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Sean Means For April 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, then here he is.
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  Speaker 2: Sean means he's from the well, he's from Washington originally,
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  Speaker 2: but I think right.
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  Speaker 3: Texas, Texas originally. Oh really I didn't, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: but mostly Washington stays right.
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  Speaker 1: Grow up. Yes, Sean is.
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  Speaker 2: We're a reporter and editor at the Salt Lake Tribune
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  Speaker 2: sl trip dot com, and he's a movie reviewer. You
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  Speaker 2: can find his movie reviews at movie cricket dot net.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what do we got?
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  Speaker 3: We got three new movies to talk about. They're all
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  Speaker 3: really good. Oh nice thing. We'll start with the Ugly Stepsister.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very disturbing take on a classic fairy
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  Speaker 3: tale from Norway. We have Elvira, who's who. She's not ugly,
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  Speaker 3: she's just not a beauty queen. She's her nose, Her
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  Speaker 3: nose is a bit off. She wears braces. But then
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  Speaker 3: the prince in this kingdom says he wants to meet
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  Speaker 3: all the young virgins so he can find himself a bride,
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  Speaker 3: and and Alvira's mother is going to go all out
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  Speaker 3: to get her there. Some of this involves medieval plastic
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  Speaker 3: surgery with a chisel that was sewing on false eyelashes,
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  Speaker 3: and the finishing school, weight loss, secret tapewor a meg
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  Speaker 3: so as as all that indicates. Yeah, we're doing body
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  Speaker 3: horror here, not not as extreme as the substance, but
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  Speaker 3: you know what is is.
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  Speaker 1: No, it is very dark.
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  Speaker 3: And what's what's really interesting here is how the filmmaker
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  Speaker 3: pinpoints how much of you know, we think of the
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  Speaker 3: evil Stepsister. Not so much evil is just terrified, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, scared of her mother, scared of being alone,
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  Speaker 3: scared of getting come up, of come up, and for
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  Speaker 3: how they've treated poor little Cinderella. And the real enemy
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  Speaker 3: might be the patriarchy that sets all these insane beauty standards.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly three and a half stars for the Ugly Stepsister.
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  Speaker 3: It's over at the Broadway, all right. Yes, it's an
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  Speaker 3: easy Norwegian, all right. Next is the Wedding Bank. What
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  Speaker 3: this is a remake actually of a of a nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety three Angle E movie. Oh I didn't know that
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  Speaker 3: first first movie that ever quoted me in an ad really, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of cool. In that movie, it was an
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  Speaker 3: immigrant Chinese immigrant who's gay. Mary's a woman so he
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  Speaker 3: can get his green card because he can't marry his boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's nineteen ninety three. I don't do that yet.
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  Speaker 3: So in the new version, yeah, I mean, we have
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  Speaker 3: a Korean immigrant who in Seattle who could marry his boyfriend,
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  Speaker 3: but his rich family back at home in Korea would
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  Speaker 3: probably disown him. And the boyfriend played by Bow and
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  Speaker 3: Yang doesn't want to ruin his life like that, so
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  Speaker 3: he says no. So the Korean immigrant actor named Han
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  Speaker 3: Hanji Chen asks asks her boyfriend his boyfriend's best friend,
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  Speaker 3: Angela played by Kelly Marie Tran, to marry him. And
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  Speaker 3: Angela is in a committed relationship with Lee played by
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  Speaker 3: Lily Clodstone.
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  Speaker 1: You know, actually, but.
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  Speaker 3: Angela and Lee want to have a baby, and Lee's
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  Speaker 3: gone through IVF twice and failed and they can't afford
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  Speaker 3: a third try. So the boy the immigrant man, he
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  Speaker 3: offers to pay for Lee's I VF if Angela will
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  Speaker 3: do the green card wedding right. And then things get
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  Speaker 3: complicated when Men's grandmother played by Yun Juhung, who was
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  Speaker 3: who won the oscar from Minari a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 3: suddenly arrives to meet the meet the fiance, and Grandma
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  Speaker 3: assists on a traditional Korean wedding all the all the
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  Speaker 3: bells and whistles. So yeah, this is very funny, it's
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  Speaker 3: very sweet. I love the ensemble cast. Kelly Marie Tran
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  Speaker 3: I think is lovely. She's she's very cool. She took
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  Speaker 3: so much crap when she was in the Star Wars
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  Speaker 3: movie Bad Star Wars fans. Lily Gladstone also lovely. Bone
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  Speaker 3: Yang of course is really he's really funny here and
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  Speaker 3: also he actually shows he can do you know.
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  Speaker 1: Serious.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say this version is better than the
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  Speaker 3: ninety three, but it does raise the stakes in some
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  Speaker 3: interesting ways, and it's true to life.
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  Speaker 1: Now, so a good update. It's a good update.
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  Speaker 3: Three and a half stars, and it's playing in a
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  Speaker 3: few places around town. All right, now, this is the
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  Speaker 3: one I've been waiting for. Yeah, Sinners, this is this
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  Speaker 3: is a movie.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: You come because you see the vampire carnage in the trailer,
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  Speaker 3: and you stay because the supernatural lore and the period
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  Speaker 3: depiction of the gym Coast Jim Crow South ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: You've got twin brothers named Smoke and Stack. Those are
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  Speaker 3: their nicknames, and they've they've come home to Mississippi with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money and a truck of bootleg booze
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  Speaker 3: they got in Chicago. They don't want to talk about
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  Speaker 3: how they got it, and it's assumed they did something
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  Speaker 3: when they were up in Chicago and that it will
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  Speaker 3: be only a matter of time before somebody comes down
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  Speaker 3: to get to get it back and do nasty thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Their dream is to open a juke joint, which they do,
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  Speaker 3: and they find a young man of Preacher's son who
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  Speaker 3: plays blues guitar so beautiful that they take this kid,
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  Speaker 3: you got to come play for us. And as it's
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  Speaker 3: explained in the movie, some people make music. It's so
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  Speaker 3: beautiful that it crosses generations, brings past and future together,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes brings sometimes something evil will follow in that
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  Speaker 3: in that wake, which is where the vampires come in.
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  Speaker 3: And well, I mean they only come in when they're invited.
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  Speaker 3: That that's that's a rule.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. H The twins are played by Michael B. Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: He's really good.
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  Speaker 3: He's really having fun playing these sort of opposite characters
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  Speaker 3: frequently in the same frame.
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  Speaker 1: Directed by Ryan Kugler.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan and Kugler every every movie Coogler's made, Ryan Michael
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  Speaker 3: Jordan's been in it, uh, Fruitvale Station, Creed, both Black
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  Speaker 3: Panther movies, and he and and Kugler is really good
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  Speaker 3: on the mythology and the and the sort of magical realism.
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  Speaker 3: When there's a great scene where where when the kid
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  Speaker 3: is playing in the juke joint, you start seeing like
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  Speaker 3: West African drummers walking on the dance floor and then
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  Speaker 3: like break dancers and turntablists and so on, and it's
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  Speaker 3: like past and future all mixing in the in in
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  Speaker 3: the super natural, it's very cool. It's nice sort of
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  Speaker 3: magical realism. But and then but then there's vampires. It
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  Speaker 3: does take a it does take a minute for the
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  Speaker 3: vampire stuff to kick in, which is which if you
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  Speaker 3: have just a tad bit of patience, it's fine. What
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  Speaker 3: you're getting up to then is really cool. It's very exciting.
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  Speaker 3: But when it does happen, it's very exciting, it's very chilling.
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  Speaker 3: Reminded me actually a little bit of from Dust Till
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  Speaker 3: Dawn in that way, so that it's pretty gory too.
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  Speaker 3: It's it ain't it ain't it ain't sparing. It is
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  Speaker 3: definitely an R rated movie. So, uh, three stars, three
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  Speaker 3: and a half stars for sinners. Buddy Guy is in
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  Speaker 3: this movie, yes, but I'm not going to say a
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  Speaker 3: word about why. Okay, so uh three and a half
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  Speaker 3: stars for Sinners, and it's playing all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: One one bit of advice when the credits start rolling,
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  Speaker 3: don't move. Stay there's there's there's a few minutes more
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  Speaker 3: stuff that you've gotta you gotta sit for and enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Three and a half four and that's playing everywhere. That's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Next week we got the accountant to.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Affleck is back, and this time he's got John
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  Speaker 3: Burnhal as his assassin brother, hit man brother or something
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  Speaker 3: like that. Because it's a burn Thal's John Burnhal. You
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  Speaker 3: know he's got to do you got to shoot somebody.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to be a brute. And then there's the
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  Speaker 3: Legend of Ochi, which is sort of a strange children's
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  Speaker 3: fable about magical creatures being hunted by ewans. This is
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  Speaker 3: this is a movie where you know, you know things
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  Speaker 3: are going to be weird, but then you see William dafohone, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: just got weirder.
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  Speaker 1: YEP always does.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Shawn means Shaw means a sl trip dot
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  Speaker 2: com movie, Cricket dot NEP