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3:07Today I want to share with you my top 10 favorite A24 films of all time. I bring up this studio constantly, so I want to share with you the 10 movies, and why I feel these really define what A24 is, at least to me in the movie review. We'll be talking about Ridley Scott's The Dog Star, starring Jacob Allordy and Josh Brolin. This movie had very little hype going into it, has Ridley Scott proven himself yet again, or is he on the trajectory of being a director was kind of falling off and really just doing what they want to at this point. And in the trailer park, we'll be talking about Resident Evil. I love director Zach Kregger, and this new trailer has me so excited about Resident Evil, and I didn't even really grow up playing the video game, so we'll get all into that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie Crew, and now let's talk movies. From the Nashville podcast, the word of this is movie mics, movie podcasts. I'm about to get into my top 10 favorite A24 films of all time, but first let's talk about what a movie studio is.

4:12So A24 is just like a Disney, a Warner Bros. a Universal. Sometimes I need things as an adult broken down to me as if I was five years old. So in the case of that, a movie studio is like a giant magical toy factory, but instead of making toys, they make stories. How does it work? You get the idea. Someone brings a cool story idea to the factory, like a story about a brave night, or maybe a talking dog. And then the studio provides the money. The big boss is that the studio give out bags of money to pay for everything needed to make that story come to life. And then you have all the helpers, the hired actors who play pretend you have the people who operate the camera still film it, and the builders who make this fake castle for this fantasy story that you're putting together about this brave night, or maybe the talking dog. And then you have the sharing of the film. So once the movie is actually finished, the studio shares it with the movie theaters, the streaming apps. So everybody around the world can watch it. So that is the relation of the film to the movie studio.

5:20And what makes a 24 so different is if I had to describe them in one way, it would be they are the anti Disney. They have a much different approach to making movies because Disney wants everybody to buy a ticket. They are creating movies for gin pop. It is all about getting butts in seats. They want to sell the most tickets to every single movie. That is why Disney is a big proponent of making remakes and making sequels because those are good and reliable and they build their brand. They want everybody to come see the new Disney movie. On the other hand, a 24 wants you to see something that you've never seen before. So they don't really care about making the most money on every single film. So if you think about Disney, they are casting out the widest net possible to catch as many fish, but a 24 is being more specific casting out a smaller net, but hopefully catching some really crazy fish at the bottom of the ocean.

6:23What makes a 24 so different is just that they have smaller budgets. They typically are not spending between 200 to 300 million dollars on every movie like a Disney would. They're on the way lower in. I'm talking 10 million 5 million sometimes even 1 million dollars. The filmmakers in an a 24 film also tend to have more creative freedom. They are able to take bigger swings and making really weird movies. And that is where they kind of thrive again. They are trying to get you to watch something that you've never seen before and they've developed that brand when you see a 24 you know you're going to get a different experience. And oftentimes a 24 movies are going to be ones that you love or you hate sometimes people just outright disgustingly hate a 24 movie because it goes so far in one direction they get so niche that they are often films that some people leave wondering like what did I just watch? But that is the point of it. They have these original ideas that are not dependent on superheroes or sequels or franchises. They just care about giving you a unique experience and they also have a very distinct style and personality.

7:36I would say for the most part every a 24 movie kind of has a tone to it a very creative vision that sets themselves apart from anything else out there and they built their brand on that people see a 24 and they now kind of know what they're getting into much like when you see Disney you kind of know what to expect when you see Pixar you kind of know what you're going to get out of that and a 24 has really developed that in the last five years because they've kind of become a genre in itself where you don't know what they're going to do. Where you don't often hear people say like have you seen the new universal movie but you will hear people saying have you seen the new a 24 movie even though they put out movies constantly and it would be hard for somebody just to hop in and see every single a 24 film. But that is kind of the brand they have it's kind of become like a Google it or an Uber when you want something weird you go to a 24. Alright, so now we know how a movie studio works we know what sets a 24 apart now let's get into my top 10 favorite a 24 films that I feel to me define what the studio is.

8:40So let's get into it now at number 10 I have mid 90s directed by Jonah Hill this movie well like the title implies takes place in the mid 90s it is a coming of age movie about a 13 year old kid who creates a friendship with some older skateboarders. I very much saw myself in this movie and this was Jonah Hill's directorial debut and I feel like he nailed that time period down so well because I grew up in the mid 90s I was born in 91. So watching this movie felt like my childhood even though I really feel like I develop more in the 2000s skate culture but I have so much nostalgia for the 90s and I feel like this perfectly represents that decade where it's not too over the time. So I feel like I'm not going to be the top you don't have people in the flannels listening in a program I feel like it's a much more accurate representation of what real people were like in the 90s. The main kid in this movie also just has a lot of displaced anger and it is him navigating this time period in his life where he just became a teenager he's angry at the world he doesn't get along with his older brother and his parents they fight a lot.

9:52And he finds comfort in this subculture of skaters who are very welcoming even though they are parts of things that maybe a 13 year old should not be a part of drinking drugs and doing things that a 13 year old probably should not be doing and it's all about his summer oh my gosh I loved summer in the 90s. If I could go back to one time period I would just go back to probably the summer of like 98 when I was like seven years old and then growing up I was also super in the skate culture and one of my favorite things to read as a kid was a catalog called CCS magazine I love this thing you would get it for free in the mail. And I actually never ordered anything from it but I would open it up and look at pictures of skateboards and deck after deck of all these things that I would want to never afford my parents also banned me from skateboarding because I probably first started skateboarding when I was eight and me and my cousin started together.

10:57And within the first week of skateboarding my cousin broke his ankle and my parents said you know what we didn't want you doing this to begin with. Cousin just broke his ankle you were never skateboarding again and it did not for a very long time but I was still in the skate culture but I would still get the CCS magazine all the time those catalogs from the 90s oh man just a thought of ordering something from a catalog or off of TV I never did my parents also didn't have a credit card growing up so any time something required a credit card I always thought man I just can't do that I'm not setting a check in the milk and you send cash to the mail but I would look at this magazine. I'd circle the skateboards I would want I would circle the cool backpacks that would hold your skateboard I would build out my skateboard just by looking at all the pictures and what wheels I wanted what trucks I wanted I was so into like the bearings and the all these things that I just looked into this magazine and thought man fantasy. And then whenever we would go to the mall and actually get to go to the skate shop inside the mall it was the coolest thing ever and I think that is what this movie makes me think of it reminds me of my childhood I think if you want to feel nostalgic for what I consider to be.

12:09I kind of go back and forth on what the greatest decade was because I associate so many great things with the 90s but I feel like I develop my personality of what I like more in the 2000s. But if you want to go back and relive what I consider one of the best decades ever and I am biased because I was born in this decade mid 90s is a really great one so at number 10 I have Jonah Hills mid 90s at number nine I have X Machina which is directed by Alex Garland I feel like this movie predicted the future because it came out in 2014 long before AI was as normal as it is to us now even though I don't feel like it's fully normal to us yet. But this year we've kind of wrapped our head more around what AI actually is people are using things like chat GPT more commonly where if you talk about that even just a year ago people were like what is that I don't get it I don't understand it I think we are still fearful of AI and there's a lot of concern on how it's going to change our world my favorite thing to watch right now on tick tock are these robots running on a track and then falling and busting their butt.

13:19Or like lifting weights and then like kind of glitching out I find it fascinating and the fact that X Machina came out in 2014 where we were so far away from this and I think this movie came out now it would feel probably a little bit dated because it is about a robot and a creepy CEO developing this robot in his house I feel like now that would feel way more commonplace because we are seeing this over our social media feeds all the time but what this movie is about you have a programmer. Who gets invited to the CEO's house to administer this test on this robot that his boss has kind of been creating in secret and you learn a lot about why he's kind of been creating it in secret and the morality is of creating a human like robot which I think man we're probably just a decade away from that as I see these robots being developed with AI getting a little bit more sophisticated where right now like I was mentioning there in that stage where it's kind of comical because they are trying to do human like things. And it's still very awkward but I think back to whenever the airplane was created and everybody thought the right brothers were crazy that they were wasting their time on this technology that humans would never fly on a airplane and now that is so common I think that's kind of how I'm feeling about these robots being built where it looks kind of funny now and you think why are they wasting their time developing these robots just to make them run on a track this is never going to work it also makes me a little bit fearful knowing that eventually they're going to get better.

14:48And as soon as these things are turned into weapons that that's where I start to get what are we doing here I try not to think too much about the things we've seen in movies and be influenced by that because everybody starts holding things like terminator or or I robot and if we think that all those things are going to happen just because they happened in a movie I don't want to get too much into that mentality and maybe that's just me kind of comforting myself but this movie is about kind of the dilemmas of that and what is it. I think that's going a little bit too far. The CEO is also a very unlikeable arrogant guy even though he is brilliant and I feel like we have a lot of those in the world now you feel very sympathetic for the robot in this movie named Ava who is very advanced very human like but also powered by artificial intelligence has a synthetic brain has like this trans parent mechanical body so it's very weird but this movie was so well.

15:48So I'm going to go ahead of its time and it's a very thrilling and entertaining movie that by the end of it you'll probably have your jaw on the floor just a little bit so if you like sci-fi thrillers this is truly one of the best ones of the 2010s at number nine is X machina at number eight is a movie called green room which I believe is one of the most underrated movies in the A24 catalog. And on Yelchin who died tragically at the age of 27 man this one really hit me because he was so young and had such a promising career it is one of my favorite movies of his he was also really great alpha dog man his character alpha dog that was that was a hard one to watch but green room came out in 2015 which I feel this was when a 24 was still the really cool studio there so much more mainstream now where when this movie came out I feel like they didn't really have the A24 identity yet but what the movie is about and why I love it so much is that it's about a punk rock band they go to this really crappy like die bar roadhouse type venue where even they don't really fit in and they become trapped in the venue in well the green room.

17:07And it turns into one of the most violent movies I've ever seen where the movie is only about an hour and a half and it is so charged up with action. It just constantly provides you with reals it is very bloody and gory so if you don't like a lot of that people getting slashed up and people fighting they find themselves in all that war with this very dangerous group of individuals. We're probably the worst individuals on earth and this is one of those movies that is also even at times hard for me to watch because I don't like seeing people get in pale and broken both and all those things like those are the things that evoke emotion people going through something that I don't want to experience and sometimes in horror movies. And I think there's a difference because in a slasher movie I don't really feel as bad when somebody dies in a slasher movie because it feels a little bit more cartoonish for some reason where it really feels like I'm watching something fake it's just a slasher movie it's kind of the fun part of it.

18:11But when it's a little bit more realistic like it is in green room where you feel bad for these people and you want everybody to survive because it seems a lot more realistic than just a slasher movie that becomes. Harder for me to watch this is also one of those movies I look back and think how do they get these people to be a part of the cast because one of the main people is Patrick Stewart and you also make in Blair and calumpturner do it leap us husband himself is in this movie. But again this was 10 years ago before he's having the career that he is having now so if you like horror action movies also if you're into punk rock like me. I think you would enjoy green room to one of the most underrated a 24 films and I have it at number eight at number seven I have sing sing which stars Coleman Domingo I think when this movie came out. It's solidified my love for Coleman Domingo he is a very powerful actor he also has an amazing voice where I would just love Coleman Domingo to narrate my life if I could get him to do the voice over for this podcast that would be.

19:16Peak for me but I feel like he is really come into Jen pop famous in the last three years and I think people are seeing how much of a range she has for movies like sing sing which are very dramatic and emotional but then you can do like an over the top larger than life character in a movie like the running man he is also fantastic in four seasons on Netflix and then he was probably my favorite character in disclosure day. I guess Emily blood's character was a little bit stronger than him but as far as the side characters and supporting cast he is why I continue to watch that movie and not lose my mind but what sing sing is about you have a group of prisoners inside of sing sing correctional facility so that is where the name comes from it is a maximum security prison and they form a theater group. And the entire movie is them putting on an original production what I love the most about sing sing and what I kind of thought going into it was all this is just going to be a prison movie we're going to see a lot of things like people smuggling and drugs we're going to see violence it's going to depict prison in a way that we've seen before in a lot of movies and sing sing is not that whatsoever it demonstrates how people can end up in prison by making some mistakes.

20:34Or at times falsely put into prison because that is what happens to Coleman Domingo's character he goes to sing sing for a crime he did not commit but yet he is there trying to find his purpose by acting in this theater group with these other incarcerated men and then you have this newcomer joining the prison and joining the theater group. And it's a story about resilience humanity and also the powerful form of art and why something like a theater group in prison is so important and I think what this movie does is humanized prisoners in a way that I feel is authentic because a lot of the people in this movie we're actually incarcerated individuals and you see that at the end of the film. Where if you love movies that in the credits they show you the actual people doing the actual production that is a part of this story it shows you that they can live very emotional lives that they are very vulnerable that they even have the capacity to be creative in one of the most harshest prisons that there are.

21:38So it takes away that feeling of prison being something dangerous even though that danger is kind of lingering there you do see some emotions get high at times. But I love the fact that they depicted prisoners in a way that we don't often see depicted in movies and TV shows and I think that is why this movie felt like a big warm comforting hug. So at number seven I have sing sing at number six I have the whale directed by Darren Aeronovsky Britain and Fraser is probably having the biggest comeback that I've ever seen in my lifetime in this movie oh man there are so many things that just punched me right in the gut what the whale is about. You have a morbidly obese man who has become a recluse he is an English teacher in the entire story is him trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter played in the movie by Sadie sink where she was still full stranger things at this time and now I feel like after spider man brand new day she is going to be on an entirely different level.

22:43But this was still very early Sadie sink and Brennan Fraser gave an amazing performance I love that he won the Oscar for this movie and I think why this movie hits so much with me and why I felt so emotional watching it is because for the majority of my life I was obese and it was very hard for me to relate to anybody who was not like me who didn't have to deal with the things I dealt with on a daily basis not so much from a health standpoint. But just how you are treated by people how being obese is depicted in movies and TV shows how you're always kind of the butt of a joke and in this film. Brennan Fraser's character is obese because he is trying to get over the loss of his partner and it puts him into this down spiral where he just starts eating a lot he just keeps getting bigger and bigger as he eats more and more to kind of push down all the feelings and he gets to a point where he can barely get up off of the couch.

23:46Let alone leave his apartment and he becomes basically confined to those four walls he is still teaching over zoom. He also feels a lot of shame and how he looks because he doesn't like turning on his camera for his students to see him. But you find that his soul is so tender and his mind is so profound and very articulate on top of him trying to connect with his teenage daughter who basically hates him. Or ending up the way he is ended up and not really being there for her movies very complex so it hit me in a way that I was not expecting because I have not seen obesity portrayed like this where it's not making fun of it. It is not downplaying his emotions. It also shows you how he struggles with food, which is what I did for a large majority of my life at a very unhealthy relationship where I would get to these low points that. I was like man probably the heaviest I've ever been it is so hard for me to lose weight. I tried and failed many many times but it was just so difficult for me where people were probably looking at me thinking like why don't you just lose the way just stop eating.

24:59Not that easy when you have this almost addictive relationship with food and I think for some people it's a lot easier to see an addiction where it's something that is more dangerous to your health like drugs and alcohol. Where people take that a little bit more seriously but if you say you have a food addiction people are like well you just stop eating the cheetos and that is how I felt that people were treating me at times where I wanted to stop having all these things that were not benefiting my body and putting me in a place I did not want to be. But it was not that simple for me until I decided to finally make a change in where it actually stuck and I found something that worked for me. But I felt so much sympathy for his character because he wanted to be healthier he wanted to be there for his daughter but he was struggling so much mentally and had all of this grief and that is how it all manifested into the real world. This movie also kind of plays out like well a play where it feels kind of like a one man show it times it also takes place primarily in his apartment.

26:04So it kind of has that feeling of everybody coming to him. So if you took this movie and had a broadway production of it hey maybe throw some songs in there I feel like it would translate so well. So probably seeing a theme here throughout some of my picks is I enjoy seeing certain people represented in a way that feels more human. Especially in movies and TV shows where it's so easy to poke fun at somebody who is overweight so easy to poke fun at somebody who ends up in prison because that is what sometimes movies do maybe not poke fun at people in prison but paint them out to be the dangerous criminals in thugs. I think we should think about why people end up the way that they do some outside factors that sometimes we become very narrow minded. And I think the whale probably opened up the minds of some people of how someone could end up in the situation man this movie said it will make you cry won't really make you laugh so if you don't like movies that are just a bit of a bummer all the way around maybe not for you but this movie really means a lot to me so at number six I have the whale.

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32:37And number five I have the drama with Robert Padsson and Zendaya. This movie is about them about to get married when all of a sudden one of them reveals a very deep and dark secret that changes everything about the way that they feel about each other to the point that they wonder. Should they even get married the drama that is revealed. It is some good drama. This is also a really hard movie to talk about. Even though it came out earlier this year, there are some news stories around the time it came out kind of revealing the actual dark secret. So I don't want to say too much about what that is because I feel like if you haven't seen the drama yet, which it is available streaming now on HBO Max, which a lot of a 24 films end up going to HBO Max. So if you can't find it there because sometimes they remove them for an odd reason most of them at least once they hit the actual streaming date should be available on HBO Max, but then sometimes they just get rid of them.

33:42But I don't want to get into much about what the drama is because if you watch it and don't know that moment hits so much even though it was ruined to me because of a new story that came out before I went to go see it. It still comes out of nowhere and it is a very compelling and at times you don't know how to feel about the way it is depicted because it is so dark and twisted and something that should not be glorified. But if it wasn't that dark and twisted, the movie would lose that impact of being so compelling enough to create this entire storyline, create all this tension. You also have some really odd supporting cast members who make the drama even more dramatic. And I think I also love this movie because it has two of my favorite actors right now who have been crushing it this year and have also been in multiple movies together because this was kind of the opening act to the movie. Opening act to the Odyssey, where is in day in Robert Pattinson also gave fantastic performances there.

34:45So I ended up really enjoying this movie so much so that it's probably going to end up on my top 10 movies of the year. We still have a good ways to go. But it's one of those movies that you're either going to love your hate again that is kind of the theme here with a 24 where you could be so disgusted by it that you hate it. But if you love movies that are inherently awkward and have situations that kind of question what you would do in your life. If you found out this about your partner, how would you react to that situation? It will make you look a little bit inward. There are also some slightly comedic moments at times that kind of add a little levity to the heaviness of this movie. Not that it's the most dramatic thing ever or the saddest thing ever. It's just the hard thing to kind of peel through the layers of. So at number five, I have the drama. At number four is probably my most controversial pick and the movie I reviewed and recommended to everybody.

35:45And I was so surprised how many people hated this movie. I thought I was an idiot for loving it. But at number four, I have Midsummer or Midsummer, however you choose to pronounce it directed by Ari Aster, starting Florence Pew. This movie is about a group of friends who go on a trip to Sweden and they go for this festival that occurs once every 90 years. And they think everything is normal. It's going to be a fun trip to Sweden. There's a little bit of awkwardness and Florence Pew even going on this trip where some of the people on the trip don't want to there. And then pretty quickly as some very peculiar things start happening, she realizes I should have never come on this trip because now we are looking face to face with a pagan cult. When I first watched this movie, my mouth was wide open at moments where there are some very shocking violent actions that just come out of nowhere. I remember watching it for the first time and being so compelled by the story, the imagery I still have burned into my mind where I feel like out of any A24 movie, this movie has the best visual palette and the cinematography and the set design.

37:01And there's one moment in particular where Florence Pew is screaming her brains out. She has this very what I now believe is an iconic flower crown. And there is just something about the juxtaposition of these beautiful floral images and some of the most violent things I've ever seen in a movie that it just creates this unique contrast. And I love that contrast. I love beautiful things next to horrific things. And I love Florence Pew. I feel like this was probably one of the movies that really made me a huge fan of hers realizing delivering such a powerful performance that by the end of this, I was ready to give her a n Oscar. But why I think so many people in this movie is because it gets very weird very quickly. It is also a movie you really have to pay attention to and you almost have to really settle into and be open to the weirdness otherwise you're going to have a really bad time.

38:01And I also think that is on par for a lot of the more off center A24 films that are a hard sell to I would say most people who just like to go in and watch a movie and disconnect from reality, which I get that. But I think sometimes I just want to watch something so weird. Like I mentioned earlier, A24 films want to give you something that you've never seen before. And that is exactly what mid-Summer does. So that is what I believe it is a great representation of this studio. It takes very big swings. It doesn't try to be like anything else. There are not many films I can compare this movie to. Yes, I'm sure you could dive deep into movie history and say this movie basically ripped off this movie. It also came out and what I believe to be one of the greatest years in film of all time 2019 so many bangers in 2019 although I do feel like 2026 is really giving 20 19 a good run for its money. We're going to see how things shake out by the end of the year, but even at this point, God feel like 2026 is kicking 2019's butt right now.

39:06But I have learned from the feedback I received after recommending this movie as one of my favorite A24 films so much so that even after hearing me talk about it, I still do not recommend it because you're probably going to have a bad time. That's what I learned that this is the movie I love the most that people hate the most. And sometimes films are just going to be like that. And that is what I love about doing this podcast is I love finding those films and there are also other movies that people love that I do not understand and I get the hate there too as well. So at number four, I stand by it is midsummer. I also think people hate when I call the midsummer because everybody else just calls it midsummer. It's more fun to say people. All right, getting into the top three now at number three, everything everywhere all at once directed by the Daniels, who man, I'm still waiting for their next movie. The movie is about a Chinese American immigrant who leaps between some parallel universes in order to save the multiverse.

40:11This movie came out back in 2022 where Marvel was deep in the battles of creating their own multiverse and making that idea mainstream. And when everything everywhere all at once came out, I thought, man, they just put Marvel to shame because they truly showed how powerful a story about a multiverse can be and they nailed it perfectly better than anything Marvel did to have a maybe you would argue no way home. But I feel like this is what a multiverse movie should be because they were able to explore so many different genres of film that is what a multiverse should be you should be able to create different visual styles and have one movie that feels like several different movie seeing these characters in different ways all throughout. That is what made this movie so groundbreaking that is why it set records at the Oscars because it was so unlike anything that came out now. Now do I believe at this point this movie is a little bit overrated that is unfortunately what happens because I love this movie when I went to go see opening weekend and then the bus started to build after that and then whenever the Oscars rolled around the next year and it swept it did so well.

41:24That is usually when people are like man this movie won so many Oscars now I need to go watch it if everybody's loving it so much I need to go see what it's about and then those people are kind of met with like it wasn't that good. This movie didn't deserve to win all these Oscars all you people are idiots this movie sucks that is just what happened so I do think at this point it's a little bit overrated and that's okay. I can still go back and watch this movie and enjoy it. I also believe in a world where we rarely get great movie quotes anymore this has one of my favorite movie quotes of the 2020s and that quote is from her husband in the movie who tells her so even though you have broken my heart yet again I wanted to say in another life I would have really like just doing laundry and taxes with you such a great memorable line that stuck with me solid in theaters and that moment stuck in my mind. I think I had to quote a movie from the last five years that is really the only line that comes to mind I would have really like just doing laundry and taxes with you I know what that's from I memorized it I memorized that from watching a movie we do not have that happen much anymore the Daniels also did another great a 24 movie that came out in 2016 called Swiss Army man but at number three I have everything everywhere all at once.

42:44At number two speaking of crime while watching movies I have the iron cloth saw once in theaters saw once at home I am yet to revisit this movie for a third time because every time I've seen it up to this point I cry even sometimes I'll just see somebody post that image of Zach Efron at the end of the movie talking to his boys if I just see that frame instantly just starts making me tear up as well but this movie is about the Vaughn Eric family who are a wrestling family that this movie makes you wonder where they actually curse because so many tragic things happen to every single member of this family it was so tragic that they actually had to take out some of the tragedy because they thought that it would be unbelievable to the audience like how could one family go through all these harsh things they surely have to be making some of this up for the movie right no they're actual real life was much more tragic there is one brother completely left out of the movie because they thought man we can't put this much grief into one movie but I think this movie combines a lot of things won my love of wrestling which wrestling in the seventies and eighties was before me even some of the early 90s stuff I know from watching like old specials and old WrestleMania's but I'm not super familiar with that.

44:05that era of wrestling, which is where the Von Erichs come from, attitude era in the 90s and early 2000s. That is my jam. And now I have gotten more into wrestling again, in the last, I would say probably three to four years, especially now with Unreal on Netflix, which I kind of feel is the best way to watch wrestling to me because I don't have to keep up week after week. And I get kind of a nice little concise storyline along with all the behind-the-scenes stuff. But in the 90s, I was watching it all the time, 2000s watching it all the time. The Von Erichs were before I was really into wrestling before I was even really alive. So learning about their story and even though it's not fully about wrestling, it is a story about brothers. And I have a brother who I love so deeply. He's been my best friend since I was a kid. And we grew up together. And I think seeing that story portrayed between these brothers of growing up together, but also working together in a very harsh business, which wrestling is an

45:08incredibly difficult profession where they often get criticized for. It's not real, it's not real, it's fake, it's not even a sport. I think people don't realize how much a toll this wrestling takes on your body even though it is a fixed outcome. They know who is going to win. They rehearse these things. It's very calculated and formulaic, but that does not mean it doesn't wear these people down. If you watch in real, you see they have real life injuries. And I think people also minimize how hard the road is and how constant it is, which is something I've learned from watching in real. Is it never stops? It's 24, 7, it is 52 weeks a year. Wherever year they have their biggest event, WrestleMania on a Saturday and a Sunday and immediately on the next Monday, they roll right back into it and have to start over again. So it is incredibly grueling for these people that even though they are not enduring what an MMA fighter would endure or what a boxer would endure,

46:12so much so that growing up I wanted to be a wrestler, but after watching Unreal, I think, man, I would have never had what it takes to live the life that they live. Could I do some of the physical stuff? Maybe. Could I have gotten that bulky? No, I couldn't do that. So there are a lot of things that probably kept me from ever pursuing wanting to be a wrestler, but seeing what the life is actually like, oh, I could have never done it. And seeing this story in the Iron Claw makes you even more sympathetic to all professional wrestlers. So that is why I have the Iron Claw at number two, but at number one, my favorite A24 movie of all time because it was my best in theater experience, primarily because I love movies that give me a lot of anxiety, even though I have a lot of anxiety already as a normal human. I love going to the theater and feeling like, I need to be on the edge of my seat. That is literally how I felt while watching uncut gems directed by the Safty Brothers starring Adam Sandler where he plays a guy who works and owns a jewelry store in

47:16New York City and he is addicted to gambling and he needs to get a very precious gem to pay off his gambling debts. What the Safty Brothers do is they often create unlikable leads where I look at movies like uncut gems or Marty Suprem where you don't really like the main character because they are doing things that are so annoying and hurtful to the people around them. They are not good people, but you don't see them as the lead that you want to be or hang out with. You see them as the lead. You're like, what do you do and bro, you're idiot. And that is what we get in uncut gems because he consistently is just terrible at gambling and keeps upping the Annie trying to make all his money back. He is very chaotic and I felt so stressed just in the first 30 minutes of this movie that I loved that feeling that it gave me. It was also a much different look at Adam Sandler where it's not really full on dramatic Adam Sandler that you would get in

48:18like a punch drunk love. It is the real dramatic Adam Sandler where he plays the character that really doesn't look like him as a much different style that I've ever seen from Adam Sandler and maybe ever will again now that he's full on into happy Gilmore 2 and now doing grownups 3. I don't know if we're ever going to get another performance like this and I love the style that the Safty Brothers do where the cinematography and the editing is so chaotic and fits the actions so well. It has that film like feel to it big close-ups great action they have oftentimes the best chase scenes in any a 24 movie but I can also see why people would not like this movie if you don't like very chaotic situations they make you feel like what is going to happen here and things that kind of come out of nowhere very shocking twists and turns you're gonna have a bad time watching a movie like Uncut Gems but this was the movie that really introduced me to the Safty Brothers and

49:23I went back and watched other movies of theirs like Good Time which also stars Robert Pattinson and I realized how great they are at creating tense crime thrillers. I also feel like they're kind of going in different directions because Josh Safty directed Marty Suprem on his own while Ben Safty directed the rock in the smashing machine on his own and I feel like Ben Safty is kind of going in the direction of being an actor now he was in the Odyssey he was also in Well Happy Gilmore 2 where he was the villain in that so that Adam Sandler connection is there he was also the voice of Bowser Jr. in the Super Mario Galaxy movie so maybe they hate each other at this point or maybe they just want to have their own identities and not be a brother directing duo anymore but man when they are together I feel like that is when they are at their best because at number one my favorite a 24 film of all time I have Uncut Gems I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of the dog stars. If you're bookshelf and you're for you page are equally important to your

50:27personality welcome home this is Pro's Society the weekly podcast that's Part Book Club Part group chat for thought daughters pop culture obsessives and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books the internet and the conversations everyone can't stop having I'm going to have to look up this story from bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments nothing is off the table it's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is the Trojan horse whether you're looking for literary deep dives smart pop culture conversations or a community of readers who love to think a little too much you're in the right place listen to pro society on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts see you between the pages hi this is Kylie breakman angel jaretana jermick olhane kashk McDonald and we're the hosts of the artists on artists on artists on artist

51:31podcast the improvised character comedy podcast were each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft join us for a panel of wellness influencers what I try to do is faux journal I don't know if you guys heard of faux journaling yeah it's reading it's called reading you so you're so we don't like to use that word anymore okay a panel of New Yorker cartoonists have you guys done Terry grosses peloton class no i've been dying too i'm so sorry i'm i'm seeing a reading of sedaco in the thousand thousand paper cranes by alderman donalds at the wonderland bookstore 14 that's crazy i went to the wonderland bookstore yesterday and i heard nor jones do a reading of zero dark 30 no way you have to come to the last bookstore though kim katral is reading the guitar tabs of yesterday a panel of Eurovision participants and we do a little Halloween sometimes does the pope dress up he he winks on a lowly it's right up next to the microphone you can i hear you get the elbows here the eyelashes hate each other you never seen

52:33it leased so quiet as when the pope gets up to wink on halloween listen to artists on artists on artists on artists on the i heard radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts self-cast of temba is here which means it's time to rethink what self-care actually means yes self-care can be a long walk it can be in everything shower it can be putting your phone on do not disturb but sometimes it's actually about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff and understanding your patterns your boundaries finally figuring out while you keep doing things that you swore you would never do again i'm james beg the host of the psychology of your 20s podcast and each week we unpack the psychology behind the experiences that shape your 20s from relationships and friendships to money anxiety confidence attachment just becoming more comfortable with who you are unlike the quarter life crisis which is depicted as the collapse the quarter life reinvention is the expansion and corth of something when we develop the ability to be happy by ourselves nobody else can take that from you so this self-care September don't just take

53:35care of yourself get to know yourself as well listen to the psychology of your 20s on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hey everyone it's the Jonas Brothers with the hey Jonas podcast we've been catching up with some great friends Paul Rod Michael Boulier Seth Meyers Nile Horan Jake Shane and making some new friends while getting into what's really like to have sisters like Alex Nassian Earl she likes to control everyone and tell everyone okay well control is a harsh word i would say that's a harsh word i am more outspoken growing up a lot of the times because she was so quiet i would speak for like the both of us now i'm working on like thinking a mom really not thinking before i speak and joey king you know if you're like mom is yelling at your sibling and even if you're annoyed with your sibling you just like won't let that slide it's like you only you can yell at your sibling i'm like you can't do that here that is not what talk about her like that i just like about her like that last we've been taking your calls listening to your voice mails and giving advice or at least trying to so if you've

54:37got catching up to do now's the perfect time listen to hey Jonas on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts what would change if you stopped letting money stress run your life sis i'm mandy money host of brown ambition the podcast and right now i'm taking you through my six part money reboot series this is your chance to hit reset break the debt cycle get honest about where your money's going build a savings plan that actually sticks and start making financial choices that support the life you want not just the bills you have because wealth building is not about being perfect it's about having a plan knowing your numbers and making your next move with confidence with the community that cares like we do on brown ambition each episode gives you practical steps real talk and the motivation to stop putting your financial goals on hold so if you've been saying i'll get serious about money next month this is your sign start now listen to brown ambition that's brown ambition and begin your money reboot today listen to brown ambition on

55:41the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts if i didn't have regal unlimited i would want my money back for the dog stars one of the biggest disappointments as we close out the summer blockbuster season and the wild thing is you have so many great ingredients legendary director really Scott who was given this movie is like gladiator the alien franchise the martian maybe has fallen off a little bit in the last five years with movies like Napoleon that was utterly terrible but it's okay he is still that dude he is still somebody who knows how to make a great film i started reading all these articles about how he read 30 pages of the dog stars and was like i got to make this movie it is based upon a book which is crazy to me thinking about poorly written i felt this story was like how how did they mess this up so you have really Scott who knows what he is doing at this point in his life and his career and he can basically do

56:41whatever he wants but then you have Josh bro and fantastic actor Jacob ballerdy who is still on his rise to start him as being the leading man probably takes him down a page in my book after his performance in this that was very wooden and stiff and unlike i've really seen him in a role like this because i like him as an actor i feel like he has something to offer that not a lot of people have right now one he is visually striking and i think that actually hurt him in this movie because it takes place in 2035 a post apocalyptic world where there's just this generic virus that is taking everybody out you don't really learn a whole lot about the virus it's not really about the virus but everything about this movie feels so generic it feels like it's straight out of the box there are no bells and whistles everything is so dry where is the flavor there's no flavor in this movie it feels like a lot of great ingredients just slapped together by a chef who did not care

57:42about the outcome i like Jacob ballerdy i like Josh brolin i really like Margaret quality who i have been pushing so much to do something great and i thought maybe this would be it but i really think in this movie her character was just underdeveloped and underserved by the plot that it wasn't really her fault this entire thing felt like a really slow car wreck where it was a very slow burn nothing really happens for the first 30 minutes of the film and i thought okay maybe this is just one of those movies you have to settle into maybe it's a bit of a cozy vibe and what this movie is about not a spoiler but you learn about it in the trailer he is living with Josh brolin after losing his wife and he is a pilot so he flies into the city gather supplies and end up some supply drops on the way back home but it is about him still struggling with the loss of his wife and adapting to this new life that you basically have to live in solitude and really only look out for yourself so a lot of the first 30 and 40 minutes of this movie is just him flying

58:45so i thought okay maybe this is just kind of one of those cozy films that it's about taking in nature i start to appreciate the art of aviation and i thought maybe this is just going to be a very chill movie and then something unfortunate happens that leaves Jacob all right to finally decide all right i want to go see what else is out there because at one point when he is flying he picks up this random radio transmission and he believes that there is this place somewhere where people are living and it's like this utopia and in the post apocalyptic world movie there's always this city that is promised to people that it's kind of this metaphor for hope that you go there and everything's fine it feels most like what you remember before the world ended and that felt very generic and bland but it takes something very tragic to get him there to get him to decide i want to leave here i wanted to disrupt this cozy life and go out and see the world but by the time that actually started happening i was so disinterested in this movie where i never felt like Jacob

1:00:13looking car heart jacket that was like aged in the appropriate way i just felt like his entire outfit was put together by a costume designer who paid way too much money to make him look good and it did not fit the time period same thing with Margaret quality she was wearing makeup and no way in 2035 where they have very limited supplies she can't even eat certain foods that she remembers and loves because she can't acquire them but you expect me to believe that somehow she not only is able to find all this makeup but still even cares to put it on so from a visual standpoint i feel like these pieces did not mix and that is only a small thing that annoyed me about this movie this movie just did not make any sense and i know people are going to say it's based on a book if you read the book you would understand the book okay i haven't read the book i'll be upfront with you about that but a book still has to be adapted into a screenplay that screenplay is turned into a movie

1:01:13this did not feel cohesive whatsoever it felt like a 10 year old made this story where you just start throwing in a bunch of random groups of people fighting you bring in these characters that are way too wacky and don't fit the tone of it these things just keep happening out of nowhere and they don't advance the plot whatsoever and it ends up just feeling like store brand cereal the plot points were uninteresting the visuals were pretty bad had some of the worst explosions i've seen in a movie of this size where i could literally like see the rendering in some of the fire and explosions that i could tell they cut corners where corners needed to be cut also with things like sound effects which is something that sticks out to me a lot whenever movies use stock sound effects that you could just go on youtube or any generic sound effects site and find there's one scene towards the end of the movie that is the generic kids laughing scene when you hear this sound you know it

1:02:15because you've heard it probably in a hundred movies that thought you know what we need kids laughing there's probably some weird movie role where they have to default to use certain sound effects instead of like paying a kid actor but the fact that it's just something that you could rip off the internet and put into a movie in a sound i've heard so many times in all random projects to have it in a movie of this size that is trying to get you to go see this movie in iMacs pay a premium amount to see and they're using stock sound effects that is crazy to me the score was also so uninteresting the entire time you have like this really slow acoustic guitar that's just like bending a couple of notes it also sounds like they just went to the internet and said acoustic guitar sad let's put that in the movie they use the same style of guitar over and over again that i grew tired of hearing it i should not feel that way about your score and then they tried to mix in like some of the drone

1:03:18sounds like this one note that was just like brrr trying to give it some sense of identity in an audio landscape and it just failed that makes with the flat set design there was nothing interesting about this movie and about this setting i also think shows like the last of us have ruined me on what post apocalyptic shows and movie should be because what the last of us gets right is making the virus interesting something that you want to explore something that is a character in itself i want to know more about that virus why it killed so many people how was created in this movie they just kind of hint at well everybody got sick and that's just the way it is that's just the world we live in now that is so boring to me in the last of us you also have really great intense action that are caused by actual friction between the two types of people that you have in a post apocalyptic world because you always have the two types of people in a post apocalyptic world you have the people just trying to live a normal life they mean no harm they just want to find

1:04:19some food and some water and maybe form a little community and then you have the people who are there to create chaos that are there to kill that are there to steal and in the last of us they do a really great job at creating very dynamic groups of people where in the dog stars it was dog crap the only thing that saved this movie just a little bit was Josh rolling because i feel like he always shows up gives a hundred percent he knows what his character actually is in this movie and is able to deliver if this movie has any heart whatsoever it is because of Josh Brolin they also tried to force in this love story between a lordy and qually and they had no chemistry whatsoever there was never any bond between any of these characters that are going through what it's supposed to be this really crazy journey i did not feel like writing along with them i actually wanted to jump out of the plane so for the dog stars i give it two out of five expensive car heart jackets if your bookshelf and your four-year page are equally important to your personality welcome home

1:05:25this is pro's society the weekly podcast that's part book club part group chat for thought daughters pop culture obsessives and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse i'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books the internet and the conversations everyone can't stop having i'm gonna have to look up this story i'm obsessed oh i'm obsessed from best-selling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments nothing is off the table it's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is the Trojan horse whether you're looking for literary deep dives smart pop culture conversations or a community of readers who love to think a little too much you're in the right place listen to pro society on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts see you between the pages hi this is highly breakman angel jaretana jermick olhane kashkamer khanel and we're the hosts of the artists on artists

1:06:25on artists on artists podcast the improvised character comedy podcast were each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft join us for a panel of wellness influencers what i try to do is photo journal i don't know i think i sort of photo journaling yeah it's reading it's called reading so you're so we don't like to use that word anymore okay a panel of new yorker cartoonists have you guys done terry grosses peloton class no i've been dying too i'm so sorry i'm i'm seeing a reading of siddaco in the p thousand paper cranes by adromant donalds at the wonderland bookstore 14 that's crazy i went to the wonderland bookstore yesterday and i heard nor a challenge to a reading of zero dark thirty no way i have to come to the last bookstore though kim kathol is reading the guitar tabs of yesterday a panel of Eurovision participants and we do a little Halloween sometimes does the pope dress up he he winks on a loo it's right up next to the microphone you get i hear you get the elbows here the eyelashes hate each other you never seen italy so quiet

1:07:29as when the pope gets up to wink on halloween listen to artists on artists on artists on artists on the i heard radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts self-cars September is here which means it's time to rethink what self-care actually means yes self-care can be a long walk it can be in everything shower it can be putting your phone on do not disturb but sometimes it's actually about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff and understanding your patterns your boundaries finally figuring out why you keep doing things that you swore you would never do again i'm jenna speg the host of the psychology of your 20s podcast and each week we unpack the psychology behind the experiences that shape your 20s from relationships and friendships to money anxiety confidence attachment just becoming more comfortable with who you are unlike the quarter life crisis which is depicted as the collapse the quarter life reinvention is the expansion and corth of something when we develop the ability to be happy by ourselves nobody else can take that from you so this self-care September don't just take care of yourself get to know yourself as well listen to

1:08:32the psychology of your 20s on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hey everyone it's the Jonas Brothers with the hey Jonas podcast we've been catching up with some great friends Paul Rod Michael Blay Seth Meyers Nile Horan Jake Shane and making some new friends while getting into what's really like to have sisters like Alex Nassian Earl she likes to control everyone okay well control is a harsh word i would say that's a harsh word i am more outspoken growing up a lot of the times because she was so quiet i would speak for like the both of us now i'm working on like thinking a mom is really not good thinking before i speak and joey king you know if you're like mom is yelling at your sibling and even if you're annoyed with your sibling you just like won't let that slide it's like you only you can yell at your sibling i'm like you can't do that here that is not about about her like that i just like about her like that plus we've been taking your calls listening to your voice mails and giving advice or at least trying to so if you've got catching up to do now's the perfect time listen to hey Jonas

1:09:34on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts what would change if you stopped letting money stress run your life sis i'm mandy money host of brown ambition the podcast and right now i'm taking you through my six part money reboot series this is your chance to hit reset break the debt cycle get honest about where your money is going build a savings plan that actually sticks and start making financial choices that support the life you want not just the bills you have because wealth building is not about being perfect it's about having a plan knowing your numbers and making your next move with confidence with the community that cares like we do on brown each episode gives you practical steps real talk and the motivation to stop putting your financial goals on hold so if you've been saying i'll give serious about money next month this is your sign start now listen to brown ambition that's brown ambition and begin your money reboot today listen to brown ambition on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts

1:10:45i apologize for being so late on the resident evil trailer it's already coming out next week on september 18th i was walking into the theater recently and i saw they had the big poster out front the big cardboard one with the door and all the people's arms and hands and limbs coming out of the door which is a great visual and then when i went to go see insidious the trailer played before it and i thought man that looks really good i can't wait for that to come out oh that's coming out next week crazy to me because i love directors that crager who also did barbarian he did weapons and i think he is somebody who has such a distinct vision on every single movie and is the person to revive the resident evil franchise i think why i was kind of putting this movie off in my head is because i wasn't that big a fan of all the movies from the 2000s and 2010s they had six of those movies and i feel like those don't really have an impression on my mind i also

1:11:49didn't grow up playing the video game i remember somebody having maybe resident evil two on n64 and then maybe i had a demo on playstation two but i never fully committed myself to a resident evil game so i had most dabbled in the video game never completed one but i am familiar with the survival horror video games they were always super fun to play late at night you turn off all the lights and it just you and the glow of the tv and then everything on screen is dark until your enemy pop saline you got a shoot and kill them great concept for a young kid playing video games but what this movie is about it stars austin abrums who was also in weapons is kind of having a bit of a moment right now in hollywood and he plays a medical career who has to fight through an outbreak of infected monsters as he goes to a place called raccoon city trying to make a delivery just to make some extra money so we'll get into this movie a little bit more again it's coming out next week

1:12:49on september 18th but right now here's just a little bit of the resident evil trailer anybody order a kid near liver whatever this is anybody it seems like it's kind of important chain you got time for another run no i'm wrapped up in the town side the zone so it pays double i could do that sweetheart i'm sorry the signal sucks here can you hear me i'm gonna stay with Katie for a bit Michelle please do not go stay with freaking Katie also i'm scared enough to come home and have this conversation seriously i'm working this could be some eight year old boys hearts or someone's mom's brain so what you heard in that trailer was austin abrums going to a hospital to deliver one organ and while he's there someone else working at the hospital says do you want to make double the money for this next delivery he drives out onto the snow field road can barely see in front of him as his lights are blinding through the darkness and then you see this woman walk across his car

1:13:51she looks basically dead she is like white almost like a zombie he hits her and then what you hear there in the trailer is him freaking out where did this woman come from later on he travels and walks to this house in the middle of nowhere trying to find a phone and this trailer has one of the craziest things and scariest things i could imagine happening to me in real life because at one point you see this woman running at him at full speed he is inside the house on the second story trying to make this phone call and this woman is just boom boom boom boom boom charging at him and he starts freaking out he finds a shotgun and then throughout the entire trailer you see him fighting more and more enemies you see that scene i was talking about earlier of all the hand parts and arm parts coming out of the door a lot of things stick out to me in this trailer visually i love all the white snow on the ground and the blood on top of it i think that contrast between pure white snow

1:14:54and really heavy dark red blood on top of it just creates this eye capturing scene i love that so much also the sound design in this trailer is fantastic there is one point you hear this beating on like somebody's chest but then it cuts to the next scene and it's Austin Abrams beating on the door that's a fantastic transition when you hear something think it's one thing and then you move onto the next thing and realize is a completely different thing sound design in this trailer is already fantastic so i can only imagine in the rest of the movie how elevated it is going to be you also have something that i love in trailers is really good use of fonts and graphic design i love there's one moment in particular where you see his windshield wipers go and then it reveals some text because it's those small little details that are important because i think if they pay attention to that little of detail in the trailer i can only imagine the level of detail that goes

1:15:55into the actual movie if you're getting those little things right that means you're getting the big things right and the other thing that sticks out to me about this trailer is that it doesn't feel like your traditional video game adaptation where i feel like it's become so sophisticated as of late where oftentimes directors would have a hard time incorporating things from the video game that would appease the hardcore fans of it because it often came off as a little bit cheesy you would have to do things that are like okay this is exactly what we are doing from the video game but what stands out about the resident evil trailer if you did not know this is a video game you would not think this is a video game adaptation you would just think this looks like a really great like looking horror movie but it's going to be those moments that if you know you know because just from what little i know about the video game and any survival horror game or really any type of video game where you kind of progress as you go along if you think back to James Bond from back in the day golden night

1:16:59I was one of my favorite games when you start out in that game you don't have all the cool weapons you start out like hand chopping people or with like a really low level pistol and as you advance in the game your weapons get more powerful you find more ammo and that is what you see in this trailer where he is starting out with nothing at first and then finds a shotgun but then all the shotgun shells are in different parts of the house and he has to go find them that is very much how things happen in the video game having to find and discover weapons and then probably by the end of this movie he's going to have some insane weapon and it's going to progress little by little so the inclusion of things like that is a little bit more subtle more not the game than just forcing and cramming it in there just to appease the fans and what I love about Zach Kregger is he actually knows this video game really well he sites resident evil 4 as his favorite in the game I saw him do a interview where he ranked all the resident evil games and knew about them in depth so this

1:18:02tells me that he is familiar with the source material and I think right now we live in a fan service society meaning if you're going to make a movie about a video game or if you're going to make a movie about a comic book or even a naction figure or something that we grew up with you have to know the source material because sometimes directors come out and say you know what I don't want to read the original comic book I don't want to play the video game I don't want it to mess with my interpretation I was hired to do a job and I'm going to do that I'm going to create my own vision and that is what you are going to get I don't think that cuts it right now because you have fan bases who are probably the most passionate that they have ever been and able to voice their opinions so easily on the internet I think we also live in a culture where people love breaking things down in Easter eggs and finding all these little details that are maybe a really niche reference to something that is what we crave right now that is what makes things successful

1:19:03it gives movies like this a life beyond the screen as far as when you go see it in theaters it extended its life into social media that is something you have to play into now with working on a franchise like this if you do not understand that as a filmmaker you're going to have a bad time you're not going to see that success you want you're not going to see that word of mouth that you really need to carry this movie through opening weekend and through weekend number two so if you are creating something inside of a franchise that has been around for a while that has source material you have to know it you have to know it well and you have to deliver to those fans we're going to pay their hard earned money to see something that they are familiar with and they grew up with loving you have to appease those fans and I think the great thing here that I am seeing is those elements from the video game that the fans of the game are going to love but it's not going to feel alienating to the person going to watch this movie without knowing anything about the video games to them it'll just feel like a Zach Kregger or a movie so this trailer even though

1:20:09it took a while has me hype on it now I can't wait for it to come out next week and that was this week's edition of movie my trailer part and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast but before I go I got to get my listener shout out of the week this week I'm going over to my Instagram DMs I got a DM from Janet who I am shouting out today and Janet replied to a story I posted with a clip from my review of the end of oak street talking about and half the way having a massive year in 2026 and Janet said have you seen her episode of modern love so good Janet I have seen that episode that first season of modern love on Amazon Prime was phenomenal it is one of those shows that was so good in season one and it got a season two but season two was not as great it did not deliver on the emotions the way season one did but I think and half the ways episode was if not the first best but the second best episode in that

1:21:09first season that was one of those shows that kind of just came out of nowhere everybody was talking about when it came out we all watched it and binge it and loved it and then when the second season wasn't as good we all kind of forgot about it that is a weird thing about TV shows right now I feel like they are so much more fleeting than movies and I know I'm biased I do a movie podcast but there are so many great shows that have one season that we were all about and obsessed with and now we kind of completely forget about and it's just kind of hard for TV shows to have a second life right now where I think older movies that were streaming maybe five years ago it's a little bit easier to rediscover those because they get re added to different services and it kind of becomes new again when say it goes from a Netflix to a hulu to an HBO Max you're like oh I haven't seen this before but it looks new you don't really get that with TV shows especially when they are exclusive to one service like modern love was to amazon prime so it kind of makes me question how

1:22:10TV is going to evolve over the next decade but a fantastic show if you are somebody who likes going back and watching older TV shows that are really good but still nobody's gonna discuss with you at this point even though we're kind of talking about it here now modern love is a good one so thank you Janet for that DM thank you for listening wherever you are and until next time go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later hi this is highly breakman angel jaretana jermico hangtash mcdonald and we're the hosts of the artists on artists on artists on artists podcast the improvised character comedy podcast were each week a new panel of artists discuss their craft join us for a panel of Eurovision participants and we do a little Halloween sometimes does the pope dress up he he winks on a low end it's right up next to the microphone you get I hear you get the elbows here the eyelashes hit each other

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