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Sean Means Movie Reviews For February 7th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's Sean Patrick Means. He's joined us here from the
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake Tribune. He's a reporter and editor at that paper,
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  Speaker 1: sltrib dot com. And Sean is also a movie reviewer.
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  Speaker 1: You can find all of his reviews and other writings
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  Speaker 1: at movie cricket dot net.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Shawn, Good morning. So what do we got? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Three movie? I saw three movies we can talk about
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 3: First out, though, something they did not screen for critics
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  Speaker 3: around here was Becoming led Zeppelin, a documentary about the
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  Speaker 3: legendary bands.
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  Speaker 2: Just in a way you don't need to screen it
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  Speaker 2: for critics, right.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, they know their audience. Yeah, I grew up
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  Speaker 3: on the song remains the same. So yes, you know
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  Speaker 3: midnight movie, Yeah, the Great Midnight Movie or constant Midnight
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  Speaker 3: Movie I suppose, Yeah, the the riveting scenes of people
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  Speaker 3: backstage yelling about T shirt sales. You know. Anyway, this
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  Speaker 3: is playing at the Megaplex theaters in the district Jordan
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  Speaker 3: Commons End in Centerville. So if you are a led zeppelephant,
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  Speaker 3: you already know that. So Ed Brass, I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I did see Love Hurts, which is sort of an
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  Speaker 3: action rom com with Kiwi Kwan, the Oscar winner from
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  Speaker 3: Everything Everywhere, all at once.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He plays Marvin, a realtor in Milwaukee. Very optimistic, very positive,
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  Speaker 3: and it's surprising to find out, very good at martial arts.
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  Speaker 3: Uh when someone's trying to kill him, which happens a lot,
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  Speaker 3: much more than you would expect in real estate.
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  Speaker 2: So he keep trying to kill him.
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  Speaker 4: He's trained, yes, and and he does and does help
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  Speaker 4: with with fight scenes in movies.
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  Speaker 3: He's worked, he's worked as a he's worked as a
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  Speaker 3: as a martial arts performer and a stunt coordinator and
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  Speaker 3: a fight a fight choreographer.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: For that's what he did in between his child acting
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  Speaker 3: career and his adult acting career.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We find out that Marvin is hiding from his gangster
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  Speaker 3: brother who used to who used to use Marvin as
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  Speaker 3: his assassin until he let one woman go, And that woman,
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  Speaker 3: Rose Carlisle, played by Arianna Debos from West Side Story,
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  Speaker 3: is back settling old scores. Turns out she got framed
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  Speaker 3: for stealing money from Marvin's brother, and once it's set
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  Speaker 3: things out right by nailing the brother's right hand assistant
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  Speaker 3: who actually is embezzling.
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  Speaker 2: So it's complicated.
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  Speaker 3: So we got Kiwi Kwan doing a fair amount of
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  Speaker 3: martial arts action and like I say, he's quite good
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  Speaker 3: at it, and he did.
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  Speaker 2: He does pretty well here.
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  Speaker 3: It reminded me of sort of mid level Jackie Chan.
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  Speaker 3: Okay movie, I wish the fights were a little better
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  Speaker 3: or at least shot better, you know, so it is
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  Speaker 3: kind of disappointing that way. I gave it two and
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  Speaker 3: a half stars.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can have some of the best fight
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  Speaker 4: coordinators on set. If it's not shot correctly, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Lost on And like Jackie Chan movies, he he went
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  Speaker 3: with the Fred Astaire roll that you had to have
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  Speaker 3: the whole body long, long long shots of the whole
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  Speaker 3: body so you get the really in the fight, and
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  Speaker 3: that you don't get enough of that here. So it's
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  Speaker 3: too choppy. So all right, so what do we have next? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm still here. This is a This is a drama
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  Speaker 3: from Brazil.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Best Actress nominee. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Some people were surprised that it got three OSCAR nominations
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  Speaker 3: Best Picture, Best Actress for Fernanda Torres, and Best International Film.
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  Speaker 3: And with the What's happening with the Amelia Perez campaign
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  Speaker 3: right now, it might, it might, it might take over
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  Speaker 3: the international film category. So this has said It starts
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy one and Rio de Janeiro. We're following
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  Speaker 3: a family, a prosperous family, husband, wife, five kids.
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  Speaker 2: The dad, Rubens, used to be a congressman.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's a dissident, arguing, you know, against the military dictatorship.
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  Speaker 3: But he tells his wife Eunis that, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: too well known to be a target. He's you know,
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  Speaker 3: they wouldn't they wouldn't go after him, that it would
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  Speaker 3: be too much of a stinkmate. Well, yeah, and then
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  Speaker 3: then they then they do Rubens and Units are taken
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  Speaker 3: to a military facility. Units is detained for twelve days,
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  Speaker 3: and when she gets out, she's told her husband has disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't she doesn't believe that.
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  Speaker 3: She knows that the government has him or has killed him,
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  Speaker 3: and so she starts collecting evidence to prove it. Not
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  Speaker 3: an easy thing to do when the government controls the police, courts,
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  Speaker 3: the newspapers, everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the movie is about how Eunice has to do.
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  Speaker 1: You hear what Sean just said, by the way, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just just bear that in mind.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is this is This is years
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  Speaker 3: ago in a different country and nothing at all like
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  Speaker 3: what's going on now in this country. The movie is
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  Speaker 3: about how Unis has to transform her life after her
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  Speaker 3: husband disappears so she could take care of their five kids,
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  Speaker 3: go to law school, move to Sapallo, and become an
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  Speaker 3: advocate for the thousands of people who were disappeared during
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  Speaker 3: the military dictatorship. Yeah, Fernando Tarres plays Unis. She won
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  Speaker 3: the Golden Globe.
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  Speaker 2: She how do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: Nominated for Best Actress. She's good, She's really powerful. She's
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  Speaker 3: able to keep all of Unice's emotions going in their fear, grief, anger, determination.
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  Speaker 2: It is a great performance.
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  Speaker 3: Her mother was was is a great Brazilian actress who
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  Speaker 3: shows up at the very end of the movie.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the last Brazilian actress to get nominated
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  Speaker 3: for Best Actress back like six years ago for an
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  Speaker 3: End of Montenegro three and a half stars for I'm
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  Speaker 3: Still here right and it's over at the problem right then?
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  Speaker 2: The Seed of a Sacred Figure.
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  Speaker 3: The Seed of the Sacred Fig This is This was
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  Speaker 3: shot in secret in Iran. Oh really, Yeah, the director
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  Speaker 3: had to smuggle the footage out on thumb drives and
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  Speaker 3: then had to smuggle himself out when he was arrested
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  Speaker 3: and given an eight year prison sentence.
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  Speaker 2: His sentence was eight years in a flogging. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: should just give him an award and be done with it.
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  Speaker 3: Mohammed Mohammed rasoulof The movie starts with a man who's
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  Speaker 3: promoted to be an investigative judge in the Iran judiciary.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big honor, but it also has some dangers.
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  Speaker 2: He's told.
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  Speaker 3: People who lose in court sometimes try to get revenge
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  Speaker 3: on their judge. So so so his colleague says, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: take this, and it's a gun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and and we know, we know what happens when
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  Speaker 2: you show a gun. In the first part of the movie. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be you. It's got to show up somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Checkof's gun, they call it.
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  Speaker 3: His wife loves the prestige of her husband's new job,
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  Speaker 3: but their teen daughters, ones in college ones in high
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  Speaker 3: school the more cautious about it, especially when they realize
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  Speaker 3: that dad's new job means that he's prosecuting the student
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  Speaker 3: protesters who have been marching because the police beat up
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  Speaker 3: a woman for not wearing her hit job correctly is
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  Speaker 3: that this actually happened too, and she later died from
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  Speaker 3: her injuries, which the police say, oh no, that wasn't us,
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  Speaker 3: and of course it was. So the movie takes this
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  Speaker 3: fictional family and runs them their lives parallel with this
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  Speaker 3: real life event. The older daughter, like I said in college,
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  Speaker 3: she brings a friend home with her when her friend
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  Speaker 3: is injured and bleeding from getting shot by the cops
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  Speaker 3: breaking up one of these protests. The story follows this
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  Speaker 3: family and mostly how the dad becomes more paranoid and
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  Speaker 3: suspicious of the family and certainly having that gun is
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  Speaker 3: not a helpful thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the best movies of last year.
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  Speaker 3: And I was really disappointed when it didn't get the
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  Speaker 3: sort of recognition it should have gotten.
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  Speaker 2: The Oscars.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's I think, I think, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it got in for or no it to get nominated
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  Speaker 3: for an international. It did the Cedar Thinker fig It's
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  Speaker 3: playing at the Broadway four Stars of the Rare, the
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  Speaker 3: Rare four Stars two weeks in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about this Amelia Piros, everything
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  Speaker 1: going on with that. First of all, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: the movie. Kerrie's seen it it is I can't think
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  Speaker 1: of her name. Is she good enough to be nominated
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  Speaker 1: for an Academy Award?
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  Speaker 3: Carlo Sophia Gascon it's it's it's a really powerful performance.
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  Speaker 3: I really, I really liked the movie. It was on
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  Speaker 3: my top ten list. I know some there are some
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  Speaker 3: critics who loved it. Some people who think it's just
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  Speaker 3: the worst piece of trash ever to be nominated for
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  Speaker 3: an OSCAR, Which I mean, if if as long as
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  Speaker 3: as long as green Book is in the room, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Crash would like a word.
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  Speaker 5: The The issue is, The issue is is how much
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  Speaker 5: the oscars are about what's what's happening on the screen
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  Speaker 5: and what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: In the in the ad campig, in the in the campaign,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what that's what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Is it? This actress? This this actress?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of historic, first transactress to get
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  Speaker 3: nominated for Best Actress. But turns out that she has
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  Speaker 3: a past that is pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Awful and it's not a one off thing. It's multiple
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  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of bad tweets.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it has caused it has caused a lot
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  Speaker 3: of changes. For the Academy ceremony, they were going to
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  Speaker 3: do what they call the Fab five thing, where they
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  Speaker 3: bring up five past winners to say nice things about
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  Speaker 3: each of the nominees. And they thought, you know, who
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  Speaker 3: are we going to get to talk nice things about
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  Speaker 3: this this this person? And you know, the joke was, well, hey,
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  Speaker 3: mel Gibson's free.
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  Speaker 1: Oh h well, but yeah, it's the and they've withdrawn
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  Speaker 1: all support to her. It's like it's like she's dead.
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  Speaker 1: She apparently she does still have a ticket to the ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: She's not gonna she can she can show up.
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  Speaker 3: She has she has been saying, she's been saying she's
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  Speaker 3: pretty well dropped out of the race.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, she's not.
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  Speaker 3: There's like the Spanish the Goyas, which is Spain, Spain's
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  Speaker 3: version of the Oscars. Those are happening like this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: and she says she's not gonna go things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So and she's, yeah, I don't even I don't. I
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  Speaker 3: doubt she even shows up for the for the ceremony.
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  Speaker 3: And at this point, if I were, I wouldn't And
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  Speaker 3: at this point it's very unlikely a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: are going to vote for her. Yeah, and and and
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  Speaker 3: and the question is going to be this was the
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  Speaker 3: most nominated film, uh, this, this, this, this season, this year,
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  Speaker 3: how many people are going to vote for the movie?
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  Speaker 2: I predict a shutout. I I think it's very possible
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  Speaker 2: at this point.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it seemed to be a lock for
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  Speaker 3: the International Film Award, but I think now that the
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  Speaker 3: backlash is such that no, it's it's not going to happen,
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  Speaker 3: and a movie like I'm Still Here could definitely take
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  Speaker 3: it on.
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  Speaker 2: And it's too bad because Zoe Saldana and this is
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  Speaker 2: really good. I agree, she won the Golden Globe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got that a lot of people are being
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  Speaker 1: critical of the director as well, saying, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: filmed in France rather than Mexico and it's set in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Uh he the and the Spanish that he that they
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  Speaker 1: use in the movie is not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: It's more Castilian or something not not not Mexican dialects.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody said it's it's Google Translate Spanish. And uh so anyway, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, what's next week?
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  Speaker 2: Next week?
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  Speaker 3: America, countin America, Brave New World. Uh uh, Anthony Mackie,
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  Speaker 3: Sam Wilson, The New cap and Harrison Ford in the
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  Speaker 3: in the William Hurt role, Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And Addington in Peru. Paddington in Peru, which is.
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  Speaker 4: Darkest Peru, which I'm hearing good things about it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? Ben Wishaw is he the voice of Ben?
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  Speaker 1: Is the voice of I just discovered him in Black
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  Speaker 1: Doves on TV. He's really an interesting actor. Yes, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you? Seawan means sl trip dot com, movie cricket
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  Speaker 1: dot net.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay,