the theater with
a couple of good post credit scenes that definitely talk
about the future.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right, Yeah, that's gonna be I forget Doomsday. There's
a dooms Day where Robert Downey Junior's coming back is
Doctor Doom, which is interesting because he was you know,
iron Man. But you know, here's the thing. I have
some friends that are big comic fans, and apparently there
was a Doctor Doom who either had a resemblance or
(06:29):
there was a tie between him and Iron Man. So
I think that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I don't know, interesting, So they asked them with the
same guys.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's something I heard. I don't remember the exact you know. Look, man,
I have a life, well not much of one, but
you know, I'm busy. All right, what else you got, Well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Pretty sure Nicholas Cage chooses and Storm rolls for the
potential for him to play mad scenes. Certainly that's what
happened in The Surfer, a loopy Australian drama. Taylor to
Cage is anything he goes, did he really just do that? Style?
He plays an unnamed father returning to the Aussie terrain
(07:07):
where he grew up to show his son and to
get in some surfing, but they encounter a bullying gang
called the Bay Boys, who hassled Cage and threatened him
with violence to his dismay, particularly in front of his son.
Cage whims out and backs away. Of course, though there's
a second act when Cage goes more than a little
(07:28):
crazy and seeks his revenge. As I say, the Surfer
plays the Cage's strength as a wacko actor. But there's
actually something of consequence here as we gradually learn of
the history of Cage and his character's father. Now all
that should be discovered by the viewer. I'm not going
to tell you more about that, but I'll just say
that it almost justifies the rest of the of the
(07:52):
movie's nuttiness. The operative word there is almost the Cage
fans the surfers I must see for everyone else go
but don't say it in morning in advance.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You're not a Cage fan.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm not. He's made some really good films, but he's
still erratic and some of his choices are just mystifying
to me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yes, he's he's an Oscar winner.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It is true. That's true. They can't take it away
from him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Apparently apparently he was drunk the whole time he made
that movie. But he was an Oscar winner.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, that was part of the character, I.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Know, but usually it's called acting.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right, Well, don't rely on your acting sticky, all right,
you have.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The surfer, Okay, definitely. I've seen the Facebook keep showing
me that, so I think they know that I am
a Nicholas Cage fan. So I see, I'll be looking.
I'll be looking for it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Then you'll see it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Probably will not see your art house pick because I
pretty much never do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, there you go, all right, I speak time. Remember
the phenomenon of my big fat Greek wedding? Oh yeah, well,
move over nearvar Dallas because there's a new filmmaker of
Greek rom coms. She's Rachel Sweeza, who wrote, directed, and
stars as the mother in a movie called Greek mothers
never die. It's a comic look and an overbearing mother
(09:13):
who tries to control her daughter's love life even from
beyond the grave. You see, Ella, played by a very appealing,
not necessarily classically beautiful Abby Minor, is a lovelaurng twenty
seven year old when her mother unexpectedly passes away. But
that doesn't mean that mom is out of the picture,
for she returns as a ghost to keep haunting her
(09:35):
daughter's social life. She actually has one, you see, because
the boy she got her first kiss from when she
was ten. He was a chubby, nerdy kid who grew
up to be not only a dream boat but also
a doctor. Oh boy, a doctor, and probably he saw
us residual affection for Ella, and they might have been
(09:57):
happily ever after in the future, weren't for were the
meddling of mom. Greek mothers never die as lightweight farwell,
grant you, but it's entertaining enough, and Suisa the mom
is a real find. I don't expect it to have
the staying tower of my big factory wedding, but I
would just keep going and going going, But it amused
for the moment. It's in Area theaters Greek mothers never die, Okay,
(10:23):
doesn't draw you, huh.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know, I did see the first my big fact
Greek wedding, but I didn't have any and it was okay,
but I didn't have an interest. You have pretty funny even,
but I did not have an interest in the sequel
when it came out, what maybe a year or so ago,
maybe two years something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, you made a couple of years after the first one.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Moment, maybe it was the third one. Then they just
had one recently, right, right, So maybe I did. I
missed the second and the third.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You know, I blew it all with that first movie,
which was just incredibly successful and now doesn't have much
to do clip coupons.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I completely forgot that there was a second one. So yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Why they called the third one three.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, I didn't remember that. Come on, man, all right,
there's a there's a movie. There's a movie either there's
another movie out, there's a new horror film of the week.
Because last week we got Until Dawn, which by the way,
I haven't seen any I haven't seen any movies. Last
week I didn't get to see I was with my
twelve year old and we did Disney on Saturday, and
(11:27):
I said, well, there's really nothing for you to see
if you don't want to see minecraft, And eventually the
first thing she said, no, I don't want to see it,
and then eventually she's like, well, if there's nothing else
to see, but I said, no, you know what, you
don't want to see it. I don't need to be
spending the money on it, so we're not gonna you know,
I hate to be mean, but you know, it turns
out the whole thing that turned her off to that
(11:48):
movie was one as soon as it came out, although
before it came out she even didn't want to see it.
She even told me that I think, but I think
it was the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Chicken you should be a theater movie critic.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, it was the whole chicken jockey thing when they
say chicken jockey and the people are throwing their popcorn,
and it became a big news story. She's just kind
of she's a cynic when it comes to that kind
of stuff. So at least I don't have to worry
about her following you know, the grain, you know, going
going with the grain. As far as sounds like, well,
I don't have to worry about her doing TikTok hoaxes
(12:22):
or whatever they call them, you know, or remember what
was the one with the detergent I'm going to eat
the tide pods, you know that kind of crap. So
I've got a I've got a more intelligent daughter than
than some So that's that's good. Uh So, anyway, so
I didn't get to see Accounting two, which I still
need to see. I didn't get to see the uh
(12:45):
uh I just said it until Dawn, which I researched
it is. I thought it was. It's based off of
a video game from a few years ago. So really, yeah,
it's based off of a horror video game. Uh But
there is a new horror film out this weekend and
it's called Rosario. I will give you a couple of
(13:07):
names that are in it. I know you know this guy,
he's you know him by face. I go back to
talk about Nicholas Cage. I go back to con Air
with him, but he had a very small part. He
gets killed on the airplane. He's the agent Jose Zuniga.
You know him. If you see him, you'd know that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
He's in a lot of others.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's in a lot of other stuff. Paul ben Victor,
who's he's a he's a character actor, bad guy. You'd
also recognize his face if you saw it. And you
may not know this guy's name. He mainly does. He
had a bit part in the Dark Night, but he
mainly does like horror type pieces. David Dalsmalschian, which I
(13:51):
might be bashing his name. He did a movie that
was low budget. It was a horror film a couple
of years ago, and it was something about the devil
and he like was a host of a late night
show in the seventies and yeah, and he had the
Devil on. So David Dallas Malschian was the lead. That's anyway.
(14:12):
He's in this and some some woman I can the
theater well, and it's horror, so you wouldn't. But there's
a woman I can't even I don't even know where
to begin to pronounce her name, playing Rosario. So I'll
just read you these synopsis here Wall Street stockbroker Rosario
Fuentes returns to her grandmother's apartment after her sudden death.
(14:35):
While sorting through her grandmother's belongings, Rosario uncovers a horrifying secret.
A hidden chamber filled with occult artifacts tied to dark
generational rituals as supernatural occurrences plague, her Rosario must confront
her family's buried secrets and face the truth about the
sacrifices and choices they made.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Once again, nice reading, but yeah, it doesn't do it
for me.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
For me, you know, they had me at horror hour
and twenty eight minutes, so it's nice and short. So
if it sucks, you know, you didn't waste too much time.
And I think that's I want to say that's it,
and let me look and just see if there's anything
else new that I see here that you may have
not had, because sometimes there are shocking okay, and I'm
(15:22):
in that theater, but that theater doesn't always play them all. Oh,
I see the Surfers playing at the AMC in Port
Saint Lucy. Okay, it's not playing at the Regal. Yeah,
it's not playing at the Regals, So I'll have to
cough up money if I want to see it, or
I can just wait and see if it pops up
there because I have the unlimited thing, not that I'm
going to take it for me. Cheech and Chong's last
(15:45):
movie is still playing at some theaters, which is I'm
going to wait for it, but I might want to
check it out when it is streaming somewhere. What is
Bone or tru Stace? I don't I don't even know
if I'm saying this right.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Film. I think it's maybe the fiftieth anniversary of it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's no, this is.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm guessing. Oh, this is a remake. This is a remake.
This is Chloe Savigny. I don't ever know how to
say her name.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Is that? Did I get it right? The blonde? I
don't recognize any of these, any of these other names. Bonjour?
Am I saying it? How the hell you say that? So,
so this must be a remake, I'm guessing. At the
height of summer, eighteen year old Cecilia is relaxing by
(16:40):
the French seaside with her father and falling in love
with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's
enigmatic friend, that's Chloe, turns her world upside down. A
modern take on Francois Whoever is unforgettable coming of age novel.
So it's a modern so it's a new So they
must have done this years ago, and now they do
(17:01):
the original.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Was a big deal. It was all part of the
French New Wave and a very very popular film. But
I didn't know that he remade it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So this was a Toronto International Film Festival premiere. It
was playing at some theaters. So if anybody's interested, not me,
but I am interested.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, I think this is this. I don't believe this
is subtile. I think this is American. I think this
is an Americanized.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Why didn't they translate the title?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Maybe because they want people to recognize the name of
the novel in the early movies.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Nothing to you, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, So Thunderbolts, what does the asterisk mean? I believe
I know what it means, but I wanted to see
if they explain that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, there are a couple of reasons. Basically, they're not
quite sure that Thunderbolts is the good name for the group,
so they're kind of like it's a holding pact.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, yeah, for.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The choice of the name. So Thunderbolts was with an asterisk.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I think the other thing is I think it
says the Avengers were not available or something like that.
I think I've seen that, Yes, the Avengers are not available,
so I had never.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Heard of the Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I have friends that have heard of the Thunderbolts in
the comics, but I've never I guess I'll give it
a watch. And I got to catch up on the
two movies from last week. And if I feel like
forking over some extra cash, I'll go out to uh, say,
Lucy West, and I'll check out the Surfer for you.
Although you already saw it and you don't care, but
I'll see it for myself.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you're a Nick Cage fan, I gonna like it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I think he also produces it, if I remember seeing
that correctly. So I think he's producing most of the
stuff partly, you know, one of the producers putting money
behind these things. That way he'll get the part, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
That's what I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Cast Come on, catch me anyway? That was my Nicholas
Cage all right, good, yeah, I'll work on it, all right,
So we'll we'll be you're heading Where are you heading?
You're heading? You're in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now I'm off to Barcelona, Spain.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Jeez, man, I want to have your kind of retirement money.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I go far to avoid you. That's indeed, all.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right, we will. I guess we're catching them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We head onto a cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Nice, all right, we'll catch up later this morning, all right,
A couple of weeks, all right, By bye
Speaker 2 (19:25):
All right, take care, bye bye
Hey, Joel Malcolm for w J and O dot com,
and we have a special treat in speaking movies today
with the movie guy Hapberstita pompeechartspaper dot com. Not only
do we have him, we have him from the streets
of I'm guessing Manhattan. It's either that or you were
standing in the Bronx somewhere.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No, it's Manhattan, baby, Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I did not know you were going. Was this like
a last minute trip?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No, No, I just don't tell you everything about my
my whereabouts.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My oh a gendi, Yeah, I guess my stalking ways
have come up. All right? Uh, what are you doing
in New York? You're gonna You're gonna see some shows.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm going to the theater saying six shows and seven days?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yes, can you share some of them with us? At sunset? Sunset?
Something is a big one right now? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No? No, No, The big thing is Audrey McDonald in Gypsy.
I'm one of the best performances I've ever seen in
my life. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What else are you planning to see that you haven't yet?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm gonna see Boop you know about that?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah? They've yeah, yep, yep, they've Yeah, go ahead. What else?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
One based on a movie? Real women have curves? Remember
the TV shows smash Master was a thing about the
making of a musical about Marilyn Monroe and buying the role,
and uh, and actually seeing a play, a play called
Purpose about a black dysfunctional family.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What was it that I saw that I was telling you?
And I don't know. I think you you saw the
Michael Jackson one, or you just have no interest in it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm going to see it when it comes to Cravis,
this this next, okay, all right, I've never seen it. No.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And then of course I saw the very old the
one that I'm probably the last one to have seen
it for the first time from the South Park Guys,
Book of More, Book of Mormon. Yeah, did you remember
my tip? Did you remember my tip about about if
you're going to the tickets place.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There in times back, you don't have to pay.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, you good? No, you bring your bring your stub
or your tickets from the previous show. And if it's
within a certain you know, like a quick amount of time, Uh,
they will, they'll let you avoid the line. If you're
there at a time where there's a long line. Oh no,
I told you that, I told you that you just forgot.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Is that just what the Book of Mormon does? Or
everybody does?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, no, no, that's any it does. They don't ask you what
you're buying if you show them a receipt. Some people
there in New York told us this, and we tried
it and it worked. We had seen the first show,
and then we went a couple of days later, and
we brought our stubs or tickets. I think, hold on
to the stub just in case. And you know, they
could see that you were just there within the last
(02:44):
couple of days. And you can and they'll let you.
They'll put you on. There's a shorter line there. There's
a second line that you can avoid. Yeah, the long one.
All right, try it out.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't stand it in mind anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, try it out. If it doesn't work, I'm sure
I'll be hearing about it. But it should work. It
works for It worked for us, so you know it
should work well that it should work for anyone. It
should it should.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
All right, make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's it. Well here in a couple of weeks, when
when we speak to you again, I look forward to
getting uh getting hearing about some of these shows, so
that would be okay. Meanwhile, what do you got at
the movies right now?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So so bound to dominate the box office this weekend
is Thunderbolts. It's the latest from the Marvel cinematic universe,
and I think the best from that that comic world
in quite a long time. In part that's because of
the increased humor level, and in part because it does
a better job of filling us in on the many
characters and their backgrounds. Now it helps us here up
(03:44):
on the cumulative Marvel world, but it feels less necessary
for this movie. At the center is uh Bolts is
Yolena Thelova, sister of a late black widow, played by
Florence Pume. Florence Pugh. We first saw her as an
Oscar nominated role in Little Women, and now she's an
(04:05):
action hero, go know. Then there's John Walker, former Captain America,
played by Wyatt Russell. There's Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier,
that's Sebastian Stan who's now a congressman no less, and
mysterious young guy known only as Bob. Anyway, the Thunderbolts
(04:26):
are tasked by former Cia director Julia Louis Dreyfus. Interesting casting,
and she's usually good and fitting into the universe. She
wants them to be her pupils, perhaps for world security
and perhaps for her own service selfish reasons. Saw us
in some nice action sequences thanks to director Jake Shearer,
(04:49):
and you have the start of I think a very
promising new franchise. It opens in theaters only this weekend,
and I think it will prove very very popular. Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I wonder if I think I remember hearing or maybe
it was just my speculation. This wasn't going to do
great like it'll obviously, you know, rule the weekend of
the box.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That much competition, but I think it would do well
either way. I think it's a real bounce back to Marvel.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Interesting. Interesting. I remember Florence Pew in the also Oppenheimer, right,
I remember I remember them? Well, yes, yes, you're not
picking up on my joke, all right, I remember them?
All right? So Thunderbolts. Yeah, this one's on my radar,
I think I might. Now does this you talk about
(05:35):
the sister of Black Widow? Does this take place after
Black Widow's death?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, all right, and then her dad, the character that's
supposed to be her father, is in this as well,
so I forget his.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I mean it's a specific time and currently.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, so it might. I wonder if there's any setup
between this and setting up the next Avengers movie that
they're making.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh indeed, yeah, don't thrush out of the theater with
a couple of good post credit scenes that definitely talk
about the future.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right, Yeah, that's gonna be I forget Doomsday. There's
a dooms Day where Robert Downey Junior's coming back is
Doctor Doom, which is interesting because he was you know,
iron Man. But you know, here's the thing. I have
some friends that are big comic fans, and apparently there
was a Doctor Doom who either had a resemblance or
(06:29):
there was a tie between him and Iron Man. So
I think that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I don't know, interesting, So they asked them with the
same guys.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's something I heard. I don't remember the exact you know. Look, man,
I have a life, well not much of one, but
you know, I'm busy. All right, what else you got, Well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Pretty sure Nicholas Cage chooses and Storm rolls for the
potential for him to play mad scenes. Certainly that's what
happened in The Surfer, a loopy Australian drama. Taylor to
Cage is anything he goes, did he really just do that? Style?
He plays an unnamed father returning to the Aussie terrain
(07:07):
where he grew up to show his son and to
get in some surfing, but they encounter a bullying gang
called the Bay Boys, who hassled Cage and threatened him
with violence to his dismay, particularly in front of his son.
Cage whims out and backs away. Of course, though there's
a second act when Cage goes more than a little
(07:28):
crazy and seeks his revenge. As I say, the Surfer
plays the Cage's strength as a wacko actor. But there's
actually something of consequence here as we gradually learn of
the history of Cage and his character's father. Now all
that should be discovered by the viewer. I'm not going
to tell you more about that, but I'll just say
that it almost justifies the rest of the of the
(07:52):
movie's nuttiness. The operative word there is almost the Cage
fans the surfers I must see for everyone else go
but don't say it in morning in advance.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You're not a Cage fan.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm not. He's made some really good films, but he's
still erratic and some of his choices are just mystifying
to me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yes, he's he's an Oscar winner.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It is true. That's true. They can't take it away
from him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Apparently apparently he was drunk the whole time he made
that movie. But he was an Oscar winner.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, that was part of the character, I.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Know, but usually it's called acting.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right, Well, don't rely on your acting sticky, all right,
you have.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The surfer, Okay, definitely. I've seen the Facebook keep showing
me that, so I think they know that I am
a Nicholas Cage fan. So I see, I'll be looking.
I'll be looking for it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Then you'll see it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Probably will not see your art house pick because I
pretty much never do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, there you go, all right, I speak time. Remember
the phenomenon of my big fat Greek wedding? Oh yeah, well,
move over nearvar Dallas because there's a new filmmaker of
Greek rom coms. She's Rachel Sweeza, who wrote, directed, and
stars as the mother in a movie called Greek mothers
never die. It's a comic look and an overbearing mother
(09:13):
who tries to control her daughter's love life even from
beyond the grave. You see, Ella, played by a very appealing,
not necessarily classically beautiful Abby Minor, is a lovelaurng twenty
seven year old when her mother unexpectedly passes away. But
that doesn't mean that mom is out of the picture,
for she returns as a ghost to keep haunting her
(09:35):
daughter's social life. She actually has one, you see, because
the boy she got her first kiss from when she
was ten. He was a chubby, nerdy kid who grew
up to be not only a dream boat but also
a doctor. Oh boy, a doctor, and probably he saw
us residual affection for Ella, and they might have been
(09:57):
happily ever after in the future, weren't for were the
meddling of mom. Greek mothers never die as lightweight farwell,
grant you, but it's entertaining enough, and Suisa the mom
is a real find. I don't expect it to have
the staying tower of my big factory wedding, but I
would just keep going and going going, But it amused
for the moment. It's in Area theaters Greek mothers never die, Okay,
(10:23):
doesn't draw you, huh.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know, I did see the first my big fact
Greek wedding, but I didn't have any and it was okay,
but I didn't have an interest. You have pretty funny even,
but I did not have an interest in the sequel
when it came out, what maybe a year or so ago,
maybe two years something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, you made a couple of years after the first one.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Moment, maybe it was the third one. Then they just
had one recently, right, right, So maybe I did. I
missed the second and the third.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You know, I blew it all with that first movie,
which was just incredibly successful and now doesn't have much
to do clip coupons.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I completely forgot that there was a second one. So yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Why they called the third one three.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, I didn't remember that. Come on, man, all right,
there's a there's a movie. There's a movie either there's
another movie out, there's a new horror film of the week.
Because last week we got Until Dawn, which by the way,
I haven't seen any I haven't seen any movies. Last
week I didn't get to see I was with my
twelve year old and we did Disney on Saturday, and
(11:27):
I said, well, there's really nothing for you to see
if you don't want to see minecraft, And eventually the
first thing she said, no, I don't want to see it,
and then eventually she's like, well, if there's nothing else
to see, but I said, no, you know what, you
don't want to see it. I don't need to be
spending the money on it, so we're not gonna you know,
I hate to be mean, but you know, it turns
out the whole thing that turned her off to that
(11:48):
movie was one as soon as it came out, although
before it came out she even didn't want to see it.
She even told me that I think, but I think
it was the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Chicken you should be a theater movie critic.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, it was the whole chicken jockey thing when they
say chicken jockey and the people are throwing their popcorn,
and it became a big news story. She's just kind
of she's a cynic when it comes to that kind
of stuff. So at least I don't have to worry
about her following you know, the grain, you know, going
going with the grain. As far as sounds like, well,
I don't have to worry about her doing TikTok hoaxes
(12:22):
or whatever they call them, you know, or remember what
was the one with the detergent I'm going to eat
the tide pods, you know that kind of crap. So
I've got a I've got a more intelligent daughter than
than some So that's that's good. Uh So, anyway, so
I didn't get to see Accounting two, which I still
need to see. I didn't get to see the uh
(12:45):
uh I just said it until Dawn, which I researched
it is. I thought it was. It's based off of
a video game from a few years ago. So really, yeah,
it's based off of a horror video game. Uh But
there is a new horror film out this weekend and
it's called Rosario. I will give you a couple of
(13:07):
names that are in it. I know you know this guy,
he's you know him by face. I go back to
talk about Nicholas Cage. I go back to con Air
with him, but he had a very small part. He
gets killed on the airplane. He's the agent Jose Zuniga.
You know him. If you see him, you'd know that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
He's in a lot of others.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's in a lot of other stuff. Paul ben Victor,
who's he's a he's a character actor, bad guy. You'd
also recognize his face if you saw it. And you
may not know this guy's name. He mainly does. He
had a bit part in the Dark Night, but he
mainly does like horror type pieces. David Dalsmalschian, which I
(13:51):
might be bashing his name. He did a movie that
was low budget. It was a horror film a couple
of years ago, and it was something about the devil
and he like was a host of a late night
show in the seventies and yeah, and he had the
Devil on. So David Dallas Malschian was the lead. That's anyway.
(14:12):
He's in this and some some woman I can the
theater well, and it's horror, so you wouldn't. But there's
a woman I can't even I don't even know where
to begin to pronounce her name, playing Rosario. So I'll
just read you these synopsis here Wall Street stockbroker Rosario
Fuentes returns to her grandmother's apartment after her sudden death.
(14:35):
While sorting through her grandmother's belongings, Rosario uncovers a horrifying secret.
A hidden chamber filled with occult artifacts tied to dark
generational rituals as supernatural occurrences plague, her Rosario must confront
her family's buried secrets and face the truth about the
sacrifices and choices they made.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Once again, nice reading, but yeah, it doesn't do it
for me.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
For me, you know, they had me at horror hour
and twenty eight minutes, so it's nice and short. So
if it sucks, you know, you didn't waste too much time.
And I think that's I want to say that's it,
and let me look and just see if there's anything
else new that I see here that you may have
not had, because sometimes there are shocking okay, and I'm
(15:22):
in that theater, but that theater doesn't always play them all. Oh,
I see the Surfers playing at the AMC in Port
Saint Lucy. Okay, it's not playing at the Regal. Yeah,
it's not playing at the Regals, So I'll have to
cough up money if I want to see it, or
I can just wait and see if it pops up
there because I have the unlimited thing, not that I'm
going to take it for me. Cheech and Chong's last
(15:45):
movie is still playing at some theaters, which is I'm
going to wait for it, but I might want to
check it out when it is streaming somewhere. What is
Bone or tru Stace? I don't I don't even know
if I'm saying this right.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Film. I think it's maybe the fiftieth anniversary of it.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's no, this is.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm guessing. Oh, this is a remake. This is a remake.
This is Chloe Savigny. I don't ever know how to
say her name.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Is that? Did I get it right? The blonde? I
don't recognize any of these, any of these other names. Bonjour?
Am I saying it? How the hell you say that? So,
so this must be a remake, I'm guessing. At the
height of summer, eighteen year old Cecilia is relaxing by
(16:40):
the French seaside with her father and falling in love
with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's
enigmatic friend, that's Chloe, turns her world upside down. A
modern take on Francois Whoever is unforgettable coming of age novel.
So it's a modern so it's a new So they
must have done this years ago, and now they do
(17:01):
the original.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Was a big deal. It was all part of the
French New Wave and a very very popular film. But
I didn't know that he remade it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So this was a Toronto International Film Festival premiere. It
was playing at some theaters. So if anybody's interested, not me,
but I am interested.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, I think this is this. I don't believe this
is subtile. I think this is American. I think this
is an Americanized.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Why didn't they translate the title?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Maybe because they want people to recognize the name of
the novel in the early movies.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Nothing to you, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, So Thunderbolts, what does the asterisk mean? I believe
I know what it means, but I wanted to see
if they explain that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, there are a couple of reasons. Basically, they're not
quite sure that Thunderbolts is the good name for the group,
so they're kind of like it's a holding pact.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, yeah, for.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The choice of the name. So Thunderbolts was with an asterisk.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I think the other thing is I think it
says the Avengers were not available or something like that.
I think I've seen that, Yes, the Avengers are not available,
so I had never.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Heard of the Thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I have friends that have heard of the Thunderbolts in
the comics, but I've never I guess I'll give it
a watch. And I got to catch up on the
two movies from last week. And if I feel like
forking over some extra cash, I'll go out to uh, say,
Lucy West, and I'll check out the Surfer for you.
Although you already saw it and you don't care, but
I'll see it for myself.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you're a Nick Cage fan, I gonna like it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I think he also produces it, if I remember seeing
that correctly. So I think he's producing most of the
stuff partly, you know, one of the producers putting money
behind these things. That way he'll get the part, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
That's what I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Cast Come on, catch me anyway? That was my Nicholas
Cage all right, good, yeah, I'll work on it, all right,
So we'll we'll be you're heading Where are you heading?
You're heading? You're in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now I'm off to Barcelona, Spain.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Jeez, man, I want to have your kind of retirement money.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I go far to avoid you. That's indeed, all.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right, we will. I guess we're catching them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We head onto a cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Nice, all right, we'll catch up later this morning, all right,
A couple of weeks, all right, By bye
Speaker 2 (19:25):
All right, take care, bye bye
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