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0:47 Newly widowed and estranged from her gay son, a woman finds herself planning her late husband's funeral with the son's assistant. Alison Janny and Andrew Runnolds star in the new Miss You Love You on HBO Max.

1:03 I'm that singer and I'm Jordan Hoffman. With more movies, more series, more stuff going straight to streaming than ever before, it felt like the right time for a podcast that keeps track of it all, and that podcast is Film Spotting Streaming Video Unit. This week we've got the review of Miss You Love You, plus this week's new to streaming titles and some deep cut streaming recommendations. And a new game. A new game, a.

1:33 New game, and this time you're leading the game.

1:36 I am the dungeon master this time. I'm very excited for the first that's.

1:39 So tired of beating me and Sam that now you're just taking the week off. I can't wait to see that means one of us gets to win this week.

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6:16 You know what, one last thing, this is actually funny because you met you brought her name up. I did text Alison just the other day about something, because we do get emails from listeners for The Rex, SAG and just in general, and many many of the comments are I used to listen back of the day and I love Alison. She's great, but I love the new show too, and I'm glad Alison is doing a new thing. So I just let her know. I said, hey, but I was texting her by something else says, hey, by the way, we get we get you know, we get notes from from your old fans. They miss you and they love you and they think you're great. And she's like, and I said, hey, I know you're busy, but one of these days you want to come on as a guest, right?

6:55 The response yes, after five minutes with three dots, I am happy to come on as a guest whenever. But you got to pick a worthy movie for well, you got to pick a worthy movie for me.

7:09 Okay, so we'll probably be seeing her sometime around s FU number three hundred three fans.

7:14 I think if we get to one of those, you know, at the end of the year, Netflix whips out there. You know they do get Oscar Nons for Picture last.

7:21 Week, you're gonna need to wait a couple of months.

7:23 Dreams and Frankenstein of twenty twenty six whatever, those two movies are gonna be. He's not going to be a Nola Holmes three. So the apex, that's something's up note.

7:33 Okay, well we have that to look forward to. It. We'll have to find a good movie that Alison's worthy.

7:39 But it says she said she do it. She just have to find the worthy of this movie, the movie that's worthy of her.

7:44 Okay, fantastic. If someone out there sees a movie that we could review that they think would be worthy of Alison, you can also email us feedback at filmsweatingsq dot com about that and we'll we'll relay those and we'll see how many she rejects before before we get to one. All right, with all of that said, let's get to our review.

8:02 God, yeah, we're already going so long, Let's jump right and miss you love you. Let's do it.

8:09 So? How does this work? My son's assistant being here, it's.

8:13 A very unusual situation. Will you be sitting beside me at the funeral? Well?

8:17 No, why I couldn't.

8:18 You're doing everything else for Tyler.

8:19 Why can't you be my son on the day?

8:21 Well, because I'm no replacement for it.

8:23 He'd be surprised how.

8:24 Low that bar is.

8:26 As we've already mentioned, this is the tenth episode of the rebooted SVU and the first time we've reviewed something on the service that Jordan affectionately refers to as Home Box Office Maximum. Launched as HBO Max in the spring of twenty twenty, then rebranded as Just Max in the spring of twenty twenty three, then re rebranded as HBO Max again in the summer of twenty twenty five. This service has had a little bit of a turbulent history, and even beyond its three names in five years, at this point, HBO Max is known, i think, in my opinion, for a couple of things. It is the streaming home of some extremely popular HBO series things like House of the Dragon Euphoria, and it is also the service that

9:19 has used permanently showing movies as a tax deduction strategy, and maybe that is why it has taken us so long to review an HBO Max movie. When you bury a lot of the films you make in a landfill in New Mexico next to millions of et Atari cartridges metaphorically speaking, of course, you don't have a lot of product for a streaming video podcast to review. But finally we do have an HBO Max movie to discuss. It is Miss You Love You. It is a small drama written and directed by Jim Rash. He is an actor a comedian, and he has previously co wrote and co directed several I would say small scale comedies, things like The Way Way Back and Downhill, mostly previously with his partner Nat Faxon. Now this new movie is mostly I

10:15 would say a two hander, as we like to say in the biz. It stars al and Janny and Andrew Runnelds. She plays Diane, a woman whose second husband has just died, leaving her widowed in a New Mexico home that she hates, and he plays Jamie, the personal assistant of Diane's son with her first husband. Jamie's boss, Diane's son is overseas doing book research. He may not make it back in time for Diane's husband's funeral, so he sends Jamie in his place to help with the arrangements and to ease the burden on his grieving mom. Or maybe he just doesn't want to be there because he's estranged from his mother and the research trip is a very convenient excuse.

11:04 Over ninety minutes or so, in which Alison, Janny and Andrew Runnalds are almost always the only two people on camera. Bonnie Hunt does have a small but significant, mildly significant role as a nosy neighbor, but otherwise this is mostly Diane and Jamie bickering, growing closer, uncovering each other's secrets, and bickering some more. Now, Jordan, yes, as this is our first HBO Max movie on the new film Spotting SVU.

11:33 Here is my question to you, Sure, Yeah, I go for it. What did HBO Max and Miss You Love You that they decided to release it after acquiring it at Sundance earlier this year.

11:44 Oh, it wasn't what they didn't. They didn't initiate it. They bought it out right.

11:48 I believe they bought it at Sundance. Wow, So why would they buy it and release it instead of tossing it into a proverbial dumpster like they have done to multiple product projects over the last few years.

11:59 Well, first of all, I knew they had dumped a few things. I didn't realize it was that that vicious of a thing.

12:04 Well, I mean, they did it to Batgirl Girl, and of course they made or they certainly, I don't know how close to finished it was, but they made an entire holiday themed sequel to that animated scub, the Scooby. They went to theaters, they made a whole thing and shelved it.

12:18 And they tried to get rid of acme versus.

12:21 Cootie versus acmee. They famously made it totally finished.

12:24 And West World is also dismiss They have done this.

12:28 With some TV shows where they've kind of canceled things very spur of the moment, and then they will memory either put them, take them off the service, or shunt them. They will sell the rights. Yes, weird kind of stuff.

12:38 Well, anyhow, Okay, so here's I didn't know that it was a it was a purchase thing, and that doesn't make it a little straight. Here's the thing. I'm going to give what could sound like a backhanded compliment, but I mean it as nicely as I can. If this movie had come out in nineteen eighty eight on HBO, it would have won Alison Janny a Cable Ace Award. Now, the Cable Ace Award is about as useful as a hockey puck on your table to weigh down some papers.

13:06 But do they even have the cable Ace Awards anymore? I don't think they do.

13:09 Do they even have cable anymore? I think I think you need to have cable with.

13:13 The thing I am. I mean as all. Alison Jenny really is a tremendous performer. She is a very gifted woman and just marvelous. And although Andrew Reynolds is in it as well, and you know, it's it's pretty much fifty forty nine percent him. It's her show. It's the it's the give her the spotlight, let her do her thing, and she's phenomenal and it's a really good piece of acting.

13:41 The movie is And again this is gonna sound like a backhanded compliment, but I like this sometimes it is basically a film to play. If this guy Rash could not have found backers for this, but he had to get the story off his chest. He could have very easily put this up by the La Joya Playhouse and had Alie and Jenny perform it and get great notices.

14:01 And he's a theater actor.

14:04 It is you could see it on the stage. It's mostly set in one living room. They do they go outside once in a while, but they don't have to. They could easily stick inside. Bonnie Hunt shows up, a couple other people. You know, those characters could be cut out, or it could be if you were doing it low budget in a a in a theater's a community theater somewhere, you could have one actor with different wigs playing all the other people who show up for two minutes. You know, Sure, it's fine, and but that's okay. I mean I happened to some you know, Blue Moon from last year. Rick link Leator's Blue Moon was a filmed play. I mean, it was not based on a play, nor is this this is an original piece. But I don't think the

14:45 filmed play is necessarily a bad thing. There are some people funny story. So my father is here, we go No, no, my father is the cable Ace Awards by the way I ended in nineteen ninety seven. It was an acronym for Award for Cable Excellence. Thank you, producer Sam.

15:01 The award for Cable ACE Award was an acronym.

15:04 It was an acron So when you're saying it's like an ATM Machine ACE Awards, because you're saying award for Cable Excellence. So just say, my world is rockyd this is I was today's years old when I learned my father, who is a great, very interesting man. If you've ever seen a tell vision show called Kurby Your Enthusiasm that stars my feast, but he worships at the altar of Richard Rodgers and is obsessed with Richard Rodgers. So therefore has an obsession with Oscar Hammersten and also with Lauren's heart, which is what Blue Moon is about. So he could not wait to see Blue Moon. He was there opening day with the ticket. He goes to the movies twice a year. I gotta see the Blue Moon. It's about Lauren's heart, which means Richard Rodgers is going to be involved.

15:47 And he's obsessed with Richard Rodgers and has been my whole life. I called him after, what did you think of Blue Moon. It was a play, I said, yes, stylistically it was. It was very theatrical. I mean he wrote plays, so they it was a stylistic choice. Yeah, but it wasn't a movie. It was a play. Okay, yeah?

16:08 But did you like it? Would you find it interesting? I did the performances move you? I don't know. I went there to see a movie and I saw a play. I don't know what's going on in this country anymore. And that was it. And he had just shut down. He had no couldn't break through to him. I still don't know what he thought about it other than it was a play. Now, be that as it may. I am not that way. Some people clearly are that way.

16:30 But if you are, I mean styling. You know, it's a stylistic thing. And I liked the film play. If it's good, I like it. So that's the quote, by the way, the SVU T shirt quote, if it's good, I like it. How about that's good?

16:43 Yeah? Well that should be on the That should be the official slogan of Bazooka's right, Bazooga. If it's good, I like it. So any but let's cut to the chain. Stordan, Did I like this good and did you like it?

16:55 It is good, but it's not like it's not a home run, and it is surprising that you know, they picked it up and put it out because like, it's not exactly a it's not tearing up the summer, it's not obsession, it's not you know, a disclosure day or something. It's a very small thing that I do think, like I said, in nineteen eighty eight, when there were fewer things on the air, this movie would have gotten a lot of attention because people like Alice and Janny and she's terrific, and you know, like this thing. Honestly, until last week when we were rooting around for things to watch, I had never even heard of this. Nobody's talking about it.

17:32 But it's actually pretty good. And I do think that we're doing a bit of a service by casting a spotlight on it because it is a moving film. It's about two people that are, you know, going through some stuff in their emotional lives. There are some twists and turns, some revelations, some ooh, I didn't see that coming, and you know, it's just it's just compelling and it's relatively short.

17:53 You're in and out in ninety two minutes, So you know, it's not that, not that, not that taxing. What did you think? Would you call it a good film?

18:00 I thought it was okay? I would I I I also, you know, would say that I'm not I would not call something feeling like a play automatically disqualifying. Sure, like your Wonderful Father. I mean, in the case of Blue Moon, you could say that that was a movie about people who made plays. So perhaps the staginess of it in some ways was a reflection of their lives and a comment on their lives. In this case, one cannot make that argument because these people don't make plays.

18:27 Now, one is a painter and one is just a guy, you know, and she's not a painter, she's an ex galleryist and her dead husband's a painter.

18:34 So right, so you compared it to a Cable Ace Award winner of the late eighties early nineties. The thing that it made me think about, like when I was watching this, and I did not know its origin when I watched it, like you, I knew very little about it before I turned it on, other than who was in it, that was about it, and that it was playing on HBO Max. And I turned it on, and as it's progressing, and I see that it's, you know, two very talented actors and it's really just them in this one place, and they're you know, they're kind of it's really just a showcase for them. What it started to feel like to me and what I was what I was thinking about was when I, as you did for many years, would cover the Sundance Film Festival m H.

19:18 You would you would be at the festival trying to figure out what should I watch today, and you would read the descriptions of these things and you'd say, oh, these are good actors, Oh this is a has a promising premise. I'll check this out. And you would wait an hour in line, in the bitter cold, in the snow.

19:34 If you were Jordan, you would talk to Read Hastings and not know who he was in line Jordan has told us on a previous episode, and then you would you would see it and it would be fine, and the audience would go wild like they had just seen the greatest film of their lives.

19:51 Because the stars are there, because Allison Jenny shows up, and Alison.

19:54 Jenny is there, and Andrew Reynolds is there, and they get huge ovations and you're sitting there going, I mean it was okay, is it the altitude?

20:01 What's going on here?

20:02 And then the movie would come out in limited release at the Angelica Film Center in New York City and a handful of other theaters around the country, and no one would see it, and it would vanish into oblivion, and six years later you would see it on your letterbox log and you would go, wait, did I watch that movie? And that is and that is kind of the vibe I got it this buff It is as you said, it is not it's not it's not bad.

20:25 No, it is, it is.

20:26 It's a little bit professionally mad.

20:28 Now No, you're you're you're you're being a little too rough. You're being too rough on miss you love you. That has some really nice, really good writing, some deep characters, and Janny hits it out of the park. I mean, she's sassy, she's telling it like it is. I she's no. What was the great telling it like it is? Movie from two years ago, the Mike Lee one with Mary Jean Fatiste. What was that called talk hard or hard truths?

20:52 Hard truth truths? All right, it's hard truth It's no hard truths. That movie is No, she's telling it like it is. This movie, now, that's a movie. That's a movie.

21:01 That's a movie you remember on on your letter box. Truth.

21:05 This is like if you if you've been yearning for a new hard truths and like, I want to see something that has a little bit of that. This has got some of that. An older woman telling it like it is. I mean, I I love that genre. I don't know what that's called. But she tells it like it is a lot. She yells this guy and and the guys feels bad. It's great, it's terrific.

21:26 I know Tyler won't check out when he gets back.

21:28 That's what our relationship has become. Just large chasms of time past with no communication.

21:34 And I'll get the.

21:34 Arbitrary text miss you and love you and mom, you get that one too. Both of the performers in this movie actors I admire, and they're both not They're both fine.

21:46 They're both good, better than fine. Come on, that singer, here's what I hear, winner Alison Jenny Craig.

21:55 Yeah, but Oscar winners make bad things too. Sometimes just because they want an Oscar. I mean, that doesn't mean they're immune to making crud. This is not crud. But this is what I would say, is that if you were to say, I have a movie about a woman who's gonna a little bit of an older woman who's gonna tell it like it is, who should I cast. Yeah, she's gonna be like the first person you think of, because she's played this character so many times, I suppose, And I don't really feel while she is very you know, this is right in her wheelhouse. It just it didn't I didn't feel like I was seeing a new side of Alison Jenns.

22:36 It sounds like you're telling it like it is.

22:41 I just I kept waiting for and you said there are some surprises or some twists. These are very mild twists. This is not like shock revelations that will, you know, blow you back in your seat on the couch.

22:56 I don't want the one twist that kind of got Should we give it away? I mean, let's not.

23:01 Let's not give it away because I have a feeling of all the things we've talked to no one the show probably this is the least scene, and you are telling them that it is good and they really should go out of the way to see it. So I don't want to know what discourage.

23:12 You're probably paying for HBO Max anyhow, it's got like sports on there and all kinds of crap you're probably paying for. This is like something that you're not going to see anywhere else, and it's it's like, it's like you're gonna feel like, hey, I watched something kind of good tonight. It's a little different. You know, I watched I didn't go to the theater and see a play, but I had the play come to me. So you're gonna and it's shot, you know, they do go out of the house, and it's in New Mexico on location, a lot of cactuses and whatnot. It's it's a good you know, some good locations.

23:38 Budget is through the roof. You're right about that.

23:40 There's some funny stuff about scrub brush, but there's a lot of scrub I was gonna say there's an eagle and an owl, but they only talk about the eagle and owl. You don't actually see them.

23:49 Come to think that they couldn't afford that was too much. They had too much scrub brush.

23:52 Really than wildlife. They talked about wildlife a bit, but it's a big plot point in fact. But anyway, I.

24:00 Don't know, I wasn't that.

24:01 I guess maybe I'm over maybe I'm.

24:03 Overvaluing the element of surprise in a film like this. But I did not really feel like this movie took me to any places that I did not really expect. It was so other than the fact that it was so small and then it had so few characters and that it really is, you know, seventy five to eighty percent all in this one house and really just in this one being mostly Yeah, I mean, other than that element, there wasn't a ton about these people. That the longer it went and the more she's telling it, like it is that I felt like there were like true like revelations in there.

24:42 I don't know. I found it to be modestly moving and a handsome production, and I give it, I give it a little bit more of a higher grade than you do. But I'm glad to hear that you didn't hate it.

24:53 No, I certainly did not hate it.

24:56 Uh.

24:56 And it's hard to pinpoint anything I didn't necessarily like, you know, I didn't like this. I didn't like that. It's just it's more it's just you know, again, thinking about HBO, Max and this, uh, this company. And maybe it was a leading question, but my question is, you know, they take these things and they flush them down the toilet so often, like it is, what was yeah that I don't I guess I.

25:19 Don't see for big stuff like like you said, House the Dragon, there's hundreds of millions of dollars, of.

25:25 Course, of course, and they're you know, they have these huge TV shows. But like on the movie side especially, it's just it's it's hard to get a read on what exactly they want to good of their movies.

25:35 I don't think they've figured out what they want from their movies as yet. That's ry I said this, Jim rash Fela. I mean, like you said, the Way Way Back, the Force Majeure remake Downhill, which I kind of liked, but it was a little bit unnecessary. I think his best things he co wrote The Descendants, which you know to an Oscar nominated film, George Clooney and funny movie.

25:53 All right, so let's I think we I think we still recommend it. I'd be curious to see what our listeners think about this because it's a little bit of a different thing. It's it's an it's you know, it's it's not a masterpiece, it's not not too new, but it's different from what else is out there. So I still give it a recommendation.

26:10 I would, I would say it's a it's a mild recommendation. I guess. The other thing is, while I can't, I wouldn't not recommend it. It's just we live in this even with HBO Max flushing half the things they make down a toilet, we live in this age where there is just so much to watch. There are so many there are so many options available. These TV shows old and like it.

26:33 That's part of why I like because it's a quieter thing. It's like not you know, last week we talked about that you know, tabloid documentary The Crash on Netflix with seventeen million people watched in the first weekend. But like made me like skiz me out. This was a little bit. You know, Jim Rash spent some time writing this. You know, he didn't he didn't just knock it out. He really thought it through. And it's a pleasant, as I say, handsome production. Let's move on. Let's so let's let me ask you Matt Singer before we move on to recseg. Yeah, are you ready to move on? To recseg. That's what I have to ask you.

27:08 Your question before we move on is are you ready to move on?

27:11 That's right?

27:12 Okay, yeah, I guess, I guess I'm ready to move on. So let's just reiterate one last time. Let's reiterate that that the film we've been discussing is Miss You Love You, and it is streaming right now on Home Box Office, Maxima.

27:24 That's right.

27:25 This is Judith, my next fur neighbor, and this is Jamie, a gift from my son, Oh.

27:30 Juden, So thanks for sleeping together.

27:34 If God has kind, recommendation recommendation segment, where is my all? Right? Now, let's say, for example, you don't have HBO, Max, or you listen to our review of Miss You Love You and said, you know what, Hoffman's a great guy, but he might have liked it, but I can tell I'm not gonna like it. What are some things that this movie could remind reminded our podcasters about that they can recommend in addition to, or in lieu of. It's what we call recommendation segment, also known as boxers. Matt, what is your recommendation tagged to miss you love You.

28:17 I was I was wondering if of these hypotheticals you were throwing out, and maybe one of them was going to be, let's maybe you're my father and you don't like plays films that feel like play.

28:27 Did you see that picture with the girl from the West Wing? She's in a play in a movie? What's going on?

28:32 I'm so confused, and I also don't know how to turn on HBO Max.

28:37 What is this?

28:38 No?

28:39 He god that that's so funny. You say that specifically because they moved and they they had everything they needed except HBO Max, and my mother had to watch Downton Abbey or something. I think it was Downton Abbey, some big event, and so it was like we had a call in the National Guard to get the HBO Max to work in their house. It was I don't know what it was. It wasn't their fault. That actually was somebody from Comcast had to go to their house and say, gee, you got something's wrong with this plug. It's not your fault.

29:09 So anyway, what is your recommendation? Man?

29:12 Let's sorry, I didn't mean to strike a nerve.

29:14 That's the audience wants to know I want to know.

29:17 Okay, well, Miss You Love You has, as we say, it really only has two major characters. One of those two characters is a personal assistant. So I thought I might recommend another film about an assistant. Now, I personally never worked as the personal assistant to some very powerful person, but I did spend several years in my twenties working off and on as an intern to various powerful people.

29:51 And also Gabe Friedman, right, I mean, that's right, that's.

29:55 Right, yes, at Trauma. True, that that's not who I was referring to or where I was referring to. But I did intern at Trauma for two summers gave for college.

30:05 If you're listening out there, Gabe, it's nice to hear from you again, all right. Continue.

30:10 So the film that I personally think best captures what I experienced doing those non Trauma internships was a the film called The Assistant from twenty nineteen oh a drama starring Julia Garner, written and directed by Kitty Green, and Garner's character is an assistant to essentially a Harvey Weinstein analog, this incredibly powerful medium mogul who runs a film company in New York City and is very clearly using his position to harass women and fostering this kind of misogynistic culture, this office workplace culture. And one of the interesting choices that Kitty Green makes in this film is she never shows this horrible Boss character. He is this looming presence since Madrid. Yes, this threat that exists and hangs over

31:09 every scene even though he remains off screen, just from the way people talk about him, whisper about him, operate in fear of him. And I did not even think of this until we were talking about Miss You Love You. But there is a character somewhat like that in Miss You Love You. There is the son character who is not in the film on screen, but they are constantly talking about him and his flaws and his relationships to both of these people that were following. So just kind of I didn't even think about that connection. But there is another additional parallel to the film that I decided to recommend. Now. Julia Garner's character such a low person on the totem pole in this office that you know she's doing, She's like restocking fridges and things like that.

32:00 She while she's there, she recognizes what is happening, what this horrible boss is doing and she tries to report him to HR and when she does, instead of ending the harassment, instead of the boss getting punished, of course, she is the one who is who is punned.

32:21 What's your plan? Sorry? Where do you want to be in five to ten years?

32:27 Oh?

32:28 I I want to produce? Did you? It's okay, that's excellent. We could use more women producers.

32:36 You know.

32:36 That's it's a tough job. But I can see that you've got what it takes.

32:44 Thanks.

32:46 So why you in here trying to throw it all away over this?

32:49 Have you seen this film?

32:51 I actually did not.

32:52 Okay, So obviously it's a movie about and to some extent it's about people like Harvey Weinstein. It is about sexual harassment, but beyond just that very important and relevant and horrifying aspect. This film ring so true to my experiences as an intern at these places in the early two thousands where I was working at companies not try Muggin, and we're not talking about Trump. Yes, they were cheap, but they were very nice and they let me actually like learn things and do things. I'm talking about. I was working at places in Lower Manhattan like where this film is set, and I'd never worked for Harvey Weinstein, I never interned for Miramax, I never interned for the Weinstein Company. I want to make that clear.

33:39 Every other one is this, They're all the same.

33:41 I never witnessed any sort of you know, sexual harassment. I never witnessed you know, the cult. The workplace culture was not as grotesque as it is in this film. But these were terrible places to work. And the movie captures how miserable, how competitive, how intense these places can be. And I have not seen a lot of other movies that like really like I mean, watching this movie was like like a combat chock flashback for me. It was like it really was like, wow, this is like almost a documentary the mind numbing drug.

34:18 No.

34:19 I have to have you ever seen a movie from the early nineties called Swimming with Sharks? Of course, of course, of course this is not this is that's like the Casablanca or something. It's not that well, but it's also it's a it's a similar thing. It's about an assistant at a and of course the guy who plays the jerk is kept the spacey. They really leaned into it there.

34:40 Yeah, how did they figure that casting out? I'll never know a real stretch.

34:44 I think Swimming with Sharks was was a little bit more playful than the Assistant, not that I've seen it, but that's a yes, that's more of a comedy.

34:50 It's more of a dark comedy. It's broader, and it's like, yes, and while the boss is a monster, it's Kevin Spacey. He's on screen a lot, and he has all these big yeah you know, it's like it's like, yeah, yes, that's probably a very good comparison. Yes, whereas this movie is like it's almost like a horror film, but like an elevated horror film. It's like very chilly, very cold.

35:14 This air of dread hangs through every scene.

35:18 Yeah, it's not fair. I mean, it's it's it's terrible. I mean, you know, we joke around this podcast a lot, but you know, we are both white men in the workplace. And when I've had heart to heart conversations with women that have worked places, they there experience that that jobs are different than ours. I mean, and it's not until I hear about it's like, oh shit, really that's what you got out of that meeting. It's like, yes, you didn't see how they took the classic thing. You know, they I said the idea first, and then somebody else repeated it and and that person got congratulated. You didn't hear that kind of it's oh shit, you know all these things are true, so it's uh, you know, it's good that these I now I feel guilty that I

35:54 haven't watched the movie yet because I should probably do it, but you know you should.

35:58 And this is a this is a fabulous movie. And like I said, it really captured this world. I mean, it was the I don't I don't think Kitty Green worked for one of these places.

36:09 Maybe she did.

36:09 I did not do that research to find out. But if she didn't, she she got it exactly right. I mean, the the horror that I still bear from just the garbage these people made me do a filling coffee machines. I cleaned kitchens.

36:27 You know. I had two internships and they were both fine. One it was a waste of my time. When was I worked, well, I worked for a semester, interned at v H one, if you can imagine such a thing. No, and most of the time Video Hits one, and most of the time they just had nothing like they had. I'll go be in there like anything for me to do.

36:46 They're like, no, we'll figure something. And I did nothing. So all I did, I swear to you this is true, is I just drank a lot of free soda because they had like a like a like a thing, you know, like a like a soda fountain you can just go and fill up your cup over over, and they had like a lot of flavors, and I just like drag.

37:04 I just ruined my teeth just drinking a lot of soda and hanging out in the soda room and just talking to people and then doing nothing. And then towards the end, there was one producer there that kind of liked me, and she actually gave me stuff to do, and it was very interesting. I saw how TV packages were put together. But it wasn't bad. I was never I was just ignored, is what it was. I was wasting my time, wasting their time.

37:26 So I was I was like refilling coffee machines while you were like drinking the car doing nothing.

37:30 I was literally I could have done nothing. They would never would have noticed that I didn't show up.

37:33 They didn't make you do personal errands for the bosses.

37:37 When this one producer took a shine to me, and she would occasionally give me something to do. Then I would go to her like a puppy dog. I'm like, do you need me to do anything? And she's like, and I did one time, like, come on, you gotta have something for me, And I literally did, Like I think I picked up her laundry, but because I asked to do it, I'm like, I think her name is Bonnie.

37:54 I'm like, come on, Bonnie, I got something. I'm bored here, come on. And she gave me some money to go.

38:00 Well, I wasn't given the choice, and I had to do those sorts of things. I returned scarves to Burberry.

38:06 Yeah, that's dumb. You shouldn't be doing it.

38:07 I delivered kindishes to a friend of the boss who had recently been released from prison.

38:12 Who was this.

38:14 For this, they paid me Jordan's zero dollars. I also not only did they pay me zero dollars, they paid for a taxi to deliver the kinnishes. But once the kindishes were delivered, you had to walk back. I could, I could f off, I could go to hell. However, I got back to the office. Was my business. But they weren't.

38:34 Paying for me little less terrible.

38:36 Well, I was less valuable to these people than kinishes.

38:40 Well, I mean, was it a not a fried kindish? It was a Bagnish, right, I mean, come on, it was probably it.

38:46 Was a classic knish. I mean it did look like a good kinish. I'm not gonna lie. There was I allowed to eat one of the kindishs.

38:54 Never, never do you touch a kinnish. No, no, let me tell you. Let's wrap it up. Come on, we gotta move on. Let's say about the next one.

39:01 Okay, so this is you're right. You haven't digressed at all, mister. I worked for VH one, drinking soda and with Bonnie.

39:10 That's right, Bonnie and sweet I wanted to wash to do. I don't remember her last name. I can't even google her. I don't remember her last name. Body, if you're listening, get in touch all your and your shout outs on this episode.

39:21 So anyway, I think this is an outstanding movie, really captures this world. It is the Assistant. It's actually streaming in a few places. You can watch it right now on Netflix, on Hulu, or if you're willing to put up with the ads, you can also watch it on two.

39:35 Be oh right, well, you know I'm gonna go with a different side of this to the Rex Seg we talked a lot about film plays film plays, so here is was probably the first film play that I saw. It literally is an adaptation of a play. It is the nineteen eighty two Sydney Lumette picture death Trap, which is just the coolest thing. And I saw it. I was pretty young, and hats off to my parents for showing this to me. This was actually a big deal because you get to see two men kiss in this.

40:07 And my mom was ready. She had seen it already and she was ready to be mom and be like I was very young. I had never seen two men kiss before. And she was like, some boys like boys, some girls like girls. It's okay, boom done, and like you do that when the kid's nine watching death Trap, and you set up up for life. And so that was my introduction to progressive thought anyway. And it's not just any two guys kissing, well, which to go, it's a bit of a it's a bit of a spoiler to say who the kisses, because you really well don't spoil it. Then just leave that because detail there might be some people who haven't seen death Trap yet, let me give you the premise, the opening premise of death Trap.

40:51 It's Michael Caine. He's a playwright and he was once a success and now he's bombing. He's bombing again. His last play was a bombed, the bomb before and the new one is a bomb And he's opening night and he's drinking at Sardi's and he's the reviews are coming in. Jeffrey Lyons and actually I think its Jeffrey Lyons is on TV and saying what saying we're back in Blue Moon, saying what a stinker it is. So he's fetching to his wife and he says he also teaches, and he's like, you know, my young student played by Christopher Reeve better than to us all as collel of Krypton wrote a great play and it's so good. And he jokes to his wife, I could have him killed and steal his play and have a hit and nobody would know. Bump up.

41:37 And that starts the titular death Trap. But that's just the beginning, and it's mostly set up. They go up state somewhere I don't know. They're in a beautiful house, very mid century modern, lots of you know, vaunted ceilings and wood, and it's mostly in that room and the twists and the turns, and it's so clever and the performances.

41:57 Christopher Reeve also, I mean he was you know, he was an unknown before Superman and Superman. I mean, he's he's really good in that first Superman movie, because as we know, there are a lot of superhero movies out in there now that kind of are lousy. It really does live and die by how much you believe the man in the suit, if you can believe a man can fly, as they say, And he's so good in this.

42:17 It was like the first thing that I'd seen him in where he wasn't super Man. It was just a weird to see him. Two.

42:26 Julian sets Victor up for what will look like a murder in self defense by getting him to act out.

42:33 Bits of business from the play.

42:36 Oh God, that's nice, and me I mean, wow, that is simple, it is workable.

42:42 It's gonna play. I'm really in your debt.

42:44 It's Cidney Lumette. I mean, come on, the guy. You know, the guy made some of the best movies ever made. Dogg The Afternoon and a.

42:52 Guy who knew how to turn a play into a film Twelve Angry Men, twelve Angry Man.

42:56 I believe The Verdict also was a play. It certainly feels like I could have been. I'm actually maybe no, that was not a play for us. But The Verdict is also very good at Sidney Lumette anyway. So the point I'm trying to make here is, if you're ever interested in the filmed play, death Trap is my favorite one and it's really I want to say, nothing else of it than Michael Kine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, twists and turns, surprise endings. You'll never see it coming. It's so good.

43:25 Smooches. Who is smooching? You won't say.

43:28 I don't want to say, because I don't say the smooch is is the movie takes a twist in like, there's like five twists in the movie, and the first twist is is a kiss and you're like what and then it's all you don't know? What's the ruggets pulled out from your time and again in this movie.

43:44 Okay, so where can people watch it?

43:46 Oh? Crap, crazy, I forgot about that part. Well, where can people watch your stinking movie. The assistant you said it.

43:53 I said every place. I had three places Zooga. Alright, hold Bazooga, here's you can watch the motion picture death Trap. Unfortunately you got to pay. It's three dollars on Amazon Prime, three dollars on Apple TV, three dollars on Fandango at Home, formerly known as Voodoo, and.

44:14 That's all you got. But it's worth it. It's worth it's worth the money.

44:18 Bazooga and Voodoo have just merged. They are now now Pa Voodoo. Okay, that's a great recommendation. That is a really wonderful film. I love Sidney Lumett, so I'm glad we're recommending Sidney Lumette films. Should we get to our personal recommendations now, recommendations for listeners who've written to us and wrote our email address. Yeah, feedback at film Spotting svu dot com. They've told us what they're looking for.

44:46 They've told us what streaming services they use, and it's up to us. Do you help guide these listeners?

44:54 Do you want me to uh to do to reverse it? I can start this one and then you should go for it. What do you have for Let me check and see where this is actually streaming, because I don't even know.

45:06 Why did you offer to go first if you're not ready?

45:09 I don't know, I don't know. I'm a bad person.

45:10 About I go for well, just I'll go.

45:13 I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. We got an email from a listener named Tyler. He writes, Hey, Matt and Jordan and Sam. Tyler from Beta. Tyler Tyler from Boston, Not Tyler Tyler, not Tyler from Connecticut, not Tyler from New Hampshire, Tyler from Boston. He loves the show and he looks forward to the great banter blah blah blah I look forward to. So here's what he says.

45:37 He loves that.

45:37 Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

45:39 Lad is that what you're talking about, Tyler?

45:42 That he wants a personalized Rex. Here's what he says. I'm a huge John Carney fan and have really enjoyed Once, Singh Street, begin Again, Flora and Son, and just recently power Ballad.

45:55 Me too, me three yeah.

45:57 Although I haven't seen power Ballad yet, but I mean once. Well, here's the thing, so he goes on, I w I'm looking to see if either of you had a good music movie recommendation. This would be movies that aren't musicals but have a central core of music performance, like School of Rock or this is Spinal Tap. And I have Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Disney Plus, Peacock Tube and Canopy. This guy's mister money bags over here, Freeman services out the wazoo. I want to know what Tyler does for a living that you can afford all these streaming services. Uh. Then he says, in a twist, I'd like to like to recommend something to you. One of my favorite movies of all time is a music film called Rudderless from twenty fourteen. Tyler

46:37 goes on to say that it is an emotional and uplifting experience about how music can connect us. Well, guess what, Tyler, I've never seen Rudderless. I've never even heard of. Rudderless directed by William H. Macy, directed by William H. Macy, and it stars Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin who was better known to us all as mister Chekhov from The.

46:59 Doom Star Treks, Preston p.

47:01 Felicity Huffman, Selena Gomez, and Laurence Fishbury. What an incredible cast. I gotta say I'm down. It's I don't. I'm just looking at the poster and it's of you know, Billy Crudep's a handsome man. He's he looks he looks very rugged. He hasn't shaved and wearing a pizzo holding the guitar. This movie made no money. It was a bomb, a box office bomb. But you know what, but Tyler liked it. Tyler, this is what this show is all about, finding these great movies that have Tyler.

47:28 Thank you for a recommendation. But Tyler, we do recommend it around here. No, no, it's okay, stay out of our lane, Tyler.

47:35 Also that film Jamie Chung and Kate Tate. I don't know. I never know how to pronounce her last name, Kate Mitchucci. Is that how you pronounce her name? You know who she is, She's the adorable She's Kate Mitchucci. Do you know who that is? Kate Mitchie?

47:51 I know exactly who it is, and I have a guess how to pronounce it. But I'm just enjoying watching you suffer.

47:56 I don't know how to announce it, but I am fond of her and I find her compelling. All right, anyway, I.

48:01 Think it's mccuchie mcgoochie.

48:03 Hey, all right, so we're gonna watch this movie Rudderless, thanks to Tyler. Now, Tyler, Tyler's the deal. You said, find me another movie like once and correct. I say to the heavens, I say to the spheres, find me another movie like once. Once is a once in a lifetime movie.

48:22 No twice, Where's twice?

48:24 Even John Carney's other films that you mentioned, like Singh Street, which I love, is no wonderful film.

48:30 It's not, but it's a wonderful film.

48:31 It once is a Sue Genaris As my Latin friends say, uh type of movie that just ca you know, I yearn for a new one. Some we all do that. Really, it really doesn't exist. But what got me was when he mentioned in his note something when he was writing about Rudderless, the uplifting experience about how music can connect this.

48:54 So here, I'm gonna go big tenth episode of s for you. It's time for Haffman a whip out. One of the big about fish is it? I hadn't thought of that.

49:02 You're not recommending a fish documentary, right?

49:04 I should? Maybe I should? No slam out, I am. I'm gonna put jokes aside for a second and met and recommend one of the greatest movies ever made that has been recognized as such. However, the movie is forty years old now or so, and there are people who are film buffs that have not seen it. For example, Matt, you and I have a friend named Rob. Rob. You know Rob Sheer. You know this guy has seen more movie.

49:32 He was one of my teammates when we were on Pop Culture Jeopardy and came in science.

49:37 That's right, that's right, Yes, he has seen I'm not sure people know that that you were on Pop Culture Jeopardy.

49:42 Well, I like to.

49:44 We mentioned that I bury the lead well for the most recent season, the real recent season.

49:49 The one that was harder. So the point I'm making this Rob has seen everything, but this is one that he only saw for the first time recently. And it was like, he was embarrassing, I've never seen it, never seen it. I'm worried it's gonna be stuffy and boring. And he was like, oh my god, this movie is so juicy. It's it's better than I thought it was.

50:07 And I knew it already had won the Oscar. It's so bitchy, it's so funny, it's so beautiful, and that movie is Come on, Matt, you know what it is.

50:15 I really don't. I'm i'm I'm, I'm waiting on the edge of my seat here to find out what is it.

50:20 It's about the uplifting experience of sharing music, and it is Amadeis.

50:27 Of of course.

50:29 Now Amadeis is a masterpiece for seventeen different reasons. It is truly one of the best movies. In fact, I do play around on letterbox and it is in my top four because I believe it is one of my four bit favorite movies. And there's ten different reasons why I am Adais rules. But one of the core reasons is it is about music. It's not about a chef, it's not about a geologist. It's about the It's about Mozart, for God's sakes, the world's greatest composer, and about Salieri, who was not the world's greatest composer. And now he's a little bit annoyed at that. By the way, all of the movies completely made up of Saliari and Mozart were pals. He did not murder him. Blah blah blah.

51:08 So oh spoilers, Okay, so anyway, anyway, the point is this, it does really highlight The movie is not short. You know, it's not an epic, but you know it takes its time and takes its time to exalt in the love of music. The whole impetus for the story is that f Murray Abraham Salieri wants nothing more in life than to be a conduit from from the divine power to create beautiful music. And he's good, He's a three out of five. But mozart Is Amadeus, the Son of God or son of Amadeis means I forget the exact translation, but I think it basically means a child of Heaven, a voice of God or something like that. And Sam's gonna tell me the second with the actual Latin translation of Amadeus's But and of course he is a complete

52:09 He's an income poomp. He's like if Johnny Knoxville was the world's greatest composer. Love of God. That's what Amadeis means. But the relationship between Sealiari and Mozart is there's a lot of one upmanship, and there's backstabbing and a lot of conniving. It's a little bit all about Eve. But there is the big scene towards the end when they are working together and it's like they're speaking another language.

52:35 They're speaking the language of music.

52:37 Start with the voices bases.

52:40 First second beat of the firme time common time, second beat of the first measure, on a second measure, second beat you see yes, yes too, sure of course yes, second beat of the third measure. Honey, these rests fine, having I think so show me.

53:12 You know, in the audience you kind understand fifty percent of what they're talking about, but you get it. It's when it's you know. Milos Forman directed this. It's one of the greatest films ever made. I don't have to sell too hard, but it is about music being one of the most important things in life, and this is my opportunity. Then it's not like once. The relationship between Mozart and Saliary is not like Glen Hansard and in Erika so and so, but it's still they connect over music, and that's my recommendation. It's a great movie.

53:46 It is also based on a play. To bring it back to our discussions throughout this episode of films and great films based on plays, that is based on a play. I guess your father must hate Amadeis.

53:59 Well, No, Knilos Forman really blew it out there, they didn't. You kind of weak? You wouldn't know that it's based on a play. I mean, I have seen there was a revival in the in a gosh when was the revival maybe like two thousand and three or something in New York City? And I saw it and it was pretty good. David Suchet better than No Saul's Poiro He played Salieri. And I forget who played Mostart but somebody pretty cool, Yes, and it was fine.

54:26 I saw. I saw the revival.

54:28 Also, that's did you see David Cuche?

54:30 Then maybe I did. I don't remember, but I did see the play.

54:33 Well, I'm going to see who was David's David. This is the audience needs to know David Soouche need.

54:40 To know Tyler needs to know who.

54:44 Was Uh it was?

54:47 Uh?

54:48 Oh it was Michael Sheen. Oh that's a great, that's pretty good casting. Actually, that's pretty good. I would like to see that play now that I know who Michael Sheen is. I probably saw it before I knew who Michael Sheen was.

54:59 Who is this Bommy, he's terrible. Now you're like, wait a minute, yep, okay, is it turn my turn for my personal recommendation?

55:06 Please do? Okay?

55:08 So here is mine this week. My request comes from listener Mary Mary right. This may not be in your wheelhouse, but I'm looking for rom com recommendations for Netflix, Disney Plus, Peacock and Prime. And as I alluded to earlier, this shocked me because it was a surprisingly difficult recommendation to fulfill.

55:37 I looked through on my letterboxed. I was looking through my romantic comedies like you can filter on letterbox by genre and by multiple genres. So I was going through my list of my favorite romantic comedies, things I've rated highly. And none of these movies are on any of the streaming services. Very listed and she gave us four different ones that she uses. Maybe not as many as Hotshot Tiler, which is like eight streaming services, but four is already a lot. And these are big ones. Are these companies, These are gigantic media companies. They have no classic romantic comedies to offer to the public. It's absurd. Now, Yeah, Eventually, I did come across a recent film that I I did like and I do feel is was under seen

56:25 and underrated, and so I feel comfortable recommending this because I don't know anybody who saw it basically, and I've recommended to other people, and most people I talk about it with, you know, they definitely haven't seen it. But a lot of them are like, wait, that came out. That's out already. I can watch and you can watch it at home right now. It came out last year.

56:45 It is called You're Cordially Invited. This is a romantic comedy written and directed by Nicholas Stoller. It is streaming on Amazon Prime, so that that is in the four that Mary mentioned so she can watch it. And it pairs two of their generation's biggest comedy talents who never made a movie before, Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. They are the couple at the center of this. He's the father of the bride of one wedding, she's the sister of the bride in another wedding, both of which are accidentally booked into the same tiny picturesque in on the exact same straight cute Yeah, Hi there, I'm checking into the bridal suite.

57:28 My name is Margot Buckley. My sister is Nev Buckley, and she's getting married this weekend. Hold On, hold on, I think there might be a little mistake because my daughter's getting married. Jenny Caldwell, it's book. We booked the weekend.

57:40 Well, now I only have Nev Buckley written down here.

57:44 That's not possible. That's literally impossible.

57:46 I'm looking at the book. Okay, well, look at.

57:48 The book again. I spoke to your mother, Scarlett.

57:50 She booked it.

57:51 In fact, bring her out, Scarlett, get out here, Scarlett. It's Jim.

57:55 She passed last summer.

57:58 Their characters reluctantly agree to share the inn and its various venues. But you're not going to believe this, Jordan.

58:06 There is room at the end, is what you're saying. Yes, go on, there is.

58:09 There is not room at the end, but they make room at the end. They make room, but there's not room. Now wait until you hear this.

58:15 They fall in love.

58:16 They well, first, what do you think happened? They bicker that you got that one right? They bicker, but then there's some sexual energy underneath that bickering. You better believe there.

58:26 And then finally there is a burst of a damn of romance and they smooch there.

58:31 Might be some smooching. Perhaps there might be some smooch.

58:33 But yeah, but you're saying it's it's very pleasant and fun to watch, That's right.

58:37 And I joke about Jordan being able to identify all of the things that are going to happen in this movie because I think, you know, I think of all genres, I think there is something especially pleasurable and romantic comedies. You know, I was talking in earlier about how I wanted Miss You Love You to surprise me a little.

58:55 I guess in romantic comedies, I don't really care if it surprises me, and I don't think most people care. I think there is something pleasurable about romantic comedies. You want to fall in love follow They follow the rules, you know, the meat cute and all those elements that you mentioned. Real relationships are so hard and unpredictable and and you know, just wild that I think we find something reassuring in knowing when we sit down to watch one of these movies that it's all gonna work out. Yeah, yeah, no, I think that is part of the appeal for sure, for sure. And here Will Ferrell and they make a really good pair. They are they are their energies are opposite.

59:35 They look like opposites. Ferrell is this big, tall guy and is this tiny You could fold her up and put her in your pocket. She's tiny heat. But on the flip side, he is a total whim. You know, his whole persona is about being ineffectual, and she is this spark plug. So it's a perfect The dynamics are just right. A pistol, you might say, a pistol. She's a pistol stolar of course.

59:59 Uh. Forgetting Sarah Marshall Sarah Marshall Neighbors, which I really liked. The neighbors too, which I found amusing as well.

1:00:06 So roar is it neighbors to Sorority Rising? Did I get the subtitle right?

1:00:11 I don't remember, but I did. I did enjoy the film. That was pretty This guy.

1:00:14 And a guy who knows his way around a rom common I mean, I think Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about as good a romantic comedy as has been made this this century. And I watch, let me tell you, I watched a lot of comedy movies when I was pre praying for my book Ye coming out in the fall October sixth and bookstores everywhere pre order.

1:00:32 Now, well, all I want to say about that?

1:00:34 What do you want to say?

1:00:35 Well, you are cordially invited, is you said streaming on Amazon Prime? But there's a different you are cordially invited streaming on Paramount Plus.

1:00:43 Oh what's this one?

1:00:44 Because you are cordially invited? As also the name of an episode Season six, episode seven, it's the wedding episode of Wharf and jed Zea X on Deep Space nine. Now spoilers if you haven't gotten that far. But wait, don't spoil it. I might get there. Wharf and jad Zea, even though he is kling on and she is trill, they somehow make it work, you.

1:01:15 Know, and opposites a tract, you know, and.

1:01:18 They fall in love and they have a wedding and jed z It wears a marvelous red wedding dress, and Wharf makes all the boys on Deep Space nine do his bachelor party, which involves, like, you know, deprivation and pain and all these things they have to go through. Is I think the best thing could be? Is I imagine, imagine if someone out there has never seen an episode of Star Trek ever and they go straight to this because it's like the lighthearted. There's no real plot. It's just like two guys, a man in ridiculous rubber makeup and a woman with spots all over her face are getting married and it's just like forty eight minutes of just the silliness and it's well, it's marvelous.

1:01:58 I mean, this is why we live in a fallen world because no one now would ever discover they would never find Star Trek through that episode when we were kids. If you're flipping channels, you might come across Yes and a random insane episode of Star Trek where like data is Sherlock Holmes or whatever it might be. And it was just a wonderful entry into that world. And that that is a way of consuming all media that just basically does not It's true.

1:02:26 And it is what it is. I mean, the pros of streaming, I mean.

1:02:31 Listen, we love streaming, We love the streaming. We should say that we have no podcast on streaming. Streaming is wonderful, wonderful.

1:02:37 Spotify is great, but the radio was cool too. And go buying records and you know, you really had to if you're going to spend eight ninety nine on a record, you had to know that you liked it and you would play it enough because you put the investment in. Now it's like you have access to everything you know, you know, speaking of streaming, last night, I watched Miss You Love You on HB on Home Box Office Maximum, and when it was done, it auto fed me another film, which I then, even though I had work to do, sat there and watch for two hours because it was pretty cool. It was the Questlove documentary about earth Wind and Fire, which is I've been meaning to watch, and I was like, wow, it might as well happened now

1:03:13 HBO wants me to watch it, and I loved that. I mean, it's not good cinema, but it's it's great information about earth winded Fire. And they put out a ton of albums they did growing up. I had one the greatest hits because you know, you had to pay. And like the point is, I was up till two in the morning. I was like, now I have every earth Wind and Fire album. Comparing their early work to when they moved labels. Now they were on first, they were on Columbia, then they were on Blah blah blah, and it's just a whole it's a world that the kids don't understand that.

1:03:47 Yes, can I ask a question because you watched the movie?

1:03:50 Yeah?

1:03:50 Yeah, did you learn what happened on the twenty first night of September?

1:03:54 I did that. There's a story for that. Would you like to tell the story?

1:03:58 Well, maybe I'll watch it and maybe we shouldn't spoil it for people who who want to find out on their own. Yeah, but I assume Love was changing the minds of pretenders.

1:04:05 I will tell you that what mister Questlove does is very clever. Okay, concerning that song, which is probably their most famous song, and the origin of that date is revealed and it's quite touching.

1:04:19 It's quite touch Well, I do have to watch it because I do want to know it's a good movie. Okay, So, well, you got an extra bonus recommendation thrown in there, but the well, you got two bonus recommendations from so much.

1:04:31 This is power packed this episode. It's like it really is granola.

1:04:35 But for Mary who wanted a rom com recommendation, mine was You're Cordially Invited on Amazon, or I suppose you could watch the Star Trek Deep Space nine wedding episode also called You're Cordially Invited, which was on Paramount Plus, which is not one of the streaming services that Mary subscribes to, but maybe she could get a free trial and just and give it, give it a little taste, and if neither one sounds good. Jordan also gave a little bit of a recommendation to the Earth Wind and Fire documentary on HBO Max by Quesla.

1:05:08 Yeah, earth Wind and Fire were making a whole different sound, playing no music like.

1:05:16 That, Ladies and gentlemen. Every week on streaming video Unit Film Spotting s VU, as we like to call it, we play a game and most of the time it's it's Sam who is the dungeon master, and then I play Matt and I usually win, though not always. And there have been times when Matt is a dungeon master and I play Sam and I usually win, but not always.

1:05:41 But let's be honest. Of the ten times I think it's I've been one, I won eight of them.

1:05:44 It's unfortunately true.

1:05:46 It's unfortunately true. So today I am going to be the dungeon master. And today's game is called on a Wing and a Prayer. On a Wing and a Prayer is based on the fact that our film this week, Miss You Love You Stars Alison Janney, and even though she's an Oscar winner and she's made a lot of great movies and shows, she will always be known as CJ.

1:06:09 Craig from the West Wing.

1:06:11 That's right.

1:06:12 So what we're gonna do this week is I'm gonna i'm I have now seven films that I am going to give clues about, and when when one of you knows what it is, you're gonna buzz in, name the movie and name the performer in the movie that is also on the West Wing. What if I didn't really watch the West Right, but I asked you if you were familiar the other day? I said, you have a familiarity with the West Wing? Right?

1:06:38 You didn't ask me this?

1:06:39 Of course I did. It's in the slack. It's absolutely in the slack.

1:06:42 I mean, I don't remember this. And if I said yes, I was, I was in a stupor because I don't hold I mean, I have a passing familiarity with it. You said, produce the receipts.

1:06:59 Can you do a search and a slack?

1:07:02 Of course, you Cane.

1:07:03 It's in there. It's in there. I can confirm, Sam.

1:07:06 Do you remember that. I at least asked Okay.

1:07:08 Well, yeah, so here said I watched the first season. Okay, so it was going to do it five years ago.

1:07:14 It's the performer. Okay, so here's what's gonna happen.

1:07:17 I didn't respond to this, I know I did, never even saw.

1:07:22 This is your fault. So anyway, I'm gonna name I'm gonna start naming a thing, and you're gonna go, aunt, yeah, and you're gonna say the name of the movie. And that's one point.

1:07:30 And what are the okay, and what are the clues going to be here?

1:07:33 I'm getting to that, Okay. So I'm gonna start giving clues and you're gonna go and you're gonna name the movie that and if you do that, you win one point. You then can now name the performer. Let's say, because I'm not going to well, let's say the performer was Alice and Janny, right. You would then say, oh, and and that movie had Alice and Janny and then you get the second point.

1:07:53 So even if you don't know the people from the West Wing, I I could still you get the movie.

1:07:58 You'll get one point. But if this is where it gets tricky, oh boy, if you steal it and get the other point you said, at least say who they played. You want to say the character name, but you have to say, oh, well Alice and jennye yah, she played the press secretary. I remember. So that's how you get the second point.

1:08:16 If you're stealing.

1:08:17 If you're not stealing, your say the name who they played.

1:08:20 Only if you're stealing, because in the way, it's not fair because you're gonna remember. You're gonna remember, because chances are, even if you never saw, you're gonna know who the West Wing actor was. Trust me.

1:08:29 Okay, okay, I'm getting the pen.

1:08:33 As Hayes an answer, Ainsley Hayes, I remember her.

1:08:36 Ainsley Hayes is not an answer.

1:08:38 Are the clues in the form of prayers. And that's why it's called I don't know why.

1:08:43 All right, here we go.

1:08:43 Ben, we were gonna get some like number chance, number one, number.

1:08:50 One after your answer.

1:08:52 This movie was produced by Lorne Michaels. Yeah, you really got it. Go for it.

1:09:01 Wayne's world, that's right.

1:09:03 And who's in Wayne rob Low.

1:09:07 You got I can tell you he plays the sleazy TV producer.

1:09:12 Well, you don't have to tell me that part. That's extra credit. But you got two points right off the bat, mister, I don't know anything about the man, Okay, I.

1:09:19 Know a lot about Wayne's world. I can tell you that.

1:09:22 Next one Okay. Co stars include Stephen Root. Co stars include Richard Hurd, who was also on Star Trek The Next Generation. Co producer Jason Blum. The film debuted at sun Dance in a surprise midnight screening.

1:09:52 I got this.

1:09:53 What is it? Sam?

1:09:54 Okay? This is this? Is uh?

1:09:57 Oh, I know, I'm thinking of the other. No, No, it's Jordan Peel, It's uh, it's Bradley Peel, It's Whitford, It's it's ridiculous.

1:10:09 I should just stop im. All I can think of is.

1:10:12 Does not get to go on before I get to Now that he gave it away, he said, one of the actors, what's the actor?

1:10:20 You got the actor? What is his first name?

1:10:24 Bradley?

1:10:25 You got one? You have ten seconds?

1:10:27 Oh god, oh my god.

1:10:29 Now what's the name of the movie?

1:10:32 Sam, Get out of here that you don't know the name of this movie?

1:10:37 The ultimately, it's too late.

1:10:40 It's uh, it is late at night, and it's the end of the the movie is get out the movie.

1:10:45 I was thinking all his movies have one word.

1:10:48 It's a one word t yep. Now, so Bradley Wifford, of course, with the with the classic line that he would vote for a third time. All Right, we're moving on to movie number three. This is tough, actually, but you'll get it great. No, it is good. This is a good one. It's just funny. It's it's a big movie, but you kind of forget about it.

1:11:08 Okay.

1:11:08 Co stars include Sally Field. Co stars include Emma Stone, oh oh hey, hey yeah yeah.

1:11:20 The Amazing Spider Man, Yes, very good, and Martin Sheen plays Uncle Ben.

1:11:27 What do you know, Matt Singer not saying about.

1:11:29 Spider nothing about the West Wing, but I know an awful lot about Wayne's world and Spider Man.

1:11:35 I would say that Martin Sheen when he leaves this earth, no obituary will mention that he was in The Amazing Spider Man. But he was, you know, the guy. The guy made a lot of good movies.

1:11:49 His Uncle Ben's go. Martin Sheen was no Cliff Robertson.

1:11:52 No, he was that whole. I like them a stone now and I liked Jamie Fox, I guess, but it was it was rough. Okay, Moving on now. So far, all of the performers we mentioned were you know, big, you know, main, main, mainstays on.

1:12:08 West people even I knew were on the West One.

1:12:10 Now we're going to move into some performers that maybe didn't show up till season five, or maybe even some performers that were only in a in a recurring role, but they're pretty big names and you know, they're pretty important to West Wing lore. Okay, are you.

1:12:25 A big West Wing fan?

1:12:26 George? I actually did not watch it until no, no, no, no, oh. I did not watch it until like season I guess whatever. The last season was season six, season seven. And then one day I was home on a Sunday or Saturday, and one of the cable stations AMC or whatever was did a from episode one binge watch and I just stayed up all night and all day and just plowed through.

1:12:51 And then I got the DVDs and whatnot, so I caught it.

1:12:54 Okay, that was a Sunday. It was a Sunday.

1:12:56 Maybe maybe it was VHS tapes back then, who knows. Wow, I mean yeah, West Wing is pretty good. I mean it's ridiculous, but it's good. Okay, here we go next movie cinematographer Ven Nikevist. Release year nineteen eighty nine. Co stars include Martin Landau.

1:13:21 Eh, I was gonna say it's crimes, and I was already thinking of it with eighty nine.

1:13:28 I was like, it's.

1:13:31 Jordan giving the clues here. But but who is from the West Wing in that film? Though, I'll be honest, I don't know. It's been a long time since I've seen this movie.

1:13:40 He did not show up till like season five.

1:13:43 That's a clue.

1:13:43 Oh ship, all right, clue?

1:13:46 Wait you know what? Oh, Alan Alda.

1:13:49 That's right. He was on it.

1:13:53 That's right. He played the Republican candidate, uh Vinick, Arnold Vinnick. Why is it funny?

1:14:00 Wow?

1:14:01 Alan Old Alda.

1:14:02 Alda showed up in a few Woody movies in the late eighties. He was also in Manhattan Murder Mystery, which came up last week.

1:14:07 He's in Manhattan Murder Mysteries. And and and I think he's in Melinda Melinda too, or saying he's Alan Alda. We love him. I met him once, I interviewed him once. It was one of my great joys was interviewing Alan Alda. Okay, so oh, listen, so MAT's.

1:14:22 Up five and how many movies do we have left?

1:14:26 We have a game here, we have one, two, three, more?

1:14:31 Okay, okay, to go.

1:14:33 Somebody's game based on a novel by Alice Hoffman. You're your aunt, not my lin, not my aunt. But she's a very Dallas popular novelist, Alice Hoffman. She's a best selling novelist. Co stars include Diane West.

1:14:53 I Love Weast, Creams, Give.

1:14:58 Give You That WAT. Co stars include Aiden Quinn.

1:15:03 No love for Quinn though okay.

1:15:05 Co writer of the screenplay Robin's Sweetcord. Writer of the screenplay, Akiva Goldsman Goldman. This is a popular and there are people. There are people listening screaming right now at their at at their podcast.

1:15:25 Least we have Hoffman Hoffman, Weast Go, beautiful.

1:15:34 Mind, Here we go, Here we go. Director, Yeah, here we go. This is actually not going to give it away because he's one of these guys that directs a lot of things that you don't realize it's him. Griffin Dunn. Oh yeah, I'm going to name the leads other than the person it is, you're going to have to know otherwise, no.

1:15:53 Better than Dian Weist, whoever they are yeah.

1:15:56 Co stars include Sondra Bullock. Co stars include Nicole Kidman. Oh finally, what is it?

1:16:07 It's is it practical Magic?

1:16:10 Yes?

1:16:10 It is really?

1:16:12 And who plays the wacky ant in Practical Magic? Oh? I don't, I don't remember, Sam? You want to steal?

1:16:18 Go for it, Sam, dare you?

1:16:21 It's it's probably like h wasn't what's her name from Greece?

1:16:26 Am?

1:16:26 I right?

1:16:26 Am?

1:16:27 Go go Google?

1:16:28 I know I know who it is? Now?

1:16:30 Oh no, what is her name?

1:16:32 Get out? Her name is?

1:16:34 Her name is? Get Out Stock Channing?

1:16:37 Yeah?

1:16:37 I did?

1:16:38 Wait wait, wait.

1:16:40 But he's got a who was what did you play?

1:16:42 What was her character?

1:16:43 Did she?

1:16:45 Wasn't she the way for the President? Right?

1:16:47 The first lady Stock Jane west Wing?

1:16:50 That was?

1:16:51 Everyone remembers her famous character.

1:16:53 Wow, this is a scorcher on a wing in a prayer six to one in favor of Matt. But there's any anyone's game. We have two more more? Here we go. All right, clear your minds? Edited huh by Michael Kahan. Okay, yeah, all right, so you know where I'm going.

1:17:14 We know where you're going.

1:17:15 But do you music?

1:17:17 Fred Berg and Seltzer film clearly is on the Way.

1:17:20 Music by Ever Jones. Trevor Jones of Yes and the Buggles could video will Kill the Radio Star?

1:17:26 Okay, but what episode of Star Trek the.

1:17:29 Co star includes Julian Sands Michael Kahn, which gives you a sense of who maybe produced this, Yeah, Trevor Jones, Julian Sand's co star includes this ought to do it? Jeff Daniels. Come on, let me make sure it actually is Jeff Daniels. Yeah, it is Jeff Daniels. Not coming yet, Okay, all right, released summer nineteen ninety ninety. I've got to guess goodbye, I said, edited by Michael Kahn, and I keep leaning on that because we know that that's Spielberg's editor, but yes, directed by Frank Marshall.

1:18:17 I gotta guess. All right, here we go, Sam, Is it a rack a phobia?

1:18:21 Yes? Wow?

1:18:23 The only thing it could be from that time period when I heard it was about ninety Yeah, right, once once, once we.

1:18:31 Now we're talking about West Wing, the West Wing connection.

1:18:34 Now, all you need to do is say the actor. You don't have to say who he played on the West Wing because you got in the first. Okay, ship, say the actor or actress. I mentioned Jeff Daniels, I mentioned Julian.

1:18:52 Says, who it was the spider? The its always on the West Wings? Play the secretaryts all the treasure? Who gets all the laughs? Okay, Sam, but I don't know who they played on the West Wing, so I won't really I'm not going to come up with this, Matt. Who is it who gets all the laughs in erect John Goodman? Okay, it's all the laughs. Who does he play on the West Wing?

1:19:16 I don't know he's on the West See?

1:19:18 Okay, he was a recurring case.

1:19:20 He was because I knew he was in direct if. I didn't even realize he was Bill west Wing.

1:19:24 He's Bill west.

1:19:25 Wing, all right. He played the Newt Gingrich esque Speaker of the House who, thanks to a very wacky set of circumstances, becomes President of the United States for one two part episode because some shit goes down.

1:19:38 I legitimately did not know John Goodman was ever on the West I did all of these other people I knew were on the show. This was that one, I, you know, I would never have known.

1:19:46 Let men, let me confirm it with because confer I saw this in you know nineteen ninety six. It would be really funny if we played Speaker of the House Glenn Allen Walkin in a very important he did. He was in the best of both worlds. He did end of season four, beginning of season five.

1:20:05 I always loved that.

1:20:06 Yeah, yeah, he was. He was the to be continued.

1:20:08 Okay, what is the what is the score?

1:20:11 Well, now you're tired because nobody got out.

1:20:13 And this is the last question.

1:20:15 This is the last one.

1:20:16 Oh my god, I love this. Why does it always come down to the.

1:20:20 Last West, come down?

1:20:21 That's because the things are fun, because we're both morons. Come on on a wing in the prayer, last one.

1:20:29 All right, here we go.

1:20:30 Debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Produced by David Lowry.

1:20:37 Produced by David.

1:20:39 Produced by That Is What I Said That Moment produced I'm Gonna Cinematography by Sean Price Williams.

1:20:48 I worked with him at Kim's video I Know you.

1:20:49 Did, and and I'll just keep going. The same crew were edited by Robert Green, music by Keegan DeWitt. Let's start getting into co stars soon.

1:21:00 I'm gonna get I'm gonna know this.

1:21:02 You get your fingers on those buzzers because you've both seen this movie. Co Stars include Jonathan Price.

1:21:09 Oh oh, oh, oh.

1:21:11 You could do it? Oh you could do it?

1:21:14 Is it? Is it?

1:21:17 You got it?

1:21:17 What was the name of that movie?

1:21:21 One more? One more? Co star?

1:21:23 Does the name of the movie start with the letter L?

1:21:27 I'm not answering. Co stars include Jason Schwartzman.

1:21:32 Okay, okay, I think I got it?

1:21:35 Is it lit up?

1:21:36 Philip col Rich?

1:21:38 Oh, yeah, sure.

1:21:39 But I don't know. For extra glory, I have the West Wing connection I have, I don't.

1:21:46 I don't know, you don't know. I don't well who else was in the movie.

1:21:49 I don't really remember who's in all of that? Guy Rank Alex Ross Perry, the director, he's who I also worked with A. Kims And it is a good movie, but I made.

1:21:57 It, came out three movies with this very famous actress who was not famous.

1:22:01 She was on the I'm sorry, man, I gotta steal steal it. It's Elizabeth Elizabeth.

1:22:06 Moss okay, all right, does play the president's daughter.

1:22:13 She's a barlet, right.

1:22:15 Zoe Bartlett, seventeen year old Elizabeth Moss. I don't want to listen. Do what the CIA tells me you know, So there you go. This is a tie. I could try to very quickly come up with another one.

1:22:30 I think we've embarrassed ourselves enough.

1:22:32 You both got eight points. It's pretty good.

1:22:35 I will be deleting the get Out. That whole thing is gone. It's not going to be part of the show. Wife referenced. I have to cut this out as well.

1:22:43 Also, I think you did well enough knowing these these people who I had no idea were on the west wing that I think you kind of redeemed yourself.

1:22:50 You did pretty well.

1:22:51 I mean I forgot every now and get out, but you knew the movie.

1:22:55 But you did know the movie. You knew the movie. You just couldn't think of the title.

1:22:59 This is a classic brain fart.

1:23:01 Boy, that's good.

1:23:02 Well see if you guys are happy leaving it at a tie tie.

1:23:06 Look, we're both winners.

1:23:08 After Jordan, we've lost.

1:23:10 So many times job a prayer on a wing and a prayer And next time we will will save this game because at some point we will review something with a religious theme that has nothing to do with things, and we can reuse the title again and we can get yes, and we'll just list thy rays from movies about famous religious figure good.

1:23:32 I love it. I love it.

1:23:47 Before we get out of here, let's run down some of the new things you can watch at home this week. First up, here are some theatrical releases that are now available to rent or buy. We have Renny Harlan's deep Water, about a plane that makes an emergency landing in shark infested waters. This is not to be confused with twenty twenty two's deep Water, which was about on a diarmis crash landing into a marriage with Ben Affleck. I saw that movie.

1:24:15 I saw it too. Wasn't that bad. It wasn't good, but it wasn't that bad as a line, right, Adrian Lyne, wasn't it him?

1:24:20 I think that it's correct and as a right. But so that means the threshold to be the best movie called deep Water of the last five years is not that high.

1:24:29 But if you add deep Water Horizon to it, Deepwater Horizon, that's a different story.

1:24:33 That's true. That movie was pretty good.

1:24:35 Actually liked it.

1:24:36 I like it, Yeah, okay. Also available to rent or buy at home now. Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser in the historical drama Pressure, about the seventy two hours before D Day, Did Jordan have you seen?

1:24:51 I yearned to see this, and even though it's coming to streaming, I may go Monday. I may if I can do my sedge on the A list. Yeah, I might go on the A list. I have a double feature that I really must. I have to see he Man and I have to do Pressure. I really got to see he Man. I mean, I'm just it's just killing me that I haven't seen yet. I might go on Monday and I might be able to do both that and Pressure. If the timing works out.

1:25:17 All right, you'll report back next week. Finally, Yeah, we have Jude Law as Vladimir Putin. We have yeah, Paul Dano also in this film, The Wizard of the Kremlin, directed by Olivier Assayas, which I feel like should be This should mean more than it seems to. This movie is kind of coming out very quietly. A few years ago, this would have been a bigger deal. Why is it just because it's It hasn't played places festivals and did not get a great response.

1:25:45 George, I don't know too many people who are over the moon about it. I think I must see it and Olivier, I say, ass, however you pronounce his name. He is a prolific filmmaker. Not everything he does touch he touches turns to gold. I mean he's made I mean Irma vepp In nineteen ninety nine or whatever is beyond a masterpiece. But yes, is that his best movie?

1:26:05 It's fine. I don't know. Clouds of sales, Marilla.

1:26:08 You know he's made some wonderful films. Yeaheah, but perhaps maybe this one is not one of them. Okay, well, those are the new theatrical releases that are coming to streaming. Here are or that are available to rent or by I should say, now here are some theatrical reasons that you can stream. They're coming to streaming. We have andre Is an Idiot, a doc about a brilliant idiot who is dying because he didn't get a colonoscopy. I don't know, this is this is a great subject for a man me who just is just scheduled at colonoscopy. So this is fantastic.

1:26:41 Don't be scared. I've done him. I've done him, and you're in and out. And prevention is very important. If we could talk seriously for a second, is the reason they tell everybody to get a callon Osby man and woman, because if you go in and they see stuff they don't like, they can take care of it early. So you gotta do it. If you're listening, if you're forty and older, you gotta do it. Don't wait around.

1:26:59 Okay, Well, that will be available on Netflix on Tuesday, June sixteenth. Uh.

1:27:05 By the way, I'm on Klonipin for three days before I go for my Colonosby. I'm a mess. I'm a nervous wreck. My wife is telling me to calm down. You go in the prep is kind of funny because you're just shitting NonStop. It's like the Bellagio Hotel coming out of your ass. It's out of control. But you got it and you're out and the doctor says, we we yanked this, we yanked that, and it's okay, and I'll see you in five years.

1:27:26 You got to do it, Okay, fantastic, Thank you for that therapy session on the Belagio. I'm never thank god I already went to Las Vegas because if I had to go now and look at the Bolagio fountain, I'd have a real problem. Okay, on Thursday, June eighteenth, one of the biggest movies of the year is coming to MGM plus formally Epics. This is not the same as Amazon Prime Video, even though it is owned by Amazon.

1:27:50 This is Project Hail Mary, one of the huge hits of the year. Ryan Gosling. He's an astronaut. He has well, he's not really an astronaut, but he is in space. He's a reluctant astronaut. He's in space. He's got to save the whole world with the help of a rock.

1:28:05 It's so good and it's the only one MGM plus.

1:28:09 At least for now, it is only on MGM plus formally Epics.

1:28:13 That's that's what they call hutzba a little bit. That's hutz to make you sign up for.

1:28:16 Sign that's right. And finally, Glenn Powell and Mark at Quality in How to Make a Killing. This was a eight twenty four release from earlier in the year. It will be streaming on HBO Max on Friday, June nineteenth. Did you see that one, Jordan? No, but I saw it on a plane on a plane to Vegas where I saw the Blaggio fountains where they were I got dreaming.

1:28:39 Water I got, I got enough of Glen Powell. I need five minutes, five minutes away from He's in too many movies. Although Margaret Qually, I have time for now. Let's talk about direct to streaming voicemails for Isabelle, a young woman's confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger who begins to fall in love from Afar and This stars Zoey Deutsch and Nick Robinson, and it launches on Netflix Friday the nineteenth. This sounds like a potential for Friday, June nineteenth. Sounds like it's a nice rom It's not like a calm. It sounds like a rom drama, a romantic drama. Yeah. Then Your Fault Cold London? Is this about earthquakes?

1:29:29 No?

1:29:29 Your Fault London the follow up to last year's massively popular streaming hit My Fault London on Amazon Prime. It's so popular, in fact, that Amazon greenlit a whole trilogy. Your Fault London is the second in the series. Have you heard of this?

1:29:46 This whole thing eluded us. We were hearing a little about this from Sam earlier, where he was explaining, Oh, your Fault London is coming out this equal to my fault. We were I was absolutely lost.

1:29:56 I'm not.

1:29:58 There was no SVU last year, so I missed some of these things. Now I'm hip to them.

1:30:02 So the question is if a movie was streaming, was a streaming hit but there was no sv you to review it, did it really exist? I guess the answer is yes to me, no to me, it did not? All right. So that's on Prime Wednesday, June seventeenth. Also, never Change. In two thousand and eight, the graduating class of North Meadows High School had their senior year cut short due to a disastrous tornado. Now in their mid thirties, they're being forced to return home and finish high school once and for all. Well, that's a cute premise and it's on Hulu June seventeenth, And there's a lot of great comedic actors in that one. That sounds like, do you remember that premise, mister three thousand? That's kind of something,

1:30:43 mister three thousands. You see that was a great Bernie Mack, the great Bernie Mack who I respect and love, and he thought he had three thousand hits, but he didn't. There was one was an error he had to go back to baseball and do a good comedy anyway, So this is not Mister three thousand though, this is some some cockamamie high school movie.

1:31:02 That's right, all right?

1:31:03 What else?

1:31:04 So that's about it. But we got to figure out what we're gonna watch last week. We could watch some of those movie I just mentioned. I wanted to.

1:31:10 Let's watch mister three thousand with Bernie Mack. That's a funny movie.

1:31:14 Well the one that wasn't on there that I know, we've talked about, so we can we can throw it out there and at least we're meant it either way. Was we have discussed. I really want to see this, uh Brian Eno documentary on the Criterion channel, where the whole thing with it is every month they're going to have a new version of the film.

1:31:37 Right, this sounds crazy, but they Brian, you know, the very famous music composer and producer, futurist producer, he produced every the you two and Peter, not Peter Gabriel but other people, and uh, he used They shot thirty hours of footage, as they always do for these documentaries, and they cut it into little packages and then they use generative AI.

1:32:04 Well, it says it's using custom non AI software.

1:32:08 That's what it says.

1:32:08 In the present.

1:32:10 Yes, they're using EI, they're using Claude. Claude is in the in the in the room figuring out when you went to go see this in the theaters, which in the grant that this was not exactly in This is in New York City. They showed it at the Film Forum, which is a snooty pants place downtown. I love it. And if you went to the five o'clock show, you saw a movie X. If you went to the seven o'clock show, you saw movie wide. There were different scenes.

1:32:33 I think the spine of it was the same, but you know, beginning, middle, and end, but in between there were different scenes that you wouldn't get if you it just was random, which.

1:32:42 Is that there are fifty two quinn tillion or fifty two billion billion possible permutations of this movie.

1:32:51 This to me is a little bit annoying, Frank, Okay, I'm not feeling it. No, I mean I feel like, make a movie, don't leave it up the chance. And it's fine. I saw. I I like Brian, you know, I am fond of your first with him, never member and.

1:33:06 Your aunt Dallas Hoffman, you guys all hang out.

1:33:08 I back in the day of buying CDs, I bought a few and Discreete music is a really good one. Music for Airports is a really good one. The Talking Heads he did. He's the reason he is as David Byrne is the real genius to Talking Heads and Brian was the second genius. Anyway, the point I'm making is this documentary is annoying because there's fifty two squintillion versions and okay.

1:33:29 So that one's out. Well, I'm not saying have never changed. We have your Fault, London. Maybe we should get in onto these faults. Maybe we need to learn about the faults. We could watch the original sequel thing.

1:33:40 It would be a little bit of an investment. But are they Are they really good? Your Fault London? I mean the kids like it? Is that? What it is? Sir?

1:33:47 What you we're hip?

1:33:48 What kind of movie is it?

1:33:50 I guess We're just not going to decide at this moment. Once again, Oh it looks romantic. It's this kissing is smooching?

1:33:58 Who is she? Asha Banks and Matthew Broome thear in love? Oh she looks pleasant. The young glass.

1:34:08 As we did last week. I think we're going to leave things on a cliffhanger, right, It's going to be one of these options we've thrown out, and we'll figure it out and we'll let you know you can. Actually, the best way to find out is when we figure out what we're reviewing, we put it on social media. We put it on our Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash film Spotting SCU. I let people know over there.

1:34:28 It's also a great place to find the links to new episodes and to chat with us. We're there, or at least I'm there. And if you don't have Facebook, you don't use feed Facebook, you can of course send feedback to the email address feedback at filmspottingsvu dot com. You can find us on other social media platforms. We're on Instagram, We're on Letterbox. I'm on Instagram and Letterbox at super Pulse. I'm on Blue Sky at Matt Singer Jordan.

1:34:58 What are you on these days? Are you back on X? Are you back off X?

1:35:02 I'm off now, I'm off X. I'm good at fi elon Musk and his stupid projects, So I'm off X. But you can contact me on Blue Skyjayhoffman or just send me an email Jordan at filmspottingsvu dot com. I want to hear from you.

1:35:17 There you go, okay. In the meantime film Spotting SV he was produced by Sam Van Halgren, who tied this week's game with me.

1:35:25 We're both dwinners.

1:35:26 That's when I talk about this, we always say we both won. That's that's how I like to look at it. For Philp's body Guess for you, I'm.

1:35:33 Matt Singer and I'm Jordan Hoffman. It was a long episode, but a good one. We'll see you next week and so long