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

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well here he is Sean Patrick Means. Sean
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  Speaker 1: is a writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, a writer
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  Speaker 1: and editor. You can find his works around in sltrib
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  Speaker 1: dot com. And he's a movie critic. You will find
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  Speaker 1: his reviews moviecricket dot net. Good morning, Sean, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Some interesting movies here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we have three to talk about it. We will
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  Speaker 2: start with Knight of the Night of These Zoo Apocalypse.
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  Speaker 2: It's not every animated kids movie that has in the
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  Speaker 2: credits inspired by a concept by Clive Barker.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my, that sounds like not for kids. This is this.
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  Speaker 3: This is the guy who came up with the hell
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  Speaker 3: Raiser movies.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we are at a zoo at closing time
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  Speaker 2: and a tiny glowing meteorite lands in the petting zoo
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  Speaker 2: and a rabbit finds it and eats it, Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: it changes him into a ravenous, glowing mutant beast of course.
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  Speaker 3: Like a zombie or something.
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  Speaker 2: And he bites another animal and that animal turns into
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  Speaker 2: a gloing mutant bee, and so on and so on. Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there are a few animals that don't get turned into
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  Speaker 2: zombie mutant animals. So, uh, main ones are Gracie who's
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  Speaker 2: a wolf, and Dan, who's a wild mountain lion who
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  Speaker 2: just got captured for the zoo. And they have to
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  Speaker 2: go from you know, we ain't partners, we ain't friends,
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  Speaker 2: to to relying on each other if they want to
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  Speaker 2: end this alien invasion.
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  Speaker 3: It has its moments.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The dialogue is kind of insipid though, and great tracts
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  Speaker 3: from that. Animation is not bad.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's the one thing about the alien ones is
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  Speaker 2: that they kind of look like gummy worms. They sort
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  Speaker 2: of had that consistency and it's kind of cool to
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  Speaker 2: watch that happen, especially when they like started like combining
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  Speaker 2: and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The not many people in the voice cast that you
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  Speaker 2: would know that the mountain Lion is voiced by David
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  Speaker 2: Harbor from Stranger Things.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Two and a half stars for Night at the Zoopocalypse. Alright,
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  Speaker 2: it's playing.
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  Speaker 3: In a few theaters around town. It's like, we can
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  Speaker 3: wait for that one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this next one. I just watched the preview
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  Speaker 1: for it, the trailer. It looks creepy as hell.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, The Rule of Jenny Penn.
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  Speaker 2: This is a suspense siller that's set in a nursing
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  Speaker 2: home in New Zealand. We start with Jeffrey Rush as Stephan,
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  Speaker 2: who is a judge in New Zealand until he has
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  Speaker 2: a stroke while he's he's in the middle of sencing
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  Speaker 2: somebody and he has a stroke on the bench. So
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  Speaker 2: he has to go to a nursing home to recuperate,
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't get along with the other patients because
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  Speaker 2: he's like, I shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the judge, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But he realizes that there's somebody in the nursing home
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  Speaker 2: that all the other patients are afraid of, and that's Dave.
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  Speaker 2: He's played by John Lithgow and he seems to be
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  Speaker 2: in advanced stages of all timers. But and he's carrying
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  Speaker 2: a puppet on his hand, the creepy doll head puppet
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  Speaker 2: just walks around with that all day. And the puppet
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  Speaker 2: is named Jenny Penn. So that's oh, yes, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't take long for Stephan to figure out that
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  Speaker 2: Dave bullies and Timy dates every other patient in the
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  Speaker 2: nursing home and he and and the staff is clueless.
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  Speaker 2: Staff is too busy to really notice going on. So
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  Speaker 2: and and one of the one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: breaks down in the plotting here is like these these
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  Speaker 2: staff never looks at the surveillance footage.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, you don't pay me enough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so so he's not going after Stephan and
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  Speaker 2: starting foul false accusations against him with the staff and
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  Speaker 2: graduating to other forms of teir. This movie has some
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  Speaker 2: good moments. The director his name is James Ashcroft. He
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  Speaker 2: sets up some nice set pieces and good atmosphere of tension.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of missed the delivery on a couple of
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  Speaker 2: the darker moments. The real fun here is watching John
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  Speaker 2: Letcoe and Jeffrey rush sure chew scenery at each other
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  Speaker 2: each other.
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  Speaker 3: It's oh yeah, two great actors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a nice sort of back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: There three stars all right for the Rule of Jenny
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  Speaker 2: pen It's playing in a few theaters.
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  Speaker 3: It will be on Shutter in a little while if
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  Speaker 3: you want to wait.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Mickey seventeen, which I've been telling people about for
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  Speaker 4: months now because it's a great concept.
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  Speaker 3: Right, great concept. There was a novel a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is way. This is a science fiction satire.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first movie by Bank June Hoe since Parasite,
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  Speaker 2: since you want all that. It's been about five years
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  Speaker 2: since he won all the Oscars for for Parasite, we
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  Speaker 2: have Mickey.
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  Speaker 3: We meet Mickey.
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  Speaker 2: He's fallen into a crevasse on an ice planet in
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  Speaker 2: the future, and he thinks he's gonna die, which is
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  Speaker 2: not new to him, because this is this is this
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  Speaker 2: will be the se this will be the seventeenth time.
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  Speaker 3: He's done.
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  Speaker 2: He is an expendable, which is a clone of his
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  Speaker 2: original self. He's he's given all the dirtiest, nastiest, most
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  Speaker 2: dangerous jobs, the ones that are largely guaranteed to kill him.
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  Speaker 2: But then every time he dies, they print a new
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  Speaker 2: clone out like a three D printer and and put
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  Speaker 2: his memories in it.
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  Speaker 3: And he's back to where he was.
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  Speaker 2: He's on this colonial UH space craft that's going to
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  Speaker 2: colonize this ice planet. The leader of the ship UH
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  Speaker 2: says it's going to be a paradise because of the
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  Speaker 2: pure human settlers.
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  Speaker 3: This guy is played by Mark Ruffalo.
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  Speaker 2: His blustering here's the thing he plays, This sort of blustering,
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  Speaker 2: not too bright, autocratic leader gives us a good hint
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  Speaker 2: of what villains in movies for the next four years.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to look like, yeah, sets a high bar though,
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  Speaker 2: so the the next few you are going to have
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  Speaker 2: to really come up to be to match what Ruffle
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  Speaker 2: is doing here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to get too much into the pot.
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  Speaker 2: The seventeenth version finds something different when he gets back
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  Speaker 2: from the crevass, which is because they thought he had
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  Speaker 2: died in the crevass.
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  Speaker 3: They've already printed up in Amber eighteen. So there's two
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  Speaker 3: of them. There's two of them, which they are not
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  Speaker 3: supposed to have to it. This is this is a comedy. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's very funny.
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  Speaker 2: It's very very funny, very sharp sort of takedown of
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  Speaker 2: class divisions in labor. And I mean hoe if you
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  Speaker 2: look at his movies snow Piercer and Parasite, class division.
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  Speaker 3: Is like his thing, that's his jam.
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  Speaker 1: Snow Piercer is just completely that oh yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and and and weird and weird gelatinous foods that came
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  Speaker 1: from places you don't want to know about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you've got you know.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got Mickey on one and the sort of
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the of the food chain, and then
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  Speaker 2: you've got Ruffle's character and his wife played by Tony
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  Speaker 2: Kollette at the other end, and and and everybody else
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  Speaker 2: in the middle who, even though they're not labeled as expendable,
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  Speaker 2: uhly believe what Ruffalo Collet are doing. Everybody's expendable for
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  Speaker 2: the greater good exactly. Boy, this this is frightening me.
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  Speaker 2: Great great comic energy, great futuristic weirdness. The best thing
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  Speaker 2: of all really is Pattinson. I mean, it's it's always
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  Speaker 2: a good reminder of how good an actor Robert Pattinson is.
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  Speaker 3: You forget because of Twilight, Yeah, I mean Twilight. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he was a good vampire. He was a good sparkling vampire.
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  Speaker 2: But how to sparkle. But the thing is that's not
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  Speaker 2: what he was being asked to do. But when he
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  Speaker 2: I mean when he gets hero all in here and
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  Speaker 2: he because he's playing multiple roles, he is playing seventeen
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  Speaker 2: or eighteen of the same the same character and and
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  Speaker 2: doing enough that's different with each one to have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have some fun with it. It's it's really this is
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  Speaker 2: really really worthwhile. It is it's a little gross, but
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  Speaker 2: it's really good. So three and a half, three and
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  Speaker 2: a half for Mickey Mickey, and it is playing everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the I think the Broadway has it.
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  Speaker 3: Broadway has it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's pretty widely, pretty widely available.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So Night of the Zoopocalypse two and a
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  Speaker 4: half Rule of Jenny Penn three and Mickey seventeen three
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  Speaker 4: and a half star. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: What do we got next week?
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  Speaker 2: Next week we got Novakane, which is an action comedy
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  Speaker 2: Jack Quaid as a man who can't feel pain and
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  Speaker 2: he has to use that on some bank robbers kidnap
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend played by Amber mid Thunder from Pratt. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, we like her. And then we also have
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  Speaker 2: A Black Bag, which is a spy movie directed by
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  Speaker 2: Steven Soderberg, with Michael Fassbender and Kate Blanchett as married
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  Speaker 2: spies who who discover things things about each other.
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  Speaker 1: Does does Stephen Soderberg direct a movie about once a month?
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  Speaker 2: He's he's well, he's had two out and since the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's like he just he just has
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  Speaker 1: tons of movies stock up.
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  Speaker 3: He's prolific.