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[00:00:30] Hello and welcome to Footcandle Films here on theplay.tv podcast network. My name is Alan

[00:00:40] Jackson. With me is Chris Fry. Two of us serve as the directors of the Footcandle Film Society

[00:00:46] and the annual Footcandle Film Festival. And Chris, how are you today? I'm doing well.

[00:00:52] I am anticipating the Oscars as of this recording. They have not happened yet. So all the anticipations

[00:00:58] there have some favorites that I hope when. Looking forward to the speeches. Hopefully

[00:01:04] it'll be slap-free. Was that just last year? That wasn't last year. It was two years ago.

[00:01:10] It was two years ago. I think. It was the last year. I don't know. That stuff is gone

[00:01:15] by so fast. Time is the circle. I have no idea where the time has gone. I don't know

[00:01:22] if the slap was last year or two years ago. Hopefully it'll be slap-free or drama-free.

[00:01:29] I kind of like it when it's just give us the winners. Let's hear their acceptance speeches.

[00:01:36] Play the five songs I did here that the five nominated songs were all going to be performed,

[00:01:40] which is good. So we are going to get to hear I'm just Ken performed. And he's going

[00:01:45] to have like a backup of like 90 Kins. I hope so. I think that would be really cool.

[00:01:50] Anyway, there are some moments I'm looking forward to. We'll definitely do a recap of

[00:01:53] the Oscars at our next episode. I see how our predictions and awards went. So the intern

[00:01:58] has just run into the room and said that it was March 27th, 2022. So it wasn't just last

[00:02:03] year. Wow. So we've had an Oscar ceremony post-slap. We have. I don't remember the post-slap Oscar.

[00:02:12] So I should be penalized because I brought up something that's way too old. Just a year

[00:02:15] old. I don't even remember the Academy Award ceremony that was. I don't know. I don't remember

[00:02:20] what they did to work around the fact that Will Smith wasn't there to present the award.

[00:02:24] Because remember how like that was going to be a thing? Because you know like I don't

[00:02:27] know. See we just totally blanked out on 2023. All I remember is everything everywhere

[00:02:32] all at once. I think they just had them like stay on stage and they just won every single

[00:02:37] award. I don't know. I don't think so. All right. Well, Oscars will definitely do a recap

[00:02:41] of that next time we get together to record. But today we are pre-Osker ceremony. So we

[00:02:46] are still in the groove of reviewing movies and sharing some movie news with you. So first

[00:02:51] up we'll be doing a review of the latest Adam Sandler movie released on Netflix. And no

[00:02:58] it doesn't. A co-star Rob Schneider or David Spade. This is a movie called Spaceman that

[00:03:06] we talked about and kind of previewed a couple months ago that had some interest for us.

[00:03:10] We're going to review that film that necklace exclusive film starring Adam Sandler and Kerry

[00:03:14] Mulligan. Spaceman in just a minute. Following that we've got a little bit of news to share.

[00:03:20] I know South by Southwest is coming up as a kind of a whole festival but they obviously

[00:03:26] have a big film component to it where there are some movies that typically will try to

[00:03:30] make their debuts there. And sometimes there are films that are a little more I don't

[00:03:35] say they're not as big budget films. Not the big ones that you might see premiering at

[00:03:41] Cannes or something like that. These are ones of little smaller films but typically one

[00:03:46] I find to be a little bit more interesting. So I'm going to preview a few of those films

[00:03:49] Chris that are coming up for that festival that sound pretty interesting ones I wasn't

[00:03:54] aware of until reading about the festival. And I believe you have a recommendation for

[00:03:59] us as well. I do, yes. A film recommendation from Chris. Again this is something that I

[00:04:04] still feel like we need a jingle or something to set up this scene because it's happening

[00:04:09] all the time that Chris has patented recommendations for the film podcast here. We're looking forward

[00:04:15] to hearing his recommendation of a film that we may want to check out if we're looking

[00:04:18] for something to watch this coming weekend. So with that Chris let's go ahead and get

[00:04:24] started if that's okay with you and to our main review. Let's do it. Alright, here's

[00:04:28] the film, spaceman. On behalf of the EuroSpace program, 189 days into your solo journey.

[00:04:41] Commander Prohatska, how are you feeling? What I'm doing is for everyone back home and

[00:04:52] that makes me very proud. And your wife Lanka of course. I'm sure she's looking forward

[00:04:59] to having your home safe and sound. He's not doing well. He misses his wife. And he

[00:05:08] shouldn't have left. Based on a 2017 novel, spaceman tells the tale of a Czech astronaut

[00:05:19] Jakob played by Adam Sandler who is six months into a solo mission to investigate a mysterious

[00:05:26] cloud of particles that resides just past Jupiter. With communications with mission

[00:05:31] control, his only source of human contact, Jakob struggles with loneliness and reflects

[00:05:36] constantly on the strained relationship he has with Lanka, his wife back on earth, played

[00:05:41] by Carrie Mulligan. When the films and credits rolled, I was left with the impression that

[00:05:47] just seemed kind of a mashup of interstellar and Solaris. How successful was it for me?

[00:05:53] Well, we'll get to that. But first, Alan, I want to know what your initial impression

[00:05:57] was of spaceman. I, oh, that's a long pause. I admire this film. Okay. It is a much lighter

[00:06:15] film than I probably expected. And yes, a much, much smaller, a much lighter film. And I

[00:06:23] respect it for that. I respect the fact that, you know, putting Adam Sandler as the actor

[00:06:28] as the lead actor. It was a, it was a brave move on all behalf. I think it was a brave

[00:06:33] move for Adam Sandler because this is the least and the most different role I've ever

[00:06:38] seen him try to play. I can think of of any role because it taps into absolutely nothing

[00:06:47] of the Adam Sandler persona. Even a film like Punch Truck Love, that I could say is a very

[00:06:52] different film for him. He still was able to tap into that Adam Sandler magic energy.

[00:06:57] Oh, this is like none of that. It is devoid of everything that people would see you as

[00:07:02] well. So again, I admire the film for taking that step. Sure. There are some creative

[00:07:08] decisions, storytelling decisions in this film that I admire the film for doing. The

[00:07:15] other day, it is a slight is the best word I can come up with it where it just, at the

[00:07:20] end of the film, I kind of just left the idea was like, okay, so that's what the whole film

[00:07:24] was about was this simple little narrow idea. Nothing wrong with that. And I'm okay with

[00:07:30] that because not every film has to be this revolutionary, like, you know, mean and brought

[00:07:34] and be about bigger subject matter and bigger topics and the meaning of life or whatever.

[00:07:39] No, this is a simple love story or the tale of a love story gone gone wrong and the reason

[00:07:47] why. Sure. And it's just put into a space otherworldly situation with a very other

[00:07:54] worldly companion that I guess we can't miss. Okay. It's in the trailer. A giant spider

[00:08:00] that Adam Sandler meets kind of her friends and kind of relies on throughout the film

[00:08:06] who access is kind of guide in a little bit of a moral compass of the helping him navigate

[00:08:11] what he's going through. I liked the film. I thought it was fine. I just, I kind of was

[00:08:18] hoping for a little bit more kind of thinking about the setup and the premise and the idea

[00:08:22] at the end of the day, it wasn't anything more than that. And I'm okay with that. I'm

[00:08:27] not going to penalize the film for being a small film with a small concept and a small

[00:08:31] idea at the end of the day. But I more anything I just admire it for what it was trying to

[00:08:37] pull off. I just, you know, should it have been more? I'm not going to sit here and say

[00:08:42] I think it was fine. You were wanting more. I was wanting more. Sure. But I thought it

[00:08:48] was fine for what it decided to give us it in the day. That's the best I can give it.

[00:08:52] So I'll just say this before I kick it over to you, Chris. I did have to watch some of

[00:08:57] this film with the subtitles on. Mainly because of my viewing environment at the time. It

[00:09:02] had nothing to do with the quality of the film where I couldn't understand it or anything.

[00:09:06] So I did have it on. And I would say, if I had to kind of summarize this movie into like

[00:09:11] a phrase, it's a phrase that would come up on the subtitles almost all the time. And

[00:09:16] it was in parentheses, emotional music continues. I was like, yep, that's pretty much this film.

[00:09:23] It is. Is it too long? Yeah, I think it's I think for what it's trying to say and do,

[00:09:30] it did take its time and doing it. And and yes, it is a little bit of rinse and repeat

[00:09:35] all the way through kind of going through a lot of beats, a lot of similar emotions.

[00:09:39] So it was fine for what it was. I do respect it more than anything. It didn't have that

[00:09:46] much to say at the end of the day. But what it did say was was fine in the way it said

[00:09:50] it. And I'm okay with this film. So yeah, all right. Chris, what do you think about

[00:09:57] this? So, you know, it sounds like we've had a couple episodes recently where you and I

[00:10:01] fell on either side of, you know, how favorable we were on a film. So like you and I basically

[00:10:07] are exactly in the same page with this, which I'll try to say some of my thoughts. Maybe

[00:10:14] say something that more eloquently than what I was saying. But we talked about when we

[00:10:20] did this trailer for trailer topics, we kind of, you know, said, Oh, it looks interesting.

[00:10:24] And one of my big concerns was seeing that he was playing a Czech astronaut. I was a

[00:10:29] little leery, but the trailer didn't show it that he was going to dip into one of his

[00:10:33] crazy Adam Sandler accents. And as you kind of mentioned, yes, this is the furthest from

[00:10:37] any of his other roles, even uncut Jim's, which was different for him, where he but

[00:10:41] he still was that Manic energy or kind of, you got to play into the Adam Sandler personality

[00:10:47] a little bit in each of those other films. Yeah, this, it's just straight, straight

[00:10:51] Adam Sandler, so I was, I was relieved that they didn't, you know, lean heavy on the like

[00:10:55] the crazy accent that he can do. I mean, can I just add a little side there? Are you mentioning

[00:10:59] that accent? Can I just go ahead and say that I do also admire the film for keeping it set

[00:11:04] in Czechoslovakia with Czechoslovakian characters and people's names, but not feeling the need

[00:11:11] to like have to go into accents or do anything else with that. It's like, nope, we're just

[00:11:14] going to let everybody talk. Right. We all get it, but they are Czechoslovakia. We didn't

[00:11:19] feel the need to make this an American, you know, story or whatever. I thought that was

[00:11:22] cool and again, admired for it. Right. Instead of trying to make everybody do these accents

[00:11:26] and have it not work, it's just like, no, and I guess I'm assuming because of the research,

[00:11:31] a little bit of research I did, the book was set in Czechoslovakia. So they're, they're

[00:11:35] keeping that true to it. Right. They could have switched it over to it. Oh, it would

[00:11:38] have been so the American, but I think I actually admire them for not doing that. Yes. Just keeping

[00:11:44] it grounded. Even though, like you say, the accent's worth there, it was kind of weird,

[00:11:47] but I didn't bother me. I liked it. Speaking of somebody else who appreciated her performance,

[00:11:52] Carrie Mulligan, and she, yes, she just spoke. She didn't try to do an accent either. It

[00:11:56] was just, it's just normal. So I thought that was good. I wonder, you mentioned that, you

[00:12:03] know, the film clocks in an hour, 47 minutes. And for it being a smaller film, not trying

[00:12:10] to achieve, you know, all these different ideas and stuff, it seems like they could

[00:12:13] have maybe condensed it down a little bit. But I will say one of the things that I appreciated

[00:12:19] about it as well as, and I wonder, maybe if this was some of their decision to go ahead

[00:12:24] and keep it in Czechoslovakia, I'm assuming, even though it's Netflix, possibly a little

[00:12:29] bit of a lower budget, maybe. And this spaceship, instead of being this sleek, like, you know,

[00:12:35] what we're used to seeing American spaceships or like, you know, spaceships B, it was kind

[00:12:39] of looking cobbled together, kind of like something you would see in maybe the 80s or

[00:12:44] 90s, or like, you know, like ice pirates that movie from a long time ago. Like, but

[00:12:48] I thought that kind of worked with the aesthetic. And I don't know, I just, I thought it, I

[00:12:53] thought it worked. And yeah, I'll say two for possibly a smaller budget or whatever. Yes,

[00:12:59] we know Adam Sandler's not really in space. We're aware that this was shot on a, you know,

[00:13:03] a set with green screen and things like that. Um, I thought it looks pretty good. As far

[00:13:09] as like a floating stuff with him, doing the weightlessness throughout the cabin, the

[00:13:14] look of the cabin, the environment.

[00:13:15] Everything looked great production quality was great. It was a small film and you're right. I think budget

[00:13:20] I mean they spent all the money on the tube lead actors probably and in

[00:13:24] CGI on a character and that was it. I mean, sats were next to nothing, but they looked real and

[00:13:31] Yeah, I look I like a good white

[00:13:34] Space scene. I mean show me items floating around and how they had to navigate with different items and these feeding himself or dealing with bathroom or whatever

[00:13:44] But I'm all on board. I like and it all looked good. It all felt real. So yeah, I'm with it

[00:13:49] So we alluded to the giant spider in the room. Yes, but I'll go ahead and talk about that a little bit

[00:13:56] Paul Dano does the voice for the giant spider, which I can define

[00:14:00] Really? I couldn't oh, no, no, I'm not harshing. It's just it was the most Paul Dano

[00:14:08] Paul Dano narration over I mean, it's just you know as soon as I heard him talking I'm like

[00:14:13] I mean, I knew it was Paul Dano, but if I even if I didn't know I would know now

[00:14:18] Oh, and see it really really worked for me the spider. It was good

[00:14:21] He gets to be named Hanush

[00:14:23] And I thought it was perfect casting and the reason why I say that is

[00:14:27] Based on what we know Paul Dano he plays the Riddler in the most recent Batman

[00:14:32] But then he's done other like meek nerdy characters like he did and dumb money that we've reviewed recently on the show

[00:14:38] so

[00:14:40] It was it turns for me at least seemingly harmless

[00:14:43] And innocent but a little eerie at some points to keep you kind of a little bit on edge

[00:14:50] Specifically for me, which I found in the grid. Maybe this is in the book

[00:14:54] I don't know but he kept referring to Sandler as or Sandler's character Yakub as skinny human right

[00:15:00] Which I just kept thinking like I found it unnerving because I was like is was he saying basically if you were a little plumper

[00:15:07] I'd eat you like yeah, I don't know. I just yeah, it was a little a little odd. Well, I think that was buying intent

[00:15:12] I mean it was like it let's let's keep you on edge about this spider character for at least a while and you know and there is a moment where

[00:15:20] The spider does get aggressive. Yes, and it is a bit frightening

[00:15:26] Which that happens because you don't quite know exactly what where the story is going

[00:15:31] Yeah, so I mean I think no look I I like Paul Dano's working. That's okay. I mean it was perfect. It's just it was

[00:15:40] Absolutely Paul Dano. I mean there there's no doubt about that. It's basically they said here

[00:15:44] We're just sliding a mic in front of you Paul. Just talk just talk like you normally do and we're just gonna record you doing this voice

[00:15:51] But now it worked for the character for sure. So I think and

[00:15:55] So one of the story will just kind of explain a little bit go in a little bit more detail about

[00:16:01] The story so his wife is back on earth

[00:16:04] And I don't feel like once did you know this when it the movie starts of the first like 10 minutes or so

[00:16:09] She's also pregnant. Mm-hmm. Okay, so

[00:16:12] Jacob is often space and has been gone for six months and we'll continue to come back

[00:16:18] It's gonna be equally as long. Yeah, so here she is pregnant back on earth and the drama comes in because I talked about a strain relationship

[00:16:26] She's decided to leave him. Yeah

[00:16:29] So you have a little bit of elements of kind of I mentioned

[00:16:33] Interstellar Solaris, I guess you could also throw in there the Martian because there's a little bit of being isolated. So

[00:16:40] Those films, you know all of them all three I mentioned kind of worked more successfully

[00:16:46] But I think it's because obviously there were some bigger budgets involved with that too, but

[00:16:50] what kind of fooled me was if they had kept just that story of the marital struggle if that had been it and

[00:16:59] There hadn't been this giant spider then I probably would have been like, okay like you're saying

[00:17:04] I'm settling in for a smaller scope movie that doesn't have any

[00:17:08] Technically doesn't really have well than the communication aspect. I guess

[00:17:12] sci-fi nature in this cloud that doesn't exist, but you know, it wouldn't be stretching that far, but what kind of got me excited

[00:17:19] was the introduction of Hanush and then that kind of opened some things up and

[00:17:26] Ultimately, you know as the movie was closing I was like, oh, okay

[00:17:31] Well, you tied the thread of the yokk up link a relationship kind of in a nice bow

[00:17:35] But for me who's interested in a lot of other little things you kind of dribbled out there threads that are hanging down

[00:17:41] Those are just kind of left and I was like, oh, I know well, that's that's a little and it doesn't make the movie bad

[00:17:47] No, it's just like you're exactly saying what I was saying is that yeah that by the last scene. I'm just like

[00:17:52] Okay. All right. So that I get it. I mean, this is what the whole film is about and you're right. There's a game

[00:17:58] There's a whole thing of

[00:18:00] Why a giant spider?

[00:18:02] What did that really symbolize?

[00:18:04] Is he really there? Is he not really there?

[00:18:06] I mean, yeah, and I know again

[00:18:09] I don't need the film to tell me that all that but at least

[00:18:11] Is there a little more to chew on from it?

[00:18:14] And it didn't really seem that interested in doing that it's kind of like oh no he that we're done

[00:18:19] Here we are with the closing scene and that's all you need to know and it's really just ball down to this

[00:18:25] aspect of the film and again like you said I think you said it perfectly it doesn't make the film bad now it's just

[00:18:32] Could it have been more sure did I want more going into it? Yeah, I wanted more

[00:18:37] But I was okay with what they decided to give an interesting interesting for me to kind of

[00:18:43] Which I'm trying to think of another instance of this and I don't think it kind of exists where

[00:18:49] The trailer for the movie didn't make you and I curious to see the movie

[00:18:54] This movie in a way kind of for me is acting as a trailer for the book

[00:18:59] Because I bet in the book I hope I think maybe

[00:19:04] There would be a little bit more meat on the bones because you know you're reading it

[00:19:09] You kind of soak it in a little bit more. They probably have a lot more conversations between Jakob and Hanush and you get a

[00:19:14] you get a little more and actually some of the things that

[00:19:18] We haven't even alluded to here that made it

[00:19:20] There again kind of satisfying, but then it was a little the flashbacks that he'll have of his wife

[00:19:26] Okay, you know, they're there streamer

[00:19:27] But there's a little bit of what made Jakob kind of the man that he is and why he feels the need to

[00:19:33] Accomplish something because of some of his childhood being raised by his grandparents things that happen with his dad and there seems like there's some really

[00:19:42] Interesting stuff there. That's just kind of you know movie has to move along

[00:19:46] so it's glossed over whereas I bet the book there again, maybe it would give us a little bit more meat on that and also

[00:19:52] The whole hanush thing

[00:19:54] Yeah, so but you know the movie as it is it's okay. How did you feel Adam Sandler it performed?

[00:20:02] Good, you know, it was a very but like you say, it's really weird and I guess

[00:20:08] Were it anyone else? I'd have been like I mean, I guess it's fine. You know it would have been kind of an unremarkable

[00:20:15] Performance but because it's Adam Sandler. It's like you can almost praise it more because it's such an understated

[00:20:22] Quiet role. Mm-hmm that I I thought he did a good job

[00:20:27] So I wonder now

[00:20:29] I don't know if this counts as one of his movies that he's contracted with Netflix

[00:20:34] But I noticed his daughter was also in the film and she they did another film together

[00:20:40] You're so not invited to my boss Mitzvah or whatever. She's in this she

[00:20:44] What what character did she play?

[00:20:46] She was in a video message and she was a school child

[00:20:50] asking

[00:20:52] Because they you know typically like you would think they have things set up where school children are asking this

[00:20:58] Astronaut questions and they you know for the PR aspect of things. Yeah, okay cool

[00:21:03] So yeah, that was kind of wondering like okay, so the whole Sandler family now has a contract with Netflix

[00:21:08] Again, I I I appreciated them making this film. I appreciated it being a Netflix film again

[00:21:14] Everything about this is very different and very unexpected. I mean, this is not the kind of film that Netflix

[00:21:20] Typically makes as an original film and puts out

[00:21:23] Really hard to find it on the Netflix app. I'm just saying they they don't really do a great job of promoting it

[00:21:29] And I'm Sandler is absolutely not the kind of film he makes

[00:21:34] Or as done before even caring Mulligan. I mean, it's a little a little bit of a different role for her

[00:21:39] It's a little bit kind of the way it was framed and the the structure behind it. I don't yeah

[00:21:44] I mean, it was just it was different. So I admired for all those reasons

[00:21:48] At the end of the day though, it was a very small slight movie. I

[00:21:53] Just say to anybody going into it. Don't don't expect it to be

[00:21:56] Life-changing don't expect it to be

[00:22:01] Dealing with bigger

[00:22:03] Concepts and ideas that a lot of traditional sci-fi does no, that's not what this is really interested in. It's interested in a very

[00:22:09] Focused human story really between two people. That's pretty much it and

[00:22:16] You know if you're okay having a giant spider to kind of help guide you through it then it the movie works

[00:22:23] I know I will say

[00:22:25] Because watching the film. I know there's going to be a giant spider and

[00:22:29] And until he is completely showing up on screen

[00:22:34] It was just like kept like I was a little bit under my seat because I'm like, okay

[00:22:37] How are they gonna introduce this dude and they do have a little bit of creepiness in the very beginning yeah with Sandler like

[00:22:43] Some things he thinks he sees. Oh, yeah, that that there was a disturbing there was one. Yeah, that was the only scene the film that thought was

[00:22:50] Disturbing or just got to be a little bit creepy and set up what I thought was going to become a much different film

[00:22:58] right

[00:22:59] but also it does kind of

[00:23:01] Kind of point to the idea of what this thing really represents. You know, so yeah

[00:23:06] Yeah, that and the aggressiveness of the spider in one scene were

[00:23:10] Yeah, those kept me just concerned enough about where the direction of this film was going to go

[00:23:16] But by the end I really had no reason for concern. I mean it was

[00:23:20] pretty much down the path you kind of was setting up early on and

[00:23:26] Didn't really feel the need to deviate much from that which I was fine with sure I was fine with

[00:23:30] Yeah, so in this director

[00:23:34] Johan Renek

[00:23:36] Yeah, I'm familiar with him. Is it his first feature? I believe so. I think he was known for doing

[00:23:42] He's directed a lot of TV episodes Chernobyl was kind of the mini series. He was known for for directing

[00:23:48] But he's also done episodes of Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead

[00:23:53] as far as upcoming work he's got looks like

[00:23:56] He is involved in a TV series on pre-production as a director and then also as a feature film

[00:24:02] Amo Sadam is the name of the film that he is

[00:24:07] appears to be working on and actually Barry Kagan is attached to really so that appears to be the next

[00:24:14] Project he's involved with the story that the sub line or the tagline for this new film

[00:24:19] He's working on is it follows a soldier who guards Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi dictator's trial and execution

[00:24:26] Okay, because I was wondering because well at least in Spanish

[00:24:30] Amo is like or I love so I love Saddam. That's kind of a weird. Okay. Yeah, so that does have to do with Saddam

[00:24:37] I'm saying it does absolutely that he's in pre-production on that film. So that is his next work

[00:24:42] Sounds definitely interesting. Yes, it does. All right, you know a pre-production so we have nothing to see your show with

[00:24:49] It so yeah, got you all right. Well, that is the film

[00:24:52] Spaceman which we're both coming out and saying yeah, it's it's there's something good here

[00:24:57] There's something to kind of check out, but just so yeah, I think the message is don't go in expecting

[00:25:02] It's not interstellar. It's not you know, it's not even though it may look on the outside and feel like it has elements of it

[00:25:09] it is a much smaller much much more focused film than a lot of other sci-fi you may have encountered but if you're a fan of the Adam Sandler

[00:25:18] actor

[00:25:20] It's a it's definitely a different performance for him. So I will still give him props for that

[00:25:25] I do admire when people who have become so known for comedy

[00:25:28] dip into these other acting styles and he's

[00:25:32] Honestly, he's probably doing it best of any comedian I can think of in the last 20 years

[00:25:38] I mean as far as really saying hey, this is my thing. I'm this comedian. I'm known for this kind of persona

[00:25:44] This is how I am, but I'm gonna do I'm gonna do the

[00:25:48] What was the film he did with

[00:25:51] The Meyer with stories. Yeah, yeah, he did he did that he did no a bomb. Yeah, no a bomb back

[00:25:56] He did punch drunk love he did uncut gyms and now he did Spaceman. It's like I'm totally digging his his

[00:26:04] Alternative choices you're saying he's the newest version of the Robin Williams model that we have you know what?

[00:26:11] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I don't think he's pulled it off quite a successfully

[00:26:15] Robin Williams did because Robin Williams built his stuff up to be almost equal on the dramatic and he did by the later in his life

[00:26:21] It's not quite a good hunting yet. No, but but it's in him. Oh, I do think it's in him

[00:26:29] I think it's very very possible and

[00:26:31] Yeah, I think Robin Williams maybe the best comparison. Yeah, I can really think I will. Yeah, I can't I'm not gonna put Ben Stiller in that category because I don't think he was ever as deep a comedian as like Robin Williams or Adam Sandler. Right. I mean he he always had a little bit of more of a right independent vibe and style to his his work, even when he was doing broad comedy work.

[00:26:55] Yeah, we have like Steve Martin and any Murph but they came before we're talking I'm talking about a new. No, yeah. I think I mean Steve Martin was obviously a model of this, you know, even before Robin Williams.

[00:27:05] Right. So we've had them. I'm just saying in the last 20 years, I can't think of a really, really very specific typecast type of comedian that is now doing such unique alternative roles.

[00:27:18] And I'll throw another one out there just because that's what we're doing here.

[00:27:21] And also from Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell love him but he hasn't done the dramatic and he's he's done mostly comedy.

[00:27:28] He has done some dramatic, he has done some, I don't think he's broadened out as much as Sandler. I mean even his quote non comedies, it's still a variation on Will Ferrell just a toned down Will Ferrell is what I've seen.

[00:27:42] I've not seen Will Ferrell really become a completely different type of person or character on screen yet.

[00:27:48] He hasn't done an uncut gems. Right. Yeah, that would be fascinating. So it would be. Yeah.

[00:27:54] Right. Okay. We talked enough about Spaceman. Let's take a quick little break, Chris. And then when we come back, oh, Spaceman's still on Netflix.

[00:28:01] If you have a Netflix. Yeah, it's just recently premiered first. So it's online. Check it out. You may have to do a little search on the Netflix app to find it.

[00:28:09] But it's there. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to kind of explore a few films that are coming up premiering at the South by Southwest.

[00:28:17] A film film part of their festival that we're going to explore. And then we'll also kick it over to Chris to hear a good recommendation of a film that he is saying we ought to check out.

[00:28:27] So stay tuned. We'll be right back in just a minute.

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[00:28:49] Welcome back to foot candle films here on the mesh.tv podcast network. Chris and I had our review of the Netflix film Spaceman earlier in the show.

[00:28:58] But now we're going to move to upcoming films and talk about some films that are going to be coming our way in the next few months.

[00:29:06] And Chris, I'm not going to play any trailers for these. We're just going to kind of talk through these.

[00:29:11] So the South by Southwest film and TV festival, SSSW as people kind of see it referred to online are really cool people say South by.

[00:29:23] Just so they can't even because it's too many syllables to say the Southwest part. I get it.

[00:29:29] It is coming up here in the next, I think the next few weeks.

[00:29:35] It's held in Elson, Texas. It's not canned. It's not the Venice Film Festival. It's not Sundance.

[00:29:41] Not Sundance, even. But it is one that does attract some big new films. Typically, like I said, ones that are a little on the smaller scale. Generally speaking, you don't see like Paul Thomas here.

[00:29:54] You don't see bigger, normally bigger directors premiering their work there. They'll do it somewhere else.

[00:29:59] I was just going to hit three of the films that I was made aware of that are going to be coming out of there that I was not aware of these three before.

[00:30:07] There are other films that they're showing that we have talked about and at least aware of.

[00:30:11] For example, have we talked about the Jake Gyllenhaal Roadhouse movie? Did we talk about that?

[00:30:17] I don't know if we have or not.

[00:30:20] I don't know if I'm looking forward to this or not.

[00:30:23] They were just going off through it. Who cares? Wasn't there some controversy about AI riding some of the stuff?

[00:30:30] Because it was during the rider's stride?

[00:30:33] Oh, yeah. There is AI allegations against the film.

[00:30:37] There's also the directors started a little mini-war with Amazon because he is claiming that the film was never designed to be released straight to Amazon Prime.

[00:30:50] But now even Jake Gyllenhaal has been like, "No, that was always the plan as we were going to go to Amazon".

[00:30:55] No, dude. Don't screw this up now.

[00:30:58] He's trying to say it should have gone to theaters and Amazon is like, "No, no, no, we were always interested".

[00:31:05] They're taking an MMA fighting style kind of applying to the Roadhouse instead of it just being barroom brawling.

[00:31:13] It actually has... Who's the actual UFC fighter? Connor?

[00:31:20] Connor McGregor?

[00:31:22] Yeah, Connor McGregor is actually in it.

[00:31:24] I'm not a super fan of the original. I can barely remember it.

[00:31:30] It's actually kind of funny.

[00:31:33] It's a little campy.

[00:31:35] I don't know if they're going to go for the camp on this one or if they're trying to play it straight.

[00:31:39] I don't know.

[00:31:40] Connor McGregor doing something campy. I mean, I don't watch MMA at all.

[00:31:44] I said, "But that would just be kind of really odd to see".

[00:31:47] I would think... Here's... Which... I wonder... And I guess it's something that's happened since the pandemic.

[00:31:54] I mean, they did streaming movies before, obviously the pandemic.

[00:31:57] But the calculations that they do now, you've got Jake Gyllenhaal.

[00:32:02] He's a good known quality actor. Like, you know, he's somebody whose name appears above.

[00:32:09] I thought he's a known quantity.

[00:32:11] Sure.

[00:32:12] And Amazon said, "Okay, we're going to pay the money. We're going to get the IP from Roadhouse.

[00:32:17] But we're just going to keep this as a streaming thing rather than do a theatrical and then have it be streaming."

[00:32:23] I just wonder what all the mechanics are behind that, what all the thinking.

[00:32:28] I would think that would be fascinating.

[00:32:30] They decide that versus trying to do a theatrical push, I don't know. Interesting.

[00:32:36] Yeah. I can't decide if I'll watch it.

[00:32:40] Because it surprised... Okay, this is what... Streaming movies are movies, just like theatrical release movies or movies.

[00:32:47] But what makes me curious is Jake Gyllenhaal, I would think...

[00:32:52] It's kind of like the whole argument used to be movie actors don't go do TV.

[00:32:57] TV actors may graduate and go do movies, but you don't have things go either way.

[00:33:02] And I think that's fading because now you have series like Game of Thrones and the succession that are very prestige.

[00:33:08] But what makes me wonder is like, in the old days, maybe as long as like ten years ago,

[00:33:14] Jake Gyllenhaal would have never done a streaming movie.

[00:33:17] And now it's like he would have been like, "I'm doing this movie. Yeah, I'll do a Roadhouse reboot."

[00:33:21] But it's going to go to theaters. So it's just weird to me like, I guess maybe that taboo is gone now.

[00:33:26] I don't know.

[00:33:28] Yeah, I think it's all good questions. I don't know either.

[00:33:32] I'm curious to see this film.

[00:33:35] Okay.

[00:33:36] I think I'm curious to see it. Yeah, I am looking forward to seeing it.

[00:33:40] Do you see it and tell me if I should see it?

[00:33:42] I will let you know. I'll take one for the team here.

[00:33:45] I will watch it and I will communicate whether or not there's something there or not.

[00:33:49] So we will certainly see.

[00:33:51] Thanks. A couple other films that are coming to Southbound. I'm not going to mention.

[00:33:56] We've already mentioned on the show. We're talked about them.

[00:33:59] The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, which I think looks a lot of fun.

[00:34:06] So I'm kind of anxious to hear some word on that and see if it holds up.

[00:34:09] And we know Gosling can do comedy. He did nice guys. Obviously he did barbie.

[00:34:13] Yeah. So yeah, the Fall Guy.

[00:34:15] The Monkey Man, it looks like John Wick kind of with more of an Indian flair to it.

[00:34:23] What's the actor's name that's in it and directing it. Hold on. I've got it right here.

[00:34:28] Intern, can you hand that to me? Yes, please, please, please.

[00:34:31] Oh, yeah. It's a Dev Patel. Yes. A Dev Patel. Thank you very much.

[00:34:35] Okay, you and I saw a trailer for this before Dan, part two.

[00:34:44] I am glad that he's striking out on his own. He's going to direct this. He's in it.

[00:34:49] But it just to me, it just seems like John Wick.

[00:34:54] It seems like it. Maybe there's something more to it.

[00:34:58] Could be. I hope there is, you know, just because, yeah, I don't want it to be just.

[00:35:02] And there's nothing wrong with John Wick films. They've been very successful.

[00:35:05] It's just not something I choose to plunk down my dollars for, but, you know, who knows.

[00:35:10] Yeah, so those are the ones I think we were already aware of.

[00:35:14] Sure.

[00:35:15] But as far as the new ones or the ones that I was not aware of, I wanted to bring up a couple of them.

[00:35:19] Okay.

[00:35:20] So first up got the film called, it's called The Idea of You.

[00:35:23] All right. There you go. It is Anne Hathaway. I know her.

[00:35:27] I don't know her. It's a romantic comedy. Okay.

[00:35:30] Directed by Michael Showalter, who did The Big Sick. Okay.

[00:35:34] All right. So this is based on a novel, also called The Idea of You.

[00:35:38] It follows a divorce mother, played by Hathaway, who gets roped into taking her teenage daughter

[00:35:43] to a concert and ends up falling in love with the lead singer of this massively successful

[00:35:48] boy band. Okay.

[00:35:50] This lead singer, the boy band is.

[00:35:52] So there's going to be an age gap. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:35:54] That's kind of the premise of the film. Okay.

[00:35:57] So, you know, she plays the older woman in a promising romcom.

[00:36:01] It's supposedly based on either a story or something in the personal life of Harry Styles.

[00:36:07] Harry Styles, my understanding, but I read another article.

[00:36:10] And he was in a boy band called something. One direction.

[00:36:14] Oh, there we go. Way to go.

[00:36:16] And my understanding, again, I'm not into the celebrity gossip.

[00:36:20] I don't care. But my understanding is that he has a tendency to date older women.

[00:36:27] Okay. So this is that this is either the book is either based on him or kind of loosely

[00:36:33] based on him or maybe inspired by a story he shared.

[00:36:36] Anyway, there's some connection there.

[00:36:38] So that tends to be the film.

[00:36:40] What I'm interested in.

[00:36:41] See an executive producer on this one.

[00:36:43] I don't know. I don't see that from the, from my notes.

[00:36:46] What I'm interested with this film is, I think, Anne Hathaway's good.

[00:36:50] I think I like seeing her perform.

[00:36:52] Michael Showalter, I mean, I was a fan of his back in the days of the state on MTV sketch comedy.

[00:36:59] But the big sick was good.

[00:37:01] He's done broader comedy things before that.

[00:37:05] I'm curious to see him pulling off a true romantic comedy.

[00:37:10] Like, you know, big sick, I guess, had a little romance comedy to it.

[00:37:13] But do we know who's going to play the boy band?

[00:37:16] Yeah, it's something I'm not familiar with.

[00:37:18] Nicholas Galazatine or Zeen.

[00:37:22] Yeah, kind of an unknown actor, which I think is good.

[00:37:24] Yeah.

[00:37:25] I think that's what you want for that role.

[00:37:27] So, yeah, I'm very curious about it.

[00:37:30] So, it premieres March 16th that we'll be playing it south by southwest.

[00:37:34] Okay.

[00:37:35] There is a trailer.

[00:37:36] I'm going to save that for another episode because I want to talk about some other films.

[00:37:39] But we'll get into the trailers another time.

[00:37:42] Another one I wanted to bring up that I am very interested in reading about.

[00:37:48] Also, kind of a similar story.

[00:37:50] It's directed by a former sketch comedy actor who's now directing films.

[00:37:56] You saw the film Briggs B. Bayer.

[00:37:58] Yes.

[00:37:59] Okay.

[00:38:00] Kyle Mooney.

[00:38:01] Yes.

[00:38:02] So, he is directing a new movie.

[00:38:03] And it's called Y2K.

[00:38:05] And it is, as you would imagine, it was set, it's set back in 1999 on the New Year's Eve.

[00:38:11] It follows friends who end up at a party and find that against all odds the world might indeed be ending.

[00:38:17] And it stars Rachel Ziegler, who is a West Side Story.

[00:38:21] Yes.

[00:38:22] And also Julian Dennison from Hunt for the Wilder People and Dead Pull 2.

[00:38:28] Yes.

[00:38:29] Yes.

[00:38:30] So, it's the two of them and Jayden Martell.

[00:38:32] I'm not familiar with him.

[00:38:34] But the three of them, it's a comedy.

[00:38:37] But I think it sounds great.

[00:38:39] Yeah.

[00:38:40] Breaks B. Bayer.

[00:38:41] I never saw, but I know Kyle Mooney as a comedic actor.

[00:38:45] He's definitely got...

[00:38:47] He has an unusual...

[00:38:48] Interesting style.

[00:38:49] Yeah.

[00:38:50] Interesting style.

[00:38:51] I'm not a slant on things.

[00:38:52] So, I'm curious.

[00:38:53] And actually, I'd heard about this movie, but then it's like one of those things you hear about,

[00:38:58] and then you don't hear about it for a couple of years.

[00:39:00] So, I'm glad to see that it is coming out.

[00:39:02] Yes, it is.

[00:39:03] So, that's Y2K.

[00:39:05] It is premiering March 9th.

[00:39:07] Okay.

[00:39:08] So, these are all films premiering in the March timeframe, because actually March 9th is tomorrow.

[00:39:13] Yes.

[00:39:14] Because I could think it premieres at South Side, which I think is happening this weekend now.

[00:39:18] Sure.

[00:39:19] All right.

[00:39:21] Intern, what was the third movie I was going to bring up?

[00:39:24] Because I had three movies.

[00:39:25] So, what...

[00:39:26] The first one was a road house.

[00:39:27] That was just never mentioned...

[00:39:28] No.

[00:39:29] No.

[00:39:30] No.

[00:39:31] It was not.

[00:39:32] What was that third film?

[00:39:33] I had it in my notes, and now I've lost my notes, and I cannot find them.

[00:39:37] So, I'm just going to have to kind of flounder for just a second, Chris.

[00:39:40] So far, of those two, anything sounding interesting to you?

[00:39:44] Yeah, I'm equally as excited for both.

[00:39:47] if I had to lean towards something, it would probably be the Y2K thing, which is really bizarre to think about, here we are in 2024.

[00:39:58] That was 24 years ago when the whole Y2K thing happened and people thought, thankfully it didn't happen.

[00:40:06] Planes were going to fall out of the sky and like bank records were all going to go haywire.

[00:40:10] They didn't know that happened, but I can see how a comedic take on that idea, now that it's safely behind us.

[00:40:19] I can see how that could be. That could be pretty good. The other one, I do like Michael Showalter, but that's probably where my interest stops,

[00:40:28] because it's just like romantic counties just in general aren't my thing, but in Hathaway is good.

[00:40:34] Oh, I found it. Thank you Intern. We need a name for our Intern, because I hate you just calling them Intern, or she, whichever maybe.

[00:40:43] We need to have a name for our Intern that is helping us out during the production here.

[00:40:47] Sure. We'll think about that. We'll workshop that.

[00:40:51] So the third film I was going to bring up, I'm not necessarily saying I'm anxious. I'm curious about it.

[00:40:58] The film stars Shaniqua Martin Green. If a dark dramedy is how they're describing it.

[00:41:07] She stars as Merit, a U.S. Army veteran who's not on good terms with her family due to the regular presence of Zoey, played by Natalie Morales.

[00:41:17] The thing is Zoey is Merit's dead best friend who was killed in Afghanistan.

[00:41:22] So Merit is forced to confront her grief over Zoey's death when her strange grandfather played by Ed Harris, a fellow veteran, needs help at the family's ancestral lake house.

[00:41:32] Also starting Morgan Freeman in the film as well. Now, here's the reason I'm bringing it up, because that in itself is, you know, just sounds like a very heavy dramatic film.

[00:41:41] The film is the producing debut of a Mr. Travis Kelsey, football player, Kansas City Chiefs.

[00:41:48] Mr. Taylor Swift.

[00:41:52] So he is producing films now. This is a film that's still seeking distribution, but we'll be playing it south by southwest.

[00:41:59] And quote, this is from Variety, that's reporting on this film. Quote, "The project resonated with Travis partially because he's a big advocate of veterans, and partially because he's a big Morgan Freeman fan."

[00:42:12] So he is producing films now. This is the first one he has put his name to as a producer.

[00:42:18] You've got to do something with this super bowl money.

[00:42:30] My dead friend, Zoey, right on the nose. But they did say a dramedy, so it's like they are going to try to play in the comedy of, I think, her having a best friend who's now dead, but is with her all the time.

[00:42:43] But obviously it's under very dramatic situations.

[00:42:48] Yeah, that sounds like a very fine line to be walking to, because you're talking about trauma from war and that interesting, really interesting.

[00:43:00] Who's the director on that?

[00:43:02] I didn't see the director.

[00:43:04] But there's southwest, usually you do have, it's not like it's a Scorsese or Spielberg. You have smaller independent directors.

[00:43:12] Well, hold on, just again, in turn, shoot, I still don't have a good name. That's fine. I'll just wait for them to identify for us.

[00:43:25] The director is Kyle Halsman Stokes, who don't recognize the name offhand, but it looks like from a background standpoint.

[00:43:37] So he has done a lot of work. It looks like in the world of the veterans. He's made some PSAs, directed PSAs for veterans for gun reform.

[00:43:48] He's done a lot of shorts.

[00:43:53] Yeah, nothing I can see. Look, he did a short called MeritXZoey back in 2022, which obviously is the short that inspired now.

[00:44:03] Got you.

[00:44:04] The same two characters.

[00:44:06] So yeah, be curious to see how this turns out.

[00:44:11] Yeah, so that's my dead friend Zoey is also coming to South by Southwest.

[00:44:18] Interesting.

[00:44:19] There's three films. Again, there's a lot more that they're playing, but that's the ones I'm like, I was not aware of these three films.

[00:44:26] I thought they sounded pretty interesting.

[00:44:28] Yeah.

[00:44:29] I'm curious to see what the reaction is after the premiere and when we were going to get a chance to see any of them ourselves.

[00:44:35] So all right. That is XSSW, South by whatever cool hip way you want to say it.

[00:44:43] Because we're all about the cool hip things here on our show. That is kind of our stick, you know, is cool hip.

[00:44:51] Cutting edge.

[00:44:52] Cutting edge.

[00:44:53] Fashionable.

[00:44:54] All of that.

[00:44:55] Chris, do you have a cool hip, fashionable recommendation for us of a film that you think we ought to check out if we're in the mood to find something.

[00:45:04] Sure.

[00:45:05] So I'm going to recommend a film called Barking Dogs Never Bite.

[00:45:10] 19 years before his Academy Award winning parasite, writer/director Bongenho made his feature film debut with this odd film that plays a little bit like a mashup homage to Tarantino and Altman.

[00:45:25] I'll give you the brief description that is actually in Letterbox.

[00:45:29] An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog.

[00:45:36] He decides to take drastic action.

[00:45:39] Okay.

[00:45:40] So there's a good thing.

[00:45:41] There's a statement right at the start of this film that says no animals were harmed during this production.

[00:45:46] Good.

[00:45:47] Because, yeah.

[00:45:50] There was some scenes where I like, even though I'd seen that, you know, disclaimer, I almost like,

[00:45:58] I can't believe this is, you know, it's upsetting.

[00:46:01] You know, I mean, it's done for comedic effect, but it's still upsetting.

[00:46:05] You're just like, whoa, some of the stuff that's happening on here is really weird.

[00:46:08] The interesting thing, I mean, I thought it was an interesting film because tone shifts are all over the place.

[00:46:16] You know, there's some comedic stuff, but then you see some upsetting things happening to dogs.

[00:46:20] And it's just like, you can go really dark, but then swerve back and not be dark.

[00:46:24] The homages to Tarantino are in some of the dialogue or some of the way the characters are written.

[00:46:29] You can kind of see some influence there.

[00:46:31] Even some action scenes are also kind of, you can just tell he's pulling on, you know, influences from everywhere.

[00:46:39] Altman, because the story revolves around this professor, but then there are all these other people who have these old,

[00:46:45] like storylines and they kind of all weave together.

[00:46:48] Pretty freaking impressive for his feature film debut.

[00:46:53] So if you can get past some of the cruelty to animals, which is tough,

[00:46:59] but actually the way they treat that character or the way he treats that main character is very interesting to the professor

[00:47:06] and kind of where he ends up and things that have to, it's just, I don't know, it's really fascinating.

[00:47:12] And some of the themes that are present in Parasite about the have-nots versus the haves, that's here in this film too.

[00:47:21] They're kind of like social issues.

[00:47:23] You can tell that he's very tuned into that.

[00:47:26] He wants to make entertaining films, but yet he wants to have a little bit something there under the surface

[00:47:31] that you can really kind of dig into without being too heavy-handed.

[00:47:34] Sure, yeah.

[00:47:35] So it's just really interesting that he started that way.

[00:47:39] So it's called Barking Dogs Never Bite.

[00:47:42] It's streaming on Amazon Prime.

[00:47:44] I actually saw it through that whole hoopla service he can get to your local library.

[00:47:48] I recommend it, but with the warning that, yes, there's some upsetting, but it's, you know, they didn't really harm any animals.

[00:47:58] I'm glad they put the disclaimer up at the very beginning.

[00:48:01] Which I thought was weird.

[00:48:02] I mean, you see the name of it, you know, and then you see that disclaimer, you're like, okay, usually that's at the end of the film.

[00:48:09] But they threw this up there at the very beginning.

[00:48:12] And it-

[00:48:13] It probably helped a little bit with the people watching it.

[00:48:16] I mean, right off the bat, like, you know, I gave you the description, the guy, you know, if you've ever lived in an apartment complex, or you live in a neighborhood and you have somebody that has a dog that just never shuts up.

[00:48:28] So you can see how he's- but, you know, he goes to some extreme measures.

[00:48:32] But anyways, yes, Barking Dogs Never Bite.

[00:48:36] Okay, very, very interesting.

[00:48:38] Where can people find that?

[00:48:39] So either on streaming on Amazon Prime or hoopla, or you can rent it from places.

[00:48:45] Good.

[00:48:46] So a lot of different options where to check it out.

[00:48:47] Absolutely.

[00:48:48] Good deal.

[00:48:49] Chris always comes through with the good recommendations here of films to check out.

[00:48:53] Only danger in having your due to recommendations is my watch list.

[00:48:56] It gets bigger and bigger of films, and I never quite get to them.

[00:49:00] The thing with that was we talked about anticipated films, and it's come out that, yes, Mickey 17 is not coming out in 2024.

[00:49:09] So am I okay?

[00:49:10] I'm going to do some back catalog bonjing hoe to make me feel better.

[00:49:14] You're going to kind of ease the pain a little bit by dipping into his filmography a bit.

[00:49:20] Exactly.

[00:49:21] I get it.

[00:49:22] I get it.

[00:49:23] All right, well, I think that wraps it up for today, Chris.

[00:49:25] So we had our review of Spaceman, which we are both positive on.

[00:49:31] We thought it was a worthwhile watch and some interesting things there to work with.

[00:49:37] We talked about South by Southwest and a few of the films coming there that we are interested

[00:49:41] in, and then you had your recommendation of barking dogs.

[00:49:44] Don't bite.

[00:49:45] I get that right?

[00:49:46] Yes.

[00:49:47] Oh, never bite.

[00:49:48] Never bite.

[00:49:49] As always, if anybody has any thoughts, questions, feedback, ideas, suggestions, arguments, anything, they want to throw our way.

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[00:50:24] So I'll go ahead and say, too, just a little plug.

[00:50:27] I know next week, for sure, we know what our show is basically going to be.

[00:50:31] Sure.

[00:50:32] We are showing the Oscar-nominated foreign language or international feature film.

[00:50:36] Perfect Days, the Wim Ben Binder film.

[00:50:39] We're showing that as a film society this coming Wednesday and Thursday night, that is March 13th and 14th.

[00:50:47] Sure.

[00:50:48] That sounds right.

[00:50:49] Yep.

[00:50:50] 13th and 14th, that's a Wednesday, Thursday night in Hickory, North Carolina, downtown Hickory.

[00:50:53] If you are listening and are in the area, come join us for that screening of the film.

[00:50:58] Perfect Days.

[00:50:59] And we will be reviewing that on next week's show.

[00:51:02] That film will be reviewing as well as, of course, we would have just finished up the Academy Awards, so we will be giving our takes on how that went.

[00:51:10] I have not filled up my ballot yet, Chris.

[00:51:12] I'm going to work on that tonight.

[00:51:14] Have that ready to go.

[00:51:15] Excellent.

[00:51:16] I need to see how many ballots we have from our film society members and guests and how many have already been filled out.

[00:51:22] Looking forward to a good night.

[00:51:24] I think it's going to be interesting to see how it all turns out.

[00:51:27] And I think the biggest question is just how many awards is up and how we're going to walk away with.

[00:51:32] True.

[00:51:33] Yeah.

[00:51:34] Will there be any true surprises?

[00:51:35] Yeah.

[00:51:36] We'll see.

[00:51:37] All right, Chris.

[00:51:38] That's it for us.

[00:51:39] Thanks everybody for listening and we'll look forward to talking to everybody next week.

[00:51:41] See you in the ticket line.

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