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The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 354
(upbeat music) - Welcome to another episode of the Neon Movie Bunker. I'm John Robinson. - And I'm L.R.A. Stanek. - And we're here to talk about movies. - And the day the clown cried. - Yes. - So Venice, the Venice Film Festival made a bunch of announcements in the past week. - Yeah. - One of the biggest or one of the most interesting, let's say. - Okay. - This is from the Hollywood Reporter. Doc on Jerry Lewis's Lost Holocaust Film, the day the clown cried gets Venice Classic's spot. - Oh, so the whole documentary is about the film. - Apparently. - Wow. - In 1972, the actor directed and starred in a film about a circus performer sent to a concentration camp where he must entertain Jewish children headed for the gas chambers, but it was never released. - Still figure. - Footage from Jerry Lewis's unreleased Holocaust film, the day the clown cried, we'll screen it this year's Venice Film Festival. From darkness to light, a documentary from the director's Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler about Lewis's project features never before seen footage of the legendary lost film, and we'll screen in Venice's classic section devoted to documentaries about cinema. In 1972, the American comedian and actor directed and starred in a film telling the story of a fictional German circus performer, Helmut Dork, who insults Hitler in a sent to a concentration camp where he has ordered to entertain Jewish children headed for the gas chambers. But the star hid to all the footage, and to this day the full project has never been seen. Lewis himself said in 2013, "It could have been wonderful, but I slipped up. "I didn't quite get it. "Seven minutes of the film have since surfaced online, "and in 2015, Lewis donated a version "to this Library of Congress with a stipulation "that clown not be screened until 2025. "Lewis died in 2017, age 91." Now, a look at how the film was made, and Lewis's subsequent self-criticism will play in Venice. Organizers have confirmed while revealing a full lineup for this year's 81st Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. The day the clown cried began when publicist turned TV producer John O'Brien wrote the script with LA Examiner TV critic Charles Denton. He was picked up by producer Nathan Wachsberger who got Lewis involved. Venice kicks off on August 28th that the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton's sequel to his 1988 comedy horror hit screening out of competition. So the documentary will be fun. - Yeah, it'll be interesting. The most interesting thing, of course, is not necessarily this. It's coming next year. - Yeah, getting to AC, the actual film. That will be quite the thing. - Yeah, I admit to some small interest. - Yeah, I'm just, when I am denied the opportunity to see something, I become more curious about it. - Sure. - That's human nature. - Yeah. So I am definitely anxious to see this film. - Yeah. - Curious as to, you know, is it more life is beautiful? Or is it more the boy in the striped pajamas? - Or is it more Jerry Lewis movie? - Yeah. - We'll say I think. - Mm-hmm. - Speaking of the Venezuelan festival, they did, as mentioned in the previous article, they announced their lineup. - Okay. - I'm just gonna kind of run down titles here unless, you know, stop me if there's something you want to come, want to comment down or want me to comment on. - Yeah, yeah. - Joker, foliar, do you? Wolfs with Brad Pitt and George Clooney from John Watts. - That looks fun. - Broken Rage, the latest feature from Takeshi Catano. Maria from Pablo Lorraine, starring Angelina Jolie Ms. Maria Callis, which completes the trilogy of Jackie and Spencer that Lorraine has done. The room next door, the English language feature debut from Pedro El Madovar. - Ooh, that could be fun. - I have some small interest in that one. - I understandably so. - Gee, it's, I'm gonna do the cast in reverse order that they're listed here. - All right. - Victoria Loengo, Molina Matthews. - All right. - Raul Aravallo. - Okay. - Juan Diego Boto. - All right. - Alessandro Novella. - Okay. - John Turturo. - Okay. - Julianne Moore. - Uh-huh. - And Tilda Swinton. - Pretty good cast. - I will see this movie. - Yo, wow. - Yeah, well then. - Yeah, that's gonna be quite the thing to see. - Indeed it is. - Sony Pictures Classics in the US. Brady Corbett's hotly anticipated The Brutalist. Featuring Adrian Brody, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Novella, again, Jonathan Hyde and Guy Pierce. Corbett did Vox Lux, among other things. - Yep. - Justin Kurtzell's The Order, which follows a group of bankrupting white supremacists and stars Nicholas Holt, Jude Law, and Ty Sheridan. - Okay. - Luca Guadagnino with Queer, starring Daniel Craig, Leslie Mandel, Jason Schwartzman, and others. With a script by Judson Kurtzges, who wrote challengers. - Yep. - That based on the William S. Burroughs novel. - Mm-hmm. - Halina Rhine, who made "Bodies, Bodies, Bodies," has "Baby Girl," an A24 erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. - Interesting. - Also Antonio Banderas and John Reno. - Interesting. - Harmony Corrine is tiresome, but he has a new movie. Baby Invasion. - Baby Invasion? - Yeah. The project is described as an ultra-realistic, multiplayer first-person shooter game about a group of mercenaries using babyfaces as avatars to conceal their identity. Test with entering mansions of the rich and powerful and stripping them bare. - Yeah. - Could be fun. - I suppose that is possible, yes. - Music documentary, one-to-one John and Yoko, another documentary, 2073, and separated the latest from the great Errol Morris. - Ooh, what's the topic? - Doesn't matter. - Kind of. - It's Errol Morris, I'm-- - Yeah, I realize, but I-- - I don't know, that's the thing, and it's not listed, so. - Yeah. - Venice has selected four TV series for its small screen presentation. - All right. - Alfonso Coron's Apple TV+ series disclaimer, starring Kate Blanchott. Joe Wright's M, son of the century. - Okay. - The Danish dystopian series, Families Like Ours from Thomas Winterberg, and the Latin American limited series Los Años Nuevos. Alex Ross Perry, video director and her smell filmmaker, has a documentary about the band pavement. Isabel Hupera's heading up the jury alongside James Gray, Andrew High, Agnieska Holland, Klebermann Dunsa, Fuelio, Abder Rahamane, Sisako, Giuseppe Tornatore, and Julia Van Heins, and Zhang Jie, so. And then August 28th is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which then hits North America on September 6th. Lorto Americano from veteran Italian director, Pupi Avati, PUPI, we'll close this year's festival, also at a competition. So yeah, there's some interesting stuff here. - Yay. - Yeah. - And it inches us closer and closer to award season. - Indeed. - I did not actually read all the, everything that's in competition, but. - No. - You know. - Highlights. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Makes sense. - Should probably mention San Diego Comic Con is happening as we're recording. - Yes, I know we may have teased our analysis of the Marvel panel, but that's not happening because life. Next week. - Yeah. - There's always another show. - Yep. - We have an email address. - That we do. - It is mail@neonmoviebunker.com. - Of course, that's not the only way to get in touch with us. Our Facebook page is facebook.com/neonmoviebunker. We are on Twitter @neonmoviebunker. I'm @JohnNMB. We are on blue sky @neonmoviebunker.bsky.social. I am on Letterbox as user JohnNMB. And, you know, that's nifty and fun if you wanna see what I'm seeing. And possibly even when I'm seeing it, 'cause I've figured out how you'd use the settings now. I've only been on for a year. - Okay. - So, you know, that's a plus. And then, of course, please subscribe to the show in Apple podcasts or YouTube or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. And then there's our website, www.neonmoviebunker.com, which has our extended interview with Morion, which we're gonna vlog until we have something newer to vlog. And, of course, twitch.tv/neonmoviebunker, our event space where things sometimes happen. - Yes. Did you see anything? - Yeah. - Anything worthwhile? Anything good? I mean, I haven't really been paying a whole lot of attention to stuff or things. I've got many things going on. I've got a lot of plates spinning that, you know. - Do you know? - Yeah. I have this weekend off from work. I took the two days off separately because there are completely separate events that I need to be available for. So, yeah, I've got a lot of plates. - Okay, okay. Well, I happen to see that said, one of those plates that's spinning is not having to see Deadpool and Wolverine. - No, it's not. - 'Cause I already did that. - Me too. - Oh, how about that? What are the odds? - Yeah. - I'm surprised I didn't see you there. - I'm, I can confirm that you did. Ooh, conflict. - Yes. - Yes, we both saw Deadpool and Wolverine this week, directed by Sean Levy, written by Ryan Reynolds and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernic and Zeb Wells and Sean Levy based on characters created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Niciese, among others. Starts Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Matthew McVegeton, Miranda Bakkerin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karen Sony, Brianna Hildebrand, and others. - There are a few other names that pop up. - One or two. - Mm-hmm. - So, Deadpool. - Yes, as an assignment. - Well, before he has an assignment, it's kind of a self-assigned mission. He's given an offer. - Well, even before that, we start with Deadpool walking through a portal into a snowy forest. - Mm-hmm. - And he starts talking, as he does, to us the audience. - Mm-hmm. - And, well, perhaps even more than any previous Deadpool picture, this one lets you know right off the bat just what you're in for. - Yeah, yeah it does. - Yeah. - The words, we're not feature prominently. And then Deadpool gets into a fight with some agents of the Time Variance Authority. - Yes. - And he starts fighting them using his swords and his guns and baby knife. And then he kind of runs out of weapons so he's forced to improvise and what he uses is hilarious indeed. (laughing) And really credit to the team of writers and particularly Sean Levy as director as well for the delightfully creative and improvisational way he uses this particular set of weapons. - Yes. - Yes, some of which just filthy in his hell. - Yes, there's a bit of filth. - Yeah. - Then we flash back a little bit. Deadpool is having a birthday party at his apartment and who else there? Vanessa's there, Blind Al is there, Peter is there, Shatter Star and. - Colossus. - Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio and Do Pinder of course. And then there's a knock on the door. He goes out to check it and, well, he originally thinks they're strippers but they're not strippers. They're TVA guys. And they put a little bit of a whammy on him and take him back to TVA headquarters where he starts to meet with Mr. Paradox played by Matthew McVadgeon who, well, has a bit of a carrot and stick for him. - Yeah. - There is a lot of, well, there's a bit of tiny, whammy explanation stuff that happens, a lot of exposition that's given Deadpool comments on that. We see actually some of what Wade's life has looked like recently and it's not pretty. I mean, even for him who's already not pretty, it's not pretty. He's working as a used car salesman at a place that is certainly not car max. - Yes. - And he's wearing a toupee, which he staples on. - Yes. - Mr. Paradox offers him the opportunity to matter, which rings with Wade because, well, he and Vanessa aren't a couple anymore. And so he's trying to win her back, ultimately. If Deadpool can be said to care about anything in this world, it's probably her. - Yeah. - So the long and short of it is he needs to rescue his timeline. And he decides that the best way to do this is to steal a device from the TVA and go universe hopping in search of a Wolverine. And, well, he finds a few. - He does, there are a variety of universes that he visits with a bunch of different flavors of Wolverine. And he fairs better in some than others. - Yeah, I mean, he gets pretty much the same answer at each time. - Oh, yes. - But it's a matter of how much pain he goes through each time before moving on. Eventually, he runs into one Wolverine who is, well, a little down in the mouth. - Yeah. - And convinces, cajoles and, kid daps, this Wolverine, back to TVA headquarters, and, hey, we can fix things now. And then paradoxery reveals some of his true colors and they end up sent to the void where all the bad ideas go to die. Or, no, all the bad ideas go to be forgotten about. - Yeah. - Which arguably works. - And the void is not without its own perils. - True, but it's also not without its own charms. - Also true. - The being in charge of the void more or less through force is Cassandra Nova, played by Emma Corrin, who is Charles Xavier's separated birth twin sister, who has most of Charles's psychic abilities, but not his empathy, his empathy or his control or his hands-off attitude. - Yeah. - And in Deadpool and Wolverine, who's showing up, she sees the possibility of getting out of the void and making something of herself. Well, then it becomes the job of a ragtag group of heroes to stop Cassandra Nova, get back to the real world, end the time ripper and save the day. - Yeah, pretty much. Have I left out anything pertinent but not fun? - No. - Good, 'cause I'm gonna stop it there. - Yeah, I mean, there's, you mentioned the ragtag team. - I did. I feel good about mentioning the identities of two members of the ragtag team. - Okay. - One was revealed in the last trailer that was just released like last week or this week, and that's Daphne Keene as X-23. - Yes. - AKA Laura. The other one, God bless Marvel. They pulled Matt Damon in Interstellar on us. Because it was mentioned back when this project was starting to come together that Jennifer Garner as Electra would be in this picture. And then I'm pretty sure we all forgot about it until she walked on screen. I know I did, which is exactly the same thing that happened with Matt Damon in Interstellar. - Yeah. - But the rest of the team, there are surprises. Oh, there are surprises. This movie, I'm gonna go out on a limb. I'm going to call it funny. - Yeah, incredibly funny. There are so many great jokes and references to all of Ryan Reynolds' work, Hugh Jackman's work. - Yeah, Hugh Jackman's personal life. Rumors, the ongoing status of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. - Yeah. - And maybe some problems that are being had there. - Yep. - And then there's just the random kind of dead bully stuff. Peter's new jewelry, for example, or-- - Yeah. (laughing) - Yeah, that was a bit of a surprise. - Well, as soon as he mentioned it, I wasn't exactly surprised, but, okay, fair. I mean, there are all the different Wolverines we see. - Mm-hmm. - You know, the different bits that go on there. Characters we have not seen for a while. - Mm-hmm. Like Jennifer Garner's Electron. - Exactly. Emma Corrin is Cassandra Nova. It is a good freaky villain. - They're definitely having fun. - Absolutely they are. But it's the things we can't talk about that unfortunately I really wanna talk about, and I'm not going to here. - I don't know. By the time this gets released next Wednesday, I think this, there are still gonna be people who haven't been able to get to it. My plus one, for example. - Oh yeah? - If I had not been able to bring them to the screening, would not have been able to see it for like three weeks. - Oh, okay, well, fair, fair. - So they were very, very grateful that I was able to. - Yeah. - It is absolutely full of surprises. There are oodles of cameos. - Yes. There is an odd echo of a relatively recent film from a DC property. - Okay. - But it's pulled off better here. - Much, I know what DC property you're referring to. And yeah, this nails the landing way better than that did. 'Cause that just looked cheap. And hastily thrown together, yeah. - Whereas this looks like it was done with some care. And there was some planning and thought put into what was going on. - Yeah. - I will say one of the, there's one member of the ragtag team that surprised me quite a bit, just knowing behind the scenes drama. - But it is. - Very happy to see them. - Does the character they play perhaps share a name with a portion of a piece of silverware? - Perhaps. - Yeah. I had a great time with this. - I did too, and I think virtually everybody involved did too, which is always nice. - Mm-hmm. - You know, the sisquil quotient on this one is quite high, but they absolutely cleared that bar. - Yeah, yeah, they did. I would say if I were to make it have a complaint, it would be that the ending while not exactly a Skybeam does have a certain element of that to it. - There's a touch of a Deus Ex Machina to it. - Yeah. - Deus Ex Machina to it. - Yeah. But what's you gonna do? - Yeah, well, I should point out at this point, 'cause I haven't really mentioned it so far. Earns its R rating. - Oh, hell yeah. - Quickly, and with great vigor. - Yes. - And repeated vigor. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah, I was surprised at how bloody this movie was. - There's the bloody, there's the language. The language didn't surprise me as much. For a movie that opens with the Marvel Studios. - Yeah, I mean, it's a first. Here's hoping it won't be the last. - True. It is the first Marvel Studios product to earn the R rating. Although not the first one to drop an F bomb. That was last year with Guardians 3. - Mm-hmm. - But yeah, an absolute great time. - Yeah. - rights, does it write the MCU completely, as one writes a ship? Completely, perhaps not, but it certainly takes some good steps, I'm sorry. - Yeah, I would definitely say so. It didn't go quite the direction that I was expecting, which I liked. - Okay, well, that's an all fair question. - Yeah. - But yeah, if you're a Marvel fan at all, and you're either 17 or can get some over 17 to take you, see Deadpool and Wolverine. - Yeah, keep on calling it Deadpool versus Wolverine, which will not completely. - Inaccurate is not the title. - Right. - In theaters now, we both had a blast. Virtually everybody, I've, - Executive producer had a blast with it. - Nice, my plus one did. Friend of the show, Katie Glidwell did. Yeah, virtually everybody I've seen has had a positive reaction to it, and those that I've seen that don't, they are intractable curmudgeons more than I. - Ooh, that's saying something. - Yeah. - So if you want to just have some good old-fashioned, bloody profane fun at the theaters with your old comic book pals, see Deadpool and Wolverine. - Yeah. - That's kind of all we got in terms of reviews this week, but really what more do you need? 'Cause it's, I mean, I will say this is the other one that I was looking towards to the question of, do we have a single? - You know, we had Inside Out 2, which turned out, yes, that was a single. Despicable me for, surprise me, in the fact that it was a single. - Yep. - Question now is, Deadpool and Wolverine. - Well, we're recording this Thursday night, so it's just-- - Just hitting general audiences, right this red hot second. - But-- - I know of two people who are seeing it actually right now, so-- - Yeah, yeah. I have a feeling it's going to do rather well. - I'm thinking, I'm thinking. And you know what an under-appreciated part of that is? Two hours seven. - Yeah. - Not 240. - Yep. - So it's gonna, they're gonna be able to maybe cram in another showing on each screen, which is just going to allow for more. - More people to see it. - Yeah. - So listeners, did you see Deadpool and Wolverine? Please let us know what you thought. Male at Neon Movie Bunker. Dot com. - In the meantime, there are DVDs and Blu-rays and stuff and things and 4Ks and streamings and other products I suppose I-- - Yeah. Anything catch your eye this week, John? - Not yet. I'm mildly under-prepared. My pick for this week, at least for something that as a new release, is actually Ted Lasso, the Richmond Way, coming on DVD and Blu-ray, which is the complete set of the entire series of Ted Lasso, which previously only available on Apple TV Plus. But yeah, it's the first two seasons I admit I have not watched the third one yet, just for reasons. The first two seasons though, are as good as you've heard. - Okay. - Let me clang together the outstanding comedy series, Emmys at one for seasons one and two, and that's what you've heard. - Yeah. - So it's really fantastic. If you have not yet experienced Ted Lasso, now is an excellent opportunity to have the whole thing all in one shot on both DVD and Blu-ray. - Also making its way to DVD and Blu-ray this week is the first Omen, an incredibly well-made prequel to the Omen that manages to be scary and frightening in its own right and tell its own interesting story. - Very cool. - Yeah. - I have a catalog title. - Do you know? - Yes, and normally when we talk about catalog titles, we talk about things that are significantly older. You know, '60s, '70s, '40s, whatever. But this one is actually from 2015. - Okay. - When I spoke on the show of Guy Ritchie's ministry of in general mainly warfare, I posited the idea that only Guy Ritchie knows how to get a charming performance out of Henry Cavill. - Okay. - And obviously, ministry was the prime lead, immediate example of that. - Well, let's roll back to 2015 in "The Man From Uncle." - That's a fun movie. - Which is coming on a new Blu-ray and 4K set from Arrow Films. - Yeah, and they put together fantae. They rival Criterion in their home video releases. - Indeed. And I loved "Man From Uncle." I thought that was absolute. - It was. - Just very sad that I was about the only person who saw it in the theater and as such, the sequel that should have been, will not be. - Yeah. - But, well, I mean, they would have probably had to recast anyway, considering who Napoleon Solo's counterpart was. But yeah, if you did not see "The Man From Uncle" in theaters or you did not, have not seen it in the intervening nine years, grab this set, you're gonna love it. - Yeah. - Do you have a catalog? - Again, not terribly old. I believe it's just from the last couple of years, but the sadness is making its way to Blu-ray and 4K this week. And it is blood-curdlingly frightening. - That's a lot of frightening. - Yeah. I mean, just blew my mind when I saw it. Would highly recommend it if you were looking for a horror film to knock your socks off. - I also have a something to avoid. - Do you know? - A qualified something to avoid. - Okay. - Yeah. I have spoken previously and at length on my love for the movie "Election." There is a new Paramount Presents edition coming out. This week, the big draw is that it's gonna be at 4K now. - Yeah. - It also has, they ported over the Alexander Payne commentary that's been on every previous release. - Right. - Still, I think the only director's commentary I've ever listened to twice. And there are a couple of, quote, new, there's at least one new feature on it, but I don't know that it's anything that I need to upgrade or switch for. - Okay. - You know, if you bought the criterion of "Election" a few years ago when it came out, I don't know that you needed to make this switch. - Okay. That's fair. - If you didn't, you know, compare and contrast and figure out for yourself, but... - Yeah. - Do you have an avoid? - I do not. - Well, how about that? - Yeah, caught with a flat. Well, how about that? - Although I guess I could say House of Gucci. - That is worth avoiding, certainly. Or Chuck Norris's Invasion USA on 4K. - I'd rather that than House of Gucci. - Fair, quite fair. Do you have a question for me? - Hmm. No, do you have one for me? I can probably formulate one in the next five to 10 seconds as it takes me to finish the sentence. - Okay. - Just for fun, Zeiss. - Mm-hmm. - Give me three fake spoilers for Deadpool and Wolverine. - Okay. - Bonus, give me three fake spoilers for Deadpool and Wolverine and give me one real spoiler, but it's so couched and veiled that nobody will ever know you're what you're talking about until they've actually seen it. - Think you can do it? - I think you can. - I think I can. - Realizing that's not really a question so much as a command. - Yeah. - But it's life. - You've gotten used to that in the past 30 odd years. - It's something along those lines, yeah. Let's see here. - The fake spoiler is that Ian McKellen returns and performs a song, reprises his song from Cats, however, in character as Magneto. - Okay. - There is Deadpool and Wolverine end up engaging in a wacky races involving lots of iconic vehicles from the Marvel cinematic history, including the fantastic car, Ghost Rider's Motorcycle, and some other things. - And some other things. - And some other things. And for a third, Nicholas Hammond appears as his most famous character and fights amongst the various denizens of the void. - Okay. Those are some good fake spoilers. - Yeah. Now for a real spoiler, Guy Ritchie may not be alone on that list anymore. - Interesting. Interesting. Got a question for me at this point. Now that I've allowed you some time to... - To formulate one? - Yes. - Certainly your brain wasn't busy formulating other things. - No, of course not. Yeah, actually I do have a question for you. I know that you typically avoid spoilers. - I do. - But things bubble up. What are three spoilers that have bubbled up your awareness in general, not just Deadpool and Wolverine? And how have they impacted your enjoyment of their respective films? - Okay. This first one goes back, we're going back nine years a lot. We're going back to 2015, a few times tonight. - Let's say an interesting year. - Remember what the biggest box off of the movie of 2015 was? It was Star Wars, The Force Awakens. - Yeah. - I had not had it confirmed per se, but I read something online that pointed towards a non-story reason why... Can I spoil a nine year old movie? - Yes. - Why Han Solo died? - Okay. - Which is basically that Harrison Ford was done with it. And it took all the monies to get him back for this one, and there was no way he was coming back for another. Didn't quite turn out to be the case, but I also think his time on Rise of Skywalker took all about 20 minutes in path of that was transport. So that's, and so that was in my head when I saw Force Awakens. - Yeah. - And I mean, it did not necessarily affect my enjoyment of it negatively or positively. It was just kind of a thing that I knew that I would have preferred not to. - Right. - But, 'cause I've talked about this before, and this will apply probably to the other two things I mentioned. I am, particularly when I'm watching something for the first time, I am always making predictions in my head, and the ones I really like are the ones that can confound those predictions. So, having something like a fixed event like that, if you imagine the movie as a timeline, moving left to right, having a fixed event like that almost all the way to the right towards the end. - Yeah. - It doesn't become a what's gonna happen. It's gonna, it becomes a, how are we going to get to this? - Right. - Which is not necessarily worse, but it is certainly different. - Okay. - I think most likely not exactly what most filmmakers want. - Yeah. - So, that's one. Oh, here's another one. And again, we're going kind of, I'm going with the big franchisee stuff. - Right. - 'Cause... - That's where spoilers usually link. - Yeah, yeah. Let's roll back to 2021. - Okay. - The end of 2021. - All right. - I would have preferred, if I did not know that Alfred Molina was going to be in Spider-Man No Way Home, but they put that in the trailer. - Yeah. - And as soon as they did, I knew that there were other people going to show up. Again, statue limitations on a two and a half year old movie. I'm gonna keep it on. - Okay. - But many, many, many, many, many people saw No Way Home and they know exactly what I'm talking about, but... - Yeah. - And so that, again, was... - Not the werewolf. - Andrew Garfield is not the werewolf. Never mind. - That's a reference that's going over my head. Is it because I've only seen, I haven't seen No Way Home since we saw it at the screening? - It might be. - Okay. And the last one, I'm pretty sure this happened. - Okay. - But it also happened 35 years ago. So I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray. I'm pretty sure I got my hands on the public library's copy of the novelization of Tim Burton's Batman. - Okay. - Before I actually saw it. - Ah. - And so I knew that Jack Neapier was gonna fall down and go splat. - Okay. - That one, though, I was also 11 and had not, as thoroughly developed, my film-watching skills. - Yeah, yeah. - So it did not have that deleterious effect on me. - Gotcha. - Hey, Allory. - Hey, John. - Let's go to the movies. - Okay, Doki. What are we gonna go see? - First, I'm gonna list the things to see right now. Would you believe it's Deadpool and Wolverine? - I would. - I would concur. - 'Cause you were sitting in the same room as we talked about the whole- - Yeah. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah. I can, I make sense. - Mm-hmm. - Not a spoiler. - No. - Number two on my list of things to see right now, continues to be inside out too. 'Cause that's still really good. - Yeah. - And last, I'm gonna list of things to see right now. - If you can find filma, still kicking around theaters, see thelma. - Yeah, that's a good one too. - Yeah. - If you're gonna stay home and pop something into your home video player of choice, be it DVD, Blu-ray, 4K or streaming, the first thing I'd recommend to you is the first omen. - Okay. - For all the reasons I've mentioned before. Follow that up with Sting, which is a fun giant spider movie. - All right. - And round things out with Boy Kills World. - Very good. - Wanna take the opportunity to mention our email address one more time, male@neonmoviebunker.com. 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This week's episode is produced and edited by Ella Ray Stanik, the executive producer is Maggie Stanik, the theme song is by Dr. Awkward and the Monkey Man Trio. - So until next time, I'm John Robinson. - And I'm Ella Ray Stanik. - And we'll probably see you at the movies. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) You [BLANK_AUDIO]