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The Cinema Chronicles, Vol. 36: '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' and More · Nashville Movie Dispatch

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another volume of these cinema chronicles right
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Speaker 1: here on Nashville Movie Dispatch. I'm your host, Brandon Vick,
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Speaker 1: member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association and a board
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Speaker 1: member of the Music City Film Critics Association. We went
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Speaker 1: on a little break, but we're back. It's twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, a wonderful New Year's
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Speaker 1: Right now, we are in the thick of trying to
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Speaker 1: survive a winter storm. It reminds me, just reminds me
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Speaker 1: just of that movie of twenty twelve. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you know this, but John Cusack is living
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Speaker 1: with me right now giving me a lot of helpful advice.
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Speaker 2: So we're doing good.
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Speaker 1: We haven't lost power, but we've actually done it in
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Speaker 1: a way as if we didn't have power. So we've
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Speaker 1: been eating granola and slugs and I think we're I
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Speaker 1: think we're almost through it. I think we're almost through it.
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Speaker 1: So Happy New Year, twenty twenty six. Let's see last Thursday.
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Speaker 1: I can't not talk about the Oscar nominations right it,
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Speaker 1: we're right smack in the middle. Let's not forget Nashville
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Speaker 1: Movie Dispatch. We're going to do another show for the Oscars.
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Speaker 1: It is March fifteenth, and so we're pretty pumped about that.
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Speaker 1: But the nominations came out on Thursday morning, and I
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Speaker 1: don't think there was any huge surprises if I had to,
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Speaker 1: if I wanted to fight the Academy. I was disappointed
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Speaker 1: to see that Joe Edgarton didn't make it in Best
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Speaker 1: Actor for Trained Dreams. I feel like that. I feel
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Speaker 1: like that was well deserved. I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people like Wagner Mora for a secret Agent. I would
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Speaker 1: have replaced him. I think everybody else, Ethan Hawk, DiCaprio,
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Speaker 1: Shallo May, Michael B. Jordan good for them. I do
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Speaker 1: feel like that fifth spot could have could have gone
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Speaker 1: to him. I think that would have been That would
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Speaker 1: have been nice. A little surprise Chase Infinity didn't get
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Speaker 1: in Best Actress for one Battle after another. But I
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Speaker 1: also saw a thing on social media about how maybe
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Speaker 1: this could have been a supporting actress thing, and I'm
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Speaker 1: I think I tend to agree with that. I was
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Speaker 1: happy to see Rose Byrne and Jesse Buckley and Emma Stone.
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Speaker 1: I feel like Jennifer Lawrence deserved a spot for Die
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Speaker 1: my love.
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Speaker 2: That's just me.
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Speaker 1: Some other stuff. Let me think. I I was happy
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Speaker 1: for first of all, Delroy Lindo for Sinners. Good for him,
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Speaker 1: he's been in the game for decades. That was pretty
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Speaker 1: cool to see el Fanning getting a nomination for Supporting Actress.
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Speaker 1: It could have been for Predators badly and for all
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Speaker 1: I'm concerned, but it was for sentimental value.
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Speaker 2: She deserved it. I was happy for her. I like
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Speaker 2: the Best Picture stuff.
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Speaker 1: I think that was pretty good, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are up in arms about f One getting in it.
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Speaker 1: It's fun movie, cool movie. I wasn't totally surprised, so
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Speaker 1: I think I think that's a I think that's a
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Speaker 1: good one. Frankenstein loaded up JKB Lordie getting that Supporting
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Speaker 1: Actor nom Amy Madigan, who in Weapons, getting that Best
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Speaker 1: Supporting Actress nomination, which I just found out she's been
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Speaker 1: married to Ed Harris for like one hundred years. I
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Speaker 1: had no idea, So I'm jealous. I'd love to see
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Speaker 1: that man nude in a bath. I a couple of
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Speaker 1: other things. I really First of all, I've been reading
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Speaker 1: and listening. I know Ryan Coogler was just recently on
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Speaker 1: Amy Poehler's Golden Globe winning podcast Good Hang, and I
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Speaker 1: really like him, I really respect him. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that Sinners has broken the Academy Awards nominations in getting
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Speaker 1: sixteen Academy Award nominations, that's two more than the fourteen
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Speaker 1: that had originally set the record, which I believe was
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Speaker 1: all about Eve Titanic and La La Land and Centers
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Speaker 1: got sixteen. So there's a lot of love for Sinners,
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Speaker 1: which makes me wonder exactly who's gonna win?
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Speaker 2: What come Oscar Night?
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Speaker 1: And I I gotta say, I you know, there was
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Speaker 1: a thing where Timothy shallow May kind of we had
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Speaker 1: some shit about last year when he won for a
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Speaker 1: complete unknown talking about how he wanted to be one
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Speaker 1: of the greats. Well, now he's in it with Marty Supreme,
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Speaker 1: which I think had nine nominations I think, and he has.
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Speaker 1: He is the youngest actor to get three Oscar noms,
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Speaker 1: and best actor before that I believe was Marlon Brando.
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Speaker 1: So shallow May's doing some big some some I think
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Speaker 1: the kids call it big dick energy. And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: you know, he could win. He could, he could really
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Speaker 1: really win, and if he did, I wouldn't mind it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it would be a I don't think
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Speaker 1: it would be a mistake by any means if he
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Speaker 1: wins for Marty Supreme. I I love that movie, and
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Speaker 1: with all of his nominations, it's well deserved, one by
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Speaker 1: after another, obviously getting some good ones in there with
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Speaker 1: Benicio del Toro. I really I'm curious if he'll if
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Speaker 1: he'll win or not. So I don't know. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: I wasn't really disappointed. I don't think there was a
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Speaker 1: any big surprises. I do think I've been reading some
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Speaker 1: stuff about how Kate Hudson might kind of ride this
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Speaker 1: wave of songs sung Blue, the Neil Diamond Tribute Band movie,
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Speaker 1: and she did it. She was nominated for Best Supporting
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Speaker 1: Actress and almost famous, which I think has been like
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Speaker 1: twenty five years ago.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think we.
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Speaker 1: Could have switched her out for Chase Infinity. But but
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Speaker 1: good for her and the fact that I read a
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Speaker 1: story of how obviously with Kurt Russell and Goldiehn and
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Speaker 1: how they celebrated and it's kind of like it's pretty sweet.
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Speaker 1: And I saw a thing where someone said, like it's
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Speaker 1: almost like a career achievement. Oscar nomination on the other
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Speaker 1: stuff she's done since then, and so and maybe maybe.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I was really happy.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to share this on social media because
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Speaker 1: I think it just it really is a fine example
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Speaker 1: of the great taste that I have. But I will
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Speaker 1: let you know now for best documentary, three out of
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Speaker 1: the five are in my top five of best documentaries,
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Speaker 1: So take that documentaries. But yeah, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: didn't really it was nothing too crazy. I think some
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Speaker 1: of it was surprising is that there was kind of
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Speaker 1: nothing for movies, like no other choice, which I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people saw could get some I did
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Speaker 1: have a sadness about Eva Victor for Sorry Baby. She
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Speaker 1: didn't get in with original screenplay. I feel like that
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Speaker 1: she absolutely deserved it, and people thought with Julia robert
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Speaker 1: shout out at the Golden Globes that that would have
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Speaker 1: pushed it over the end edge. It didn't, which makes
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Speaker 1: me think, does Hollywood hate Julia Roberts. I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to start any beef, but I was
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Speaker 1: sad to see that, So yeah, I I I kind
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Speaker 1: of like, uh, I kind of like the odds here,
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Speaker 1: and but it's it's it's put up a pretty interesting
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Speaker 1: scenario for what's gonna win what when it comes time
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Speaker 1: for uh for Oscar night.
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Speaker 2: But I'm looking I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, if let me end this section by telling
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Speaker 1: you some of the fun stuff, some of the fun
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Speaker 1: movies I was able to get since we last spoke.
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Speaker 1: I was able to get the four K of I
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Speaker 1: think is it the fortieth no, yeah, fortieth anniversary of
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Speaker 1: One Flu of the Cuckoo's Nest. I got the four
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Speaker 1: of Love Lies Bleeding, which I was talking about Ed Harris,
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Speaker 1: who's fantastic in that Lonely Christmas Stewart and Katie O'Brien.
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Speaker 1: That one's awesome. I was able to get Eddington blu
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Speaker 1: Ray from our friends at Danger's Own Video, And most
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Speaker 1: recently it was able to get the four K of
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Speaker 1: One Battle after Another. I actually went to a store
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Speaker 1: and saw it and held it in my hand and
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Speaker 1: purchased it. And oh what a feeling, Oh what a feeling.
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Speaker 1: So let's get into it. Let's get this first volume
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six underway, and let's start with a
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Speaker 1: little bit of monkey madness coming up next. Prime Mate
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Speaker 1: is the name of the movie, and look It's been
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Speaker 1: almost a month since this thing has come out, and
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Speaker 1: I'm still quite shocked by its Rotten Tomatoes score. Right
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Speaker 1: now as I read this to you, over almost one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty reviews, it is seventy nine percent certified fresh,
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Speaker 1: and in case you can't tell, I think that's too
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Speaker 1: high per IMDb. After returning home to Whi for summer break,
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Speaker 1: Lucy is reunited with her father Adam Academy Award winner
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Speaker 1: Troy Caughts, her from CODA, sister Aaron, and their pet
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Speaker 1: chimpanzee Ben. Lucy and her friends Kate and Hannah, and
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Speaker 1: Kate's older brother Nick, decided to throw a pool party
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Speaker 1: to take advantage of an empty house after her father.
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Speaker 1: After Lucy's Father's called away for work, unbeknownst to them,
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Speaker 1: Ben is bitten by a rabbit animal, and the gentle
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Speaker 1: chimpanzee they once knew is no more. The group is
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Speaker 1: forced to barricade themselves in the pool, but with no
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Speaker 1: means of calling for help, they must work together to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to outsmart the now ferocious Ben and
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Speaker 1: survive their ordeal. So the poster says, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know if anybody's even paid attention to this. It says
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Speaker 1: there's something wrong with Ben. But let me tell you
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Speaker 1: there's a lot wrong with Primate. Now, I know what
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Speaker 1: you're thinking, Brandon. It's called primate. It's about a crazed monkey.
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Speaker 1: What the hell do you expect. It's like getting mad
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Speaker 1: about the bear being on cocaine and cocaine bear and look,
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Speaker 1: I get it. What you see is what you get.
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Speaker 1: But the entire execution by director Johannes Roberts, who did
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Speaker 1: the forty seven meters down movies of shark movies, it's messy,
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Speaker 1: it's confusing, and it's straight up disappointing. The human story
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Speaker 1: of it is practically non existent. They kind of play
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Speaker 1: with these elements of there's the absent father who's kind
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Speaker 1: of an author and he needs this to work, and
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Speaker 1: he needs this book to sell, so he's got to
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Speaker 1: go away. The daughter's the special the oldest one makes
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Speaker 1: reference of like, oh, that's you know, we were used
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Speaker 1: to that their mom she died of cancer, and that's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be some underlying thing and that nothing ever
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Speaker 1: comes from that. Also, the the oldest daughter, Lucy want
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Speaker 1: has a has a crush on the on the brother
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Speaker 1: Nick and her youngest sister is also mad because Lucy's
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Speaker 1: been gone for too long, and it's kind of left
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Speaker 1: or there.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: They spend a solid twenty minutes or so trying to
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Speaker 1: establish these things and it and they mean nothing. I
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Speaker 1: without spoiling it, all of this, and I mean truly
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Speaker 1: almost every single part of this human story, trying to
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Speaker 1: trying to introduce these characters, trying to provide some kind
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Speaker 1: of substance.
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Speaker 2: It does not mean anything.
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Speaker 1: As far as the writing for Primemate, I think Amy
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Speaker 1: Nicholson from her La Times Review wrote it best one
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Speaker 1: chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for
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Speaker 1: Primemate in an hour, basically sums that up. I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 1: it's very apparent that Roberts wants to get to kind
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Speaker 1: of the mad monkey madness, so he has his victims
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Speaker 1: in a pool for I mean, at least for half
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Speaker 1: the movie, and that's boring. But thank god there is
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Speaker 1: this sun. There is this one scene where Ben grabs
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Speaker 1: a head full of hair and it's sick. But besides that,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I literally, while I was watching it, thought,
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Speaker 1: do they really just stay in this pool while Ben
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Speaker 1: just jumps around like a monkey, screaming at them and
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Speaker 1: until what happens. But the gore is pretty gnarling. I
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Speaker 1: think it's what Primate really prides itself on. It's practical
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Speaker 1: gore effects are terrific. It's pretty much on fault on
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Speaker 1: kind of full display right from the get go, and
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Speaker 1: anytime it does get bloody, it is brutal. But I
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Speaker 1: do think there is a real sense that Primemate sort
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Speaker 1: of wants to coast on that. And the thing is
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Speaker 1: it's not It's not that good to get away with it.
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Speaker 1: I think Primate in a way it's an old school
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Speaker 1: throwback to kind of the animal attacking genre, but it
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Speaker 1: wants to update it in a way that I think
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Speaker 1: is a mistake and that it wants to take itself
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Speaker 1: too seriously. I really just prefer it to just go
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Speaker 1: totally insane and have complete fun with it. It does
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Speaker 1: have moments of being self aware, but not nearly enough.
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Speaker 1: And of course there are scenes that every horror movie
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Speaker 1: has that makes no sense. I think for me, the
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Speaker 1: best one might be Ben being able to not get
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Speaker 1: one of the characters out from under a couch. She's
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Speaker 1: hidden under some couch and for some reason he can't
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Speaker 1: get to her. He can't throw that couch. But let
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Speaker 1: me tell you, you know what.
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Speaker 2: He can do.
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Speaker 1: He can rip faces off of a human being, but
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Speaker 1: for some reason cannot lift this damn couch. And I
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Speaker 1: don't understand it. I really don't. As far as ben
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Speaker 1: are leading chimp, he's not as menacing or as terrifying
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Speaker 1: to completely sell the movie. There are a couple of
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Speaker 1: good scares with him, but in the end, I really
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Speaker 1: think you kind of have to keep in mind he's
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Speaker 1: kind of just.
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Speaker 2: An infected family pet.
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Speaker 1: So how but however, however, I do appreciate how Primate
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Speaker 1: kind of brought him to life. And they did not
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Speaker 1: use uh, they did not use CGI. And let me
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Speaker 1: let me find this because I was really impressed with this.
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Speaker 1: Miguel torres Umba is actually the actor who is been
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Speaker 1: and the costume was a practical animatronic chimp suit.
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Speaker 2: That had masking gloves.
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Speaker 1: And it says that using a performer in a suit
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Speaker 1: instead of CGI was a deliberate choice to enhance the
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Speaker 1: horror and realism.
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Speaker 2: I respect that.
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Speaker 1: I think it would have been easy to do this
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Speaker 1: CGI visual effects thing. I think it would have been
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Speaker 1: way worse than what the movie is. So I like
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Speaker 1: those practical effects. I do think it does add something
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Speaker 1: to Primate, and Primate really is I mean, it's unapologetic
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Speaker 1: in what it gives the audience, and in a way
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Speaker 1: it I mean it does deliver what it promises. It's
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Speaker 1: just that there's so much in such a short movie
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Speaker 1: that feels so unnecessary or just a total waste of time.
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Speaker 1: I think the horror is average with a monkey that
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Speaker 1: needed to go more bananas. I think it just needed
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Speaker 1: to go ape shit. So Primate's getting a Vixflix rating
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Speaker 1: of two out of five and coming up next Ray
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Speaker 1: Finds lets it All hang out and twenty.
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Speaker 2: Eight years later, The Bone Temple.
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Speaker 1: All Right per Rotten Tomatoes. Twenty eight years later, The
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Speaker 1: Bone Temple expands upon the world created by Danny Boyle
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Speaker 1: at Scarland and twenty eight years later, but turning the
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Speaker 1: world on its head. Na A Constant directs. Twenty years later,
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Speaker 1: in a continuation of the epic story of doctor Kelson
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Speaker 1: played by Ray Fines makes a discovery that could change
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Speaker 1: the world as they know it, and Spikes played by
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Speaker 1: Alfi Williams, encounters Jimmy Crystal played by Jack O'Connell, who
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Speaker 1: becomes a nightmare he can escape. In the world of
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Speaker 1: the Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the only
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Speaker 1: threat to survive them. The inhumanity of the survivors can
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Speaker 1: be stranger and more terrifying. I was a fan of
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Speaker 1: twenty eight years later, but admittedly I was thrown off
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Speaker 1: by the ending, which involved the Jimmies, including Jack O'Connell.
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Speaker 1: It just was a little off putting. I kind of
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Speaker 1: I had read something where if it was one of
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Speaker 1: those kind of mid credit scenes, it would it would
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Speaker 1: have played better. But now that it's all come into
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Speaker 1: focus with The Bone Temple, which I which is easily
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Speaker 1: one of the best horror sequels, and I don't.
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Speaker 2: Even know how long.
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Speaker 1: What director Nia a Consta has done with this story
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Speaker 1: is really unbelievable. I had my doubts, like I'm sure
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Speaker 1: maybe a lot of you did, when I found out
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Speaker 1: that Danny Boyle was not helming this one. It was
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Speaker 1: all done almost right back to back, and twenty years
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Speaker 1: later comes out in August, and then this one boom
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Speaker 1: comes out in January. But and I wasn't the biggest
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Speaker 1: fan of Dacosta's remake of The candy Man, but my
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Speaker 1: faith in her has instantly been restored because she directed
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Speaker 1: a fantastic film called Heda that had Tessa Thompson, who
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Speaker 1: I also think should have been a big Oscar contender,
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Speaker 1: and she slays here by confidently presenting a totally different
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Speaker 1: film than what we're used to with these twenty eighth
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Speaker 1: basically twenty eight years, twenty eight days, weeks whatever series.
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Speaker 1: It is less flashy, but it's more grounded and surprisingly
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Speaker 1: trenq will and funny, but still unreservedly dark and brutal.
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Speaker 1: I think one of the things instantly that kind of
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Speaker 1: came into my mind was there's this evolving of the virus,
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Speaker 1: but there's also this kind of evolution of the story
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Speaker 1: itself and the characters that are telling it, especially with
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Speaker 1: the ones that are portrayed here in Bone Temple. Alex
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Speaker 1: Garland's script is sensational. The I what I really appreciated,
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Speaker 1: which I think was a risk but in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: really pays off, is that the infected are more in
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Speaker 1: the background, and it's Spike, and it's the Jimmy's and
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Speaker 1: doctor Kelson and Samson that are truly we are truly
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Speaker 1: examining them and that relationship and along with the terror
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Speaker 1: and what happens within this kind of world of the
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Speaker 1: where the infected or run a rampant But what what
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Speaker 1: about this human element? What about humanity itself? And what's
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Speaker 1: the damage that's been done in that? This is part
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Speaker 1: of the Seattle Times review. It says, rather than focusing
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Speaker 1: on the relentless hunger of the zombies, the film instead
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Speaker 1: turns its gaze to the people who have carved out
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Speaker 1: of life in the healthscape of a virus ravaged England
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Speaker 1: and how they often pose a greater threat to one another.
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Speaker 1: The Bone Temple. There is a deeper examination of the
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Speaker 1: rage virus. I'm not I'm not going to go into
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Speaker 1: details of it, but I really like that they're trying
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Speaker 1: to explore more about it, and I really think it's
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Speaker 1: a It's a smart choice. There's also this theme of
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Speaker 1: where the true evil has always kind of been with
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Speaker 1: us humans more than those that are infected. There's just
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Speaker 1: this overlapping things of where it of involving isolation, a
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Speaker 1: connection to a connection between someone, cultism, a psychosis, and
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Speaker 1: what I found I think the most surprising, but also
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Speaker 1: I think maybe the best of them all is compassion.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you really, you just don't see that
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Speaker 1: really in a lot of especially the zombie movies, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of all focused on them and either escaping or
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Speaker 1: surviving or becoming one of them. I think compassion plays
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Speaker 1: a huge part in this one, and I think it's
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Speaker 1: it's better for it. Ray finds, you know, listen, and
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Speaker 1: Ray finds. We trust he represents the absolute beauty of humanity.
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Speaker 1: His friendship with Sampson so unexpected, but it's so rich
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Speaker 1: in what it is trying to relay the message it's
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Speaker 1: trying to relay to us, and by using those two characters,
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Speaker 1: I think is.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was the exceptional.
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Speaker 1: This is the via Indie Wires. Twenty years later, the
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Speaker 1: Bone Temple director Nia to Cousta Nita to make the
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Speaker 1: unsparing sequel her own way it. DaCosta says, the empathy
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Speaker 1: that Kelson has, and that's doctor Kelson, playby refines has
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Speaker 1: in the hope that he has in humanity is why
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Speaker 1: I love the movie, and I love the script, and
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Speaker 1: what moves me about it. It's not just like, oh,
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Speaker 1: him and Sampson they're so fun. It's like he's actually
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Speaker 1: doing what Sampson is saying, could you do the worst
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Speaker 1: thing and still be saved? Can you still change? Can
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Speaker 1: someone believe that you have the capacity to change? I
24:01
Speaker 1: think that's really beautiful. Couldn't be in more agreement with
24:08
Speaker 1: her child Lewis Perry or chie Lewis Perry. He plays
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Speaker 1: Sampson his transformation and the revealing just of a small
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Speaker 1: piece of his past.
24:22
Speaker 2: I really like it's just enough.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't go into a full, you know, explanation of everything,
24:29
Speaker 1: and I don't think it has to. But I really
24:33
Speaker 1: like that we are uncovering these things with these characters
24:37
Speaker 1: that we first got to know in twenty eight years later,
24:40
Speaker 1: but we're obviously expanding on them, getting to know them,
24:46
Speaker 1: getting you know, we're going beyond surface level here.
24:50
Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
24:51
Speaker 1: I mean, who knew that that big Dong zombie would
24:54
Speaker 1: become this interesting prominent character? And I will tell you,
25:01
Speaker 1: And I don't want to start I don't want to
25:02
Speaker 1: start any trouble here. But there is what I can
25:07
Speaker 1: only describe as a penis competition happening here in twenty
25:11
Speaker 1: eight yars later the Bone Temple. I'm not sure if
25:14
Speaker 1: most people, like most adults, have to have to show
25:21
Speaker 1: their penis, but.
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 1: Sampson definitely has that thing swinging once again, but to
25:31
Speaker 1: my amazement, Ray Fines shows his dangling and I can't
25:39
Speaker 1: really describe it. You need to see it for yourself.
25:42
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. There's a lot of pubes, but I still
25:45
Speaker 1: think there's a lot that you can get from it.
25:47
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I address this in the
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Speaker 1: cinema chronicles that I did for twenty years later, but
25:55
Speaker 1: clearly this is important enough to bring back up that
25:57
Speaker 1: I didn't know as Sampson's penis was real, but apparently
26:03
Speaker 1: it was not real. It was fake. And the fact
26:08
Speaker 1: that I realized that, and I'm not sure if it
26:12
Speaker 1: was just within scenes or it is just the whole movie,
26:15
Speaker 1: but because of Spike, who's a minor, they couldn't do that,
26:19
Speaker 1: so they had to use fake stuff. I didn't even
26:23
Speaker 1: that never even occurred to me. I just thought Alfie
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Speaker 1: was just, you know, the actor was in amazement with
26:28
Speaker 1: the rest of us while that thing was swinging and
26:31
Speaker 1: chopping down trees and killing people.
26:33
Speaker 2: I think his penis killed someone.
26:35
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but our buddy Brett shared something with me,
26:40
Speaker 1: and I really like the source is stepping through film,
26:44
Speaker 1: but apparently Perry says that he took Sampson's penis home
26:48
Speaker 1: with him after filming The Bone Temple, and to my delight,
26:53
Speaker 1: Ray finds his response was, I wanted that Jack O'Connell,
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Speaker 1: who I mean, listen, he is a great actor, but
27:04
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a villain. He's just coming
27:07
Speaker 1: off of Sinners and now here he is and the
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Speaker 1: Bone Temple he hypnotizes as being evil between Sinners and this,
27:17
Speaker 1: and as we're witnessing what that little kid at the
27:20
Speaker 1: beginning of twenty eight years later Morsonto, there's known Jimmy Crystal,
27:26
Speaker 1: and the devil he follows is beyond disturbing. He he
27:32
Speaker 1: and his as he calls them, fingers are the vicious
27:36
Speaker 1: and violent and sadistic ones here in the Bone Temple.
27:40
Speaker 1: There is a scene though where I and I and
27:45
Speaker 1: I want to go back to that kind of last
27:47
Speaker 1: scene of twenty years later that kind of threw me off.
27:50
Speaker 1: It makes more sense now and some of the some
27:55
Speaker 1: of the details of that scene. But I really like
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Speaker 1: the way that this group is introduced at the beginning
28:03
Speaker 1: of Bone Temple because it really sets a tone of
28:08
Speaker 1: who they are and how they do things and who
28:13
Speaker 1: they answer to. Uh. But there is a there is
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Speaker 1: a scene where Jimmy Crystal, and it's in the it's
28:19
Speaker 1: in the trailers as well meets Race.
28:24
Speaker 2: Finds doctor and the conversation that they.
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Speaker 1: Have is is is It adds so much to these
28:36
Speaker 1: two characters and the the past they're past crossing at
28:41
Speaker 1: that moment and obviously what comes after it is what
28:46
Speaker 1: a lot of people have talked about. A scene that
28:49
Speaker 1: will blow your mind. It's also really awesome, but it's
28:52
Speaker 1: that it's that little conversation that happens before all that
28:56
Speaker 1: that I just found really compelling. In the Indie Wire
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Speaker 1: article I had mentioned earlier, DaCosta says that this is
29:04
Speaker 1: a great moment because of this conversation. The scene I'm
29:09
Speaker 1: talking about that there's a great moment because it brings
29:10
Speaker 1: up the question how much does Sir Lord Jimmy Cristal
29:14
Speaker 1: actually believe in what he's saying. But I think as
29:17
Speaker 1: you get further into that sequence, because then they meet
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Speaker 1: which everyone knows they're going to meet, this is when
29:23
Speaker 1: I fell in love with Jimmy Crystal, or felt like I, oh,
29:27
Speaker 1: I can direct him now. I really just wanted to see.
29:30
Speaker 1: He really just wants to see his dad. He's actually
29:33
Speaker 1: an incredibly lonely character. He's a piece of shit and
29:36
Speaker 1: something's wrong with him deeply, and he's not well. But
29:39
Speaker 1: there's a part of him who's like, I actually thought
29:42
Speaker 1: you might be my dad, not even I thought you
29:44
Speaker 1: might be Satan, who is my father? Part of it
29:47
Speaker 1: is I'm so lonely and I hope that my family
29:50
Speaker 1: was here, and so okay, so performance is right great.
29:56
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. There is a lot of
29:59
Speaker 1: damn good music in this. Most of it's played by
30:02
Speaker 1: Ray Fines's character, but there are a lot of kick
30:07
Speaker 1: ass needle drops in this. And uh, it's it's fantastic.
30:14
Speaker 1: Bone Temple, it's i it's visceral, it's meditative, it's gruesome,
30:21
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely audacious. I think DaCosta has really raised
30:25
Speaker 1: the bar of an already quite imposing series. The Bone
30:29
Speaker 1: Temple isn't arguably the best one since the original. I
30:33
Speaker 1: think Danny Boyle has mentioned that Years is about the
30:36
Speaker 1: nature of family, the Bone Temple is about the nature
30:39
Speaker 1: of evil, which it absolutely is, and the third film
30:43
Speaker 1: is about the nature of redemption. I for one am
30:47
Speaker 1: excited to see how this redemption part plays out.
30:51
Speaker 2: Uh listen.
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Speaker 1: Best movie of twenty twenty six so far, I say,
30:56
Speaker 1: twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple gets a Vixfix
30:59
Speaker 1: rating of four out of five. And coming up next
31:03
Speaker 1: justin Long and See Him Punk are getting rowdy in
31:07
Speaker 1: the streets. There's a movie called Night Patrol per Rotten Tomatoes.
31:26
Speaker 1: A LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the
31:29
Speaker 1: area of street gangs when he discovers a local police
31:31
Speaker 1: task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the
31:35
Speaker 1: residents of the housing projects he grew up in. This
31:42
Speaker 1: is directed by Ryan Prowse, who directed a movie if
31:45
Speaker 1: you may have saw it, called Loadlife. This action horror
31:48
Speaker 1: is rather clever in concept and audacious in creation. However,
31:53
Speaker 1: the end product I found pretty frustrating and incoherent, and
31:58
Speaker 1: it has the most unfortunately luck of coming out after Sinners.
32:02
Speaker 1: So Prowls and the other writers want. They want to
32:06
Speaker 1: use the genre to sink their teeth into social issues
32:08
Speaker 1: that involve race and marginalization and white nationalism and police brutality,
32:13
Speaker 1: but they're unable to effectively draw blood on any of
32:17
Speaker 1: these critiques. I think Night Patrol is just too messy
32:20
Speaker 1: and uneven to be thrilling and thought provoking. I think
32:25
Speaker 1: the story starts off interesting enough, and there are flashes
32:29
Speaker 1: of brilliance as we're introduced to the characters and kind
32:31
Speaker 1: of the sinister mood and atmosphere that's pretty easy to
32:35
Speaker 1: be consumed by. So once the things do come out,
32:38
Speaker 1: you think that's when maybe all the hell breaks loose
32:42
Speaker 1: between the Night Patrol, which are these officers with this secret,
32:47
Speaker 1: and the gangs who are kind of rebelling against all
32:52
Speaker 1: of the montrocities that have been happening, and it's been
32:57
Speaker 1: you know, it's a feeding frenzy, and it does. Yet
33:01
Speaker 1: that's also when Night Patrol becomes unhinged, but not in
33:05
Speaker 1: a good way.
33:07
Speaker 2: Injecting this voodoo.
33:09
Speaker 1: Slash culture lore slash mythology and there's a lot of
33:14
Speaker 1: supernatural stuff that's thrown into it. It just feels like
33:19
Speaker 1: it's too much all at once. It feels as though
33:21
Speaker 1: Prows has tonally and logistically lost his grip and what
33:25
Speaker 1: he's trying to relate to the audience, especially as we
33:29
Speaker 1: get to the end here. This is via Dread's Central
33:32
Speaker 1: View by Zachary Lee. It says there's a lack of
33:35
Speaker 1: a sense of place as characters run throughout the neighborhood,
33:40
Speaker 1: often ending up in the clutches of other villains, even
33:43
Speaker 1: if the film establishes that they were further away. Characters
33:46
Speaker 1: disappear for long stretches of time, only to reappear and
33:49
Speaker 1: then get killed off as a means of giving the
33:51
Speaker 1: film some stakes. The entire last act of the film,
33:56
Speaker 1: which is what I was referenced earlier, threatens to be
33:59
Speaker 1: entirely undone. Prowls has an eye for creating individual moments
34:04
Speaker 1: of violence to stark imagery, but it's when he tries
34:07
Speaker 1: to show larger skill skirmishes that the film feels shaky
34:11
Speaker 1: and awkward. I I would say the highlights here are
34:15
Speaker 1: probably the performances. There's Jermaine Fowler, and there's Justin Long,
34:19
Speaker 1: There's r. J. Kyler, There's Flying Lotus, there's Nicky Michell
34:24
Speaker 1: and see Him Punk. They all came to play. They're
34:27
Speaker 1: committed and fun and funny up to a certain point,
34:31
Speaker 1: especially when talking about File, Fowler, Siler, Machue and Long,
34:39
Speaker 1: but poor Dermott Mulroney. He he essentially represents what's all.
34:45
Speaker 1: What's all wrong with this movie. Uh, he's probably embarrassed
34:50
Speaker 1: if he's even if he's even seen it. But for
34:53
Speaker 1: all of Night Patrols and trepidness, it can never fully
34:59
Speaker 1: capitalize on its clever ideas, coming real close to wasting
35:04
Speaker 1: them completely. Yeah, Night Patrol gets a vix Flix rating
35:11
Speaker 1: of two out of five and coming up next, the
35:16
Speaker 1: voice behind Garfield is stuck in a chair and his
35:21
Speaker 1: wife is dead. Next.
35:36
Speaker 2: Oh, in case.
35:37
Speaker 1: You haven't heard, it's a movie called Mercy in the
35:42
Speaker 1: Near Future. Per Rotten Tomatoes should say that first. In
35:45
Speaker 1: the near Future, a detective Chris Pratt stands on trial
35:49
Speaker 1: accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to
35:52
Speaker 1: prove his innocence to the Advanced AI judge played by
35:55
Speaker 1: the wonderful Rebecca Ferguson. He wants championed before it determines
36:01
Speaker 1: his fate. I am in shock that I did not
36:06
Speaker 1: hate this movie, because there is there hasn't been a
36:08
Speaker 1: single trailer I've watched and thought, Oh, that's gonna be
36:12
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a hit. I saw this as the
36:15
Speaker 1: first ever regal movie Monday Mystery Imax three D movie.
36:24
Speaker 1: Like I said, the trailers don't make it look that exciting.
36:27
Speaker 1: And I don't know about the rest of this country
36:29
Speaker 1: or this world, but I've kind of been souring on
36:32
Speaker 1: Pratt for a while. He just doesn't really move the
36:35
Speaker 1: needle for me anymore. I think if it wasn't for
36:39
Speaker 1: a sort of the kind of the Marvel Jurassic Park stuff,
36:42
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there's a lot of things that
36:45
Speaker 1: remember now, I haven't seen his Amazon series that he's in,
36:48
Speaker 1: so maybe, you know, maybe that's worth a watch. But
36:53
Speaker 1: he appears to be walking that same path as Mark Wahlberg,
36:56
Speaker 1: where you know they do forgettable movies while playing the
36:59
Speaker 1: same guy. However, listen Mercy, no matter what people tell you,
37:03
Speaker 1: and this twenty one percent rotten Tomato score, I don't
37:06
Speaker 1: really consider it a complete disaster. It's a tech It's
37:10
Speaker 1: a techno slash AI thriller that operates as a screen
37:14
Speaker 1: life flick, which, for those of you that don't know
37:16
Speaker 1: it uses forms of technology to do the storytelling. Films
37:20
Speaker 1: like Searching in Host two movies that use it masterfully
37:27
Speaker 1: present this approach I think works for the most part,
37:31
Speaker 1: as we sit with Pratt's character as he's actively investigating
37:36
Speaker 1: the death of his wife, with time obviously running out.
37:40
Speaker 1: The premise itself I find quite intriguing. I was sort
37:45
Speaker 1: of there, kind of playing right along as suspects or
37:48
Speaker 1: question and question and clues are uncovered and twist are
37:52
Speaker 1: kind of thrown at us. I mean, but I mean, listen, look,
37:56
Speaker 1: it's it's total nonsense, especially it's third act. But to
37:59
Speaker 1: say it was at least a little bit of fun
38:02
Speaker 1: getting there would be a lie. It's the same kind
38:04
Speaker 1: of fun we used to have while watching nineties thrillers.
38:08
Speaker 1: If we, if we can, if we can take ourselves
38:10
Speaker 1: back to that, to that time. Director t mure Bechamptov,
38:17
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's how you say it. He directed Wanted.
38:21
Speaker 1: He also directed the really unnecessary and awful Ben Her remake,
38:26
Speaker 1: but he sticks to a fast pace while Pratt plays
38:30
Speaker 1: it pretty well as a detective dealing with a failing
38:33
Speaker 1: marriage and alcoholism and trying to prove his innocence. I
38:37
Speaker 1: think for most of us, when you first saw that trailer,
38:40
Speaker 1: I think we're all probably most interested in seeing that
38:44
Speaker 1: Rebecca Ferguson was in this, and she's good. I mean,
38:48
Speaker 1: I think her and Pratt are. I don't I don't
38:53
Speaker 1: know how much effort is put into it. I think
38:59
Speaker 1: the I think there's more effort in what Pratt did,
39:06
Speaker 1: let's just say, for Jurassic World, and what Rebecca Ferguson
39:09
Speaker 1: put in for I'm just gonna spitball and even say,
39:12
Speaker 1: maybe the Greatest Showman if that was let's say eighty,
39:20
Speaker 1: maybe they're putting in forty. But she really feels very
39:26
Speaker 1: restrained by this movie. She's an AI judge that the
39:30
Speaker 1: audience is I guess supposed to root for as she
39:34
Speaker 1: kind of glitches and rebels against this program that created
39:38
Speaker 1: her to save our framed hero. I truly it's quite
39:43
Speaker 1: miraculous that for AI to find its conscious, but I
39:50
Speaker 1: don't really think anyone is really going to buy that,
39:55
Speaker 1: especially these days. It's it's commentary just on HM the police,
40:01
Speaker 1: but especially on AI. Is Uh is quite mystifying, if
40:07
Speaker 1: I if I say so myself, But but and and remember,
40:12
Speaker 1: but please remember, it's all silly and ridiculous regarding who
40:20
Speaker 1: really murdered his wife. I'm gonna say pretty close to
40:24
Speaker 1: everyone will see it coming, and as the truth unfolds,
40:27
Speaker 1: you'll be left wondering how smart is this AI shit?
40:31
Speaker 1: Because how in the hell could it not put the
40:33
Speaker 1: pieces together, but this hungover detective could it it it.
40:38
Speaker 1: There's a lot that does not make much sense, but
40:43
Speaker 1: Mercy is a lot of things. It's forgettable, it's mindless,
40:50
Speaker 1: it's laughable. But trust me when I tell you boring
40:56
Speaker 1: ain't one of them.
40:58
Speaker 2: So take that for what you will.
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Speaker 1: Mercy is getting a Vixflix rating of two and a
41:03
Speaker 1: half out of five, and that is gonna do it
41:08
Speaker 1: for the very first volume of this brand new year
41:12
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six. Be sure to check out all
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41:22
Speaker 1: Right now, I've got a lot of my best of
41:24
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five out there, the documentaries, the performances, the directors,
41:29
Speaker 1: and Wednesday we are wrapping it up with my best
41:35
Speaker 1: movies of twenty twenty five, so please be on the
41:39
Speaker 1: lookout for that and we'll see you right here next month.
41:46
Speaker 1: And until then, just go see it, damn movie.