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The Neon Movie Bunker
The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 351
(upbeat music) - Welcome to another episode in the Unmovie Bunker. I'm John Robinson. - And I'm L.R.A. Stanek. - And I'm Katie Glidewell. - And we're here to talk about movies. - And Paramount. - Yes, this has just crossed the wires, as it were. This is from Variety. Skydance Media, Paramount Global and National Amusements Reach Sale Agreement. David Ellison's Skydance Media is moving closer to its goal of acquiring Paramount Global, now that Paramount Board of Directors and Controlling, Shareholder Sherry Redstone have reportedly signed off on the move. The New York Times and Bloomberg News reported Sunday evening that Paramount Global's full board in Redstone have completed the complicated three-way transaction that will take Paramount, CBS, and the former Viacom assets out of the hands of the Redstone family for the first time in decades. The transaction still faces a complicated process of regulatory approvals in part because the deal involves Paramount Global's television stations which trigger the involvement of the FCC. Bloomberg News was the first report Sunday that the Special Committee of Paramount Global's Board of Directors tasked with reviewing mergers and acquisition options has agreed to revise the terms for a merger with Skydance. The pact will then be reviewed by the full board of the parent company of Paramount Pictures, CBS, Nickelodeon, Paramount Plus, Showtime, MTV, and more. Skydance and Paramount are expected to announce the agreement early Monday before the markets open, if not late tonight. As part of the deal, Paramount Global will have the right to shop around for matching your superior offers for a 45-day period before completing the deal with Skydance. Although Paramount has been seen as on the block for years, that ticking clock is likely to bring out opportunistic contenders. Already media-adjacent mobiles including Barry Diller and Gurbron from Jr. have indicated interest in a deal to buy out national amusements. Paramount and Skydance were close to tying the knot this time last month when national amusements abruptly broke off the talks, setting concerns that the company would not be able to close the deal. Skydance's effort is backed by Jerry Cardenell's Redbird Capital among other equity players. Representatives for Paramount Global, the Board Special Committee, and Redstone's National Abusments, in Colton Company to not respond for requests for comments Sunday or Representative for Skydance Media declined to comment. - Good? Not necessarily. I'm not even so much caring about who they end up selling to, but just the fact that this seems to be done is good, just in the ambiguity is bad sense. The in-between is bad, the not knowing is bad. - Yeah. Of course, I mean, there's been damage done to the Paramount and brands recently, including deleting all the content that was on ComedyCentral.com, deleting every single news article that had ever been published on MTVNews.com. - Yeah, not the greatest moves there. - You know, when they have to cut these things to what save on server space, it does not, it's not a great look. - No, it's not. No, it's not. Especially when you consider that we're not exactly a large organization and we've got all of our shows available on our... - Yes. But just saying. - Yeah. But yeah, so we'll keep monitoring this just in case anything else goes weird or whatever, but it looks like it's done-ish. - Yeah. - Also, briefly, you wanna touch on this? Apparently, we got another single. - Oh, yeah? - Yeah. $120 million for Despicable Me 4 over a five-day weekend. - That's pretty darn good. - Yeah, I was impressed. I was not expecting that number. Good for them. - Yeah, very much so. I mean, the Despicable Me franchise has been a reliable moneymaker, so it's not too surprising, but it's a good thing. - Sounds like kids are killing it this summer. - Yep. - Well, kinda have to, 'cause nobody else is. - Yeah. - 'Cause, you know, there have been many documented disappointments or worse since, you know, Fall Guy kicked off the season, the beginning of May. - Mm-hmm. - I think Kingdom of Planet of the Apes is probably still the top, like live action. - Wow. That title for the summer. - That's kinda surprising. - Yeah. - And I feel like there should be quotes in live action. - True, true. I suppose technically there was a human in it, but more than one. - Oh, that's true. William H. Macy. Although it was he the one I was referring to in the first place. - Oh, the world may never know. - As somebody on Twitter said, okay, we've got this figured out. We got this, you know, great idea. We're gonna make this movie. - Who do we wanna start on it? Eh. - Yeah, pretty much. - Yeah. - Pretty much. - So anyway, yeah, we'll keep an eye on those sorts of things. And we got an email address that we do. mail@neonmoviebunker.com. - Of course that's not the only way to reach us. - Well, we've got facebook.com/neonmoviebunker. We've got twitter.com/neonmoviebunker or @neonmoviebunker. - Yeah. - I am @JohnNMB. We've got @neonmoviebunker.beastguy.social, which is, you know, I'm blue sky, which is always a hoot. And then I am on Letterbox, just use your JohnNMB. So if you're, you know, over there and wanna see what I'm seeing, maybe follow that. We are available through Apple podcasts and YouTube and Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts. So maybe subscribe if you'd like. And then of course, we've got www.neonmoviebunker.com, which still has our full length interview with Mo Ryan that we had last week. That is there for your de-lectation. And then twitch.tv/neonmoviebunker is our event space. When we have events, that's the space they're in. - That it is. And Katie, where can the listeners find you? - Yes. You can find me on Instagram @theblondinfronts on Facebook @theblondinfronts, YouTube @theblondinfront. And that's all the blondes have the E at the end. And then my website, The Blondinfront. - Terrific. So we should talk about movies. - Probably, we should. - At some point, in the not too distant. I saw some. We've all seen some. I mean, really, if we hadn't, this would be, if we had never seen any movies, A, I doubt we would have gotten to 351 episodes. - Yeah, it'd be surprising. - But two, nobody would be listening. - Yeah. - Shall we talk about Maxine? - I think we shall. - Splendid. Maxine, in theaters now. Written and directed by Ty West. Stars, Mia Gough. Michelle Monahan. Halsey, Elizabeth DeBickey. - Being Carl Esposito. - John Carlow. - Or Be Cannon Valley. - Yes. Lily Collins. And others. - Kevin Bacon. - Kevin Bacon. - And Kevin Bacon. Can't forget Kevin Bacon, no matter how hard I try. No matter how many times I hit myself in the head with that hammer, Kevin Bacon may be the last memory I have. Anyway, it is 1985. It is Los Angeles. And Maxine Minx is a working performer in the adult film industry who is desperately interested in breaking through to mainstream productions. She also works at a peep show slash strip club slash fetish. - For less? - Yeah. - Yes. And one day she gets an audition for a part in the Puritan II. If I remember remembering that correctly. As the lead role in the Puritan II, which will, which has been written and will be directed by Elizabeth Bender. And she is given the part. - Ooh. - Yeah. So she gets all excited and goes out to tell her friends that she's been cast. And a couple of her friends say, "Hey, we're going to this party in the hills tonight. You should come along." The next day said friends are less alive. - Ooh. - Than they were? - Some party. - Yeah. 85 in Los Angeles is the time and hunting ground of the Night Stalker. And at first these deaths are thought to be victims of the Night Stalker, but turns out maybe not so much. And it has to do, well, another one of Maxine's friends turns up dead. And then another, and she starts being looked at as a suspect. And mind you, Maxine's got death in her past, certainly. And eventually we find out that death in her past is not the only connection to her past that comes a call on. - Oh. - In addition to the murders and having to learn her part and all that kind of thing, Maxine also has John Labot, a private detective from Norwin's Byway of Texas on her tail. - Okay. - Played by Kevin Bacon, who in thinking about it literally has metal scenery chewing teeth in this role. 'Cause he's, I mean, he's having a ball 'cause he's got the broadest, mamiest Cajun accent going on. And he is looking for Maxine trying to track her down for a mysterious client of his. - Okay. - And her agent Teddy Knight Esquire, played by John Carlos Bosito, is looking out for her in every possible way. - Okay. - Shall we say? - And it's slightly weird to see John Carlos Bosito playing a pretty much all around good guy. - Oh. - Maybe his methods aren't the cleanest per se, - But he's a good guy. - Yeah. - Okay. - He knows how to fight for his clients. - Okay. - He knows how to crush the competition. And Maxine, of course, is no shrinking violet herself. At one point, she's leaving one of her jobs and gets followed down a dark alley, but she knows she's being followed and turns the table on the person, the man who is following her. - Okay. - And indulges him in a little bit of CBT and I'm not talking about cognitive behavioral therapy. (both laughing) - Let's just say the practical effects in that scene are nuts. - Yes. Yes, they are. (both laughing) And eventually the cops kind of pursuing her figure out that maybe she's not actually the person who's killing her friends and then there's a, well, there's an encounter at a house in the hills and then there's an ending. - Okay. - This movie, let's go with really, really stylish. - Okay. - To the point of, you can make the argument, it is a triumph of style over substance, but that style is pretty triumphant. - Yeah. - It just is caked with mid-80s sleaze. - Ooh. - 85 is like right on the edge of my consciousness and memory. So it's interesting to see the period details of the, at one point she's being interviewed at a police station and there is a shot, someone buys her a can of soda and we see the soda drop from the vending machine into the, you know, the catching area for it. And it is very distinctly, try new Coke. There's a, there's a gag you're going to appreciate LRA about videotape. - Yeah. - And brands thereof. - Oh boy. - I think you're gonna like that bit. - Probably. - The violence is plentiful, certainly. - Okay. - It is, I mean, it is at its heart a slash or more or less. - Okay. - With overtones of, pornography and filmmaking and where those put, you know, where those three things intersect and, - Yeah, it's all, it's shot for as much as I dislike pastiche things, you know, where they're trying so hard to make it look like someone else or something else. It works here. - Okay. - Because I think because they, West just strikes the tone so well, Mia Goth as Maxine is absolutely in full control of this character at this point. Maxine is, I don't know, biologically incapable of taking crap from anyone. - Okay. - And puts that to good use here. The supporting players are all, I think a lot of them are in that kind of bacon range where they're like, they're having fun because they know it's so over the top. - Okay. - Michelle Monahan and Bobby Cannavale as the cops on the case, for example. - Right. - Halsey and Lily Collins and the other kind of girls around her and Esposito as the agent. It's, yeah, it's a lot of, I would not say it is good clean fun certainly. - Okay. - But it is a lot of good fun. Oh, I have not really talked about Elizabeth DeBicke. - Yeah, no you haven't. - I have said in the past that I would have loved to have seen what Alfred Hitchcock could have done with Sharon Stone as the ultimate icy blonde. - Mm-hmm. - Elizabeth DeBicke in this is a worthy heir to that title. - Nice. - I agree, that's excellent, yeah. - Very cool. - Yeah, if you've seen X and if you've seen Pearl, you absolutely need to see this to complete the trilogy. - Okay. - It is, I would say closer in tone to X than Pearl. I had a blast. I did, I had a lot of fun with this. It's a good old dirty time. - Okay. - And I recommend it to the Thai West fans out there. I recommend it to the slasher fans out there. I recommend it to the kind of psychotronic film historian fans out there as well. - Mm. - Or, you know, I'm sure there's some overlap into those other two categories. - Probably. - I think there's a, if I go back to see it again and Katie, you've seen it a couple of times at this point, right? - Yes, I've seen it twice. I think seeing just some of the period detail and just the little nods here and there to other things will prove an extra thrill on a second feeling. - Yes, I agree. - What have I left out? - Well, I know there's certain things about the film. Like to me, I feel like it's a film about reinvention because there's so many aspects of different characters that they don't necessarily talk about go deep into what they were doing before we see them, but they're at least three or four that talk about like, it's like, you know, that's not me anymore. I'm not doing that or it's like, you know, I used to be an actor and now I'm doing this. And that's like with Maxime. I mean, she wanted to be a star. She is a star in adult entertainment, but that's not only what she wants to do. - That's not the end all be all over goals. - Yeah, it's like she wants, it's like, you know, is this one and when she's doing the casting, they ask like, is this where you saw yourself? Like I knew I always wanted to be famous and she doesn't want to limit to herself and she never has, but you see like she's not the same Maxime from X. Like she's sort of aloof, she's definitely jaded, but she is goal driven. And her goal is like, I'm working, that's all I'm doing. And then I want to get as famous as I can be. I love the female empowerment in the film. I know I had a conversation with someone that that's not really true for 85. And yet, you know what? I remember watching a clock in the house where they had the 1950s school kids that were all like, it was very open to different ethnicities and stuff like that. And I'm like, if we're going to change some things, let's change some things to make it like this. Like they had female, they had a female horror director in a summer party massacre. And I feel like that's very reminiscent of Elizabeth DeBeckey. And I think that they sort of talk about that, I know Ty Wesiglieve talked about that, that Roger Corman, the director of summer party massacre was a key artist in his group. And he said, hey, you should direct this. And that is something I could see happening. I don't see a female detective being completely out of line and stuff like that. But I love the fact that Maxine, it's like, no matter what's going on, she knows, she's like, okay, whatever this is, you know, I mean, she's had, she's seen stuff that no one, no human being should ever see. And in the thing with Texas, you know, the person, the only person that she really killed was the old woman who had killed five people. So I don't think that Maxine necessarily did a bad thing, doing what she did. I do feel like that this film definitely seems more stylized by the studio than the other two. The other two seemed a little bit more, I mean, it's A24, so I don't think there was that much money. But they're definitely, you know, both of these films being ex and Pearl, being done during the pandemic, I feel like they had limited resources that could use. And with this, they like, all right, let's give them all the money that they maybe couldn't do in the last one. I don't know, I do like the stars. I do like the co-stars they had in this. I mean, we've named so many, which also sort of threw me because some of them, I know, I don't know, there are some that are in it that I was really looking forward to seeing that have been in stills like since the beginning, it's like, oh, here's a screenshot from Maxine that then ended up being in it for maybe four minutes. And I was like, okay, that's sort of a letdown for me, but at the same time, they were, you know, a pretty big part of the film. I do think that the ending for me didn't necessarily hit the landing. I think that if they had switched the two scenes, it would have been a stronger ending. That's just the way I feel about it. But I love that there's more sex than sex in this, which is very 1985, that, you know, hearing that saxophone in the score. And the soundtrack is very accurate and very 80s. I feel like one character probably overstayed his welcome, which during a man in motion scene, I feel like that's probably where he should have ended it. And then maybe, I mean, I don't see how he actually could have survived that and kept on going, but that's trying to allude to what that is. But the practical effects are, they really are nuts. They are great. Yeah, and I mean, this is Mia Goss film. Like she is amazing. I do recommend seeing it, although I do think it has some faults. But yeah, one of the things, as John said, you really need to see this if you've seen Pearl and X, there are a number of Easter eggs. So if you, I would honestly recommend, like maybe rewatching X and Pearl to really see the little Easter eggs that go on. Like I'm gonna give away one when Maxine is on a porn set. She's getting ready to go on and stuff like that. And she opens up this jar that's the shape of a goose. And inside is a whole craft of cocaine, which I think is a beautiful synergy between Pearl and X. So it's stuff like that that you need to look out for. That's actually a lot of fun. But yeah, I say, I do recommend seeing this. - Excellent. Well, I will. - Yeah, you, I will definitely see this. - Run, don't walk. - Yeah. - Oh, one thing though, I do, I wish they would have had more of the Satanic Panic and less of the Night Stalker. I almost thought that the Night Stalker stuff wasn't necessarily, wasn't actually necessary. 'Cause I'm glad they at least didn't say the serial killer who it was 'cause I don't wanna sensationalize that. But I don't know, I feel like I think I read somewhere that Mia Goth said that they did that to put the realism in it. So it's not just entertainment and film and stuff like that. And I was like, you know what? I'd rather just have the entertainment and film. I don't really need to sensationalize this guy and have people like try and look them up and all that stuff. It was a horrible time. Many people died. He did many horrible, horrible things to people, to the elderly, to women, to men, to children. And he was just a disgusting individual. And I wish they just would have done the kind of maybe Satanic Panic sort of thing and kept the Giolo sort of, 'cause I felt this is a very like Giolo mixed with to live in dying L.A. and a little bit to palm that sort of stuff to it. And yeah, I just didn't feel like the Knight Stalker aspect needed to be in there at all. - Okay. - That's just me. - I guess the only argument I would have with that is story-wise, it makes sense that you're gonna put extra detectives on it if they think it's part of that case. - Yeah. You know, it's otherwise it's just kind of random people ending up dead in a cemetery. That's where they found some of the bodies. And if they don't suspect that it's kind of a copycat Knight Stalker thing, you probably don't get the Michelle Monahan and Bobby Cannon Valley characters involved and you do need them ultimately. So it's, but that's not, that's kind of a weak justification. So, so yeah, Maxine in theaters now, I think it's worth your time if you're a horror fan, particularly you as a horror fan. - Yeah. - Yeah, it definitely sounds like my kind of movie. - And I concur, go and see it. - But wait, there's more. - Yes, because I saw Beverly Hills Cop Axle F and I believe you did as well, Katie. - I did. - Directed by Mark Malloy based on characters created by Denil Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr. Story by Will Bail, Screenplay by Will Bail Tom Gormacken and Kevin Addens stars Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Taylor Page, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot and Kevin Bacon. - Hey, hey. - The film, he really isn't everything. - He really is. The film starts with Axle driving through Detroit on his way to a Red Wings game. - Okay. - And he gets there, he's convinced a colleague in the department to take him to the game and they have a little bit of banter and turns out that Axle has an ulterior motive for being at the game. There's a case that he's been working and it's going to, some of the key players in that are going to be at the game, potentially trying to rob the stadium. And this leads to an action sequence involving, was it a bulldozer? Is it a bulldozer, is it a? - No, it was a snow plow. - Snow plow, yes. With plenty of collateral damage. - Yes. - And this establishes Axle as the continual loose cannon that he's always been. And then we find out that Axle's daughter, Jane, played by Taylor Page, is currently living in Beverly Hills and working a case as a lawyer, who's a defense attorney. And there's a young man who's been accused of killing a cop. - And that seems bad. - Yeah. And there's some key evidence that will prove his innocence that Billy Rosewood, Judge Reinhold's character, has and Billy's been in touch with Jane. And Billy contacts Axle, says, "Hey, after Jane is assaulted to try to get her to drop the case, she's dangled, her and her car are dangled off of a parking garage." - That seemed, that's not great. - Yeah, no, not so good. And then Billy goes missing. So Axle flies out to Beverly Hills to see what he can do to help. There he meets with John Taggart, now chief John Taggart, and Captain Cade Grant, was he special investigations into narcotics, something along those lines, played by Kevin Bacon. And Bacon's character of Grant swears up and down about the honor of the police officer who was shot, just does not see any value to Jane's case. Then we're also introduced to Detective Bobby Abbott, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, who used to have a relationship with Jane. And, well, the pretty standard Beverly Hills cop story plays out. There's a conspiracy, involves drugs, and it's up to Axle and the group to figure out what's going on, find that evidence and save the day. - Okay, yeah. - Eddie Murphy's pretty good in this. - All right. - You would hope that he'd have a pretty good handle on the character of Axle Foley. - In this, the fourth outing. - Yeah, and he does. You know, he's very comfortable, very natural in it. Everybody who's returning does a good job bringing their characters back. There seems very much of a piece with the previous work. Bronson Pinchot's return was fun. - Nice. Although you missed Gilbert Gottfried, I'm thinking. - Yeah. - We all do. - Yeah. But I found the thing kind of weakly written. You know, in the previous films, there were some great exchanges between Axle and the various people that he's kind of pulling one over on in order to board his investigation. And here, there are attempts at that, but none of them really, none of them pop. - None of them land? - Yeah, it's weak sauce. I found it very easy to kind of pause the film and go make myself a sandwich or do whatever and then come back to it. - It didn't have a lot of drive to it, narrative drive? - No, no, the sense of urgency just wasn't there. - Okay. - Would you agree, Katie? - Yes, I mean, I am someone who loves nostalgia and this was almost too much. - Yeah. - And to shove down my throat and to, okay, well, this is just for people who liked the first one. And I also had a major issue with Axle and his relationship with Jane. And I mean, Jane made a number of good points - Very good points. - Why their relationship wasn't the way it should be. And it was very annoying to watch Axle like almost blaming his child for mistakes that he made and stuff like that. And then trying to use, and this is a line in the film, it's like, you've been a daughter as long as I've been a father and stuff like that. So I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to learn as this is, and I was like, that is such a bullshit line that I really hope no one has said that to anyone. It's like, you're the adult. Don't try to, I mean, again, it just kept blaming her for what was going on in their relationship. And I'm like, I just, I really hope whoever wrote this does not have kids 'cause this is some, this is really bad dialogue. - Oh yeah. - That is very gas-lighty and it's like not taking any responsibility for parenthood. I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was cute up until a certain point where again, I don't know, there's certain things about Axle that maybe he needs to get some more information about and stuff like that. But there was one thing that just really, I thought was a horrible plot point in the film and that was regarding Judge Reinhold's character. There's stuff that Billy Rosewood did. And I just think that with a criminal mastermind and underground and any sort of thing that have to do with drugs and guns and all that stuff, I think the outcome of Billy Rosewood was so dumb because, and I don't wanna give it away, but I think you understand what I'm trying to say. - Absolutely. - Yeah, that I was like, you gotta be kidding me, like really? So, and that to me was like, all right, I'm kinda done. - There's a certain element of plot armor to some of the main characters where bad things can happen to them up to a certain point. - Yeah. - But it's not going to go where things realistically would go. It's going to cut just short of that because we have to keep these characters in because they're the main character. And things like that and just the weak writing made this easy to turn off. - Okay, that's, so not exactly a recommendation there. - No, no, I mean, it's not awful. - Okay, let me ask this. This movie has been released on Netflix. Does it feel like another piece of Netflix product? Netflix film product specifically? - Yeah, kind of. - I would say yes. - Yeah. - I would say very much. One, I also, Netflix movies are long. Like this is over two hours and it was very surprising that it definitely felt that long. I mean, it kinda reminds me of that film Atlas that they did with Jennifer Lopez that think that is two hours. And I'm really realizing like, wow, you guys really don't know how to edit. Like, I mean, there's a, I don't know. I think it could have been tighter. - Definitely. - And I mean, the whole thing in Detroit where he's like smashing through cars and all that stuff, I'm like, that's just way too long. Like, come on. I mean, but I mean, again, there's a lot of nostalgia, you know, Paul Reiser's in it. They have a little photo of the original captain in Detroit hanging on the wall. I thought that was a cute little wink to him and stuff like that. But yeah, I mean, like I said, nostalgia is my narcotic and I seriously, I was, this was not the fix that I needed. Like, I mean, even Ronson Pinchow in the film, I felt like that was overdone. Yeah, I don't know. - Let me ask this. Ellery is gonna be familiar with what I'm speaking of, but sometimes we run into what's known as Judd Apatow's syndrome, where you can't necessarily say, we need to cut this 10 minute sequence, but we can cut 10 one minute bits or even 20, 30 second bits. - Both. - Both. - Both 10 minute segments could go and one minute seconds. - And 10 one minutes. - This was just kind of sloppily put together. I'm not upset that I saw it, but I, if I'm gonna, if I have the urge to watch a Beverly Hills cop movie, it's not gonna be this one. - Okay. - Yeah. - All right. But wait, there's more yet. I also saw a movie called "Daddy-O," written and directed by Christy Hall, stars Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn, Marco Saginzawa's and Zola Lloyd, and that's it, and those last two kind of don't count. Dakota Johnson plays a character who gets off a plane late at JFK in New York, gets the cab stand attended to Taylor or Cabs, she gets in the cab, gives an address, and Sean Penn plays her cabbie, and the two of them start talking, and then it's basically 90 minutes of them talking back and forth, as they're trying to virtually real time, as she's trying to get to her destination. Penn's character referred to variously as Mikey Vinny Clark, we're never exactly sure what his name is. - Okay. - And that's actually doing better than Johnson's character, who we never get even a fake name for. - Okay. - But they start to talk to each other. He's one of those New York cabbies who has been doing it for 20 plus years and knows how to draw information out of people and knows how to read the little details about people, like when she gets in, she says 44th between 9th and 10th, and he says something effective, "Ah, you've been here a while, "you know you don't just say the intersection, "you give me a block to go to," and so how long have you been here? Nine years, one more and I'm a native, and that's how it starts, and it gets into the question of where she's coming from, 'cause you know, just being picked up at JFK, and what she does for a living, and as the ride goes on, at one point there is a traffic incident that forces them to stop for a good period of time, and so he can basically just park and turn around and look at her while they're talking, and it gets into her relationship that she's presently in, which we discover is with an older gentleman who happens to be married with twin boys, and she was, she's originally from some small town in Oklahoma, and got to watch out for those Oklahomans. Don't I know it? Gets into why she was back visiting her sister and all the things that went on in her past, and it's kind of, they end up setting up an informal point system. - Okay. - When one gets the other to reveal something they didn't quite want to, or have an emotional reaction, and it's playful, and it's that kind of conversation you can have with someone who you know you're never gonna see again. - Gotcha. - And that allows intimacy that you would not necessarily have with even your best friend. - Right. - She's not the only one revealing things. He talks about things he did, he has done in his life as well, and there's an extended scuba diving metaphor, a couple of times they stop talking, she starts texting with her paramour, and well eventually they arrive at 44th between ninth and 10th. I want to see this basically because I was intrigued by the trailer. - Pretty good trailer. - It's a good trailer. And Sean Penn has not done a whole lot on screen recently, and when I say recently, let's take a quick look here. Dunno, he was in Gaslit, which was on stars, he was in licorice pizza for not a very long time, but he has not really full on starred in a picture in quite some time, looking at it, going back quite a ways. He hasn't been the lead draw in a movie, and it's nice to see him on screen again, and it's nice to see him on screen again in something that really allows him to sink his teeth into the role. And then there's Dakota Johnson, who was in Madam Webb certainly, was in the "50 Shades" movies, and yes is the daughter and granddaughter of various degrees of Hollywood royalty. This more than really anything I've seen her in, at least anything I've seen her starring in, is, oh by the way, she actually can do this and do it really well. - Yeah? - Yeah, she is surprisingly impressive in this. - Nice. - I was not expecting how much I'd like this, but I like it a lot. - Ooh. - Played at Sundance, I think in 2023 actually, and is only now getting released, probably more or less gone from theaters at this point, but if you can find it out there in the theater, I would say it's worth your time to track it down. Otherwise, I'll let you know when it's available through a streaming or a physical media or whatever, 'cause I was unexpectedly impressed with the whole thing. Christy Hall is, this is her first real directing thing, and it's, I saw, I'm having to catch Sean Penn was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of weeks ago, and the whole reason this movie really happened is he and Johnson are neighbors in Los Angeles, and she more or less showed up at his door one day with the script and says, I want you to read this, 'cause I want you to be in this movie with me. And he's like, yeah, sure, whatever. So he read it and then he was like, oh, hell, I got to be in this movie with him. - All right. - Hall, let's see. The other big credit on her IMDB page is she is a creator and writer of the Netflix show, I am not okay with this, with Sophia Lewis, and she is the credited screenwriter on the upcoming Colleen Hoover adaptation it ends with us, so. - Oh, okay. - I would definitely consider her a talent to keep an eye on. - Okay. - This Daddy Oak could easily be a stage play. - Nice. - I mean, which I mean that as a compliment. - Yeah. - But it is basically, I mentioned four actors in the cast. - Yeah. - Three of them have lines, and one of them only has one line, and it's where you're headed. It's the cab stand attendant. The rest is just the two of them there. So you could easily do that on stage with the two of them in the cab, do some projections on the back, and it would work really well. I think it would be very interesting to watch in that way, but the strength of the writing is such that that's the attraction for me, is that it's written so well, and so interestingly, and these characters are real prickly, damaged people who find some connection over the course of a trip. - Okay. - Daddy Oak, like probably in one or two theaters still at this point, if you get the chance, track it down. - Very cool. - So listeners, did you see Maxine, or did you see Beverly Hills Cop Axolef, or did you see Daddy Oak? Please, let us know what you thought. Or mail it in the unmoveypunker.com. It is the first show that we were recording after July 1st, and longtime listeners will know that this is the time when we do our best of the year so far. - Yep. - And so by gum, we're gonna do that. Just lists of five don't wanna take up a whole lot of time, but I somehow think we're gonna end up taking up a whole lot of time. - Talking movie, second, happen. - Yeah. Katie, would you like to, I figure we do one, each do one, we go around in the circle, and we count down five to one, and Katie, would you like to go first? - Sure, I don't know if I'm definitely gonna go like what my number one is and stuff, or if they're even in order. Well, I know my number one pretty much is in order. - There's not gonna be a quiz, this is not an affidavit. - Yeah, I cannot tell you the number of times, I have listed five things on this show, and maybe one has shown up towards the bottom of my top 10 at the end of the year, so. - Well, let me just start. The first one I'm gonna list is going to be babes directed by Pamela Adlon. I think right now that is, it's gonna be hard for me to find a funnier comedy that's also so relatable about best friends and pregnancy and single friends with married friends of pregnancy, and I just think it is hilarious, it is clever, it is again relatable, and yeah, it's one of my favorites of the year. - Okay, number five on my list, Amy, let's see. The thing is, I know it's three, two, one R, and then four and five, I'm kind of flipping back and forth. - Gotcha. - You know what, number five, let's go with that EO. - Okay. - I genuinely did like it that much. I was not expecting to walk in thinking that highly of it, but yeah, do I think it's gonna end up on my list in December? Probably not, but it is something that I want to draw attention to, and that, I've gone into this before, this is one of the reasons I do this, is there are things on my list that do not need my help. - Right. - This is one that could benefit from it, and I am more than happy to do that. - Okay. - Number five on my list. - Yes. - Is Boy Kills World. - Okay. - Oh, okay. - It is just a Gonzo action movie. It is an everything in the kitchen sink sort of movie. It goes places you wouldn't expect. It sets up its own unique little world. It has all sorts of fun twists to it, some great action sequences. Bill Skarsgard is great at it in a very physical performance. - Mm-hmm. - It's smarter than let's on, and is generally a lot of fun. - Okay. Katie, back to you. - So, the next four, I would say probably gonna be in my top 10 for the rest of the year, so I'll just civil war, is a film that I think is fantastic. I can see Here's Some Duns and Kayleigh Spainey honestly being nominated for Oscars for this, even though it's early on. And I mean, it's gonna be a long shot, but possibly even Jesse Plemons, even though it's a small part, it's so impactful. - It is. - I mean, there's been other roles that have actually won the Oscar for almost the amount of time that he's on screen, so I can't say, you know, never say never, but with everything going on in the country right now, let's hope it's not a precursor that's what's gonna happen, but I think civil war is honestly a great film. - Fair enough. Of course, Jesse Plemons may have some tough competition in the form of a-- - Jesse Plemons? - Yeah, him. - Yeah. - Next on my list, the funniest movie I've seen so far this year, until I saw this movie, I did not realize I had a favorite Cohen brother. But then I saw Driveaway Dolls and I remembered the tragedy of Macbeth and I realized I do, I do have a favorite Cohen brother and it's Ethan, 'cause Driveaway Dolls made me laugh my damn head off. - It's very funny. - Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan and Coleman Domingo and Joey Slotnick and C.J. Wilson as the Goons and Pedro Pascal and what's his name? Matt Damon. - Yeah. - Yes, yes. So yeah, if you want silly sex comedy, set in 1999, you can do a lot worse than Driveaway Dolls. - Yeah, Driveaway Dolls was a movie that I put into my comparison to try to put together my list. It didn't make the list, but it was-- - It's on that second cut. - Yep, yep, good stuff. - Fair enough. - But what did make the cut for me at number four is In A Violent Nature, which is a nice fresh take on the slasher genre just by reassigning your point of view character, you really get a different sort of experience and there's some amazing effects work in it and it thoroughly entertained me. I would highly recommend people check out in A Violent Nature. I've been very pleased with it. - Very cool. Kitty, your turn. My number three is Inside Out 2. I think that it really emphasizes and is a good film for kids and adults to show the different aspects of emotions that are in people and that no matter what those emotions are, when you have one emotion controlling your whole body, the chaos that can ensue and I think everything they did with this film is clever. I love the addition of Maya Hawk and I would have liked to have seen, I know they're supposed to have like, I think three more or four more emotions that would have been in there, that would have been interesting to see, but I mean, I love my girl June Squibb as nostalgia, so she wasn't in that much, I wish she was, I loved her and it, Thelma was honestly, it was hard not to put Thelma on this list, but I mean, I got to get June Squibb in anywhere I can. - All right, very fair. I will mention here that there is a significant step up from the previous two films on my list to what I'm about to mention. - Okay. - Number three on my list is Luca Guadagnino's Challengers. - Ah. - Which still probably the best original screenplay I've seen so far in 2024. Really good performances from Josh O'Connor and Mike Faced and viciously great from Zendaya. - Yeah. - Yeah. This is really assured filmmaking, the sweatiest movie you're gonna see like ever. - Okay. - And I mean that quite literally, but also metaphorically, it will leave you sweaty and thirsty, shall we say. And it's all set against the world of competitive tennis and love triangles and you may be through the past but the past eight through with us and so on and so on. And I was amused to discover that Justin Kurtzikus or whatever the writer's name is, is actually the husband or partner or whatever of past lives is Selene Song. Which adds another interesting little spin to that movie. - Yeah. - So yeah, it's a really fine piece of work. I think a good number of people saw it. It's a nice, it's nice that it's a movie for grownups. It's the first kind of primarily Gen Z cast thing that I can say really is for, when you say adult picture, that sounds, you know. - Like something a magazine would be in. - Right, but this is definitely, which is why I have to use the turnt grownups. This is definitely a Gen Z picture for grownups. - Okay. Okay, it's a blind spot for me. I haven't seen that one yet. You should. - I have none. - You both should. - I know. Number three for me, Late Night with the Devil. Starring David S. Melchian. Star making performance from him, if you ask me. Just really well written, well framed, believes in its concept and takes it 100% of the way. - Okay. - You know, the story of a Late Night talk show host who arranges an interview with a girl who may be possessed by the devil and things go haywire, it's a blast. - All right, a blind spot for me, so. So there we are. - Yep. - Kitty, we're at number two. - Number two for me is Sing Sing that is based on actual events, but the only two people that are in, I believe it's only two. The only two people who are professional actors are Colma Domingo and Paul Racy, who are playing characters, who are playing actual people that were in Sing Sing or helping imprison people in Sing Sing. And all the people have done, you know, pain is crimes, murder, robbery, all that stuff. And they are trying to be rehabilitated through the theater program in Sing Sing. And this played at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. They talked about how when, you know, people are incarcerated when they get out like 70, I think 8% of the people who get out of jail end up going back to jail. And that through this program in Sing Sing, working with theater and plays and all that stuff, any, the amount of people that get out of jail that have worked in this program, only 3% have gone back to incarceration. And it's one of those things, it's a film about true rehabilitation in prisons, which I know it's probably gonna be controversial because I mean, these gentlemen did, you know, do crime. - Hey, heinous things, yeah. - Yeah, it's heinous things. At the same time, I mean, it's not just about, you know, keeping these people locked away. It's, you're supposed to try and rehabilitate them in any way they can. And some are still in jail, but some, I mean, it was very enlightening, seeing the screening, and then at the Critics Film Festival, you had at least two of the actors and incarcerated individuals who were out. One, he was a father, his son, he was doing this, and he said he was doing this to show his son. Like, look, I know I did something wrong, but I wanna do better for myself and for you. And his son went on to go to Yale and has graduated. And it's just being that role model that you know, you know, the children need to see, so they don't make the same mistakes that you did. And they also talked about the person who was their theater coach and stuff like that and their teacher. And both the gentlemen said, it's like, if we had teachers like this when we were younger, we would not have, this is not how our life would have been. So I feel like it's a very impactful film, and it's also one of those films that it's like, this could do a lot of good for different organizations. I mean, if they had this type of thing in each jail in the country, how could that, I mean, just the benefits that that could do is just immeasurable? So I think it is a huge Oscar contender for Coleman Domingo. I mean, he is amazing in this film. And yeah, it's my number two. - I've heard a lot of really great things about his, Domingo's co-star in the film. - Oh, yes, I know exactly who you're talking about. He, Clarence Macklin. - Yes. - Yeah, I could see him being nominated for Best Supporting, honestly. - Very cool, excellent. Once one to keep an eye out for. - Domingo in August. - Excellent. - My number two for 2024, I mentioned that it was a big step up from the previous two to challengers. It's another big step from challengers to the next two. - Okay. - I've gone back and forth on these two a little bit. They're both likely to end up in my top 10 for this year, maybe in this order, maybe not. - Okay. - Who knows. But my number two so far for 2024 is your ghost length, most is kinds of kindness. I reviewed it on last week's show and I have not stopped thinking about it, even though I've seen at least three other things since then. - Mm-hmm. - I would very much like to see it again soon and again and again, 'cause there's so much going on here. It's weird, it's off-putting at times and it's got some amazing performances in it. I mentioned Jesse Plummens competing with himself. This is why. - Yeah. - 'Cause he's so... And he's doing it three times so well at three very different characters. And Emma Stone is great and Margot Qualie again. There's another name and it's... Yeah, it's... I don't wanna listen to last week's show if you wanna put my full review on it, but it's definitely something that is worth your time and effort to track down. If weird for a "Yorgo Smith" length most movie appeals to you, see this picture. - I can concur with that. - Quite good. Number two for me, though, is the first "Omen". Wow. - Nice. - Which prequels are a messy game to play. - Yeah. - And this does everything that a prequel needs to do and does it well. It establishes the story that we know, but it tells its own story and has its own resolution that heads in other directions. And it's pretty damn freaky. You know, this movie will make you uncomfortable and do it in some surprising ways. I was, after seeing Immaculate, I wasn't too excited about the prospect of what the first "Omen" would present, but it was quite good and well worth your time. - Cool. Can we do a quick round of the horn, just five words or less? Worst thing you've seen so far this year? - Oh, God, worse. I don't know. - Well, I do. I'll go first with that. Pool man. - Yeah, pool man is my worst so far this year as well. (laughing) - I am not that. - Don't do that to yourself, Kay. - The big Lebowski with a traumatic brain injury, but dumber. So, for Katie, for your worst, might I suggest Madam Webb? - Actually, that is what I was going to say. And I know that's kind of a given just of all the possibilities, but I also, I think, I don't know if we talked about this one on here, but I think they meant for it to fail. I mean-- - Quite possibly. - You've got a superhero film that has four amazing female character. You do nothing with the marketing on that. And it's like, come on, come on. That you pretty much put it in the stinker, like right away. I, yeah, there's just a lot of film there. I mean, it was actually kind of hard for me to do a top five. I came with seven, and actually my number one horror film is the first Omen for me. So, I'm glad you said that, Elray. - Cool. So what's number one so far? I have an idea. I'm guessing that, let me think. Let me think, it's a three-word title, four letters, four letters, three letters. - Ding, ding, ding. You are correct. Yes, my number one is "Dune Part Two." I love it. I love watching it. I love re-watching it. I think that's Rebecca Ferguson and Austin Butler could be nominated right now. It's not perfect. I do think there was a little bit of a stomp your foot sort of reaction from some of the characters that I thought could have been better. But I mean, to me, seeing that in the theater on Dolby and then on IMAX is just a sight for the eyes and is exactly what I want a movie going experience to be like. I am just blown away by what humans can do after seeing this film. And that's kind of how I felt after the first one. Like, why are we not spending more time in space we can do all of this in a regard in making movies? - All right, cool. - My number one for the year so far, I'm not gonna be a huge surprise for anybody who's been listening in the past few weeks already come up once tonight, inside out too. It's neck and neck with kinds of kindness, but inside out too is that the writing on it is so great. The visual technical performance of all the, I mean, the fact that all these worlds have been created inside Riley's head. - The blending of 2D animation. - Yeah. - And that is kind of cool. - The fact that Riley herself is more of a character in this one, it's a deeper kind of truer story. And then the voice performances from Maya Hawk and Amy Poehler and Kensington, what's her name? Voicing Riley, and yeah, it's all, and my personal favorite, Adelix Archapolis is on Wii. So yeah, I'm, you know, daddy only needs my help inside out too, doesn't, but I gotta tell my truth. So, and my truth is inside out too is the best thing I've seen so far this year. Well, I guess that leaves it to my number one. - Indeed. - And my number one is inside out too. Hey, how about that? - Oh, look at it! - I have the temperament of a prey animal at heart and seeing such an accurate depiction of anxiety and anxiety attacks really spoke to me. That's how it feels. And it, like you said, John's great visuals to it, amazing voice work, so incredibly well written. I loved "Inside Out To" way more than I was actually expecting to. - Nice. You also have an aspect in watching "Inside Out To" that Katie and I don't, as the father of a teenage girl. - Yeah. - Yeah. A lot of truth in that movie, a lot of truth in them. - Very cool. So Katie, you wanna run down your list one more time? - Yes, so my list is "Babe's Civil War" "Inside Out To" "Sing Sing" and "Dune Part Two". - My list starts with "Daddy Out Number Five", "Drive Away Dolls at Number Four", "Challengers at Number Three", "Kinds of Kindness at Number Two", and "Inside Out To" at Number One. - And my list starts with "Boy Kills World", then "In a Violent Nature", then "Late Night with the Devil", follow that up with the first omen, and finally at number one "Inside Out To". - I also wanna throw a couple of bouquets at the things that I have listed as close, but no cigar. Fall guy, love lies bleeding, one life, civil war, monkey man, and babes. Okay. And then of course, the two representatives from "Not Good, But Awesome", Ministry of Un-Gentlemen, Louis warfare, and the beekeeper. - Yup. - So listeners, what's the best thing you've seen so far in 2024? - Let us know, male@neonmoviebunker.com, or hit us up on Jan's socials. In the meantime. - DVDs and Blu-Rays are coming out. - Yes, they are. - No matter what we do to try to stop them. Not that we're trying hard-friendly. - Yeah, I was gonna say, we're not trying to stop them. Other forces may be, market forces may be at end play. - True. But, Ellery, you got something for us? - Yes, I mentioned it in my list. "Boy Kills World" makes its debut on Blu-Rays, DVD, and 4K this week, and is an enjoyable Gonzo action movie. You mentioned "Not Good, But Awesome". This is both good and awesome. - Well then, excellent. Speaking of things on lists, my DVD Blu-Rays 4K pick for this week is "Challengers". - Okay. - Which is coming to physical media this week, and should not be missed if you have somehow managed to miss it thus far. And Katie, do you have a pick for us? Perhaps a movie based on events, or named after events happening between 1861 and 1865? - Oh, is that out on DVD? - Is it this week? Yes. - Is it really? - Yes. - The Apple TV Plus series that I think is the best thing. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry. Oh, that's, well then yes, Civil War is coming out. Sorry, I have to get to the other, so. - Manage, right? - Yeah, that's funny. Civil War is coming out, and I would definitely say, wash that at home, and enjoy it because it's, fortunately, I think Alex Garland's last time directing, I hope that that does not happen. I hope he does do more, but if it is, this is the way to go out, and at least he'll still be writing and doing other things. But yeah, Civil War is a film that should be watched. - Ellery, you got a catalog title for us? - Yes, coming up this week on Blu-ray for the first time is, add it for a second, third, where to go. Apparently, no, I don't. Is it the Tom Baker complete season four? - I mean, that's good. Is it Doctor Who? The Tom Baker years is pretty darn good. - Is it Goolies two? - No. - No, it's not. Nor is it Dark Angel. Also known as I Come in Peace, starring Dolph Lundgren, which is available on Blu-ray and 4K for the first time this week, but. - Is it Turbulence with Ray Leota and Lauren Holly? - No, no, I think I've come to the conclusion that I do not have a catalog title for this week. - I do. - Yeah. - Todd Sones is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. One of the greater understatements that one can make in life. But storytelling is coming to Blu-ray this week. I am not entirely sure whether it is the with or without box version, but either way. - Worth saying. - Yeah, yeah. Does anybody have a question? - Well, actually before we get to a question. - You got something to avoid? - I've got something for us, for audience to avoid this week. - Oh, what would that be? - Tarot. - Yeah, okay. - Tarot is pretty awful. - Okay. - Not pool man awful. - Well, that is the highest of low bars. 'Cause so to speak. - Tarot bored me. Pool man made me angry. But yeah, Tarot is not a good time. - All right. Now then questions, comments, drinks, music. I got it. No, do you have a question now, Larry? You have that look that you do. - I have nothing but questions. - That does explain the Riddler Halloween costume. - Yeah. - The question I've got for you guys this week is, what was the biggest surprise on each other's list? - I'm gonna jump in here. 'Cause I'm gonna try to limit this to things that actually were on the list and not like, I can't believe you didn't mention blank. - Right, right. - Alright, I think Boy Meets World is my, Boy, excuse me. - Boy Kills World, 'cause Boy Meets World, that'd be a fun mashup. I want somebody to head and fad together. - It's exactly the same, except it's Ben Savage and... - Yes. - No. And the voice in his head is William Daniels. - There you go. - Instead of H. John Benjamin. - There you go. - No, I'm gonna say Boy Kills World is probably... No, I'm not. - No? - Strike that whole thing. - Okay. - The biggest surprise that I saw found on your list was actually the first omen, particularly ranking that high. - Yeah, it was really good. - It is really good. - Yeah. - It was on my, I mean, it was almost made my list. And then I took it off and I don't know, maybe I should have kept it on. - In a season that has given us some pretty darn good genre stuff that stands tall. - Green. - All right. And as for surprises on Katie's list, I guess Sing Sing just because I have not, outside of seeing the trailer once and reading half a capsule review of it, I don't have a lot of familiarity with it at this point. But it has certainly wedded my appetite to get to the theater at my own convenience for it. - I will say the Q&A at the end, I mean, it was an excellent film and I love every aspect of it, but that Q&A at the end was just so impactful and everybody talking about their own story with the program and stuff like that really, that just, yeah, I honestly feel like that's going to be an awards contender when more people see it. - Okay, cool. Katie, any surprises from our lists for you? - No, not really. I mean, I was a little surprised that Ellery had so much horror genre, but at the same time, no. - Yeah, it's in keeping with the tracks. - Yeah, I mean, honestly, like I said, First Omen is my favorite horror film of the year. I did see Late Night with the Devil last year, so I can't really put that on my list. Same thing with the coffee table. I would have put that coffee table, the coffee table I definitely would have put on my list, but I saw that last year, so I can't. But yeah, no, I did, I sorta expected everything. Well, I haven't seen a number of the ones that you have, John, because I've had to skip some of those screenings, but that makes me wanna see, I mean, I know I need to see challengers, and I know I need to see kinds of kindness and stuff like that. But yeah, that I feel like these are all solid films, and I like the fact that you had the Fall Guy as one of your backups, 'cause I do love that movie so much. - Oh yeah. - And they hated it, really got trashed. - Bunch of savages in this town. - I know. - Ella, any big surprises from either of us? - I'm a little surprised that Dune Part II held up so well for you. - Yeah. - I am glad it did, but just a little surprised. - Yeah. - And John, Daddio would be, since it, yeah. - It surprised me, so. - Yeah, definitely wanna see that now though. - Very cool. - Absolutely wanna see that. - Well, excellent, I've done my job. Hey, Ella, hey Katie, let's go to the movies. - Okay. - Okey-dokey. - What are we gonna go see? - First of my list of the things to see right now continues to be inside out too, just 'cause it continues to be freaking amazing. - Yeah. - Next of my list of things to see right now, this is gonna sound vaguely broken record-y, but kinds of kindness. I'm still chewing on it in all the best ways, and you know, see any time Willem Dafoe is playing that much of a freak, not once but twice. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah, that's worth your time. And last of most of the things to see right now, good old fashioned flea, fleas and self, good old fashioned sleas and filth, Maxine. - Yeah. - Okay. If you're gonna stay home and pop something into your home video player of choice beat, well, these are all available on physical media, so I'm just gonna go with that. Boy Kills World, definitely worth your time, fun time, civil war is absolutely worth your time, and is a strong, strong film, and round that list out with Abigail. - Ah, yes. - Abigail's a good time. - Abigail's kind of a hoot. - Mm-hmm. - And Katie, you got anything, got stuff for us? - I'm gonna say for streaming, check out the boys on Amazon Prime, this fourth season, I believe it is, is one for the books and is a real head turner, and also full of some sadder moments, too, that I was not expecting. Another one, Apple TV Plus, presumed innocent, starring Jake Gyllenhaal that is similar to the movie, but not, I honestly don't know where it's going. I wasn't sure if I was liking it, but I'm starting to look closer into it, and maybe, yeah, I'm more intrigued, because you have the movie, I feel like I know what the ending's gonna be, but at the same time, maybe I don't. So I don't know, I would check it out. - Very cool. 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