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Sean Mean Movie Reviews from July 31st, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, here he is Sean Means, who's entered the studio
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  Speaker 1: to talk about movie that is opening. Sean is a
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  Speaker 1: editor and reporter at the Salt Lake Tribune. Sltrib dot
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  Speaker 1: com is where you find that he is a film reviewer,
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  Speaker 1: and you can find his reviews collected at movie cricket
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  Speaker 1: dot net.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Sean, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Out of those two movies of the Salt Lake Film Society,
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  Speaker 1: Jojo Rabbit and Isle of Dogs, which did you prefer?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember how you reviewed? I like them both
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  Speaker 2: quite a lot. I do remember.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I said go see him both.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what do we got today?
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  Speaker 4: We got two movies to talk about this week. We
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  Speaker 4: will start with I Want Your Sex. As the title, does.
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  Speaker 3: Olivia Wilde do anything that's not sexy time anymore? She's
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  Speaker 3: missed sexy Time?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the invite? That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's that's sort of anti sexy time. But
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  Speaker 4: we're talking about sex. Yeah. This is This is by
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  Speaker 4: the director Greg Arocki, who's been making challenging movies about
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  Speaker 4: sexuality amongst teens and twenty somethings for decades now.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of the Doom.
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  Speaker 4: Generation is probably the most famous one. He also did
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  Speaker 4: Smiley Face, which was Anna Faris. Oh yeah comedy. She's
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  Speaker 4: like perpetually stoned throughout the film. This one premiered at
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  Speaker 4: Sundance back in January and got some decent reviews. We
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  Speaker 4: start with an unemployed gen Z guy Elliott, played by
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Hoffman. He's got a girlfriend who ignores him played
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  Speaker 4: by Charlie XCX, and he's got a best friend who
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  Speaker 4: may or may not be lesbian played by Chase Sweet Wonders.
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  Speaker 4: And he just landed a job as an intern for
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  Speaker 4: a famous la artist played by Olivia Wilde. Her art
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  Speaker 4: is all about sexuality, so it's the most surprise to
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  Speaker 4: us that she takes Elliott home and runs him through
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  Speaker 4: the full playbook of SNM activity. He's unsure at first,
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  Speaker 4: but he starts getting into it. And yes, this is
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  Speaker 4: an HR violation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think.
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  Speaker 4: This is all shown in a very neon colored palette
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  Speaker 4: with some very well structured off the wall humor.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't even mentioned.
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  Speaker 4: David Diggs, as the artist's longtime assistant who has seen
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  Speaker 4: the interns come and go. It tells them at one point,
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  Speaker 4: you're not the first you won't be the last for
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  Speaker 4: a movie that's trying to provoke, and this movie is
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  Speaker 4: definitely trying to provoke. It picks some low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's satirizing the art world and gen
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  Speaker 4: z prudishness, the idea, the thesis that you know, people
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  Speaker 4: Elliott's age are too busy playing video games and looking
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  Speaker 4: at their phones to go touch grass or better yet,
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  Speaker 4: touch another human being.
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  Speaker 3: There is some truth to the case.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And and for all the sex in this movie, and
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of sex in this movie, it does
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  Speaker 4: get an R rating.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure how this works anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what are the rules?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good, not great. I give it three stars.
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  Speaker 4: I guess the title I Want Your Sex for all You,
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  Speaker 4: George Michael Michael fans.
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  Speaker 2: That was a really lukewarm three stars. Yes it was.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's playing at a few theaters around town.
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  Speaker 2: I bet if you think about it, it'll be too scores.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe what have we got all? Right? One?
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  Speaker 4: The one that everybody cares about, spider Man Brand New Day.
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  Speaker 4: This is the fourth movie centered around Tom Hollands version
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  Speaker 4: of Peter Parker aka Spider Man, and that's not counting
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  Speaker 4: the count in America Civil War and the two Avengers
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  Speaker 4: movies that he's been in. Yes, I think I'm at
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  Speaker 4: the point where I can say he's better as Peter
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  Speaker 4: Parker as Spider Man than Toby Maguire or Andrew Garfield.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, I felt that way probably after the first film.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the last time we saw Peter, he had
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  Speaker 4: he had to have Doctor Strange cast a spell to
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  Speaker 4: save the universe by having everyone forget that Peter and
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  Speaker 4: Spider Everyone includes MJ, his girlfriend, and his.
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  Speaker 2: Best friend Ned.
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  Speaker 4: And and so we see as this movie starts that
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  Speaker 4: Ned and MJ went off to M I T and
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  Speaker 4: that Peter is still in New York fighting crime and
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  Speaker 4: living by himself because the idea that part of the
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  Speaker 4: part of part of the gig of being Spider Man
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  Speaker 4: is you can't have any attachments because you know, look
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  Speaker 4: what happened to Aunt May.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: The new movie happens almost five years after the last one.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's a nice montage that they're getting where we
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  Speaker 4: see Peter watching Ned's social media to sort of keep up,
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  Speaker 4: and how they've gotten all the way through T And
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  Speaker 4: there are some new things in the crime fighting world.
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  Speaker 4: Primarily there's this guy Frank Castle, Vigilante who we all
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  Speaker 4: recognize as the Punisher, played by John Burenthal. And yes
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  Speaker 4: we have Tom holland John Berenthal and Zendea all you
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  Speaker 4: know who are all in the in the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 3: You can see them all over in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: I think they carpooled from one.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a new mystery villain who seems able to
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  Speaker 4: inhabit other people's bodies in succession. And that is all
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  Speaker 4: the plot you're getting out of me. The trailers have
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  Speaker 4: told you there's some crossover from the MCU, especially Mark
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  Speaker 4: Ruffalo appearing as Bruce Banner, and there's more that I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to give away. I'm not going to I'm
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  Speaker 4: also not going to tell you why Sadie Sink, the
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  Speaker 4: Redhead from Stranger Things, is in this movie other than.
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  Speaker 2: She owns it.
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  Speaker 4: She owns the movie in the same half in the
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  Speaker 4: role she's in that I'm not going to tell you
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  Speaker 4: what is?
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  Speaker 2: You like this, you know what is because you pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to people.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is kind of this is a very grounded,
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  Speaker 4: human sized comic book movie, which is we've been kind
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  Speaker 4: of missing in all the multiverse hopping over killed that
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  Speaker 4: we've had in the last two Marvel movies, and Tom
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  Speaker 4: Holland and Zidea actually get some nice emotional scenes in
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  Speaker 4: between the action set pieces. I got to give a
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  Speaker 4: lot of credit to the director here, Destin and Daniel Krettin.
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  Speaker 4: He's the guy that is Shaun Chi and the legend
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  Speaker 4: of the of the Ten Rings it. Yeah, having your
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  Speaker 4: friendly neighborhood Spider Man just saw dealing with mostly New
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  Speaker 4: York problems.
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  Speaker 2: Is a nice is a nice refresher after all the you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, they had a different script which apparently was way
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  Speaker 5: over the top, and Holland sat down with the director,
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  Speaker 5: Daniel Curtin, and said, let's make this a little more intimate. Let's,
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  Speaker 5: you know, let's explore Peter Moore. Let's you know, the relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and I'm talking about how he's going through something. Right,
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  Speaker 4: There's there's some hormone changes, spider hormone changes or something
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  Speaker 4: or other, and he's evolving and it kind of messes
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  Speaker 4: up and we get into the whole We get into
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  Speaker 4: the whole thing about where your web shooters come from. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether you get the organic ones like Toby
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  Speaker 4: McGuire did or the mechanical ones. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: all a thing. Okay, three and a half stars for
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  Speaker 4: Spider Man Brand New Day. And it's of course playing everywhere,
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  Speaker 4: usually in the theaters right next to The Odyssey.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I it is the summer of Tom Holland
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  Speaker 3: and Zindia, and I am.
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  Speaker 2: Here for it.
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  Speaker 3: They are so cute, but they are both fantastic actors.
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  Speaker 3: I've been just enjoying them in everything they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I still haven't seen The Odyssey, but I hear people
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  Speaker 1: talking a lot about John Lake Uzamo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, he's he's the he's he's really good in
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  Speaker 4: the movie. Samantha Morton is best thing in it. But
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean Zendia and I mean Zendez.
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  Speaker 2: This is you know, we've got We've got Dune coming
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  Speaker 2: coming in December.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the fact that we've had three movies with
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  Speaker 4: just Zendia and Robert Pattinson together so far this year,
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  Speaker 4: and so this will you know, Zenda will have four
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  Speaker 4: movies by the end of the year. At least you
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  Speaker 4: might have something else coming. I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 4: about but uh, and then you know, Holland, you know
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  Speaker 4: he's he's The hard part is that we think of
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  Speaker 4: Peter Parker constantly as a teenager or a twenty something.
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  Speaker 2: What happens when Spider Man actually gets older?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's that's and and you start to you
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  Speaker 4: start to approach that with this movie, and if there's
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  Speaker 4: another one, then that's you know, that's where the question
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  Speaker 4: is really going to come up, is.
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  Speaker 2: How do you how do you? How do you be
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  Speaker 2: a grown up Spider Man? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Well, my favorite Spider Man title right now is all
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  Speaker 5: Spider Man. It takes place at a different universe, and
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  Speaker 5: he's married to MJ and has two kids. Uh uh,
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  Speaker 5: and so it's the whole Juggling family. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I saw super stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a headline yesterday and I didn't read this
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  Speaker 1: story because but it said I think it said Tom
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  Speaker 1: Holland is has a plan about passing on the role
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  Speaker 1: to another person, and he has somebody in mind for
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  Speaker 1: that apparently, Okay, but I didn't read it to find out,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know if anybody knows anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: Just but he also said that he's he's willing to
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  Speaker 5: come back anytime that they want him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so but he knows he'll have to pass it along.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, I mean we'll get well, we may get
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  Speaker 4: the live action version of Miles Morales eventually, I hope so,
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  Speaker 4: but well, I don't know because I'm so I so
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  Speaker 4: much love the Spider Verse animated version, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: want I don't want another bad live action version.
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  Speaker 2: Of a great animated work. You know. I don't need
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  Speaker 2: another Moana here, you know. So there you go. Anything
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  Speaker 2: opening up next week?
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  Speaker 4: Next week, the Doldrums of August are starting. Yes, the
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  Speaker 4: biggest studio movie next week is It is called One
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  Speaker 4: Night Only. It's a romantic comedy with Callum Turner and
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  Speaker 4: Monica Barbarrow.
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  Speaker 2: You may know you remember her as playing.
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  Speaker 4: Joan Biez in that bog Dylen movie She's Good Scott
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  Speaker 4: Oscar nomination. And then the other one next week is
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  Speaker 4: Cookie Queens, which is a documentary about this was a Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: There was a Sundance, girls selling girls Scott cookies. One
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  Speaker 4: of the interesting parts of this is that the two
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  Speaker 4: of the executive producers are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,
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  Speaker 4: Harry and Meghan.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, but I kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of remember when you interview interviewed reviewed this at Sundance
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  Speaker 3: and you said.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you haven't no, Oh okay, yeah it was another reviewer,
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  Speaker 3: somebody I read reviews. Yeah, that that was, like, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, set that part of it aside. And it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty good if you forget about the word. The word
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  Speaker 3: I keep hearing from people is adorable. Yeah, adorable, and
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  Speaker 3: it's right to ge which how often do you see
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  Speaker 3: that anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Not often? Yeah, it's girl scouts. What do you expect?
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  Speaker 2: I hope?
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  Speaker 1: So all right, Sean means movie cricket dot net, sl
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  Speaker 1: trip dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's all there. Yep, thank you, seug, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: All right, traffic Geeta C.