October 25, 2025 • 10 mins
This week, KFI's Heather Brooker dives into Deliver Me From Nowhere, the highly anticipated Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss; Blue Moon, a haunting romantic thriller set under lunar light; and Bugonia, a wild sci-fi satire about friendship, rebellion, and… alien beekeeping? From rock ‘n’ roll roots to surreal adventures, Heather breaks down what’s worth watching and why these films are buzzing with Oscar potential. Catch her full reviews on The Gary and Shannon Show on KFI AM 640 and streaming wherever you get your podcasts.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to entertainment. I'm your host, Heatherbrooker. This is
a show where we cover all things entertainment from Sokal
to the silver screen. This week we are talking about
some of the new releases in theaters and there is
a wide variety for you to choose from. Of course,
there is the Chainsaw movie if you'd like that. It's
Halloween time, everybody's got to be in the mood for
(00:25):
some scary movies. But there's also some really interesting smaller
projects and films that are available now. Bougonia, starring Emma
Stone and Jesse Plemons is getting a lot of critical acclaim.
It's an interesting movie. We're going to talk about that
more on Gary and Shannon. Also, you want to check
out Blue Moon. That is definitely a movie I enjoyed,
(00:46):
but I'm also a musical theater buff, and it tells
the story behind not just Rogers and Hammerstein, but Rogers
and Hart. If you know that famous musical theater duo,
you will enjoy Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawk. And also
this weekend, the Bruce Springsteen biopic is finally here, and uh,
(01:07):
it's well, let's just say it's not blowing people away. Like, uh,
like they probably thought it would. But don't you worry.
We've got you. Uh, We're gonna bring it all down.
This week I sat down with Gary Shannon was off,
so Gary and I got to talk about all things
movies this week on the Gary and Shannon Show. So
listen in buckle up, here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Heather Broker is here. Can you guys hear I can
hear you?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yes, I can't hear anything. Hello, Hello?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Did you did you push the right button? There's a
little button on there. You got to push that too.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah. Sometimes, Oh my god, it's your kiss button.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
First of all, this is entertain.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
There. She is the Heather Brooker the world of entertainment.
It just blew out my ear drums by pushing the
I'm gonna warn you about that too.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was like, sweet Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
There's there's like line in and I don't even know
what the terms are, but one of them is very
amplified and one is not. Yes, So all right, what's
going on this this weekend? And entertainment so much?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There's some really interesting movies at the box office this weekend,
and one of them is Boon. This is getting a
lot of critical acclaim it stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons.
I don't know if you've seen the trailers for it,
but it's where she's got like a shaved head or
looks like she's painted white kind of and it's, uh,
it's an interesting I almost want to say commentary on
(02:47):
how do I want to phrase this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't want to watch it?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, please do this get started with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like a commentary on the No. It's a very
artsy film. Okay, listen.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's it's very it's dark humor and it's really entertaining
and it's very well acted. It's about this two paranoid
extremists who kidnapped a billionaire, heartless corporate CEO type who's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Played by Emma Stone.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And the places that it goes are very bizarre, very strange.
The whole thing basically takes place like kind of in
a basement and during this whole kidnapped you know scenario,
and it doesn't quite follow the same kind of storyline
and those types of movies that you think will where
a crazy extremist kidnap a billionaire and they think they're
(03:39):
going to make a change or you know whatever. It's
really interesting. It is very arty, it's also very dark,
very violent, and a little bit graphic.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This is also a your Ghost Lenth the Moost thing,
and he worked with Emma Stone for Poor Things, Thank You.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Which she won the Oscar for.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, so they apparently are, you know, similar to when
Jennifer Lawrence collaborated with Oh I'm forgetting the big director's
name that she did all those movies with the silver
Linings playbook.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Sure, okay, that guy, that guy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is a similar kind of collaboration where a star
and a director are teaming up a lot and they
are making great movies together and they like working together. Russell,
that's it, thank you. Yeah, so it's a similar kind
of situation for her. She's great in this movie. Jesse
Plemmons is getting a ton of attention. He's fantastic. He's
like wasting away. He's on the Zempie and yeah, he's
(04:32):
like wasting away. He's so tiny, but he's great. It's
a brilliant actor. It's a it's a very interesting movie.
I think it's gonna get a lot of awards buzz.
It may even earn her another Oscar nomination.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Interesting. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And next up. Honestly, out of all the movies we're
talking about today, this is the one that I really
want everybody to see because I'm a musical theater nerd.
This is uh we're gonna be talking about. Blue Moon
stars Ethan hawk and Andrew Scott, and it basically tells
the story you know, Rogers and Hammerstein, very famous musical
(05:07):
writers and you know lyricists. This tells the story of
Lorenz Hart, who's played by Ethan Hawke, who was originally
Richard Rogers partner during the nineteen thirties and forties, and
they made all of these brilliant musicals together in Connecticut,
Yankee Babes and Arms, those types of things, but they
never quite reached this huge critical acclaim. So they split
(05:31):
up because Lorenz Heart had a drinking problem, he had
a lot of other issues going on, and Richard Rogers
partnered with Hammerstein and they created Oklahoma, which fundamentally changed
musical theater forever. And this tells the story of sort
of like the guy watching somebody live out his dreams
and his hopes right in front of him.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So this is to modernize it a little bit. It's
probably like Brian Dunkleman on American Hosting with Ryan Seacrest
on American Idol.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think about that guy more often than I should.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Is just stand up stand.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I haven't no, but I just think he must just
be punching the air on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, you know it wasn't going to be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well you never know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But I mean it's a different situation, but.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's similar in that watching somebody who you were partners
with for twenty years, and like, once you guys break up,
then they actually have the success. You're pointing to Shannon's
ghost of Yeah, so when she when she leaves you guys,
and you eventually break up and she gets on national television.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You're going to be just like she. She'll be fine.
Oh my god, I'll be drunken at I'll be drunk
at Sardi's.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So no, that's where this that's where this whole movie
takes place in the bar place one place, and somehow
they managed to make Ethan Hawk look very short in
this He's not a short guy, but they make him
look really short in the whole film. It's it's beautifully told,
it's funny, it's charming, and it's also just like one
(07:02):
of those things that make you go, what if? What
if I'm the one dragging you down.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Heather Brooker has joined us. We're talking about entertainment.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Before we get into our trending stories, I wanted to
ask you about what has been advertised for a long time.
I'm a big fan of Jeremy Allen White, obviously from
the Bear from It was the HBO show I never watched,
but I know he did great in it. I don't
know Shameless, Yeah, shamelessly, I never watched Shameless.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Supposed to be really great.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, but he plays Bruce Springsteen in this movie Deliver
Me from Nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yes, this is true what you say. I have to
admit a little bit here. I I don't know if
this is not American. But I'm not a big Bruce
Springsteen fan. You're not, I know people like you. I
just his music was never my jam. I appreciate his
place in rock history and the appeal that he has,
(07:59):
but so this movie for me, I'm just kind of like, eh,
especially because this is not your typical movie that tells
the backstory of you know, him coming up and his
rise to fame and where he you know, pulled himself
up by the bootstraps kind of a thing. This is
from a very specific time in his life, when he
was writing the album Nebraska, which wasn't necessarily one of
(08:21):
his biggest albums, but a lot of critics say it
was one of his more critically acclaimed albums. It deals,
It talks a lot about his depression, his struggles with depression,
with mental health, with his issues with his father. Those
were brought up a lot. It is not you're like
I said, a typical biopick for a rock star like
(08:42):
which seems to be very hip lately. We had last
year we had Timothy Shalamala Sha Lama ding Dong Yes,
and we had Timothy Shalla May doing Bob Dylan. You know,
this is sort of, I don't want to say a trend,
but we're seeing a lot of these biopicks with these
rock stars is kind of at the end of their
lives saying here's the trauma that I that I waded
(09:04):
through to get to this point, And this is very similar.
The difference is it's very slow, it's a little more plotting.
There's a lot less rock performances, there's a lot less
on stage rock performances, and a lot more him talking
to friends and and you know, behind the scenes, that
sort of thing. Yeah, it's okay, it's good, it's okay.
I feel like the people who are really gonna love
(09:26):
it are the people who are Bruce Springsteen fans. I
don't think most people. And Jeremy Allen White is fantastic
hee he sings. I believe almost all, if not all,
of the songs in the film, which isn't a feat
and of itself, but it's just not a movie. I
think that unless you're a big Bruce Springsteen fan, that
people are clamoring to go see awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thanks for coming in, You're welcome, great weekend. Thank you
of course.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So are you gonna go see the Boss or Bougonia
or what are you? What are you heading tours? Or
I mean blue lots of bees this week at the
box office. Let me know what you're gonna go see.
I love to hear from you all. You can follow
me on social media at the Heather Brooker. Also, don't
forget to subscribe to entertain Me and of course a
Gary and Channon show as well. Make sure you put
(10:15):
those in your podcast selections and why not share it
with some friends we always like to be shared. Does
that make sense. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. We'll
see you next week with a whole new crop of
entertainment news stories and what to watch at the box office.
You can listen to entertainment anywhere on the Iparte Wow
Welcome back to entertainment. I'm your host, Heatherbrooker. This is
a show where we cover all things entertainment from Sokal
to the silver screen. This week we are talking about
some of the new releases in theaters and there is
a wide variety for you to choose from. Of course,
there is the Chainsaw movie if you'd like that. It's
Halloween time, everybody's got to be in the mood for
(00:25):
some scary movies. But there's also some really interesting smaller
projects and films that are available now. Bougonia, starring Emma
Stone and Jesse Plemons is getting a lot of critical acclaim.
It's an interesting movie. We're going to talk about that
more on Gary and Shannon. Also, you want to check
out Blue Moon. That is definitely a movie I enjoyed,
(00:46):
but I'm also a musical theater buff, and it tells
the story behind not just Rogers and Hammerstein, but Rogers
and Hart. If you know that famous musical theater duo,
you will enjoy Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawk. And also
this weekend, the Bruce Springsteen biopic is finally here, and uh,
(01:07):
it's well, let's just say it's not blowing people away. Like, uh,
like they probably thought it would. But don't you worry.
We've got you. Uh, We're gonna bring it all down.
This week I sat down with Gary Shannon was off,
so Gary and I got to talk about all things
movies this week on the Gary and Shannon Show. So
listen in buckle up, here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Heather Broker is here. Can you guys hear I can
hear you?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yes, I can't hear anything. Hello, Hello?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Did you did you push the right button? There's a
little button on there. You got to push that too.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah. Sometimes, Oh my god, it's your kiss button.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
First of all, this is entertain.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
There. She is the Heather Brooker the world of entertainment.
It just blew out my ear drums by pushing the
I'm gonna warn you about that too.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was like, sweet Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
There's there's like line in and I don't even know
what the terms are, but one of them is very
amplified and one is not. Yes, So all right, what's
going on this this weekend? And entertainment so much?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There's some really interesting movies at the box office this weekend,
and one of them is Boon. This is getting a
lot of critical acclaim it stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons.
I don't know if you've seen the trailers for it,
but it's where she's got like a shaved head or
looks like she's painted white kind of and it's, uh,
it's an interesting I almost want to say commentary on
(02:47):
how do I want to phrase this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't want to watch it?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, please do this get started with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like a commentary on the No. It's a very
artsy film. Okay, listen.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's it's very it's dark humor and it's really entertaining
and it's very well acted. It's about this two paranoid
extremists who kidnapped a billionaire, heartless corporate CEO type who's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Played by Emma Stone.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And the places that it goes are very bizarre, very strange.
The whole thing basically takes place like kind of in
a basement and during this whole kidnapped you know scenario,
and it doesn't quite follow the same kind of storyline
and those types of movies that you think will where
a crazy extremist kidnap a billionaire and they think they're
(03:39):
going to make a change or you know whatever. It's
really interesting. It is very arty, it's also very dark,
very violent, and a little bit graphic.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This is also a your Ghost Lenth the Moost thing,
and he worked with Emma Stone for Poor Things, Thank You.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Which she won the Oscar for.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, so they apparently are, you know, similar to when
Jennifer Lawrence collaborated with Oh I'm forgetting the big director's
name that she did all those movies with the silver
Linings playbook.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Sure, okay, that guy, that guy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is a similar kind of collaboration where a star
and a director are teaming up a lot and they
are making great movies together and they like working together. Russell,
that's it, thank you. Yeah, so it's a similar kind
of situation for her. She's great in this movie. Jesse
Plemmons is getting a ton of attention. He's fantastic. He's
like wasting away. He's on the Zempie and yeah, he's
(04:32):
like wasting away. He's so tiny, but he's great. It's
a brilliant actor. It's a it's a very interesting movie.
I think it's gonna get a lot of awards buzz.
It may even earn her another Oscar nomination.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Interesting. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And next up. Honestly, out of all the movies we're
talking about today, this is the one that I really
want everybody to see because I'm a musical theater nerd.
This is uh we're gonna be talking about. Blue Moon
stars Ethan hawk and Andrew Scott, and it basically tells
the story you know, Rogers and Hammerstein, very famous musical
(05:07):
writers and you know lyricists. This tells the story of
Lorenz Hart, who's played by Ethan Hawke, who was originally
Richard Rogers partner during the nineteen thirties and forties, and
they made all of these brilliant musicals together in Connecticut,
Yankee Babes and Arms, those types of things, but they
never quite reached this huge critical acclaim. So they split
(05:31):
up because Lorenz Heart had a drinking problem, he had
a lot of other issues going on, and Richard Rogers
partnered with Hammerstein and they created Oklahoma, which fundamentally changed
musical theater forever. And this tells the story of sort
of like the guy watching somebody live out his dreams
and his hopes right in front of him.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So this is to modernize it a little bit. It's
probably like Brian Dunkleman on American Hosting with Ryan Seacrest
on American Idol.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think about that guy more often than I should.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Is just stand up stand.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I haven't no, but I just think he must just
be punching the air on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, you know it wasn't going to be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well you never know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But I mean it's a different situation, but.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's similar in that watching somebody who you were partners
with for twenty years, and like, once you guys break up,
then they actually have the success. You're pointing to Shannon's
ghost of Yeah, so when she when she leaves you guys,
and you eventually break up and she gets on national television.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You're going to be just like she. She'll be fine.
Oh my god, I'll be drunken at I'll be drunk
at Sardi's.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So no, that's where this that's where this whole movie
takes place in the bar place one place, and somehow
they managed to make Ethan Hawk look very short in
this He's not a short guy, but they make him
look really short in the whole film. It's it's beautifully told,
it's funny, it's charming, and it's also just like one
(07:02):
of those things that make you go, what if? What
if I'm the one dragging you down.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Heather Brooker has joined us. We're talking about entertainment.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Before we get into our trending stories, I wanted to
ask you about what has been advertised for a long time.
I'm a big fan of Jeremy Allen White, obviously from
the Bear from It was the HBO show I never watched,
but I know he did great in it. I don't
know Shameless, Yeah, shamelessly, I never watched Shameless.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Supposed to be really great.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, but he plays Bruce Springsteen in this movie Deliver
Me from Nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yes, this is true what you say. I have to
admit a little bit here. I I don't know if
this is not American. But I'm not a big Bruce
Springsteen fan. You're not, I know people like you. I
just his music was never my jam. I appreciate his
place in rock history and the appeal that he has,
(07:59):
but so this movie for me, I'm just kind of like, eh,
especially because this is not your typical movie that tells
the backstory of you know, him coming up and his
rise to fame and where he you know, pulled himself
up by the bootstraps kind of a thing. This is
from a very specific time in his life, when he
was writing the album Nebraska, which wasn't necessarily one of
(08:21):
his biggest albums, but a lot of critics say it
was one of his more critically acclaimed albums. It deals,
It talks a lot about his depression, his struggles with depression,
with mental health, with his issues with his father. Those
were brought up a lot. It is not you're like
I said, a typical biopick for a rock star like
(08:42):
which seems to be very hip lately. We had last
year we had Timothy Shalamala Sha Lama ding Dong Yes,
and we had Timothy Shalla May doing Bob Dylan. You know,
this is sort of, I don't want to say a trend,
but we're seeing a lot of these biopicks with these
rock stars is kind of at the end of their
lives saying here's the trauma that I that I waded
(09:04):
through to get to this point, And this is very similar.
The difference is it's very slow, it's a little more plotting.
There's a lot less rock performances, there's a lot less
on stage rock performances, and a lot more him talking
to friends and and you know, behind the scenes, that
sort of thing. Yeah, it's okay, it's good, it's okay.
I feel like the people who are really gonna love
(09:26):
it are the people who are Bruce Springsteen fans. I
don't think most people. And Jeremy Allen White is fantastic
hee he sings. I believe almost all, if not all,
of the songs in the film, which isn't a feat
and of itself, but it's just not a movie. I
think that unless you're a big Bruce Springsteen fan, that
people are clamoring to go see awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Thanks for coming in, You're welcome, great weekend. Thank you
of course.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So are you gonna go see the Boss or Bougonia
or what are you? What are you heading tours? Or
I mean blue lots of bees this week at the
box office. Let me know what you're gonna go see.
I love to hear from you all. You can follow
me on social media at the Heather Brooker. Also, don't
forget to subscribe to entertain Me and of course a
Gary and Channon show as well. Make sure you put
(10:15):
those in your podcast selections and why not share it
with some friends we always like to be shared. Does
that make sense. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. We'll
see you next week with a whole new crop of
entertainment news stories and what to watch at the box office.
You can listen to entertainment anywhere on the Iparte Wow
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