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Sean Means Movie Reviews for November 26th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, here he is. He doesn't have blood in his veins.
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  He's got printers, inc He's a Seawan means a writer
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  and editor at the Salt Lake Tribune. Sl trib dot
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  com is where you can find Sean's work. And then
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  Sean is a movie critic and you can find his
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  movie reviews at movie cricket dot net. Good morning, mister
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  means good morning. What movies are we talking about today?
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  Speaker 2: We have two movies to talk about their opening for
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  the Thanksgiving weekend. We will start with Mowana too. I'm
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  a bit limited in what I can say here because
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  the review embargo doesn't lift until ten am. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that they're gonna throw us all in my
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  critics prison, But.
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  Speaker 2: The social media embargo was lifted like a week ago,
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  so I can talk some. This is following up on
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  the twenty sixteen movie Mowana, in which a fifteen year
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  old girl on a South Pacific island traveled across the
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  ocean to find the lava monster that was copardizing her village,
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  and with the help of Maui, a demi god with
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  Polynesian tattoos and a magic fish hook and a voice
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  sounding remarkably like Dwayne Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: This is animated.
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  Speaker 2: This is animated.
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  Speaker 1: The first one apparently is on Disney Plus. It's like
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  number one most viewed animated.
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  Speaker 2: Kids love it. Yeah, yeah, it's a fun movie. Anyway,
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  So the sequel the thing this was originally this originally
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  started out as a TV series for Disney Plus, but
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  then they decided now, I think after COVID They're like, no,
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  let's just make another movie. So I did really like it.
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  It's fun, it's got some nice adventure. I like the
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  message about the importance of human connection, whether it's across
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  oceans or across generations. You can read the full review
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  at ten o'clock at movie cricket dot net and that's
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  when you can find out how many stars. Okay, okay,
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  all right, so that leaves Maria Maria. This is a
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  biographical drama about Maria Kallis, the famous opera singer Diva.
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  Speaker 1: There's a play about her too.
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  Speaker 2: What is it called Masterclass?
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass? Yeah, just the one woman.
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  Speaker 2: That's a two it's a two part. So that's right.
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  There is another because because she's teaching to somebody. Yeah yeah,
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  so Maria callis uh probably the greatest opera singer the
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  world has ever seen this At the where we find
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  her in the movie, This is uh towards the end
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  of her life. Matter of fact, the movie shows the
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  last week of her life, age fifty three and failing health.
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  Her singing days are pretty much behind her, but she's
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  determined to sort of go out on her own terms.
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  She starts rehearsing with an accompanist to see if she
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  can still has enough in the tank to mount a comeback.
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  She's played here by Angeline and Jolie and and one
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  of one of the things that's very cool about this
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  is that there's no effort to do prosthetic makeup or
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  anything like that to make Angelina Jolie look.
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  Speaker 3: More like But does that take you out of it
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  because you just say it's Angelina and Julie.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, it's because it's a legend playing a legend,
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  and that that uh, that that really that really works,
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  And there's this sort of unspoken back and forth that
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  that that the actor and character can converse on that love.
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  It's really amazing to watch. So while Maria is testing
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  her voice, she's also granting an interview to a young
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  journalist played by Cody smit McPhee. Who you would recognize
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  from lots of stuff, uh, through through the interviews, and
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  it's not entirely clear if the interviews are real or
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  made up in her head, because because the the name
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  of the journalist's name is the same name as a
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  brand of Kueludes.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, was that something that she partakes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? There, there, there, there is indication that she was
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  hiding hiding pills in all of her fur coats and stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So so through these interviews, she's flashing back through her
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  life being a young girl in Greece, fending off the Nazis,
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  her first marriage, and her affair to with Aristotle on Nassas,
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  the the rich Greek tycoon who read dated for many
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  years even after Onassas married Jacqueline Kennedy. This is directed
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  by Pablo Lorraine, the Chilean director who he did he
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  did very similar treatment with Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie with
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  Natalie Portman and with Princess Diana and Spencer with Christen Stewart.
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  And it's sort of like this trilogy of tragic twentieth
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  century women. He has a thing. What I really like
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  is that what I really like about Marie is how
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  the narrative flips from pastor present, from reality to potentially fantasy,
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  and from the glory of Maria Maria kliss singing career
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  to the life she's living just before her death. Three
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  and a half stars. This is This is really beautifully done.
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  It'll be in some theaters starting on Wednesday, and then
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  if you don't want to go out for it, Netflix
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  will start screening it on December eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: Now I saw the finally saw the Heretic and as
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  I recall, your review of it was quite you gave
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  it quite a good review three and a half. I
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  think some well deserved. It's I would just add to
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  your comments about it. Hugh Grant is astonishing, astonished, how
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  perfectly cast for that and the two women, the two
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  young Mormon missionaries, sister missionaries, both excellent. Yes, I could
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  find no fault with it. Maybe a little long, maybe
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  it drags a little toward the end.
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  Speaker 2: The ending. The ending is a little odd, but I
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  think if you're I think I think you go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it makes sense, it is It is a very
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  not to give anything away, it's a very odd ending.
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  But but once you're that invested. But the first part
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  of the movie that it's very talking, but it's just
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  so griveting, tense, riveting, it's just great. So I highly
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  recommend the Heritic And I saw Glad two and of
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  lukewarm about it well.
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  Speaker 3: So so before Gladiator Too, there was a trailer for
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  Craven the Hunter and Craven the Hunter Aaron Taylor Johnson
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  plays the son of Russell Crowe, and as I'm watching
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  Gladiator Too, I thought, boy, I wish Aaron Taylor Johnson
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  had played the Sun in the.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's nothing wrong with Paul meskeal, It's just that
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  there's no way because without Russell Crowe there is a
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  giant hole that that that the Gladiator two has which
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  cannot be filled easily, and Meskell doesn't do it. I
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  don't know if Aaron Taylor Johnson would have filled it either.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like he's a bigger presence.
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  Speaker 1: I heard another reviewer say that pretty much the same
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  thing too. So Paul Muscall is a fine actor. He
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  just didn't he just didn't have that Russell Crowe.
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  Speaker 2: And Denzel would That would have been me here last week.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say it was you.
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  Speaker 3: Denzel makes it up for some of the Denzel.
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  Speaker 2: Denzel is enjoying chewing the scenery exactly. Well, next week,
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  night bitch, Yes, what you can say that on the radio. Okay,
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  that's good night. This is This is based on a
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  novel about a frazzle suburban housewife who starts taking on
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  the characts characteristics.
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  Speaker 1: Of a dog.
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  Speaker 2: And this is This is played by played by Amy
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  Adams in the movie. Well, okay, night bitch. The two,
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  The two, I'm looking forward to the next week. It's
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  kind of a grab bag. Next week there's one called
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  The Order, which is Jude Law going undercover to infiltrate
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  white supremacists. And Flow, which is a animated movie about
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  a cat in the wild and it's like no dialogue whatsoever,
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  and it's it's supposed to be it's supposed to beautiful.
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  Heard about this one? All right, I will I will
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  report back. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Sewan means reviewing movies for us. Thank you, movie cricket
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  dot Net. All right, slcrib dot com. Thank you, Sean