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Sean Means Movie Reviews From September 18th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Maybe Sean Means got waylaid by a teddy bear picnic.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got an email here of the movies that
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  Speaker 2: are opening. Daybreak Notorious for their teddy bear picnics.
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  Speaker 1: Roaming bands.
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  Speaker 2: There have been several teddy bear attacks in the daybreak.
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil is opening. Oh, I'm reading good reviews about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I am too. American Doctor, which is a documentary about Gaza. Oh, really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's opening at the Broadway. And Sean is giving that
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  Speaker 2: three and a half stars. He said Resident Evil was
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  Speaker 2: not screened for Utah critics. The Wait, which is a
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  Speaker 2: prison heist drama.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that has Russell Crowe and Ethan Hawke
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  Speaker 1: in it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is it weight, W-E-I-G-H-T? Yes, the weight.
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  Speaker 3: As in conveying.
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  Speaker 2: Heaviness. Heaviness. Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think it's... They're like stealing gold or something
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  Speaker 1: and having to carry it through the woods.
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  Speaker 2: There's some kind... Well, don't go into the woods with gold.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me there's some... It's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: quirky movie of some sort. It's... Russell Crowe is Ethan
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  Speaker 2: Hawke's dad or something like that. And then this is
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  Speaker 2: getting good reviews. Sean the Sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Sean the Sheep, the beast of Mossy Bottom. Beloved. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Ardmore Studios. There he is. Get Sean sitting over here.
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  Speaker 2: There he is. And we were just running through the
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  Speaker 2: titles of the movies, Sean, here. So thanks for coming out.
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  Speaker 2: And lean into the microphone. We're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you want to start?
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  Speaker 2: You didn't get to see Resident Evil.
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  Speaker 3: No, they did not screen that for regional critics.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing good things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't screen it early for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people either. They kept it very close to the vest.
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  Speaker 2: Either it wasn't good, but sometimes they do that because
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  Speaker 2: they think, Well, it's a proven commodity, and it's good,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't need to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, normally I wouldn't have cared because the franchise has
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  Speaker 3: been played out for a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But the reboot here, directed by Zach Kreger, who did
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  Speaker 3: Barbarian and Weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, those are really good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good.
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  Speaker 1: Barbarian. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I may catch up to it later.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go to American Doctor, which is a documentary.
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  Speaker 3: It's a documentary I saw at Sundance. It follows three
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  Speaker 3: doctors from the U.S., who volunteered their time and risked
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  Speaker 3: their lives to volunteer at a hospital in Gaza. So
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  Speaker 3: they're right in the middle of the violence trying to
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  Speaker 3: save people who have been injured and maimed by the
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  Speaker 3: strikes by the Israeli military. It's a really harrowing documentary.
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  Speaker 3: It really shows the violence of war and how the
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  Speaker 3: people trying to hold everything together can get to the
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  Speaker 3: breaking point.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised they were able to film anything.
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  Speaker 3: Some of it is about how some of them were
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  Speaker 3: not allowed back into the country.
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  Speaker 1: They've been coming in and out.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're expecting... Both sides documentary. Consider this is
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  Speaker 3: a documentary about how war hurts and kills people, and
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  Speaker 3: this movie is against.
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  Speaker 2: That, shockingly. In this conflict, are there both sides?
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  Speaker 3: Well, see, that's where you get into it sometimes. We
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be talking about Macklemore if it wasn't for somebody
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  Speaker 3: saying there's another side. If you want a movie that's
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  Speaker 3: in favor of war, go somewhere else. Three and a
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  Speaker 3: half stars for American Doctor. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now The Wait. The Wait. With Russell Crowe and
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  Speaker 2: Ethan Hawke.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a really strong drama. It's set around
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  Speaker 3: a prison chain gang in the 1930s during the Depression.
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  Speaker 3: We're mostly watching this one guy, Murphy, played by Ethan Hawke.
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  Speaker 3: He ended up in Oregon prison for one small mistake,
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  Speaker 3: and it's likely to mean he'll lose his daughter to
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  Speaker 3: adoption because his daughter's in the system. In the system.
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  Speaker 3: But the warden running the prison labor camp, played by
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  Speaker 3: Russell Crowe, offers him a chance to get out sooner.
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  Speaker 3: The warden has a buddy who runs a gold mine
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  Speaker 3: in the Oregon woods, and the government is about to
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  Speaker 3: confiscate all the gold to get the U.S. off the
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  Speaker 3: gold standard. So the guy who's running the mine wants
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  Speaker 3: some strong backs to carry some gold 100 miles through
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  Speaker 3: the woods. So the warden tells Murphy he can choose
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  Speaker 3: three of his fellow inmates, and if they can get
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  Speaker 3: the gold across, they'll get their freedom. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: it's a long haul. There's dangerous people on the path.
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  Speaker 3: And even if they make it through all that, there's
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  Speaker 3: no guarantee the warden's not going to double-cross him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: But Murphy has no good options, so he says yes.
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  Speaker 3: This is a really solid thriller. Lots of danger on
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  Speaker 3: the route. Ethan Hawke reminds us how good he is here.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't he always do that?
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  Speaker 3: He's been around so long. He's been doing so much
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  Speaker 3: that you forget how good he can be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I never thought about him being
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  Speaker 2: good or bad until I saw that film. miniseries on TV,
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  Speaker 2: The Good Lord Bird. The Good Lord Bird. I went, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's great. And then I've watched a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: since then. He's always good.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't talk a lot in this movie, which is
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  Speaker 3: so different from the last one, Blue Moon, where he
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  Speaker 3: was playing Lawrence Hart, which he got the Oscar nomination for.
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  Speaker 3: He's smart. He knows how to keep quiet. And he's
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  Speaker 3: good at sizing up all the angles and figuring.
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  Speaker 2: Out how to get through this. Who are his sidekicks?
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  Speaker 2: Are they good?
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  Speaker 3: I don't recognize any of the actors.
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  Speaker 2: The other two guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I usually root for Russell Crowe. I want him
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  Speaker 1: to do well.
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  Speaker 2: Is he good?
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty good in a supporting role, yeah. So it's
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  Speaker 3: really nerve-rattling, I think, in a good way. Three and
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  Speaker 3: a half stars for the weight. And it's playing in
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  Speaker 3: several places around town, around the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we should point out the American Doctor is at
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  Speaker 2: the Broadway. I don't know if we mentioned that. Sean
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  Speaker 2: the Sheep, the Beast of Mossy Bottom. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This is a rare thing, a Halloween movie that all
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  Speaker 3: ages can watch and enjoy. Sean the Sheep is a
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  Speaker 3: spin-off character from Wallace and Gromit. Very funny and very British,
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  Speaker 3: clay animated characters. Sean's been on his own for decades.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually the star of one of the most popular
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  Speaker 3: children's cartoon shows in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Good for him.
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  Speaker 3: And this is his third movie. It's Halloween. Sean and
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  Speaker 3: his farm friends are preparing to celebrate. They have a
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  Speaker 3: secret pumpkin patch where they've grown some really impressive pumpkins.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, their farmer stumbles onto the patch, literally, and he
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  Speaker 3: destroys the pumpkins.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: So Sean, who's kind of a scientist on the side.
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  Speaker 2: A scientist sheep, of course.
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  Speaker 3: A scientist sheep, of course. He figures out a secret
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  Speaker 3: formula to make the remaining pumpkin seeds grow into full
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  Speaker 3: pumpkins in just a few days. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: The problem comes when the formula gets mixed up with
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  Speaker 3: the farmer's hair-growing lotion.
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  Speaker 2: As it does.
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  Speaker 3: And soon enough, the farmer has become the British version
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  Speaker 3: of Bigfoot, and the whole town is afraid for their lives.
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  Speaker 2: But he's still just the farmer.
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  Speaker 3: He's still just the farmer, but he looks like a
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  Speaker 3: big pile of hair. I love that the folks at
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  Speaker 3: Aardman can do these movies, which crank out so many
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  Speaker 3: jokes in short running time, and do it without any dialogue.
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  Speaker 3: People just grunt and hum and so on. They can
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  Speaker 3: pull off some really clever gags. There's a Game of
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  Speaker 3: Thrones joke in here that had me on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: And it's very fast-paced. The chase scenes, some family safe scares.
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  Speaker 3: It is just ridiculously funny. And it's only 80 minutes long,
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  Speaker 3: so you're in and out. Sean the Sheep, The Beast
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  Speaker 3: of Mossy Bottom, three and a half stars, and it's
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  Speaker 3: playing everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I heard a national critic this morning say,
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  Speaker 2: give it a good review, and say it's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing that this kind of movie making, this form of
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  Speaker 2: movie making is going away. Only Ardmore and then that,
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  Speaker 2: what are the companies? Laika. Laika, yeah, Laika.
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  Speaker 3: Laika, Ardmore, and Cartoon Saloon in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: They did like Wolfwalkers. But the interesting thing, so I
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  Speaker 2: watched a little preview of that Laika. It's different. Ardmore
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  Speaker 2: is claymation, so I don't know what distinguishes what Leica does,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still considered stop-motion.
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  Speaker 3: Leica uses stop-motion mostly puppetry. They 3D-print their figures mostly
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  Speaker 3: and manipulate them that way.
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  Speaker 2: I see. Well, claymation has always been a fun of
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  Speaker 2: Gumby and Pokey.
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  Speaker 3: And it's very tactile. On some of the earlier Wallace
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  Speaker 3: and Gromit, you can actually see Nick Park's thumbprint Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you can use it as an FBI ID.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there you go. Some good movies. And now
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  Speaker 2: coming up next. Next week. It's primetime.
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  Speaker 3: Primetime, which is Robert Pattinson playing Chris Hansen, the Dave
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  Speaker 3: Lyon NBC guy.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you have a seat?
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  Speaker 3: Have a seat there, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the Beast?
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  Speaker 3: Part of the Beast, which is a survival drama with
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  Speaker 3: Brad Pitt and a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Oh! Cool dog.
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  Speaker 1: The dog has a fake leg.
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  Speaker 3: Forgotten Island, which is DreamWorks animated. It's from the same
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  Speaker 3: folks that made the Puss in Boots movies.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Yeah, those are good. All right, Sean, you
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  Speaker 2: made it out here. Thank you for coming. Sorry for
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  Speaker 2: the rush. That's all right. It's fine. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: doing it.