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Speaker 3: It's Later with Mo Kelly on KF I am six
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Speaker 3: and it's the Runner Report. If you only see one
Speaker 3: horror comedy about a cursed killer toy monkey, the Monkey
Speaker 3: might be for you.
Speaker 4: Here's a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 5: For the longest time, there was nothing. Then it appeared,
Speaker 5: a beast not from this earth, smiting the ones who
Speaker 5: deserved it, the ones who didn't, and everyone in between.
Speaker 5: Whoever controls it controls life and death, and those deaths
Speaker 5: are really stop.
Speaker 3: Holy Everybody dies.
Speaker 4: And that's life.
Speaker 5: Im messing there. Have you been up there?
Speaker 1: It's like that restaurant Spaghetti City.
Speaker 3: Everything okay there, Yeah, everything's fine, or as Inspector Clouseau
Speaker 3: would have called it, to the Minky. It's from Stephen
Speaker 3: King short story, which isn't automatically the mark of quality,
Speaker 3: even if you love King like I do. And to
Speaker 3: answer your first question, it's called the Monkey. But no,
Speaker 3: there's no feces flinging. Well, what's left you asked in
Speaker 3: your second question. King published this story in a porn
Speaker 3: magazine called Gallery way back in nineteen eighty. Seriously, those
Speaker 3: were venues for working short story writers to get published
Speaker 3: and paid. That market doesn't really exist anymore, and the
Speaker 3: number of people who make a living writing short stories
Speaker 3: probably qualifies them as being extinct now. Harlan Ellison did
Speaker 3: the same thing in magazines with titles like Jent for
Speaker 3: Real and Playboy. Of course, I think one of my
Speaker 3: first rejection letters for a short story was from Playboy
Speaker 3: when I was a teenager, and they didn't even send
Speaker 3: a real go to hell letter from an actual editor.
Speaker 3: It was a generic statement printed on a slip of paper,
Speaker 3: not even a whole sheet of paper. And God, my
Speaker 3: self esteem was so healthy. This movie of Kings the
Speaker 3: Monkey is by Osgood Perkins, who perpetrated Long Legs last year,
Speaker 3: which was strange in which I liked, and which you
Speaker 3: can find streaming now. It starts Theo James, who was
Speaker 3: recently in Guy Ritchie's The Gentleman miniseries and who's been
Speaker 3: rumored to be a contender for Bond. He plays twin
Speaker 3: brothers who hate each other and who find this obnoxious,
Speaker 3: noise making toy monkey. When they turn the crank in
Speaker 3: its back and it hits its little drum, someone dies
Speaker 3: in a freakish, gruesome, final destination sort of way. Because
Speaker 3: noisy children's toys aren't annoying enough on their own as
Speaker 3: a toy, this cursed monkey's even better than jarts. You
Speaker 3: remember those, mo and pale your friends with these.
Speaker 6: I can't believe they never sold those are allowed to
Speaker 6: sell them?
Speaker 3: Their weapons, sharp tip throwing missiles, lawn darts, eyeball spears,
Speaker 3: tomato tomato anyway. Twin brothers THEO throw the monkey in
Speaker 3: a well after they see it's evil and causes people
Speaker 3: to go splat, but it resurfaces when they're adults. They
Speaker 3: become estranged, and the more normal twin named Hal becomes
Speaker 3: an adult with no friends and an estranged young son
Speaker 3: because he doesn't want to put anybody at risk being
Speaker 3: around him. So Hal and his son have to return
Speaker 3: to their family home to stop the monkeys killing somehow
Speaker 3: and deal with the crazy brother. It's all pretty entertaining
Speaker 3: as horror comedies go. If you'd rather see one of
Speaker 3: those than a horror movie or a comedy movie. It's
Speaker 3: hard to blend those, and if you heard my review
Speaker 3: of Heart Eyes recently, you know they can easily turn
Speaker 3: out to be a Code Brown as Stephen King movie
Speaker 3: adaptations go. The Monkey is no Shawshank or The Mist,
Speaker 3: but doesn't even come close to being the kind of
Speaker 3: diaper gravy the Dark Tower and lawnmower Man were. There's
Speaker 3: your Rotten Tomatoes quote right there. I like lawnmowre Man.
Speaker 3: We could go there's a sequel to it as well,
Speaker 3: but I can't get sidetracked here. Also, The Gorge is
Speaker 3: streaming on Apple TV Plus. This story got my attention yesterday.
Speaker 3: It said Apple Original Films The Gorge is the biggest
Speaker 3: film launch and the streamer's short history. It crushed the
Speaker 3: numbers from last falls film Wolf's starring George Clooney and
Speaker 3: Brad Pitt, and to be honest, I didn't even make
Speaker 3: it to the end of that stinker. While Apple doesn't
Speaker 3: reveal specific numbers, it did confirm the straight to streaming
Speaker 3: release was the biggest premiere in Apple TV plus history
Speaker 3: after its Valentine's Day debut. Here's a little bit of
Speaker 3: that trailer.
Speaker 4: I have new orders that require me to go dark
Speaker 4: for at least a year.
Speaker 6: Maybe Moore.
Speaker 3: A special assignment in an undisclosed location.
Speaker 4: As an elite sniper. Are you presently under any private
Speaker 4: or military contract. No, there's not a lot of reasons
Speaker 4: for me. Right now, what.
Speaker 5: If I gave you a reason?
Speaker 2: There she is West Tower observation post your home for
Speaker 2: the next.
Speaker 4: Three hundred and sixty five days. There is no outside
Speaker 4: communication here. What's that on the other side? That is
Speaker 4: East Tower.
Speaker 1: Contact with the other side is strictly forbidden.
Speaker 4: So what's the mission? You keep people from going in
Speaker 4: the gorge? No, you need to stop with in the
Speaker 4: gorge from coming out.
Speaker 5: What the hell is that?
Speaker 4: The gorge is the door to Hell and we're standing
Speaker 4: got to the gate.
Speaker 3: I don't really believe in guilty pleasures, but this one
Speaker 3: comes close. The whole movie plays out like cut scenes
Speaker 3: in a video game that's been plotted by committee. But
Speaker 3: it's got some creepy production design, some fun tense set pieces,
Speaker 3: and look, it's not trying to take away your social security. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's a fun watch, Miles Teller. As you heard an
Speaker 3: Annya Taylor Joy play American and Russian or maybe she's
Speaker 3: Lithuanian expert snipers who get hired for a one year
Speaker 3: gig to stand guard and towers on opposite sides of
Speaker 3: a fog shrouded gorge with lots and lots of guns,
Speaker 3: and those guns are for the things that climb out
Speaker 3: of the gorge. You also heard Sigourney Weaver in the
Speaker 3: trailer as the boss who sends teller. The two snipers
Speaker 3: aren't supposed to talk, let alone hook up, and they're
Speaker 3: not supposed to go down into the monster filled gorge
Speaker 3: under any circumstances, which instantly guarantees they're going to do
Speaker 3: all of those things. It's fun, but it's kind of dumb.
Speaker 3: And when I say it plays out like a video game,
Speaker 3: I mean I could see it as a by the
Speaker 3: Numbers Resident Evil installment or something like that. I just
Speaker 3: had to look up did the Gorge come from a
Speaker 3: video game? And no, the answer is no. The director
Speaker 3: Scott Dereckson, who did a Doctor Strange movie. He did
Speaker 3: The Black Phone and some other respectable horror stuff. I
Speaker 3: kept imagining this story filtered through other filmmakers who are
Speaker 3: more raw and stylized in how they approach things, so
Speaker 3: that it would have been really unsettling instead of kind
Speaker 3: of a fun action horror thing. I'm a jig. You're
Speaker 3: gonna think I'm nuts. But Christoph Ganza's Silent Hill was
Speaker 3: a little closer to the mark. It's worth noting that
Speaker 3: Telor and Taylor Joy were in two of the most
Speaker 3: flaming piles of garbage of Marvel movies, the horrendous Fantastic
Speaker 3: four movie from twenty fifteen that nobody talks about anymore
Speaker 3: and the Powerful sleep Aid New Mutants. So there's that
Speaker 3: to think of while they're hooking up. And noted that
Speaker 3: other question and you're thinking, there's no nudity. Bo I
Speaker 3: see you watching this movie, because this is one of
Speaker 3: those kind of just be entertained and don't be critical
Speaker 3: of it movies. Can I stream it at home now?
Speaker 3: It's on Apple TV Plus. Okay, Yes, that's good enough. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I don't have to like leave my house, I'll
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: You won't want to leave your house. You want to
Speaker 4: stay home.
Speaker 3: That's there's your other Rotten Tomatoes quote. It's just I
Speaker 3: think that the director Derekson was inspired by video games.
Speaker 3: You're not much of a gamer, but no, I mean
Speaker 3: a little more than two hours. It's better than a
Speaker 3: video game, because your girlfriend isn't going to wake up
Speaker 3: to find out that you've been up playing it all
Speaker 3: night when you should have been sleeping so you can
Speaker 3: look for a job during the day. She's going to
Speaker 3: throw you out. It's not going to be because of because
Speaker 3: of a video game. And this has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with me or my look. I was getting ready to
Speaker 3: ask you. Bo's going to ask you theoretically because I'm
Speaker 3: sure we have listeners in that position, and I would
Speaker 3: never do such a thing.
Speaker 4: Pea the time I'm responsible at don't right at.
Speaker 6: What people don't know is Mark will come into the
Speaker 6: office every day, I don't know, maybe five forty five
Speaker 6: or say five forty five or so and say good morning,
Speaker 6: so I know he's just waking up at the crack
Speaker 6: of noon.
Speaker 3: Well you should know, though, that I have never once
Speaker 3: played Resident Evil all night. Never, well never once, I
Speaker 3: mean several dozen times, perhaps.
Speaker 4: In my in my ute ute, yeah, two utes.
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