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Speaker 3: I'm starting to feel disconnected. I reached the number that
Speaker 3: has been disconnected. Hi there, and welcome back to another Thursday,
Speaker 3: and I'm back. I missed last Thursday for the first
Speaker 3: time ever at somebody else host my show, and that
Speaker 3: felt weird as hell. I hope everybody's happy to be
Speaker 3: back to normal. I'm happy because Jake is here. Jake,
Speaker 3: how have you never been here before? That's weird.
Speaker 4: I have no idea. Beats me, man, You've been doing
Speaker 4: this forever, so I'm an episode man.
Speaker 3: Yeah you are. You are very well known around these
Speaker 3: parts and around lines Gate headquarters. How's how's the channel going?
Speaker 4: Same old, same old, but now daily videos? Whether they'd
Speaker 4: be shorter, long form? And the grind never ends? Ryan?
Speaker 4: I know you know that all too well.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I would hesitate to say I know about grinding.
Speaker 3: It wasn't popular in high school, but will say that
Speaker 3: it's been It's been an interesting few years. You know.
Speaker 3: You mentioned something I've always wanted to ask you. How
Speaker 3: would do you prefer long content or short content? Do
Speaker 3: you have something that you prefer making.
Speaker 4: I miss the days of when I started TikTok and
Speaker 4: I can make videos that are like fifteen to thirty seconds.
Speaker 4: That's my sweet spot, just to be like Hey, I
Speaker 4: got a brain farting of an idea that I want
Speaker 4: to pitch out people, and more often than not it
Speaker 4: worked so interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever made anything shorter than about
Speaker 3: two and a half minutes, and I kind of I'm
Speaker 3: very jealous of that. I feel like that would be amazing,
Speaker 3: and then I alwos also feel like I'd edit it
Speaker 3: for like four hours anyway, and something could be a problem. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I'm used to the edit grind, and I more
Speaker 4: often than not, if you have a good idea and
Speaker 4: you just kind of throw it out to the world,
Speaker 4: it's a lot better and it'll get more views than
Speaker 4: if you like spend hours editing whatever you're trying to do.
Speaker 4: It's I love to edit, but I've kind of taught
Speaker 4: myself don't go too crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. I get it. Unfortunately, when you
Speaker 3: have a four hour interview that you need to edit,
Speaker 3: like I right now, it's a mess. Speaking of interviews,
Speaker 3: you have stepped into the interview game over the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. What is what is your favorite interview
Speaker 3: you've done so far?
Speaker 4: I really like talking with Aaron. I've done it a
Speaker 4: couple of times. Aaron Gershman over at Lionsgate. Those have
Speaker 4: been fun. But I'm only fifty one episodes into Boutique
Speaker 4: Talk my podcast, and I enjoy talking just about everybody
Speaker 4: you've been on there before, and it's just been, you know,
Speaker 4: fun to kind of shoot the physical media shit. I
Speaker 4: used to be just talking about a specific title, but
Speaker 4: I've kind of like broadened it out to a topic
Speaker 4: that I think more people kind of enjoy instead of
Speaker 4: having to do your homework and watch a movie beforehand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that part is tough, especially if you're trying to
Speaker 3: talk with somebody that maybe they don't want to do
Speaker 3: enough research or don't want to dive into the let's
Speaker 3: analyze a film too too much. And a lot of
Speaker 3: people they kind of hesitat or shy away from speaking
Speaker 3: too much on especially specific title if somebody they know
Speaker 3: worked on it or who knows. Anyway, it's a weird
Speaker 3: game to play. But my favorite thing is stuff like
Speaker 3: you do recently, is being able to learn from who
Speaker 3: people are and what their impacts to things are. And
Speaker 3: the lions Gate thing's kind of crazy, been getting you
Speaker 3: quite a bit of attention, and I've had him on twice.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping to do like a once a year check
Speaker 4: in just to see like how line the Limited has
Speaker 4: done as a whole. I might expand that out next
Speaker 4: time and just say lions Gate in general and topics
Speaker 4: on more things other than just lines. I think that
Speaker 4: would be interesting to come from a guy kind of
Speaker 4: higher up over there as well. But I've liked talking
Speaker 4: with Mexifunk. He makes some great designs and he will
Speaker 4: talk your ear off in the best way possible. He's
Speaker 4: got so much insight to just like soak up like
Speaker 4: a sponge.
Speaker 3: Well, it's in the name. So we got to ask
Speaker 3: why why steel books? I know that you've answered this
Speaker 3: many times. I've seen you talk about it hundreds of times,
Speaker 3: But for anybody that's new to you, why why steel books?
Speaker 4: The first steel book I ever got was back when
Speaker 4: Django Unchained came out. Son theaters absolutely loved the movie.
Speaker 4: Went to Target on a whim because I wanted to
Speaker 4: add to the collection. The day it came out on
Speaker 4: New Really Tuesday, randomly saw on the shelf Django Unchained
Speaker 4: on Blu Ray, and then this weird looking thing right
Speaker 4: next to it with a very simple yet striking image
Speaker 4: that really spoke to me and the steel book thing.
Speaker 4: Had no idea what it was, but I grabbed it
Speaker 4: off the shelf and I bought it immediately, and it's
Speaker 4: been it's been an addiction ever since. Ryan. I think
Speaker 4: I last I counted, I had close to eleven hundred
Speaker 4: steel books. So it's just yeah, it's fun. I like it.
Speaker 3: The Shelf Shock Rewinded video that you did for this year,
Speaker 3: I don't remember the exact numbers you had, the vast
Speaker 3: majority that came out last year. Yeah, holy shit. I mean,
Speaker 3: first of all, they're getting so hard to track down,
Speaker 3: They're getting so hard to come in on damage. They're
Speaker 3: getting so hard to get replenishment stock because four K
Speaker 3: discs have become more and more rare. Wow, that is
Speaker 3: so many.
Speaker 4: It's rare. I mean, I guess I'm lucky in a
Speaker 4: sense because a lot of studios send me this stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I'm very blessed when it comes to that. And when
Speaker 4: they send a package to you, they don't throw it
Speaker 4: in a goddamn bubble mailer like Amazon does. That drives
Speaker 4: me crazy to no end. I also put my negative
Speaker 4: posts of like I bought a sawtoo seal book, and
Speaker 4: there were two times that I got it sent to me.
Speaker 4: One was in a bubble mailer, one was in a box.
Speaker 4: They both came dented as shit, So I it's it's hard.
Speaker 4: I missed the days of going into best Buy and
Speaker 4: like coming finding the best steal book that was. That
Speaker 4: was really what made me fall in love with steel books,
Speaker 4: is that I could get in there with my hands
Speaker 4: and look at all the new artwork in person. Buying
Speaker 4: physical media in twenty twenty six majoritily online is just
Speaker 4: it doesn't hit the same It doesn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, the you know, the problem
Speaker 3: of facing first off stocking crises that we've had over
Speaker 3: the last year is a shitty thing to have to
Speaker 3: focus on, especially when you would think you're a consumer.
Speaker 3: They want your money, they should make that easy. But
Speaker 3: also it's just not as simple as saying yes to
Speaker 3: all of that. But the other thing, you know, back
Speaker 3: in you know, I don't want to say like the
Speaker 3: heyday of physical media necessarily, but the heyday of steel books,
Speaker 3: probably around twenty eighteen ish, of when you could walk
Speaker 3: straight into best Buy on release day and there would
Speaker 3: be fifteen copies of any steel book that was coming
Speaker 3: out that day, and not only did you not have
Speaker 3: to pre order and fear that it would sell out
Speaker 3: on day one. You could go in there and choose,
Speaker 3: You could wait a week, you could see, how do
Speaker 3: I like this design? Why gonna waffle on it? Can
Speaker 3: I wait for a sale? That was That's a very
Speaker 3: different world than we have now.
Speaker 4: Right, And then the fifteen twenty dollars steal books that
Speaker 4: would hit day one at that price. Now they do
Speaker 4: not even come close. You're lucky if you get like
Speaker 4: that forty dollars price mark on a.
Speaker 3: Lot of these.
Speaker 4: A lot of things have changed even back in the
Speaker 4: day to where like a pre order bonus would be
Speaker 4: a steal book at Best Buy, Like that was like
Speaker 4: very very cool. Like for the Disney steal books, a
Speaker 4: lot of those were just hey, pre order this movie.
Speaker 4: We'll know your numbers coming. We'll throw in this random
Speaker 4: case for you. Have fun with it.
Speaker 3: Yep. I miss those days greatly. I miss better design
Speaker 3: sometimes it's a it's a weird different change to face nowadays.
Speaker 3: But you watch all kinds of movies. What else do
Speaker 3: you like collecting? Who's your favorite label? Right now? That's
Speaker 3: not a steel book.
Speaker 4: Label, Arrow is old, reliable, that's for sure. I think
Speaker 4: with my taste, they consistently come out with something every
Speaker 4: month that I'm happy with. I would say overall, Second
Speaker 4: Site is the one to where like whenever any title
Speaker 4: gets released from that label, specifically, it makes me happy
Speaker 4: because I know it's getting like the most definitive edition
Speaker 4: it possibly will get, either in those chunky box sets
Speaker 4: that you kind of see behind me back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get a few of that there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also have a lot of like the individual cases too,
Speaker 4: because for me, I like Second Site because their transfers
Speaker 4: are kick ass and their special features are so thorough
Speaker 4: every single time. So I would say if I had
Speaker 4: to pick one, Second Site would be the one that
Speaker 4: I still get like the most excited about.
Speaker 3: I I mean, well, hell, that's a great transition. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna share one of my pickups because it's one that
Speaker 3: I've been very excited for for a while. Second Site's
Speaker 3: Ugly step Sister came in. I saw this at Panicfest
Speaker 3: here in Kansas City last year. Loved the movie, had
Speaker 3: been waiting for a good release of it. I almost
Speaker 3: cave and got the German one, and thankfully, right around
Speaker 3: then they posted that they were gonna be putting it out,
Speaker 3: and so glad I waited because it's genuinely an incredible
Speaker 3: package of a film that could win an Oscar this week,
Speaker 3: and that's the crazy thing.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it won't, but I really want it to, Like
Speaker 4: that would be the one to where if it did win,
Speaker 4: I'd be the most happy, because I always happy when
Speaker 4: I got a nomination. But I think that's yeah, that's
Speaker 4: that movie's win in particular.
Speaker 3: I agree it is absolutely a long shot one that
Speaker 3: it likely will not win, and it probably shouldn't, but
Speaker 3: that's okay, I get it. What about you? What are
Speaker 3: some pickups for you? And then I'll share the rest
Speaker 3: of mine.
Speaker 4: You know, me being a very terrible guest on here,
Speaker 4: all of my pickups are in the next room. Give
Speaker 4: me a second. How about instead of showing because I
Speaker 4: am literally in the middle of putting away over a
Speaker 4: hundred movies. So I saw the table that I normally
Speaker 4: record on is in that room full of movies, and
Speaker 4: I have like a very janky setup here right now.
Speaker 4: So instead of going through those movies, what if I
Speaker 4: just get one of my packages and open it right
Speaker 4: kind of showcase off what's in there.
Speaker 3: Let's do that and I will while you're grabbing that,
Speaker 3: I will tell everybody what we're talking about tonight after
Speaker 3: the announcements. So tonight after the announcements, we are going
Speaker 3: to be covering the Oscars this weekend, but in particular,
Speaker 3: we're going to be talking about the Best Actor category,
Speaker 3: playing around with some things around that, discussing who has
Speaker 3: nominated the films themselves, some other you know, other fun picks,
Speaker 3: and just randomly having a conversation about that because it's
Speaker 3: one of the categories that's a little more of a
Speaker 3: toss up than some of the others. I feel like
Speaker 3: Best Actress we kind of already know who's gonna win.
Speaker 3: It's not really a question at this point. Best Pictures
Speaker 3: a little up in the air, of course, but that's
Speaker 3: it's ten films and there's really only a two horse
Speaker 3: race on that one, so we don't really need to
Speaker 3: go too much into that. But Best Actor, I think,
Speaker 3: is gonna be an actual interesting conversation, So definitely want
Speaker 3: to talk about that one in depth, and some alternate
Speaker 3: choices as well. Yes, it's gonna be a fun one,
Speaker 3: all right. Actor is there's a lot to talk about
Speaker 3: with Best Actor. Rags, I cannot wait to dig into
Speaker 3: that more with you.
Speaker 4: I grabbed a few that I've seen from the new
Speaker 4: releases and then all on box This sucker from the
Speaker 4: movie room dot com right here. I absolutely love that
Speaker 4: small business.
Speaker 3: So they're good people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that def crocodile is always in your
Speaker 4: chat over here, so I'm here a hair high nice.
Speaker 4: I had a chance to watch this Bill Plumpton movie,
Speaker 4: and I didn't really know what to expect because with
Speaker 4: his movies they go all over the damn place. Yep,
Speaker 4: but this is kind of spoofing the nineteen fifties coming
Speaker 4: of age movies, and I had a really fun time
Speaker 4: with this last third, specifically, it really like went into
Speaker 4: a different gear that I wasn't expecting and really really
Speaker 4: enjoyed this.
Speaker 3: It is a fun movie. I'm so glad that we
Speaker 3: got it out.
Speaker 4: On the completely different side of the fence from MVD
Speaker 4: I got Knockoff. I'm trying to grab movies that I
Speaker 4: I've seen recently to kind of go over movies that
Speaker 4: I've watched and had no idea that Jean Claude van
Speaker 4: Dam and Rob Schneider were in a movie together, and
Speaker 4: it's still weird. That they're in a movie together, like,
Speaker 4: it makes no sense greater in this movie. It's okay,
Speaker 4: it's not the greatest, but the transfer is pretty dang
Speaker 4: solid on here. So if you are a JCDV fan,
Speaker 4: then I would recommend that one for sure. And then
Speaker 4: one that I found at Walmart for ten dollars. They
Speaker 4: have this new end cap of like two thousands movies
Speaker 4: and I didn't known this in the collection. It's a
Speaker 4: shout select title and I love me some Senacious D.
Speaker 4: So I got TENACIOUSD in the Destiny. This was going
Speaker 4: for like what was that Walmart? That's wild. This is
Speaker 4: going for like eighteen twenty bucks, and now it was
Speaker 4: ten dollars at Walmart. There's also the shouts like version
Speaker 4: of Little Nikky over there too. If you don't have
Speaker 4: that so interesting, justn't FYI.
Speaker 3: I don't have Little Nikky, So that's intriguing.
Speaker 4: You should you should go and look. But I'll open
Speaker 4: up this sucker right now live. Normally I film videos
Speaker 4: on this, but I think they'll be okay if I
Speaker 4: open this one for a different audience.
Speaker 3: I guess you're still advertising for them.
Speaker 4: Absolutely right, Yeah, I'm showing off their logo very proudly.
Speaker 4: I like this company a lot because they go above
Speaker 4: and beyond to package your stuff as crazily great as possible.
Speaker 4: You go in here, you got some nice packaging. You
Speaker 4: open it up yet even more packaging right there, and
Speaker 4: it looks like these are my vinegar syndrome waters. So
Speaker 4: that's nice, nice, so much. This is why editing comes
Speaker 4: into play when I do these unboxings, because man, it's
Speaker 4: great to see. But packaging on packaging box. Yeah. You
Speaker 4: also have these bubble mailers, which I really like because
Speaker 4: they're like envelopes.
Speaker 3: I've reuse those so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first one up is Demon Warp. If I can
Speaker 4: get it out here. There we go a movie I
Speaker 4: have not seen, but I've heard very weird ass things about.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this one? Ryan?
Speaker 3: It is a weird ass movie. I hope you love it.
Speaker 4: It's kind of it's kind of bizarre. It didn't get
Speaker 4: like the VSU treatment. It's weird that this movie is
Speaker 4: just in like a little slipcover like this. I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that. Yeah, and that's one of that
Speaker 3: people have wanted for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard that's one of the reasons why I
Speaker 4: kind of wanted to pick it up, and this movie
Speaker 4: I wanted to pick up because in just the past
Speaker 4: few months, I've been really craving to watch erotic thrillers again.
Speaker 4: Bring them back, Ryan, bring them back.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish I could.
Speaker 4: When I saw the Body of Evidence was getting nice
Speaker 4: four K like this from Vinegar Syndrome. I picked this
Speaker 4: up pronto because I've probably seen four or five of
Speaker 4: them in the past, like sixty days or so, have
Speaker 4: never seen Body of Evidence. All I know is Madonna
Speaker 4: and Wax, Like those are the only elements that I
Speaker 4: know of this movie you need to know. So I'm
Speaker 4: hoping it's good. And a lot of Vinegar Syndrome titles
Speaker 4: have had William Dafoe in it for like six months
Speaker 4: or so, so yeah, to dig into this sucker.
Speaker 3: And they've even gotten him for us some new interviews,
Speaker 3: which has been pretty surprising to see me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what did I watch recently, Red Rose Hotel, I
Speaker 4: think it's what it was called. Yeah, brand new interview
Speaker 4: with him. Watched it, thoroughly enjoyed it. If you want, Yeah,
Speaker 4: if you want any Vinegar Syndrome titles and you go
Speaker 4: to the movie room dot com, you can use discount
Speaker 4: code steal book ten save ten percent on new release stuff,
Speaker 4: so that's always kind of nice. I'm done pitching and plugging.
Speaker 4: Ryan always be selling on the phone.
Speaker 3: Since I wasn't here last week, I've got like four
Speaker 3: or five things that i wanted to talk about. But
Speaker 3: first contributor copy from Saturn's Core of the Stupefying Tales
Speaker 3: of pamelas such. This is a compilation of all of
Speaker 3: Pamela's films, assisted with the audio commentaries on this one
Speaker 3: great interesting, like almost Looney Tunes esque movies that people
Speaker 3: need to see to believe they're great. Third Window Films
Speaker 3: doesn't get enough love. Brand new release of the Angel
Speaker 3: Guts Collection. Still missing the one film out of the collection,
Speaker 3: but it's because the actress basically said that it can't
Speaker 3: be released, so it's not gonna be released from a
Speaker 3: company that you're intimately familiar with. Umbrella got the Tie
Speaker 3: Horror Collection in this was just on sale with them,
Speaker 3: So here is that. Very interested to check out some
Speaker 3: of those because I've never seen any of them, and
Speaker 3: you've been on to Umbrella titles recently, so we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about that in a minute. A twenty four got
Speaker 3: in their newest zine. It's got the Pillion cover and
Speaker 3: they've got a little poster type thing for the next
Speaker 3: film Meditation. Yeah. Yeah. I there's a Patreon for a
Speaker 3: group called I'm not remembering their name, and I should
Speaker 3: oh Layered Butter. Layered Butter is a group that has
Speaker 3: put out art books essentially with some articles mixed in.
Speaker 3: And that sounds like I'm describing old playboys. It's not.
Speaker 3: It is primarily based on films and pop culture. And
Speaker 3: they started a Patreon for many posters. And I'm a
Speaker 3: suck for art and I'm a sucker for we'll say,
Speaker 3: supporting artists directly, and they are giving a lot of
Speaker 3: the Patreon money straight to artists. So their newest poster
Speaker 3: is a cover of the Matrix.
Speaker 4: It is many too. I was expecting like aero video
Speaker 4: level maybe like that's that's a teeny guy, that's do
Speaker 4: you have those?
Speaker 3: Oh that's so cool. There are five of them in here,
Speaker 3: so I can keep two of them and share art
Speaker 3: with other people that I want to share. That's really cool.
Speaker 3: That is the fun part.
Speaker 4: With a lot of suries. I do a series of
Speaker 4: videos called Physical Media pen Pals, and I would love
Speaker 4: to do like postcards with actual art to kind of
Speaker 4: ship out to people actual art.
Speaker 3: Speaking of, this is the newest issue of my magazine,
Speaker 3: The Physical Media Advocate. We've got really like. Okay, it's
Speaker 3: my favorite cover. It's the female prisoner scorpion cover. Incredible
Speaker 3: issue this month, maybe my favorite one that we've ever done.
Speaker 3: Genuinely check it out. You can get it on Amazon
Speaker 3: and about fifteen or sixteen stores in person around the
Speaker 3: US and one in Canada. Now I am so stoked
Speaker 3: to be able to have that out there. And then
Speaker 3: the last thing, hopefully he's listening to this patron of
Speaker 3: the show, Tony Youngblood. He and I were shooting some
Speaker 3: ideas back and forth for genre labels for your collection.
Speaker 3: And I've tried this a couple times in the past
Speaker 3: and I couldn't get it done in a way that
Speaker 3: appease the idiotic OCD side of my brain and my collection.
Speaker 3: And Tony, Tony put these together. These are three D
Speaker 3: printed and they are coming with an L shaped bracket.
Speaker 3: This is it, and it's got this groove around one side,
Speaker 3: so you stick the bottom portion of this in between
Speaker 3: two releases. The groove is sticking out towards the edge
Speaker 3: of your shelf, and the labels themselves here are they
Speaker 3: fit directly into the groove. Here's Fames, Dance and Musical.
Speaker 3: So when they are up hanging in your collection, you
Speaker 3: can put these in the groove and they're completely visible
Speaker 3: on the side. They look like the old VHS stickers.
Speaker 3: They look like they can be peeled off. They are
Speaker 3: different colors. There are like forty options that he sent
Speaker 3: in here. Jeez, this is incredible, Tony. You're amazing. Thanks
Speaker 3: for doing this, Absolutely incredible to get this in the
Speaker 3: mail from you. Came very quickly, all the way from Nashville.
Speaker 3: So amazing, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, here's a good improv question for you, Ryan. How
Speaker 4: do you categorize your collection? Do you go by genre?
Speaker 4: Is there any other way?
Speaker 3: I don't right now? It is is there space over
Speaker 3: in that stack, then put it there. But before that,
Speaker 3: I really like the way that labels look together, especially
Speaker 3: when they're all designed the same way. So I was
Speaker 3: going within the label if they have spine numbers, going
Speaker 3: by spine number order, and then I got everything on
Speaker 3: the wall, and then I realized, I don't want to
Speaker 3: watch a movie based on the spine number. I want
Speaker 3: to look at it based on the title or the genre,
Speaker 3: and those are the only two ways I should have
Speaker 3: done this. So although it looks beautiful when it's done right,
Speaker 3: holy shit is it rough to find things sometimes, especially
Speaker 3: if you have Now this is gonna sound like bragging
Speaker 3: and I don't have them anymore. But when I had
Speaker 3: every single Vinegarson title ever released, and I went, oh,
Speaker 3: I know Vinegar Syndrome released that, I have no idea
Speaker 3: where in the five hundred and eighty titles it came out.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there going nope, now like seven rows down,
Speaker 3: and You're like, where the hell is it it?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It sucked to do that, but it did kind of
Speaker 3: like burn into my brain eventually. So on one hand,
Speaker 3: I think it taught me my collection a little bit better,
Speaker 3: but that's not a great thing, especially for other people.
Speaker 3: So uh, as soon as I clean this up, I'm
Speaker 3: about to sell a shit ton of titles. So if
Speaker 3: people are after some of my stuff, send me a
Speaker 3: DM and maybe you can get a sneak peek of
Speaker 3: some things. But when I go back to re reorganize,
Speaker 3: it'll probably either be by title or by genre, and
Speaker 3: then title within the genres.
Speaker 4: I worked at Hollywood Video for ten months up until
Speaker 4: the whole franchise closed in college, Like I have like
Speaker 4: a bucket list of things I wanted to do in college,
Speaker 4: working at a movie store was definitely one of them,
Speaker 4: and so it it imprinted my brain to go alphabetically.
Speaker 4: They go alphabetically by genre. I just did alphabetically, and
Speaker 4: I've grown into this boutique room, so now I do
Speaker 4: bi label alphabetically. That's just how my brain is wired.
Speaker 4: And it's a lot easier to find that than it
Speaker 4: is by spine number. Right, friend of the channel films
Speaker 4: by color DJ, he has a lot of criteria on
Speaker 4: movies and he does it by the number. I think
Speaker 4: he's a maniac for doing that. I wouldn't be able
Speaker 4: to find anything, but he has the numbers memorized when
Speaker 4: they came out, So however your brain works just kind
Speaker 4: of put him up like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's I mean, the amount of other people's
Speaker 3: collections that I've seen now doing this for so long,
Speaker 3: I've seen people go by director by release, year by
Speaker 3: country by There's been a couple by spine color. I've
Speaker 3: never understood that one.
Speaker 4: It looks very nice on the shelf though beautiful, beutiful.
Speaker 3: But I certainly don't think I definitely want to watch
Speaker 3: a Red Spine title tonight.
Speaker 4: No, I've never had that feeling in my life.
Speaker 3: Well, what about some recent watches. What have you been
Speaker 3: checking out recently? Because thankfully, one thing that I do
Speaker 3: appreciate about you, sir, specifically, there are other people that
Speaker 3: talk about collecting. Not only do you talk about collecting,
Speaker 3: you talk about watching things. So what have you been watching.
Speaker 4: For the past two and a half years. I've put
Speaker 4: up a movie review a day on letterboxed. That's just
Speaker 4: something that I like to do. I won't be able
Speaker 4: to watch every single movie in my collection, I know that,
Speaker 4: but if I can attack the ones that I haven't seen,
Speaker 4: just to kind of inch that pie closer the pie chart.
Speaker 4: I have my movies app and I can categorize them
Speaker 4: by movies I've watched my collection and movies I haven't.
Speaker 4: And I'm very close to that fifty to fifty split
Speaker 4: in my collection. I don't like that whatsoever. So the
Speaker 4: movies that I have watched are either movies that recently,
Speaker 4: I guess I've been trying to go back to, like
Speaker 4: classic movies instead of like trying to keep up with
Speaker 4: new releases. I do that too, but last week was
Speaker 4: one door. I'm like, I just want to unwind to
Speaker 4: watch like a classic movie. So I rewatched No Country
Speaker 4: for Old Men for the first time and ever since
Speaker 4: it came out, watch the Criterion edition. That transfer looks
Speaker 4: phenomenal if you haven't seen it, and the movie is
Speaker 4: also phenomenal. Shock her there. But I did watch The
Speaker 4: French Connection for the first time. I'm trying. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to go through the director's filmography. I've watched a handful
Speaker 4: and uh yeah, French Connection. It's okay. I guess I
Speaker 4: wanted to like it a little bit more. But the action,
Speaker 4: like that car chase scene is so damn good, and
Speaker 4: even like the there's a little tiny action scene with
Speaker 4: a car going over a bridge going back over in
Speaker 4: the shootout afterwards. I just I think that I don't know,
Speaker 4: he's got an eye for action. He doesn't really bust
Speaker 4: it out that often, but when he does, he usually
Speaker 4: puts a big smile on my face.
Speaker 3: Not to mention, that scene influenced so many movies after that.
Speaker 3: You can literally see the DNA that scene well.
Speaker 4: And that was shot illegally, like they did not let
Speaker 4: the city know at all. People were randomly going in
Speaker 4: the car crash that you do see was accidental, like
Speaker 4: that whole that whole approach to that movie that he
Speaker 4: took specifically in that action sequence, absolutely wild. There's a
Speaker 4: great uh I it doesn't have a four K yet.
Speaker 4: I watched the Blu ray it. There's a great special
Speaker 4: feature on just like them filming that scene shot for shot,
Speaker 4: and uh yeah, definitely worth to watch. And it was
Speaker 4: a very very interesting, interesting movie. And I'm glad that
Speaker 4: I had the physical media. I don't know if the
Speaker 4: streaming kind of put in the bigot tree at the
Speaker 4: beginning back. I know that was a big deal when
Speaker 4: they took it out. I don't know if they ever
Speaker 4: reversed course, but I think that's important for his character,
Speaker 4: Like if that's not there, you don't really hate him
Speaker 4: as much. And I don't think you're supposed to root
Speaker 4: for this man at all.
Speaker 3: I would agree, Uh yeah, good movie, good movie. Censorship shucks.
Speaker 3: That was not the right way to say that. Censorship shut,
Speaker 3: censorship shock. I have some interesting things to talk about
Speaker 3: this week since I was not here last week. I
Speaker 3: was at a documentary film fest in Columbia, Missouri, and
Speaker 3: checked out a handful of titles there. I also went
Speaker 3: and saw The Bride in theaters this last weekend. Long
Speaker 3: story shot on The Bride. Very stylish, very bombastic, very
Speaker 3: incredible performances from everybody. Is it a great movie? Not
Speaker 3: even remotely close. Is it a super entertaining movie that
Speaker 3: I think pretty much everybody should see and would likely
Speaker 3: enjoy in some ways? Absolutely? Yes. Even though it's not
Speaker 3: a great movie, it's still a four star movie for me.
Speaker 3: I think that the plot is scattered. I think a
Speaker 3: couple of things don't really work, but everything else that
Speaker 3: does works better than most other films that take tiny swings,
Speaker 3: and this is a huge swing and it worked very
Speaker 3: very well. Jesse Buckley deserves all the awards ever, and
Speaker 3: thankfully she will win in three days, so congrats to her.
Speaker 4: Thankfully the voting was already done before The Bride came out.
Speaker 4: Is kind of what I heard. I mean, she definitely
Speaker 4: goes for the fence in that movie, from what I've heard,
Speaker 4: but a lot of things don't work unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, and then some other things. So the documentaries,
Speaker 3: there is one near and Dear to my Heart. A
Speaker 3: movie called Seas that I got to see finally is
Speaker 3: about a small town in Kansas where the local police
Speaker 3: force came in and seized their county's newspapers, their electronic devices,
Speaker 3: their cell phones, went to the house of the editor
Speaker 3: and stole his essentially stole walked in with a warrant
Speaker 3: that they unjustifiably got, took his personal computer and cell phones.
Speaker 3: His like ninety seven year old mother was in the
Speaker 3: house there who used to run the newspaper, and the
Speaker 3: day after this illegal seizing, she passed away. And it
Speaker 3: seems like it's from the stress of this situation, because
Speaker 3: it came in and harmed the whole family. They ended
Speaker 3: up suing the city. And it's this long, very interesting
Speaker 3: look at small town controversies and how they can affect
Speaker 3: people and about fighting the First Amendment rights in small
Speaker 3: towns that don't get proper news coverage for stuff like this,
Speaker 3: and thankfully this one did. And because when you go
Speaker 3: against a harden no's journalist, he's going to get the
Speaker 3: word out. And it is something that I think everybody
Speaker 3: should see. It's a very important movie for right now.
Speaker 3: And that led into my second important movie, which is
Speaker 3: a movie called First They Came for My College is
Speaker 3: about a college out of Florida that has essentially been
Speaker 3: taken over by people from different ideologies. They changed the
Speaker 3: board of trustees, they changed the onboarding requirements, they rooted
Speaker 3: certain people out of the college to change the way
Speaker 3: that it was developing students in the state. And it
Speaker 3: was a crazy, crazy time. There's so much that I
Speaker 3: could describe and don't need to get to the political
Speaker 3: side of it, but it is something that is terrifying
Speaker 3: and nobody should be able to do that. It is awful.
Speaker 3: But go watch the movie. It is great. It should
Speaker 3: be coming to probably another festival near you soon and
Speaker 3: eventually I imagine something like that will probably be in like
Speaker 3: HBO Max it's that type of documentary that or Netflix
Speaker 3: something like that. Theater wise, you go how many times
Speaker 3: do you go theater every year? Because you are you're
Speaker 3: a big defender of it, like myself. I am.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The recently though, like the past couple of times
Speaker 4: that I've win, I've had negative experiences, which kind of
Speaker 4: sours me from going as often. But tomorrow the family
Speaker 4: and I are going to go see Hoppers and this
Speaker 4: will be their first movie in four D X with
Speaker 4: like moving seats and the mist whenever, like it's like
Speaker 4: raining or something like that. We saw My Wife and
Speaker 4: I saw Send Help, like that awesome experience for that movie.
Speaker 4: I thought it really elevated it. So I'm hoping Hoppers
Speaker 4: does the same thing. I plan on seeing Project hell
Speaker 4: Mary on Monday with that Amazon exclusive showing. I try
Speaker 4: to go as often as I can, but with two
Speaker 4: little ones in elementary school, I don't go as often
Speaker 4: as i'd like, but a handful of times a month
Speaker 4: is what I try to strive for.
Speaker 3: I miss it. Up until December. I was going every
Speaker 3: single weekend, and now that's wild.
Speaker 4: Four movies on a Sunday, like it was crazy.
Speaker 3: My biggest day last year I went to five back
Speaker 3: to back on a Sunday and it was It's a
Speaker 3: damn good day to do that. I will say.
Speaker 4: I just prayed a double feature Ryan. I couldn't imagine
Speaker 4: seeing five movies in theaters in one day. I would
Speaker 4: explode with happiness.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is heaven, and it'd be able to get like
Speaker 3: unending diet soda refills all day, a couple large popcorns
Speaker 3: throughout the day not have to actually eat food and
Speaker 3: just live off a popcorn. That is That is a
Speaker 3: good day. I wanted to talk about something and I
Speaker 3: don't want to awkwardly put you in a spot. So
Speaker 3: if you want me to pull you off the screen,
Speaker 3: I happily will. It's nothing political or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but it is quite personal. I didn't know what I
Speaker 3: was gonna say about this, so a lot of this
Speaker 3: is off the cuff, not prepared. Two days ago, I
Speaker 3: walked into a lot of people here know this. I
Speaker 3: work for the federal government have for the last almost
Speaker 3: seventeen years of my life. Two years ago, I walked
Speaker 3: in and resigned for my job on the spot. I
Speaker 3: am moving into a time where I cannot stand what
Speaker 3: is happening with this administration, so I wanted to walk
Speaker 3: away from that. I'm also at a period of my
Speaker 3: life where I'm meeting I mean not to brag at
Speaker 3: the same time while I'm talking about this, but we
Speaker 3: met with Fathom Events today. Now I've got a relationship
Speaker 3: with Fathom Events to put some of our films and
Speaker 3: theaters across the country through Fathom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna puff up your chest about that, but
Speaker 4: that's a big fucking deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good day. So while doing that,
Speaker 3: I can't really work at the government at the same time,
Speaker 3: and so I think that I'm on the cusp of
Speaker 3: something incredible and I need more time for that. And
Speaker 3: so over the next two months, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: putting all my time into this and essentially hope that
Speaker 3: the country's got me and that people will come out
Speaker 3: and support Antenna in a way that I can support
Speaker 3: you all back in return and keep prices low, to
Speaker 3: keep you included, to keep you interested with great movies,
Speaker 3: to curate in ways that you can understand and trust
Speaker 3: our taste and flavors, and so all that means is
Speaker 3: I need support more than ever. So please watch more
Speaker 3: of the videos. If you want to join, the Patreon
Speaker 3: link is in the description below. I would say, if
Speaker 3: you want sign up for a year in advance, you
Speaker 3: get it like a ten percent discount. I would say,
Speaker 3: get into our discord. It is by far the most
Speaker 3: supportive movie community I've ever seen on the internet. And
Speaker 3: I don't say that just because it's me. If this
Speaker 3: was anybody else's discord, I would say the same thing.
Speaker 3: The people here are just immense half The people in
Speaker 3: the chat right now are close friends because I've lived
Speaker 3: in that discord with them for the last four years.
Speaker 3: It is a wonderful time. We do monthly watch alongs
Speaker 3: in our discord, whereas I supply you the movie, and
Speaker 3: I will say, if you're in there, last month I
Speaker 3: showed everybodys Stolen Kingdom. Nobody else has had a chance
Speaker 3: to see it, and you might get more and more
Speaker 3: of those early viewings like that, so please check it out.
Speaker 3: I am terrified. I will say that after having mental
Speaker 3: stability for supporting a family for seventeen years, I don't
Speaker 3: have that safety net now, and you all could help
Speaker 3: be a good safety net. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: First off, congratulations. I know that's got to beat. You've
Speaker 4: got to be shitting bricks for doing what you did.
Speaker 4: But if I were in your shoes, I would always
Speaker 4: have like a what if if that didn't come to pass?
Speaker 4: You know? So I am very excited for what the
Speaker 4: future holds. I think you're onto something great here. And
Speaker 4: you were the busiest man that I know of juggling
Speaker 4: as many things as you did with work a nine
Speaker 4: to five that you had. I can't imagine how crazy,
Speaker 4: how Tasmanian devil you're gonna go when you're all in
Speaker 4: for this, So yeah, I'm very excited for you. Man.
Speaker 3: Let's say, the last three days, I don't think I've
Speaker 3: had a moment that wasn't with the meeting. Because of it,
Speaker 3: I saw that it was about to happen. I said, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's schedule every meeting and now let's get it done.
Speaker 3: So thank you for everybody that's already there. I don't
Speaker 3: want to minimize the amount of people that are in
Speaker 3: there already, but just to say, we love to build
Speaker 3: a community, so if you want to come in there,
Speaker 3: please join. We'd love to have you. You guys are
Speaker 3: incredible and I am so eager for increased mental health
Speaker 3: and very very excited for that. But I missed last
Speaker 3: week and I'm excited to talk about releases. So let's
Speaker 3: talk about some goddamn physical media, all right? Coming soon
Speaker 3: on four K and Blu Ray from Fun City Editions,
Speaker 3: a film that I'm kind of shocked they are doing
Speaker 3: on four K. It is Spike of Bensonhurst from nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty eight. This is starring Ernest borgnine and god, I
Speaker 3: love the way that they did the art on this.
Speaker 3: We've got Paul Morrissey film. We don't have a release
Speaker 3: date for it yet. The way that Fun City has
Speaker 3: been doing it, I'm about probably two months out on this.
Speaker 3: I would imagine two two and a half months something
Speaker 3: like that. This is going to be a limited edition
Speaker 3: site exclusive slipcover with new artwork by Colin Murdoch, double
Speaker 3: sided rap. We've got a book of the new essay
Speaker 3: by Margaret Barton FuMO. We got a newly recorded audio
Speaker 3: commentary by Will morris an image gallery at trailer on here,
Speaker 3: newly recorded video interviews with the casting director and the DP,
Speaker 3: plus archival extras. Fun City, have you been keeping tabs
Speaker 3: on that much?
Speaker 4: Not as much as I would like to. I have
Speaker 4: a handful of their releases, but nothing crazy. And I
Speaker 4: see a couple of people in the chat. Is that
Speaker 4: the guy from step by Step on there? That looks
Speaker 4: exactly like him? That's amazing. Yeah. Also, I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 4: I always love me some Ernest borgnine also Iowa native,
Speaker 4: Iowa born. So yeah, this is definitely on my radar
Speaker 4: for sure. I've never heard of this movie if I'm
Speaker 4: being honest.
Speaker 3: Though, I gotta be honest neither had I until this announcement.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is this is an interesting one. It
Speaker 3: is a very it's a very fun city choice. It's
Speaker 3: probably the best way to say that they are all
Speaker 3: about these titles that have not gotten enough love and
Speaker 3: respect in their time, and then out every once in
Speaker 3: a while they will put out something incredible like Ladies
Speaker 3: and jen was the Fabulous Stains that they just did,
Speaker 3: but this is now their second four K, so it
Speaker 3: must mean that Fabulous Stains did pretty well and now
Speaker 3: they are all about this one, so we shall see.
Speaker 3: Uh next up the bra We got this honestly got
Speaker 3: pretty clever steel book design here. I love the minimalism
Speaker 3: that they went with. Here you can preorder this. This
Speaker 3: is not an exclusive. This is available on Groove, on Amazon,
Speaker 3: on Walmart, a whole bunch of places. They're also I
Speaker 3: think I put it in here. Oh it's this one specifically.
Speaker 3: There's also a standard four K Blu Ray DVD, so
Speaker 3: if you don't want the still, you don't have to
Speaker 3: get it. Thankfully, Warner is still doing pretty good to
Speaker 3: offer both options, which I wish more companies would.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm hoping that they can do it for as
Speaker 4: long as possible. With the whole merger that's going to happen.
Speaker 4: We still know who it's being called at Paramount, but
Speaker 4: it hasn't been finalized yet. I'm very pessimistic about it,
Speaker 4: I guess because when they when sky Dance took over Paramount,
Speaker 4: they have not released a lot of physical media releases,
Speaker 4: so it makes me nervous.
Speaker 3: Well, not only that, the rumor is when that whole
Speaker 3: Skydance thing happened, literally their entire physical media side that
Speaker 3: was creating it inside was all cut and so the
Speaker 3: only thing that we can really hope for is licensing.
Speaker 3: But the reality is are they going to license the
Speaker 3: big titles about it.
Speaker 4: It's not happening with Paramount, so why would they do it?
Speaker 4: Why would they be? ANDWB has such a great team
Speaker 4: right now, they're firing on all cylinders, like probably my
Speaker 4: favorite transfers that come from a major studio. So I
Speaker 4: just I don't want to see them being fucked with.
Speaker 4: And I feel like the rip cors is gonna be
Speaker 4: pulled from them and I'm gonna be so heartbroken.
Speaker 3: I agree. And with the whole Paramount WB Netflix Love
Speaker 3: Triangle thing that was happening, the reality is no matter
Speaker 3: who won, we all lose, whether it be Netflix, whether
Speaker 3: it be Paramount, whether it be the government stepping in
Speaker 3: and saying neither one can purchase it. Paramount's still in trouble.
Speaker 3: They're still in a shit ton of debts. So no
Speaker 3: matter what the outcome, it was kind of dire. So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happened.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Next up a film that I did not get to
Speaker 3: see last year but I'm dying to see. May nineteenth,
Speaker 3: we are getting a four K blu ray and DVD
Speaker 3: of Arco. This is coming from Neon and Decal. This
Speaker 3: is an animated film from last year. It is nominated
Speaker 3: for Best Animated Feature on Sunday and some people think
Speaker 3: that this has an actual chance.
Speaker 4: I'm not so sure that it does. But yeah, it's
Speaker 4: K Pop. Unfortunately, it's gonna be K Pop. Is a
Speaker 4: fine movie. I have never seen Arco, but it's got
Speaker 4: a hell of a cast and it just looks like
Speaker 4: color gasms out the eyeballs, and I love that from
Speaker 4: animated movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's incredible, incredible animation. So dying to see this.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be a two disc set. If you
Speaker 3: buy the four K you've got combo pack release with HDR.
Speaker 3: You've got French and English audio tracks on here. Three
Speaker 3: exclusive interviews. We've got a bunch of featurettes behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: animation to animation featurettes, song and color with the composer, Teasers, trailers, storyboards, sketches,
Speaker 3: pretty much everything that you could want on a title
Speaker 3: like this. It's got it and so I definitely want
Speaker 3: to check this one out.
Speaker 4: Looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: Next up is one that I did not see because
Speaker 3: I'd never heard of this before. Was an ass April
Speaker 3: twenty first from Bleaker Street. There's a Blu ray and
Speaker 3: DVD coming of Stray Kids, The Dominate Experience. This is
Speaker 3: another K pop group and it's a live concert performance.
Speaker 3: Have have you been bit by the K pop drug?
Speaker 4: I just had a conversation with my oldest daughter today.
Speaker 4: The K pop is her favorite form of music now
Speaker 4: and she's got a tiny, small, but mighty record collection
Speaker 4: and she wants to add some kpop to her vinyl collection.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that'll be next up. I will get a
Speaker 4: crash course very soon, I think nice. Yeah.
Speaker 3: VCI next putting out Poverty Row Classics number two on
Speaker 3: May twelfth. This is a Blu ray double feature of
Speaker 3: east Side Kids and that Gang of Mine. The reality
Speaker 3: is with these there's never any bonus features. You're basically getting.
Speaker 3: I'm I kind of want to do HD in quotes
Speaker 3: because it's VCI, so it's not always even properly HD.
Speaker 3: But this likely is the best that these are going
Speaker 3: to look ever, and so if these are films that
Speaker 3: you've been interested in or that you love, or that
Speaker 3: you've never seen and you're dying to see, this will
Speaker 3: likely be the best way to see them. Just don't
Speaker 3: count on crisp restorations necessarily.
Speaker 4: Normally when these get released, you're just happy to have them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Next up May twelfth, Blu Ray coming from Alliance,
Speaker 3: which just a reminder that is mill Creek. So if
Speaker 3: it's weird seeing a different company associated with Ultraman, it's
Speaker 3: because it is still mill Creek. This is Ultraman great
Speaker 3: and Ultraman powered the complete series the spans from nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety to ninety three. I did not see any extras
Speaker 3: listed for this, but I know that these are a
Speaker 3: couple series people have been after for a while, and
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, I had dabbled in the Ultraman thing.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that they could mind this for
Speaker 3: like the last six and a half years and just
Speaker 3: keep them coming.
Speaker 4: I've been a partner with mill Creek for about three
Speaker 4: years and I have probably got sent twenty different iterations
Speaker 4: of Ultraman and I had no idea that that ip
Speaker 4: went that deep.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, and supposedly there's still some that people are
Speaker 3: longing for, which means there's probably more coming from Alliance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, until the end of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most likely. June ninth, we are getting a blu
Speaker 3: ray from Cleopatra Records of Diana, Iron Maiden's Lost Singer
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty five. This is a pair of fans
Speaker 3: of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden launch a crowdfunding
Speaker 3: campaign to help Paul Diano aka the Beast, the band's
Speaker 3: iconic original singer on the band's first two albums, Iron
Speaker 3: Maiden and Killers, get Back on his Feet literally, emotionally
Speaker 3: and professionally. Looks like a fun release if you're a
Speaker 3: fan of the band and lots and lots to cover
Speaker 3: there interesting choice, all right. Next up is the Gay Desperado,
Speaker 3: also coming from VCI. This is on June ninth. This
Speaker 3: is from nineteen thirty six. Now I know, I just
Speaker 3: stated that VCI is usually not something that we can
Speaker 3: count on. That being said, I can pretty much guarantee
Speaker 3: this one is going to look great because this is
Speaker 3: done with the support of the Mary Pickford Foundation, and
Speaker 3: every single release that the Mary Pickford Foundation has had
Speaker 3: a hand in has turned out immaculates. So very much
Speaker 3: interested in this to get a title from nineteen thirty
Speaker 3: six that is probably going to be I don't know,
Speaker 3: seventeen dollars on release in really great looking restoration. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's a win win for all of us. Next up
Speaker 3: this beautiful steel book of a Racer where they erased
Speaker 3: the cover art nineteen ninety six. Is a Racer coming.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it's going to be June sixteenth, but
Speaker 3: that's not been confirmed yet, coming in a four K
Speaker 3: steel book in the US and the UK. Obviously, this
Speaker 3: is not the final cover art, but they will update
Speaker 3: this later after you've all paid for it and have
Speaker 3: it on the way to you. Even if you hate
Speaker 3: the cover art, Jake, tell me that I'm not the
Speaker 3: only one that thinks this is a terrible plan.
Speaker 4: You know how I just praised Warner Brothers Ryan like
Speaker 4: this is like one of my major gripes with them
Speaker 4: because it's happened numerous times. The one I can remember
Speaker 4: is Constantine to where like they did this with their logo.
Speaker 4: That steel Book ended up being one of my favorites
Speaker 4: of the year. That Steal Book was an absolute stunner.
Speaker 4: I just wish I knew what I was buying like that.
Speaker 4: That's the craziest part to me. And they have the
Speaker 4: inside art but not the outside. I don't know what
Speaker 4: holds them up with these releases.
Speaker 3: Especially because I think it's been like the last three
Speaker 3: or four we've gotten fairly early leaks at a few
Speaker 3: of them and nothing ever changes. They did similar things
Speaker 3: with like the Beetlejuice one a couple years ago in
Speaker 3: the UK, and it was exactly the same as the
Speaker 3: artwork to be confirmed later. It's the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: If you know what it's going to be, just share it.
Speaker 4: Yep. It shouldn't be that hard. And they plan these
Speaker 4: out so far in advance that like you would think
Speaker 4: that they would have this readily available and they just
Speaker 4: are deciding to fuck with us. I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I don't like it, though, Ryan, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I also don't like paying for something that I don't
Speaker 3: know what I'm getting. That is the big thing, and
Speaker 3: really the only reason to buy an extra expensive steel
Speaker 3: book of one of these is if you love the art.
Speaker 3: And the hard part is they're not releasing the standard
Speaker 3: up with this in the US most likely, which means
Speaker 3: if you don't get the steel book, you're screwed.
Speaker 4: With Constantine. They had a couple different versions, and I know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if we're right if Eraser is a
Speaker 4: big enough title to get both a standard and his
Speaker 4: steel book. I think they might go one way or
Speaker 4: the other, and that way might be steelbook. But this
Speaker 4: is a Schwarzenegger blind spot for me. I've never seen
Speaker 4: a racer. It's been a long time movie that was
Speaker 4: very like, yeah, if you like Schwarzenegger, here's something to
Speaker 4: feed into your veins. I guess you'll like it.
Speaker 3: I guess it's been a long time, but I remember
Speaker 3: it being like the top of the bottom tier, essentially
Speaker 3: in the great View. So that being said, I'd still
Speaker 3: like to have maybe every Arnold Schwarzenegger on four K
Speaker 3: and the best that it could be. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's fine. Next up. This has been an interesting saga
Speaker 3: to watch. So April twenty first, good Luck, Have Fun,
Speaker 3: Don't Die is being released now. Previously this was sort
Speaker 3: of being reported to be only Blu Ray and DVD
Speaker 3: coming out. Well, they changed course last week and put
Speaker 3: this out on four K. Now, the big story with
Speaker 3: this is that this was doing so well in the
Speaker 3: theaters and not even necessarily monetarily, but word of mouthwise,
Speaker 3: they kept not having drop offs, they kept doing about
Speaker 3: the same level, and they weren't making a ton of money,
Speaker 3: but they were making money. They just kept it in
Speaker 3: theaters and that fervent support led to them seemingly upgrading
Speaker 3: this to four K. Now. Also, if you went on
Speaker 3: the day that they announced the Blu Ray, everybody in
Speaker 3: the comment section was saying, this is a movie that
Speaker 3: has to be on four K, and I will wait
Speaker 3: for the four K. So maybe they just actually paid
Speaker 3: attention and said, ooh, maybe we should invest in that.
Speaker 3: But I do love seeing this. I do love a
Speaker 3: studio that will listen. It's also it's Universal, which has
Speaker 3: been known to do a Blu Ray and then six
Speaker 3: months later put out a four K. So to see
Speaker 3: them willing to change course on this gives me a
Speaker 3: little bit of hope for the future. Did you see
Speaker 3: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Day?
Speaker 4: I was actually one of the many I guess that
Speaker 4: saw it later in its theatrical run. I saw it
Speaker 4: like the fourth Weekend, and I I liked the concept.
Speaker 4: I'm a sucker for a good time travel movie, and
Speaker 4: I liked I like the first two thirds of this movie.
Speaker 4: I thought the final act was a little bit I
Speaker 4: don't know, boring. I guess it didn't go It went crazy,
Speaker 4: but it went crazy for crazy sake. It didn't go
Speaker 4: crazy to have like a great idea. Yeah, have you
Speaker 4: seen it?
Speaker 3: Ryan, I'm not. I'm dying to see it, especially because
Speaker 3: I love Gore Verbinski, and so to see him back
Speaker 3: making a big movie that's getting a lot of praise,
Speaker 3: I just makes me a little happy.
Speaker 4: I feel like not enough people talk about a cure
Speaker 4: for wellness. I love that movie and the way that
Speaker 4: that third act revealed itself. I fell head over heels
Speaker 4: for kind of the opposite way with like a Cure
Speaker 4: for Wellness, I think built very greatly. This one has
Speaker 4: a hell of an opening, and for me, the longer
Speaker 4: it goes on, the less I was kind of intrigued
Speaker 4: to watch it.
Speaker 3: I will state and this is just a dumb, nerdy
Speaker 3: millennial reference for anybody. But back in the day, in
Speaker 3: the early days of YouTube, there was a character called
Speaker 3: Asking Ninja and he did a super cut thing one time,
Speaker 3: and somebody asked him about Pirates of the Caribbean, and
Speaker 3: one of the best jokes ever he said it needed
Speaker 3: a little more gore and a lot less for Binsky.
Speaker 3: And I've stood by that and I think that's hilarious
Speaker 3: and the world needs more gore Verbinski next up. This
Speaker 3: has been an interesting week for this as well. So
Speaker 3: June tenth, Madman in Australia is releasing a four K
Speaker 3: box set with one Blu ray included of an Akura
Speaker 3: Kurvesawa collection. Now, this is going to have all kinds
Speaker 3: of the four K discs that have been released worldwide
Speaker 3: already multiple times over and Red Beard on four K,
Speaker 3: and it's also going to get a Blu ray of
Speaker 3: another disc that's going to have seven episodes of Toho Masterworks.
Speaker 3: It's wonderful to create offering insights in the making of
Speaker 3: these enduring classics. Now it's got Ikaru, it's got seven Samurai,
Speaker 3: it's got thrown a Blood, It's got the Hidden Fortress,
Speaker 3: yo Jimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low, Red Beard, and then
Speaker 3: Akurra Kursaw. It's wonderful to create. It is one hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty dollars USD. Honestly not a bad price. But
Speaker 3: the big toss up here is it's mad Man out
Speaker 3: of Australia. Now, they're not known for being awful, and
Speaker 3: to be frank, Criterions kind of known for being pretty
Speaker 3: poor with their encoding, so it's it's kind of a
Speaker 3: toss up to pick up this from mad Man instead
Speaker 3: of Criterion. But really, I think BFI is probably the
Speaker 3: way to go on these if they're going to get
Speaker 3: all of them. The other thing that people should know,
Speaker 3: I believe Redbeard is just an upscale to four K,
Speaker 3: So if that's something that would bother you, you might just
Speaker 3: pick up the individuals from BFI. Any thoughts on Kursawa
Speaker 3: or Madwin mad Man from you?
Speaker 4: I am such a terrible foreign film watcher. It's sad.
Speaker 4: I want to get into more of them, but working
Speaker 4: my nine to five job and dealing with family, and
Speaker 4: like my only free time on the weekdays is going
Speaker 4: downstairs to watch it after everyone's in bed. The more
Speaker 4: I read subtitles, the more I get sleepy at that
Speaker 4: time of night. So Kurusawa is a director that I
Speaker 4: have not really dug into that much. So like this
Speaker 4: box that it kind of like screams to me. I
Speaker 4: wish I knew how it opened and what it looked
Speaker 4: like with all the stuff inside of the box. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but all these titles on four K. If you're a
Speaker 4: fan of the director, it's and you don't own any
Speaker 4: of them, it's kind of a no brainer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a pretty great price to get all
Speaker 3: of them at once. I will say that I see
Speaker 3: I hate to say this name out loud. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: This is not meant to hurt you. Mister. A fat
Speaker 3: Man in the chat says didn't Madman stop releasing discs
Speaker 3: at one point? I don't know that they like announced
Speaker 3: that they stopped, but I believe they like slowed way
Speaker 3: down before they released some things. So I may be
Speaker 3: wrong there. And Terry, you might know, since you're a
Speaker 3: native Australian. If you know the answer, let me know, Terry.
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear it. Let's see next, there's a
Speaker 3: Kickstarter going on for Castration Movie Anthology three. Obviously, we
Speaker 3: just talked about Castration Movie because it was just released
Speaker 3: through Vinegar Syndrome this month on Blu Ray by Muscle
Speaker 3: brand new partner label. You can see an interview with
Speaker 3: Liz Purchill on the channel for Muscle and they are
Speaker 3: already about to make the third one, and I believe
Speaker 3: they're supposed to be four or five total, and so
Speaker 3: they plan on doing a lot of these. But the
Speaker 3: big thing is these are long films. Each one of
Speaker 3: these is like four and a half or longer hours.
Speaker 3: Kind of crazy. But they do these pretty special editions
Speaker 3: for the kickstarters, so if you want to support, this
Speaker 3: is the best time to do it before the Kickstarter ends,
Speaker 3: and they actually have a bundle so you can go
Speaker 3: back and get the original Kickstarter exclusive versions of the
Speaker 3: first two as well to have the matching extra special
Speaker 3: editions of all three. Terror Vision is a name that
Speaker 3: we have not been talking about much recently because they've
Speaker 3: been facing some manufacturing woes and finally they are coming
Speaker 3: off on the other side of that, and so at
Speaker 3: the time we are seeing some of their discstart to
Speaker 3: ship that we're put up for pre order in the
Speaker 3: thirteen weeks of Halloween, we are getting a brand new
Speaker 3: slipcover art for Dante's Inferno, which I gotta admit this
Speaker 3: is an easy contender for best slipcover of the year
Speaker 3: so far. For me, this is frickin' beautiful. Love this release.
Speaker 3: If you've never seen Dante's Inferno's from NIGHTE, you know eleven,
Speaker 3: there's I don't remember how many is to say on here.
Speaker 3: There's three different restorations and I think three different score options,
Speaker 3: so even each score and restoration can be intertwined. So
Speaker 3: there's literally like nine versions or six version something like
Speaker 3: that you can watch on this disc. That's crazy. I'm
Speaker 3: bad at doing the math in my head, but it's
Speaker 3: it's a lot, and it's crazy. Love that they did this.
Speaker 3: This is incredible. Check it out if you don't have
Speaker 3: the original slipcover. They also are releasing a standard edition
Speaker 3: of Sledgehammer, and I should say that for Dante's Inferno
Speaker 3: and this they're both shipping immediately. They've been in their
Speaker 3: warehouse for a while, but they didn't want to piss
Speaker 3: people off and put these up before the other ones
Speaker 3: could start shipping. So now that they got some of those,
Speaker 3: if you got one of those shipping. You can order
Speaker 3: this with it as well.
Speaker 4: This past like year and a half for Terror Vision
Speaker 4: and it's just been like bad luck. I'm like stacked
Speaker 4: on top of each other with the whole warehouse woes,
Speaker 4: them having to move and then yeah, production issues on
Speaker 4: a lot of their stuff. It's just they can't catch
Speaker 4: a fucking break.
Speaker 3: It sucks. Yeah, it's it's been a while. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people are worried about Gator Bait, as
Speaker 3: we've got sibbonar asking about it. Gator Bait supposedly might
Speaker 3: finally be shipping next month, and I know that's crazy
Speaker 3: because that's literally eleven months after announcement. But we were
Speaker 3: trying to go for the best product, and we were told,
Speaker 3: I believe it all in four different times that somebody
Speaker 3: had found the missing reel. We had to check it
Speaker 3: out literally otherwise why would we release it in an
Speaker 3: inferior way. So I'm glad that we went the distance
Speaker 3: and we got now even more footage than we thought
Speaker 3: was possible for the film. So check it.
Speaker 4: Out, make it worth the way.
Speaker 3: Right exactly May fifth, we're getting a four K steel
Speaker 3: book of a sci fi classic. It came from Outer
Speaker 3: Space from nineteen fifty three. It's got a four K disc,
Speaker 3: a Blu ray disc in a digital copy, and it
Speaker 3: does have I believe the three D version on the
Speaker 3: Blu ray disc. Have you seen it came from outer Space?
Speaker 4: I haven't. But this artwork on the steel book does
Speaker 4: not make it look like it's from the fifties. I
Speaker 4: can tell you that much that looks. That looks more
Speaker 4: like an animated movie or something you'd see off of
Speaker 4: like Star Trek Discovery than anything else.
Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna piss some people off in the chat.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fifty sci fi guy. I will say
Speaker 3: I think the art on this is much better than
Speaker 3: the movie. But this is a great looking steal book
Speaker 3: and people should see this at least once. And Cinema
Speaker 3: Force is asking, isn't this already on four K from imprint?
Speaker 3: Not only is it already on four K from Imprint,
Speaker 3: it's already on four K from Universal. They're just trying
Speaker 3: to milk more money out of the physical media crowd.
Speaker 3: So this is really only if you desperately want the
Speaker 3: movie on four K and you don't have the original one. Otherwise,
Speaker 3: there's not really a reason to get this all right
Speaker 3: now the next sort of weird story of the week.
Speaker 3: Neon is releasing No Other Choice from Last Fall on
Speaker 3: four K and Blu ray this October, almost a full
Speaker 3: year after the film was released in theaters. It's an
Speaker 3: award season snub. It's a film that people have been
Speaker 3: dying to see. It's one that is still playing in
Speaker 3: some theaters. This is going to have two different versions
Speaker 3: of the film. We got the theatrical cut and an
Speaker 3: expanded cut, which I'm excited to see. But this is
Speaker 3: a film that is directed by Park Chan Wook that
Speaker 3: I adored. This has a thirty two page Deloxe hardcover
Speaker 3: book with it. It's got a making of that's thirty
Speaker 3: minutes behind the scenes. If you buy it from the
Speaker 3: Neon website, you get these two enamel pins at the bottom,
Speaker 3: which they're cute and all. But after shipping in taxes,
Speaker 3: this one film and two pins eighty four dollars. Jake,
Speaker 3: my god, eighty four dollars.
Speaker 4: I like that Neon is taking the A twenty four approach.
Speaker 4: It looks like with some of their packaging. I wonder
Speaker 4: what the size is, if it's more of like just
Speaker 4: your standard size or if it is going to be
Speaker 4: like a giant A twenty four size, you can't really
Speaker 4: tell from that image. I guess with the discs in there,
Speaker 4: if it is like two scale, it'd probably be more
Speaker 4: like a regular case. I wonder if it's taking so
Speaker 4: long because they're trying to figure out, like major packaging,
Speaker 4: just making sure distribution wise it goes smoothly. I don't
Speaker 4: know why it would announce it so early on in
Speaker 4: the process.
Speaker 3: This is very interesting. I feel like they, I don't know,
Speaker 3: they got to recoup some money or something like that,
Speaker 3: but it's it's kind of weird. It's also gonna be
Speaker 3: on Amazon. And what's interesting here is I believe the
Speaker 3: packaging wise, it'll mirror what they did for Old Boy.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see that one in person?
Speaker 4: I love that I have it. Yeah, I love that edition.
Speaker 4: But that edition was like fifty bucks. I don't know
Speaker 4: why this is adding on an additional thirty.
Speaker 3: Old Boy was sixty at retail when it released, and
Speaker 3: so this has two pins on top of it, and
Speaker 3: enamel pins are certainly not cheap. I will say that
Speaker 3: these two pins don't look worth whatever.
Speaker 4: Enamel pins are kind of cheap if you order enough
Speaker 4: of them, Like I I've got steel book obsessed enamel pins,
Speaker 4: and I paid. I bought a hundred of them and
Speaker 4: it ended up being like three bucks apiece.
Speaker 3: So if you that's to you, not to a consumer,
Speaker 3: I will say that.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, But I mean like, if you buy a
Speaker 4: thousand of them, that costs breaks down to maybe a
Speaker 4: buck fifty a buck, and then of course, yeah, I
Speaker 4: for me, twenty bucks for two pins. If that is
Speaker 4: that real justification, that's that's wild.
Speaker 3: Well, and the film itself is seventy dollars, the tax
Speaker 3: comes out to about seven bucks, and then the shipping
Speaker 3: they're charging is seven or eight bucks, so it's I mean,
Speaker 3: shipping is that expensive. I'm not going to argue with that.
Speaker 3: Shipping is expensive nowadays, but eighty four dollars for one
Speaker 3: movie two pins shipped is so much money.
Speaker 4: It's a lot. I might wait until this will probably
Speaker 4: hit like a Barnes and Noble for hopefully sixty and
Speaker 4: kind of negate the shipping and pins and all that stuff,
Speaker 4: and then it's a maybe for me. I still haven't
Speaker 4: seen no other choice. I've heard nothing but great things
Speaker 4: about it. I will watch it at some point, but
Speaker 4: I'd want that some point to be for the first
Speaker 4: time on four K. I just eighty bucks is too
Speaker 4: much for my blood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will say again, not not sticking up
Speaker 3: for the company, but understanding cost a little bit. There
Speaker 3: are four discs here, so I would expect it to
Speaker 3: be a little more expensive. Two four K discs. That's
Speaker 3: a great choice. That is a lot of money to
Speaker 3: manufacture two four K discs. I could have seen forty
Speaker 3: five fifty bucks on this. Seventy that's out of my
Speaker 3: price range. I am priced out on this. Let's get
Speaker 3: into a much more affordable four K release. Radiance is
Speaker 3: putting out a four K of the Pornographers from nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty six. This is a four K Blu ray dual
Speaker 3: format release in the UK only, and this is coming
Speaker 3: on June twenty second. This is of course by Shohe Imamura,
Speaker 3: and this has been released by Criterion previously. I believe
Speaker 3: it's still DVD only in the US by them. I
Speaker 3: may be wrong somebody else. Let me know if I'm
Speaker 3: wrong there, but all that tells me Criterion likely still
Speaker 3: has the rights in the US and now they're likely
Speaker 3: going to put it out on four K. So if
Speaker 3: you just want to wait for a local version, you
Speaker 3: can probably pick that one up eventually. But this over
Speaker 3: in the UK, we are getting an interview with a
Speaker 3: couple actors. We're getting interview with Tony Rains, which a
Speaker 3: lot of people love him. We're getting TV documentary on
Speaker 3: Imamura featuring the filmmaker himself discussing his key films. That's
Speaker 3: over an hour long. That's from back in ninety five,
Speaker 3: but I love that sort of an extra, We've got
Speaker 3: a limited edition booklet with new writing by Jasper Sharp.
Speaker 3: This is going to be limited to five thousand copies.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty big limited edition for Radiance, So check
Speaker 3: it out if you are into it, and thanks for
Speaker 3: the affirmation there. It is still DVD only, which means
Speaker 3: it's likely going to get a four K and Blu
Speaker 3: Ray release by Criterion here in the US eventually. The pornographers,
Speaker 3: are you gonna check this out? I know you're not
Speaker 3: a super foreign film fan. I don't mind foreign films,
Speaker 3: not a lot of as much as you. By right, yeah, no, this,
Speaker 3: I have no idea what it's about. So I do
Speaker 3: like Radiance though as a label normally for their Blu
Speaker 3: Ray releases.
Speaker 4: They limited to like three thousand copies, so it's nice
Speaker 4: to see that. For four k, hopefully it stands the
Speaker 4: test of time. There's not gonna be any other format
Speaker 4: above it, so they printed a little bit extra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people that love these films are
Speaker 3: definitely going to import, and then when Criterion releases theirs
Speaker 3: will probably not sell nearly as much as it was.
Speaker 4: I could see it. I could definitely see it all right.
Speaker 3: Next up is Warm Water Under a Red Bridge from
Speaker 3: two thousand and one, is coming on June twenty second
Speaker 3: on Blu Ray over in the UK only. Now this
Speaker 3: is UK only because this did just get a Blu
Speaker 3: Ray release that came out again by Film Movement here
Speaker 3: in the US. You can pick that up on the
Speaker 3: Vinegar Syndrome website. This is I believe, I think it
Speaker 3: says here. I think it's his last film. Yeah, show
Speaker 3: him Mura's last feature, reuniting the cast and crew of
Speaker 3: as Palmdor Winning the Eel for a boldly sensuous and
Speaker 3: taboo breaking love story. This is going to have a
Speaker 3: couple brand new things. We got an introduction of the
Speaker 3: film by Takashi Mike on this which is really cool.
Speaker 3: A teaser trailer directed by Mik with newly filmed intro
Speaker 3: archival discussion with Emma Mura and Takashi mik and then
Speaker 3: a booklet with this as Usual with Me writing by
Speaker 3: Bastian Maroni. Yeah, we've got some new extras on this
Speaker 3: that are not on the film Movement release, So if
Speaker 3: you love this movie, you might want to pick up both.
Speaker 3: There's a reason to there. Next up, so Low from
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy is coming on June twenty second the UK
Speaker 3: June twenty third here in the US from Radiance. This
Speaker 3: is about a womanizing violinist and jewel thief played by
Speaker 3: Jean Pierre Macky, who must abandon his care free lifestyle
Speaker 3: when he learns that his younger brother is part of
Speaker 3: the leftist revolutionary group responsible for the brutal murders of
Speaker 3: powerful men. Determined to save the life of his idealistic sibling,
Speaker 3: the cynical Drifter becomes embroiled in a struggle that is
Speaker 3: not his to fight. A decade after appearing in Latite
Speaker 3: contrell los Mirs, Jean Pierre Machy, I just murdered that. Sorry, Ronnie,
Speaker 3: Please tell me the right way to say that. I'm
Speaker 3: not French returned to acting with his profamily satirical crime drama.
Speaker 3: Unflinching and heavily influenced by American cinema, Solo captures the
Speaker 3: visceral feeling of disillusionment of a post nineteen sixty eight
Speaker 3: French society brimming with rage at the sinister powers that be.
Speaker 3: We've got some archival extras on here. We've got an
Speaker 3: interview with an actor from twenty twenty two, interview with
Speaker 3: John Pierre, Mark Maki's assistant and friend from twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Reversible sleeve in a booklet, with new archival extras in
Speaker 3: this that is with Maki as well, some good stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, from the description that you just read, sounds
Speaker 4: right up my alley. The artwork looks pretty damn solid too, So.
Speaker 3: When when does radiance artwork not looks solid? Them and
Speaker 3: Deaf Crocodile always the.
Speaker 4: Best, and I'm always a sucker for that middle section
Speaker 4: can just like go out and get folded back in
Speaker 4: without having to actually like fold it in half. It
Speaker 4: just kind of goes in like butter. It's It's nice,
Speaker 4: It is perfect, all right.
Speaker 3: Next up from them is the one that I just
Speaker 3: mentioned that I don't want to slaughter again.
Speaker 4: I think you should try it again contre Le Moore.
Speaker 3: Something like that. This is from nineteen fifty nine, also
Speaker 3: a Machi film. This is going to be a four
Speaker 3: K restoration supervised by Machi Delicious Products. There is going
Speaker 3: to be some archival interviews on here. There's going to
Speaker 3: be newly improved English subtitles, a reversible sleeve in a book.
Speaker 3: It's writing by Raymond Durgnott. Yeah, I need to check
Speaker 3: this out because I've heard that all of their stuff
Speaker 3: is great. Next up, they are doing volume six of
Speaker 3: their zine that they've been doing over at Radiance. This
Speaker 3: is volume six of Dirty Art House. This is going
Speaker 3: to be a UK release, but anybody in the US
Speaker 3: can pick it up as well. This is coming on
Speaker 3: June twenty second, so if you pick it up with
Speaker 3: their June titles, it will ship with them. This one
Speaker 3: is dedicated to the less discussed side of serious cinema,
Speaker 3: encompassing the strange, controversial and difficult films with new writing
Speaker 3: from around the world. Issue six focuses on family values.
Speaker 3: We've got pieces on happiness, Julian Donkey Boy I Standalone,
Speaker 3: and Karne and the Killing of a Sacred Deer kat
Speaker 3: Ellener on Anna ILOs Lobos and then Annie Rose Malomet
Speaker 3: on La Luna. I kind of really want this one
Speaker 3: because I love writing on gasperdo way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I do too, And just like the Murderer's
Speaker 4: row of directors that they decided to pick from here,
Speaker 4: I love to see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely good, good list here. This one's interesting. I
Speaker 3: know you and I both have quite a bit. From
Speaker 3: Imprint and via Vision. They are putting out a four
Speaker 3: K soon of ace Ventura When Nature Calls from ninety
Speaker 3: eight is a five Yeah, ninety five. This is the
Speaker 3: sequel to ace Ventura. How do you feel about aast
Speaker 3: Ventura when Nature Calls?
Speaker 4: I grew up with both ace Ventura movies and the
Speaker 4: when he puts the slinky down that great wall, like
Speaker 4: I still chuckle to this day. I've got a sop
Speaker 4: spot for this movie. The rhino from this movie is
Speaker 4: up for sale right now. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: know that going out of the bung Hole like still
Speaker 4: one of my favorite scenes of all time. So I
Speaker 4: cannot wait to go and see this movie on four K.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming this means that there's also gonna be a
Speaker 4: four K from Shout down the Line too. I know
Speaker 4: that that kind of came out in the States, so
Speaker 4: we'll see how it goes, but I'm gonna watch it
Speaker 4: either way. On four K, I'm kind of excited about
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 3: So it did come out in the States for the
Speaker 3: first one, but I will say this one seems different
Speaker 3: because Imprint is doing the four K restoration of this,
Speaker 3: and they did not do the restoration of the first one.
Speaker 3: So I'm kind of curious because I can't think of
Speaker 3: any other Imprint for K restoration that they've done in
Speaker 3: house that has been licensed out to somebody else yet,
Speaker 3: So it could be the first, it could be uh
Speaker 3: the one that goes out there, but I just so
Speaker 3: happened to have sitting next to me the last deduction.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are waiting for this
Speaker 3: to be released in a more inexpensive version, but via
Speaker 3: Vision and Imprint did the restoration for that, so I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's going to get released, because that's
Speaker 3: that's a lot of work to just license out to somebody.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for this one, though, Man, I got there.
Speaker 4: I have both the Viavision and Shout Studios edition of
Speaker 4: that movie, and I like the lenticular that Viavision came
Speaker 4: out with the classic start work. But the steel book
Speaker 4: that was inside of there was scratched as shit, and
Speaker 4: I was I wasn't the only one that that happened to.
Speaker 4: It happened to a lot of different versions of that
Speaker 4: I've seen being sent to, like some of my fellow
Speaker 4: social media people. So I don't know if it was
Speaker 4: just a manufacturing issue and there was nothing that they
Speaker 4: could do on their end, but a little bit of
Speaker 4: a bummer, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: So Sibner's gonna hate that I can do this, But
Speaker 3: it was literally in the stack next to me. Here
Speaker 3: is the steel book. I do have a mark here.
Speaker 3: It's not a scratch. It's probably I can probably get
Speaker 3: that off if I scrubbed it. Thankfully, I'm not seeing scratches.
Speaker 4: That's good. Mine look faded and like weathered a little bit,
Speaker 4: like not like a whole bunch of scratches, but like
Speaker 4: a lot of different spots. It just it didn't look
Speaker 4: that great at all. It was it was kind of
Speaker 4: a bummer. I am kind of curious what that dot
Speaker 4: is right here?
Speaker 3: Huh, Like I can feel it ever so slightly but
Speaker 3: not a dent or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Sibner says, it's all a conspiracy. Ryan only owns
Speaker 3: twenty movies. Yep. That's uh, that's that's what this means.
Speaker 4: I had a couple of DROs onto that twenty.
Speaker 3: Then maybe all right, let's get into some old old titles.
Speaker 3: We got nineteen thirty threes International House coming on April
Speaker 3: twenty first from Universal. This is a George Burns film.
Speaker 3: We got WC. Fields in this. This is a pre
Speaker 3: code film that I've not checked out any of these
Speaker 3: mod titles that Universal has been doing, but I gotta
Speaker 3: be honest, I'm very curious about this because are they
Speaker 3: doing full blown HD restorations? Is this like let's put
Speaker 3: an older scan up on a Blu ray just to
Speaker 3: make some people happy. I kind of has anybody checked
Speaker 3: out any of these older ones? I'd love to hear
Speaker 3: some thoughts.
Speaker 4: I haven't, but I'm assuming the latter. I'm assuming it's
Speaker 4: another example of hey, this is on disc, be happy, right.
Speaker 3: Which sucks. But at the same time, this isn't gonna
Speaker 3: sell five thousand copies or anything, so I get it. Yep,
Speaker 3: all right, next up from Universal as well, On April
Speaker 3: twenty first is the Private War of Major Benson. This
Speaker 3: one is with Julie Adams and Charlton and same exact
Speaker 3: sort of thing. This one's from nineteen fifty five from Universal.
Speaker 3: Breaking the mold a little bit before I go back
Speaker 3: to Universal. Altitude Film in the UK is putting out
Speaker 3: Nouvelle Vague from Richard link Later from last year, which
Speaker 3: is supposedly amazing. I need to see this. This is
Speaker 3: about the Guard film Breathless and the making of that,
Speaker 3: but it's supposed to be just incredible to see. You
Speaker 3: can check that out now. You can pre order it. Now.
Speaker 3: Back to some older titles with Warner Archive before we
Speaker 3: get back to Universal. They announced a ton of stuff
Speaker 3: this month, so stuff that looks really great. Actually, April
Speaker 3: twenty eighth, we got a Blu ray coming of twenty
Speaker 3: eight thousand years in Sing Sing from nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3: This is an HD master from four case scans the
Speaker 3: original nitrate camera negative. This is gonna have classic WB
Speaker 3: shorts on here, two of them, classic WB cartoons on here,
Speaker 3: two of them, and the original trailer. Are you picking
Speaker 3: up much more inner archive these days?
Speaker 4: Again? Another handful situation I'm a lover of the animation
Speaker 4: that they put out on physical media because they have
Speaker 4: such a catalog of titles that they're actually utilizing, which
Speaker 4: is great to see. What that the Huckleberry Hound box
Speaker 4: set that they put out. Absolutely love that sucker.
Speaker 3: It is amazing And the best part is it looks incredible,
Speaker 3: genuinely great looking blu rays. And this is kind of
Speaker 3: where I wanted to sing the praises of Warner Archive
Speaker 3: because this is the opposite of what I was just
Speaker 3: saying with Universal, Like it's cool that Universal is releasing
Speaker 3: stuff on HD, I guess, but if you want to
Speaker 3: see the way to do it, Warner Archive is doing
Speaker 3: it not only right, but showing other people how to
Speaker 3: do it. And it's a masterclass because these will look incredible.
Speaker 3: Next up from them is King Richard and the Crusaders
Speaker 3: from nineteen fifty four. This is also coming on April
Speaker 3: twenty eighth form Warner Archive. This is four K Skins
Speaker 3: the original Camera Negative as well. You've got classic WB cartoons,
Speaker 3: Satan's Waiting and Baby Buggy Bunny, classic Joe mcdok short
Speaker 3: So You Want to Be a Banker, plus the original trailer.
Speaker 3: This one is George Sanders film and Virginia Mayo's in
Speaker 3: this supposedly great not my style of films, so I
Speaker 3: will not be checking this one out, but glad for
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 4: The Pudding you had me at Satan's Waiting. That's a
Speaker 4: hell of a cartoon title, man.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. I do wish I could buy
Speaker 3: the short on their own without the film, because I
Speaker 3: don't agree. Then we got their second volume of Monogram Mattinee.
Speaker 3: They announced the first one, I believe just last year,
Speaker 3: so now we're alread getting the second one. This has
Speaker 3: Louisiana and Song of the Range. These are from nineteen
Speaker 3: forty seven and forty four, respectively. This is gonna be
Speaker 3: four K scans of nitrate fine grain elements. No extras
Speaker 3: on these ones, but it's a double feature and it'll
Speaker 3: still be very interesting at that price, so check it out.
Speaker 3: Next up is crack Up from nineteen forty six, same day,
Speaker 3: April twenty eighth. This is gonna be just knocked off
Speaker 3: all my genre labels from that four case scans of
Speaker 3: the original nitrate negative on this one. This is gonna
Speaker 3: have subtitles as always, but no new extras on this Patibrian,
Speaker 3: Claire Trevor, and Herbert Marshall. I assume you have not
Speaker 3: seen crack Piet.
Speaker 4: A lot of these older Warner Archives things like I
Speaker 4: wish that I have seen, but I am such a
Speaker 4: nothing nothing for you. I feel like I'm just silent
Speaker 4: in the corner over here, Ryan.
Speaker 3: I'm learning every single month. Next a title that I'd
Speaker 3: not heard of but now looks quite good. Actually, nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty seven's Captain's Courageous coming from Warner Archive on the
Speaker 3: same day. This is with Freddie Bartholomew Spenter, Tracy Lionel
Speaker 3: Barrymore and Melvin Douglass, directed by Victor Fleming. Name that
Speaker 3: you will likely recognize this one is four K scans
Speaker 3: of the best preservation elements. We get an MGM cartoon
Speaker 3: The Wayward Pups MGM Robert Benchley short How to Start
Speaker 3: the Day, Leo's on the Air Captain's Courageous Radio promo,
Speaker 3: which I love that Warner Archive includes a bunch of
Speaker 3: those on a lot of their stuff they get like
Speaker 3: the old Lux Radio Theater plays and then of course
Speaker 3: the original trailer on here fun looking set. This looks
Speaker 3: like a good release, Simaphore says, Warner Archive is the
Speaker 3: most import and work being done in film preservation right now.
Speaker 3: It's up there for sure. Next for Warner Archive is
Speaker 3: a title that I am kind of shocked it took
Speaker 3: this long to come to Blu Ray. Yeah, but nineteen
Speaker 3: nineties Private Benjamin with Goldiehan. This will also have on
Speaker 3: here two episodes of the Private Benjamin TV series. Any
Speaker 3: thoughts on Goldiehan or Private Benjamin.
Speaker 4: I had no idea how a TV series, which is
Speaker 4: kind of me pleasant surprise to actually have some of
Speaker 4: those episodes on here. Warner Archive for special features, always
Speaker 4: think outside of the box and just throw some random crap.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it relates to whatever you're buying, sometimes it doesn't,
Speaker 4: but I'm always happy that it's there.
Speaker 3: Ryan.
Speaker 4: Private Benjamin's a movie that I've wanted to watch and
Speaker 4: I have not seen, so I will be picking up
Speaker 4: this Blu Ray for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Goldiehn kind of always amazing and pretty much everything
Speaker 3: that she does, so I would very much like to
Speaker 3: see this cleaned up and on HD, so I will
Speaker 3: get this one eventually. Next up is Aerosmith, Not the Band,
Speaker 3: the movie from nineteen thirty one. This is April twenty
Speaker 3: eighth from Warner Archive as well. This says it's based
Speaker 3: on Sinclair Lewis's nineteen twenty five Pulitzer Prize winning novel
Speaker 3: Aerosmith is the compelling story of a man torn between
Speaker 3: two sets of values. Ronald Coleman stars is Martin Aerosmith,
Speaker 3: an idealistic small town doctor and a research scientist who
Speaker 3: relocates to the West Indies. His determination to end the
Speaker 3: bubonic plague epidemic there sets off a tragic series of
Speaker 3: events which forced him to come to terms with his
Speaker 3: career and personal life. This one is going to have
Speaker 3: a like I just mentioned nineteen thirty seven Lux Radio
Speaker 3: Theater with Spencer Tracy and Fayray. This film with Fayray
Speaker 3: and Myrna Loy. Lots of big names in this title,
Speaker 3: and I bet this restoration is going to look great
Speaker 3: because it was done in twenty twenty three by the
Speaker 3: Library of Congress themselves in association with the Film Foundation.
Speaker 3: I definitely want to take this one home with me
Speaker 3: at some point because it sounds great. Next from Warner
Speaker 3: Archive is their most odd choice of the month. If
Speaker 3: you like. April twenty eighth, we are getting a four
Speaker 3: K Blu Ray dual format release of George Stevens, a
Speaker 3: filmmaker's journey from nineteen eighty four. This is there, I
Speaker 3: believe fourth four K UHD release at this point. I
Speaker 3: believe they're still supposed to have at least two more
Speaker 3: coming out later this year, so keep an eye out
Speaker 3: on those. Warner has been making some great choices. You
Speaker 3: got Gone with the Wind coming soon, or sorry, Cassa
Speaker 3: Bloca coming soon. You've got titles that they've really put
Speaker 3: some love into and weren't. Archive has had their hands
Speaker 3: in a lot of great restoration stuff that people have
Speaker 3: been dying to see. But this is wild to get
Speaker 3: this on four K. Lieutenant Colonel George Stevens wrote in
Speaker 3: his wartime journal to the title, life is a journey,
Speaker 3: and it's always most interesting when you're not sure where
Speaker 3: you're going. This is going to have a twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six four K restoration from the original negative, a four
Speaker 3: K blu ray combo feature. We've got Hdr goldbi Vision
Speaker 3: on this, brand new special features and they went all
Speaker 3: out on this. We've got Christopher Nolan speaking about Stevens's
Speaker 3: creativity and humanistic ethics of Shane Germo del Toro speaking
Speaker 3: about Stevens as a modernist a tour, and The Greatest
Speaker 3: Story Ever Told as his most ambitious work. And then
Speaker 3: to round out the trio of greats, Martin Scorsese speaking
Speaker 3: of Steven's intensity and artistry and of the Greatest Story
Speaker 3: Ever Told is the final movement of Steven's multi picture symphony.
Speaker 4: This is wild, absolutely yeah, Like, it's shocking that a
Speaker 4: documentary would get a four K release regardless, and the
Speaker 4: fact that they're going all out for special features wise
Speaker 4: for this as well, getting some of the greatest or
Speaker 4: greatest filmmakers making movies. Now, Yeah, I cannot wait to
Speaker 4: get my hands on the sucker. Kind of a nod
Speaker 4: choice that Private Benjamin did not get a four K
Speaker 4: release and this documentary did, but I can't say i'm
Speaker 4: mad at the choice either.
Speaker 3: To be fair, this is likely a more important in
Speaker 3: the cinematic history realm type of film, so I'm glad
Speaker 3: that they're swinging for that type of fence. That means
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, I'm a sucker for a documentary, especially about
Speaker 4: a filmmaker. I've never seen this one, so I'm excited
Speaker 4: to check it out for the first time.
Speaker 3: Speaking of documentary, filmmakers. We got Ryan Levey here, What's
Speaker 3: going on right? Welcome, Welcome, going to our next one.
Speaker 3: Another title that I am shocked did not get licensed
Speaker 3: down to a boutique, even though I know a few
Speaker 3: that have tried. May nineteenth, Sony themselves is releasing Adam
Speaker 3: Rifkins The Dark Backward from nineteen ninety one. This is
Speaker 3: starring Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton. In this cult comedy classic,
Speaker 3: garbage Man Marty tries his hand at a stand up
Speaker 3: comedy show, failing miserably until a third arm is seriously
Speaker 3: grows from his back. Gus, his accordion player friend, figures
Speaker 3: out a way to use the new arm and gets
Speaker 3: them signed with a sleazy talent agent. Just when success
Speaker 3: seems near, Marty's girlfriend leaves him and can the Arm
Speaker 3: be far behind? Directed and written by Adam Rifkins, who
Speaker 3: also did Detroit Rock City and of course the I
Speaker 3: think it was the Canalog that released all of his
Speaker 3: home videos and stuff in a compilation in the last
Speaker 3: couple of years over at the Vinegar Center website. This
Speaker 3: is a crazy choice for Sony to do this, but
Speaker 3: I also feel like any other company would have done
Speaker 3: this on four K and gotten all kinds of new
Speaker 3: special features and we're getting nothing on this discs. That's
Speaker 3: a kind of wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially this screams Vindeger syndrome to me, like this
Speaker 4: type of movie where I mean hell, I mean this
Speaker 4: is kind of like Freaked Territory too with Umbrella, So
Speaker 4: I would think there'd be a lot of people that
Speaker 4: would want to put this out. It's just it's weird
Speaker 4: that it just kind of gets bland out there by Sony, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: here it is. I guess I feel like they could
Speaker 4: have made more people more happy if a boutique got
Speaker 4: their hands on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the hard part, Sony's not really licensing much
Speaker 3: to people right now. They used to do more with Shout,
Speaker 3: They used to do more Indicator back in the day,
Speaker 3: had all kinds of shout titles. Not really much happening
Speaker 3: with Sony. But at the same time, Criterions got Sony's number,
Speaker 3: But Criteria is never going to release The Dark Backward
Speaker 3: by Adam Rivkap No.
Speaker 4: I've never seen this one, but that sybnopsis sounds wild
Speaker 4: as hell, and I am very intrigued now, and I
Speaker 4: love me some Bill Paxton, who doesn't It's a.
Speaker 3: It's a hell of a cast, and it's Adam Rifkin.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, the Troit rock Cities. Yep, all right,
Speaker 3: another crazy choice. But Sony is capitalizing on the air
Speaker 3: four K release of Blue Thunder, so on May fifth,
Speaker 3: we are getting a blu ray release of the Blue
Speaker 3: Thunder TV show starring the one and only mister Dana Carvey,
Speaker 3: Dick but Kiss, James Farentino, Bubba Smith, Sandy McPeak. This
Speaker 3: is so odd. Obviously it's just to try to get
Speaker 3: the people that are googling Blue Thunder four K release
Speaker 3: or something, but.
Speaker 4: This is wild. I've never seen a single episode of this,
Speaker 4: but I've seen clips of Dana Carvey in this, so
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to add this to
Speaker 4: the collection, but I am more intrigued about it, I guess.
Speaker 4: And the must the mustache on Dick buck Kiss, I
Speaker 4: mean second to none, top tier mustache. There.
Speaker 3: He is a star in that, that's for sure, all right.
Speaker 3: And by he I did mean the mustache. By the way,
Speaker 3: back to Universal Million Dollar Legs with Billy Gilbert, Edward Kleine,
Speaker 3: Ben Turpin, this is a pre code film from nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty two coming to Blue Rye in April twenty first,
Speaker 3: another W. C. Fields title. We are getting more and
Speaker 3: more of those, it feels like, so they must be
Speaker 3: doing sort of well for them at least. So that's
Speaker 3: that one. And then I don't even know where to
Speaker 3: start with this cover art. It looks terrible. That's where
Speaker 3: you can start. That looks not right at all, That
Speaker 3: looks bad, that looks generic, that looks photoshopped all get out.
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
Speaker 3: No, it is it is not AI. I've seen a
Speaker 3: lot of people mention that it's AI. It is not.
Speaker 3: It is just genuinely terrible cover art. It's bad photoshop. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is obviously it's nineteen so it's very young. That
Speaker 3: is George Burns supposedly.
Speaker 4: I have no idea, couldn't, couldn't tell you. It does
Speaker 4: not look like the George Burns I know. But the
Speaker 4: George Burns I know is probably fifty years older than
Speaker 4: that photo, so who the hell knows.
Speaker 3: But even worse, Gracie Allen, what is this? I don't
Speaker 3: even know? Here, Yeah, nineteen thirty five's here comes Cookie
Speaker 3: April twenty first, coming on Blu Ray. This is wild
Speaker 3: rough choice YEP. Next up Bing Crosby and W. C.
Speaker 3: Fields in Mississippi coming on April twenty first. This is
Speaker 3: from nineteen thirty five, also starring Joan Bennett. Another one
Speaker 3: that I know nothing about. Next up? Uh okay, this
Speaker 3: is one of those moments where I'm gonna get a
Speaker 3: little upset Here. April tenth, We're getting a blu ray
Speaker 3: from Universal of Midwinter Break starring Leslie Manville, and yet
Speaker 3: the Testament of Ann Lee from last year is not
Speaker 3: getting a physical release. Really, I don't even know where
Speaker 3: to start with some of these studios.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they know where to go either,
Speaker 4: Like they're just kind of throwing stuff the wall. But
Speaker 4: that movie at least has some brand recognitions of name value.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of when Mid Winter Break at all
Speaker 4: like that. No, don't even know who.
Speaker 3: I know who Leslie Manville is, but I know a
Speaker 3: lot more people know who Amanda Seyferd is. Absolutely, come on,
Speaker 3: come on, all right, we got some Keyno titles that
Speaker 3: just like we're clogging up the dam and suddenly the
Speaker 3: litt a whole bunch of them go. So let's talk
Speaker 3: about these. May twenty six, we're getting a four K
Speaker 3: Blu ray dual format release of The Great Outdoors with
Speaker 3: Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. This is gonna have a
Speaker 3: new audio commentary by the director Howard Deutsch. We've got that,
Speaker 3: moderated by filmmaker Douglas Hogsdale. New commentary by Joe Ramoni,
Speaker 3: new commentary by Paul Anthony Nelson and Lee zek Raya.
Speaker 3: Those are the only new extras, but they are three
Speaker 3: commentary so that's a lot of extras in terms of
Speaker 3: the time. But it would be nice to see some
Speaker 3: like on camera interviews or something. But it's Keno, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: I wish Keno did more of that. When they do it,
Speaker 4: it's not it's actually pretty dang good, Like that Crime
Speaker 4: Baby edition that they came out with that had so
Speaker 4: many extras on there and that was such a nice surprise.
Speaker 4: I wish that. I wish Keino would do that more often.
Speaker 4: It would be it would be uh. I think it'd
Speaker 4: be in their benefit to do so. Like I think
Speaker 4: people just kind of more or less expect their releases
Speaker 4: not to have special features, and that's kind of a shame.
Speaker 3: That being said, eventually you'd be able to pick this
Speaker 3: up for sixteen bucks that is also true. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: can't really complain.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Speaking of cheesy four K's coming from Keno May twenty six,
Speaker 3: we are getting Harry and the Goddamn Henderson's on four
Speaker 3: K from nineteen eighty seven. Love that they're using one
Speaker 3: of the original posters on this Keino is great about that. Usually,
Speaker 3: this one is going to have a new audio commentary
Speaker 3: by the director William Deer, new audio commentary by Joe Ramoni,
Speaker 3: new audio commentary by Brian Reesman and Max every and
Speaker 3: all kinds of archival extras on the Blu ray disc,
Speaker 3: including deleted scenes, theatrical trailer, making of herring in the Henderson's,
Speaker 3: a news rap, and more. Harry and the Henderson's. Any
Speaker 3: thoughts on this one?
Speaker 4: I wish they could have got John Lethgow back to
Speaker 4: talk about Harry and the Goddamn Henderson's. I would love
Speaker 4: to hear what present day Liftgow has to say about
Speaker 4: this movie, because, Yeah, this was one from my childhood
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is a fun one. I will
Speaker 3: definitely pick this up and look forward to showing my
Speaker 3: kids because this is a wild movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Next, a movie that should never be on four K.
Speaker 3: Twenty seventeen's The Snowman starring Michael Fassbender, and it's also
Speaker 3: got Rebecca Ferguson. New audio commentary by Steve Mitchell and
Speaker 3: Michael Charles Hill. New audio commentary by Howard s Berger
Speaker 3: and Mark Edward Hook. I got asked Howard what he
Speaker 3: was doing, why are we talking about The Snowman? For
Speaker 3: two new commentaries extras on the Blu ray disc, we
Speaker 3: the cast of characters creating the world of the film,
Speaker 3: The Snowman, Killer, Norwegian Landscape, stunt files, and a trailer.
Speaker 3: This is this is weird.
Speaker 4: I agree. Group of friends and I every year bring
Speaker 4: over a movie that we think is like the worst
Speaker 4: that we haven't seen, Like we've heard nothing but bad
Speaker 4: things about The Snowman. Was the worst movie we watched
Speaker 4: of that year that I brought it. Because this movie
Speaker 4: should work. The premise is great, it just falls on
Speaker 4: its face and I don't know why this movie in
Speaker 4: particular is getting a four K release. I despise this movie.
Speaker 3: Ryan, I don't even know what to say to this,
Speaker 3: Like this is one of those things where in a
Speaker 3: year where we've literally had titles delayed because of a
Speaker 3: lack of four K disc manufacturing. This is taking the
Speaker 3: spot of some of those, and that sort of thing
Speaker 3: kind of pisses me off.
Speaker 4: Pino has to be hoarding these four K discs right like,
Speaker 4: they come out with a bunch of four k's, which
Speaker 4: I'd love to see. But it does stink that the
Speaker 4: snowman kind of snuck its way through the goal line here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know what to say is that's
Speaker 3: probably already more time than it deserves. So let's just
Speaker 3: go to the next one because we're almost done already
Speaker 3: for the week. Swashbuckler from nineteen seventy six getting a
Speaker 3: Keeno release on May nineteenth. This had been released previously.
Speaker 3: This is gonna have a new audio commentary by Howard
Speaker 3: Asberger again and Steve Mitchell. The Making of Swashbuckler is
Speaker 3: also on the disc. We get a trailer on here.
Speaker 3: This is Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle film
Speaker 3: and normally this isn't my style film, but the cast
Speaker 3: on this makes me feel.
Speaker 4: Like I have to see this right See, I'm not
Speaker 4: a big pirate genre fan to begin with, but James.
Speaker 3: Earl Jones on the High Seas I might need to
Speaker 3: see that. Yeah, that sounds perfect, Robert, that's mentioned my god. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Peter Boyle, come on, that'll be great. Let's see. Matt
Speaker 3: As wants to know what are the chances that tomorrow
Speaker 3: we get Criterion announcements. Honestly, this is a terrible answer,
Speaker 3: kind of fifty to fifty. Last month they did it
Speaker 3: on Friday the thirteenth as well. This year or this month,
Speaker 3: will they do the same, Maybe, maybe not. I will
Speaker 3: say it looks like Kpop Demon Hunters leaked on Amazon
Speaker 3: earlier today, so that's likely going to be one of
Speaker 3: the titles, And the fact that a Criterion title leaked
Speaker 3: leads me to believe they're probably about to announce, So
Speaker 3: I'm actually leaning towards tomorrow we're going to get THO announcements,
Speaker 3: So keep an eye on the site. I will post
Speaker 3: if they do. The other thing is most likely if
Speaker 3: they are doing a flash sale this month, which they
Speaker 3: normally do in March, that will likely be next Tuesday,
Speaker 3: So over the next week, keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: Nice we have I think just a couple more May
Speaker 3: nineteenth from Keno nineteen thirty two's Night World. This has
Speaker 3: two new audio commentaries, one by Jeremy Arnold one by
Speaker 3: Tim Lucas. This is with Boris Karloff, and I believe
Speaker 3: there's at least one other big name in this. I
Speaker 3: can't remember, I think so, But yeah, this is supposed
Speaker 3: to be pretty good, this says, taking a cue from
Speaker 3: Grand Hotel. This star studed nineteen thirty two. Gym is
Speaker 3: set within the wall of a swinky nightclub owned by
Speaker 3: affable racketeer Happy McDonald played by Boris Karloff. In the
Speaker 3: course of a single evening, McDonald's framed for murder by
Speaker 3: his faithless wife and a choreographer. The philosophic philosophical doorman
Speaker 3: fears for his beloved wife's life. An alcoholic socialite, the
Speaker 3: son of an acquitted murderess, finds love in the arms
Speaker 3: of a hard boiled chorus girl and a beat cop
Speaker 3: burst into foil a pair of trigger happy mobsters. That
Speaker 3: is a hell of a night, wild night.
Speaker 4: I guess so, yeah, night world. He imagine that all
Speaker 4: the time? Absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3: Synopsis sir, all right, next, Oh, I guess we're ending
Speaker 3: on this. So the second title from Antenna has been announced,
Speaker 3: and would love to share that A Bluebird is going
Speaker 3: to be premiering next month at Front Despoa in Brazil.
Speaker 3: This is a title that we picked up before it
Speaker 3: was seen by anybody. This is going to be playing
Speaker 3: for the first time in a theater next month. We're
Speaker 3: going to be putting this out theatrically. This is gonna
Speaker 3: sound crazy because it's so far advance, but I just
Speaker 3: want to get people excited about it. Next January is
Speaker 3: what we're planning for this one. It's going to be
Speaker 3: having a full year of festival showings. We're also kind
Speaker 3: of doing something fun with this that I want to
Speaker 3: read straight from the press release. Antenna is not planning
Speaker 3: to release this until twenty twenty seven, but we are
Speaker 3: hoping to use the festival circuit to generate momentum for
Speaker 3: the eventual theatrical release. This is going to be released
Speaker 3: in a very unusual way. We're capitalizing on the mysteries
Speaker 3: of the film and turning its theatrical release into somewhat
Speaker 3: of a scavenger hunt. I've got some crazy things scheduled
Speaker 3: for this, and I really hope people check this out.
Speaker 3: This film is a stylish blend of techno sci fi,
Speaker 3: noir and dark humor. It is a love story wrapped
Speaker 3: into mystery as a lonely man named Charles, who's played
Speaker 3: by Boardwalk Empire's David mckely, meets a young woman named
Speaker 3: Chloe and embarks on a quest to find her when
Speaker 3: she suddenly disappears in a strange world that seems intent
Speaker 3: on keeping them apart. With echoes of a seventies paranoia
Speaker 3: thrillers and contemporary neon noir, It's a Los Angeles filmed
Speaker 3: example of how small budgets can create big works in
Speaker 3: the right hands. There's some big names in this that
Speaker 3: you'll like. It's a great movie directed by g RD
Speaker 3: and Black. I hope you check it out because it
Speaker 3: is a lot of fun. Eric from MVD is watching tonight.
Speaker 3: What's up Eric?
Speaker 4: Going? Eric?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is wild. It is focused on tech. It
Speaker 3: is done by somebody who's done some work in video
Speaker 3: games previously, so it is something that will if you
Speaker 3: are into the tech side of things, it will definitely
Speaker 3: pique your interest.
Speaker 4: I bet well the whole scavenger hunt aspect too, Like
Speaker 4: you got my mind run in a mile a minute.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, it is. It is something that I've already
Speaker 3: having more fun doing that for this one title that
Speaker 3: I think anything that I did in seventeen years with
Speaker 3: the government, so already proving my choice to be smart.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about what's coming out next week.
Speaker 3: In case you forgot, we got lots of titles to cover.
Speaker 3: Minic coming on four K. I feel like that was
Speaker 3: originally announced god two and a half years ago, So
Speaker 3: finally next week you'll be able to get that from Keno,
Speaker 3: the Jurassic Park standalone four K. This is the new
Speaker 3: version with Dolby Vision, and at most this is outside
Speaker 3: of the Steel book, so if you wanted that disc,
Speaker 3: you can pick it up. There ilsa The Tigris of
Speaker 3: Siberia from Keno on four K. Dead again four K
Speaker 3: from Keno. Again. We were just talking about this Keino
Speaker 3: doing so many four k's. There are five four ks
Speaker 3: from Keno just in these first two rows of Blu
Speaker 3: ray dot Com. We've got a French four K coming
Speaker 3: from Criterion, Testament coming from Criterion as well, Port of
Speaker 3: Shadows four K from Keno, the substitute four K from
Speaker 3: Lionsgate Limited. Steel can't believe they did the substitute on
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a Bradley Cooper thing or not.
Speaker 3: I I could have been contractual and I wasn't even
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Speaker 3: I don't know how he did it. He was in
Speaker 3: like seven great movies last year. I want his life
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Speaker 4: For, Well, all the four K kinos I have my
Speaker 4: hands on already. I haven't had a chance to watch
Speaker 4: any yet, unfortunately, but I'm gonna be watching Mimic this weekend.
Speaker 4: That's a Del Toro movie that has I've never seen
Speaker 4: and I've heard nothing but good things about it, so
Speaker 4: I cannot wait to watch it for the first time.
Speaker 3: Nice nice, nice, nice. Yeah, I cannot wait to see
Speaker 3: Mimic in four K. I've it's been gosh, probably twenty
Speaker 3: years since I've seen it something like that. It's not
Speaker 3: been in the best of quality, and the other releases
Speaker 3: the Blu Ray looked awful on that film, so very
Speaker 3: curious to check it out.
Speaker 4: Cleaned it up a little bit. They're kind of wishy
Speaker 4: washy on their transfers, so I'm hoping this is one
Speaker 4: of those shining spots.
Speaker 3: I would like to think. So question from Mad House,
Speaker 3: what's the deal with Breaking Bed and Better Call SOULI
Speaker 3: four K? Are we ever going to see it happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, that's a that's a coin flip. I
Speaker 3: could see it happening because they're they're huge titles, but
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Speaker 3: my money would lean towards no, but they would probably
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Breaking Bad would sell very well. So even
Speaker 4: if there isn't like the biggest, you know, four K
Speaker 4: transfer bump, I still think it's kind of a no
Speaker 4: brainer for them to release at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you watch Better Call Saul as well?
Speaker 4: I love both of them. Yeah, both of them are great.
Speaker 4: Breaking Bad is my favorite show of all time. Better
Speaker 4: Call Saul is a completely different beast. But that's a
Speaker 4: show to where like it. Like from season one to six,
Speaker 4: it just grows and grows and grows. Yeah, I love both.
Speaker 4: They're great.
Speaker 3: I was such a big fan of Breaking Bad in
Speaker 3: an early fan. I saw it pretty much live as
Speaker 3: it was playing for most of the seasons. I watched
Speaker 3: the finale for Breaking Bad season five in a movie theater.
Speaker 3: It has been very interesting to see the love for
Speaker 3: the film or the show grow. But I got to say,
Speaker 3: as much as I was excited for Better Call Sault,
Speaker 3: I definitely thought it was gonna be a huge step down.
Speaker 3: It was. Breaking Bed is like a masterpiece. How can
Speaker 3: they even come close to it? At this point I've
Speaker 3: watched them both two or three times. Better Call Saul
Speaker 3: might be a better show.
Speaker 4: I definitely like the ending to Better Call Saul more
Speaker 4: than I do Breaking Bad. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I feel like the writing is better and Better Call
Speaker 3: Saul overall. However, the story itself is probably a little
Speaker 3: more interesting to most people on Breaking Bed.
Speaker 4: The character beats in Better Call Saul are more I
Speaker 4: guess higher leveled. I don't know a good way to
Speaker 4: say it, But there's more nuance in Better Call Saul,
Speaker 4: which I like a lot more on Breaking Bad. There's
Speaker 4: a lot more like I guess in your face stunts
Speaker 4: to kind of carry the like oh my god moments.
Speaker 4: With Better Call Saul. It's just like a frickin Domino
Speaker 4: set of like, Okay, these conversations are streaming themselves together
Speaker 4: and then you just press them and it's magic watching
Speaker 4: those conflicts happens.
Speaker 3: That's interesting cinema force. And the chat is saying the
Speaker 3: Breaking Bad was shot on thirty five millimeter. I could
Speaker 3: have swore it was only shot on two KHD, So
Speaker 3: if it was on thirty five millimeter, then absolutely it
Speaker 3: should be on four k because it would sell like hotcakes.
Speaker 3: But that that's interesting either way. Yeah, check them out.
Speaker 3: And I'm dying to see Pluribus. I've not started yet.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I haven't seen it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I love his stuff, so yeah.
Speaker 3: My excuse is I don't I don't have Apple, so
Speaker 3: if they put it out on desks and I'll watch it,
Speaker 3: but I'm certainly not getting Apple TV for one show.
Speaker 4: A lot of Apple shows have been getting physical media
Speaker 4: releases recently. Y. Yeah, I would not be shocked if
Speaker 4: it did.
Speaker 3: Well and it would sell well. It's it's Vince freaking Gilligan. Please, yeah,
Speaker 3: all right tonight, it's it's Oscars weekend, which means we
Speaker 3: got to talk about it in some way, and it's
Speaker 3: to me at least, it's kind of boring just to
Speaker 3: run through what do you think is gonna win every category?
Speaker 3: What do you think should win every category? So we're
Speaker 3: gonna deep dive in one and the one that I'm
Speaker 3: glad that we agreed on this. I think the biggest
Speaker 3: fight is likely going to be in Best Lead Actor.
Speaker 3: Why do you think it's gonna be the biggest fight.
Speaker 4: Because it's gone all over the place in a lot
Speaker 4: of the other award shows, and I feel like there's
Speaker 4: always momentum swings, and like the Oscar campaign and when
Speaker 4: people actually vote, and this one I feel like has
Speaker 4: had a huge swing right when people were going to
Speaker 4: the ballots to place their vote. I have no idea
Speaker 4: where it's going to land. Then that makes me very
Speaker 4: very excited and I will talk about it. But all
Speaker 4: of these performances are very solid. Normally there's a low
Speaker 4: guy on the totem pole here. I think all these
Speaker 4: are strong.
Speaker 3: I feel like in any other year, all five of
Speaker 3: these could have won against like an average Oscar field
Speaker 3: of lead actors. So just for the record, we've got
Speaker 3: Timothy shall May from Marty Supreme, Leo DiCaprio for One
Speaker 3: Battle after Another, Ethan Hawk for Blue Moon, Michael B.
Speaker 3: Jordan for Sinners, and then Vagna Moora for The Secret Agent,
Speaker 3: which I liked all five films. I thought they were
Speaker 3: all pretty great. The Secret Agent I was a little
Speaker 3: low on. I've since watched it again and I raised
Speaker 3: my feelings on it just ever so slightly. Blue Moon
Speaker 3: I'd like to see again. I will say nothing would
Speaker 3: increase in in my opinion of Ethan Hawk. I think
Speaker 3: he was just remarkable in that movie. But the movie
Speaker 3: itself it was. It was very good. It just wasn't
Speaker 3: exactly what I wanted. But he is exactly what I
Speaker 3: always want because he's always incredible.
Speaker 4: That movie felt like a play for sure, not in
Speaker 4: a bad way, just that that's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4: But his performance is the main reason why you would
Speaker 4: want to see Blue Moon. It's definitely the main reason
Speaker 4: why that movie sticks with you. He kind of transforms
Speaker 4: into this character in the best way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So on this one, let's let's run down who
Speaker 3: do we think is going to win this one? Who
Speaker 3: do you think the Oscar's picked to win this one?
Speaker 4: And I've been back and forth on it my place
Speaker 4: of work as an Oscar pool and for the longest
Speaker 4: time I really thought it was going to be Timothy Shallomey.
Speaker 4: But with that sag Or, I guess the Actors Award
Speaker 4: that Michael B. Jordan got and the speech that he gave,
Speaker 4: and when that award was given, that's when the votes
Speaker 4: were starting to flood in for the Oscars. I really
Speaker 4: do think Michael B. Jordan has a really good shot
Speaker 4: of winning an Oscar And I did not think that
Speaker 4: even three weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I am literally the same. I wanted to lead into
Speaker 3: it in an interesting way, but literally all the same
Speaker 3: choices of words there. What's odd is I loved Marty Supreme.
Speaker 3: I thought it was really great. It has cooled dramatically
Speaker 3: the thoughts from everybody in Like on Christmas weekend it
Speaker 3: was this is gonna win so many different things. This
Speaker 3: is a huge movie. Everybody's loving this. It has fallen
Speaker 3: off of a damn cliff since then.
Speaker 4: It's very odd. I don't know. I really hope that
Speaker 4: like the smear campaign that Timothy has had with the
Speaker 4: whole ballet and opera situation, like in my opinion, his
Speaker 4: words were taken out of contact and he was more
Speaker 4: talking like how he doesn't want the movies to kind
Speaker 4: of be forgotten a little bit, like he was grouping
Speaker 4: himself in with those and how he kind of felt
Speaker 4: about those different mediums of entertainment. I don't know. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's why he's going to lose. I just
Speaker 4: think it's because Marty Supreme as a whole has just
Speaker 4: like fallen off a cliff, which I don't really understand. Why. Again,
Speaker 4: all the movies that are nominated, at least for Best
Speaker 4: Actor here I have also thoroughly enjoyed. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think Marty Supreme is gonna win a damn thing
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 3: I don't think it stands a chance for anything at all,
Speaker 3: which is wild because literally two months ago, I'd been like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I could see it winning three or four easily, but
Speaker 3: now I would be shocked if it wins one.
Speaker 4: But when I saw it just kind of changing course
Speaker 4: a little bit. Here when I saw one Battle after another.
Speaker 4: I thought Leo was kind of a lock for his
Speaker 4: performance too, And even though he doesn't do a lot,
Speaker 4: he is such a force in that movie. And I
Speaker 4: don't think I've laughed harder than some of the shit
Speaker 4: he pulled off in twenty twenty five. There might be
Speaker 4: a chance to where like he kind of squeaks in,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked if he won Best Actor in
Speaker 4: this either, I really wouldn't. I kind of think it's
Speaker 4: a three person race there. Leo to me is kind
Speaker 4: of in the back. But yeah, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 4: very excited to watch this Sunday just to see who
Speaker 4: actually wins, because I feel like, out of the main
Speaker 4: four actors, that's the one category to where I'm like,
Speaker 4: I really don't know where this is gonna land.
Speaker 3: So before we get in who we want to win,
Speaker 3: and maybe some some optional items that if none of
Speaker 3: these were nominated, whatever, what are some other ones we
Speaker 3: would have liked to see nominated? You? How do you
Speaker 3: feel about the Oscars? You watch him every year? You
Speaker 3: are you a fan? Because a lot of people are
Speaker 3: jaded about it and they just don't give a.
Speaker 4: Crap, Like I know, it's a big popularity contest and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But I ever since I was probably ten or eleven
Speaker 4: and my mom randomly had it on and I watched
Speaker 4: it and fell in love with the whole atmosphere of
Speaker 4: everything and people being so into winning the award and
Speaker 4: doing the acceptance speech and the whole just glitz and
Speaker 4: glamour of everything like that has kind of stuck with me.
Speaker 4: Even if Hollywood has changed since I first fell in
Speaker 4: love with it, I still am fascinated with the history
Speaker 4: of the Oscars and I want to kind of be
Speaker 4: there and watch it. Like I was watching live when
Speaker 4: the whole Chris Rock Will Smith thing happened, and that
Speaker 4: was absolutely surreal to watch that whole thing play out
Speaker 4: in real time, and just like there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of things that I watched live anymore, but there's something
Speaker 4: magical about the live format that you can always wake
Speaker 4: up the next day and see all the winners. But
Speaker 4: there's something to seeing the surprise and being in that
Speaker 4: moment that I can't get enough of.
Speaker 3: I will say, this is not me trying to, you know,
Speaker 3: place this on anybody else or anything, but I I
Speaker 3: love movies and this is like the biggest cheerleading event
Speaker 3: for movies all the year. You know, this is this
Speaker 3: is the moment. I don't watch any of the other awards,
Speaker 3: like the Actors Awards, the BAFTAs, They're all important, they
Speaker 3: all have meaning leading up to the Oscars. I just
Speaker 3: don't care. I don't watch them because this is the one.
Speaker 3: This is the one that affects careers. This is the
Speaker 3: one that people get jobs out of. This is the
Speaker 3: one that people lose jobs out of. This is the
Speaker 3: one where people get slapped. This is the one where
Speaker 3: like the biggest moments of the year happen. And I
Speaker 3: don't like have stock in this. I'm not gonna dislike
Speaker 3: somebody because they lose. I'm not gonna like somebody because
Speaker 3: they win. But it is like this is my passion,
Speaker 3: and so I'm gonna watch the Oscars live every single year.
Speaker 3: It's it's what I gotta do.
Speaker 4: I've watched it the past couple of years in a
Speaker 4: movie theater, like with a huge crowd. Nice and that
Speaker 4: is the best, man, and like that is where people
Speaker 4: get like the diehards come out and are as excited
Speaker 4: as you are to watch everything, and people are rooting
Speaker 4: for their own you know, winners and losers, and it's
Speaker 4: just it's a blast to kind of just like go
Speaker 4: and experience, and yeah, I love it. I look forward
Speaker 4: to it every year and I don't see that stopping
Speaker 4: anytime soon. It's gonna be very bizarre. I think in
Speaker 4: like twenty twenty nine when it gets moved over to YouTube,
Speaker 4: because then I feel like it's gonna be more popular
Speaker 4: than it has been the past decade because anybody can
Speaker 4: watch it.
Speaker 3: Yep, I would agree. So before we go down into
Speaker 3: our other choices as far as acting, how do you
Speaker 3: personally judge a good acting performance? Because I know for
Speaker 3: a lot of people, and this is where you get
Speaker 3: into the misogyny of it a little bit. It's like
Speaker 3: the female actress winners every year are the ones that
Speaker 3: gave the biggest emotions or cried or screamed the loud enough,
Speaker 3: and people are like, yeah, that's who's gonna win.
Speaker 4: The one that made themselves ugly. Like that shit always
Speaker 4: pisses me off, like I can't believe this beautiful woman
Speaker 4: turned to herself like was so vulnerable by having no
Speaker 4: makeup like that. I despise that outlook on the oscars,
Speaker 4: but it works so often with a best I guess
Speaker 4: actor or actress is the one that leaves the biggest
Speaker 4: impression on me. When I leave the theater, I can't stop
Speaker 4: thinking about the performance they gave.
Speaker 3: The way that I have tended, at least over the
Speaker 3: last few years to view it is which one do
Speaker 3: I get immersed in the character the most and forget
Speaker 3: that it is this giant, famous actor, which is a
Speaker 3: little more difficult. It's somebody like Wagner Mora, who I
Speaker 3: had no idea who that was before, and that whole
Speaker 3: movie The Secret Agent. Every single actor is somebody's like
Speaker 3: doppelganger in a weird way. But also you don't recognize
Speaker 3: any of these people. They're just humans.
Speaker 4: Which there's a lot of non actress in that movie too, specifically,
Speaker 4: which just kind of blends the everyday ness of that movie. Like,
Speaker 4: I didn't watch that movie until very recently because I
Speaker 4: saw that it was on Hulu and I wanted to
Speaker 4: kind of watch it before we did this podcast here.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that movie probably out of the five that
Speaker 4: are nominated for Best Actor, it still probably my weakest,
Speaker 4: but not a bad movie at all. That movie is
Speaker 4: a vibe all on itself. I think the opening was
Speaker 4: strong with the whole gas station scenario. That definitely like
Speaker 4: puts you in for what you're expected to kind of
Speaker 4: go through the rest of the movie. It builds. I
Speaker 4: really like that one.
Speaker 3: I would agree there. So out of these five, who
Speaker 3: do you want to win?
Speaker 4: I think out of the five, performance is the one
Speaker 4: that stuck with me most was Leo's performance Like that,
Speaker 4: that's the one interesting that I would love to see
Speaker 4: win because he doesn't really do those performances. Like I
Speaker 4: kind of was taken out of that being Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 4: I kind of forgot that that was him. He kind
Speaker 4: of blended himself into something else. Timothy Shallamay I always
Speaker 4: knew was him. Michael B. Jordan's same thing. Ethan Hawk
Speaker 4: is probably the closest to being like I could kind
Speaker 4: of lose himself into the role. But there's not a
Speaker 4: lot of flashy moments in Blue Moon. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of emotional beats, both sad and comedic, with one battle
Speaker 4: after another that if you can hit both of those
Speaker 4: for me and going like with a little bit of
Speaker 4: anger issues too, that goes a long way to go.
Speaker 4: Just one route is not enough for me. If one
Speaker 4: does like more.
Speaker 3: You know, I loved Ethan Hawk and he is he
Speaker 3: is probably my second place choice. Leo's great. He definitely
Speaker 3: gets lost in this role quite a bit. He's somebody
Speaker 3: that is playing a little off type because he's quite
Speaker 3: neurotic in this movie. Of course, the shallow may performance
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a great performance. However, he's not even
Speaker 3: like trying that hard. My big thing here is he's
Speaker 3: a narcissistic asshole. He didn't even have to try for
Speaker 3: this role. He had to stop plucking his unibrow and
Speaker 3: be dick and voila, he got nominated for an asque Oscar.
Speaker 4: A thousand percent agree there, he's more playing a heightened
Speaker 4: version of what he already is, more or less like
Speaker 4: I think he already has wild opinions that he's not
Speaker 4: embarrassed to kind of put himself out there. And that's
Speaker 4: kind of what Marty Supreme is in a nutshell too.
Speaker 4: He's very motivated. He will do what he needs to
Speaker 4: do in order to succeed. And Toothy Shallo may say
Speaker 4: what you will about him, but he does not filter
Speaker 4: himself that often. Man. He just he kind of goes
Speaker 4: for it, whether you like it.
Speaker 3: Or not, so my choice here, though I did say
Speaker 3: ethan Aka is my second favorite, I still for this one.
Speaker 3: I want. I want Michael B. Jordan to win. And
Speaker 3: the main reason here he is one person conveying two
Speaker 3: people in a way where I knew who both of
Speaker 3: them were at any moment, and that is so much work,
Speaker 3: literally pulling double duty in a film that left almost
Speaker 3: more of an impression than any of these other movies,
Speaker 3: maybe besides one battle after another. And to have it
Speaker 3: pulled off the way that they did, the like Michael B.
Speaker 3: Jordan passing a cigarette to himself on camera is insane
Speaker 3: that we got that done, and obviously that's more Coogler
Speaker 3: getting just amazing noess on camera, but the fact that
Speaker 3: he's able to pull that off, and you can see
Speaker 3: the way that the two brothers hold a cigarette in
Speaker 3: a different way, that's Michael B. Jordan. And so I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm a sucker for like Doppelganger films or
Speaker 3: Twin films or something like this, And I'll talk about
Speaker 3: another one in just a few minutes, but yeah, that's
Speaker 3: he is my choice, and I really really hope he wins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, I would be happier than hell if he won.
Speaker 4: Because I've been watching Michael B. Jordan since he was
Speaker 4: a little damn kid. I know he was in The Wire.
Speaker 4: Didn't really watch a lot of The Wire. I watched
Speaker 4: Friday Night Lights and when he kind of popped into
Speaker 4: the scene on season four and five, fell in love
Speaker 4: with the kid. Grew up with him just watching him
Speaker 4: on screen and to just see how he has grown
Speaker 4: as an actor, and anytime he pops up on screen,
Speaker 4: I'm happy that he's there. And this role was so
Speaker 4: so different for him, and the fact that he played
Speaker 4: two different roles as well, it just kind of magnifies
Speaker 4: his great acting ability. And yeah, I'm rooting for the kid.
Speaker 4: That's for damn sure.
Speaker 3: On Sunday, So out of the five movies, is one
Speaker 3: Battle your favorite movie? Like, outside of the Performance, which
Speaker 3: one is your favorite movie?
Speaker 4: One Battle after Another was my third favorite movie of
Speaker 4: the year, but my second favorite was Sinners. I had
Speaker 4: more of an enjoyable time with Sinners. It's a movie
Speaker 4: that I feel like was crafted for me. I love
Speaker 4: the blues as a music genre, I love that time frame.
Speaker 4: I'm a huge proponent of the movie Idlewhile even though
Speaker 4: like no one likes that movie. It's just outcast in
Speaker 4: like that Deep South in the nineteen twenties, and this
Speaker 4: movie does that, but it's a little bit more elevated.
Speaker 4: And the scene at the very very end after the
Speaker 4: credits with like, I won't I won't to spoil it
Speaker 4: if you haven't seen it. But that's what really put
Speaker 4: the cherry on top for me, because I was not
Speaker 4: expecting that type of stinger at the end, and for me,
Speaker 4: it elevated the entire movie to like a whole different level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would agree. It is my favorite of
Speaker 3: the five. I adore Sinners, I do. I do kind
Speaker 3: of find it interesting that for years we talked about
Speaker 3: Oscar timing, and now if a film didn't come out
Speaker 3: between Halloween and the end of January, it had no
Speaker 3: chance for an Oscar. And now Sinners came out last
Speaker 3: April or May March, and it's was it March? It
Speaker 3: was March, And now it's the most nominated film for
Speaker 3: an Oscar ceremony. Ever. That's wild.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's kind of having the same trajectory
Speaker 4: that the hurt Locker did, because the hurt Locker came
Speaker 4: out in January, the previous year, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 4: And a lot of movies came out and went, but
Speaker 4: the push was at the right place at the right time,
Speaker 4: and it just kept on going forward and forward, and
Speaker 4: it really stuck with you. It doesn't happen often, but
Speaker 4: I'm very happy that it happened with Sinners.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice to see that the love came through
Speaker 3: for that one. So we've talked about our favorite performances
Speaker 3: of those five, we talked about our favorite movie. What
Speaker 3: about your just overall favorite actor in the current landscape?
Speaker 3: Who is your favorite actor?
Speaker 4: See, I'm an oddball because I don't have like big
Speaker 4: name actors that I really crave to see. I'm more
Speaker 4: of like a supporting cast person, one that I've loved
Speaker 4: forever that does not get enough work, but when he does,
Speaker 4: I am there to watch. It is Ben foster I
Speaker 4: great love Ben foster Man, and it doesn't matter if
Speaker 4: he's in a tiny roll or a piece of shit movie,
Speaker 4: I will be there. And with bells on, I'm a
Speaker 4: huge proponent of him, and he can elevate a kind
Speaker 4: of average movie like Hostage and make it into a
Speaker 4: movie that I will rewatch again and again just because
Speaker 4: his performance is so great newer actors. I'm even a
Speaker 4: fan of Michael Gandolfini, like any time he's popped up
Speaker 4: in a few movies, but he has really surprised me,
Speaker 4: whether that be Licorice Pizza or Warfare that came out
Speaker 4: last year, Like his part was very memorable to me,
Speaker 4: The Long Walk where he got an actual, like leading role.
Speaker 4: He kind of kicked it out of the park in
Speaker 4: my opinion, He's really surprising me. Actress wise, I would
Speaker 4: probably say Emma Stone, Like anytime she's in a movie,
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, okay, let's go. A lot of her
Speaker 4: recent work has been Your Ghosts related, and I love
Speaker 4: Your Ghosts. But even when she's in like a random
Speaker 4: like when she was coming up with like the Hot Chick,
Speaker 4: I really liked when she popped up in that, or
Speaker 4: just Easy A He's super bad. Like there's more movies
Speaker 4: of hers that I like because she's in it rather
Speaker 4: than like Corella is the only one I can think
Speaker 4: of them, like it didn't really work for me, but yeah,
Speaker 4: so still fun to see her pop up in anything.
Speaker 3: I completely get that. My supporting ones that I seem
Speaker 3: to stick in my mind at least Jesse Plemons. We're
Speaker 3: going to talk about him in a minute, because I
Speaker 3: think he is the biggest snub of the year. I
Speaker 3: think that his lead performance was not only deserving, I
Speaker 3: could have argued for that to win. You mentioned The
Speaker 3: Long Walk. David Johnson from The Long Walk is incredible.
Speaker 3: He was great in Alien Romulus, playing an android in
Speaker 3: the most believable way as an android. I would say
Speaker 3: I've got a lot of hope for Cooper Hoffman. Speaking
Speaker 3: of Long Walk, he has done some just incredible performances,
Speaker 3: one that we've not talked about tonight and I was
Speaker 3: going to talk about. So we'll mosey on over to
Speaker 3: other performances that I would have liked to have seen nominated,
Speaker 3: because it's an answer for both. I love Dylan O'Brien.
Speaker 3: I think he is going to be somebody that leaves
Speaker 3: a lasting impression on people. And I truly think for Twinless,
Speaker 3: I think he deserved an actual look from last year.
Speaker 3: Would just like we were just talking about with Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 3: he played two roles. He played twin brothers, both very believable,
Speaker 3: both very obviously different people not on camera at the
Speaker 3: same time. If you watch the film, one of them die,
Speaker 3: So that's why. But he's a just ridiculously great charismatic
Speaker 3: performer and just completely magnetic in everything that he does.
Speaker 3: He is incredibly dickish in Twinless, but also incredibly humble
Speaker 3: and vulnerable and twinless in ways that a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't show in a lead role for the male
Speaker 3: side usually. And I know that we just said that's
Speaker 3: hilarious to hear about women, But for a role like this,
Speaker 3: it is a guy playing a role where he's forced
Speaker 3: to be in precarious situations that other actors, especially in
Speaker 3: the past, like far in the past, would have not
Speaker 3: even taken the role to be even remotely close to
Speaker 3: those situations. So Twinless is great. The other big one,
Speaker 3: Bigonia Jesse Plummans deserved to play, to win, to be nominated, whatever,
Speaker 3: my it's amazing. What else from your list?
Speaker 4: Jesse Plemons is the big one. For sure. I would
Speaker 4: probably take Wagner Mora off and put him in if
Speaker 4: I'm if I had my way, and I would put
Speaker 4: him in Best Actor. I wouldn't put him in Best Supporting.
Speaker 4: You could probably put oh, yeah, both, But to me,
Speaker 4: that's a that's a that's a two person movie and
Speaker 4: for the majority of the movie, and uh, he really
Speaker 4: really blew me away. So it sucked that he did
Speaker 4: not get the nomination. But I liked Joel Edgerton too.
Speaker 4: Entering Dreams. I really liked his performance, very subtle but
Speaker 4: very powerful as well. That movie really stuck with me
Speaker 4: when I watched it. Those are probably the main two
Speaker 4: that I could see myself fitting into that fifth spot,
Speaker 4: taking one out, placing one in that it feels strongest about. I.
Speaker 3: Uh, I love those picks. A kind of an odd
Speaker 3: ball pick for me. I I've never really been a
Speaker 3: huge fan of Jared Aronofsky, and for some reason, Cot
Speaker 3: Stealing hit for me last year. Austin Butler was incredible
Speaker 3: in that movie. Other than like Once upon a Time
Speaker 3: in Hollywood, I think I've still not seen any Austin
Speaker 3: Butler films and he was Nope, not seen either of
Speaker 3: the Really wow, I'm just behind. I loved him in
Speaker 3: cot Stealing. There was something about it. It was just
Speaker 3: fun and unique and I don't know like it was.
Speaker 3: It's another one of those like vibe films like Sarat.
Speaker 3: Did you get to see Sarat?
Speaker 4: I haven't seen Sarat so is weird.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of interesting things about Surat, and I
Speaker 3: feel I feel about Austin Butler's performance the way I
Speaker 3: felt about the entire film of Sarat. So there's not
Speaker 3: really a performance like that in Sat. But yeah, Austin
Speaker 3: Butler was incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wave in here said he was in Eddington too.
Speaker 4: I forgot about that. Oh that's a very small performance
Speaker 4: but memorable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've not seen The Bike Riders, Reggie, I need.
Speaker 4: To for sure, very good in that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've also I've still not seen Elvis either.
Speaker 4: That's a powerhouse performance for him, and he actually got
Speaker 4: nominated for that one, so yeah, they know that that
Speaker 4: makes sense. But I really liked KTT Steely and I
Speaker 4: thought that was one of the biggest surprises of last
Speaker 4: year for me Because Aeronofsky is very hit or miss
Speaker 4: with me in his filmography. This one didn't really feel
Speaker 4: like an Aeronofski film either. It just agree it had
Speaker 4: such a vibe to it, like I just vibed with
Speaker 4: that movie hardcore.
Speaker 3: Yeap. Not one ever would have been considered for an
Speaker 3: award necessarily, and it's probably not good enough turned in
Speaker 3: an Oscar, but I gotta say, Channing Tatum was kind
Speaker 3: of incredible and roof Man this year, and that movie
Speaker 3: is so much better than people have given it credit for.
Speaker 3: Macularly directed. It's based on a true story, so the
Speaker 3: writing is great. It is subtle performances that I mean
Speaker 3: Kiki in that movie is the facial acting that she
Speaker 3: gives in certain scenes are wildly great. It is such
Speaker 3: a unique story because it is real. You can feel that,
Speaker 3: like the personal side of things coming through every single scene.
Speaker 3: Love the movie. Everybody should see Rufe Man. It's so good.
Speaker 4: It's on my stack of shame right now. I have
Speaker 4: got the four K that I just have not watched yet.
Speaker 4: It's one that I'm waiting to watch. My wife and
Speaker 4: we have different bedtimes. I don't know if that's the
Speaker 4: same in your family or not, but like my wife
Speaker 4: likes to go to bed early, I like to go
Speaker 4: to bed super late. And one of these days we
Speaker 4: will kind of meet and watch it at home. For sure.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of curious, did you see Eddington?
Speaker 4: I did? I did see it.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about Eddington?
Speaker 4: That movie was a tale of two films for me.
Speaker 4: I was really vibing with the first half of the movie,
Speaker 4: and I think that movie, besides bo Burnham's Inside, is
Speaker 4: the best example of catching COVID and like putting it
Speaker 4: on screen in the best possible way. And then a
Speaker 4: major death happens in that movie and it completely threw
Speaker 4: me and I couldn't get back on board after that
Speaker 4: because it went in this entirely different avenue that I
Speaker 4: wasn't ready to I liked, I liked, I liked the
Speaker 4: lane I was in. I don't want to go in
Speaker 4: this new lane here, and it went fully in that
Speaker 4: new lane, and uh uh, yeah, I still liked it overall.
Speaker 4: I just wish that it was more of the first
Speaker 4: half of the movie than the second half.
Speaker 3: Right. I'm not sure if you've ever seen my letterbox profile,
Speaker 3: but literally I think I'm one of only a few
Speaker 3: people that have Inside on their letterbox top four. I
Speaker 3: adore that whole thing.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 3: God, I could do it a full episode on bau Burnham.
Speaker 4: I will be on because I love that special and
Speaker 4: it sucks that bo Burnham has just disappeared like he
Speaker 4: was then promising young woman and I have not seen
Speaker 4: him since.
Speaker 3: Yeah. God, he is like a modern renaissance man, kind
Speaker 3: of like Donald Glover and I just I hope they
Speaker 3: always do something because they need to be creating.
Speaker 4: Agreed. I need to hear his voice.
Speaker 3: That's always Yeah, Adam, I'm saying I mentioned facial acting.
Speaker 3: What is facial acting? So the big thing with Kirsten
Speaker 3: Dunst in Roofman, she is there's a lot of scenes
Speaker 3: where she's not speaking, but the way that she portrays
Speaker 3: emotion with like a subtle movement of her eye can
Speaker 3: change the way you feel about in an entire scene.
Speaker 3: The way that she like changes the shape of her
Speaker 3: mouth just to convey losing confidence in Channing Tatum's character
Speaker 3: is wild and a lot of actors cannot pull something
Speaker 3: like that off. And so her control and her ability
Speaker 3: to act like that, I mean, from last year, it
Speaker 3: is the best performance like that that I've seen other
Speaker 3: than Juliet Lewis, who played Gosh. I'm not remembering the
Speaker 3: name of the movie right now, but Juliette Lewis plays
Speaker 3: a chair in a movie that is coming out from
Speaker 3: Osilliscope here soon in like six or seven months, I believe,
Speaker 3: And there's a scene where she is in one shot
Speaker 3: the camera does not move and Juliet Lewis is in
Speaker 3: what appears to be the most uncomfortable position I've ever
Speaker 3: and her body does not move for I think like
Speaker 3: eleven minutes straight. It is immaculate body control and that
Speaker 3: is just crazy. But yeah, Kirsten Dunst is probably the
Speaker 3: the closest behind her. Last year, By Design is the
Speaker 3: name of the cheer movie, Thanks Ronnie. By Design is.
Speaker 3: I did not love it, but for watching a feat
Speaker 3: of acting that should not exist and is crazy, sure,
Speaker 3: go check out Juliet Lewis and By Design.
Speaker 4: It's what got me. I've never heard of that movie
Speaker 4: and it has me intrigued to watch it just for
Speaker 4: that scene. Is that the majority of the movie is
Speaker 4: her as a chair.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a weird story because she she goes chair
Speaker 3: shopping with some friends and she sees a chair and
Speaker 3: she falls in love with it and essentially wishes to
Speaker 3: be the chair. And it's it's a it's an interesting movie. Weird, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: check out By Design if that's your thing. Other other
Speaker 3: than incredible lead performances for our acting category, what other
Speaker 3: categories you got your eyes on as like, ooh, this
Speaker 3: could be interesting.
Speaker 4: I think what was the best supporting actor that was
Speaker 4: kind of close as well. I think both actor categories.
Speaker 4: Actress Jesse Buckley has lead on lock. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think this year is very fascinating just because there's
Speaker 4: not a lot of locks. Yeah, actor in a supporting
Speaker 4: role I think could go so many different ways as well.
Speaker 4: Like for the longest time, sarsguard was like the main
Speaker 4: person that was gonna be pick to win, but Sean
Speaker 4: penn is starting to creep his way in. He would
Speaker 4: be my personal winner. He's such a piece as shit
Speaker 4: in one battle after another, but one that has like
Speaker 4: different quirks that are just odd and not a Sean
Speaker 4: pennrole I thought he would ever play. So that's the
Speaker 4: one that stuck with me the most. I voted for
Speaker 4: del Roy Lindo though I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 4: lot of sinners love with the Oscars, and since this
Speaker 4: is the only one that the only nomination he's had
Speaker 4: the whole Award season, I feel like there might be
Speaker 4: a surprise win here.
Speaker 3: Well. That and I could see it being like a
Speaker 3: body of work type of Oscar for him.
Speaker 4: He's John Pennardy has two as well as right.
Speaker 3: And Stellen has given part of the pun but stellar
Speaker 3: performances for decades. Like so even looking at something like
Speaker 3: Nimpho Mania, he is remarkable in that movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and del Roy is one of those actors that
Speaker 4: I feel like, just in the past five or six
Speaker 4: years is really starting to get his flowers a little bit.
Speaker 4: But this might be the time to where like he
Speaker 4: gets the ultimate flower, I guess because Yeah, and his
Speaker 4: role in Centers is very memorable too. He doesn't have
Speaker 4: a lot of screen time, but it definitely sticks with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, I'd almost rather see del Roy linda
Speaker 3: win over Michael B. Jordan because I Michael B. Jordan
Speaker 3: is gonna have eight hundred and fourteen more chances of this.
Speaker 3: Del Roy Lindall probably will not get another big, meaty.
Speaker 4: Piece like this, right, Nope. And like he really I
Speaker 4: didn't really put any focus onto him until I saw
Speaker 4: it to Five Bloods, and that movie stuck with me.
Speaker 4: Oh great, and that movie yeah to where like I've
Speaker 4: just been a fan of his ever since I saw
Speaker 4: that movie. And Yeah, to see what he did in
Speaker 4: Centers really just put a smile on my face. He's
Speaker 4: a very charismatic alcoholic. It's Yeah, it's a fun Meatia.
Speaker 3: Role I, Ronnie. I agree, Ronnie says very annoying. Sentimental
Speaker 3: Value is coming to streaming after the Oscars. I I'm
Speaker 3: glad that it's coming out through Criterion. I kind of
Speaker 3: wish I could have it in my hand already to
Speaker 3: watch for the ceremony. Again. I really enjoyed that movie,
Speaker 3: probably third or fourth funniest scene in a movie all years.
Speaker 3: When all of the centophiles watching Sentimental Value laughed like
Speaker 3: crazy when they saw the DVD cover of Irreversible being
Speaker 3: handed to a nine year old, I got it. There's
Speaker 3: so much to talk about from last year, and that's
Speaker 3: let's make that the last question. How did you feel
Speaker 3: about twenty twenty five as a movie year? Because obviously
Speaker 3: we get complaints from so many people about the movie suck,
Speaker 3: nothing original is happening. I twenty twenty five I felt
Speaker 3: like was amazing.
Speaker 4: I thought it was strong too. And one person that
Speaker 4: I haven't talked about that put out my favorite movie
Speaker 4: and my fifth favorite movie of last year was Soderberg.
Speaker 4: I thought, like is one two punch of movies that
Speaker 4: came out in like it was your like a one
Speaker 4: or two week span with presence in Black Bag are
Speaker 4: like some of my favorite movie watching experiences, and they
Speaker 4: couldn't be further from each other either, Like one is
Speaker 4: just my espionage film, the other one is just a
Speaker 4: very unique ghost storytelling and both both were very memorable
Speaker 4: in my book.
Speaker 3: Interesting, So which one was your favorite from last year?
Speaker 3: Was a black black Bag?
Speaker 4: I like Presents. I really enjoyed Presence. I did not
Speaker 4: expect it to end where it did, and I thought
Speaker 4: the whole the stick with the camera moving in first
Speaker 4: person with the ghost perspective, really fucking stuck with me
Speaker 4: and I could not keep my eye. My eyes were
Speaker 4: glued to the screen the entire time. No distractions were
Speaker 4: even thought of.
Speaker 3: I loved the third act of Presence. I think the
Speaker 3: whole shtick got a little long in the tooth for me,
Speaker 3: but it was still effective and I still enjoyed it,
Speaker 3: and I thought it was great that the story itself
Speaker 3: that they leaned into finally in the third act. It
Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. Maybe about thirty minutes too long,
Speaker 3: And in terms of the Stick, I'm.
Speaker 4: The only one that I know that loves that movie
Speaker 4: as much as I do. But I think it was
Speaker 4: the only movie last year I gave a perfect rating too.
Speaker 4: I'm very very harsh when it comes to my five
Speaker 4: star ratings, but that one I wouldn't change anything. I really.
Speaker 4: I even liked the cutting to black and then going
Speaker 4: to a different scene, just because like who knows, like
Speaker 4: what the other realm is kind of doing and it
Speaker 4: might just be like here's a moment, here's a moment
Speaker 4: just flashes in and out. I don't know. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: movie's great. It really did something to me.
Speaker 3: I will say the one movie that I somehow just
Speaker 3: like the Oscars did not mention it all tonight, which
Speaker 3: I really wanted to, is other choice. I think, uh
Speaker 3: leeb young Hunt was was amazing in his lead role
Speaker 3: and it's a lot of fun, and uh I wish
Speaker 3: he got love. But I believe the the Academy hates
Speaker 3: Park chan Wook and we'll never forget him for that.
Speaker 3: I think there was a writer or strike thing and
Speaker 3: that's why he shut out basically.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because yeah, he can't be isn't it he can't
Speaker 4: be nominated because he made a movie when the writers
Speaker 4: or actors' strike was going on. Isn't that what happened?
Speaker 3: I think he could be now they're just doing it
Speaker 3: out of spite essentially whatever.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's a petty reason.
Speaker 3: Nonetheless, Yeah, tell everybody about about about your your stuff
Speaker 3: and where you want them to follow you most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, steel Book obsessed on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, I
Speaker 4: post a video a day. If you want to follow
Speaker 4: me on letterboxed, it's at steel Book. I saw that
Speaker 4: handle was available, like, yep, I'm just gonna grab that.
Speaker 4: That's fine with me, and I have a couple of
Speaker 4: physical media releases coming out soon. I've got I was
Speaker 4: a producer, the main producer on the Dirties from Umbrella Entertainment.
Speaker 4: I hosted the interviews. I kind of crafted the way
Speaker 4: they were edited. I spent so much time on that
Speaker 4: sucker that I can't wait for it to get in
Speaker 4: people's hands. Matt Johnson I've loved for a very long time.
Speaker 4: So the fact that I was able to interview the
Speaker 4: guy and get their input on what they wanted for extras,
Speaker 4: both like physical goodies, like we have a T shirt
Speaker 4: coming out that is like a main factor in the
Speaker 4: setting or the plot of the Dirties, and the fact
Speaker 4: that we were able to come up with like such
Speaker 4: a cool box release. I'm thrilled to get it in
Speaker 4: people's hands, especially if you've seen Nirvana, the band of
Speaker 4: the show, of the movie and really liked that dig
Speaker 4: into his first work. This is a school shooting comedy,
Speaker 4: should not work whatsoever, and it absolutely does. And then
Speaker 4: I have some written work coming in there. Monsters and
Speaker 4: Curiosities box set coming out in April from Umbrella.
Speaker 3: Well, you've spent a lot of time talking about that one,
Speaker 3: but not enough tonight. Tell everybody why that box set
Speaker 3: is so special.
Speaker 4: It's a big one. It's a big, beefy box set
Speaker 4: with a whole bunch. Like the most known movie in
Speaker 4: that box set is The Brida Frankenstein probably, which has
Speaker 4: been released ad nauseum, but there are a lot of
Speaker 4: movies in there that have never received a proper blu
Speaker 4: ray release, which is very cool to see. I have
Speaker 4: a written piece based on the movie The Leech Woman,
Speaker 4: which is very late in like the Monster Run. It
Speaker 4: released in sixty five, I believe. But that movie is
Speaker 4: kind of about hiding your age and trying to be
Speaker 4: beautiful on the outside for as long as possible. So
Speaker 4: me and Aaron Holt Cult of Cinema on a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different platforms. We had a discussion on age
Speaker 4: aging in cinema and like the horrors, how it's kind
Speaker 4: of being portrayed in the horror genre, and I think
Speaker 4: we had a damn good conversation. It was supposed to
Speaker 4: be a special feature on the disc, and Universal stepped
Speaker 4: in at like the twenty third hour and said, actually,
Speaker 4: you got to pay us for a lot of this
Speaker 4: licensing that you've utilized. Even though you're talking about the
Speaker 4: movie and you have the movie on the disc, you
Speaker 4: got to pay us again if you want to use
Speaker 4: it on the special feature. Which always sucks when that happens,
Speaker 4: and it really gutted a lot of people on the team,
Speaker 4: but you just kind of got to pivot when you can.
Speaker 4: I think what we turned that into into a written
Speaker 4: piece works. Still hoping I can get that special feature
Speaker 4: out just on my YouTube page at some point, because
Speaker 4: we've had a great conversation about just aging in cinema.
Speaker 4: But the box set as a whole, I think is
Speaker 4: such a cool piece. It's a huge box set, twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five twenty six films. There's a lot of content
Speaker 4: in that box and the booklet that's included has over
Speaker 4: one hundred pages hardbound book. If you're a fan of
Speaker 4: those like Universal Monster B type movies, I don't think
Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna be disappointed in the set.
Speaker 3: It is one of those situations where I see so
Speaker 3: many people and I think I did as well, because
Speaker 3: we had not gotten the word on it yet. But
Speaker 3: when they first announced that box set, it was like,
Speaker 3: oh man, this is great, We're getting all these titles.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, there's like nothing extra on the discs. This
Speaker 3: sucks that we're doing it. And then you find out
Speaker 3: why later and it goes from complaints to understanding and
Speaker 3: empathy to like, hat studios just suck sometimes, Yeah, because
Speaker 3: we probably had.
Speaker 4: Three plus hours of bonus material, like just ready to go,
Speaker 4: and at the last second we couldn't. And I think
Speaker 4: there were a couple that we could have ultimately used,
Speaker 4: but we decided it was kind of an all or
Speaker 4: nothing effort, like we're either going to cause if you
Speaker 4: have one or two mattered across thirteen discs, like who cares,
Speaker 4: Like it's just going to get lost. So either you
Speaker 4: can fill all the discs with bonus content or just
Speaker 4: make the book as beefy as possible and at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, I'm happy with what the final
Speaker 4: product's going to be, but I'm a proponent for special features. Man,
Speaker 4: That's like one of the main reasons why I love
Speaker 4: physical media. So it stings that it's not there. But
Speaker 4: I still think the box set as a whole has
Speaker 4: value for sure, and I think it's it's worth checking
Speaker 4: out if you're a fan of that genre.
Speaker 3: Any other interviews or anything coming up on the show
Speaker 3: that you want to hype up.
Speaker 4: Nothing too crazy. I'm still working on a bunch. Nothing
Speaker 4: is finalized, but I'm hoping to get more kind of
Speaker 4: in the entertainment realm. Working on scheduling at the moment,
Speaker 4: so nothing to announce yet.
Speaker 3: All Right, everybody go follow Steep look obsessed. All the
Speaker 3: links are in the description below. Jake, thanks for doing this. Finally,
Speaker 3: absolutely no.
Speaker 4: It was a blast. I feel like I had nothing
Speaker 4: to say for two thirds of the new announcements because
Speaker 4: it was all just older films and foreign films not
Speaker 4: my forte. But yeah, it was fun to be on here.
Speaker 3: Nonetheless, I will be honest, I think this may be
Speaker 3: the most eclectic week of releases we've ever had. Literally,
Speaker 3: the titles that we're announced this week. I mean from
Speaker 3: radiance from universal pre code stuff to random keynotype, like
Speaker 3: we went from nineteen thirty two WC. Fields to Harry
Speaker 3: and the Hendersons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had something to say about Harry. That's about it.
Speaker 4: That's all you got from me.
Speaker 3: Well, on that note, thanks everybody praying out. Next week
Speaker 3: I will be back as usual, of course, because I'm
Speaker 3: always here other than last week. Let's not talk about that.
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