The Last Stop in Yuma County

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[00:00:38] My name is Alan Jackson with me, Chris Fry.

[00:00:42] Chris, how's it going? It's going well.

[00:00:46] We're in the summer movie season but we're actually kind of taking an off ramp

[00:00:50] and going to do an independent film this week.

[00:00:54] Yeah, I forget why. Why did we not do a big summer movie?

[00:00:58] Was it just that there was nothing we really wanted to see?

[00:01:02] Or was there not a big one?

[00:01:06] I think the release that happened this past week, which was what we typically review,

[00:01:10] was more of a kids film that if the John Krasinski.

[00:01:14] We took a pass on that.

[00:01:18] Not a slight to the film. We don't know how the film is.

[00:01:22] It didn't seem like something we wanted to sink our teeth into to review.

[00:01:26] Instead we did find a smaller, much smaller budget film

[00:01:30] that we're going to be reviewing today. I'm anxious to hear your thoughts on it, Chris.

[00:01:34] The film is titled The Last Stop in Yuma County

[00:01:38] and it is starring Jim Cummings along with many others

[00:01:42] that we'll get into when we talk about the review. That will be our review today

[00:01:46] so we will be discussing that film which came out, I think it had a theatrical

[00:01:50] release but it also went straight to digital pretty much upon release.

[00:01:54] It is available now for anyone to see.

[00:01:58] After we talk about that film, we've got some news to share. Chris, I'm going to

[00:02:02] introduce you to the, I think you come up with a good name for it,

[00:02:06] I think it's the Ovation Meter from

[00:02:10] Cannes Film Festival. Are you familiar with this idea of

[00:02:14] they gauge how well received a film is. So stupid.

[00:02:18] By how long people stand and give an ovation.

[00:02:22] Yes, I have heard of the practice. Now what it ends up meaning?

[00:02:26] Exactly. It's really kind of meaningless and I think it's kind

[00:02:30] of a vain way of fluffing people up at the

[00:02:34] festival but it might give us a little insight. I'll tell you,

[00:02:38] I'm going to talk about when we get to the news, the four films at the Cannes Film Festival

[00:02:42] that had the longest ovations. Well I already know

[00:02:46] the top one was Garfield which is going to be hitting US theaters either this coming

[00:02:50] weekend. Garfield had a 35 minute standing ovation afterwards, it was amazing.

[00:02:54] So no. Yeah I'm going to give you the top four.

[00:02:58] One of them might surprise you. We'll see what happens with that.

[00:03:02] And I've also got a little bit of news on another project that I'm

[00:03:06] very worried about.

[00:03:10] Have we mentioned this project yet on the show? We have not mentioned this project.

[00:03:14] We have mentioned this director and we have talked about his

[00:03:18] previous films but this...

[00:03:22] I'm very, very concerned. So we've got a lot to cover here on the show

[00:03:26] and I think you're going to end up with a recommendation for us at the end as well. Yes.

[00:03:30] A film recommendation, a Patton and Chris Fry recommendation will be coming

[00:03:34] at the end of the episode as well. So Chris, all that to say, we've got a lot

[00:03:38] going on so why don't we go ahead and get right into our main review.

[00:03:42] It is The Last Stop in Yuma County.

[00:03:50] Morning. Do you know about what's going on in the gas station? What's that? Sorry but our

[00:03:54] gas pumps are dry. I'm waiting on a fuel truck to show us.

[00:03:58] Estimated $700,000. A witness spotted a green pinto

[00:04:02] with a damaged rear end fleeing the bank at approximately 620 a.m. this morning.

[00:04:06] Did you hear about the

[00:04:10] bank robbery this morning? The hell they doing over there? It's the car.

[00:04:14] Wherever you go across the country when you see the illuminated

[00:04:22] Waffle House sign, you know when you stop in exactly what you're going to get.

[00:04:26] The same fare on the menu nationwide accompanied with a

[00:04:30] side of interesting characters lurking in the booths served up by a

[00:04:34] waitress that's likely seen more in their lives than most octogenarians.

[00:04:38] With The Last Stop in Yuma County we have first time feature

[00:04:42] director Francis Gallupi telling the tale of a rural Arizona

[00:04:46] rest stop where a traveling salesman is thrust into a hostage situation

[00:04:50] by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about

[00:04:54] using cruelty to protect their blood stained fortune.

[00:04:58] So with this indie crime thriller from a first time feature director

[00:05:02] did you as a movie goer get what you expected

[00:05:06] from this featured item on a VOD menu? Alan?

[00:05:10] Yes. Okay. Moving on. No, no.

[00:05:14] I had a good time with this film.

[00:05:18] It's kind of what I've needed after I think so many

[00:05:22] bigger films that try to do so much

[00:05:26] more and have required so

[00:05:30] much more audience involvement with regards to franchises, with

[00:05:34] regards to big exposition. Now this is a pretty

[00:05:38] simple straight story and it's simply done

[00:05:42] but I found it to be engaging. I found it to be thrilling.

[00:05:46] I found it to be well done, well acted, well performed.

[00:05:50] It doesn't revolutionize anything. I mean it's a pretty straight forward

[00:05:54] thriller with crime element and

[00:05:58] mystery element but it worked. It just

[00:06:02] worked for me so it's not going to revolutionize the film

[00:06:06] industry. It's not one that I'm running and screaming telling everybody they need to

[00:06:10] go out and see. I'm just saying I had a really good time with it.

[00:06:14] It met my needs for what I was looking for in a film like this.

[00:06:22] I had a couple surprises which was nice. I mean I like any

[00:06:26] film where I'm not quite sure 20 minutes in, still

[00:06:30] not quite sure where this is going to go.

[00:06:34] You talked about kind of the log line of the plot but I mean this is a film that

[00:06:38] takes place more or less primarily in one location.

[00:06:42] It's one location with the surrounding

[00:06:46] area, vicinity kind of incorporated but pretty much one

[00:06:50] location. A very set number of cast.

[00:06:54] You have this situation you described which again

[00:06:58] I think you start to kind of mix all that up and it worked really well

[00:07:02] for me. I happen to really like Jim Cummings. He did kind of

[00:07:06] star in this although I think this is definitely more of an ensemble film than it was a

[00:07:10] starring role for him just alone but it was a great ensemble

[00:07:14] and I think I really liked the character and the part that

[00:07:18] Jim Cummings got to play, the knife salesman. I thought

[00:07:22] everybody was really interesting. I will say I also was really intrigued by

[00:07:26] Richard Brake who played Bo who was the kind of

[00:07:30] the quote bad guy in the film.

[00:07:34] I don't think there's no air quotes. He was the bad guy.

[00:07:38] He was really good. That was a very, very menacing character that I

[00:07:42] really liked seeing on screen. I had a really good time with this.

[00:07:46] It is...

[00:07:48] Yeah, I'm good. I'm going to toss it over to you. What did you think of this Chris?

[00:07:52] Yeah, I think going into the film kind of like from

[00:07:56] my study you can kind of tell like yep I think I know what I'm in for

[00:08:00] and it did kind of deliver it.

[00:08:04] Immediately upon ending I was like well okay it was just probably just a

[00:08:08] I'd give it like oh yeah it was okay kind of a three star rating but the more

[00:08:12] I reflect on it the more and even from hearing you talk about it I feel like

[00:08:16] no it deserves a little more than that because I think they

[00:08:20] it could have been... It was pretty straightforward. Yes,

[00:08:24] there's not like a lot of surprises or anything but there are little things

[00:08:28] that they do in the story. Not that there are major twists

[00:08:32] but the way they handle certain plot details they kind of do some call backs.

[00:08:36] You're like okay they didn't have to do that but they did that and that makes it a little

[00:08:40] bit more interesting whereas a less

[00:08:44] film wouldn't have bothered doing that. They would just had it like play straight out.

[00:08:48] I will say you did say that

[00:08:52] this rest stop is kind of a combination gas station, diner

[00:08:56] and like rundown kind of like motel out in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. Yes,

[00:09:00] everything happens here and it is

[00:09:04] not a fast paced... They say it's a thriller

[00:09:08] but I don't know that maybe a little bit of a misnomer there's lots of tension in there.

[00:09:12] Tension. I think thriller can kind of be applied to if it

[00:09:16] ratchets up the tension

[00:09:20] even if the pacing is not quick. Sure. Because look there

[00:09:24] are some moments where I did feel like boy it's kind of built up the tension

[00:09:28] really nice. I'm just going to say there's a sequence with coffee cups

[00:09:32] trying to get messages out with coffee cups which I'm like

[00:09:36] yeah it was a little tense and then it kind of does something to abruptly

[00:09:40] change how that plan is going and then it has to reshuffle and it's like the whole

[00:09:44] time you're just kind of alright how are they going to do this?

[00:09:48] How is this going to work? I like films that kind of have me really

[00:09:52] connected like that with trying to figure out what the characters are going to do next so

[00:09:56] yeah that's just a good example but yeah go ahead. Yeah and I think

[00:10:00] it is there's dialogue

[00:10:04] there's not a lot of... I mean there is some action but it kind of takes

[00:10:08] its time getting there so it is kind of more of a slow boil

[00:10:12] so if you're looking for something that's like a fast paced type like we said it's all in one location

[00:10:16] so there are not a lot of car chases there are none actually. So

[00:10:20] something important to consider and I think for me going in I will say a surprise

[00:10:24] was yeah we both have seen Jim Cummings and lots of

[00:10:28] stuff and we like him he is more of like an indie darling type guy

[00:10:32] I expected him not that

[00:10:36] I expected him to be kind of like everything was centered around

[00:10:40] him and it was a lot more dispersed out than what I was expecting

[00:10:44] which was cool but because he was like the name that I recognized kind of like

[00:10:48] the marquee name I guess you'd say like I expected that he would be

[00:10:52] more central not that he wasn't but yeah it was a lot more dispersed out and I think that's

[00:10:56] another thing that I could say I would say was a

[00:11:00] bonus of this film or something that you should admire about this film

[00:11:04] is the characters had more of an arc

[00:11:08] or have more of a story even like some that you would assume there's a

[00:11:12] sheriff's deputy that I liked

[00:11:16] and he's there for some comedic effect but he also does

[00:11:20] move the story along in some important ways and

[00:11:24] I really appreciated that so you know it's kind of like no

[00:11:28] nobody just has like a one joke line and then disappears no everybody has

[00:11:32] things to do so it was even though

[00:11:36] there is a bigger it's not just like it was four people no

[00:11:40] it's a little bit bigger of an ensemble cast but nobody's just thrown

[00:11:44] in there just to be a background everybody has something to do

[00:11:48] even which I loved there were two character actors

[00:11:52] that you've seen in so many other films that show up as a married couple

[00:11:56] Gene Jones as Robert and then Robin Bartlett

[00:12:00] as Earline again I'm racking my brains trying to remember what

[00:12:04] I've seen both of them in but I know they have been in a lot of things and to

[00:12:08] see them kind of stroll in as like a traveling retired couple

[00:12:12] and just even their mannerisms and just the way they interact and

[00:12:16] then a little bit of a turn with even their characters and sure

[00:12:20] it worked really nicely so like you said it was a true much more of an

[00:12:24] ensemble piece than I was expecting it to be and

[00:12:28] yeah I mean I think it's great I'm just going to call it a few things

[00:12:32] again Jim Cummings was great in the role he played

[00:12:36] it was very much a I mean it was a Jim Cummings role

[00:12:40] it was it was and it was a little bit I mean I think it was meant to be also

[00:12:44] meant to be this way he's a little bit dropped into this world

[00:12:48] a little fish out of water kind of with his

[00:12:52] his persona and with his mannerisms he's

[00:12:56] a little unique in this world but I think that also

[00:13:00] plays to where the film eventually goes and it makes sense

[00:13:04] for that so it works Jocelyn Donahue played Charlotte

[00:13:08] the waitress at the restaurant who I thought she was really good

[00:13:12] I thought she was really good and I think it's more or less the first time I've ever really seen her

[00:13:16] and I kept thinking that I had seen her before in other things but I think she's just

[00:13:20] got such a movie star actress like oh yes this is like

[00:13:24] the you know attractive waitress and you're like oh yeah I've seen her

[00:13:28] but no I really think because the other film she's been in I don't think I've seen

[00:13:32] Yeah I tried to look up too and I wasn't really familiar with any of her other works

[00:13:36] so then already you mentioned Richard Brake as Bo

[00:13:40] and I think that's the guy in his colleague

[00:13:44] Travis played by Nicholas Logan both again all these

[00:13:48] all the characters really really worked which I will say like I think Nicholas

[00:13:52] Logan as Travis he was fine if I had to say something

[00:13:56] that I felt like could have gotten a little more out of maybe it was

[00:14:00] Nicholas Logan but he plays kind of the more bumbling I guess

[00:14:04] criminal whereas Richard Brake plays just this

[00:14:08] like so scary and you know the whole time I was watching him I felt

[00:14:12] like his face kind of like you were describing Gene Jones and like you know

[00:14:16] you kind of see him I felt like I'd seen him but I was like where have I seen this dude before

[00:14:20] and then his voice is also scary he's

[00:14:24] like just the way he does things it was like

[00:14:28] Anthony Hopkins doing Hannibal it's just like this dude is bad

[00:14:32] bad bad news I mean Anthony Hopkins is actually the first thing

[00:14:36] I thought of too I'm like okay this is the kind of this is the kind of

[00:14:40] bad guy performance it's like yes people could remember this oh yeah yeah like if you

[00:14:44] remember nothing else about this home this film is like really big and everybody saw it

[00:14:48] everybody would be talking about this guy as a bad guy yeah because he's just like

[00:14:52] he's so scary and he can turn on the charm at some points and you're just like

[00:14:56] no this dude's bad he's so bad and then I figured out

[00:15:00] because of doing a little bit of research on the internet apparently he played

[00:15:04] was the night king from Game of Thrones where I don't think that guy ever really spoke but

[00:15:08] he was like this really menacing character and they had all this prosthetics and stuff on his face

[00:15:12] he was like blue and everything but this dude was that guy

[00:15:16] so I think or you know that character in the Game of Thrones series

[00:15:20] he was in the movie Barbarian which I wonder if he played the guy in the basement

[00:15:24] maybe okay his character was Frank and I think that was the one the guy in

[00:15:28] the basement yeah which there again is not a whole lot of screen time for him in that

[00:15:32] film but very memorable that he was in it so yeah

[00:15:36] just he's such a presence that you know I could see him being an amazing

[00:15:40] Bond villain something like yes so he was a standout

[00:15:44] and if we're gonna go through some of the other people in the cast another guy that

[00:15:48] okay I watch Elf every year and

[00:15:52] the guy that's in the department store that talks with old Farrell who works in the toy

[00:15:56] department phase on love in that film you know plays this guy doesn't have

[00:16:00] a lot of screen time but he's memorable and so he plays the motel owner

[00:16:04] and this and the moment I saw him I'm like okay but you know obviously this film

[00:16:08] you know he's aged he's older now he has this big beard but I'm like who is

[00:16:12] this dude I've seen him before and I see him but who is

[00:16:16] he and he's great and that's where I'd seen him before myself so they really pulled together

[00:16:20] a great assortment of actors ones that are not household names

[00:16:24] but ones that I mean are all really really strong in this in this film

[00:16:28] and thought that was really good you know

[00:16:32] influences I mean I think there's a lot of films you could see were some form

[00:16:36] of influence I mean I got a lot and I think the film even kind of acknowledged this

[00:16:40] with a line of dialogue there's a lot of psycho like

[00:16:44] the classic film from the setting

[00:16:48] from the hotel slash you know

[00:16:52] motel diner set up from the somebody traveling

[00:16:56] or traveling and having to stop because there's nowhere else to go

[00:17:00] one of the characters mocks Jim Cummings as looking like the guy from Psycho

[00:17:04] Norman Bates yeah so Psycho is there they reference Badlands

[00:17:08] at one point in the film which obviously was a little bit of some influences there

[00:17:12] as well yeah so I mean it's like it worked

[00:17:16] it just worked it's nothing outstanding

[00:17:20] it was good functional film that worked really well that I enjoyed

[00:17:24] I think and plus tight running time it was an hour and a half which was like

[00:17:28] kind of right on the sweet spot it's like it made it told the story

[00:17:32] it needed to tell it ended at the right of time and done

[00:17:36] so you know it was good so and I will say when there is

[00:17:40] you know not that it's a crime thriller so we talk about there is

[00:17:44] violence in this and when it happens it's like whoa yeah it's

[00:17:48] no that's the thing is I actually was about a certain amount of

[00:17:52] this film wondering okay is this gonna I'm curious if they're gonna

[00:17:56] go where you would expect a crime thriller type of film like this to go

[00:18:00] sure and by the time it got to that scene it was like oh wow okay

[00:18:04] yeah here we go here we go and it did it all pretty much in the pot

[00:18:08] the pot is boiling now yeah so just yeah it's a good note for everybody

[00:18:12] this is a crime drama independent crime drama it

[00:18:16] does have some heavy violence yes pretty much in one

[00:18:20] one main scene and but you know even then it wasn't

[00:18:24] it's not like it was not good to it is not evil

[00:18:28] like you know no it's it was just the it was a violent tone

[00:18:32] that basically seeped in it pretty quickly but I still

[00:18:36] think films good and look too I don't know if you recognize or not but

[00:18:40] Barbara Crampton who played Virginia

[00:18:44] she was the woman on the phone at the police station okay

[00:18:48] which you could say would be the only character I could say that might be a little bit of a throwaway

[00:18:52] character sure but Barbara Crampton is like a very very famous

[00:18:56] she's been dubbed like the scream queen like

[00:19:00] been involved with so many like horror movies back in the 70s

[00:19:04] and 80s and anyway she's got a big cult following of

[00:19:08] her own so it's kind of funny seeing her in there playing the least

[00:19:12] consequential part in the whole film but it was still good to see

[00:19:16] yeah okay interesting so she does have a little bit about it so I guess if

[00:19:20] for genre movie fans this film has a lot to kind of

[00:19:24] a lot of little bread crumbs a lot of little I think so cool

[00:19:28] yeah Francis Gallupi who was the director and writer

[00:19:32] of this I think he's done a lot of music videos he's done

[00:19:36] he's done some short films short films but I think this is first feature film

[00:19:40] yeah and I thought it also like you said the running time is admirable

[00:19:44] the editing and it's good granted he doesn't edit it somebody else does but just the way

[00:19:48] it's put together it's an impressive feature film debut and you know

[00:19:52] even the cinematography and everything just yeah it's really well made

[00:19:56] agreed well anything else to say I mean I don't think

[00:20:00] we're good I'm giving it a good recommendation oh yeah I think it's worth

[00:20:04] absolutely worth watching and good little movie reminded me

[00:20:08] a little bit too not that it had the star power and quite the

[00:20:12] uniqueness that

[00:20:16] it was one of your favorite films a few years ago the El Royale yeah

[00:20:20] the bad times at the times at the El Royale

[00:20:24] and it's interesting you bring that up because my wife and I we watched this just last night

[00:20:28] so it's real fresh on my mind and we finished it and she said you know this

[00:20:32] movie is a lot like that maybe I'm like okay now yeah it is

[00:20:36] but I you know this is good that movie had a lot

[00:20:40] going on it had a lot more like twists and everything and the cast in it you know

[00:20:44] the cast was bigger names and stuff but she's right this is kind of like a

[00:20:48] stripped down version of it. It did have a little bit of that feel just in the fact that it's multiple

[00:20:52] characters kind of coming to one location and it's a tense situation

[00:20:56] and you don't quite know where it's gonna end up going and there's some elements

[00:21:00] of crime some elements of all that mixed in yeah it was

[00:21:04] similar I can see how you took some of that. Yeah there was a little bit of a similar tone

[00:21:08] so I thought maybe that might work for you because I know how big a fan you are of that film.

[00:21:12] Yeah and that one like you're saying it was also a single basically a single location

[00:21:16] because that was a hotel as well so yeah.

[00:21:20] Well that is the last stop in Yuma County it is available for rent or purchase

[00:21:24] on Apple TV, Amazon all the different streaming

[00:21:28] places where you can rent movies not available for

[00:21:32] free streaming on a platform yet but it is something you can rent for

[00:21:36] six or seven dollars I think at the time of the recording here so

[00:21:40] it's definitely if it sounds like it's up your alley I'm saying I think it's a good time

[00:21:44] and Chris seems to agree with that. Absolutely. That is a good

[00:21:48] little film there so alright well let's Chris we're gonna take

[00:21:52] a quick break when we come back we've got some news to cover all about

[00:21:56] CAN all about another project I've teased

[00:22:00] about that we'll talk about in a minute and your recommendation all coming up

[00:22:04] here in just a minute stay tuned you're listening to Foot Candle Films here on

[00:22:08] TheMesh.tv we'll be right back. Welcome back to Foot Candle Films

[00:22:15] here on TheMesh.tv podcast network we had our review of the

[00:22:19] last stop in Yuma County just earlier

[00:22:23] but Chris let's jump right into some news want to talk about some

[00:22:27] news films some projects that have been announced and then we'll

[00:22:31] talk about the CAN Film Festival in just a second but let me let me go and get

[00:22:35] this one out of the way. You and I have talked on

[00:22:39] this show on several occasions I'm trying to think how many films now

[00:22:43] it would be did we review okay

[00:22:47] had once come out the John Carney film when we started doing our

[00:22:51] podcast or is that one that came out before we started recording? Oh man

[00:22:55] I don't remember. Yeah. Podcasts since

[00:22:59] 2011 so I don't know. I don't remember when it came out but they had the film once

[00:23:03] that by John Carney the music drama music film

[00:23:07] then you had Begin Again with Keira Knightley and

[00:23:11] The Hulk

[00:23:15] See I had his name and now you've made me

[00:23:19] laugh and now it's gone. Mark Ruffalo. Yes. Mark Ruffalo.

[00:23:23] And we had Sing Street all three of those

[00:23:27] I liked I really like once and I really like Sing Street yeah Begin Again

[00:23:31] was fine. Then he did

[00:23:35] what was the next film after that? Bono's Daughter's Film. Was that his fourth

[00:23:39] film? Well maybe not he may have done I felt like there was something else

[00:23:43] there may have been oh gosh

[00:23:47] but he did the Apple TV Plus film. Intern where's our intern? Right. Where is this

[00:23:51] intern? Alright John Carney I feel like there was another film. You're saying

[00:23:55] After Begin Again and Before the that's what

[00:23:59] Flora and Son. Yeah I'm trying to figure out if there's anything between

[00:24:03] between Sing Street and Flora and Son and you know what

[00:24:07] I think you're right I don't think there is. I think that was it. Okay.

[00:24:11] I think he basically has made four directed four movies at this point.

[00:24:15] Okay. Alright so his fifth film has been

[00:24:19] announced and discussed. Okay. Chris

[00:24:23] I'm so worried. This is not good okay.

[00:24:27] Well but your expect well this is even more worrisome because your expectations have probably

[00:24:31] already been lowered since Flora and Son. Listen to them. Right.

[00:24:35] Okay so it features two actors one I mean both

[00:24:39] of them I think are good I know one for sure. Paul Rudd

[00:24:43] is going to be starring in the new John Carney movie along with

[00:24:47] Nick Jonas. Okay. So Nick Jonas

[00:24:51] and Paul Rudd are set to star in the name of the movie is

[00:24:55] Power Ballad. It is a musical comedy from John Carney

[00:24:59] currently filming in Dublin.

[00:25:03] The official log line for the film reads an uplifting

[00:25:07] music driven story about a wedding singer a rock star and the

[00:25:11] song that comes between them. And already I'm just

[00:25:15] like oh my gosh. Flora and Son I really just did

[00:25:19] not work for me. No. Same. I think you agree with me on that. It did work for a lot

[00:25:23] of people apparently. Yeah I don't. But yeah not on the way. But compared to his previous

[00:25:27] three films it definitely compared to once or Sing Street. I think it was a huge

[00:25:31] drop off. We don't have a trailer yet right? No no trailer. Okay.

[00:25:35] I will say now if we look back at

[00:25:39] once and Sing Street and Begin Again

[00:25:43] and then Flora and Son yeah all the other previous four films

[00:25:47] I don't think I would deem any of those

[00:25:51] a comedy because you said this was a musical comedy.

[00:25:55] Definitely not obviously not once. Sing Street had

[00:25:59] elements in it but it was more of a coming of age story about about you know

[00:26:03] Flora and Son I don't really know what that was but I wouldn't say it was a kind of

[00:26:07] long distance romance. So if this is going

[00:26:11] to be an outright musical

[00:26:15] comedy with Paul Rudd yep I'm okay with

[00:26:19] that and like the rock from I don't know I think if he

[00:26:23] doesn't if he stays in the lane of just making this funny which I don't

[00:26:27] know if he can do you know but just make it funny okay.

[00:26:31] Maybe. That gives me a little hope if he just stays in the lane

[00:26:35] of just doing it funny. No I could see that. What gives me even greater pause though is

[00:26:39] in the same article this is from Variety that was kind of talking about the film. They're shopping

[00:26:43] it at Cannes next month so it's already done done.

[00:26:47] So it'll be shopped around. So you don't have a trailer but they could give us one if

[00:26:51] they wanted to. That's right. The different

[00:26:55] film producers Alex Walton of WME

[00:26:59] has been quoted as saying about this film we are so excited to bring John

[00:27:03] Carney's next film to Cannes. John has a magic ability to weave

[00:27:07] great music into wonderfully engaging and universally relatable stories

[00:27:11] that will make audience emotions run high. Power Ballad is fun

[00:27:15] and heartwarming themes that audiences crave today.

[00:27:19] His unique vision added to the global appeal of Paul Rudd and Nick

[00:27:23] Jonas will give buyers exactly what they're looking for. That's already I'm like

[00:27:27] heartwarming and I'm like okay so he's going

[00:27:31] the same style. But the film is called Power Ballad. I mean

[00:27:35] I don't know I feel like you know

[00:27:39] in this sense not trying to make a unique comedy just making a comedy

[00:27:43] having it be on the nose. The film's called Power Ballad

[00:27:47] but I think as long as you're acknowledging all of that it can

[00:27:51] actually still be good. I hope it is. I'm just I'm worried because

[00:27:55] I think Florian Sun just left kind of such a bad taste in my mouth. To me

[00:27:59] that was John Carney doing exactly the type

[00:28:03] of movie that John Carney can do and it felt lazy

[00:28:07] in the way it was being done. I would agree with that. So

[00:28:11] the parts of the movie that did work for me a little bit the father

[00:28:15] I'm sorry the mother and son relationship was

[00:28:19] the least John Carney type stuff and that was the only part of the film

[00:28:23] that had any semblance of working for me. Everything dealing with the music

[00:28:27] and the relationship with the music teacher over it was just did not work.

[00:28:31] Did not work at all. So I am hoping that this is a little bit of

[00:28:35] a return to form because I really did like the three films he

[00:28:39] kind of laid out more or less beforehand.

[00:28:43] I wanted more so anyway that is Power

[00:28:47] Ballad that is being shopped at Cannes next month or this month it sounds like

[00:28:51] so hopefully we'll hear and maybe we'll get to see a little bit of this and

[00:28:55] see if we're on the right track with this or if unfortunately I'm

[00:28:59] right in my fears. Sure. Alright Chris so that

[00:29:03] was that. Let me move on now and while we're talking about Cannes we

[00:29:07] mentioned that in the last story. The Cannes Film Festival is kind of in the

[00:29:11] midst right now as we're recording this things are happening with Cannes. We decided

[00:29:15] not to go this year. I did I went. Oh okay. Yeah I flew back in

[00:29:19] last night and just went for a few hours just check out a film

[00:29:23] or two fly back. Sure. The

[00:29:27] Cannes Film Festival so for those not aware the way that

[00:29:31] there are film festivals Chris and I even have a film festival we run.

[00:29:35] Cannes is kind of known for bringing a lot of the big movies

[00:29:39] and it's big premieres. It tends to be one that traipse more

[00:29:43] into artsy films a little more art driven films although

[00:29:47] commercial films have been successful going there as well.

[00:29:51] Is it in like really recent years where things like

[00:29:55] Fast and Furious movies. Yeah which never used to be the case

[00:29:59] but now you do get things like that. They have opened up a little bit more and it's

[00:30:03] gone a little more the commercial route. But still I think the films that people walk away from

[00:30:07] like buzzing about. Sure. The idea is that did it play well at Cannes and if it did

[00:30:11] will a distributor pick it up and now release it to the rest of the world

[00:30:15] and it becomes a huge hit or not. So but with

[00:30:19] the interesting thing about the Cannes Film Festival is when they do all the press about these films that are

[00:30:23] premiering there. They seem to measure how

[00:30:27] well received the film was by the number of minutes that the standing

[00:30:31] ovation was for the film after it screens. Which I think is

[00:30:35] just bizarre. It's kind of scary. I mean standing

[00:30:39] ovation great if a film is really good and the director and the cast are there

[00:30:43] in the room. Yep stand up given the ovation is great. But then to go out and say like

[00:30:47] the headlines are such and such film receives a nine minute standing ovation

[00:30:51] and that becomes like the biggest film of the Cannes Film Festival

[00:30:55] because of the long standing ovation it had. Which I always wonder like

[00:30:59] standing ovation how much of it is just the room is packed with people who

[00:31:03] just really like that director or really like those stars and like we're going to stand

[00:31:07] here for ten minutes giving an ovation just so we can get some good press

[00:31:11] for this. I don't know. Right. It's hard to say but look who am I

[00:31:15] not to jump right into the whole thing. Let's

[00:31:19] have fun with this. I want to tell you about the four films as of today

[00:31:23] that have received the longest standing ovation that can. Well and I will

[00:31:27] say before we get to that if we're going to talk about funny things that happen at Cannes

[00:31:31] wasn't that where the

[00:31:35] man the film that had Florence Pugh and Chris Pine

[00:31:39] and Harry Styles and it was this. Oh the Don't Worry

[00:31:43] Darling. Don't Worry Darling yes and that was the whole thing

[00:31:47] where was it Harry Styles spitting on

[00:31:51] Chris Pine. He didn't but like the way it was shot or the way Sama had their camera

[00:31:55] whatever it looked like that and that became this big. That was the most exciting thing

[00:31:59] it can in decades. So yeah. So yeah. Yeah.

[00:32:03] There's always a little drama mixed in there so let's jump right into some drama here.

[00:32:07] Now there were a lot of films that have played there and if you are curious about

[00:32:11] any of the big films coming out in the next several months and you're curious how long

[00:32:15] their ovation was I have a list of all them. I'm not going to cover all the films

[00:32:19] but I'm happy to entertain any questions you may have about certain ones that may have played.

[00:32:23] But let's talk about the four that did have the four biggest. Are you going to go

[00:32:27] let's go are you going to go in order of like okay great great.

[00:32:31] So the fourth longest ovation.

[00:32:35] Look there's a little discrepancy with this list and that depending

[00:32:39] on which publication you read the number of minutes can vary.

[00:32:43] So I took an average. So this is a seven and a half minute

[00:32:47] standing ovation. I appreciate your dedication to being fair

[00:32:51] I like variety seems to go a little lower

[00:32:55] on the ovation time where I think other publications tend to be a little more

[00:32:59] gratuitous with the amount of minutes. So maybe they have like a volume meter

[00:33:03] and if it drops below a certain decibel level they're like okay people are around clapping.

[00:33:07] What percentage of the people need to still be standing for it to be an ovation?

[00:33:11] They need to be standing and clapping. Right. Because like if half

[00:33:15] the crowd sits then the other half are still standing is the standing

[00:33:19] ovation still going. I don't know how that works. Anyway okay the seven

[00:33:23] and a half minute fourth longest ovation in the Cannes Film Festival

[00:33:27] this year is the latest Francis Ford Coppola film

[00:33:31] Megalopolis. Okay. So this film Chris I don't know how much

[00:33:35] you've read about this. I mean I've read bits

[00:33:39] and pieces. I was aware of the fact that it did premiere.

[00:33:43] I am looking forward to seeing it. Yeah. Will it

[00:33:47] be terrible? I don't know. But just begin and again

[00:33:51] perfect example just the fact that this film has

[00:33:55] finally well hadn't come out yet that people got to see it but it hasn't gotten

[00:33:59] distribution yet at some point we'll be able to see it but

[00:34:03] I would say that just the fact that people got to see the film

[00:34:07] and it's from Francis Ford Coppola that's the ovation

[00:34:11] right there. Well so it sounds like it divided audiences

[00:34:15] pretty sharply. Which from what I know about it doesn't surprise me.

[00:34:19] There are people who said it was a mess and just incoherent and bad

[00:34:23] and all that other half for saying it's a fascinating

[00:34:27] film to see on screen. Nobody's come out and said it's

[00:34:31] great but I think people are at least acknowledging that it's something

[00:34:35] to see. We're talking Adam Driver

[00:34:39] Adam Driver suppose I mean this is just a little quick synopsis. Sure.

[00:34:43] Well I'm not even going to it's not even a synopsis of the film. This is just some of the moments people

[00:34:47] are recalling from this film. There's a doctored sex tape

[00:34:51] featuring Adam Driver feature prominently in the film. Shyla Buff

[00:34:55] is in this film playing in drag playing a Trumpian type figure.

[00:34:59] I was not aware that Shyla Buff was in this.

[00:35:03] Audrey Plaza is in there as a dominatrix.

[00:35:07] You've got okay now this is what's really interesting Chris

[00:35:11] during the screening and again I don't know how

[00:35:15] this is going to play in any other screening or any other home viewing of

[00:35:19] this film. In the middle of the screening supposedly there is a moment

[00:35:23] Jason Schwartzman walks up on stage

[00:35:27] not on the film but on the stage and delivers

[00:35:31] some dialogue interacting with one of the characters in the film. Oh wow.

[00:35:35] The character in the film is interacting with him. Wow. Yes.

[00:35:39] So I don't know how they're going to pull that off in a home viewing experience.

[00:35:43] I don't know maybe they got a plan for it but anyway. No Jason Schwartz

[00:35:47] if you rent the movie he'll come to your house and like that man. Well depending on it.

[00:35:51] That is dedication of the craft. If the film's not doing well financially that may be the way they recoup their money.

[00:35:55] You pay 50 bucks for this film rental

[00:35:59] and we will send Jason Schwartz out there to read his one line of dialogue and then he's out.

[00:36:03] Here's my money. Take my money.

[00:36:07] It does sound like an interesting experience although the film does seem to be

[00:36:11] sharply dividing whether people think it's good or not.

[00:36:15] Gotcha. Well I mentioned all of that said just makes me that much more

[00:36:19] interested. No no I'm all for it. I'm eager to see it as well.

[00:36:23] And it's going to benefit from my expectations

[00:36:27] are actually low because of

[00:36:31] how long it took to get this thing made, the fact that I know it's divisive.

[00:36:35] So I'm not going in expecting to like it. I'm just going in

[00:36:39] expecting to be somewhat interesting like okay.

[00:36:43] I'm looking forward to it. Yeah no same here, same here.

[00:36:47] Okay so that's Megalopolis. That was the fourth highest one according to all the

[00:36:51] averages I have calculated and research I have done. Okay. Alright the third

[00:36:55] longest one. This just came in last night. This is hot off the press. Okay.

[00:36:59] This one is surprising to me. In a way

[00:37:03] the more I think about it, no probably not. It is for Horizon, an American

[00:37:07] saga. The Kevin Costner western movie. This movie played

[00:37:11] at Cannes yesterday. Okay. Got a nine and a half minute

[00:37:15] ovation. Supposedly Kevin Costner very emotional during this

[00:37:19] time because this is kind of a self-financed movie. He kind of like

[00:37:23] worked on this independently. And it is supposed to be part of

[00:37:27] a trilogy or something. Part of a series. There's definitely a

[00:37:31] second one coming out later in the same summer. Like this is coming out in June.

[00:37:35] Part two is coming out in August. Oh wow. Like eight weeks later.

[00:37:39] They screen both parts at Cannes or just first? They screen the first one. Okay. Yep.

[00:37:43] And so supposedly it played well.

[00:37:47] The reviews I've heard are also a

[00:37:51] little mixed. Say I think it's an achievement film. I think it looks great.

[00:37:55] I think it's acted well. I think it's some great performances.

[00:37:59] But everything I've heard people say is that it does

[00:38:03] sound like it is part one. Okay. And it's

[00:38:07] a lot of set up and it doesn't really seem to amount to anything at the end of the day.

[00:38:11] It's just interesting scenes and shots and moments.

[00:38:15] But no, it got some good response. I wonder how much of that

[00:38:19] is just the Kevin Costner of it. I mean this is a guy, you know, he's been through

[00:38:23] the ups and downs in Hollywood. Sure. Here he brought his own epic

[00:38:27] film that he's kind of like put together the financing for and made.

[00:38:31] The name of it again? Horizon, Cola, an American

[00:38:35] saga. Okay. Part one.

[00:38:39] So anyway, that

[00:38:43] was there. I think for me, you know,

[00:38:47] I'll probably have a wait and see approach to that. You know,

[00:38:51] westerns aren't really my genre, my niche. And so if I hear

[00:38:55] it's really amazing, then yeah, sure. And I will say that if I'm going to see it,

[00:38:59] I will likely, if I hear that it's seeing it in a theater to see like the landscapes

[00:39:03] that I assume are going to look at, like that may be more of the avenue that I would go.

[00:39:07] So he's got, it's a good cast in it. Okay. I mean I'm intrigued to see

[00:39:11] a lot of the performances. So like I am one of the biggest

[00:39:15] dancers with Wolves Apologist. I still think that's a marvelous film.

[00:39:19] I love it. Okay. And I admire Kevin Costner for it. So

[00:39:23] I will go give it a shot. If part one doesn't work for me as

[00:39:27] well, yeah. Actually I've just read that he's planning

[00:39:31] on making three more. Like there's a second one that's already done.

[00:39:35] And then they're playing for two more. So a total of four

[00:39:39] we're looking at. Okay. That's what I'm hearing.

[00:39:43] So that was the third longest ovation as of Sunday evening

[00:39:47] the night before we recorded this. So that was the one you watched

[00:39:51] and then you got on the plane to come back here. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I watched that

[00:39:55] one there. Yeah. It was like three hours long. It was fine. I squeezed it in.

[00:39:59] Awesome. Okay. The second

[00:40:03] longest ovation is a film I'm very intrigued by and anxious to see.

[00:40:07] It is a film called Amelia Perez. Familiar with

[00:40:11] it at all? Nothing about it. I've never heard of it. It is a Spanish

[00:40:15] language musical drama. Okay. Starring Zoe

[00:40:19] Saldana. Okay. Selena Gomez. Okay.

[00:40:23] And Carla Sofia Gascon. Okay. Don't think I know

[00:40:27] the last performer. Got it. Okay. Well here we go. This is what the film

[00:40:31] is about. It is Zoe Saldana plays Rita,

[00:40:35] an overqualified and undervalued lawyer whose firm is more

[00:40:39] inclined to help criminals than seek justice. She finds an

[00:40:43] unexpected way out when a feared drug cartel leader

[00:40:47] played by Gascon recruits her to aid him in serendipitously

[00:40:51] completing a sex change operation to become the woman

[00:40:55] he's always wanted to be. Whoa. So basically she gets

[00:40:59] approached to help this drug cartel leader

[00:41:03] go through a sex change so he can leave the life that he's in

[00:41:07] and take on the new life he wants to be. Okay.

[00:41:11] And Selena Gomez plays this drug cartel's leader's

[00:41:15] wife who's not aware of anything going on. Whoa.

[00:41:19] So plus the actors break into original songs

[00:41:23] at different parts of this film to advance the plot. This sounds

[00:41:27] insanely ambitious. Yeah, but it's also got a

[00:41:31] nine to ten minute standing ovation. It can

[00:41:35] supposedly it was like this. Is it an Alma Dovar film? No. So that sounds like

[00:41:39] something like crazy ambition but dealing with sexual. I'm like oh that's probably

[00:41:43] an Alma Dovar and I can imagine like the cinematography would be amazing but Penelope Cruz

[00:41:47] isn't in it so that makes me think it's not him. But wow.

[00:41:51] The director is, oh gosh where is it? Jacques

[00:41:55] Aldaert. Jacques Aldaert.

[00:41:59] He won the Palme d'Or in 2015

[00:42:03] for his film Deep Hand and his first film

[00:42:07] 1994 is Watch the Men Fall was a critic

[00:42:11] for Cricks Week at Cannes and went on to win three Cesar Awards.

[00:42:15] So he's a French filmmaker. I've heard of Deep Hand but I don't

[00:42:19] think I've seen it but okay interesting. A prophet. He did

[00:42:23] a prophet. Okay. Yeah that's the one. Of Rust and Bone.

[00:42:27] Not familiar with that one. The Olympiads and now Emilia

[00:42:31] Perez. So this one very intrigued by.

[00:42:35] I think this sounds really, really interesting and it sounds like the audience

[00:42:39] there seemed to agree after seeing it. So that

[00:42:43] is Emilia Perez. That one was my

[00:42:47] most anticipated coming out of Cannes now after reading about it because I was not aware

[00:42:51] of it until I read these articles about the premiere. Gotcha.

[00:42:55] However we got one more. Okay so remind me of the times again. It was about

[00:42:59] nine or ten minute ovation. This was nine or ten. We had seven and then we had six?

[00:43:03] No no. Megalopolis did like

[00:43:07] seven and a half. Horizon did like eight to nine.

[00:43:11] Emilia Perez did like between nine and ten. Okay. So

[00:43:15] we are now at an eleven minute standing ovation as of again

[00:43:19] yesterday and this is for a film called The Substance.

[00:43:23] Are you familiar with this film Chris? No. Okay.

[00:43:27] Demi Moore in Margot Qualley.

[00:43:31] Okay. Alright so here's the deal. But you know my history

[00:43:35] with Margot Qualley is all over the place. Well yes, true.

[00:43:39] I don't know how this will do to change that for you.

[00:43:43] The film is considered jaw dropping, nauseating,

[00:43:47] defiant and hilarious. It is a

[00:43:51] body horror thriller from French director

[00:43:55] Coralie Fourgay. And it's a tale

[00:43:59] of a once great actress played by Demi Moore who certain age

[00:44:03] has relegated her to a Jane Fonda style fitness show.

[00:44:07] When she's fired, she's offered a trial of the medical treatment the film is

[00:44:11] named for. It promises a younger better version of herself through

[00:44:15] a cell replicating process. Basically

[00:44:19] she takes the drug and

[00:44:23] Margot Qualley comes out

[00:44:27] of Demi Moore's body. Okay. As a

[00:44:31] whole other character. Okay. Is she wise cracking and

[00:44:35] very abrasive? She is the exact character from

[00:44:39] Drive Away Dolls. Nice. Okay. And basically the

[00:44:43] two characters coexist with one important

[00:44:47] caveat. They must trade one week on, one week off in each body.

[00:44:51] So. Okay. I admire the ambitiousness

[00:44:55] of this premise. The film is all a lot of

[00:44:59] metaphors about the role of women in Hollywood, the cruelty of age and repercussions,

[00:45:03] self-hatred, all that. So, but the, supposedly it

[00:45:07] played incredibly well. Supposedly it is

[00:45:11] disgusting, very gross at times, but

[00:45:15] sound to be quite a feat in an event.

[00:45:19] So, yes. The substance.

[00:45:23] The substance. That is the longest ovation so far

[00:45:27] at Cannes at the time of this recording. I mean. The director

[00:45:31] did her first feature was a 2017's Revenge, which

[00:45:35] I don't recall the film. I don't think I do either. Yeah.

[00:45:39] It premiered at Toronto, went on to play festivals.

[00:45:43] But yeah. Demi Moore, this is her first time with a

[00:45:47] film that's at Cannes Film Festival as well. Oh really? Okay. Yeah.

[00:45:51] I don't think, I mean her last film, I

[00:45:55] don't even know. I couldn't tell you what it was. That's, I am

[00:45:59] curious. Could this be a little bit of a, you know, a John Travolta

[00:46:03] pulp fiction type of role where it's just like she's back in the limelight again?

[00:46:07] Sure. Kind of playing a little bit against, or not against

[00:46:11] type, but playing a very kind of, not a role, accentuated version of herself.

[00:46:15] Right. You know. That's what I'm kind of picking up from this.

[00:46:19] So yeah, that is the substance that is right now

[00:46:23] with the one with the longest ovation. Okay. So out of

[00:46:27] those four, Kevin Costner, sorry, but just Western, not my thing,

[00:46:31] but the other three very intriguing. So yeah. Well, Megalopolis

[00:46:35] I want to see just to see it. Sure. Okay. I feel like

[00:46:39] we have to see it. You know, that's just kind of a thing. Right.

[00:46:43] Kevin Costner, The Horizon, yes. I personally

[00:46:47] am looking forward to it although I could see myself not

[00:46:51] connecting with it like I'd hoped, but I'm still going to give it a shot. Is that going to have it a release time around like November?

[00:46:57] I wonder. No, no. It comes out in June. Oh, June. Like next month.

[00:47:01] Horizon the first one. And then you said there was another version that was coming out. Second part is in August.

[00:47:05] Like a month and a half later. I was just wondering like trying to hit

[00:47:09] like holidays and get kept like, okay. No, it's milk,

[00:47:13] trying to milk the summer. I mean they are basically banking on everybody who loves

[00:47:17] the TV show Yellowstone. They're banking on anybody who went out to go see Top Gun Maverick in the theater.

[00:47:23] I think that's the population they're trying to bring into the theater. Okay.

[00:47:27] I got you. People who are like, hey, you know, I like Yellowstone on TV, but now

[00:47:31] Kevin Costner and The Western are up on the big screen and we can go for three hours

[00:47:35] and check it out. So we'll see what happens.

[00:47:39] Well, okay. But you mentioned, yeah, you're

[00:47:43] intrigued by three of the four. Yeah, I'm I definitely want to see

[00:47:47] Amelia Perez. I just think that sounds great and looking forward to that.

[00:47:51] I'm very curious about the substance just because I'm not big on body

[00:47:55] horror at all. Parts got me a little worried, but the premise and the

[00:47:59] idea sound really, really amazing. Sure. And then I will give

[00:48:03] Horizon a shot and just see how it turns out. So, okay.

[00:48:07] All right. I'll tell you, yeah, it was a good trip to a can. You know,

[00:48:11] I just did my little typical networking. I always do when I go

[00:48:15] you know, understood, did a little time on the beach. Then I had to come home

[00:48:19] back to Hickory. You know, it's just a whirlwind life. I love it, Chris.

[00:48:23] One day I shall also make it to Can, maybe next year. Yeah.

[00:48:27] All right. Well, that is all the news I have to share of exciting

[00:48:31] film projects coming up. Chris, do you have a

[00:48:35] recommendation for us to share this week? Yes, yes I do. Great.

[00:48:39] Tell us your recommendation of a film you think we ought to keep in mind

[00:48:43] or check out in the future. So I'm going to recommend a documentary. It's just

[00:48:47] recently released, somewhat recently released on Apple TV Plus.

[00:48:51] It is Steve! then in parentheses

[00:48:55] Martin, a documentary in two pieces. This film

[00:48:59] documentary is in two parts. It is 192 minutes. So it's

[00:49:03] a little over. You combine the two parts. You combine the two. So it's a little over three

[00:49:07] hours. You think, okay, why not make one film, chop it down to

[00:49:11] two hours away? But I was curious because it's like three hours split into

[00:49:15] two pieces. Okay. But it works

[00:49:19] for me. It was done by Morgan Neville who did 20 Feet from Stardom. He did

[00:49:23] the Won't You Be My Neighbor? I think that's the name of the documentary, not the film

[00:49:27] or maybe it's not. I can't remember. It was about Mr. Rogers.

[00:49:31] He made a documentary about Mr. Rogers. There was a film but there was also a documentary.

[00:49:35] The documentary. Okay, good. The feature film was

[00:49:39] something in the neighborhood. Yeah, something in the neighborhood. Okay. So anyways

[00:49:43] documentary filmmaker. He made one about Anthony Bourdain

[00:49:47] as well. So the guy is well known as a documentary filmmaker and he

[00:49:51] takes this one but he does it in two parts and

[00:49:55] the split comes. It's not ruining anything but the split comes with

[00:49:59] basically Steve Martin's stand up career which

[00:50:03] yeah, the guy with the arrow in his head or wearing the bunny ears. I knew a little bit about

[00:50:07] it but not a lot and this provided a lot more depth

[00:50:11] in depth about that with some footage but also Steve Martin

[00:50:15] talking about it and that was very kind of revelatory

[00:50:19] for me. And then that's kind of the first part. The second

[00:50:23] part is him doing his film career and then

[00:50:27] doing other things with like you may know him because he talks a lot about art. You may

[00:50:31] know him and that kind of plays it. So and then being a writer he's written

[00:50:35] some novels and stuff so it's just interesting but I think

[00:50:39] it's well served by making it in two parts because they're both very distinct. The first one

[00:50:43] is very archival footage based and the second

[00:50:47] is modern day Steve, I guess you would say. And they touch on

[00:50:51] only murders in the building and things like that and his interactions with Martin Short.

[00:50:55] So if you like Steve Martin, obviously if you don't then you probably

[00:50:59] don't want to spend three hours in two different time periods watching this film.

[00:51:03] But if you like Steve Martin I would highly recommend

[00:51:07] it's just really, really well done and I feel like

[00:51:11] it's interesting because even though I've now watched three hours on Steve

[00:51:15] Martin and I felt like I kind of already knew who Steve

[00:51:19] Martin was so why do I want to watch three hours? Despite that now

[00:51:23] I come away from this film like no I guess he is actually kind of a really

[00:51:27] private person although he's been around for so long you feel like

[00:51:31] you know him but I don't know it was just really well done.

[00:51:35] It's on Apple TV Plus, Steve Martin

[00:51:39] a documentary in two pieces I recommend it. So

[00:51:43] I tell every time you do a recommendation I say this going on my watch list

[00:51:47] because it does I do have a watch list that ever grows and is

[00:51:51] way too long now. This is one I actually did watch part of

[00:51:55] I watched it because I was... Did you watch part one or part two?

[00:51:59] I watched part of part two and it's just weird because I was testing

[00:52:03] I was testing out a projector in my

[00:52:07] home theater and needed something on Apple TV to watch and

[00:52:11] just to show and use for checking it out. Sure.

[00:52:15] So I watched the first 15 minutes and right away I'm like oh yeah I'm totally

[00:52:19] into this, this is great, I need to go see the whole thing. So it

[00:52:23] is like risen to the top of my watch list but I'm glad

[00:52:27] to hear that the whole thing holds up and it's worth the time. For me

[00:52:31] it was yeah. I'm a big Steve Martin fan I think he's an amazing

[00:52:35] entertainer and fascinated by him but I've always thought he's

[00:52:39] also does seem to be more private he's not a

[00:52:43] he's never been that celebrity status where it's just like his whole public life

[00:52:47] is just out there for everybody to you know he's out there, he's visible, he's

[00:52:51] in things, he's in commercials, he's in shows but you just never quite felt like

[00:52:55] you really know him. Well it's something that maybe

[00:52:59] individuals that are older than you and I have a better grasp on this

[00:53:03] but I never thought like I never realized how

[00:53:07] popular his stand up was. Sure. All I knew was like I knew he did

[00:53:11] it and then he was on Saturday Night Live and then he kind of you know he

[00:53:15] kind of blossomed from there but I never realized like now he was

[00:53:19] insanely popular as a stand up and I did not

[00:53:23] realize that. Well very cool well that's what a good documentary

[00:53:27] does is enlightens us and educates us and that's

[00:53:31] awesome to hear. Good deal. Alright so that is Steve

[00:53:35] Martin, a documentary on Apple TV Plus. Yes.

[00:53:39] Available in two parts so just understand you know you got about three hours of

[00:53:43] watching time with you but you can break it up it is broken up into two pieces

[00:53:47] to watch almost like part one part two type of thing. Yeah absolutely and it is

[00:53:51] I think it's a good it does that very well and like you feel

[00:53:55] like even if you never watched the second part you would be satisfying to

[00:53:59] just watch the first part because they do give it a really good break point

[00:54:03] Awesome. Alright well that will wrap it up for today

[00:54:07] so we had our review of The Last Stop in Yuma County

[00:54:11] which we were both positive on, had some good feedback on that

[00:54:15] we talked about the Cannes Film Festival standing ovation meter

[00:54:19] and the highest rated ones of the festival so far

[00:54:23] talked about my concerns with the new John Carney movie

[00:54:27] I hope it's good please be better

[00:54:31] Power Ballad. It's got Paul Rudd in it, I mean it can't be

[00:54:35] horrible right? I don't think so I think I've liked pretty much everything

[00:54:39] Yeah I do too so alright and then we had Chris's recommendation

[00:54:43] of the Steve Martin documentary on Apple TV Plus. Alright Chris

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