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[00:00:26] visit the Society's website at www.footcandle.org. Hello everyone and welcome to Footcandle Films here on the Mesh.TV podcast network. My name is Alan Jackson with me. Across the table is Chris Fry. Chris, how are you doing?

[00:00:45] I'm doing well. I'm looking forward to talking about our film today. Should be an interesting discussion. We will. We will get to our review of this week's film here at Mum and Terrily. We're both with the Footcandle Film Society and the Annual Footcandle Film Festival.

[00:01:01] We are here on Footcandle Films to talk movies and movie news and movie recommendations. Each week we at least review one week. One film that the new film this come out or available for people to see,

[00:01:14] as well as try to sprinkle in some news items about some upcoming movie productions or maybe a couple trailers or maybe we get lucky and we get one of Chris Fry's patented recommendations of a film. He says we ought to check out.

[00:01:29] Sounds like on today's episode we're going to have a film review is going to be the latest film from writer director Ty West, a third in his trilogy of films. This one called Maxine starring Mrs. Mayagoth.

[00:01:44] But then we're also going to do a couple of news items, mostly around trailers that have been released and talk about a couple new movie projects we've been made aware of.

[00:01:53] And we are going to have a recommendation from Chris at the end of the episode of a film. He called up with that he is now willing to say he's recommending for us to also check out. That's, found it's like a fair assessment of what we're doing.

[00:02:05] That's a good one. Yeah. Okay. Good deal. Well then I think we go ahead and jump right into our first segment, which is our main review. It is the film Maxine. So Maxine, your agent tells us you're quite a popular name in adult film and entertainment.

[00:02:25] Is that correct? I'm curious. Did you always want to be in that line of work? I always wanted to be famous. If you need to read off the sides, we gave you just go ahead all right. I know the last.

[00:02:42] She turns to the camera and through her trauma addresses the lens directly. In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minks played by Miyagoth. Finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer, stalks the star that's of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens

[00:03:08] to reveal her sinister past. This is the third film in kind of a horror trilogy that tie West and Miyagoth have kind of collaborated on all three are A24 joints. This is like I said, this is the final one.

[00:03:23] Alan, what was your will touch on the other two, but Pearl and X, which was the first one, or some Pearl II? I will touch on this, but to start off, let's just center on Maxine. What was your experience with Maxine?

[00:03:37] What would you think of the film overall? Chris, I realize something has been a little off-kilter with our reviews lately. You've been doing a lot of the setups of the film, which means it kicked over to me.

[00:03:49] I have to be the one to give my opinion for her. I don't mind. I'm going for some of the times. I'm kind of going to kick it back over to you actually. I kind of want to hear European in first.

[00:04:00] I'm pretty set in my opinion, but I want to hear yours first just because I realized listening back to past episodes, because that's what I do in my free time is I listen to old episodes.

[00:04:09] I'll be like, wow, I've always the one giving my opinion first and I'm kind of like the here Chris first. You're flipping a narrative, kind of flipping a thing, kind of like tie West whole thing

[00:04:19] and doing these movies, just kind of flipping the horrors on her a little bit, kind of adding a twist, not just making a typical horror movie. You're going to make this a typical review by having me go first. Yes, fair enough.

[00:04:30] Exactly like I did all those mental jokes. You got me. You got me. Okay, so like I said, I consider this film and then we'll talk about in context of the trilogy and the other two, which I think I've recommended on this show.

[00:04:46] I mentioned the first one of the three. Right. Okay, so Maxine, I thought it was... It's weird to say a violent movie that has horror stuff. But I thought it was fun. It was...

[00:05:01] I appreciated if it would have just been this idea, maybe set in present day, LA or present Hollywood probably would not have been that entertaining or another journey. But what, and it's kind of fan service in a way because it's nostalgia of like the 80s.

[00:05:17] You know, we just recently reviewed the documentary Brats on the show. They, you know, name checks, say Namos Fire. You know, think they play a lot of Peter Satira but whatever the theme song is about that John Park. Thank you. John Park sings the Man and Motion.

[00:05:32] Yeah, he sings song from the scene of one of the... And man, that song... I mean, maybe they played that song in the documentary but it really can't. Okay, but like when they played it here and they don't just play a couple of notes.

[00:05:43] They like play a lot. I was like, uh, really takes me back to the 80s and everything. So I found that cool. I like that. It kept me entertained. Kevin Bacon has a role in this film. And I guess he's featured...

[00:06:01] I don't know if I ever really saw a trailer for this. I think I did. He's featured in the trailer a little bit. So you kind of know he's in it. He seems to be having as much fun as me or Goth.

[00:06:10] So that was, I liked his cameo. I felt like they maybe could have done a little bit more with it. Maybe add a little bit more death. But I don't think... I don't think depth. You know, at the time, these are horror movies.

[00:06:25] There is a little bit something he is trying to make some commentary trying to be... I guess a little bit clever to elevate it to the A24-Half-style of horror. So I appreciate that, but as far as the effectiveness in this installment.

[00:06:44] I think maybe it wasn't as strong as what we'll talk about with the other two. That being said, I still did enjoy it. If you enjoy the other two, I would say, you know, this is worth checking out.

[00:06:57] And before I throw it back to you, I will say, because I've kind of run through a bunch of stuff. My misgiving... Not miss... it's not a misgiving. But maybe that's the point. Maybe this is commentary, Ty West is making about how predictable horror movies can be.

[00:07:15] I... very, very, very, very, very, very... Early on, I knew who the big baddie was. I really... yes. I did. And that... and maybe because I saw each one of us all parallel in the theater, I saw Maxine with the theater.

[00:07:31] And that's the only time I've seen him, so it was a while ago. But I've had time to like, ruminate and maybe think about like, okay. And you know, there was a teaser type thing at the end of Pearl that kind of teased Maxine.

[00:07:45] So you kind of knew that there was going to be a Maxine movie and it was going to be in Hollywood. They kind of gave you this set up, so you're kind of like, okay.

[00:07:52] I've had what two years to think about what this final film was going to be. And once I got on the theater and things started going, I'm like, okay. I think I know what this... I think I knew the big baddie.

[00:08:05] So unfortunately that probably took away also some of my enjoyment for it because I kind of am grad, you know, okay, Chris, you see so many movies, you can predict things. That's on you. Well, I mean not on me, but you know what I mean?

[00:08:18] Like, I can say like, well, maybe if I would have just relaxed a little and not tried to overanalyze thing, I wouldn't have figured it out. So that kind of... But, you know, doesn't make the movie bad.

[00:08:28] It just means like, overall I enjoyed it a little less than if I would have been complete. Because I love some people don't like to have the rug pulled out from under them to be true.

[00:08:38] And I'm not wanted to... I like that. As long as it actually is possible, it's not like it just makes sense. Right, it needs to make sense. It can't just be this like ridiculous, mismarple like, No, it was the chef with the blade.

[00:08:50] But like all this, like no, you need to actually have it makes sense. Yeah, you need to earn it. And this did make sense, but it just... I thought there were so many clues. I was like, come on.

[00:09:02] Yeah. And I didn't honestly, I probably just wasn't as observant. I didn't pick up on all the clues. In hindsight, looking back and I'm like, oh yeah, of course, I probably should have figured that out. But yeah, so be it.

[00:09:12] But I'm curious. So I'm going to pitch it back to you. So you've heard my take, and that's more often what I do is like, you say, and then I'm like, oh, I'm on the same page.

[00:09:21] Or I'm not on the same page or it sounds like you enjoyed it more. So you kind of let yourself just relax and didn't sit there and try to pick things apart as it was going along.

[00:09:31] So you didn't know kind of like the big bad idea where I didn't from the very beginning or very young.

[00:09:37] Well yeah, I mean, so did that help that I... What was your enjoyment of the film? Did it increase because you could kind of go along for the ride instead of knowing...

[00:09:44] I don't know if I'll say increased. I will say this is probably my least favorite of the three inch of this film. We can talk about that a little bit later. Sure, sure.

[00:09:54] But it's not that it's bad. I mean, I did have a good time with this film. I just found that there was a little less to a little less to appreciate here.

[00:10:02] And part of it is, I mean, like I think the Thai West with all three of his movies, he leans into a particular style genre to tell that story. And we'll talk about the other ones later.

[00:10:17] But obviously with this one it is the 80s, 80s soft, soft, core porn violent thriller, you know, genre. It's like he's all in it. It looks like it. The film grain looks like it was shot back in the 80s.

[00:10:33] The acting is very of that style. I mean just yeah, of course, and you already talked about the production wise. Like it is a very 80s movie. It's like it leaves really heavy in everything.

[00:10:42] Yeah, sure. That alone made it fun. So I did have a good time with that. And yes, there's so many of those 80s movies where it was like, there's a killer and you're the killer is killing a bunch of people, especially a bunch of pretty women.

[00:10:55] And you know, it's just, it's all very cliche, but it's meant to be. That's the thing is it's meant to be cliche. So I can't fault that for that. I enjoyed the cliches it leaned into and how it decided to do those.

[00:11:08] And I'm interested in the character of the main lead character, Maxine Minks. I think she's an interesting character. I'll say I think they did less with her than I hoped that they would in this film because I felt like that.

[00:11:21] I felt like the other films were building to something a little bit more mythic for this character. And I just don't feel like we really got it at the end of the day, but.

[00:11:31] It's not it's not a problem with the film is just I probably thought that they could have done a little bit more with her overall story or her character development.

[00:11:39] I didn't really feel like there was a lot there. It was pretty cut and drive what happened with her in the film, whether how incidental she was to the situation or.

[00:11:48] I don't know. I'm wrestling without a little bit, but it didn't really hit hurt my enjoyment of the film. I think it was more just fun than it was anything thought provoking.

[00:11:59] I think that the previous two films did have a little bit more to say than this one. But at the same time, I keep reminding myself movies that were made like this in the 80s didn't ever have anything to say.

[00:12:13] So they were just so entertainment again. I kind of feel like you just leans into that stereotype.

[00:12:18] All right, this is the kind of film we're making. It's a slasher film. There's going to be a killer. It's going to be this. Oh yeah, let's have a mystery in it where you don't know who the killer is until later.

[00:12:26] It's all very stereotypical and it's but it was fun. It was it was a fun time. I had a good time with it. So it was fine. I did enjoy his other two films a little bit better.

[00:12:36] Okay, but this one was a fine fine white a wrap it up. So before we because it's inevitable, we're going to kind of I guess do a little bit of a ranking and talk about our the other two.

[00:12:49] I mentioned Kevin Bacon yes something that I liked he mentioned that it kind of nostalgia factor.

[00:12:58] But there were other things it was just it was based in Hollywood and it really was kind of in a way a love letter to Hollywood. There's the he's in the psycho house.

[00:13:07] Which I did love but that was just yeah, just cool to fact that they did that. You see a bunch of back behind the scenes Hollywood stuff with like movie lads and everything. Also Kevin Bacon plays a private detective sleeves ball.

[00:13:22] Yeah. And at one point his nose gets injured and he has a bandage on it just like Jake gives us from trying to tell you. So there were a little thing.

[00:13:30] And I just like yeah if you didn't think he was kind of referencing that before the bandage like no guys this is really like he's I was just kind of letting you know no this is definitely a winking you know homage to trying to.

[00:13:42] So I'm just going that extra mile and kind of putting that kind of stuff in there.

[00:13:48] I think and I need to research this. I did not research afterwards to see if I'm correct on this but I'm thinking that one of the there's a courtyard that that Maxine runs through at some point when she's trying to escape somebody.

[00:14:02] Okay, I'm pretty sure it's the back to the future downtown of where the court where the bell tower is courthouse in the middle of town.

[00:14:13] I'm fairly certain that would not surprise me. And then the weird thing is you're mentioning that and something kind of felt like not off but something like wait I think I should be getting something and maybe that okay.

[00:14:27] I think it is and I got this double check that I really think it is okay. And again this film is supposed to be taking place in like 85 that was the movie was made in 84 85.

[00:14:36] And that to me is even more admirable because it's like obviously the jade get a thing like I caught that you know and like the cycle house they say it so you're like okay.

[00:14:44] The scene number is fire it's like obvious nostalgia but that is if that is what it is that is awesome that it was like we're going to do this but we're not even going to like spell it out. It's not obvious.

[00:14:56] It's just when she's running through a downtown like set okay and it's like a squared set and she runs out of a building that looks like a big kind of more.

[00:15:05] A more government center building in the middle and then she runs across and I think there was even a gas station based somewhere in like a spot where it wasn't like wow that looks like that looks like the square anyway I could be wrong.

[00:15:17] I hope it is to. Yeah I think obviously TIE West loves the 80s I think I think he loves all three of the types of genres and movies that he kind of is doing takes on and all three of these movies it will talk about.

[00:15:34] I got the impression he really leaned in on the 80s and I mean that who doesn't mean people are a driven a little younger that's kind of a time period we look finally back on so.

[00:15:44] Yeah it's like at one point during our childhood it was a big thing with like the 60s and TIE Dies made a big back and everything and now it's like there's just 80s and.

[00:15:52] 80s and yeah I think the ending ending of this film I mean I don't know talking about the ending ending like the last moment I'm talking about the general final set piece and final sequence I thought was a little.

[00:16:11] I mean I think that's a little muddy and wasn't quite as entertaining as I'd hoped it would have been and it really just did become a.

[00:16:21] A thriller shoot I'm up movie and you know this this movie leaned the least away from the idea of horror I think in all three not that I'm complaining I mean I'm not I'm never the biggest fan of straight horror I mean I like it when you can take some horror mix it in with something else and give me a good mix but.

[00:16:40] I'm not really feeling the furthest away from that idea. Yeah so it was an odd it was an odd one to kind of fanciest trilogy with but I still had a good time with it overall so yeah.

[00:16:55] I don't think so I will well I will say what's kind of along the same lines of things we admire that are kind of story touches.

[00:17:06] Maxine lives above adjacent to a video store which is friends with the owner I thought that was kind of a nice touch because all these VHS tapes they have a little bit of.

[00:17:16] Banner back and forth about people that have started adult found that a transition to a way they mentioned Jamie Lee Curtis or did not start adult and started horror films and then they started art in may actually they talked about.

[00:17:31] Actresses that started in pornography and then made their jobs okay they started with the conversation of one two went from hard to big time and then that transition to. Okay. Those who ran pornographic film, they just just jumped into the film. Okay. Yeah. So I thought that was

[00:17:47] interesting because you know, you can read along the lines of people like, you know, Jamie Curtis, who did Halloween and like, you know, she's kind of so. And then I think me a goth just is kind of a new, I mean, granted. I

[00:17:59] think she's done now. But, you know, Jamie Curtis with the Halloween franchise, some I like Sigourney Weaver with the Alien franchise, Neve Campbell with Scream. So she's kind of like a new version of like, yeah. The final girl. They call

[00:18:13] like, that's just kind of it. It's kind of they're just all this layers of commentary. So I appreciate that. I'll say to see, I think no, I guess I guess that's I guess that's all. Those are all the things for this maybe before we

[00:18:28] move to like, okay. So that is Maxine and it is Maxine with three X's in the title of some case, doing a little web search for the title just to make sure it's clear on there. And they'll like, I think I think I think it was I

[00:18:40] think it was good. I think it was I did enjoy it. I'll have more to say as we talk about the trilogy as a whole. Also throw in, we had a couple kind of bigger names thrown in this film that

[00:18:53] you know, playing some smaller parts, bigger actors than we seen in any of the other two. Elizabeth DeBecky plays the director of this film that Maxine is going to be working in, Elizabeth DeBecky. We had that the the Pups are

[00:19:08] Halsey was in there as one of the, yeah I didn't care. I'm not really familiar with her but I recognize the name, Gian Carlos President, who's in from Breaking Bad. Everything right now, but he's in this movie as well. And I enjoyed his character a lot.

[00:19:22] I thought he was really we've very mentioned Kevin Bacon and we had two two actors that I would not have expected to be in this film at all, but Michelle Monahan and then kind of Ali Bobby.

[00:19:32] I thought he kind of Ali as kind of detectives on the case working together. And they, oh I thought they were great and they were I like the they're kind of away from the scene banter. I mean he's just you kind of get

[00:19:46] the sense that they're trying to put on a bit of a performance of who they are as it's detectives. And they're kind of Ali like totally slamming himself. Yeah, right. I enjoy like yeah because he basically it seems to be he's

[00:19:59] maybe a little bit of a failed actor. Then began then like yeah Monahan totally calls him on that. Yeah, so it was fun. It was a it was a it made for a kind of took that standard mode of yeah you got to have these two badass detectives

[00:20:13] that are going to try to track down the killer and all that and kind of spins at a little bit. It's like no they're there playing some parts and they're self conscious about what

[00:20:22] they're doing as well. So I thought those were fun parts. Yeah. Now overall I think Maxine was was good. I mean I always like to kind of bowl this down. I always think about how I'm

[00:20:34] going to write this on a letterbox scale. I mean we're going to rank the okay we're going to do all three. I'll do that in a little bit. Kind of a little bit, that'll be fun. But yeah I did

[00:20:43] I did have a good time. What was the year at the year crowd like for your screening of this? I always like to find out like how big the crowd was. I mean this was in one of the smaller

[00:20:53] theaters. Yeah it was in the smallest at the year or then. Yeah okay and maybe other than me there were maybe eight other people there? Okay I had about five or six other people.

[00:21:02] Okay yeah. Which is kind of interesting as this was the fourth largest film from the weekend but like it did I guess okay. Well it did like six million which is for a summer weekend.

[00:21:16] But it's also the highest one at debut of like any of the three films. Okay but I mean this is like not not that the budget was skyrocketing for this film either so I don't know how it does

[00:21:27] financially but yeah we'll see interesting. Yeah so that is Maxine with starring Mia Goth and writer director Ty West final in their trilogy of films. It is playing in theaters right now as we

[00:21:43] record this I've got an impression that this will probably be one that will be available online sooner rather than later. Okay yeah and we're saying you know if you like the previous two films

[00:21:55] or you have any interest in this as a trilogy it's it's a worth checking out it's uh and especially if you have any fondness for the 80s and the 80s style of uh sexy thrillers that used to come out

[00:22:06] the time yeah this totally leans into that into that uh into that will hell so. All right Chris so how do we want to do this? Do we want to kind of we've wrapped up the review of Maxine you

[00:22:17] want to talk about the trilogy as a whole. Sure. Sure. A little background I was not familiar with this trilogy of films at all I'm not familiar with it but I hadn't seen any of them. Got you.

[00:22:28] Until about one week ago I did end up watching X and then I ended up watching Pearl which was the second one and then of course I'd be actually watching Maxine so I have seen all three very recently

[00:22:41] you just in the past week. You had made recommendations on X the first one back when it when you saw in the movie theater you made a recommendation of it. Yes um you saw Pearl didn't

[00:22:53] recommend Pearl. It's time to remember cracker. All right so it sounds like you know looking at the three films tie-wast basically put together a trilogy of the uh a horror trilogy and you understand yeah

[00:23:08] now they're again you know our my intern gave me a very like brief um synopsis intern does that a lot just really kind of short shift work. It just dig into the detail. But then again we don't pay them anything

[00:23:20] we don't pay them. Okay so they had the green light to do X and because of when it was made it came out in 2022 like March I think but they had like a two week break period because of 2020

[00:23:38] in the pandemic and I think during that enforced like break before they actually start shooting X I think the way that intern was saying is that meagoth and tie-wast kind of like I guess had nothing

[00:23:49] but they're like okay what do we do and they kind of like I would have did it for zoom or face or something but they kind of brainstorm like well what if we like did this you know pre-cursor

[00:23:58] this film and that was obviously Pearl and like cool and then by the time they got around to actually starting shooting X they'd gotten a green light to go ahead and do Pearl as well. Now I don't

[00:24:09] know if they also brainstormed Maxine at that time or after the success of the first two or after the success of X after they like they're like okay yeah we'll go ahead and give you the money

[00:24:19] to do Maxine like I don't know I don't know but yeah that was kind of my understanding was that was kind of thing so also too you've kind of teased it my rating of the three films would be

[00:24:33] X first Maxine second and Pearl third and it could be you know just you know for those I mean you can go back and listen to my like recommendation of X but X is it's 1979 a group of film makers

[00:24:48] try to make an adult film in a rural Texas setting and they the people that they basically like kind of Airbnb location I've been back before that existed obviously but they found a location

[00:25:01] and it's owned by these elderly, reclusive people and then when they start doing the film the owners are kind of like whoa what's going on here and some problem too yeah the owners get a

[00:25:12] little upset when they start to realize that they're making a pornographic film and there's a little bit of a morals question or a judgmental question towards the kids and then it kind of

[00:25:22] evolved into a yeah a slasher film right and so I think it had a very Texas chainsaw massacre feel to it I mean kind of that same texture to it it obviously was leaning in on that

[00:25:38] mid like 70 slasher type film yeah and so I think when I saw that film all I knew was yeah I when I first heard there was a horror film called X I was like I have no interest because it was

[00:25:49] just like you know and it's like bloody and it was going to be like a pornographic had they were making a pornographic film and then I get killed I'm like no interest but I saw it

[00:25:59] was A24 and with their house styrene I was like well okay and then I hurlias people say there's more going on here than just blood and stuff so I went and saw it and obviously I

[00:26:10] recommended it I really liked it now I think that probably hurt my feet my expectations you got to better me for Pearl because Pearl is a precursor to X that takes place basically me a

[00:26:25] Goth plays she's in all three films obviously she's in Pearl but she plays the younger version of the older one of the old women from X the old woman that owned the house named Pearl and it's

[00:26:38] 1918 and the young woman kind of loses her mind or kind of goes off the edge and she has like circumstances she wants to be famous but she lives in this isolated town on her parents farm

[00:26:52] and that's kind of Pearl so you already know what obviously it vaccines about with Pearl I think I was like oh that's interesting they're going to get back but I think the fact that there wasn't a really

[00:27:04] for me there wasn't a lot there I was like okay you kind of know what's going to happen I kind of knew the trajectory of the film the performances were interesting the the stylistic choices

[00:27:15] and the costumes and like what he was doing was making a film that looked kind of like Wizard of Oz ish in a way which you know but there just wasn't a lot of I didn't for me

[00:27:26] there wasn't like enough me there to keep me interested because I kind of now all that said I think I gave X four stars I think I gave Pearl too which maybe it's better than that but I will say

[00:27:41] Mia Goth which I remember at the time when Pearl came out a lot of people kind of were jumping on the bandwagon saying she has kind of a monologue towards the end of the film or she just delivers

[00:27:51] this straight to the camera and they were like of course you know people always rally around harm maybe it's like oh they deserved to get Oscar attention you know those say things like that

[00:28:00] like people just ignore them altogether is pure slot but yes that delivery to the camera and I think she goes through a little bit of kind of a roller coaster of emotions maybe a little bit

[00:28:11] but yeah that is that's impressive and I will say actually from all three films that's probably the best like bit of acting we get to see because it's just you know it's it's just really impressive it's very

[00:28:25] showy acting in general I think is it's good it's good in all three films I think she's a really good this is a it's a genre that she excels in she knows she knows how to play this role right

[00:28:37] I feel differently okay I really like Pearl okay I think I liked Pearl just because it was very different and yes it made me not did not have as much ground to cover but I was just fascinated

[00:28:56] by the character of Pearl so and I love the fact that it was shot in scored like a 1940s Hollywood with a Vosla as you mentioned kind of error filming that's that's there's times I'm looking at the screen

[00:29:11] I'm like oh yeah that what I read about this is that they actually wanted to do it in black and white no interesting and the studio said no so no don't like you like that so then they just cranked up the

[00:29:21] color to make it this like vibrant really like technical or yeah with the Vosla which was great too so I liked it I liked Pearl a lot I mean I liked X a lot as well too that's why I say Maxine it's

[00:29:35] probably my least favorite of the three is actually favorite it was probably your favorite I think Pearl might be much more interesting going on I'm just more interested in that the character

[00:29:56] and I think me a god that had a lot more to do obviously she's she's the star of X but she's also part of an ensemble like you know Pearl is like it is her I mean you don't want you to know

[00:30:08] she's the final girl like you want to just like oh no she's here because there's three girls two guys is like yeah you don't know who's gonna be the one to make it out the end and right so

[00:30:16] they kind of do have to keep it a little mystery whereas like Pearl you know the deal because going into the film you kind of know what's gonna happen so kind of I kind of knew I mean I knew

[00:30:27] I knew what the woman Pearl becomes in X right obviously at that point but I don't really know a lot of how I don't know what role you know her husband had to play and out that so that was to

[00:30:41] me where it was kind of interesting where it's like I was honestly generally curious where that story was gonna go and found myself pretty engaged in it so um but I loved the fact that he took

[00:30:51] this trilogy and said all right first first film we're making it's the Texas chains all massacre second film we're making it is a Dorothy gone wrong yeah basically a Dorothy back in Kansas kind

[00:31:03] of goes down the wrong path in life but we're gonna shoot it in style it and score it like a big Hollywood movie we even have a little dance number and we have a production numbers in it and then

[00:31:13] we're gonna go totally Maxine is gonna be all about 80s and neon and you know so stocking whatever the shows were at the time they made the total 80s violent sex driven driven action so

[00:31:30] I like to I like to overall what he put together with this that was fun so and I think I probably I probably should see Pearl again it just I thought there was I think what helped me back

[00:31:41] was there was so much style but there wasn't any substance underneath it because I kind of already knew the trajectory of the Pearl character or I get I mean I didn't know that the

[00:31:51] specifics but I knew like well I know where she's gonna get and there was so much style which yes it was all done really well but I just kind of like okay you know for the runtime it was 103 minutes

[00:32:02] I was kind of like yeah it could have been 80 but yeah but there is stuff to admire such I'd probably give it another chance possibly so yeah I thought I thought I liked a lot I like

[00:32:11] just because it was a little more daring it was a little more taking a water swing at something and paid off again I can't say enough how this whole trilogy really just hinges on do you enjoy seeing me a gov play these characters on screen because

[00:32:29] especially when it comes to Pearl and then I think Maxine to some degree I mean it's her and she is carrying this film sure you have to buy into her charisma you have to buy into her character in

[00:32:39] general and I think it works I think works really well so overall I was really pleased Chris you know I know you had recommended one of these films in the past I am not a horror guy I don't see

[00:32:51] out horror films if I can help it I will watch a horror film if I know you and I have to review it or if I hear something is getting outstanding reviews and critical acclaim then I may have

[00:33:01] seek it out otherwise I am staying away so for me to spend a week watching three quote horror films you're almost back you're back for 20 minutes I'm done for a little while I'm good I'm going to

[00:33:12] catch out on the horror for a bit and wait till the next the next big thing rolls around so anything more you want to say about the the trilogy here with the yeah thank we covered it so you're

[00:33:23] ranking would just be you're saying Pearl X a Pearl X Maxine wow okay yeah you are X Maxine Pearl correct okay so yeah so we're we're different on all three okay yeah that's all right that

[00:33:38] mix were right it does good yeah but I am saying all three are good okay I'm not yeah my ranking does not in any way say that Maxine is a bad movie it's just as the one I got the least out of

[00:33:50] although I still had a good time watching it so okay Chris well I think we have talked about me and golf and these movies enough now so okay we're gonna take a quick break and when we come

[00:34:02] back we've got a couple of trailers actually three three trailers to chase and talk about with some films coming out one we're both very interested in one I'm very curious about and one

[00:34:16] I hope it's not as bad as it looks so I'm just gonna say can we guess which ones it will have to yeah sure I think you'll be able to figure it out pretty quick all right

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[00:34:57] Chris and I had our review of the film Maxine as well as a discussion about the overall ty West Pearl Maxine trilogy what do you call that trilogy it's a name for it do they

[00:35:10] refer to it as like a certain trilogy I don't know or just the extra trilogy I guess it's just the extra trilogy okay just because it was the name of the first movie but yeah all right well

[00:35:18] that was our review of those that movie the new one and all three is a trilogy Chris let's go and talk about some new movies coming out let's take a break from the horror world just for a minute

[00:35:29] okay we're gonna get back to it but let's take a break and go completely in the other direction as far as new films go okay I was made aware who thought think I had heard that they

[00:35:41] were working on this but I didn't know a lot of details but we do have a trailer now that has come out at least a short teaser trailer have a watch yet but we were going to watch it with you

[00:35:50] here together for the first time a new Apple original film which right away that has a certain stigma to it you know I think mostly good I think the Apple films are getting good

[00:36:06] better quality than not when an Oscar I did when a Oscar and they've had a few that would been pretty good of course killers of the flower moon was an Apple original film

[00:36:16] Napoleon maybe not so much but it was still a high-calibre film this kind of following in that in those footsteps we have a new film coming out called F1 Chris what do you think

[00:36:29] the film F1 might be about it's I think it's kind of looking back on the makings of a computer keyboard yes yeah one yeah starting with F12 you're obviously gonna go in numerical order

[00:36:40] and they're gonna go with we should have 12 of them right so they're gonna start with that one F1 yes the computer keyboard expanding saga universe uh starting as you probably picked up from our our ribbing yeah it's about Formula One racing oh I do expect yeah the other

[00:37:00] other of the other of the F1 this one will be a racing movie starring Brad Pitt called F1 also stars damson Idris I don't know him see we're late into Idred Elbus no no that's a different

[00:37:17] name it's but Idred Elbus yeah okay damson Idris I'm gonna need to follow up with him I'm not a way or fams and just an actor and it's going to follow Pitt as starring as Formula Four and

[00:37:30] Formula One driver's sunny haze he returns to the sport partners with inventors his team mates played by Idris and the fictional APXGP team so they're kind of making up a team for them

[00:37:46] sake of the movie so it's not gonna be a completely pure historical movie it's gonna be a little more fabricated except with Formula One racing instead of golf maybe a little bit of that we have

[00:37:57] Kiri Condon, Havi R. Bardem are also both in this film okay Bardem will be playing the team boss of this this fictional team that they put together so filming took place at actual Formula One

[00:38:10] events here's the thing that got me curious about the film because I was not aware of who the director was okay the director is a Mr Joseph Cozinesky who if you were recognized the name

[00:38:23] he was the director of Top Gun Maverick okay now Joseph has done a couple of films he did what was the one with Tom Cruise it was the sci-fi movie oblivion oh okay okay he did a

[00:38:36] oblivion he did Top Gun Maverick he did another one or two films I believe he's a very technically proficient director and worked really good with technology in films thinking about the way Top Gun Maverick was shot I'm like you can have whatever opinions about Top Gun Maverick

[00:38:55] as a movie in a film and it's story and all that but you got to admit from a technical proficiency standpoint shooting I mean it was pretty darn impressive what was put together

[00:39:05] so imagine putting that kind of prowess into a Formula One racing view I'm assuming the racing scenes are gonna be good I assume the racing is gonna be good we'll let anything else I don't know here's

[00:39:18] the thing that does worry me is that as much as I did enjoy Top Gun Maverick I will admit the thing that probably faults the most on it is the screenplay but we have airing Kruger who

[00:39:29] worked with Cozinesky on the Top Gun Maverick script will also be writing the screenplay for F1 so they're basically taking the the the Top Gun Maverick formula let's take the director let's take the

[00:39:42] writers big name star let's put it in a very high technical kind of filming environment where we're gonna have some really authentic shooting styles and we're gonna make F1 so that's what we've got

[00:39:55] I think I am equally interested in this film as I am in the fictitious one F1 about a computer key on a computer keyboard I'm not interested at all this for me unless you know I'm sure

[00:40:09] of just being this kind of a big budget thing it'll probably be released in theaters first before going to Apple maybe I'm depending on when they decide to release it I'll wait to see if

[00:40:19] maybe a trailer will change my mind and make me think that I'm maybe getting interested but right now yeah little a little no interest and I think it's because to me I've seen the rush film that Ron

[00:40:31] Howard did with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel rule I've seen Ford versus Ferrari with Christian Bayo Mad Damon and grand those are you know different things not you know but I don't know

[00:40:43] I just there's not a lot there's not a lot here but you know I also don't really care about the world of racing so um there's that well you started this your little your little commentary there

[00:40:55] by saying you maybe we'll have to see a trailer or something that can mention you so how about let's do that that's right that's what this is like that is how about let's watch the trailer and see what you think

[00:41:04] well it's like a minute and a half long trailer so it's not super long what about these and enough let's I have not watched it yet either so let's take a look at and see what the trailer for F1 might

[00:41:15] until here we go okay Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes asked and now McLaren all have its beat on the streets our shot is battling in the turns we need to build our car for combat how am I supposed to

[00:41:32] make that safe who said anything that safe okay so there you go and it did say only in theaters summer of 2025 also with the thing that it would be an IMAX I guess if you have one near you of course

[00:42:01] that will be in the house yeah so not excited and those you know you listen to the trailer audio because it wouldn't be interesting to listen to Allen I reactions but as Allen noticed they

[00:42:14] as soon as the needle drop of the queen song I was like I mean I was already I was already kind of like yeah this is just I'm not into this and then the needle drop of um not we are the

[00:42:27] we will rock you right um and I was like here's my take on this Chris visually I mean I look I I am on board for the visual side of it this trailer would have worked if they had just not played

[00:42:42] the music it's seriously I'm thinking about that's like this is a trailer that all you want to show people is really cool car shots and driving and look as authentic as possible and make an intent

[00:42:56] adding the music did nothing and it's like actually kind of was a grown-in-ducing film it's like really roll yeah so it's like that would have been a cool trailer just no music just let it be the

[00:43:06] natural sounds of these shots in the way they ended it with like cutting as the as it's revving up loud or louder and louder and then just cut so I'm like okay that would have been a cool that

[00:43:16] would have been a decent little teaser trailer thing but anyway whatever um yeah look I think from I think visually and technically I'm curious to see this but I'm not expecting it to be anything

[00:43:31] not expecting it to be anything great yeah and the story sounds very cliche and sounds very pat and even the trailer lind linds me to believe it's gonna be very formulaic and formulaic yeah you see

[00:43:43] I do there formulae um yeah so I think it's gonna be very by the book here's a guy coming back uh to build up a new team and he has to mentor somebody but then he has to get behind the

[00:43:55] will himself and race you know what this is gonna go so yeah um I wonder if you're looking at some of the shots I wonder if it's kind of a I'm curious uh Tom Cruise type thing where is Brad Pitt

[00:44:10] driving some of the formulae and racing cars like because it just seems like no I do a lot of the stunts which great not that the stuff Tom Cruise does isn't dangerous if he really does all

[00:44:20] like yeah I mean these cars are going really fast so if he's I would be I mean I'd be surprised but then I wouldn't be surprised because that seems like something that would I will say this if Brad Pitt

[00:44:30] is actually driving these cars we will hear about that oh that's true nonstop and the months leading up to summer 2025 here's another thing Chris this trailer this quote trailer it's coming out of year in advance this is something we actually talked about I think last episode

[00:44:46] about how we've kind of been happier that trailers are not coming up maybe like three months four months in advance and that's been good right this one's coming out a year in advance it's like

[00:44:56] all right going to go and trying to prime the pump again yes I'm making all my little my little references to driving you know but um I don't know I will see what happens with this I'm sure

[00:45:09] again I'm sure it's gonna be marbled at because it's probably gonna look really really really cool and it's gonna have some really great cinematography from within the the car and on the track

[00:45:21] and all but sure I'm not anticipating anything more than that so yeah and maybe maybe we'll be proven wrong so it's gonna be just cool we'll see okay that was our little dip outside of the

[00:45:32] horror world but the rest of this episode is gonna be hard unless you're a recommendation you're recommendation may not be hard I will hold our listeners and sisters okay this will find out

[00:45:40] we have two other trailers to comment on Chris as we sat in the movie theater not together but on different occasions to see Maxine we both were regaled with the same trailers for the most part

[00:45:53] before the movie and you know the movie theaters believe that will appear there for a movie that's a horror film we're gonna show you like 20 trailers for other horror movies which is not a

[00:46:03] I mean it makes sense not a lot of variety though it just felt like after awhile it's like another horror film that has a very similar premise to it but we did want to call out to one

[00:46:15] of them I know you and I have seen we're gonna talk about and one I don't think you've seen which was surprising to me I don't know why you wouldn't have seen it because I saw it okay when I was there

[00:46:25] from Maxine so anyway first one up is from A24 part of the reason we're bringing it up because A24 has had a pretty good track history with horror films they do pretty well with them they

[00:46:38] tend to make some horror films there maybe a little bit above the cut you know not your not your standard run of the mill something a little bit more interesting going on well we have a new one

[00:46:48] that is starring a Mr. Hugh Grant which also makes it kind of intriguing I don't think he's ever done horror before I don't think so and I can't remember him doing a character quite like

[00:46:58] I've seen in this one either but the film's name is Heretic it's from people who made the original a quiet place is what I'm reading let me verify that the producers because they can just

[00:47:13] produce well yeah junk or something you directed it by guess yeah if the oh the writers there's the writers of the original script for a quiet place that you they are in working with this one

[00:47:25] now as well so the idea of the film is that let me the film is rumored well this was back in the deadline article that when it came out we're gonna watch the trailer that spells out a lot more about this

[00:47:39] the film is about two young women of faith who were lured into a cat and mouse game in the home of a very eccentric man and obviously you grant playing the eccentric man

[00:47:50] enough and later with the two actresses playing the young women involved okay but let me pull up the trailer for I thought I had the trailer pulled up but the intern got the wrong link

[00:48:01] because yeah I mean before I saw this trailer even though Hugh Grant was attached to it there seemed to be a lot of I mean you know just peaks and valleys with different types of horror films

[00:48:15] this just recently it seems like we've had a lot of like religious like bent horror like you had the remake or not remake but the installment that the actresses thing with David Gordon Green which I didn't see there was some Russell Crowe

[00:48:34] going to talk I'm sorry we have to talk about what that was but I'll talk about that first when I saw this I was like wait Russell Crowe's already done this but then because Hugh Grant is

[00:48:44] older now I just didn't see the poster very clearly and I thought it was like another movie called Heretic with Russell Crowe but then I was like oh no that's Hugh Grant huh

[00:48:51] though it's still like it just looks like another religion gone bad type thing and like people are actually devil words yeah yeah I was just like not however as we'll watch the trailer of the

[00:49:01] boy my mind was changed with the trailer that that's not what that that's not the tack they're really to well there's two things about this that made me perk my ears up

[00:49:11] because it I'll admit when I first heard okay Hugh Grant like you all like Hugh Grant yeah I heard he was gonna be in a horror film like oh no that doesn't sound good then and again

[00:49:21] I'm also broken record I saw the A24 logo at the beginning like okay so there's at least something a little bit here and then seeing the trailer and seeing kind of where the themes

[00:49:32] of the film is going I'm like all right I'm unboard let's do this right so here we are this is the trailer for Heretic starring Hugh Grant hi good afternoon man are you interested in learning about our

[00:49:47] key this press hi you're not your name is sister Barnes and oh my gosh are you interested in learning more about the church of Jesus Christ come on it we can't come inside

[00:50:05] unless another woman is present my wife this hope does that come great you like pie yeah I wife finding up and I could tell that you are a very spiritually curious person I think

[00:50:17] it is good to do religious to find your faith in adoption you actually believe well our work here is done and I will go and check on the pot all right so that is the trailer for Heretic with Hugh Grant and directed by the Scott Beck and Brian

[00:50:42] Woods who were the writers of the quiet place that original script I don't know of any other director than they've done so we'll see so Chris you you you come in that this the trailer kind of

[00:50:53] got you and you're on board and I was interested when I saw it for the first time before Maxine and now watching it again I just have to didn't reveal too much um I really yeah I'm on board

[00:51:05] it's I rolled my eyes with the the queen song yes maybe this one not familiar with the music used the band itself but like just I don't know it's cool and it's just this is kind of on my

[00:51:23] wavelength and kind of taking something and yeah turning it the use of what looks like miniatures which kind of reminds me of hereditary it did have some of that vibe kind of model house

[00:51:34] like you see some shots that are meant to look like the characters are inside of a large metal model house maybe there's a maze type thing in a go on now I don't know it's like the

[00:51:44] challenging it's not just as simple as Hugh Grant's a bad guy and he's gonna hack him down with an axe nope there's I hope not there seems like I hope that there's more to it's like going on about

[00:51:54] an experiment or kind of like you know just testing it like I don't know it it seems like there's some stuff here to really think about and that's the age 24 logos on it so I'm excited but I'm also a

[00:52:05] little I don't I hope this isn't just a a a a saw type film with some slight religious okay for him says I mean yeah I don't want to just be a very typical torture film or putting people through these horrific situations just with a slight little

[00:52:28] religious slant to no I'm all for it they can go a little deeper with this or go somewhere more interesting so you know you kind of said you were gonna take a break from harm maybe so does this trailer

[00:52:38] make you think that well okay I'll give this one a chance when I come yeah no I'm honestly looking forward to this one okay so when I'm I'm good with it looks like we're talking about

[00:52:48] sometime this fall okay so I don't have a date just as coming soon in theater is this fall so this is a shorter window unlike the F1 window of giving us a year to anticipate this is

[00:52:59] this is fall meaning it could be in the next three to five months okay so yeah okay so that is heretic don't have an exact date but yes we're we're anticipating that one now

[00:53:13] let me flip over to another trailer that our final one I saw before Maxine I don't know if somehow I got transported to an alternate dimension for like three and a half minutes and you were not there

[00:53:24] I don't know what happened I don't know I may have arrived late maybe I missed if this was the first trailer wasn't there wasn't okay was it so awesome that I've locked it out because I don't

[00:53:35] remember anything about it when it comes out well here's the thing so it's another horror film trailer I'm gonna show okay this one's called a afraid okay the word of afraid but the letters

[00:53:46] A and I in the middle of the word are accented red and a tell us why is this a Blum House production with like Megan with like all that kind where they did the numbers in the title

[00:53:57] I mean it does not appear to be associated with them but it is a Blum House production right right right so not right okay but like but it's not you know I mentioned last week I think in those show news that there is a

[00:54:10] take off a spin-off of Megan that was like about a sex robot companion robot right going on a murder spray that they're developing this is completely different But they're just the mere thing of taking a title and then like making the letters be saying yeah, but you know

[00:54:26] It's still the word afraid it's just a highlighting effect AI is like a part of it if John Chow And then we also have Katherine Waterson play a couple and it appears from the trailer

[00:54:39] I'm just gonna set it up and we'll watch it. Sure. It's a family that brings a AI Home assistant service into their lives got you and then we'll see where it goes now here's the thing that what was

[00:54:53] interesting for me is I have watched this trailer. I thought this did not look good But then I saw it was directed written and directed by Chris White's Chris White's if you recall many many years ago did a wonderful film called about a boy

[00:55:08] He's also was kind of the one to Help bring about the original American pie film. Well, you know back when that came out He's made other film since that I think American dreams was like one he did with his with uh

[00:55:22] I think with his brother they worked as a filmmaking team He's been a lot of the American dreams about that was the one with Hugh Grant and it was like a Singing show like a Contestants on a show There he also didn't um he do though

[00:55:40] Maybe it was the first golden compass movie. Yes, yes, you did I think you're right They could did yeah Okay, so seeing that he made this movie a blunt house production horror film kind of was can't be premise to it. I'm like Oh, okay interesting but

[00:55:56] I still think that looks pretty bad anyway I will be there's the tip I'll let you be the judge. Let's see what you I'll see what you think of this Chris. I've to go to that school day tomorrow I just get point for going

[00:56:14] Yeah, I is probably a good our children. I know what you like I know what you do when you think you're alone What is this? Three months he's my life is over I was I've already gotten the video off the internet I'll take care of him back

[00:56:48] All right, so that is afraid and now and is afraid that he's going to have to watch this maybe because it looks bad I Yeah starting off They were kind of leaning in to maybe it being which sometimes we've house does with like Megan stuff

[00:57:06] Like the cheese factor where I was like well, you know, maybe it's gonna be making some Fairly obvious points about AI that maybe it'll be done in making a musing way or something

[00:57:16] But then I guess it kind of tilt send a kind of like you can kind of guess Everything is it's seen very predictable exactly what you would expect it to do. I mean great

[00:57:27] at these are the kind of conversations that even people when as AI as grit gained popularity and Promonets and people's lives There have been jokes or comments or theories about how this is where AI is gonna go

[00:57:40] Well, they just leaned into this as a movie like no, we're totally just gonna make this Like this like this is exactly what you're expecting out of a movie where AI takes over a family and their house so anyway No, I'm not interested I don't know John Cho

[00:57:59] He's been involved with some good productions lately. I don't know if this was something where he just does You know He had some money Captain Waterson same idea there. I don't know

[00:58:10] I'll you know actually Chris White's who's the writer director also was a producer on the movie Columbus Which was John Cho was in which you know, yeah I have yet to see it but Koganada

[00:58:21] I still want to see that film so whether or not they have some sort of connection from that and I don't know. I'm curious I'm curious about the film, but not at all interested in the film. Is that sound about right?

[00:58:33] Sure and maybe it'll be kind of like it's a wait and see for me on F1 Yeah, it's a wait and see for me on afraid Maybe I'll hear buzz and back up. No, okay. I'll check it up

[00:58:47] Yeah, I mean I guess if it's made to be really fun and you know It could be something but right boy and just seemingly simplistic coding of I believe the as name was Blue when friendly red when bad. I'm like okay. Yeah, did I need that?

[00:59:07] In a lot of you Anyway, that's coming out August 30th so we don't have very long to wait and see what the take is gonna be on a afraid But my predictions are not high for this so fair enough And that does our trailers and news so F1

[00:59:25] Heritage and afraid Two horror movies and one movie we hope is not gonna be horror movie to watch so Chris Let's wrap this thing up with a recommendation. So we've talked about movies that

[00:59:41] We've been a little iffy on whether or not they're gonna pan out for us in the future But you have seen something recently that you can go ahead and say on the record

[00:59:49] It's worth people's time to check out. So I want to hear the Chris fry recommendation for this episode Well, I will I will caution and say that I actually watched this the year it came out

[00:59:59] Which I'm recommending a film from 2016. Okay, so I had it recently watched it But I did give it four stars on letterbox This is in a valley of violence and it is by one Thai West who you may have heard of

[01:00:13] Unless you slept through the first 40 minutes or so of the show But but this one is A take kind of his take I guess on a western it stars Ethan Hawk and John Travolta and The tagline is a man can only take so much

[01:00:30] And it's the story of the drifter name Paul who's played by Ethan Hawk Who arrived in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend So that's the general general. And so it's a it's a take on a western. It's by Thai West

[01:00:46] I did give it four stars. I think it's in the counter a brief review that I left on letterbox Just said that it was a good film that dabbles with some genre conventions of the western which shouldn't surprise you if it's Thai West

[01:00:59] And I said it borders on being great, which I'm wondering the one thing I say I gave it four out of five And I say that I deducted a star because there's a flashback That I felt like used flashlight lighting

[01:01:12] Which obviously when westerns were around they did not have Flashlights they mean the lanterns but I guess I really felt like it looked like Flashlights being you saw maybe I was being unfair maybe if I went back and watched again if I was here once

[01:01:25] You know based on my recommendation. I say it's worth checking out People checking out me like no Chris you were ridiculous that doesn't look like a flashlight lighting I get it's like a flashback sequence where they show something happening Anyways, but it is in a value of violence

[01:01:40] It's a bad director Thai West. It's not streaming anywhere I think but you can like you know rental through like the Adestances so that's in a value of the island in a valley of violence by Thai West

[01:01:53] Okay, well, so Chris is bringing the Thai West love back home here at the end of the episode It doesn't make me kind of curious what all has Thai West done outside of outside of horror

[01:02:05] I mean, I think he he's means pretty strongly into horror. This one is not necessarily it has some violence And it bits more of like a genre western type thing But he's made the end keepers which I haven't seen

[01:02:19] He did some an installment I guess in the VHS horror trilogy type thing So I think he mainly kind of steers himself towards horror But yeah, I don't know I think this one was a We're checking out so

[01:02:35] Real quick before you break thank you for the recommendation Chris You mentioned this is a call back to our new section. Okay, you mentioned Russell Crowe Yes and Him being in a recent film where he plays a priest

[01:02:49] Well now here here's the funny thing and I'm meaning to tell you this I've been mean to weave this into a new section Okay, for getting in that you brought it up. I can't let it go. Just get for it so there are Yes, so

[01:03:04] We had a movie on in our house a few months ago I don't know how I got on it was just on in the background and I think my wife watched some of it I watch a few minutes of it. Okay, it's called the Pope's Exorcist

[01:03:17] Okay, and it is a Film starring Russell Crowe. Okay, okay, so I'm gonna pull up the movie poster for you the Pope's Exorcist so he's he's the title exorcist Yes, okay. This is the movie poster For said movie

[01:03:38] Russell Crowe the Pope's Exorcist is a big poster it is Russell Crowe's face with a beard holding a cross in front of him He looks like a priest I'm gonna do an exorcist. Okay, so that was released And what was the time? It was in 2023. Okay

[01:03:57] So then I see a poster for a film Let's see Hold on, I know I'm I'm delaying here people have already shut the show off. So are you gonna tell me he's been in more than one

[01:04:11] Religious horror film that is that his new ugly what I'm telling is that his new genre So no wonder when I saw the poster for her ticker whatever first glance I thought it was another Russell Crowe so now there's a movie this get me to come out called

[01:04:24] The ecrosism oh so I'm not okay Okay But the movie poster hasn't come out yet. Yeah, okay red background Russell Crowe's face and Holding across in front of him You would think okay, I see interesting so the Pope's exorcism and now they're making the exorcist

[01:04:43] or the Pope's exorcist and now they're making the exorcism you got the same characters Russell Crowe no these films were in no way related They're completely different films completely different characters but the exact same Tiling lead actor Movie poster arrangement

[01:05:02] He of a beautiful mind and gladiator. Yes, yes Now I'll say this the Pope's exorcism or at Pope's exorcist yes

[01:05:15] From what I could tell and what I picked up from my wife who did right you were walking in that it was not it was it was not a horrible movie Okay, it was actually

[01:05:23] Relatively decent movie not a good movie, but you know passable okay, so whether he's just found a niche now We're like this is his thing. I play exorcist. I play priest and I do exorcisms

[01:05:35] And however you want me to position across in front of my face for the movie poster I will do that Anyway, I just had to mention that because you mentioned how you saw the Russell Crowe actually I'm like well, which one

[01:05:44] Because there's been two in the last year That is bizarre. Yeah, it really is that's so bad. Okay. Sorry. That was a little side Pretty much who still sticking with the movie He felt better than I was just like when I saw a movie

[01:05:57] Looked like a horror movie. I think the poster maybe didn't have a red background They said heretic and I couldn't see it clearly that it was Hugh Grant if I was like wait he's making it so he has made another one

[01:06:07] It is coming out but so but this is not there. Okay. Yes Random Random for Russell Crowe. Okay, that is honestly okay. I'm gonna stop derailing our show. We are done We had our review of Maxine we talked about the Thai West Extrillagey in general

[01:06:23] We talked about F1 coming out next summer 2025 We talked about heretic coming out sometime this fall and we talked about a Frade which I'm afraid is coming out on August 30th All of those trailers that we pre-read for you and then Chris had his recommendation

[01:06:42] Of the film and I've already drawn a blank on it. It's in a daily Valid. A violent also directed by Thai West. Yeah, so Chris anybody with some thoughts opinions or comments to share how can they do that? Russell Crowe you can write to us

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