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July 11, 2025 14 mins
Is the new Superman movie too "woke" for fans, or just what the franchise needs? KFI's Heather Brooker breaks down the culture war chatter during the Gary and Shannon entertainment report. Plus: Super Trump?  The White House is acknowledging the new Superman movie with a Trump-as-Superman meme. Also Justin Bieber drops fresh tracks with this new album 'Swag' and hints at a tour, and The Devil Wears Prada 2 officially gets the greenlight—with Meryl and Anne back in the Prada-verse. It’s the pop culture pulse you can’t miss during Heather's weekly entertainment report on Gary and Shannon!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're talking to Heather Brooker, our entertainment reporter and our
news anchor and report. She's everything, She's everything all the things.
She is our swag. Superman has open to mixed reviews
from critics.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Is it a slow? Is it a fly? Must it slop?
Is it a flop or not?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I hate that it comes with any sort of controversy
because Superman is just a nostalgic vehicle.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
And you know, I've been talking to a lot of
people this week about this, and I think that we're
forgetting a couple of things here. So the controversy, you know,
a lot of people are saying, is, oh, you know,
is it about is it woke?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Is it about immigration? You know? James Gunn was asked
a question on the Red Carpet.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
He was asked if the movie is about, you know, immigrants,
and he's like, well, Superman is from another planet, so
I guess by definition, you know, he is an immigrant.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
But and there are some tones in the movie.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
There are some things in references to kind of modern
day con ne flix and you know, that sort of messaging.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
But to think that the overall movie is.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
About that message is a little misguided and a little
you're making a lot of assumptions. It really is just
a Superman movie, and it's a James Gunn Superman movie,
so it's got a little humor to it. It's got
a little heart. The chemistry between Superman and Lois Lane.
You know Rachel Brosenhan who plays Leis Lane really well,

(01:25):
and a very handsome man named David corn Sweat plays Superman.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
They have great chemistry together.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
And you know, before we all overthink, you know this
superhero movie and like try to put too much political
emphasis on it, just remember it's just a movie. It's
a movie that you can go and you can sit
back and get your popcorn in and just enjoy it
and try not to overthink it too much.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I need to have that chemistry between the male and
the female, otherwise I think it's a forced plotline. It's
often a forced plot line to have some sort of
love situation happening.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Don't you hate that when you're watching something and then
all of a sudden you're like, why are they kissing
right now?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, it's so unnecessary. And I gotta say, as much
as I loved F One, I did not feel the.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Chemistry at all. Oh my god, it was uncomfortable for me. Uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I was like, why do we need to pigeonhole this
romance and this one night stand that they are madly
in love?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, come on, yeah, just let them go their separate
ways like when they you know, like I'm gonna be gone,
Like I loved that part. Well, I don't want to
ruin it, but spoiler, spoiler, but not really. I mean,
because no one's going to f one to fall in love.
You're going to hear the engines and feel like you're
in the cockpit of the car, like you're not going

(02:43):
there to watch Brad Pitt uncomfortably kiss some strange woman.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Who's say, you don't even know.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
And it does feel like every filmmaker feels like they
need to shoehorn in a love story, Like we can't
just have her be really into science and cars, she
needed to also be in love with Brad Pitt. I'm
I mean, yeah, I can't really falter for that because
he looked really good.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
He did, he's sixty, Like when.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That one shot was so gratuitous when he was like, Lane,
I love that shot.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think I gasped in the theater. I was like,
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean he put in the work to get that definition.
And I mean, you know, we all know now the
magic of filters. We didn't know before, but like they've
been using these in movies forever and now we all
know how wonderful they are.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Man, I get that. But he put in a lot
of work on his body to look like that.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
He really did. But you're right, they had no chemistry.
But I will see in Superman that Rachel Brosnahan and
David Corn so they have some chemistry there, but it's
not a chemistry that feels kind.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Of like Icky.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
It feels like Lois Lane, those like tough journalists who
really likes somebody and really cares for him. And I
think they really do a good job of capturing that
spirit of this very iconic couple.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I would have liked to have seen a.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Little bit more of their relationship in the movie, though,
really only see them together on screen for a little
bit of time in the beginning and then a little
bit in the end. But what's great about this movie
is it doesn't give us the whole backstory of Superman.
It starts where he's already working at the Daily Planet,
he's already in a relationship with Lois and it just

(04:17):
jumps off from there into all of the action and excitement.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
So I think James Gunn did a really good job
of capturing this.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Film so they don't get into his whole psyche with.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
What am I? Where am I from? Right? Yeah, they
don't really do that.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, no, No, I think a lot of people too,
when you're just a casual fan of Superman or spider
Man or what have you, any of the comic book heroes,
that you don't realize that they're all kind of preachy,
if you want to call them that. They all come
with a backstory, and they all come with some sort
of ill of society message underneath the capes and the

(04:55):
masks and all those TIFFs.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I mean, Superman's literal like phrase is, you know, truth,
justice the American way, you know, like he is all
about protecting America.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And speaking of that, anybody see the White House.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Twitter account today, they are sort of acknowledging the release
of Superman in a.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Very special way. Really.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh yes, they have taken the poster of Superman, which
you know shows David corn Sweat as Superman kind of
rising above in the Superman offit and they put President
Trump's face on it, and it says the symbol of hope, Truth, Justice,
the American Way.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Superman Trump is that for?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I just pulled it up. Oh my god, you guys
stop it. Please wait. No, this is a real thing.
This is not Ai had No, this is the White House. Oh,
the White House official god. Oh boy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
So they're calling it a Trump presidency, Truth, Justice, and
the American Way.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
This is much like the black leather skirt I put
on this morning. I loved the idea of it, and
then I put it on and I was like, this
is ridiculous. That's what this is. This Trump is Superman.
You love the idea of it. We'll put his face
super imposed on the super He'll look like Superman. He'll
be crazy. We'll do this. Yeah, buff soft lighting. But

(06:19):
then when you see it, you're like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
People are gonna love it. Though, people are gonna.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Love it, Yes, all right, coming up next. I got
excited to see this on your agenda for me. Heather
Devil Wears Prada too. I am beyond excited for this.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I think this is a movie that holds up if
you hate Anne Hathaway. You can't hate her in this movie.
And there's another one coming, so we'll get into it.
We're talking to Heather Brooker al about your weekend entertainment report.
As we waged further into July, and this morning we
were hit with a new Justin Bieber album.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Have you perused this, Heather?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I have was listening to Elmer to see if he
had checked it out as well.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I've been kind of keeping an eye out to see
where it can actually get it. I sort of out
of nowhere. Nobody knew this was even coming, and we
we've all been concerned about his health and his mental
health for a while. We didn't nobody knew he was
working on an album. He had a baby last fall.
He's been with Hailey Bieber for a while.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
This is that whole from what I've gathered, ex Selena
Gomez friend that wanted to piss her off and hooked
up with him and then married him, and then I
made a baby and has sold her business for like
billions of dollars or something crazy.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Some kind of life I will never live. That's what's happened.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I think she credited her ass with the amount of
money that she made is well, good for her.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I mean, if you can do it, then why not?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Why not? So?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I but I feel like the excitement factor on the
Bieber new album is not there. I mean, yesterday Elmer
was like, I'm so excited, I can't wait. I hope
that the tsunami doesn't hit before the Bieber album drops.
And this morning I'm like, so have you heard it?
He's like no, So I'm like, all right, Uh, nobody's
that excited. I listened to one song that was on
Spotify this morning, daisies. It was fine, it was cool.

(08:15):
It was justin Bieber Fair. It wasn't like the first
time I heard Peaches, you know. It wasn't like, oh,
this is really good, this's going to be.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
A well you know, a lot of the reasons why
I think we loved his older stuff is because he
works with a very popular producer named Benny Blanco. And
do you know who is engaged to Selena Gomer no Ge?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh yeah, god, that means everything.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yes, So Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez were getting married.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I didn't make that. I've seen the pictures of them.
I didn't make the connection. I didn't know that he
did the producing for Bieber stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I did.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
All those big hits that we know and love from
when Bieber was at his prime were worked on, were
produced by Benny Blanco.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
No wonder he's having mental problems, Like I'd be pissed too.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Could you imagine your first love is hooking up with
your first love when.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
It comes to music, I mean, my god.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
So you know, I think it'll be interesting to see
who he worked on, like what producers he works on
with this album, if we're gonna get a lot of
the same feel, if it's gonna have a different feel
to it. I think his fans are excited to have
new Bieber music, the people who are his like Ride
or Dies.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
But I don't know. I mean, I've been following.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I've seen a lot of his stuff on social media,
and I'm concerned for him because he seems to be
a little.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Unsteady lately.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
And I don't want to like throw anything out there
that I don't know about for sure, but he seems
to be a little unsteady.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, I mean, he's a child star, and that comes
with a whole host of fun issues that you're gonna
have to deal with at some point, well we wish
the best for him, and I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Wow, I'm right, do you put the pieces together? And
now it's like, oh my, I have.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
A long drive later and I'm just gonna like totally
get into this doing musically all right, Devil Wears Prada
Too is becoming a reality. Who is coming back? Who
is not coming back? What's happening?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Everybody is coming back? This is so exciting. Stanley Tucci, Yes,
I believe so.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yes we got Meryl Streep is back and Hathaway, Emily
Blunt and Stanley Tucci.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
They are all confirmed. And what's the plot line?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
So they're not releasing a whole lot. As far as
I know about what it's going to be back about,
I imagine Anne Hathaway is still in fashion in some way,
or maybe she left fashion and has to come back.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
It will see. They're not releasing a lot. But I know,
I don't know about you, but this is my comfort movie.
Can I play a little clip from you that'll just
give us all the feels for a second.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
You can play it twice? All right?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh my god, that was not it. That was a
big That was a big fail on my part. Let's
try this again.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
We need Benny Blanco in here, guys, we do apparently
all right? I guess I can't play it from me
here I usually do. But let me try this again.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I mean, if you tell me what there is no
one that can do what I do. Well, I'm not
going to prove that girl that she sent me from
the Brazilian layup. I asked for keen athletic smiling, she said,
being dirty, tired and paunching. Please, It's just I don't know, drizzling.
Where are the belts for this? Why is no one?

(11:24):
Who's there? Who are you dealing with?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I read Miranda, Oh she's coming back.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Why? Fantastic character.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
It made me love Anna Wintour even more. If Anna
Wintour is a tenth of that character, Miranda, then I
will be happy. You know.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
I watched a documentary about Anna Wintour and like the
history of Vogue and how she created this empire. I
am not like a fashion person. You can probably tell
by the daily sweatpants and T shirt that I wear
two work. But I enjoy learning about that world and
kind of peeking into it because it seems so opulent,
so dystopian, so out of touch with everything that I

(12:01):
know that it's sort of like a train wreck. I
love watching and I'm fascinated by it. But this movie is,
I'm is my comfort movie. I don't know how often
you watch it, but I will just throw it on
just for fun and just watch it on a random
Tuesday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, and especially for that reason.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I am a sofa when it comes to an ass imprint,
like whatever ass has sit on me last is kind
of how I behave if I'm with you with fashion, Like,
I am not a fashion person, but if I watch
The Devil Wears Praduct, it gets me thinking about it
and it makes arillion what is that?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Even?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
And it's like it gets me thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
It gets me excited to get dressed for work or
whatever for a while.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know, it takes it has an impression on me,
is what my point is.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I agree me too, and I think about fashion a
lot more when I'm watching this movie. And you know
what's going to be cool is the director is returning
the same director, so we can only hope that it's
going to have that same draw and that same.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, humor to it.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
One thing I think is funny is people call Adrian
Grenier's role he was her girlfriend Andy's or excuse me,
Andy's boyfriend in the film, they call him the villain.
A lot of fans consider him to be the villain
of the movie. Did you ever feel that way, like
he was the bad guy of the movie. No, I
just thought that maybe they outgrew each other. Yeah, that's all.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I mean, that's a classic thing to happen in your
early twenties.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
M that's true. That's true.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, he we don't know if he's gonna even be
coming back or not. But I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I mean, she did waste all that good cheese in
the sandwich. I think I'm still pissed over that moment.
I mean, that's sam wwhich was so beautifully toasted and everything.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Also, Anne Hathaway, how beautiful is this woman? Like she's
been acting since she was fourteen years old. She's gorgeous,
so talented. Yeah, I am excited about this movie, very
much so, and I'm glad that you are too. And
also we got to talk about Downton Abbey at some
point too. The second movie is coming out in September,
and the trailers have already started dropping.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Never I haven't seen the first and I didn't finish
the whole series still in the last season, but yeah,
we'll do that coming up in the next week. I
think Anne Hathaway gets a bad rap because she kind
of played the spoiled brat the Princess Diaries. Yeah, so
I think people look at her and think spoiled brat
and that's where she gets.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
The bad the bad rap.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, I think she's pretty much, compared to so many
other celebs, been unproblematic. I don't think I've ever seen
any drama with her or any issues. So looking at you,
Blake Lively at oh my god.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Okay, that's a whole. That is your whole. Another segment
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