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Sean Means Movie Reviews From October 24th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, he's here in the studio with us. Sean Means.
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  Speaker 1: Sean is a film critic. He's a writer and editor
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  Speaker 1: at the Salt Lake Tribune. You can find his work
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  Speaker 1: at sltrib dot com. His critical work his movie criticisms
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  Speaker 1: will be available at movie cricket dot That.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, mister means good morning. What do you got?
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  Speaker 3: We got three to talk about this week? Okay, we
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  Speaker 3: will start with Regretting You. This is yet another movie
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  Speaker 3: based on a Colleen Hoover novel, Like Like It Ends
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  Speaker 3: with Us? Was the Blake Lively movie? Anybody getting sued
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  Speaker 3: around this one? Not yet, but it's early. The The
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  Speaker 3: practical advantage to a Colling Hoover movie is that it
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  Speaker 3: allows people in book clubs to only have to waste
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  Speaker 3: two hours watching the movie and being able to fake it.
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  Speaker 2: It's helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's a timesaver. In this one, it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is soap opera all over the place. But we
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  Speaker 3: start with a Alison Williams as Morgan. She is has
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  Speaker 3: a high school boyfriend played by Scott Eastwood. Her sister
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  Speaker 3: is got a high school boyfriend who is Scott Easwood's
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  Speaker 3: best friend played by Dave Franco. You see them young
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  Speaker 3: and in high school, which is bad because it's really
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  Speaker 3: bad they're not because you know, Alison Williams, you know,
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  Speaker 3: is not in high school anymore. And so we cut
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  Speaker 3: cut forward to seventeen years because in high school Alison
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  Speaker 3: Willis finds out she's pregnant. So we cut forward seventeen years.
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  Speaker 3: There Alison Williams and Scott Eastwood are married. Will Fitzgerald
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  Speaker 3: who's the sister, and Dave Franco are married.
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  Speaker 1: And have and have a baby. And a minute, what
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  Speaker 1: do you what'd you rate this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Not good? Then I don't need to know this
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  Speaker 2: much about it.
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  Speaker 3: But as a Williams has a daughter, sixteen played by
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  Speaker 3: McKenna Grace, so and then Scott Eastwood and Will fiz
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  Speaker 3: Gerald die in a car crash.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out they've been having an affair. It gets very out.
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  Speaker 3: It's very much a soap opera, and it goes exactly
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  Speaker 3: where you think it's gonna go. The one good thing
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  Speaker 3: in this is the McKenna grace is no longer a
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  Speaker 3: child actress.
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  Speaker 2: She's it's her first sort of grown up role.
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  Speaker 3: You would know her, probably mostly from the two recent
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  Speaker 3: Ghostbusters movies. She was Egan's daughter and granddaughter. She was
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  Speaker 3: the cool one. Okay, she's a good actress. She will
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to her as an adult. Now, all right,
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  Speaker 3: two stars for the stars, Yeah, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 3: Frankenstein Frankenstein. You would think, why do we need another
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  Speaker 3: frankens Sein movie. We've had so many Frankenstein movies.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get more.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna get more, but we're getting this one. And
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  Speaker 3: the reason we're getting this one and the reason why
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  Speaker 3: it's worth getting this one is it's directed by Giamo Adultro,
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  Speaker 3: who has been wanting to make a Frankenstein movie forever.
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  Speaker 3: And you can tell that by all the movies he
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  Speaker 3: has made that look like they could be Frankenston movies.
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  Speaker 3: You look at Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, pretty
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  Speaker 3: much everything. Uh, the Pinocchio movie he did, the the
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  Speaker 3: stop motion Pinocchio he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: In this one, you have is basically in two parts.
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  Speaker 3: The first part you have Victor Frankenstein telling his story
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  Speaker 3: of how he uh made the monster and and uh
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  Speaker 3: and was and was a real uh awful human being
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  Speaker 3: doing it because once he once he had the monster,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't know how to raise the monster and and
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  Speaker 3: he reverted to his parents, his father's uh type of parenting,
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  Speaker 3: which is basically, you know, beating him. Who plays Victor
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  Speaker 3: Victory is Oscar Isaac. Then the second half comes and
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  Speaker 3: it's the monster's turn to to tell the story. And
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  Speaker 3: that's when that's when the movie really kicks, when it
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  Speaker 3: gets that's when it gets great.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob A. Lordie plays a very tall, hot monster. He's
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  Speaker 2: a hot monster.
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  Speaker 3: He is he is a he is a scary monster,
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  Speaker 3: but he is still a hot monster, yes, which is.
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  Speaker 1: In fitting what the book originally well, yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: described as good looking in the book.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is this is Gamaud de Altar
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  Speaker 3: working on all cylinders. He's you know, the the the
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  Speaker 3: style and the atmosphere is exactly what you want out
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  Speaker 3: of this. And Jacob Alordi is really good and really
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  Speaker 3: cool monster.
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  Speaker 2: So three and a half I heard it. It is.
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  Speaker 2: It is in theaters this.
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  Speaker 3: Week here and then in three weeks it will be
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  Speaker 3: on Netflix. I would recommend see it now, go see
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  Speaker 3: it in the theater. It's it's a very cool experience.
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  Speaker 1: So I heard an interview with del Toro, and one
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  Speaker 1: fact about his life that came out what his father
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  Speaker 1: won the lottery when he was a little kid, six
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. They bought a big mansion. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: was like the little Danny boy of Danny in the Shining.
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  Speaker 1: I rode my dricycle throughout the house. And then his
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  Speaker 1: father got kidnapped.
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  Speaker 3: Yanks, because he's got six million naps are yeah, all right? Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: let's move on to Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere. This
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  Speaker 3: has been the long awaited musical biography of Bruce Springsteen.
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  Speaker 3: It only takes one section of his life, starting in
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  Speaker 3: eighty one. He's getting off the River tour and then
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  Speaker 3: what he is deciding what he's going to do next.
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  Speaker 3: So he holds up in a rental house in New
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  Speaker 3: Jersey to start writing songs.
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  Speaker 2: This is before Patty. This is before before Patty.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and as for Jillian and before Julian before that.
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  Speaker 3: So he's alone and he's trying to deal with some stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and he's got a lot of memories of his childhood,
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  Speaker 3: his very abusive father and also just what we what
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  Speaker 3: we now recognize as depression and how he tried to
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  Speaker 3: work through that through the music. And he's the songs
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  Speaker 3: he's writing in this In this period, they he writes
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  Speaker 3: enough songs that he decides he's got a double album going.
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  Speaker 3: And some of them are bangers, and some are rock
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  Speaker 3: and roll songs, and some of them are like really quiet,
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  Speaker 3: introspective character studies almost and they're very unlike his usual stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and he decides that's what he wants to lead with,
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  Speaker 3: that's what he wants to go with, and he wants
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  Speaker 3: to put.
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  Speaker 2: Them all together in an album.
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  Speaker 3: He has a little four track cassette recorder just him
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  Speaker 3: and him and his guitar and his harmonica and no,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not with not with the Street Band. And
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  Speaker 3: originally he says, Okay, I'm gonna do these as a
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  Speaker 3: demo and then we can take them to the Street
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  Speaker 3: Band and then you know, we make you know, proper
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  Speaker 3: rock songs out of them. But as he's going, he's like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: they got to stay this raw form.
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  Speaker 2: And the first one he.
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  Speaker 3: Wrote was titled Nebraska Nebraska Album. And so it's about
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  Speaker 3: him using using the music to try to work through
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  Speaker 3: these issues of his and realizing that that even that's
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  Speaker 3: not enough and he needs help. This is so I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if this movie had just been a regular biopic of
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm I'm Bruce Springsteen and I'm gonna and
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  Speaker 3: like like pretty much the way Timothy Shallamy did with
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  Speaker 3: Dylan A complete unknown. If if, if that's all what
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  Speaker 3: sort of you know, long long expanse of of of
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  Speaker 3: a life, this will still.
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  Speaker 2: Be a great movie.
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  Speaker 3: But to concentrate into this degree on this part of
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  Speaker 3: Springsteen's life, and to get so personal to talk about it,
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  Speaker 3: to talk about his his long term and and he
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  Speaker 3: says still ongoing battle of depression is brilliant. And it
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  Speaker 3: helps that the actor is Jeremy Allen White, who we
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  Speaker 3: all know from the Bear. He channels so beautiful. He sings,
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  Speaker 3: he sings all the songs. It's it's him saying I
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  Speaker 3: had to learn how to play guitar, had to learn
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  Speaker 3: how to play guitar, learn how to play harmonica, and
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  Speaker 3: do you know? And and and he sounds he sounds right,
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  Speaker 3: he said, he sounds He said he'd wake up in
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  Speaker 3: the running and just scream for a while to try.
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  Speaker 1: I heard a little clip from it today and his
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  Speaker 1: voice didn't sound quiet as it's a springs.
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  Speaker 3: It's not quite no, I mean, it's definitely it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: not Bruce. But it's it's so close that it's really
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  Speaker 3: good now And but that's not that's not the entirety
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  Speaker 3: of the performance though. It's also getting into you know,
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  Speaker 3: watching this guy deal with the demons in his life
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  Speaker 3: and and the idea that you know, just because you're rich,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're you're an up and cooming rock star,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean you don't have demons and that you are
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  Speaker 3: working them out.
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  Speaker 2: When you do a movie like this, Uh do you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, who do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Was only Bruce Springsteen fans will go to see this
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  Speaker 1: and other people just won't care.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I think I think there's
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  Speaker 3: front thing. I think there's Jeremy Allen White. Fans will
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  Speaker 3: want to see him and then gets and word of
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  Speaker 3: mouth gets are out. That's good. The other the other
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  Speaker 3: performance here is Jeremy Strong from Succession as John Landau,
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  Speaker 3: who was who is or was uh Springsteen's manager for
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  Speaker 3: forever and part of the movie is about how how
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  Speaker 3: he has to sort of come to terms with figuring
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  Speaker 3: out what it is Bruce is wanting to do with
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  Speaker 3: this album and then once he once he once he
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  Speaker 3: sort of nails that in his own head become his
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  Speaker 3: defender to the record company. And and David Crumholtz is
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  Speaker 3: sort of representing the record company, and you can sort
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  Speaker 3: of see that sort of Weasley record company thing right there.
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  Speaker 3: And uh and and how he has to just sort
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  Speaker 3: of be be the spokesperson for Bruce in that situation.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so great, two really good performances. Jeremy Allen,
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  Speaker 3: WHI is great.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fourth star moview rare stars. So deliver
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  Speaker 2: Me from Nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: Springsteen delivered me from Springsteen is in the name, is
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  Speaker 3: in the title. So yeah, Springsteen delivered me from nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So there you go. What's what do we got
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  Speaker 2: next week? Next week we have Bagonia Shave your Head
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  Speaker 2: and see and see.
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  Speaker 1: I love that guy's movie.
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  Speaker 3: Asta is Yorgos Lanthemos, who's worked with emmastone now on
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  Speaker 3: Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness. It's them together again.
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  Speaker 3: Jesse Plemons in there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Again always good, always always.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's disturbingly good and good and good at being disturbing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's the big one. If I had legs,
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  Speaker 3: I Kick You has been finally coming out next week.
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  Speaker 3: This is the O'Brien, Roseburn and Conan O'Brien. Yeah good, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I have it's she's good. He's pretty good. Yeah, only
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  Speaker 3: the first time he's ever.
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  Speaker 2: It's dramatic role.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so anyway, so but yeah, but going is the
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  Speaker 3: big on next week, all right, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Seaun means movie Cricket dot net is where you want
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  Speaker 1: to go. Sl trip dot com is where Sean toils away.