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Sean Means Movies Reviews for January 24th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's here. Sean Patrick Means. He is a
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  Speaker 1: writer and editor at The Salt Lake review sltrib dot com.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a movie reviewer. He reviews as many movies
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  Speaker 1: as he possibly can given his busy schedule, and you
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  Speaker 1: can find those reviews posted at movie cricket dot net.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Means, And now we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: some movies that are just opening here. Not Sundance necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit about Sundance, yes, and the Oscars yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not a lot in the new releases this week.
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  Speaker 3: Utah critics did not get to see Flight Risk, which
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  Speaker 3: is a thriller on a small plane. You've got a
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  Speaker 3: US Marshall played by Michelle Dockery escorting a high security
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  Speaker 3: prisoner played by Tiford Grace to a trial where he's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to testify. It turns out the pilot on their
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  Speaker 3: single engine plane is actually an assassin played by Mark Wahlberg.
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  Speaker 3: And this is all directed by Mel Gibson.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out, Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 2: I have no.
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  Speaker 3: Opinion on the movie, and I will keep I will
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  Speaker 3: keep my opinions on mister Gibson too. Myself all the
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  Speaker 3: one important movie opening this week is all we imagine
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  Speaker 3: as light.
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  Speaker 2: This is a drama from India. Was like a can last.
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  Speaker 3: Year and got big awards about a pair of nurses
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  Speaker 3: who live as roommates and work together at a hospital
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  Speaker 3: in Mumbai. The director Pyle Kipedia starts, she really starts.
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  Speaker 3: It starts so brilliantly because it shows how Mumbai is,
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  Speaker 3: this place where people from all over India have you know,
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  Speaker 3: have come to make a living and there's like a
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  Speaker 3: dozen different languages being spoken there and you really get
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  Speaker 3: a sense of that, you know, uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of melting pot of Mumbai.
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  Speaker 3: One of the nurses is married, hasn't seen her husband
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  Speaker 3: in years. He lives in Germany. One day, out of
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  Speaker 3: the blue, she gets a rice cooker de delivered to
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  Speaker 3: her apartment, made in Germany, so she's like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: why is he doing this. The other nurse is younger,
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  Speaker 3: more outgoing, and she's got a Muslim boyfriend that she
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  Speaker 3: keeps secret from her roommate and their coworkers. Midway through,
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  Speaker 3: some things happen and the two nurses are helping a
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  Speaker 3: coworker move back to her rural village, and it gives
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  Speaker 3: a chance to look at these nurses and these women.
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  Speaker 2: In a whole new light. Yeah, this really beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Look at like I said, look at it Mumbai, but
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  Speaker 3: also look at the these women sort of you know,
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  Speaker 3: in their day to day struggles and and and uh
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  Speaker 3: and sort of finding finding joy and comfort in there
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  Speaker 3: in each other. Three and a half stars for all
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  Speaker 3: we imagine as light. It's playing at the Broadway starting tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Enough starts there we go. Now you've seen some sun
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  Speaker 1: Dance movies if you want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that started yesterday up in Park City and
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  Speaker 3: the Salt Lake City portion starts today at the Broadway
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  Speaker 3: and at the Rose Wagner. I saw three movies yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and I've got I've seen more, but embargos.
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  Speaker 2: And such I can. Yeah, those reviews to be coming
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  Speaker 2: out as we go.
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  Speaker 1: I got.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a documentary yesterday called Marley Mattlin, Not Alone Anymore,
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  Speaker 3: profiles Marley Mantlin, the Oscar winning actress, the first deaf
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  Speaker 3: actor ever to win an oscar back in nineteen eighty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Does she talk about that jerk William Hurt.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about that jerk William Hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And then she was also in the movie that
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  Speaker 3: where the second deaf actor won an oscar thirty five
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  Speaker 3: years later. That young girl from Troy Kotzer, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: who played her husband, who played her husband in Coda
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  Speaker 3: a couple years ago, which she's pretty good. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 3: so what makes this doc interesting is that the director,
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  Speaker 3: Shoshawna Stern, is a lot like Marley Matlin. She's an actress,
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  Speaker 3: she's Jewish, and she's deaf, okay, And because of that,
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  Speaker 3: the movie digs into some issues about Marley's role as
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  Speaker 3: a deaf icon that maybe a different director wouldn't understand
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  Speaker 3: and wouldn't have thought. It's really cool that I got
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  Speaker 3: to meet Marley on the red carpet yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: She's very lovely.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Twinless, which is a dark comedy about two
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  Speaker 3: guys who become friends when they meet in a support
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  Speaker 3: group for the surviving member of.
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  Speaker 2: A pair of twins.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, you're in your twin dies and you go
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  Speaker 3: to this aye and so you're.
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  Speaker 2: Twinless because you don't, and yeah, there's that connection. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're played by Dylan O'Brien, who you would know from
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  Speaker 3: The Maze Runner and a bunch of other movies. He
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  Speaker 3: was he was dan Akroyd in the Saturday Night movie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he was very good.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other one was played by James Sweeney,
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  Speaker 3: who also wrote and directed it. And and the vibe
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  Speaker 3: on him is if Napoleon Dynamite were gay and psycho
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  Speaker 3: Guy gay and psychotic, you get this guy. This is
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  Speaker 3: a little out there. May not be for everyone's takes,
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  Speaker 3: but it's pretty cool. And then the best thing I
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  Speaker 3: saw yesterday was called Omaha, which some of your listeners
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  Speaker 3: might have actually worked on because it was mostly filmed
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  Speaker 3: here in Utah by a guy who lives by guy
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  Speaker 3: lives here Cole Webley. Written by Robert Machoyan, who is
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  Speaker 3: a photography professor at b YU and writes some really
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  Speaker 3: dark family material. He had a movie here Sunday's five
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  Speaker 3: years ago called The Killing of Two Lovers. That was
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  Speaker 3: film Kanash, Little Bitty, Little Bitty Kanash.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this one, Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: It's about a dad who wakes up, It wakes his
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  Speaker 3: kids up, puts him in the car one day for
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  Speaker 3: an impromptu road trip to Nebraska, and the the younger
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  Speaker 3: son thinks, oh, this is just a big adventure, and
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  Speaker 3: the older daughter starts figuring out that something's going on
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  Speaker 3: the older daughters like nine. This is a really strong drama.
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  Speaker 3: John mcgaro, who you would know from Past Lives and
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  Speaker 3: First Cow and when it gets here finally September five,
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  Speaker 3: the movie about the Munich Olympics sports. That's yeah, finally
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  Speaker 3: opening next week. Here he's he's the main guy in
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  Speaker 3: that one, in the brilliant performance. He plays the dad here,
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  Speaker 3: he's really good. And then the two child actors, Wyatt's
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  Speaker 3: Solis and Molly Bell right, Molly, Molly was in best
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  Speaker 3: Christmas Pageant ever and filmed that just after filming this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Here in Utah. Really really strong drama.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, uh and then you said there
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  Speaker 1: was a movie that was screened some that somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Got read about this in Daily Variety this morning, that
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  Speaker 3: there was a there was a movie in the midnight
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  Speaker 3: section called The Ugly Stepsister, sort of a very dark,
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  Speaker 3: yecky Cinderella take, and apparently it's a body horror movie
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  Speaker 3: that that was so disturbing that somebody at the screening
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  Speaker 3: leaned over, leaned over into the aisle and barfed. So
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  Speaker 3: so it works. So yeah, yeah, I don't think he
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  Speaker 3: was a plant.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Anything any what about the Oscars, any any predictions, any
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  Speaker 1: comments about the choices predictions.
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  Speaker 3: Predictions are hard because it is pretty wide open. The
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  Speaker 3: bedding line. I think that I think at the moment
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  Speaker 3: is the Brutalist is leading pretty well in some ways
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  Speaker 3: because it's the most movie in literally and figuratively, because
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  Speaker 3: it's like three and a half hours long, and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's you know this, this this struggle about art and
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  Speaker 3: all this that's a possibility. Amelia Perez got the most nominations,
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  Speaker 3: and there's there's.
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  Speaker 1: It's very divisive, it's very divie.
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  Speaker 3: I did like it, but I but I get the
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  Speaker 3: but I get the I get the the issues about it.
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  Speaker 3: I was happy that Nickel Boys got nominated. I thought
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  Speaker 3: that got under under appreciated. I was really upse I
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  Speaker 3: actually was really surprised that it did not get nominated
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  Speaker 3: for cinematography because that's one of the best things about
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  Speaker 3: the movie.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know the fact that the substance is
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  Speaker 2: in this.
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  Speaker 1: Mix is kind of a body horror movie.
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  Speaker 2: Body horror movie.
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  Speaker 3: To me, Moore, in what some people are calling her
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  Speaker 3: comeback role, I don't like. I don't like word comeback
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  Speaker 3: because it makes it feel like you went somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you no, she's great in land Man on
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  Speaker 1: TV and then you know.
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  Speaker 3: But there are there are some that are arguing that
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  Speaker 3: they think that that like the the more out there
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  Speaker 3: choices are going to cancel each other out, and that
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  Speaker 3: the Academy will go something a little safer like Conclave.
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  Speaker 1: And almost a very actorally drama, a very act very actory.
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  Speaker 3: We are acting now. We are acting now, and we
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  Speaker 3: are in really nice sets.
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  Speaker 2: That's yes. I read Isabella Rossellini was a little irritated
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  Speaker 2: that she got nominated.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm in it for five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: There are women that were way more deserving than.
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  Speaker 1: She plays a silent nun who gets a speech.
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  Speaker 2: And that's but I thought that was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, well, she was very good, and she
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  Speaker 1: was nominated for Best I was dominated for Best.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I like. I like that movie quite a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I keep meaning to see it on everything I've read
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  Speaker 1: about it, I just like.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: The other big surprise was the fact that The Apprentice
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  Speaker 3: got both Best Actor and Supporting Actor Sebastian stan And
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  Speaker 3: and Jeremy Strong.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of came out of nowhere from in the
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  Speaker 2: in the betting.
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  Speaker 1: Line well, that's the Donald Trump movie.
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  Speaker 2: That's Trump and and Roy Cone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Sean means thank you very much. Sean
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  Speaker 1: will be back next week, I assume, with more movies
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Moviecricket dot need is where you'll find
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  Speaker 1: at or sl trip dot com. Thank you, sir,