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Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, welcome to another live Thursday Night. I'm just
Speaker 3: stoked to be back home with decent internet so that
Speaker 3: these are not awful for you, And I'm also stoked
Speaker 3: for another first time guests. Been doing a lot of
Speaker 3: those lately, Mister Scott Saslow, Welcome, sir.
Speaker 4: I'm great to finally be here.
Speaker 3: You are getting to be quite prolific in the physical
Speaker 3: media scene. Yet you can be us monest. Come on.
Speaker 3: First off, you are a graphic designer. Can you name
Speaker 3: ten or eighty seven of the titles that you've worked
Speaker 3: on recently?
Speaker 6: Recently and again mostly it's a packaging layout, booklet design. Actually,
Speaker 6: why don't we just pull up just wrapped Mortal Kombat,
Speaker 6: Bullet in the Head, Blue Thunder, the Dollars Trilogy Innerspace,
Speaker 6: which we'll talk about later, The Killer Hard Boiled Spaceball's
Speaker 6: Excalibur Westworld. That's just for Arrow, for fun City, fabulous stains.
Speaker 6: They just announced it the other day. I designed the
Speaker 6: box art for The Hills Have Eyes for Karlada Films.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: I don't do artwork that often. My first Arrow job
Speaker 4: was the film noir set that they did, you know,
Speaker 4: Salt Baths style they wanted. That's what they wanted, and
Speaker 4: they let me do you know, volumes two and three
Speaker 4: five years later. But it's fun.
Speaker 6: I Hi, I enjoy doing it, you know, that's for sure,
Speaker 6: and I'm working on some cool stuff as we speak.
Speaker 3: You are a to put it modestly in my words
Speaker 3: for you, you are a quite incredible graphic designer. The best
Speaker 3: thing that I appreciate out of your camp is layout design,
Speaker 3: and that is something that a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: even think about the differences of They mostly just think
Speaker 3: of the front cover art. How'd you get into layout
Speaker 3: design because that's such a very different sort of skill.
Speaker 6: I didn't get into its specific So I have a
Speaker 6: film degree actually from years ago. I went to a
Speaker 6: school in Orlando called Full Sale. You know, wanted to
Speaker 6: direct like everyone else, and you know, of realized didn't
Speaker 6: have the temperament for it. That ship sailed. Spent most
Speaker 6: of my twenties just doing odd jobs and temp work.
Speaker 6: I ended up going back to school at thirty, thank
Speaker 6: you very much. Went back to school at thirty for
Speaker 6: graphic design, and in my last semester that's when it
Speaker 6: kind of hit me obvious in retrospect, like I could
Speaker 6: combine both interests, the movies and the graphic design. And
Speaker 6: my last semester I actually did a couple of my
Speaker 6: own Blu rays. I came up with my own boutique label.
Speaker 6: I called it Heliotrope Films, and I did Kronenberg's Crash
Speaker 6: and the Parallax View. This was obviously after the Criteria
Speaker 6: Laser disc of Crash, but before the Criterion Blu ray
Speaker 6: of Parallax. But I came up with my own extras,
Speaker 6: did booklets, discard you know, company.
Speaker 4: Logo, everything, and.
Speaker 6: You know, moved back to LA entered at one of
Speaker 6: the big tent not temp agencies, one of the big
Speaker 6: ad agencies doing movie posters. That ended January twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: and I've been freelancing ever since. One of my emails
Speaker 6: got into Arrow and they liked what I had done
Speaker 6: with this daily poster project where I was doing one
Speaker 6: poster a day for a year. And I mean my
Speaker 6: style such as it is, you know, pretty minimalist. When
Speaker 6: you study graphic design or really anything, you kind of
Speaker 6: you know, you see the designers, it's like, okay, I
Speaker 6: can't do what Drew Strewsen does or Peek or any
Speaker 6: of those guys, but I could kind of do what
Speaker 6: these folks do. And you start learning about you know,
Speaker 6: minimalism and the Swiss style, and you know, you find
Speaker 6: designers like Brandon Schaeffer and Sam Smith who now I
Speaker 6: actually can call collaborators and they're super talented, and so
Speaker 6: it's like, Okay, maybe I can't sit at this table,
Speaker 6: but there's room for me at this table.
Speaker 4: And you know, I did a handful of things for Arrow.
Speaker 6: This is when they still had the Academy line where
Speaker 6: my sort of minimalist style kind of worked for that.
Speaker 6: But it was ironically around the start of COVID early
Speaker 6: twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Arrow brought me.
Speaker 6: In to do the two hundred page book for the game,
Speaker 6: and after that it was, you know, it's been NonStop
Speaker 6: ever since. I've done a few art things, you know,
Speaker 6: for Carl Outa films. I do some slipcovers for fun City.
Speaker 6: You know, haven't done any art for Arrow lately. But
Speaker 6: when it comes to the booklets and text and you know,
Speaker 6: getting creative with that and trying to work within the limitations, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I enjoy it. Every project is different.
Speaker 6: I'm always looking to see in the artwork, you know,
Speaker 6: what can I use elsewhere?
Speaker 4: So everything is of a piece and looks good.
Speaker 6: You don't want one component, you know, looking different from
Speaker 6: the rest, or something that doesn't fit.
Speaker 4: I know this is a long answer.
Speaker 3: But oh this is exactly what people want to hear.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So as far as that aspect of graphic design,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of fell into it. If I wasn't
Speaker 6: doing that, I could just as easily be doing something else.
Speaker 6: But no, it's I enjoy it. And I'm sure we'll
Speaker 6: talk ab more releases, you know, as we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we will. But one thing I did want to
Speaker 3: add this obviously is not in the works for right
Speaker 3: now or anything like that, and I'm not naming titles,
Speaker 3: but I really would only trust maybe two people with
Speaker 3: layout design right now in the way that I've got it.
Speaker 3: And so Scott, I can absolutely confirm will be hired
Speaker 3: for Antenna stuff in the near future. Funny story that
Speaker 3: I can't say much about, but Scott had been kind
Speaker 3: of hired for one project for Antenna and that didn't
Speaker 3: work out, not because of Scott, but because the movie
Speaker 3: fell through. I was so excited for that because you
Speaker 3: have such a unique attention to bringing in the pop
Speaker 3: culture aspects of an era or an industry or something
Speaker 3: like that. Where where does the passion for that come through?
Speaker 3: Because for those that have not seen it, like all
Speaker 3: of the stuff that you have done for Fun City
Speaker 3: is kind of the best example of that. You you
Speaker 3: really grab a hold of a style or a time
Speaker 3: period and everything exactly align with what you you're envisioning.
Speaker 6: It's I mean, I've always had this attention to detail. Yes,
Speaker 6: I know things can slip through sometimes. I still have
Speaker 6: nightmares about typos on Maul Rats. But you know, with
Speaker 6: fun City, that all comes from my producer, Jonathan Hertzberg,
Speaker 6: you know, well, and it's almost like no two releases
Speaker 6: are the same. There's some that are similar. But you know,
Speaker 6: I remember working on Paradise and he wanted the booklet
Speaker 6: to look like the old like TV guide, but specifically
Speaker 6: like the old cable channel guides in the early eighties
Speaker 6: anyone who grew up in La Z channel. So he
Speaker 6: wanted it to look like that, and he sent me
Speaker 6: a bunch of reference material and it's kind of a
Speaker 6: sadistic you know, I accept the challenge, you know kind
Speaker 6: of thing, but also matching matching things textures and fonts
Speaker 6: and you know, we're God, we're only nine minutes in.
Speaker 6: We're talking about fonts already. But it actually the one
Speaker 6: thing with Paradise, I fooled him. On the back of
Speaker 6: the Paradise booklet is an ad for It's an advertisement
Speaker 6: for the soundtrack or the Phoebe Kate single.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 6: And I sent that to him and he wrote back,
Speaker 6: oh my god, where'd you get that? It's like I
Speaker 6: made it. But he wanted that booklet to look like
Speaker 6: an old you know, channel guide, and so in the
Speaker 6: booklet those are real listings from whatever issue I had
Speaker 6: to work with, but he wanted Fun City titles mixed in.
Speaker 6: So then it was a matter of trying to match
Speaker 6: the existing font, painting out you know movies, making sure
Speaker 6: everything fit, you know, degrading the text so it looked
Speaker 6: like scanned text from a forty year old paper, you know,
Speaker 6: aging certain things.
Speaker 4: And that one, yeah, Paradise. What was the other one?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 6: We were doing one usually with Fun City. I'm working
Speaker 6: on a couple at the same time, Paradise and Heavenly Bodies,
Speaker 6: which actually got to see on the big screen in
Speaker 6: Toronto with Tom rawlstdays. I went to artist and yeah,
Speaker 6: just embracing that retro eighties style.
Speaker 4: And I'm very big on authenticity.
Speaker 6: One of my pet peeves is when this is a
Speaker 6: first world problem, believe me, when older films are repackaged
Speaker 6: but given sort of a modern flare, whether it's a
Speaker 6: font or color whatever, and you know, the anachronistic you know,
Speaker 6: part of that I don't like. So I'm trying to, okay,
Speaker 6: what fonts were used in the eighties, what technology was
Speaker 6: used in the eighties to make this stuff?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Again, just so everything is of a piece and you
Speaker 6: could sort of, you know, if you lay everything out,
Speaker 6: everything fits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a question from Paul. Paul wants to
Speaker 3: know what software is do you use.
Speaker 6: Primarily Photoshop and design illustrator when I need it?
Speaker 4: But yeah, so much of the work is on in design.
Speaker 6: And when I was as a student again I went
Speaker 6: back to school at thirty, you know, it's like half
Speaker 6: the class we're self taught in photoshop and we're intimidated
Speaker 6: by illustrator. Half the class we're self taught and illustrator
Speaker 6: and intimidated by photoshop. Yeah, but yeah, photoshop in design mainly,
Speaker 6: and I do pay for the Creative Cloud subscription. We
Speaker 6: won't get into any of that Adobe or whatever, but
Speaker 6: you know, it's a nice write off this time of year, that's.
Speaker 3: For sure, Ain't that the truth? Tonight, after announcements, we're
Speaker 3: gonna be talking about five of our favorite audio commentaries.
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Speaker 3: thoughts on that as we go in. We're going to
Speaker 3: talk about travel in just a few minutes, but let's
Speaker 3: go into some of our normal segments. I think you've
Speaker 3: got some criterions to show us. Was just the Criterion sale.
Speaker 3: Let's going to pickups. What have you got recently, Scott,
Speaker 3: Oh I have?
Speaker 4: I don't have, Oh I have.
Speaker 7: Let's see.
Speaker 4: I literally just happened to have him right here.
Speaker 6: A few of them anyway, Birth, which I have not
Speaker 6: seen in a long time. So this one's going to
Speaker 6: be an interesting one to revisit. Oh, thank you very much. Yeah,
Speaker 6: this one's going to be an interesting one to revisit.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen it in years. It is the movie
Speaker 6: that put the composer Alexander Dasplat on the map for me,
Speaker 6: because the music in this movie is beautiful. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: it's going to be a fun one too well, to
Speaker 6: the extent that this movie is fun, which it's not
Speaker 6: an interesting experience. And it was shot by the late
Speaker 6: DP Harris Sivitis, who also shot the game for Fincher.
Speaker 6: And when we were real quick, when we were doing
Speaker 6: the booklet, the booklet, the book for the game, there's
Speaker 6: a section with sort of camera plot, you know, drawings
Speaker 6: of his And it was at the start of COVID.
Speaker 6: The BFI library was closed, the Academy library was closed,
Speaker 6: and it's like, what are we going to do? But
Speaker 6: some random Twitter account had just posted them. It's like
Speaker 6: found them. Next Criterion pickup in my top ten. Nice
Speaker 6: it literally actually just finished watching it before this great movie.
Speaker 6: I'm certainly not the first to point out like this.
Speaker 6: It could have been made today, you know. But oh
Speaker 6: I'm a big fan of the and drama strained too,
Speaker 6: but big network fan and as great as you know.
Speaker 6: The big I'm mad as hell scene is the corporate
Speaker 6: cosmology speech with net Baty is again it all works today,
Speaker 6: but just the way it's filmed and staged, just with
Speaker 6: the light shining on him. Love it and I had
Speaker 6: five pickups. We'll just do one more. During COVID I
Speaker 6: locked down. I watched this, Powell and Pressburger as I could,
Speaker 6: and enjoyed all of them. My favorites were actually at
Speaker 6: the time, my favorite was a Matter of Life and Death.
Speaker 6: I think my favorite overall is Life and Death of
Speaker 6: Colonel Blimp. But I'm slowly this is and I own
Speaker 6: those I don't own, thank you. I have not owned this.
Speaker 6: This was sort of a straight from DVD to four
Speaker 6: K upgrade and it's a wonderful, magical movie. And I
Speaker 6: wish more Americans knew who Roger Livesey was. He wasn't
Speaker 6: in a ton of movies, and I know he's till
Speaker 6: the Swinton's favorite actor. I think this is her favorite
Speaker 6: movie actually, But just great actor, great voice. He was
Speaker 6: in three Powell and Pressburger's I think he was Colonel
Speaker 6: Candy and Colonel Blimp and just great. And I could
Speaker 6: do a few more if you want, unless you want
Speaker 6: to move on to you.
Speaker 3: Are please, I've got five. You can match all.
Speaker 4: I mean, I have to.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think mine is within arm's reach because
Speaker 3: I just recorded about that one.
Speaker 4: Pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Actually, this this arrived before. This wasn't part of the
Speaker 6: recent five pickup, but it was in my hands, I
Speaker 6: pulled it out of the closet. I mean, what more
Speaker 6: is there to say? And I love I mean, I
Speaker 6: guess I'm what they called an elder millennial. But I
Speaker 6: do enjoy the videos on YouTube of gen Z kids
Speaker 6: watching movies for the first time, and this one always
Speaker 6: makes him laugh even after you know, forty years and
Speaker 6: rest in peace rob Ryder of course too. And then
Speaker 6: finally classic in art Head family, Pee Wee and sadly
Speaker 6: he when he passed away. A friend and I we
Speaker 6: had just watched Pee's Big Adventure that played at the
Speaker 6: Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA so got to see it
Speaker 6: with an audience. People were dressed up. I think they
Speaker 6: had the bike on display or a bike a bike classic.
Speaker 6: I haven't watched the new Tim Burton, I haven't watched
Speaker 6: any of the new extras yet, but looking forward to it.
Speaker 7: And it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great to see. Great to see this in
Speaker 4: the collection of all things.
Speaker 3: I am dying to see that one again. I was
Speaker 3: shocked when they announced it when they announced it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: glad to have it. So I've got five here. One
Speaker 3: is a piece from Deaf Crocodile, and I feel bad
Speaker 3: because I don't think anybody else has this yet. This
Speaker 3: is the brand new DIFA Fairy Tales set that is
Speaker 3: coming out right now. Love, I'm gonna take off this
Speaker 3: Jake card because the whole art needs to be seen
Speaker 3: to appreciate the incredible set they've got here. I've not
Speaker 3: seen any of these in full yet. I edited a
Speaker 3: couple of things on these, but yeah, eager to see
Speaker 3: all of these because they are weird and wild and
Speaker 3: classic in a way that is just unique. I am
Speaker 3: stoked to be able to see the rest of those imprint.
Speaker 3: While I was in Australia, We're sending me this came
Speaker 3: home to five City on Fire on four K. This
Speaker 3: is one of their hard box releases of the Golden
Speaker 3: Princess titles for those that have not seen these yet.
Speaker 3: On the inside, it is a steel book release and
Speaker 3: a hardback book, and so the art that they are
Speaker 3: doing on these are very much the original poster art
Speaker 3: on the steel book, which really cool that they're doing
Speaker 3: that on the steel. Normally these companies would not do
Speaker 3: that on the steel like that. Two discs on the inside.
Speaker 3: Really nice set and again pretty pretty nice box e
Speaker 3: type book here hard back on both sides. It's probably
Speaker 3: I don't know, forty ish pages just by judging it.
Speaker 3: Lots of art on the inside, not a lot of
Speaker 3: written essays. But I like that they're doing it like this.
Speaker 3: It's a great looking set, pretty identical to the Arrow releases.
Speaker 3: To my eye, it looks like all of the extras
Speaker 3: are about the same. I know that there's been some
Speaker 3: question on the differences after Shout works on them. It
Speaker 3: looks like Aero and Imprint are getting about the same
Speaker 3: sort of want to call it like restoration work, but
Speaker 3: it's it's like touch up after Shout fixes theirs and goes, well,
Speaker 3: we might have missed a couple things, and we were
Speaker 3: quick to put ours out so Aero can fix it,
Speaker 3: and here we are. I got too in from Moby
Speaker 3: from last year, and I got to see both of
Speaker 3: these in the theater. Like these quite a bit. Got
Speaker 3: to check out Die My Love and Lurker. Lurker is
Speaker 3: probably the one that I would recommend to most people.
Speaker 3: It is very much in the modern not comedy, but
Speaker 3: like cringe situation kind of situational awareness thriller in a way.
Speaker 3: It's not like anything that's gonna be scary or anything,
Speaker 3: but it's a situation where the whole time you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: what are these people doing? Like I could see this
Speaker 3: person immediately turning into somebody that's gonna go off on
Speaker 3: the deep end and like bring a gun to a
Speaker 3: music studio or something like that. The movie's great. Check
Speaker 3: it out. It is fantastic. And then the last one
Speaker 3: of the show. My wife didn't get to go see
Speaker 3: this with me in the theater, but I loved Primate.
Speaker 3: Everybody needs to go see this if you've not seen
Speaker 3: it yet. It is pretty wild. There's a couple of
Speaker 3: deaths in that movie that I'm really glad that they
Speaker 3: showed everything that they showed because they don't they don't
Speaker 3: hold back. They showed a guy falling off a cliff
Speaker 3: and hitting the bottom and that was that was pretty explicit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my five have you I was?
Speaker 4: How was Die?
Speaker 3: My Love Die? My Love is is really well acted.
Speaker 3: It's Lynn Ramsey, So if you're a Lynn Ramsey fan,
Speaker 3: you'll probably love it a lot. It is very Lynn Ramsey.
Speaker 3: Jennifer in That is great. She is just an incredible actress.
Speaker 3: Robert Pattinson fantastic. He's in it a lot less than
Speaker 3: she is, But I could see a lot of people
Speaker 3: being frustrated. It's not super linear, normal narrative type of story.
Speaker 3: But if you are a parent, if you're a new mother,
Speaker 3: if you're somebody that struggled with like a very young marriage,
Speaker 3: it's probably going to hit very home with you as
Speaker 3: a viewer. Highly recommend checking it out at least once
Speaker 3: if that's your type of film. Otherwise I could see
Speaker 3: you walk away going like, oh, that was not even
Speaker 3: fun to watch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that one's on the list. I have such a
Speaker 6: huge backlog of movies same watch.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of that, what have you been checking out.
Speaker 4: Lately? God? What have I been checking out? Actually?
Speaker 6: Even though I as far as older stuff, even though
Speaker 6: I've watched them a million times and most of my
Speaker 6: stuffs in storage at the moment. You know, the all
Speaker 6: the Alien movies are back on HBO Max, including the
Speaker 6: extended cuts. Yeah, for at least three of them, but
Speaker 6: the assembly cut for Alien three being on HBO that's
Speaker 6: actually been getting some traction online even though it's been
Speaker 6: streaming before. And the Alien Anthology set's been available for
Speaker 6: a decade now, at least you know, I'm sure there
Speaker 6: are people getting turned onto it for the first time, and.
Speaker 4: You know, great. You know, so I.
Speaker 6: Rewatched that in Alien Resurrection, which I used to not
Speaker 6: really be a fan of, but I've come around to it.
Speaker 6: And also it's one of my favorite lines in the franchise,
Speaker 6: right at the end, where you know, Sigourney Weaver says,
Speaker 6: I'm a stranger here myself. I've also been rewatching news Radio,
Speaker 6: which is on the Roku channel.
Speaker 4: Again. My DVD set also in storage, but I recently.
Speaker 6: There's a podcast called die Hard on a Blank and
Speaker 6: where they talk about you know, they start with die
Speaker 6: Hard and they work their way forward, you know, action
Speaker 6: movies that mold, so I've been catching up on and
Speaker 6: they touch on other films action films too, So, you know,
Speaker 6: over the last several months, I've been catching up with
Speaker 6: a lot of eighties and nineties action films I missed
Speaker 6: out on the first time. Not all great, but movies
Speaker 6: like a Judgment Night, which they mentioned. They don't cover it.
Speaker 6: It's not a Diehard type of movie, but they mentioned
Speaker 6: Judgment Night, which I quite enjoyed. Didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 6: What else did I watch? Southern Comfort for the first
Speaker 6: time good movie, which I at the last fifteen minutes,
Speaker 6: I had no clue what to expect or you know,
Speaker 6: what would happen. On the other hand, I was probably
Speaker 6: the only person on the planet watching free Jack, which
Speaker 6: again they didn't cover on the podcast, but they just
Speaker 6: mentioned it in the conversation or a chill Factor with
Speaker 6: Cuba Goodding Junior, which I was led to believe was
Speaker 6: die Hard on an ice cream truck. They're in a
Speaker 6: delivery truck with ice cream in it. They're not in
Speaker 6: an ice cream truck, right, So just to show you
Speaker 6: what I've been watching lately, And I'm probably the youngest
Speaker 6: fan of the TV series Get Smart from the sixties,
Speaker 6: and I might be ruining it by saying that, but
Speaker 6: someone uploaded the entirety of the show to the Internet archive,
Speaker 6: so I've had some of that playing in the background too,
Speaker 6: And you know what still makes me laugh after all
Speaker 6: this time.
Speaker 3: I know I've seen a lot of the show, but
Speaker 3: it's been so long it would be like a first
Speaker 3: time watch if I went back to it. My grandparents
Speaker 3: used to love it, and I mean I swear certain
Speaker 3: episodes I could probably quote to this day. But God,
Speaker 3: it's been decades, easily twenty five plus years.
Speaker 6: Well, I had to look I was telling a friend
Speaker 6: about it, and I had to look it up for
Speaker 6: the date, and it was a week before my birthday,
Speaker 6: actually January nineteen ninety one. When it first premiered on
Speaker 6: Nick at Night, they did a marathon called Maximum Smart.
Speaker 6: It was eight pm to six am, five days. And
Speaker 6: I was already a fan of Inspector Gadget with voice
Speaker 6: foul Don Adams. So all it took was about thirty
Speaker 6: seconds agreed on the best title sequence. So I was
Speaker 6: already fan of Don Adams. And it was one of
Speaker 6: those shows, same with News Radio later where within five minutes,
Speaker 6: I'm in. I'm a fan, Yeah, right or Die Dick
Speaker 6: Gaudier played Timie the Robot. But again all this knowledge
Speaker 6: in my head. But yeah, I haven't watched a ton
Speaker 6: of new stuff lately. Unfortunately, did you see one battle
Speaker 6: after another? I did watch, you know, basically I haven't
Speaker 6: watched all the Oscar nominees. I enjoyed it. I think
Speaker 6: my favorite PTA films are still Boogie Nights in Magnolia.
Speaker 6: That makes sense every time, every so often, if I
Speaker 6: watched Magnolia at the end. I'm just thinking, God, he
Speaker 6: wasn't even thirty yet when.
Speaker 3: He made it, and that wasn't even his first film
Speaker 3: either that he did historic things before that. Yeah, crazy
Speaker 3: timing for him. So I got to see two in
Speaker 3: theaters since our last show, which was last Thursday. While
Speaker 3: in New Zealand, and one day we went to see
Speaker 3: They Will Kill You, the New Zazie Beats film, and
Speaker 3: Tom Felton is also in that. Patricia Arcatt, a couple
Speaker 3: other names that were pretty good. It is very violent.
Speaker 3: It is it is essentially like a lot of people
Speaker 3: are saying, it's basically kill Bill, like in an apartment building.
Speaker 3: It's so different than that. It is very good. It
Speaker 3: has acted well. The story. You got to suspend a
Speaker 3: lot of belief to it. It's an over the top,
Speaker 3: bloody violent film, so you just got to be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the the universe that we're making this movie in,
Speaker 3: which makes sense. On that note. It's entertaining, it's fun,
Speaker 3: it's great. It's not like peak cinema or anything. The
Speaker 3: next one though pretty close to that. I finally got
Speaker 3: to see Project Hill Mary. I am quite happy I
Speaker 3: got to see that on the big screen. It is great.
Speaker 3: Ryan Gosling is great. Really happy with how they taught
Speaker 3: a lot of very heady silence not silence science without
Speaker 3: feeling like they were speaking down to the audience. It
Speaker 3: was very much like step in with us, rather than
Speaker 3: we're going to stand on a stage and speak down
Speaker 3: to you. I thought it was quite great. I really
Speaker 3: enjoyed the visuals in it. That's the big thing. Lord
Speaker 3: and Miller are really great at capturing just like captivating
Speaker 3: full throated beauty, essentially in very different situations. I thought
Speaker 3: it was pretty incredible for a blockbuster. More people see it.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen it yet. I did read the book
Speaker 6: just last year. Actually nice.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed it, got a you know, emotional at the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's certainly on the list, that's for sure. And yeah,
Speaker 6: and props to Greg Frasier the DP on that one too.
Speaker 3: Excellent. Excellent. And then the last thing I've talked about
Speaker 3: on the show probably eight hundred times, one of my
Speaker 3: favorite TV shows of all time, maybe my favorite TV
Speaker 3: show of all time comes back this week task Master
Speaker 3: over in the UK, And because of that, I showed
Speaker 3: my wife the show last one laughing. If you've never
Speaker 3: seen it. It is kind of similar to Task Master.
Speaker 3: They get ten UK comedians together in one room and
Speaker 3: the mission is to make everybody else laugh and you
Speaker 3: can't laugh. If you laugh twice, you're out of the game,
Speaker 3: and they go on a I think it's a six
Speaker 3: episode season to go from ten comedians down to one.
Speaker 3: It is some of the funniest but quiet humor that
Speaker 3: you've ever seen because nobody is laughing. It is great.
Speaker 3: It is witty. It is so hard to even hear
Speaker 3: everything because there's so many jokes that you're dying laughing.
Speaker 3: It's great. It's on an Amazon Prime. Check it out.
Speaker 3: There's two seasons currently, both very very good. But we
Speaker 3: should talk about travel. I'm gonna highlight some of the
Speaker 3: things that I did while on my trip, but I
Speaker 3: wanted to ask you, but the last handful of years
Speaker 3: you've been a bit of a digital nomad. How did
Speaker 3: that life come about for you?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 6: I mean, I suppose, deep down it was always something
Speaker 6: I was thinking about.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 6: So in God, what are we in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three, I decided, you know what, got to
Speaker 6: do this. I went to Dublin for the graphic designer
Speaker 6: Annie Atkins's workshop. Annie Atkins is the graphic designer on
Speaker 6: a lot of Wes Anderson's films. She's worked on some
Speaker 6: Spielberg titles. You know, you don't know who Anny Atkins is.
Speaker 6: Google her you'll.
Speaker 4: Know her work.
Speaker 6: But she has a two day workshop in Dublin. Each
Speaker 6: day five hours and it's like, you know what I'm
Speaker 6: doing this. I got a passport actually right before COVID lockdown,
Speaker 6: before the world shut down, and I had never been
Speaker 6: outside the United States. So I did a week in Dublin,
Speaker 6: two in London, and then one in Edinburgh, and it
Speaker 6: was during the Fringe festival, so it was insane. I
Speaker 6: even ran into one of my old Win Droft classmates
Speaker 6: who I hadn't seen in the mazes. And after that,
Speaker 6: once I was on my connection back to la So
Speaker 6: I'm in Calgary talking to my parents and they say, oh,
Speaker 6: you're probably disappointed you're going back, and I told them,
Speaker 6: without any hint of irony.
Speaker 4: I got to keep this up. I don't want to
Speaker 4: go back. I want to keep going.
Speaker 6: And I realized I'm lucky enough to be in a
Speaker 6: position where I can do this, so I slowly, you know,
Speaker 6: put my stuff in storage, found someone.
Speaker 4: To cover my.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I found someone to take over my apartment, much
Speaker 6: to the annoyance of my roommate.
Speaker 4: That everything's okay. I was in a car accident, so
Speaker 4: that took care of that. Not my fault.
Speaker 6: It was a dui and hit and run of all kinds.
Speaker 6: But I got a couple of bucks out of that.
Speaker 6: And so twenty twenty four I did six months just
Speaker 6: crisscrossing the UK. I've seen more of that country than
Speaker 6: some of the people there. I got to meet up
Speaker 6: with the folks from Marrow at the pub, I got
Speaker 6: to meet with some fellow designers, got to go to
Speaker 6: the Vice Press open house, nice and one. I'm waiting.
Speaker 6: I'm at the Vice Press open house. I'm waiting for
Speaker 6: the they. I think it was a Japanese variant Star
Speaker 6: Trek two poster that Matt had done, because once they
Speaker 6: announced that deal with Paramount, it's like, oh God, and
Speaker 6: now I have to buy them all. And someone comes
Speaker 6: up to me while I'm waiting on the line, Scott,
Speaker 6: it's you, who are you? But it was the it
Speaker 6: was Lori Greasley, talented illustrator and we'd never met. And
Speaker 6: you know, when you're online, no one knows what anyone
Speaker 6: looks like. So that was pretty cool. And so that
Speaker 6: was six months there, and then I did five months Australia,
Speaker 6: New Zealand.
Speaker 4: I just got back from eight months. I did three
Speaker 4: in Europe and then another five in London, this time
Speaker 4: just London, and I tell people I haven't missed one
Speaker 4: day of work, got to meet the got to meet
Speaker 4: up with the Arrow folks again. And although I don't
Speaker 4: know if I'll be able to I don't know if
Speaker 4: I'll be out of the.
Speaker 6: Country as long as eight months, probably just between three
Speaker 6: and six at this point. Not sure where I'm going next.
Speaker 6: Have to take care of some stuff here at home. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, I crash with family, you know, when I'm
Speaker 6: back in the States, and yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting way to live.
Speaker 6: All my stuff's in storage and it'll be there, you
Speaker 6: know when I'm I tell people I want to keep
Speaker 6: doing this until I either run out of money, which
Speaker 6: hopefully does not happen, get bored, which I don't think
Speaker 6: will happen, or or meet someone, fall in love and
Speaker 6: stay which if I don't, you know, if I can,
Speaker 6: if I don't sabotage things, maybe that will happen one day,
Speaker 6: but we won't get into that. You know, it's fun
Speaker 6: and you know I tell my friends, you know I'm
Speaker 6: still always there. You know you need me since you
Speaker 6: know I can do this, but I'm always still trying to,
Speaker 6: you know, pay it forward and be there for people.
Speaker 3: And can a test you. You were pretty much always
Speaker 3: very pick to respond. You were always on it. Obvious question.
Speaker 3: But where are you hoping to go? Anywhere?
Speaker 6: That's on the list, certainly more in Europe because I
Speaker 6: think most Americans, if you're just on a regular visa,
Speaker 6: you could only do three out of every six months.
Speaker 6: So I was thinking something like Austria, where I actually
Speaker 6: have some ancestry, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic. I really want
Speaker 6: to do Iceland. I'd like to make it to Japan
Speaker 6: at some point, but I can't sleep on planes. That's
Speaker 6: a long flight, you know, flying from Auckland to la
Speaker 6: you know, couldn't sleep a wink. And with you would
Speaker 6: have just experienced with the international dateline, you actually arrived
Speaker 6: before you leave, which is a trip, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to talk about that just a minute.
Speaker 3: It was a very weird experience flying across the International Dateline.
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to do this, but a lot of
Speaker 3: people ask me to share some things, so I put
Speaker 3: together some of the photos from everything, just to be
Speaker 3: able to talk about what happened. Wanted to shout out
Speaker 3: Tony and Natalie who Tony let us stay with him,
Speaker 3: Tony Miechus, who's in the chat. Thank you Tony from
Speaker 3: the Imprint cast. This is their little welcome to Australia
Speaker 3: gift basket that they gave my wife and I. There's
Speaker 3: our first immediate lunch with Tony and my wife talking
Speaker 3: with Tony, and then we went down to see the beach.
Speaker 3: This was literally three and a half hours after we
Speaker 3: got to Australia. After I think that first flight was
Speaker 3: I think it was sixteen and a half hours. We
Speaker 3: flew from Dallas to Sydney this time, which that is
Speaker 3: a long flight, and the whole thing was in the night,
Speaker 3: so it was exhausting. I only slept about three hours
Speaker 3: that time. Here we are on the beach, just my
Speaker 3: wife and I and then we started going around town.
Speaker 3: Tony took us to the Ritz Theater. This place was great.
Speaker 3: Here's one of the old classic cameras they had for
Speaker 3: display there. He of course had to take us to
Speaker 3: some physical media shops. Here's one of his favorites top ten.
Speaker 3: This is in downtown Sydney and it was glorious. They
Speaker 3: had way more imports that I expected them to have.
Speaker 3: Some of them a little over priced, but if you're there,
Speaker 3: check it out. This place kind of hard to find.
Speaker 3: It's like recessed off of the road, so it's very
Speaker 3: easy to walk by and not see this. This is
Speaker 3: standing right in front of it, but you had to
Speaker 3: walk down I don't know, probably one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: feet of an alley before you get here, so it's
Speaker 3: a little bit, a little bit hidden, but you're in Australia.
Speaker 3: Had to go to JBA Hi Fi. Got a couple
Speaker 3: titles here, show those on the show last week. Here's
Speaker 3: John Matthews from a New Way video with the very
Speaker 3: funny expression standing in front of Radio Free Alis. By
Speaker 3: the way, Radio Free Alis in Sydney. You can now
Speaker 3: pick up the Physical Media Advocate there. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: talking about that more eventually. Next up, great food, lots
Speaker 3: of Asian inspired dishes that we had loved it. There.
Speaker 3: Where's the been the best country for food for you
Speaker 3: so far.
Speaker 6: Scott God, I'm so not a foodie, to be honest,
Speaker 6: and usually, and I'm such an American, not that I
Speaker 6: go to the American chains, but I will try to
Speaker 6: find their version of it, like what's the what's the
Speaker 6: best pizza in Sydney, what's the cool burger joint in London?
Speaker 6: Or you know, things like that. But I'm so not
Speaker 6: adventure adventurous with any of that. Plus too much, too
Speaker 6: much junk food is always an issue with me too.
Speaker 6: In London, they have these big candy stores, but it'll
Speaker 6: literally say American candy store and it has everything, you know,
Speaker 6: because Reese's Emergey stuff is not as common there. Although
Speaker 6: then I read an article that said, like all the
Speaker 6: people who run those stores know each other, and you know,
Speaker 6: the articles speculated it's like one big money laundering scheme
Speaker 6: or something. It's like I say that if you don't
Speaker 6: have proof I spent money in these places, but I
Speaker 6: do well. I you know, my Sydney. Just through my
Speaker 6: Sydney trip, I was visiting a friend in Atlanta, so
Speaker 6: it was going to be Atlanta to LA to Sydney.
Speaker 6: Oh geez, the Atlanta trip. That flight was canceled like
Speaker 6: just canceled. They'd already started and then it was just canceled.
Speaker 6: And the airlines at this point, you know, they just
Speaker 6: rebook you automatically, so you never really know until you check.
Speaker 6: So my flight became Atlanta to Miami, which is nothing.
Speaker 6: Miami to Santiago, Chile, Santiago to Sydney. Who And when
Speaker 6: I got to my Airbnb, I had to download a
Speaker 6: single five megabyte jpeg. It was after ten minutes. It
Speaker 6: was like, this is gonna be a problem. So I
Speaker 6: ended up working with the in the reading room at
Speaker 6: the Central Library. So most of Dark City was.
Speaker 4: Done there.
Speaker 6: Ironically, since it was filmed in Australia, you know, I'm
Speaker 6: trying to think, yeah, a few other It's like, now
Speaker 6: when I look at the titles I've worked on, it's like,
Speaker 6: oh that country and fabulous stains was worked on three
Speaker 6: different continents at this point, that makes.
Speaker 3: Sense, all right. So that's one of the photos of
Speaker 3: the food. Here is the the Sydney Naval Harbor took
Speaker 3: a fun picture of that at night, and then Tony
Speaker 3: and everybody else threw a physical media get together barbecue.
Speaker 3: This was at Tony's house. Here is everybody that was
Speaker 3: there lots of names you'll recognize. We got Paul, who's
Speaker 3: in the chat right now, Ki Ray who's in the chat,
Speaker 3: Tony who's in the Chat. We got Brett. We've got
Speaker 3: a handful of others that you'll hear about at some point,
Speaker 3: I'm sure. But we also got visited by a Huntsman
Speaker 3: spider that I was told this was very rare, and
Speaker 3: I said, well, I see one while they I'm here.
Speaker 3: They said, probably not, and then he showed up, So
Speaker 3: that was funny.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 3: You don't thank to say you don't look like you
Speaker 3: and Joy Spiders. Uh. This is a very fun store
Speaker 3: owned by a friend of Tony's named Andrew This This
Speaker 3: store just opened literally about a month before we got there.
Speaker 3: Funny enough, you can now pick up the Physical Media
Speaker 3: Advocate in this store as well. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 3: about that soon. This is a great little store. If
Speaker 3: you're there, go check it out. We'll give you more
Speaker 3: details on that. But then my favorite part of the
Speaker 3: trip maybe well that I can talk about. We went
Speaker 3: to the Meg, which is the home of Nick Nikolau's
Speaker 3: makeup effects group. He worked on tons of movies that
Speaker 3: you've heard of lots of Aussi classics like cut which
Speaker 3: I love. They worked on the matrix. We got to
Speaker 3: see the baby from the Matrix, and we got to
Speaker 3: see so many things that they've done in the past.
Speaker 3: This is one of the burned up nuclear victims, we'll say,
Speaker 3: just some incredible pieces in this essentially like a little
Speaker 3: museum that they had. Then in the back room he
Speaker 3: just has suddenly the biggest Star Wars collection I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: This was insane what he's got so much of it
Speaker 3: is like brand new inbox still but I know we
Speaker 3: got a lot of Star Wars fans heres wanted to
Speaker 3: share some of those, but then showed even more of
Speaker 3: his art and pieces that they've worked on, stuff that
Speaker 3: has been from way back when. This is an original
Speaker 3: piece from Mary Poppins that was like a test piece
Speaker 3: of the clothing I believe of what they were gonna do.
Speaker 3: This was incredible. This is an original cell from the
Speaker 3: Secret of Nim and Don Bluth is like one of
Speaker 3: my heroes of all time, so I had to snap
Speaker 3: a photo of that. Some incredible original pieces of art
Speaker 3: in this entire thing. This was the one right before
Speaker 3: the finalized painting visitor Q for Larry Cohen. So this
Speaker 3: is not the painting, but one of the ones that
Speaker 3: were almost there. Same with this, I don't believe this
Speaker 3: is the final one. He did have quite a few
Speaker 3: final ones. I don't know if I included Okay, this
Speaker 3: is one, this is one that was final, and then
Speaker 3: he also had I didn't include it. Maybe he's got Legend,
Speaker 3: he's got the final painting. That is the actual painting
Speaker 3: for the poster of Legend. This is stuff that was
Speaker 3: used on Fury Road, and a couple other things. Original
Speaker 3: storyboards here from the thing which is wild to see.
Speaker 3: Here is an original Alex Ross which was mind blowing
Speaker 3: to see in person. Just some modern art going around Sydney.
Speaker 3: Classic and then just some of the views. We went
Speaker 3: to Crawford, one of the biggest stations in all of Australia,
Speaker 3: and Danny, who might be in the chat or will
Speaker 3: be eventually probably It took us around this way. We
Speaker 3: got to see quite a bit of this. Here's us
Speaker 3: your server look in the ocean. And then we finally
Speaker 3: got to where he gave us a tour of his
Speaker 3: entire studio, looked at where they broadcast the news from
Speaker 3: they do radio recordings. There's Danny in the picture at
Speaker 3: the bottom. Danny was giving us the whole last sixty
Speaker 3: years history of broadcasting in Australia, which was just amazing
Speaker 3: to see. Here's the front of the studio, the wind network.
Speaker 3: And then the next day we went to the National
Speaker 3: Film and Sound Archive in Australia. This is in Canberra,
Speaker 3: and as much as I wanted to love this, we
Speaker 3: drove three hours to Canberra out of Sydney and we
Speaker 3: saw everything we needed to see in about less than
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes. Not very much there.
Speaker 6: When I was in Sydney working on Dark City, Arrow
Speaker 6: wanted to include a reproduction of the postcard and I
Speaker 6: did a little homework and I swear the original prop
Speaker 6: postcard is in that building, and I mentioned it, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm in Sydney. I'll take the train, I'll pay for it.
Speaker 6: But it would have required too much paperwork. You know,
Speaker 6: I couldn't just walk in and get a scan of it.
Speaker 6: You know, I even spoke to someone from there. We
Speaker 6: emailed back and forth.
Speaker 4: Nice guy.
Speaker 6: But you know, we would have needed written permission from
Speaker 6: Warner Brothers and it would have become a whole thing.
Speaker 6: So that's why I had to recreate it from scratch.
Speaker 6: It's like the real ones just over there the well.
Speaker 3: I tried to go there for some stuff for antenna
Speaker 3: and the timing just didn't work out right. Gonna be
Speaker 3: working on some stuff with them soon. But they did
Speaker 3: get to show us the actual knife from Crocodile Dundee
Speaker 3: and yes, that is a knife. We had to go
Speaker 3: to some more physical media stores. This is one again
Speaker 3: downtown Sydney. Really nice place. This is called hum. It
Speaker 3: was pretty nice, a little overpriced, but not too terrible.
Speaker 3: While we were walking to HUM, uh, just a random
Speaker 3: funny story because I'm a fricking giant if you didn't
Speaker 3: notice from the picture so far, Tony was walking us
Speaker 3: into a used bookstore and I was wearing my sunglasses
Speaker 3: because it was so bright outside. Walk in and I
Speaker 3: immediately go to take off my sunglasses because I was blinded.
Speaker 3: And as soon as I take them off, I'm one
Speaker 3: step in the building that had an exit sign, and
Speaker 3: I was so tall I bashed my head on the
Speaker 3: exit sign and so hard that the exit sign fell
Speaker 3: off of the roof or ceiling. Hilarious, absolutely terrible. My
Speaker 3: head started bleeding. That was fun. This is where we
Speaker 3: visited Bondai Beach and if you pay attention to world events,
Speaker 3: this was the site of a tragedy just a few
Speaker 3: months ago, and to be this close to it and
Speaker 3: see everything that happened was just absolutely wild. It's humbling
Speaker 3: in a way that is sad, especially coming from America,
Speaker 3: where it's such a common thing. Could say a lot
Speaker 3: about how safe we felt in Australia, but I'll let
Speaker 3: it go. Some of our big views of Australia. As
Speaker 3: we left Bondai, Tony took us to this beautiful little
Speaker 3: alcove where it's just crazy the views that people. This
Speaker 3: is like next to somebody's apartment. They just hang out here,
Speaker 3: and I was so jealous. You just wake up and
Speaker 3: look outside and then I look down and their steers
Speaker 3: carved into this cliff. It's just crazy. I love this life.
Speaker 3: Going on to some other stuff. Had to get the
Speaker 3: classic opera house shot. This is, of course, Luna Park.
Speaker 3: You've probably seen photos of this quite a few times
Speaker 3: online under the Harbor Bridge. Looking at that, we got
Speaker 3: some wonderful gelato. This was incredible. I didn't realize they
Speaker 3: put cherries in the bottom of this cone and I
Speaker 3: went to take a bite and the whole bottom part
Speaker 3: kind of exploded all over my pants and shirt. Thanks Sydney,
Speaker 3: that was wonderful. This is the Tyra Banks brand new
Speaker 3: ice cream shops she just opened called Smiles and Dream.
Speaker 3: Don't know why that's her new dream, but it is.
Speaker 3: There's us in front of the Opera House. And then
Speaker 3: Tony took us to one last theater called the Hayden Orpheum.
Speaker 3: Looks really nice inside. And then we went to the
Speaker 3: beach one last time. But finally this was some of
Speaker 3: my favorite photos. We got really nice late night view
Speaker 3: of the harbor and the Opera House. Then we flew
Speaker 3: to New Zealand. Yes we're only like three quarters of
Speaker 3: the way done with this trip. Flying into New Zealand
Speaker 3: was a gorgeous never seen nature like this Auckland. I
Speaker 3: mean you've been there, it's just stupendous to fly into there, right.
Speaker 4: Well, I flew in. I flew from Melbourne to Wellington
Speaker 4: and that's even better. Landing I was I think cross
Speaker 4: winds in the mountains. I was just gripping my seat,
Speaker 4: but I did do the wet workshop nice. Well that's
Speaker 4: actually where the shirt comes from.
Speaker 6: Very nice, and then from Wellington to Auckland, which was lovely.
Speaker 6: Did you make it to There's a New York style
Speaker 6: pizza pizza chain there called sALS. You didn't make it
Speaker 6: there at all, did you? We did, But when I
Speaker 6: saw that, I made like a B line for it,
Speaker 6: and it's like they got it right. Not everyone does.
Speaker 3: Well, if they got it right, I will say I've
Speaker 3: I've never been to New York, even though I've now
Speaker 3: been to Auckland. If they got it right, man, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna like New York pizza because I did not
Speaker 3: like so well.
Speaker 6: When I was in London. There's no offense to it
Speaker 6: because it was a cool place. There's a there's a
Speaker 6: Quentin Tarantino themed pizza restaurant in London called True Romance,
Speaker 6: which they have a lot of cool stuff from his
Speaker 6: movies there. But it's like Tarantino, A he's not from
Speaker 6: New York and B he's not really associated with pizza.
Speaker 6: And it builds itself as New York style pizza and
Speaker 6: I went there tried it and not nope, not even close. Sorry,
Speaker 6: But when I saw this place in Australia, New Zealand,
Speaker 6: I had to try it and then I went to
Speaker 6: a New York style. I went to a deli and
Speaker 6: had like a p Astromi sandwich because I'm always on
Speaker 6: the hunt for a good one of those, and it.
Speaker 3: Was good, but so salty I couldn't finish. Too salty, understandable.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's flying into Auckland. This is right before
Speaker 3: we landed. This is how they welcome you in at
Speaker 3: the Auckland airport. And then the day after this, I
Speaker 3: spent on a film set signed an NBA. So I
Speaker 3: can't say much about it, but if you know much
Speaker 3: about what I'm doing with my company and who else
Speaker 3: owns it, you should be able to guess what film
Speaker 3: set I was on. That's as much as I can say.
Speaker 3: More stories about that when I can next summer, I believe.
Speaker 3: But this is right before we went in to Hobbiton.
Speaker 3: If you're in New Zealand, you pretty much have to
Speaker 3: do it. So the wife and I went to the Shire,
Speaker 3: and I did not want to show all of the
Speaker 3: photos because there's so many that look very similar. But
Speaker 3: this place was magical. After spending the last five or
Speaker 3: six weeks showing both of our kids, all three of
Speaker 3: the Lord of the Rings films. This was wild to
Speaker 3: see in person, completely completely loved all of the attention
Speaker 3: to detail. It is kind of crazy how much they
Speaker 3: paid attention to everything, the sheer size of everything. This
Speaker 3: was a very fun photo. My wife making fun of
Speaker 3: me because I'm a giant. It was not oops, it
Speaker 3: was not that small. You should be able to be
Speaker 3: seen if you're normal size, but I am not. Just
Speaker 3: gorgeous landscape. It is so crazy how green and lush
Speaker 3: everything is. Absolutely loved it. We got to go into
Speaker 3: one of the Hobbit houses, just a great time. Loved
Speaker 3: it there, and then afterwards we had a tour through
Speaker 3: the Waitomo gl glowworm caves. For those that have not
Speaker 3: heard of it. These are dark, deep caves in the
Speaker 3: side of a mountain basically that glowworms. They hang down
Speaker 3: these little tails to attract insects, kind of like spiderwebs,
Speaker 3: and they glow to attract them. And you go in
Speaker 3: and all the lights are off and you can see
Speaker 3: what looks like little fiber optic lights and they're just worms.
Speaker 3: Couldn't take any photos of that inside, but you come
Speaker 3: out on a little boat ride at the end of it.
Speaker 3: It is a really fun time. Just beautiful to see,
Speaker 3: had a great time. That's pretty much everything that made
Speaker 3: sense to show pictures of. Loved it though. That was
Speaker 3: my first time ever out of the country. I cannot
Speaker 3: wait to do something like that again. I am very poor,
Speaker 3: so it will not be able to happen, probably for
Speaker 3: a long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, hopefully you make it to you know, make
Speaker 6: it to London at some point. There's certainly enough there
Speaker 6: to keep you busy. And every time I either every
Speaker 6: time with me and the UK, I've either just missed
Speaker 6: something or I leave and I'm about to miss something.
Speaker 6: The week before, literally the week before I left London
Speaker 6: this last time. Yeah, well, the Sciences seems doing a
Speaker 6: Star Trek exhibit for the anniversary and they're showing the
Speaker 6: ten films. It's like, yeah, literally starting the two days
Speaker 6: after I left. Oh, the first time I was there,
Speaker 6: I left and then they were doing the Powell and
Speaker 6: Presburg are big retrospective there, so I just missed that too,
Speaker 6: So I got to time this better.
Speaker 3: I think it's the BFI. They're about to do a
Speaker 3: big Germmel del Toro retrospective showing I think everything he's
Speaker 3: done and that that would be a blast to see.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've only seen maybe one or two
Speaker 3: on the big screen ever, so see all of them
Speaker 3: would be crazy. I would love that, all right. So
Speaker 3: tonight after announcements, we were talking about audio commentaries. Last
Speaker 3: thing I wanted to bring up before we go into
Speaker 3: the announcements writing. You have your first bit of writing
Speaker 3: about to come out in one of these releases, tell
Speaker 3: us about it.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't consider myself a writer, but when
Speaker 6: I was working so I found out Arrow got Innerspace,
Speaker 6: and I told them I want in I want to
Speaker 6: do that one and one other title they have that
Speaker 6: I requested to work on, which hopefully I do. I said,
Speaker 6: it's my favorite Jodante film. It's one of my favorite
Speaker 6: Ambulance films. And I believe Doug John Miller did the
Speaker 6: new artwork I just wanted. Yep, Doug John Miller did
Speaker 6: the new art which is on the wrap and the
Speaker 6: booklet cover in the disc. I took care of the
Speaker 6: rest and I'm doing the booklet. I have three pages
Speaker 6: left over, and it's like, you know, I'm a fan.
Speaker 6: I know this movie top to bottom. I've seen all
Speaker 6: of Dante's stuff, so I just speculatively. Over a weekend,
Speaker 6: wrote did a little write up on his stock company.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's no deep insight. It's just a
Speaker 6: series of nerdy lists. But I mean, I could have
Speaker 6: done three pages just on Dick Miller, but I literally
Speaker 6: only have the three pages. You know, So Dick Miller,
Speaker 6: Robert Riccardo, you know, Kevin McCarthy, William Shaler, et cetera.
Speaker 6: You know, I found some cool quotes on the inner
Speaker 6: at archive. There's a book on the making of Invasion
Speaker 6: of the Body Snatchers that I think Kevin McCarthy even
Speaker 6: co wrote. It's mainly the original, but touches on the
Speaker 6: Philip Kaufman version two. I found some tweets from old archive,
Speaker 6: tweets from Joe Dante, you know, when some of these
Speaker 6: actors had passed away, and he pay tribute. Piccardo did
Speaker 6: an interview with the A. B Club, so I found
Speaker 6: a couple quotes from there. Not as much on some
Speaker 6: of the others, like Wendy Shawl or Archie Hahn, although
Speaker 6: I did mention his. I had mentioned his role in
Speaker 6: meat Balls two just because but no, I had fun
Speaker 6: with it. I took the screenshots and when I emailed
Speaker 6: them a pass of the booklet. I said, oh, by
Speaker 6: the way, check this out. If you like it, great,
Speaker 6: If not, no big deal, and they came back, you
Speaker 6: know sure, yeah, we'll use it. So then I had
Speaker 6: to change the blurb on the back so my name
Speaker 6: would be in it. But I even got you know,
Speaker 6: the Joe Dante's TV stuff, which I hope I got
Speaker 6: it all right, like you know who you know, people
Speaker 6: who were in Irie, Indiana or the episode Dick Miller
Speaker 6: was in one of the two episodes of Police Squad
Speaker 6: that Dante directed.
Speaker 4: He directed one third of that show.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm a big Star Trek fan, so
Speaker 6: I had to get in a Trek reference in there,
Speaker 6: since Wendy shall Gets started a Voyager episode and had
Speaker 6: scenes with the Cardo. So yeah, hopefully there's I know
Speaker 6: there's one other movie that I'm I would love to
Speaker 6: do something like this with.
Speaker 4: I won't mention it.
Speaker 6: I don't know if Arrow has it or not, but
Speaker 6: an eighties action movie with a big cast of.
Speaker 4: You know, hey, it's that guy names.
Speaker 6: So I don't know if Arrow has it or not,
Speaker 6: but if they do, and if I get to work
Speaker 6: on it, I would love to do something like this again.
Speaker 3: Well, I adore Interspace. When we first talked about the
Speaker 3: announcement here, I gushed on it for a handful of minutes.
Speaker 3: For those that have never seen it, pitched them the
Speaker 3: film Interspace, why should they buy it?
Speaker 6: I mean, I could pitch it the way Joe Dante
Speaker 6: describes it, which is, it's fantastic. It's fantastic voyage crossed
Speaker 6: with a Martin and Lewis comedy. But it's a Martin
Speaker 6: Martin short. Or Dennis Quid's a test pilot. He gets miniaturized.
Speaker 6: He's part of this experiment miniaturization. He gets miniaturized and
Speaker 6: injected into Martin short.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: And they have to you know, beat the bad guys
Speaker 6: and you know, re enlarged Dennis Quaid before he runs
Speaker 6: out of air.
Speaker 4: Meg Ryan's the love interest.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know you got the usual Joe Dante stock players
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 6: Oscar winning visual effects by Industrial Light and Magic, gorgeous,
Speaker 6: a fun score by Jerry Goldsmith and Robert Riccardo. At
Speaker 6: the Orlando Mega Con, he autographed my DVD. Years later
Speaker 6: at Monster Palooza in Pasadena, he autographed my Blue Rays
Speaker 6: and now I got to meet him one more time
Speaker 6: so we could autograph the four K and this time
Speaker 6: I can actually I worked on it. But yeah, it
Speaker 6: was just one of those you know. It was also
Speaker 6: one of those movies that was always on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and you know, it was the last generation to kind
Speaker 6: of grow up late eighties, early nineties. If a cool
Speaker 6: movie was on TV, you watched it because it was
Speaker 6: on and there was nothing else to do. But no
Speaker 6: big fan and I had fun working on it, you know,
Speaker 6: a couple of cool you know. There's one poster that
Speaker 6: I used for the back of the booklet cover that
Speaker 6: I'd never actually seen before. I think it was for
Speaker 6: the home video release, you know, again and trying to
Speaker 6: you know, with fonts and you know, you know again
Speaker 6: trying to make everything of a piece, and you know,
Speaker 6: with the booklets, readability is the most important thing.
Speaker 4: Plus Arrow has their own sort of house style, but you.
Speaker 6: Know, throwing in some cool tech little patterns and things
Speaker 6: like that, just to just to have fun with it
Speaker 6: and give it some visual interest.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'm always happy to see that, especially in
Speaker 3: your stuff. Yeah, Interspace, check it out if you've never
Speaker 3: seen it. It is fantastic. It's one of those that
Speaker 3: I think it was. Adam in the chat said it's
Speaker 3: kind of like Peter Jackson's Frighteners, and that it's it's
Speaker 3: like one of their best, but overlooked in a way
Speaker 3: that shouldn't be. In Jackson's uber that not the film
Speaker 3: is not like the Frighteners, but in their ubra it
Speaker 3: is similarly overlooked, which it shouldn't be. Innerspace is fantastic,
Speaker 3: although it's difficult when you're Dante because he's got like, oops,
Speaker 3: all bangers in his resume, and when when you're comparing
Speaker 3: to the Burbs and Gremlins and Mattinee and everything else,
Speaker 3: it's very easy to say, oh, yeah, we watched all
Speaker 3: those in this other one that we just forget about
Speaker 3: that one but deserves a shot.
Speaker 4: Also, I think if you ask Dante he'd say, also
Speaker 4: a you know, genre hybrids are hard sci fi, yeah,
Speaker 4: or sci fi action comedy even And it's two hours,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure the studio would have preferred it maybe
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes less to get one more screening in.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, I can't think of anything you
Speaker 6: could cut.
Speaker 3: No, it's worth the entire watch. It is great, super
Speaker 3: well done. I understand where Terry's coming from in the
Speaker 3: chat talking about Martin Short overacting. But just like Adam said,
Speaker 3: or just like Spooky said, that is kind of why
Speaker 3: you watch Martin Short. That's that's what he always does.
Speaker 3: So either way, he.
Speaker 6: Hadn't done I think he had done Three Amigos, and
Speaker 6: I don't think he'd really done much many movies actually
Speaker 6: before not much.
Speaker 3: No, that's true. God, yeah, I need to go look
Speaker 3: at his resume around that time. I'd love to learn
Speaker 3: more about that. All right, we're ready for announcements. Anything
Speaker 3: else that you want to hype up before we go
Speaker 3: into this, anything other than Interspace coming out the next
Speaker 3: month or two. That's already been.
Speaker 6: Working on a few titles for Arrow right now, and
Speaker 6: you know, a couple for you know, a few for
Speaker 6: fun City in various stages. But yeah, nothing else I
Speaker 6: can really talk about right now. But there will be more.
Speaker 3: There will be more. And speaking of more, let's talk
Speaker 3: about some animation as it comes through Warner Arc. So
Speaker 3: these are all a big batch of more archive titles
Speaker 3: that came out late last week. I do want. I
Speaker 3: know a lot of people are gonna be like, you
Speaker 3: don't need to apologize for this you were out of
Speaker 3: the country. I do want to apologize I was very
Speaker 3: late on many of these announcements. It was such a
Speaker 3: weird week. I literally right before the show just got
Speaker 3: caught up with what I had been waiting to be
Speaker 3: able to post. Over the last two weeks, every single
Speaker 3: day has been wild. You were talking about going over
Speaker 3: the international date line. I woke up early on Monday
Speaker 3: morning to fly out of Auckland, left on Monday afternoon
Speaker 3: out of Auckland, flew twelve hours to LA and when
Speaker 3: we landed in LA it was again Monday morning. And
Speaker 3: that sort of thing is so jarring in a weird
Speaker 3: way that you are just not prepared for. When we
Speaker 3: finally landed in Kansas City, it was technically only an
Speaker 3: hour on the clock after when we left Auckland, which,
Speaker 3: holy hell, what a weird life that is in that day.
Speaker 3: All right, So we got maynight. If we get a
Speaker 3: Blu Ray coming of Looney Tunes cartoons, this is the
Speaker 3: HBO Max series coming to Blu Ray. Now, this one's
Speaker 3: interesting because it had been discussed on this show last
Speaker 3: week or the week before. Is coming on DVD only,
Speaker 3: and it seems like the outcry of everybody wanting this
Speaker 3: got them to say, hold up, let's get the Archive
Speaker 3: to put this out on Blu Ray, which is always
Speaker 3: a win. This is going to be a six disc
Speaker 3: Blu Ray collection. They're going to have the sports shorts
Speaker 3: with it as well. You can check this out. Total
Speaker 3: runtime on this just over a thousand minutes, which is
Speaker 3: very worth it to me. I'm a big animation header
Speaker 3: und the animation Scott.
Speaker 4: I've always been a Looney Tunes fan.
Speaker 6: I haven't watched this, but I have been buying the
Speaker 6: collections and I've kind of lost count between you know.
Speaker 6: You know, I have the Golden Collections from DVD than
Speaker 6: with Blu Ray. They did a few Latinum collections, and
Speaker 6: they've done some DVD compilations over the years. But you know,
Speaker 6: some of the cartoons are new and some are old,
Speaker 6: and some have been remastered and some haven't. But you know,
Speaker 6: whatever the Archives releasing Looney Tunes wise, I'm more than
Speaker 6: likely going to pick up same.
Speaker 3: I will get this absolutely. Next up is seven Faces
Speaker 3: of Doctor Laud from nineteen sixty four. This is coming
Speaker 3: on May twenty sixth. This is a Tony Randall film.
Speaker 3: This will have a vintage featurette on here called King
Speaker 3: of the Duplicators, and then Tom and Jerry cartoon the
Speaker 3: Cat above and the Mouse below and the original trailer.
Speaker 3: Are you the classics like this?
Speaker 4: I've not seen this one.
Speaker 6: I know, I'm certainly aware, but actually most of the
Speaker 6: rest of the archive titles I think you're going to announce,
Speaker 6: I have not seen, unfortunately, but I'm always open, you know,
Speaker 6: so I'll yeah, you know, they'll get on my radar
Speaker 6: at some point.
Speaker 3: We've got a question from Explosive Action, what's going on
Speaker 3: losing track? What's different to this compared to the last
Speaker 3: couple of Warner Archive Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny, This is
Speaker 3: entirely different the one we just talked about. This is
Speaker 3: the HBO Max series that's very contemporary. It was being
Speaker 3: it was coming out between twenty twenty to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It is not classic Looney Tunes, but it is done
Speaker 3: in the classic Looney Tunes style. I've never seen them,
Speaker 3: but I hear they're actually like shockingly faithful to the
Speaker 3: original style and the comedy and everything. So I need
Speaker 3: it for sure. Next up, one that I've heard about
Speaker 3: for a long time, never got a chance to see
Speaker 3: This has follow Me Quietly from nineteen forty nine, also
Speaker 3: coming on May twenty six from more Archive. This says,
Speaker 3: this is the film that, above all increased my knowledge
Speaker 3: of the trade. I learned how to organize a film.
Speaker 3: Director Richard Fleischer said about follow Me Quietly, the filmmaker
Speaker 3: learned well. His subsequent career included the film Noir Gem,
Speaker 3: The Narrow Margin, the family favorite Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
Speaker 3: the Sea, and the sci fi milestone Soilent Green. William
Speaker 3: Lund again stars as a cop on the trail of
Speaker 3: an elusive serial killer who strikes when darkness and rainfall.
Speaker 3: Anthony Man shares credit for the story, a take similar
Speaker 3: to his work uncredited on the previous years he walked
Speaker 3: by Night. This will have Crime does not pay shorts
Speaker 3: on this called Dark Shadows and the last installment plus
Speaker 3: the trailer feels a little noir ish? Are you into
Speaker 3: film noir?
Speaker 6: I do? I am. I don't know why I said
Speaker 6: I do. I am, But I have that weird problem
Speaker 6: where you know, and obviously some are better than others,
Speaker 6: but you know, some of these movies the plots are
Speaker 6: so labyrinth you know, you blank and all of a
Speaker 6: sudden it's wait, where are we again?
Speaker 4: And who's that guy?
Speaker 7: I love?
Speaker 6: There's trappings of it, you know, just the you know,
Speaker 6: the sort of archetype characters and the femme fatale and
Speaker 6: you know, the lighting and just that post war gloom
Speaker 6: and doom feeling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, this is definitely something I would watch
Speaker 4: at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this sounds great. I definitely need to see this one.
Speaker 3: Next up one that a lot of the people I
Speaker 3: know and trust on film seem to be very excited,
Speaker 3: So I am keen for this one. Nineteen sixty Nine's
Speaker 3: the Five Man Army. This says where the army leads.
Speaker 3: Action fans, especially spaghetti western fans, will want to follow.
Speaker 3: This has a brand new four case scan of the
Speaker 3: original camera negative. We've got no other extras on this,
Speaker 3: but the cast. The cast on this, Bud Spencer, Peter Graves,
Speaker 3: James Daily, Tetsuro Tamba, directed by Don Taylor. Are you
Speaker 3: into spaghetti westerns at all?
Speaker 6: Also a big gap in my hell of a lineup
Speaker 6: here for me, but no, also more of a gap
Speaker 6: in my you know, movie going thank you, unfortunately, But
Speaker 6: again I'm always open, and I think Don Taylor, Yeah
Speaker 6: he did. I think he did the second Omen film.
Speaker 6: He directed that, and I think he directed so one
Speaker 6: of the Planet of the Ape sequels. I just don't
Speaker 6: remember which one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, definitely want to check this
Speaker 3: one out. I have been watching more and more spaghetti
Speaker 3: Western of the last few years, and yeah, sounds sounds
Speaker 3: really interesting.
Speaker 6: As a graphic designer. As a graphic designer, I do
Speaker 6: appreciate their continued commitment to using the artwork.
Speaker 3: The same, same, same, even on something like this, which
Speaker 3: is Monogram Mattine Volume three coming out that same day,
Speaker 3: May twenty sixth, and they've got two films here, both
Speaker 3: of them with the original posters shuffled onto this cover,
Speaker 3: which is really nice to keep them. So we've got
Speaker 3: Under Arizona Skies and Range Justice from nineteen forty six
Speaker 3: and nineteen forty nine, respectively. These are brand new four
Speaker 3: K scans of the best preservation elements on both of these.
Speaker 3: Both of these are an hour or just under an
Speaker 3: hour runtime, so that's why they're both on the same disc.
Speaker 3: No extras on these, but it's a double feature. I'm
Speaker 3: not much of a Western, guys. This is something that
Speaker 3: you would be immediate to.
Speaker 4: Pick up same.
Speaker 6: But you know what I'm so, I mean, I'm glad
Speaker 6: when anything is released like this. I'm happy that they're
Speaker 6: doing these, you know that they're clearly committing to, you know,
Speaker 6: volume three. Maybe we'll get volume four hopefully at some
Speaker 6: point too.
Speaker 3: If the sells more than fourteen copies maybe yeah. Next up,
Speaker 3: another big one, May twenty sixth. It's a Wise Child
Speaker 3: from nineteen thirty one with Mary and Davies this one,
Speaker 3: and Marian delivers one of her finest comedic performances in
Speaker 3: this smart early talkie farce that delights in mistaken impressions
Speaker 3: and social pretenses. When Joyce Stanton becomes the unsuspecting subject
Speaker 3: of scandal after being wrongfully assumed pregnant, she finds the
Speaker 3: gossip oddly useful, particularly as it helps her sidestep an
Speaker 3: unwonted marriage to a wealthy suitor. I absolutely need this one.
Speaker 3: Pre Code films are always at least interesting and quite
Speaker 3: often fantastic. This will have classic cartoons on here Bosco's
Speaker 3: Fox Hunt and Bosco's Soda Fountain, and then two NGM shorts,
Speaker 3: Crazy House and the Rounder. Any thoughts on pre Code films.
Speaker 6: I did watch? I don't have a ton of experience
Speaker 6: with them. But I'm a big I like Barbara Stanwick,
Speaker 6: and I know she did a bunch of pre code
Speaker 6: films and maybe it was the Criterion Channel or I
Speaker 6: don't know where I I have seen him at this point,
Speaker 6: but you know, I watched a bunch of hers, you know,
Speaker 6: from then, and you know, on one, you know, certainly
Speaker 6: tame compared to you know now, but at the same
Speaker 6: time you can kind of see where it might have
Speaker 6: bothered some people that there's one where she literally no
Speaker 6: I'm Philly blanking on the name. One where you know,
Speaker 6: she gets a job at a company and she literally,
Speaker 6: like you know, sleeps her. You know, the whole movie
Speaker 6: is about her sleeping away to the top, which you
Speaker 6: couldn't do, you know a few years later in a movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. I always love watching pre code movies and
Speaker 3: thinking about my grandparents and going they were scandalized by
Speaker 3: so much less than her in pre code films, all right.
Speaker 3: Next up Joan Crawford in Possessed, No, not that Possessed.
Speaker 3: This is nineteen thirty one's Possessed, also coming on May
Speaker 3: twenty sixth from More Archive. This is Joan Crawford and
Speaker 3: Clark Gable in this one. We got a four K
Speaker 3: scan of the original night rate negative. This will have
Speaker 3: the MGM Dogville comedy short Love Tales of Morocco, and
Speaker 3: a classic cartoon Bosco the dough Boy, which I'm just
Speaker 3: glad that they're putting shorts on these. I'm glad that
Speaker 3: we're getting all of this archived. It's Clark Gable and
Speaker 3: Joan Crawford, Like, I got to watch this at some point.
Speaker 3: This sounds fantastic.
Speaker 6: And my one of my old roommates in La Nora,
Speaker 6: who writes about classic film. She actually writes one of
Speaker 6: the essays and arrows I think in Vollow You three
Speaker 6: in the film war set. Huge fan of Betty Davis
Speaker 6: and Joan Crawford. You know, this is a woman in
Speaker 6: her twenties. She has tattoos of them, you know, magnets
Speaker 6: on the fridge. I think she said her favorite movie
Speaker 6: was humor Esque. So when one archive released that, I
Speaker 6: had to tager in the announcement you know you might
Speaker 6: want to buy this, So yeah, yeah, as long as
Speaker 6: you know, again there's always a new audience for movies
Speaker 6: like this.
Speaker 3: I agree. Yeah, And then maybe the biggest one of
Speaker 3: the month for a lot of people. As we get
Speaker 3: the Late Show from nineteen seventy seven with Ark Carney
Speaker 3: and Lily Tomlin. This is of course a big one
Speaker 3: because it is one that people have wanted on HD
Speaker 3: for quite some time. You've got Robert Benton also in
Speaker 3: this one. This is let's see, there was one more
Speaker 3: thing that I wanted to shout out four case gaining
Speaker 3: the original camera negative excerpt from Dinah from nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: seven Talk show with Lily Tomlin and Dinah Shore. Just
Speaker 3: absolutely great that this is coming out on HD finally,
Speaker 3: any Art Carney or Lily Tomlin.
Speaker 6: Thoughts, not really except I think I looked it up
Speaker 6: once and I'm pretty sure I think Lily Tomlin was
Speaker 6: the host of SNL the weekend I was born. I
Speaker 6: was born on a Sunday morning, and I think if
Speaker 6: she was hosting SNL the night before.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 4: But this reminds though. I think in the.
Speaker 6: Last month's announcement, one was Private Benjamin. And you know
Speaker 6: some of these titles, I'm shocked like they haven't either
Speaker 6: they got old archive releases on DVD or something like
Speaker 6: Private Benjamin probably got a DVD release In a snapper
Speaker 6: case twenty five years ago, and that's extra better treatment
Speaker 6: until now, you know so. But again I'm glad, you know,
Speaker 6: glad to see something like this out and available and
Speaker 6: with the original art and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big deal. Definitely wanting this one. This looks fantastic.
Speaker 3: And then we got a big boy. We had heard
Speaker 3: that this was coming seven announced the titles. We've got
Speaker 3: a four K blu ray box set coming of Sinster
Speaker 3: Directs Hammer box Set. This is seven discs. In this
Speaker 3: box set, We've got the Horror of Frankenstein, Lust for
Speaker 3: a Vampire, and Fear in the Night. This is going
Speaker 3: to be three films on seven discs, with an all
Speaker 3: new three hundred and twelve page book and nineteen hours
Speaker 3: of special features before we go into some of the details.
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on these seven box sets? Do you pick
Speaker 3: up any of the box sets from them?
Speaker 4: No? I haven't, although I will say.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 6: I worked on The Wild Geese for severin which I
Speaker 6: think our booklet I think is four pages longer. Not
Speaker 6: that it's a contest or anything, but no, I haven't.
Speaker 6: Definitely looks cool though, and yeah, just I know I'm
Speaker 6: kind of a bit a broken record here, but again,
Speaker 6: I'm just happy that any of these are out and
Speaker 6: with you know, awesome artwork and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they kind of crushed this one. This is going
Speaker 3: to be shipping on or around June thirtieth, maybe slightly
Speaker 3: before if you order from their website. Some of the
Speaker 3: details on here though, get really deep on this. So
Speaker 3: the Horror of Frankenstein, We've got a commentary Sankster and
Speaker 3: Marcus Hearn. We got a commentary by Tim Lucas on
Speaker 3: the Blu Ray. We've got all of those things, and
Speaker 3: then an archival interview and then we continue on. We've
Speaker 3: got all kinds of other archival interviews, featurettes on literally
Speaker 3: every single film that is in this box set, Lots
Speaker 3: and lots of stuff. If you do have the UK
Speaker 3: releases of these films, a lot of these are the
Speaker 3: same supplement that are on those. But this is crazy.
Speaker 3: To get all three of these in one box set together.
Speaker 3: Looks like a just absolutely fantastic release. The seventh disc,
Speaker 3: by the way, it's three films, so you would think
Speaker 3: a four K and a Blu Ray for each film.
Speaker 3: Why is there's seven discs. The seventh one just even
Speaker 3: more bonus features. There is legacy documentaries, on here. There's
Speaker 3: a brand new documentary called Hammer and Beyond the Jimmy
Speaker 3: Sinkster Legacy from twenty twenty six by Marcus Hearn. There
Speaker 3: is just so much in here, interviews, visual essays, appreciations,
Speaker 3: introductions to the films, so much on here. This is
Speaker 3: an abundance of riches if you're a Hammer fan. Terry says,
Speaker 3: the artwork is a little bad.
Speaker 6: I'm just looking at the box and it looks like
Speaker 6: it's split in the middle where you take the top
Speaker 6: off and yep. Working on a few of those for arrow,
Speaker 6: you know, getting that to align properly is more often
Speaker 6: than not a pain, Especially with DIF printers. There's usually
Speaker 6: a one or two millimeter variant. So if you get
Speaker 6: one that line set great. If not, sorry, you know,
Speaker 6: we do the best we can with these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely understand that that is a lot of
Speaker 3: work guaranteed to go with this, They are also releasing
Speaker 3: Children of the Wicker Man. This is coming on the
Speaker 3: same day. This is a twenty twenty four film. This
Speaker 3: is the first time it's been on disc anywhere in
Speaker 3: the world. And this is let's see with this seventy
Speaker 3: three directorial debut. Robin Hardy fought to kraft what would
Speaker 3: eventually be recognized as one of the greatest horror movies
Speaker 3: ever made. But for his loved ones, Hardy created a
Speaker 3: very different kind of nightmare. Now. Art historian Dominic Hardy
Speaker 3: and filmmaker Justin Hardy, half brothers and self described far
Speaker 3: flung spawn, explore their late father's complicated legacy and this
Speaker 3: incredibly brave and touching documentary that will take you on
Speaker 3: a journey unlike any you've been on before. This will
Speaker 3: have interviews with the filmmakers, It will have Q and
Speaker 3: A with a excuse me the filmmakers as well making
Speaker 3: a featurette and a trailer. I love The Wickerman or
Speaker 3: are you a Wickerman fan?
Speaker 6: It's been a while, that's for sure. Although this this
Speaker 6: is a documentary, it is.
Speaker 3: A documentary about the director of The Wickerman.
Speaker 6: But I always find it interesting when document you know,
Speaker 6: when documentaries have extras, because it's almost like documenting the
Speaker 6: documentary and there's like an extra level of meta sort
Speaker 6: of involved, you know.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Yeah, working on that myself
Speaker 3: right now. We uh not to go too far behind
Speaker 3: the scenes, but a lot of people were interested that
Speaker 3: Antenna's first title that we announced was a documentary, because
Speaker 3: a lot of physical media companies do not do any documentaries.
Speaker 3: I can flatly say right now we have signed many documentaries,
Speaker 3: at least four or five, and all of them will
Speaker 3: be getting physical releases. I think there's one that is
Speaker 3: up in the air, but they will each come with
Speaker 3: a wide, wide breadth of extras. I can guarantee that.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: To round out the month for Severn, this is maybe
Speaker 3: my most exciting release of this entire slate. Here they
Speaker 3: partnered with Yellow Veil, who is now also a partner
Speaker 3: label of seven. Don't worry, they're still a partner label
Speaker 3: of OCN. Who knows why they had to go for
Speaker 3: Severn for this one. Maybe just to put out a
Speaker 3: box set because not a lot of partner labels get
Speaker 3: to do that. For OCN, Maybe they just have too
Speaker 3: many films. Maybe it was just a Severn co production. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll probably never find out, but they're putting out a
Speaker 3: box set of films for a filmmaker that I'm going
Speaker 3: to butcher the name here, and I apologize. Adam is
Speaker 3: already waiting for me to say the name. I believe
Speaker 3: it's Lucille Hadja lev I had it the first time,
Speaker 3: Hadja Halivovich. I believe that's pretty close. Hadja Halivovich, Hala Lovich.
Speaker 3: There it is Hadja Hadja Halilovich, is I believe the
Speaker 3: right way to say it. This is a four disc
Speaker 3: set with four hours of special features in a sixty
Speaker 3: page companion book. In this set we've got Innocence, Evolution,
Speaker 3: the Ice Tower, and Earwig. If you've been paying attention
Speaker 3: to releases overseas, you'll probably recognize Earwig that was released
Speaker 3: by the company Anti World so over in the UK.
Speaker 3: They are like a sister label of Indicator, and all
Speaker 3: of these are filled with extras. I think we've got
Speaker 3: one or two that are brand new releases in the
Speaker 3: North American side. So Innocence this is a North American
Speaker 3: Blu Ray premiere, sounds like a great film. The Evolution
Speaker 3: is not for the first time, but it's got some
Speaker 3: extras on there as well. Earwig is first time in
Speaker 3: North America, and that's got a bunch of extras, including
Speaker 3: short films on a few of these. And they've also
Speaker 3: got at the bottom there there it is the Ice Tower,
Speaker 3: a bunch of extras as well, Q and a's introduction.
Speaker 3: Everything this looks fantastic.
Speaker 6: And with artwork by my friend Beth Morris, who actually
Speaker 6: met when I was in the UK for six months.
Speaker 6: I spent a month in Cardiff and we met a
Speaker 6: couple times at the community space I was working out of,
Speaker 6: called the Chapter Art Center.
Speaker 4: And always fund to talk shop.
Speaker 6: And then he's certainly getting a ton of work too,
Speaker 6: so always happy to see that.
Speaker 3: Beth is incredible. We'll talk about her later tonight for
Speaker 3: something special for me. They have a bunch of so
Speaker 3: many bundles to choose from this month, almost too many,
Speaker 3: but let's talk about these real quick. So we've got
Speaker 3: the Wicker Basket, which has the Children of the Wickerman
Speaker 3: and then a book with it that is a two
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty two page hardcover book. That bundle forty
Speaker 3: one bucks to me, not a terrible price. You get
Speaker 3: a documentary, you get a pretty decent hardcover book. Forty
Speaker 3: bucks not too bad. Second bundle, they've got the Sinster
Speaker 3: Celebration Bundle. This thing gets you the Sangster box set.
Speaker 3: You've got a lust for a Vampire novelization nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: one reissue. You've got two seven Hall of Fame pins,
Speaker 3: one with Ralph Bates, one with Jimmy Sangster. You've got
Speaker 3: a ute Stends guard enamel pins. So you've got three pins,
Speaker 3: a book, and a box set, all in one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty two bucks. Not terrible. Again, seven been pretty
Speaker 3: reasonable with their prices lately. Then you've got the Sangster
Speaker 3: Wicker Bundle. This gets you both of the children of
Speaker 3: the Wickerman items and all of the Sangster Directs Hammer
Speaker 3: items all together one n two hundred bucks. Not too
Speaker 3: too bad either. Or you can go all in on
Speaker 3: Sangster and the Hadja Hella Loovich box. This is pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: It will get you the box sets, it will get
Speaker 3: you the book, it will get you the three pins.
Speaker 3: All of that two hundred and twenty five dollars. Anything
Speaker 3: in these announcements from seven that you're like, Man, I
Speaker 3: am very keen on that one.
Speaker 4: Certainly some stuff I'd like to watch, but.
Speaker 6: Not at the moment understandable it again, you know, never
Speaker 6: saying and you know it's every move, you know, it's
Speaker 6: you know, it's like if you haven't seen it, it's new.
Speaker 3: For you, so exactly exactly. Next up, very interesting. I
Speaker 3: never expected to see this. June second, Universal and SDS
Speaker 3: Studio Distribution Services, they're releasing the Office super Fan extended episodes. Now,
Speaker 3: what is been a little bit confusing for people is
Speaker 3: this is the complete series of The Office. This is
Speaker 3: getting the extended episodes that were on Peacock. Every single
Speaker 3: episode in the series has been extended, and so you
Speaker 3: get all of those. It's more than twenty five extra
Speaker 3: hours compared to the original release of the complete series.
Speaker 3: Are you an Office fan?
Speaker 6: I haven't watched it since it aired, but yeah, I
Speaker 6: was a big Office fan, and I remember, you know,
Speaker 6: if you remember those first few episodes, you know, he
Speaker 6: played Michael a little differently, he had the hair slip back.
Speaker 6: But I was already a fan of the British version,
Speaker 6: and I remember there was a report on one of
Speaker 6: the geek websites about a test screening for this one,
Speaker 6: and apparently people thought it was too depressing. And when
Speaker 6: I read that, I thought they got it. It'll work.
Speaker 6: If people think it's people who don't know think it's
Speaker 6: too depressing, then they got it right.
Speaker 4: But I have not seen the extended ones.
Speaker 3: Though I've not seen any of them either. I hear
Speaker 3: they're very interesting. Just keep in mind you likely will
Speaker 3: not get all the extras that are on the old
Speaker 3: box set. Here, Stan is saying it looks prohibitively expensive.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, I'm kind of shocked this thing
Speaker 3: is on Amazon right now for less than seventy five bucks,
Speaker 3: and for a release day release of a complete series
Speaker 3: with twenty five extra hours of content. That seems pretty
Speaker 3: inexpensive for a studio release for me. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: still granted, it's twenty twenty six seventy five bucks, still
Speaker 3: a lot of money, but that seems fairly inexpensive compared
Speaker 3: to what I expected. All right, Next up, speaking of expensive,
Speaker 3: May twenty sixth, Lionsgate is releasing this Amazon exclusive Rambo
Speaker 3: four K collection. Now, this is going to be interesting.
Speaker 3: If you picked up the last big Rambo four K
Speaker 3: steel book set that had come out, and the reason
Speaker 3: here is because they fixed kind of everything that was
Speaker 3: wrong with that set. And if you're a big Rambo fan,
Speaker 3: which I am not, and you were anal about everything
Speaker 3: that was wrong about that set, you're going to be
Speaker 3: quite frustrated because that thing costs like one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five bucks. This thing is around one hundred. It's
Speaker 3: not the steel books and all that stuff, but they
Speaker 3: fixed so much so I'm gonna go through some of
Speaker 3: these that's brand new. There's a brand new bonus disc
Speaker 3: that's brand new on this. It's got reflections on First
Speaker 3: Blood with Ted Katchief storyboarding First Blood, the Art of Rambo,
Speaker 3: Rambo auction poster gallery. Then on the second disc, everything
Speaker 3: is the same on that. We're going to get into
Speaker 3: the actual audio fixes and stuff like that in just
Speaker 3: a minute, but it's got all of the Rambo films.
Speaker 3: I've heard everybody laugh about there only being three and
Speaker 3: four and depending on how many you love and all that.
Speaker 3: But this is where it gets super interesting because we've
Speaker 3: got the theatrical and Sylvester Sloan's extended edition on Last Blood.
Speaker 3: There's a brand new Dolby Atmost cut on Last Blood
Speaker 3: that was not in the original one. We've got Dolby
Speaker 3: Atmost on Rambo three. We've got Dolby Vision on all
Speaker 3: of these that was not on the previous releases. We've
Speaker 3: got like the original laser disc audio on a couple
Speaker 3: of these that are brand new, we've got let's see
Speaker 3: Dolby True HD five point one from the newly discovered
Speaker 3: seventy millimeters six track magnetic soundtrack on Rambow First Blood
Speaker 3: Part two, like lots of stuff that they went in
Speaker 3: and found after the first set was kind of botched,
Speaker 3: and this looks like it's gonna be pretty solid if
Speaker 3: you are a Rainbow fan. Are you a Rambow fan, sir?
Speaker 4: I not a hardcore fan. I love the first film.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but the first film, of course, is completely different
Speaker 6: from the rest.
Speaker 4: Enjoy two and three. I like the fourth one.
Speaker 6: I still haven't seen the last one, actually, the Last Blood,
Speaker 6: and I still can't believe. You know, Ted Kachef, who
Speaker 6: directed First Blood, also did we get at Bernie's. You know,
Speaker 6: that's versatility. But I saw this and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to pick it up. I've only ever
Speaker 6: owned the first one, and I think I got it
Speaker 6: at best Buy for eight bucks, so you know, I'll
Speaker 6: go with this. But I do have to give a
Speaker 6: shout out to the folks that at Trata the record label,
Speaker 6: they've released the complete remastered scores over the years for
Speaker 6: the first three films. In fact, First Blood just got
Speaker 6: a new release. But to you know, Fix's previous errors
Speaker 6: and yeah, things like that. And I believe their release
Speaker 6: of Rambow of Part two, which came out I think
Speaker 6: in twenty sixteen, there's an alternate entitle piece that Jerry
Speaker 6: Goldsmith did which I think they salvaged from a tape
Speaker 6: cassette or something, you know, so they're still discovering things
Speaker 6: from these movies. But yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to
Speaker 6: pick this up.
Speaker 3: This is This is gonna be tough because it has
Speaker 3: sold out multiple times already. So if you're keen on
Speaker 3: this one, you might want to get it sooner than
Speaker 3: later if you can.
Speaker 6: Even well, I learned that lesson. Funny enough, if it's
Speaker 6: something i'm thinking about, I just order it because I
Speaker 6: remember when I ordered the they've reprinted it. But when
Speaker 6: Sony did their Lawrence of Arabia steel book, it's the
Speaker 6: only time I had an Amazon order canceled, like they
Speaker 6: literally rain out where.
Speaker 4: They got to mine.
Speaker 6: I ended up ordering it from Target, of all places,
Speaker 6: you know, they had it, you know, again first world problems,
Speaker 6: but you know at the time it was like no
Speaker 6: but Target, who knew for.
Speaker 3: Those that weren't following that saga. Closely shortly after that
Speaker 3: thing sold out it was going for over two hundred
Speaker 3: dollars on eBay, which is just insanity, all right. Next up,
Speaker 3: June sixteenth, we get a four K blu ray and
Speaker 3: DVD coming of Boz Luhrman's epic Elvis Presley in Concert
Speaker 3: from last year. They also had part of the press release.
Speaker 3: This is the second time in the last year that
Speaker 3: a brand new studio film says a special edition steel
Speaker 3: book will also follow later this year. So if you
Speaker 3: want a special edition of this, that's not saying it'll
Speaker 3: have special features, but to me, that's what special edition
Speaker 3: would mean. Also, they're obviously doing a steel book, so
Speaker 3: if you're a stee book fan, you might want to
Speaker 3: wait on that. But there's nothing on this disc other
Speaker 3: than the film. If you're an Elvis person or a
Speaker 3: bos Lehman person, that might be enough, But if you
Speaker 3: really love it and you want extras, you might want
Speaker 3: to wait. All I know is that I've heard so
Speaker 3: many varied opinions on this sort of thing. A lot
Speaker 3: of people that love it, a lot of people that
Speaker 3: are pissed off because Boz Lherman kind of like shook
Speaker 3: things up, didn't credit even like the band members sort
Speaker 3: of made some of the performances be disjointed and not
Speaker 3: properly done. Are you an Elvis guy.
Speaker 6: I mean I am to the extent that everyone else is.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm certainly no expert. I enjoy I went
Speaker 6: to the Neon Museum in Vegas where they have all
Speaker 6: the old signs. And I'm not a Vegas I'm not
Speaker 6: an expert on Vegas's history, but they were you know,
Speaker 6: some people there who were looking at it. It's like, oh,
Speaker 6: that's the marquee from where Elvis performed in nineteen you know,
Speaker 6: they were naming all that stuff. Yeah, they are definitely
Speaker 6: people who are bigger fans than I am.
Speaker 3: I get it. I'm not super high up on it either,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm very curious what a giant Elvis fan
Speaker 3: thinks of this thing, as you sure. Next up one
Speaker 3: that I loved from last year. May twelfth, we are
Speaker 3: finally getting news about a blu ray release from Lionsgate
Speaker 3: of Twinless from last year. Did you get see this one?
Speaker 4: No? I didn't.
Speaker 3: This is starring Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney, The Gentleman
Speaker 3: on the Right. James Sweeney is also the director of
Speaker 3: the film I believe the right as well. This is
Speaker 3: a movie that I can't really say much about. You
Speaker 3: kinda shouldn't know anything about it, just going too a blind.
Speaker 3: I think it's up on Hulu right now. But this
Speaker 3: is one of the best films of the year and
Speaker 3: hardly anybody got to see it. Please give this a watch.
Speaker 3: I am very very much going to be picking this
Speaker 3: disc up. It's one of my favorites. Next one that
Speaker 3: I'm quite excited about as well. We got some details
Speaker 3: on this. We talked about this, I think about a
Speaker 3: month ago, but June twenty third, we are getting a
Speaker 3: Blu Raine DVD release here in the US from cult
Speaker 3: epics of Don't Play with Fire. Now, what is that movie?
Speaker 3: You probably know it more if you know this type
Speaker 3: of film as Dangerous Encounters of the first kind. This
Speaker 3: is from Troy Hart from nineteen eighty. Not sure why
Speaker 3: they went with the dopp Play with Fire title when
Speaker 3: so many people know the other title, but oh well,
Speaker 3: here we are. This is one that I'm dying to see.
Speaker 3: The trailer for this looks incredible. On the bonus extras,
Speaker 3: we've got the uncensored international version, brand new two K restoration.
Speaker 3: We've got an audio commentary by Frankie Belbo and branded strusnig.
Speaker 3: We got an interview with the actor Paul Cha, interview
Speaker 3: with the actor albert Ao, interview with the screenwriter Jato
Speaker 3: chuck On, interview with the assistant director O Sing Pui,
Speaker 3: and then the second disc has the banned Chinese version.
Speaker 3: There's an English dubbed version as well. The English dub
Speaker 3: is only an SD And then we've got the original
Speaker 3: trailer and you know, brand new subtitles and all that
Speaker 3: new art by Tony Stella, which how Great's Tony Stello there, Scott.
Speaker 4: He's great and I've.
Speaker 6: Worked with his art many times with the Arrow and ironically,
Speaker 6: I mean I was doing layout work for cult epics
Speaker 6: for a year or so. Yeah, but my last one
Speaker 6: was The Girl who Left Through Time with Sam Smith's art,
Speaker 6: so I did not work on this one. But you know,
Speaker 6: whoever gets Tony's art, you know, just treat it well,
Speaker 6: same with anyone's art, really, you know.
Speaker 3: Agreed, And yeah, I agree, Terry this one. Adiah Heart
Speaker 3: completely agreed and yeah, Gentry, this is dangerous encounters of
Speaker 3: the first kind. This is one that people have been
Speaker 3: talking about getting for a long time. So please look
Speaker 3: out for it. Next up, the remake of When a
Speaker 3: Stranger Calls from two thousand and six is getting a
Speaker 3: via Vision release on May twenty seventh on Blu Ray.
Speaker 3: This is one that you can pre order starting on
Speaker 3: April fifteenth. This is going to be an individually numbered
Speaker 3: three D lenticular herd case with six art cards. Bonus
Speaker 3: features on this are all archival, but we've got an
Speaker 3: audio commentary with the director, Simon West and Camilla Bell,
Speaker 3: audio commentary by Jake Wade Wall, some deleted scenes making
Speaker 3: of and that's about it, although I did want to
Speaker 3: point out I had lots of people comment that the
Speaker 3: aspect ratio here is wrong. I know that's a big
Speaker 3: thing for a lot of people, and as it should be. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you want it framed properly, but not sure. Via Vision
Speaker 3: Slash Imprint has misprinted that Wanter thrice before, so you
Speaker 3: might want to check out. If you like are a
Speaker 3: huge fan of the movie, you might want to wait
Speaker 3: for some reviews because this is not selling out day
Speaker 3: one guaranteed. Yep YEP. Via Vision seems to be making
Speaker 3: a thing at a releasing remakes of eighties horror movies
Speaker 3: and they sell well, mister a fat man, I mean
Speaker 3: they're gonna keep selling, all right, move in to our
Speaker 3: next one. Speaking of eighties horror movies, Imprint is re
Speaker 3: releasing life Force. They had the giant, bigger than a
Speaker 3: serial box sized Life Force that they'd put out previously.
Speaker 3: This is a pared down version of that release. It
Speaker 3: has the exact same four discs, all of the extras
Speaker 3: are the same. It's got a booklet with it in
Speaker 3: a hard box release. It doesn't have the posters, it
Speaker 3: doesn't have all of the other stuff that they had
Speaker 3: with it, Like I think they had the script in
Speaker 3: the first release. But this is gonna be significantly cheaper
Speaker 3: and it's still in print, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: Life Force rules obviously. This is like the fourth limited
Speaker 3: edition release of life Force, which is a little overkilled.
Speaker 3: Just keep in mind, territories are a thing. If you've
Speaker 3: never seen Life Force, is a best time to watch it.
Speaker 3: It's a great movie. You should watch it.
Speaker 6: I kind of still want the big box. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: this movie is bonkers. I kind of love it. And
Speaker 6: what's funny, So this is so friend So a friend
Speaker 6: of mine and his family they went to the Caribbean
Speaker 6: and I just had to google it. In Saint Martin,
Speaker 6: Nick Malley, who did a lot of the makeup and creature.
Speaker 4: Effects for this.
Speaker 6: I think he's on one of the audio commentaries. He
Speaker 6: has a little museum with his collection, so if you're
Speaker 6: ever in the Caribbean, checkout. It's literally called the Yoda
Speaker 6: Guy Movie Experience because he worked on Empire. And my
Speaker 6: friend told me that, and it's like, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 6: there were several Yoda guys, but he's one of them.
Speaker 6: And he has a little shop with props and things
Speaker 6: on display. Just if you google it, you'll find the
Speaker 6: page on trip Advisor. You know, it looks pretty cool,
Speaker 6: but yeah, this movie's insane. And yeah, I know, and
Speaker 6: you know, I know Screen Factory they didn't I think
Speaker 6: only the theatrical cuts in four K, but all the
Speaker 6: other labels.
Speaker 4: And I asked Arrow about that, and I.
Speaker 6: Think it was like, yeah, that took a lot of
Speaker 6: work to get the the longer cut, you know, up
Speaker 6: the spec for four K.
Speaker 4: But glad they did it.
Speaker 3: Glad they did it, and now Imprint has it as well.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to shout out. Paul Berrman says the
Speaker 3: episode on Imprint cast about Life Forces up now. Glad
Speaker 3: to be a part of that. Howard s Berger is
Speaker 3: also on that episode, and it's a long one. They
Speaker 3: talk about the history of cannon films. Go give it
Speaker 3: a listen for sure. Stan in our chat says Life
Speaker 3: Forces very special to me. I don't want to spoil anything,
Speaker 3: but we'll talk about Life Force later this year. In
Speaker 3: regards to Stan, at some point, I believe let's carry on.
Speaker 3: This one's a little frustrating. May nineteenth, here in the
Speaker 3: US we are getting a BLU ray from Decal of
Speaker 3: Sarat from last year. Which did you happen to see
Speaker 3: Serat No? I have not. This is a very wild movie,
Speaker 3: kind of hard to explain. It's a very sound, heavy movie.
Speaker 3: But as you can see from the picture, they're only
Speaker 3: putting this out on a BDR. It's a made on
Speaker 3: demand burned disc. It's not gonna be up to par
Speaker 3: with the quality of what you're expecting. It's not gonna
Speaker 3: be a great disc. Decal's doing it so it was
Speaker 3: already not gonna be a great disc. But let's be honest.
Speaker 3: But the bigger thing here is this is being released
Speaker 3: on four K over in the UK and They're giving
Speaker 3: it as much attention as they can, and you're not
Speaker 3: going to get that here in the US. So if
Speaker 3: you want the best release of this, you can check
Speaker 3: that out from the UK. I believe that comes out soon.
Speaker 3: I've got it on pre order because I definitely wanted
Speaker 3: the best release of that one good movie. Recommend it.
Speaker 3: I know it's kind of a divisive film. It's a
Speaker 3: I won't say plotless, but you just kind of have
Speaker 3: to go. It's very much like a journey film. You
Speaker 3: got to go on the journey with this one, for sure.
Speaker 3: All right. Going to our next title, speaking of four K,
Speaker 3: this is a big deal. In fifth we are getting
Speaker 3: a four K and Blu ray dual format released from
Speaker 3: Disney of Alice in Wonderland from nineteen fifty one. This
Speaker 3: is a beautiful movie and it has never looked as
Speaker 3: good as this restoration is about to look. I've got
Speaker 3: linked in the original announcement post of this a restoration
Speaker 3: demonstration that's on YouTube. Open that up later and go
Speaker 3: give it a watch. The way that Disney shows what
Speaker 3: they've done to the animation for this movie, it is
Speaker 3: just striking what this is about to look like on
Speaker 3: four K cannot wait to be able to see this.
Speaker 3: I hope my kids can fall in love with it
Speaker 3: because it looks beautiful. I've always loved this movie. Are
Speaker 3: you a Disney animation or Alice in Wonderland fan?
Speaker 6: You know what, we were never a big Disney household
Speaker 6: growing up, to be honest, And it wasn't you know,
Speaker 6: it wasn't a political or religious or.
Speaker 4: Anything like that.
Speaker 6: We just ye know, it's more Warner Brothers than Disney.
Speaker 6: I didn't even see The Lion King, you know, like
Speaker 6: until I was in college, to be honest. But I mean,
Speaker 6: anytime Disney reaches into the catalog is cause for celebration.
Speaker 6: A great you know, I can go on about that,
Speaker 6: but well, you know, but but no, this looks beautiful.
Speaker 3: We can keep those thoughts locked up on the vault. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this looks great. The only thing I will say, I
Speaker 3: I don't know the best way to say that. Like,
Speaker 3: I don't hate the cover art that they're going with
Speaker 3: on these newer Disney four k's. I do just kind
Speaker 3: of wish we had the original poster art and this
Speaker 3: sort of abstract encapsulation of everything in the film. But
Speaker 3: this is going to be gorgeous. Again, go check out
Speaker 3: the restoration demonstration. At some point it looks just beautiful.
Speaker 3: Next up, man, this is pretty cool. So, speaking of antenna,
Speaker 3: we are putting on a screening at the Woodstock Film
Speaker 3: Festival on June twelfth. If you are anywhere near Kingston,
Speaker 3: New York, please go check this out. We are showing
Speaker 3: Ferris Buehler the four K Ressation to celebrate the fortieth
Speaker 3: anniversary of Faris Bueler's Day Off, and to make it special,
Speaker 3: we are showing the short documentary before this called Oh Yeah.
Speaker 3: This is about yellow and the very pop culture defining
Speaker 3: song Oh Yeah from Ferris Bueler's Day Off. It is
Speaker 3: by Nick Canfield and Nick will be live in person
Speaker 3: at this film festival to talk about it. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be an eighties dance party, costume contest, photo booth abe Frohman,
Speaker 3: the Sausage King will be there. Beyond all of that,
Speaker 3: we are going to be taking Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Speaker 3: and the short Oh Yeah across the country to quite
Speaker 3: a few theaters this June, so be on the lookout
Speaker 3: for more of these coming. I love that we got
Speaker 3: to work on this next up coming soon on Blu
Speaker 3: Ray in the US from Keno Is Till We Meet
Speaker 3: Again from nineteen forty four with Ray Milland and Barbara Britton,
Speaker 3: done by Frank PORZEGI never seen this, never heard of this?
Speaker 3: Is this your type of movie? There, Scott?
Speaker 6: Not really, but having seen him, you know, first time
Speaker 6: I watched dial m for Murder Rayma Land, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I get to see more of this guy's movies. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and then The Big Clock, which he's also in, but yeah,
Speaker 6: I've not seen this one.
Speaker 3: And yeah, maybe more to your taste. They're doing a
Speaker 3: four K soon of Orgasmo from nineteen ninety seven. This
Speaker 3: is the Trey Parker and Matt Stone film. Any thoughts
Speaker 3: on Orgasmo not?
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 6: I probably saw bits and pieces of it when it
Speaker 6: aired on like late on HBO one night in the nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 6: although I might be in the minority. Maybe Kino will
Speaker 6: do it. If there was ever a four K of
Speaker 6: basketball that I would pick up on day one.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling they're likely going to follow this
Speaker 3: up with basketball here soon. I remember liking Orgasmo quite
Speaker 3: a bit, it being very very nineties cheesy, very Matt
Speaker 3: Parker or sorry, Trey and Matt comedy if that's your
Speaker 3: sort of thing. But it also I mean it led
Speaker 3: to the Book of Mormon. It led to so many
Speaker 3: other things that we see nowadays. So yeah, very keen.
Speaker 3: I hope that they do this four K right, because
Speaker 3: Keino is very hit or miss, especially lately.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: Next up, Jury from nineteen seventy three is coming to
Speaker 3: Blu Ray from Keno on June sixteenth. This is a
Speaker 3: new interview with Robbie Benson, who plays Jury in this film.
Speaker 3: We already talked about Westerns. Any thoughts on Robbie Benson
Speaker 3: or Jeurry?
Speaker 4: No, No, not really.
Speaker 3: Nice, same here except I clicked away. Let's go through
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of Kino things. We've got twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four Suburban Fury coming on DVD. This sounds incredible and
Speaker 3: it's only coming on DVD. This is coming on June ninth,
Speaker 3: by the way, So this says it is a gripping
Speaker 3: portrait of Sarah Jane Moore, a single mother from suburban
Speaker 3: San Francisco who in nineteen seventy five attempted to assassinate
Speaker 3: President Gerald four More than a historical retailing, the film
Speaker 3: is an intimate character study and a chilling mirror of
Speaker 3: America's ideological divide. Yeah, this sounds great. I kind of
Speaker 3: feel like I need to see this. I really wish
Speaker 3: it wasn't DVD only.
Speaker 4: I would totally watch this.
Speaker 6: This is something that would probably you know, in a
Speaker 6: few months, might be streaming on Canopy. But I also
Speaker 6: recognized the great Midnight Marauders post artwork being used as well,
Speaker 6: which's great, absine, I would watch this.
Speaker 3: Next up is twenty twenty six is film Fantasy Life,
Speaker 3: getting a DVD only released from Keno on June ninth
Speaker 3: as well, This one with Amanda Pete and it's got
Speaker 3: Judd Hirsh and Bob Balaban in this one. Matthew Shear
Speaker 3: is the other star. I'm sure this is not one
Speaker 3: that you've had a chance to see already this year.
Speaker 6: No, I no, I haven't, but I actually did. This
Speaker 6: is literally coming back to me right now. I don't
Speaker 6: even know if they're being used. I actually worked on
Speaker 6: streaming thumbnails for this movie a year ago, you know, nice,
Speaker 6: and I have no idea if they're being used or not.
Speaker 6: But I'm looking at this still like I've seen this before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I first off a little side thing. I know
Speaker 3: we talked about like the paradox of the crossing the
Speaker 3: international dateline earlier. It is really weird being contributors and
Speaker 3: working on all these releases and trying to keep track
Speaker 3: of the timeline of when did I work on something
Speaker 3: for this it got announced, when is it coming out?
Speaker 3: Why don't I have it in my hands yet? And
Speaker 3: then you realize I worked on this thing two and
Speaker 3: a half years ago, still hasn't been announced. That's why
Speaker 3: I don't have it yet or something. It's always crazy
Speaker 3: when that happens. All right, go ahead, Scott, Oh.
Speaker 6: No, I was just gonna say, you know, I literally
Speaker 6: still have it all on my external hard drive and yeah,
Speaker 6: whatever the thumbnails I did aren't that, but you know,
Speaker 6: different context and have to be designed differently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. June thirtieth, we're getting a DVD only
Speaker 3: from Keno of Amram from twenty twenty five as well.
Speaker 3: It's a Spring of nineteen forty five film, which means,
Speaker 3: you know, it's got to be about Germany, so yeah,
Speaker 3: check that out if you're into it. There's a trailer
Speaker 3: on the disc as well. Next up is Yes, also
Speaker 3: getting a DVD only release from June ninth. This is
Speaker 3: a one of international cinema's most fearless and provocative filmmakers.
Speaker 3: Supposedly that's Nadav Lapid. Never heard of him, so if
Speaker 3: he's one of the most fearless and provocative, he probably
Speaker 3: needs better marketing. Check out Yes on TVD on June
Speaker 3: ninth if you're into that from Keno. Next up last
Speaker 3: year's Kiss of the Spider Woman. Are you Are you
Speaker 3: into musicals?
Speaker 5: I can be.
Speaker 6: I'm against them, you know, I mean, I'll watch them,
Speaker 6: but I don't you know, I don't automatically seek them out,
Speaker 6: but I don't avoid them either.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw this one last year. This is coming
Speaker 3: on June thirtieth on four K from Keno. This was
Speaker 3: kind of a shock that they announced this one. Did
Speaker 3: not expect it. This will have Dolby Vision and it
Speaker 3: will have Dolby Atmos audio. We'll have a commentary by
Speaker 3: Bill Condon, the director. Deleted scene and a teaser and trailer.
Speaker 3: Fairly good movie. I thought it was really well acted,
Speaker 3: especially by Diego Luna and Tona Tuya who's also in this.
Speaker 3: Jennifer Lopez taking a leaver not big for me, but
Speaker 3: it was a fairly decent movie. I still have not
Speaker 3: seen the original, so I can't really speak much on
Speaker 3: that next up one that I am dying to see.
Speaker 3: In HD June twenty third, we're getting number fifty, number
Speaker 3: fifty and the Keno cult line already, and that's Hell's Highway,
Speaker 3: The True Story of Highway Safety Films. I cannot wait
Speaker 3: because I feel like this is right up your alley, Scott,
Speaker 3: is this something you're interested in?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 6: I would totally I think I just saw this yesterday,
Speaker 6: but yeah, this is definitely something I would check out too.
Speaker 3: So this has the two thousand and three documentary Hell's
Speaker 3: Highway The True Story of Highway Safety Films. But for
Speaker 3: a lot of people, the reason to get this is
Speaker 3: to a company that they also have three three different
Speaker 3: drivers ed films here that have all been restored. They've
Speaker 3: got mechanized death, wheels of tragedy and highways of agony.
Speaker 3: Love that they're doing this the documentary as a commentary
Speaker 3: with writer director Brett Wood. We've got the complete two
Speaker 3: thousand and three pre restoration version, trailers, deleted scenes, lots
Speaker 3: of stuff here. I love that somebody other than AGFA
Speaker 3: is putting time and energy into stuff like this, and
Speaker 3: I've only ever heard complete like adoration for the people
Speaker 3: that love these.
Speaker 6: Things on The Simpsons when Phil Hartman played Troy McClure
Speaker 6: in one of his appearances, was you might remember me
Speaker 6: from such educational videos as Alice's Adventures through the Windshield Glass.
Speaker 4: Yep, that was one of them.
Speaker 3: Absolutely perfect. Yeah, cannot wait to get this. This sounds
Speaker 3: very exciting. Glad it's coming out June twenty third Blu
Speaker 3: Ray and then the next one June thirtieth. We are
Speaker 3: getting number fifty one in the Keno cult line. And
Speaker 3: this is nineteen eighty nine's Matinee. No, not Joe Dante's Mattinee.
Speaker 3: This one is very interesting. I don't believe this has
Speaker 3: had any release in the US, let alone HD or
Speaker 3: anything like that. This is a nineteen eighty nine meta
Speaker 3: slasher on the tradition of Fade to Black and popcorn.
Speaker 3: Mattinee opens with a savage stabbing at a small town cinema,
Speaker 3: forcing its closure. After two years, the case has gone
Speaker 3: cold and the Paramount Theater is allowed to reopen, but
Speaker 3: as the lights go down, tensions rise and the Houston
Speaker 3: Horror Film Festival once again becomes a deranged Killers cinematic
Speaker 3: stocking ground. Let's have an audio commentary by Jason Bachonsky
Speaker 3: and Paul Carupe, which means it's a connexploitation film. Very
Speaker 3: eager to see this one. Love that they're doing this.
Speaker 3: We've got Don S. Davis from Twin Peaks in this.
Speaker 3: We've got William B. Davis from X Files, he played
Speaker 3: the smoking Man. Yeah, die to see this. This sounds
Speaker 3: pretty dang fun. Next up, a name you will recognize,
Speaker 3: Rugierio Dia Dado's Waves of Lust from nineteen seventy five
Speaker 3: gets its first Blu ray release from Rarero Video on
Speaker 3: June sixteenth. This will have an audio commentary by Adrian
Speaker 3: Smith and Rod Barnett, deleted scenes making of doc called
Speaker 3: Irotic Tsunami, and TV commercials directed buying commented on by
Speaker 3: Rugerio Diadado. Are you a Dia Dado fan at all?
Speaker 4: It's again also a big gap in my movie going.
Speaker 6: But I've but I've actually been doing the layout for
Speaker 6: all the RaRo titles, so this is actually one of mine.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: I just will say the image was very low res
Speaker 6: and required a lot of work, and the title I
Speaker 6: always try to match the original font when I can.
Speaker 6: But the yeah, this one's one of mine. They're all
Speaker 6: pretty I actually just got a new RaRo title today
Speaker 6: to work on. But yeah, they're all pretty simple. They
Speaker 6: kind of come in on a semi regular basis, I bet. Yeah,
Speaker 6: a lot of most of the titles though, were again
Speaker 6: just another but again it's i'll watch it one days,
Speaker 6: it'll be new to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to ask, and maybe you don't want
Speaker 3: to say publicly.
Speaker 5: They do.
Speaker 3: They give you contributor copies when you do layout for
Speaker 3: something like this for Keto and Rero.
Speaker 4: I haven't gotten any of these. Some labels do, some don't.
Speaker 6: I don't complain, you know, it is what it is
Speaker 6: that No, I haven't received any of these.
Speaker 3: Actually understandable. I wish they would all right. Next up
Speaker 3: from Cohen Media Group Eagles of the Republic from twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, getting a Blu ray on June twenty third.
Speaker 3: This says Egypt's most adored actor, George Fami is pressured
Speaker 3: to star in a film commission by the highest authorities.
Speaker 3: He reluctantly accepts the role and finds himself thrown in
Speaker 3: the inner circle of power like a moth. Drawn to
Speaker 3: the flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious why
Speaker 3: for the general overseeing the film Cohen Media Group. For
Speaker 3: those that have never checked out anything from them, quite often,
Speaker 3: they're they're pretty great. They kind of quietly just release
Speaker 3: a lot of really good movies. I am always pretty impressed.
Speaker 3: This one sounds kind of interesting. Definitely an international film
Speaker 3: I'd love to see.
Speaker 6: I did a couple posters for Cohen actually a couple
Speaker 6: years ago, but I think one they didn't use, and
Speaker 6: then the other I sent them my files, and you know,
Speaker 6: they were great to work with, but I don't know
Speaker 6: what happened with the movie.
Speaker 4: And then I'm in Barnes and.
Speaker 6: Noble one day and it's like, oh, there it is,
Speaker 6: so you know, both international shelms. But you know, like
Speaker 6: you said, you know, sometimes these things take a while
Speaker 6: or they just disappear and then suddenly reappear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely agreed there. Then next Cohen Media putting out
Speaker 3: their second four K and this is the film Maurice
Speaker 3: from nineteen eighty seven. This is another merchant Ivory film.
Speaker 3: It's got an audio commentary by Wade Major and Joseph Bristow,
Speaker 3: Distinguished Professor of English from UCLA. This is also going
Speaker 3: to have James Ivory and Pierre Lom on the making
Speaker 3: of Maurice, Q and A with James Ivory and Pierre
Speaker 3: lom We got a conversation between James Ivory and the
Speaker 3: director Tom McCarthy, story of Maurice, conversation with the filmmakers,
Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff on here. I've not seen this one.
Speaker 3: It's a James Wilby and Hugh Grant starred films. I've
Speaker 3: heard this is beautiful. Have you seen this one?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't.
Speaker 3: I need to see it. From what I hear it, it
Speaker 3: will look amazing in four K. This one another one
Speaker 3: I'm dying to see. Milestone on June sixteenth, releasing Queen
Speaker 3: Kelly from nineteen twenty nine. Now, this one is a
Speaker 3: fascinating till because this was commissioned for nineteen twenty nine,
Speaker 3: and I am dying to see this one because while
Speaker 3: it was commissioned for nineteen twenty nine, it was never
Speaker 3: finished and then later on it has been reconstructed, and
Speaker 3: the whole story of that just sounds fascinating. Technically, I
Speaker 3: believe it is nineteen twenty nine, but also a nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty two film because of how they had to rebuild
Speaker 3: everything essentially after they weren't able to do the ending
Speaker 3: on this one. There's multiple audio comment or sorry, one
Speaker 3: audio commentary on here. Audio clips from a couple of
Speaker 3: people involved with it. Outtakes, with optional commentary by the
Speaker 3: film history in Richard Kazarski, and then an intro by
Speaker 3: Glorious Swanson. Do you know anything about Queen Kelly?
Speaker 4: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: I've actually worked on a couple of Milestone titles for Keino,
Speaker 6: not this one, but yeah, I am not familiar.
Speaker 4: I am big in this art nouveau style artwork.
Speaker 3: Though, Yeah, very classic type of poster. What titles have
Speaker 3: you worked on for Milestone? They do a lot of
Speaker 3: really good stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, I just did not. Oh, the double feature of
Speaker 4: Grass and Chang.
Speaker 3: That's when I had my eyes on Nice.
Speaker 6: Worked on that one, and I think I only did
Speaker 6: one more South, a documentary about the Shackleton Expedition. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: it looks like those are the only two for now.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. To go on from merchant Ivory in
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty nine to the cinematic classic of Leprechaun from
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two or three depending on where you saw it.
Speaker 3: Lionsgate Limited is putting out a replacement disc for the
Speaker 3: four K, now that in itself is not super uncommon,
Speaker 3: but really just wanted to highlight the saga of what
Speaker 3: happened on this replacement disc. We had some people complain
Speaker 3: that a lot of the tinting in the film on
Speaker 3: their four K release was bad, just playing yellow. Jennifer
Speaker 3: Aniston supposedly looked very jaundiced. I didn't purchase this, so
Speaker 3: I have not seen the disc, But Lionsgate updated their
Speaker 3: listing for that and said, well, this was approved by
Speaker 3: the director late last fall, and of course if you
Speaker 3: pay attention to this, Mark Jones, the director passed away
Speaker 3: just a few months ago, so there was no way
Speaker 3: that we could argue with that because Mark is now gone.
Speaker 3: And then after a lot more feedback, they came back
Speaker 3: and said, Okay, it's actually wrong. Now we're going to
Speaker 3: do a replacement disk. So just kind of a weird,
Speaker 3: messed up situation to essentially blame a dead guy for
Speaker 3: a mistake and then go back on it. They are
Speaker 3: sending it automatically for everybody. You don't need to worry
Speaker 3: about ordering a replacement disk because it was a side exclusive.
Speaker 3: They know everybody that bought it, So just keep an
Speaker 3: eye on your mailbox. There will be one coming. Are
Speaker 3: you Are you a big Leprechaun fan?
Speaker 4: I haven't watched them yet. One day when it's fixed.
Speaker 3: How do you feel, I'm just as an art designer.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about this cover? Do you see
Speaker 3: what they were going for here? Because the Leprechaun's behind it,
Speaker 3: and the coins is meant to look like a face smiling,
Speaker 3: and it's not like unless you squint and close one eye,
Speaker 3: it's kind of rough to even see the shape of
Speaker 3: the face.
Speaker 6: I mean, I see it right, I mean it's even
Speaker 6: actually more prominent in the smaller thumbnail than the corner
Speaker 6: of the screen.
Speaker 4: You know. I never want to bad mouth you know,
Speaker 4: I mean I don't.
Speaker 6: It's fine. And again I haven't seen the film. I'm
Speaker 6: always more of a stickler. I always try to avoid
Speaker 6: drop shadows when I can, so seeing the shadow with
Speaker 6: like under the title, it's like that's something that always
Speaker 6: gets me. Not specific here, but.
Speaker 4: No, I get I see what they were doing. You know.
Speaker 6: It's also the kind of thing where someone might say, oh,
Speaker 6: it's not obvious enough, you know, keep going and then
Speaker 6: pull back and again, no offense to anyone, you know,
Speaker 6: I like it, but yeah, it's you know, but you
Speaker 6: you know, fans of the film would probably have a better,
Speaker 6: better thoughts or an opinion.
Speaker 3: I'm that, yeah, and I agree with you. Like when
Speaker 3: I look down the corner of my screen for what
Speaker 3: I'm sharing, it does look like it looks like a mask, genuinely,
Speaker 3: But when it's just big in the screen like that
Speaker 3: and you see the whole thing, good gosh, it's not
Speaker 3: super apparent anyways.
Speaker 6: But I also get and this isn't specific to this,
Speaker 6: you know, it's like too many gags in one image.
Speaker 6: So you have the coins in the foreground making a
Speaker 6: leprechaun face, but then you have the character in the background,
Speaker 6: and I'm wondering if at some point someone asked, is
Speaker 6: that too much?
Speaker 4: Is it like a joke?
Speaker 6: Like a joke on a joke almost? And can we
Speaker 6: get away with just one thing instead of both? Since
Speaker 6: that's something I always deal with, like, well, we have
Speaker 6: the skimni key here and this, you know, just when
Speaker 6: doesn't become too much? And you know, where does the
Speaker 6: person's attention go?
Speaker 3: And all that The big thing is Lion's Gate is
Speaker 3: big on their gimmicks, and this is the slip cover
Speaker 3: for the steel book, so you slip off the gold
Speaker 3: and the Leprechaun behind it is left on the steel book.
Speaker 6: So I mean, I mean, I would love to work
Speaker 6: for lion you know, designed for lions Gate at some
Speaker 6: point too. But having actually now hearing having you said that,
Speaker 6: hearing you say that, it's like, Okay, I get it,
Speaker 6: you know, I get what.
Speaker 3: They were going for. Oh yeah, next up, not really
Speaker 3: my thing, but Sailor Moon Crystal Collection is coming out
Speaker 3: on June ninth on Blu Ray. Now, as far as
Speaker 3: I'm aware, this is not the complete collection because it
Speaker 3: doesn't have I think the movies if I'm remembering right,
Speaker 3: I don't know much about Sailor Moon. Are you a
Speaker 3: diehard Sailor Moon fan?
Speaker 4: The girl I had a crush on in high school?
Speaker 3: Wise, full circle, Glad that you had that experience. Hey,
Speaker 3: the brand new issue of my magazine, The Physical Media
Speaker 3: Advocate is out now. You can check this out on
Speaker 3: Amazon or in gosh, like twenty plus stores now and
Speaker 3: we're in four countries, which is weird to say that
Speaker 3: you can pick it up in store in four different countries.
Speaker 3: Frank Zapp on the cover. It's a great issue. I
Speaker 3: recapp True Falls Film Festival. We talked about Massia of Evil,
Speaker 3: big piece from Justin beam On, George buck Flower in here.
Speaker 3: Check it out. It's a great one. Wow, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of self promotion. I was also on an Issue
Speaker 3: or Not an Issue, an episode of the Vegan Satanist
Speaker 3: podcast this week with Laurent Omanzike from Germany. Normally I
Speaker 3: wouldn't promote just a little podcast appearance all that much,
Speaker 3: but I'm gotten. I've gotten a lot of messages saying
Speaker 3: this was kind of an important episode, so check it
Speaker 3: out if you're keen on it. We go into a
Speaker 3: lot about like the the therapeutic sides of physical media
Speaker 3: and collecting and finding a community in this sort of thing,
Speaker 3: which is why I am really kind of doing everything
Speaker 3: that I'm doing. So check this out if it's something
Speaker 3: that you'd like to hear about. Laurent is incredible, and
Speaker 3: his work with like tracking down films to take them
Speaker 3: to literally the top portions of the government in Germany
Speaker 3: to petition them to be able to play in Germany
Speaker 3: is to be commended far more than I can ever
Speaker 3: give him credit for but check it out. It's a
Speaker 3: great issue. I said issue again talking about a magazine.
Speaker 3: It's an episode. It's fantastic. Will Go USA is putting
Speaker 3: out a film called The Ugly from last year on
Speaker 3: May twenty sixth on Blu Ray DVD, and I've heard this.
Speaker 3: This is rather good. I'm dying to see this one.
Speaker 3: This has a trailer on there and it says from
Speaker 3: director Yong Saying Ho, who also did Train to Busan
Speaker 3: comes a story of generational grief and guilt. While overseeing
Speaker 3: a documentary crew filming his blind father at work in
Speaker 3: Don Juan gets a phone call that is missing mother's
Speaker 3: remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find
Speaker 3: the truth of her disappearance, Don Juan embarks on a
Speaker 3: twisted odyssey through his family's traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets
Speaker 3: along the way. Are you are you paying attention to
Speaker 3: any modern Asian films like this?
Speaker 6: I'm not really I am digging this cover art though,
Speaker 6: like that's the kind of stark minimalism that I strive for.
Speaker 4: I must confess.
Speaker 3: I'm really not, though understandable completely get it. I need
Speaker 3: to see this. I really love Training to Bussan. Did
Speaker 3: you ever see that one?
Speaker 4: I still haven't.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, got to check it out. It's pretty great,
Speaker 3: all right. The weekend we got new releases from Air
Speaker 3: forty four forty four. These are gonna be shipping in
Speaker 3: either June or July. This first one is City Warriors
Speaker 3: from nineteen eighty eight, and it says an ex soldier
Speaker 3: from mainland China arrives in Hong Kong and uses the
Speaker 3: cover of a tour bus led by a cheerful tour
Speaker 3: guide to look for as a strange sister. Little does
Speaker 3: he know his sister has been forced into prostitution by
Speaker 3: the very man she married. This will have a brand
Speaker 3: new two K restoration. It will have the two K
Speaker 3: uncut Cantonese with SD shot inserts, two K Mandarin cut
Speaker 3: with alternate sequences, new interview with the action director, new
Speaker 3: visual essay by Invincible Asia. New audio commentary with Kenneth
Speaker 3: Brorson and Phil Gillen of the podcast on Fire Network.
Speaker 3: It will have the Cantonese and Mandarin dub audio and
Speaker 3: English and Chinese subtitles. Limited to two thousand units. We
Speaker 3: got a double sided slipcover a book with an essay
Speaker 3: by Tom Cunliffe and three stickers with new art by
Speaker 3: Justin Coffee. Have you checked out anything from Air forty four.
Speaker 6: I haven't, although every time they make an announcement, it's
Speaker 6: just God. I want to work for these people when
Speaker 6: they design something. I mean, I can't do this, but
Speaker 6: you know, I'm sure I could be of service to them.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm always whenever I do a shameless self
Speaker 6: promotion post on social media, which I hate doing, I
Speaker 6: always try to tag them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can try to nudge them towards you. They
Speaker 3: are great people. I really appreciate what they're doing. And
Speaker 3: speaking of that, this next one also is in line
Speaker 3: with that Kung Fu Student from nineteen eighty nine. This
Speaker 3: one looks just crazy. I believe this is the first
Speaker 3: time any of these directors' films have been on Blu
Speaker 3: Ray anywhere in the world. If I think I'm right
Speaker 3: on that, I need to look it up again. But
Speaker 3: this is about a down under luck college student with
Speaker 3: dreams of becoming a as bad ass as Arlod Schwarzenegger
Speaker 3: and the Terminator or Servester Stallone and Rambo. Soon, her
Speaker 3: life takes a turn when she inadvertently blocks the reenc
Speaker 3: nation attempt of a ghostly gangster. Taiwanese action star Alexander
Speaker 3: low Ray is that gangster. Now stuck together, they must
Speaker 3: learn to work as one to kick ass and get
Speaker 3: revenge on the gang members who murdered him. This is
Speaker 3: a Taiwanese action comedy gem. This will have a new
Speaker 3: two K restoration, new interview with the actress from it,
Speaker 3: new visual essay by a friend of the show, Michelle Kisner.
Speaker 3: The audio commentary with Justin d'clue and Dylan Chung. We
Speaker 3: got Mandarin, audio, English and Chinese subtitles on this one.
Speaker 3: A double sided slipcover, a book with an essay by
Speaker 3: doctor Mighe Ronsley, three stickers with new art by Michael Deforge.
Speaker 3: And yeah, this looks really fun. I'm very curious to
Speaker 3: see this one. The art on here is going to
Speaker 3: be divisive. I can just tell right now a lot
Speaker 3: of people don't like that style. It looks fun. I'm
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 4: It's definitely the kind of release where.
Speaker 6: You know, if I got a title like this from
Speaker 6: Arrow to work on where the essay, you know, reading
Speaker 6: the essays like is an educationational experience because you know,
Speaker 6: because a lot of it. You know, a lot of
Speaker 6: gaps in my film watching experience, so you know when
Speaker 6: I get you know, like certain Asian titles for instance,
Speaker 6: from Arrow, you know, I devour those essays just as
Speaker 6: a perspective fan, you know, you learn something.
Speaker 3: Of course, I am all about it.
Speaker 7: God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we probably could just gone over like favorite booklets
Speaker 3: instead of audio commentaries, but maybe next time.
Speaker 6: Well, my I will say real quick, my favorite one
Speaker 6: of my favorite essays for that I've done with Arrow
Speaker 6: is for Warning from Space. There's an essay in that
Speaker 6: booklet about the dubbing process, which is just the kind
Speaker 6: of degree that I'm into. Like, that's still I mean
Speaker 6: that one came out like five years ago and it's
Speaker 6: still when I talk about, like, you know, we need
Speaker 6: to strive for this.
Speaker 3: Absolutely all right, I said I was gonna be talking
Speaker 3: about Beth Morris again. This is the official reveal of
Speaker 3: a Beth Morris design poster for Antenna. This is our film,
Speaker 3: The Man Whom the Trees Loved. It is going to
Speaker 3: be premiering at the Florida Film Festival here in the
Speaker 3: next couple of weeks. The trailer was just revealed on
Speaker 3: YouTube as well. I'm gonna pull that up and play
Speaker 3: that as part of the show later on tonight, because
Speaker 3: I think more people should see it. It is a
Speaker 3: really great trailer. Beth crushed it with this cover. I
Speaker 3: am so stoked on this. For those that have not
Speaker 3: heard me talk about this before, this is based on
Speaker 3: the Algren On Blackwood short story called The Man Whom
Speaker 3: the Trees Loved And with the design, we really wanted
Speaker 3: this to look like it was popping off of a
Speaker 3: page of a book, so the border of it is
Speaker 3: meant to look like it's actually from a novel. It
Speaker 3: is such a really great design, and when you see
Speaker 3: the trailer, hopefully you get the feeling that the film
Speaker 3: is really trying to capture a little bit more.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll show that trailer in a little bit, but
Speaker 3: if you're in Florida, please consider going to see the premiere.
Speaker 3: It looks like a great time. I don't want to
Speaker 3: put you on the spot, but any thoughts on this
Speaker 3: Beth Morris poster. I'd love to hear what you think.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 6: I you know when I saw you know, because you
Speaker 6: know you hired me to do a poster that you
Speaker 6: know we're not doing that documentary. You know, it's kind
Speaker 6: of wondering, you know, what's going to be first out
Speaker 6: of the gate, so to speak. And you know it's
Speaker 6: always nice when always nice to see it, you know, friend,
Speaker 6: get you know the gig and no, that does good work.
Speaker 3: I agree, she does just excellent work. Next, this is
Speaker 3: another one of those frustrating situations. Warner Brothers at some
Speaker 3: point this year is releasing Mars Attacks on four K.
Speaker 3: You're expected if you really want this to pre order
Speaker 3: the steel book even though there's no art. You can
Speaker 3: pre order a collector's edition from the UK, even though
Speaker 3: there's no art and no thoughts on special features. Who
Speaker 3: knows what it's going to have with it, but check
Speaker 3: it out if you want to spend anywhere from fifty
Speaker 3: to seventy dollars on a collector's edition. I'm sure that
Speaker 3: you feel the same as me. Any thoughts on why
Speaker 3: they wouldn't release art super soon.
Speaker 4: Well I assume.
Speaker 6: I mean they've been doing this, you know, for the
Speaker 6: last year, just with this Placehold art and with Warner Brothers,
Speaker 6: you know, artwork wise, it could go either way, to
Speaker 6: be honest, but I'm just genuinely surprised they're doing this
Speaker 6: themselves instead of licensing it to Arrow so I can
Speaker 6: work on it. But it's and it's definitely I'm a
Speaker 6: huge Burton fan, but it's definitely a movie I wish
Speaker 6: I liked more than I do.
Speaker 3: I just wish we were able to get a four
Speaker 3: kividwood instead, but that will likely never happen, all right.
Speaker 3: Next up, Unearthed Films on July fourteenth is releasing Tetsuo
Speaker 3: the Bullet Man, not Tetsuoo the Iron Man. This I
Speaker 3: believe is the third film in the Tetsuo saga. This
Speaker 3: is the first English friendly Blu Ray release of this,
Speaker 3: I believe. We got an audio commentary on here with
Speaker 3: the actor Eric Bossik and Japanese cinema expert Tom mess
Speaker 3: We got a multi material version of Tetsweel the Bullet Man,
Speaker 3: photo gallery and trailers. You have you ever seen Tetsweel
Speaker 3: the Iron Man?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I have not understandable. I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: have not seen it. Totally fine. Next up is a
Speaker 3: Xiangya Mao film that is Red Sorghum coming to Blue
Speaker 3: Fray Blu Ray from Media OCD Officials Whole Grain Pictures Line.
Speaker 3: This is from nineteen eighty eight. This is the gong
Speaker 3: Lee film. This will have a visual essay by Jonathan
Speaker 3: Clement's interview with Tony Rains and a trailer. I still
Speaker 3: think it's quite odd that they are releasing this. I
Speaker 3: really expected somebody like Criterion or even like a Cohen
Speaker 3: Media to pick up the Jenga Mao films in the US.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm I'm just looking at the artwork and
Speaker 6: again might drop shadows my pet pee for some reason.
Speaker 6: And it looks like a screenshot. And as someone who
Speaker 6: does this a lot, often you only have screenshots to
Speaker 6: work with, so it's always a case of, you know,
Speaker 6: making it look good and what can you add to it?
Speaker 6: And I mean, I think this one looks fine, but
Speaker 6: you know that's always you know, the work I do
Speaker 6: for shameless films. That's often the challenges here, the pin
Speaker 6: ADP screenshots go and do the mis you can, just
Speaker 6: trying to make them look as good and appealing as
Speaker 6: you can.
Speaker 4: But I'm digging this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, I love that we're following up Jangya Mao
Speaker 3: with Rise of the Super Trummets. July fourteenth, Work Trauma
Speaker 3: is releasing Rise of the Super Trumets. This is from
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five and it says a mysterious virus is
Speaker 3: infecting the men of Trumaville. It's up to the female
Speaker 3: of the Gelante team known as the Super Trumets, to
Speaker 3: unite and tackle this threat. This is going already for
Speaker 3: like thirteen dollars on Blu Ray or something like that,
Speaker 3: so it's got to be a Trauma masterpiece from Trauma.
Speaker 3: They are also releasing Sugar Cookies on Blu Ray, which
Speaker 3: is kind of odd because the Vinegar Syndrome Blu ray
Speaker 3: is still available on their site. I believe it is
Speaker 3: going out of print, but this is coming on July fourteenth.
Speaker 3: You can check that out now. I don't believe any
Speaker 3: of these are new extras. They're all from the Vinegar
Speaker 3: Cinerama release or even earlier. But glad the movie will
Speaker 3: still be available for everybody and inexpensive, so that's a
Speaker 3: good thing. Next up, VCI releasing Poverty Row Classics Volume two. Now.
Speaker 3: A few months ago we had talked about this, but
Speaker 3: they have since updated the release of this. It was
Speaker 3: supposed to come out in May. Now it comes out
Speaker 3: on July fourteenth, and now they've changed the second film,
Speaker 3: so they're putting out East Side Kids from nineteen forty
Speaker 3: and now they're putting out Let's Get Tough, also from
Speaker 3: nineteen forty. They switched out the second title there. Not
Speaker 3: sure why, but hey, something must have happened and here
Speaker 3: we are. Next up Filmmasters on July fourteenth, they're putting
Speaker 3: out nineteen fifties Destination Moon as part of their special
Speaker 3: edition line. This is produced by George Pale and it's
Speaker 3: got restored trailer from a four K scan at full
Speaker 3: length commentary by Justin Humphries. Making of Destination Moon, a
Speaker 3: new documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures. Flight to Mars restored trailer,
Speaker 3: new documentary by bally Who again called Interstellar Travelogs Extended Edition.
Speaker 3: There's an archival doc by bally Who. This is now
Speaker 3: multiple times that they've worked on this film. There's a
Speaker 3: lot here, plus a full color inserted a booklet with
Speaker 3: the new essay by Sloan to Forest. Have you checked
Speaker 3: out much from Filmmasters or seen anything from them?
Speaker 4: No? I haven't, but I'm reading the specs and I
Speaker 4: haven't seen the name.
Speaker 6: The name James van Hyes brings back memories back when
Speaker 6: they used to do all these unauthorized Star Trek like
Speaker 6: episode guides and encyclopedias and things like that, and he
Speaker 6: was all over assuming it's the same guy, like he
Speaker 6: was all over those. I think before Paramount, I think
Speaker 6: they cracked down on them at some point. But no,
Speaker 6: it's definitely this is something I would definitely check out.
Speaker 3: Yeap and explosive Action. You are right they did put
Speaker 3: out Flight to Mars. I believe that was when they
Speaker 3: were still the film detective and became the filmmasters. So
Speaker 3: this is more of like a cobbling together sort of things.
Speaker 3: But it's a double feed here. It'll be reasonably reasonably
Speaker 3: so that's a good thing. Next up, a film I
Speaker 3: had heard is great. I need to see this than
Speaker 3: Napa Boys from last year's Coming to Blu Ray from
Speaker 3: Magnolia on May nineteenth. Is supposed to be pretty damn funny.
Speaker 3: It has no extras on the disc, but looks like
Speaker 3: a great time. Check out the trailer to see if
Speaker 3: it's your type of comedy. Next, Invasion USA from nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty five. This already has a four K in the US,
Speaker 3: but it is getting a re released Blu ray over
Speaker 3: in the UK on June twenty ninth. From Final Cut Entertainment.
Speaker 3: Is that good news? Well, it'll be in print, sure,
Speaker 3: but this was previously done by eighty eight Films in
Speaker 3: the UK, and this is not going to be an
Speaker 3: upgrade in any way. In fact, Final Cut is known
Speaker 3: for pretty bad discs, so just more more awareness. I
Speaker 3: guess that they're releasing this, I would hardly recommend. If
Speaker 3: you love this or Chuck Norris, I definitely recommend the
Speaker 3: Vinegar SYONDRM release of this film.
Speaker 6: I just hear Chuck Norris's name and I think of
Speaker 6: Joe Piscopo and Sidecar Chuck Norris.
Speaker 3: And yeah, this cover is not super appealing either. All right,
Speaker 3: next up, this is funny enough, a very small film
Speaker 3: in the grand scheme of things this week, but a
Speaker 3: fairly large deal for people that love this sort of thing.
Speaker 3: May twenty sixth, Cape Light and MPI are releasing The
Speaker 3: Round Up Outlaws from twenty seventeen. If you recognize this
Speaker 3: guy on the cover, that is Don Lee. And this
Speaker 3: is a big deal because this is the first of
Speaker 3: the round Up films. Technically, when this was released, it
Speaker 3: was not called The round Up. I believe it was
Speaker 3: just called The Outlaws. But this has never had a
Speaker 3: US Blu Ray release. So this is a big deal.
Speaker 3: This is one. I believe they've made four of these
Speaker 3: films now, and this is the first time that the
Speaker 3: first one is being released on HD here in the US.
Speaker 3: So check this out if you are keen on Asian action.
Speaker 3: I'm dying to pick this up. Glad that they're doing
Speaker 3: it here. I need this. Josh fact check me if
Speaker 3: you need to. I hope everything I just said was right.
Speaker 3: I believe that there are four and I believe this
Speaker 3: is the first time US has gotten a Blu Ray
Speaker 3: release of this, So check it out. Josh said he
Speaker 3: had to import a Korean Blu ray of this film. Yikes.
Speaker 3: Now it is here and you can probably get it
Speaker 3: for less than twenty three dollars. Next, Magnolia on May
Speaker 3: twenty sixth is releasing Heal from last year. Now what's
Speaker 3: interesting is over in the UK. This was previously titled
Speaker 3: good Boy, and of course the pov Dog horror film
Speaker 3: from last year was also called good Boy, so they
Speaker 3: changed the title of this film to Heal. This is
Speaker 3: from Jan Kamasa. It's a twisted thriller that follows nineteen
Speaker 3: year old hooligan Tommy played by Anson Boone, who revels
Speaker 3: in a life of drugs, parties, and violence. One night,
Speaker 3: on a bender with his reckless friends, he becomes separated
Speaker 3: from the group and is abducted by an unknown figure
Speaker 3: played by Stephen Graham. I've heard this great. I need
Speaker 3: to see this movie. No extras on here. It also
Speaker 3: has Andrea Risebro who's kind of amazing and everything that
Speaker 3: she does. Yeah, he'll have you seen this one?
Speaker 4: No? I haven't.
Speaker 3: Me neither dying too. This looks so fun, all right.
Speaker 3: The show Dark Wind season four is getting an AMC
Speaker 3: Blu ray on June sixteenth. This will have a handful
Speaker 3: of special features, just some small featurettes. I have never
Speaker 3: seen even a second of this film or this show.
Speaker 3: If you're into it, I'm glad it's still getting Blu
Speaker 3: ray release.
Speaker 6: My dad watches it, actually nice, nice. It's one of
Speaker 6: the few new shows he does watch. But no, he's
Speaker 6: a fan.
Speaker 3: I have heard from people that love it that they
Speaker 3: really love it, so they must have a very strong
Speaker 3: fan base of this one, all right. Next up, wanted
Speaker 3: to shout out an event coming up. Silk Screams is
Speaker 3: presenting the Buffalo Oh Horror Garage Sale May thirtieth and
Speaker 3: thirty first in Buffalo, New York. Two days all horror.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be celebrities, vendors, panels, and movies. They've got
Speaker 3: eighty plus vendors selling nothing but horror items, and they
Speaker 3: have cast members from movies like Franken Hooker, Basket Case,
Speaker 3: Brain Damage, The Stepfather, Popcorn, Class of eighty four, Deadly Eyes,
Speaker 3: and more. Lots of free parking here. The best part
Speaker 3: about this entire event. If you go for one day
Speaker 3: ticket to get in only five bucks. If you get
Speaker 3: a ticket for the whole weekend, it's a whole eight dollars.
Speaker 3: What kind of event is only charging five or eight
Speaker 3: dollars in twenty twenty six to get in. Pretty decent
Speaker 3: names here too. We got Frank Cannon, Lauder, Patty Mullen,
Speaker 3: Jill Sholin, Chris la Martin, La Martina from WNUF Halloween.
Speaker 3: The director is going to be there. If you're into
Speaker 3: Blu Rays, like pretty much everybody watching this is, you
Speaker 3: can check out Art Eddinger, who's really great at what
Speaker 3: he does. Even Michael Felscher's gonna be in there. Check
Speaker 3: it out. Go up there if you are anywhere close
Speaker 3: it seems like a good time and for five bucks,
Speaker 3: I mean, can't really go wrong there. We got some
Speaker 3: details on eighty eight film's release of Rounders. This is
Speaker 3: coming to Blu ray on May eleventh. This is still
Speaker 3: only a Blu ray. A lot of people complaining this
Speaker 3: is not four K, but all the extras on here.
Speaker 3: We get an audio commentary with John Dall and some
Speaker 3: of the screenwriters, and Edward Norton commentary with a handful
Speaker 3: of professional poker players including Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth and
Speaker 3: Chris Moneymaker and Chris Ferguson. An interview with David Levin
Speaker 3: and Brian Kopeleman. Buying the Scenes featurette Inside Professional Poker featurette.
Speaker 3: Are you a Rounders fan again? This one?
Speaker 6: It's been a long time, but I certainly recognize. I
Speaker 6: think that's Tommy Pocket's artwork, which I recognized from a
Speaker 6: mile away.
Speaker 3: I really like this art and I got a lot
Speaker 3: of complaints when I posted this today. I don't know
Speaker 3: something about it just appeals to me.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, Thomas Walker. No, I'm thinking it too.
Speaker 6: I like the color scheme. But yes, for the movie,
Speaker 6: it's been a long time.
Speaker 3: Same I've not seen it in ages. Then we've got
Speaker 3: he Man and She Rah the Ultimate Collection, coming to
Speaker 3: DVD only on May twenty sixth. I believe this has
Speaker 3: all of the legacy features that were on the previous
Speaker 3: releases and really not much of anything else. I think
Speaker 3: the biggest thing is that they are all bundled together,
Speaker 3: and I don't think that had happened previously. And so
Speaker 3: if you're into these or you want to be able
Speaker 3: to capture them in the biggest collection, this might be
Speaker 3: the way to do that. They're clearly timing this to
Speaker 3: come out with the Masters of the Universe remake that's
Speaker 3: coming out later this year. Are you, I mean, knowing
Speaker 3: your age, I feel like these would be tailor made
Speaker 3: for you or you into.
Speaker 4: This, you know, I'm sure I see.
Speaker 6: I watched a few, but it wasn't part of my regular,
Speaker 6: you know, Saturday morning, which is why I also always
Speaker 6: laugh when I watch Ghostbusters two, the opening party scene
Speaker 6: when the kids, like I thought it was going to
Speaker 6: be he Man, Yeah, I would have been teen Ghostbusters,
Speaker 6: but yeah, I would have seen a few.
Speaker 4: It just wasn't, yep, really that big part of my childhood.
Speaker 3: I agree, And yeah, that's that's it. For announcements for
Speaker 3: this week, just a reminder of what's coming out next
Speaker 3: week in case you forgot. We've got the Life of
Speaker 3: Brian four K from Criterion, The Phantom four K from Keno,
Speaker 3: Lrber Runaway Train four K from Keno, Trouble in Paradise
Speaker 3: four K from Criterion, Remo Williams on four K from Keno,
Speaker 3: That Becoming led Zeppelin four K, Steel Book is coming out,
Speaker 3: Hearts of Darkness, the Making of the Final Friday coming
Speaker 3: from Red Shirt Pictures, Meet the Fokkers four K, Death
Speaker 3: Ship four K from Keno, Euphoria four K from Keno
Speaker 3: as well, Groove from two thousand getting a four K.
Speaker 3: We've got a couple other smaller titles, like a Traveler's
Speaker 3: Needs from Cinema Guild. I've heard that I need to
Speaker 3: see that one team in from I believe that one
Speaker 3: is a Kenot release. We've got Midwinter Break coming next
Speaker 3: week as well. Well. And that's about it. Any of
Speaker 3: these titles that you're after soon. I know I need
Speaker 3: a Life of Brian.
Speaker 6: Soon, maybe Remo Williams definitely not Fokker's, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: Same.
Speaker 3: I've never even meet the parents. I've never been into
Speaker 3: any of those for some reason.
Speaker 4: I like the first one didn't finish, the second one
Speaker 4: never watched. The third one.
Speaker 3: I keep forgetting that there was what was that little
Speaker 3: Foker's was that the third one? Yikes? All right, before
Speaker 3: we go into our audio commentary conversation, here is really
Speaker 3: quick that trailer for the Man Whom the Trees Loved.
Speaker 3: Let me make this full screen for everybody, gonna play
Speaker 3: the audio with it and everything. Here we go.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 7: Hm.
Speaker 8: How was.
Speaker 7: I for walking the wits?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 5: I don't really know how to scrap it. It's like
Speaker 5: I felt like you will dancy that one feeling more magical.
Speaker 7: Feeling.
Speaker 5: All the trees are like connected and interlace and that
Speaker 5: sounds kind of funny, but it's kind of like they're
Speaker 5: all talking to you.
Speaker 7: So fol.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember last time I felt that inspired. That
Speaker 7: sounds wonder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, check that out at Florida Film Festival
Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks. It will be a handful
Speaker 3: of other festivals this year, and then it will come
Speaker 3: to theaters early twenty twenty seven. That's The Man Whom
Speaker 3: the Trees Loved by Tevin Dean and Woodra Flapputka. Great film.
Speaker 3: I hope people love it all right.
Speaker 6: Looks interesting and you know atmosphere, love a movie with atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Lots of atmosphere. And it's a very Florida movie, which
Speaker 3: is why we premiered at the Florida Film Festival. It
Speaker 3: was all shot in Florida. And yeah, I hope people
Speaker 3: love it all right tonight. Audio commentaries, Why why do
Speaker 3: you like audio commentary? Scott?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, to be fair, they're not all created equal.
Speaker 7: So true.
Speaker 4: You know, when I.
Speaker 6: First started buying DVDs, I think I bought my first
Speaker 6: player in ninety eight, it just seemed it was something
Speaker 6: i'd only read about and I was too young to
Speaker 6: get into laser disc and it was like just the
Speaker 6: idea of hearing someone talk over a film about how
Speaker 6: it was made. In fact, it's on the Criterion channel,
Speaker 6: you know, the out of print stuff. I still need
Speaker 6: to check out the King Kong commentary, which was I
Speaker 6: think the first one ever recorded. But yeah, it just
Speaker 6: seemed like one of those cool things. And you know,
Speaker 6: you know, and having always been interested in how movies
Speaker 6: are made, you know, why not.
Speaker 4: But again, some commentaries are.
Speaker 6: Better than others, and the ones that earn my you know,
Speaker 6: it's kind of a mix of informative and funny ones.
Speaker 3: Right. I chose five because we're doing on five of
Speaker 3: our favorites, and I chose five all for different reasons.
Speaker 3: So one of them is specifically because they're super informative,
Speaker 3: but I've got reasons for all of them. I can't
Speaker 3: wait to go into it. Let's hear, what is your
Speaker 3: first one you want to bring up tonight?
Speaker 6: Okay, these are in no particular order, by the way,
Speaker 6: but I will say Star Trek Generations with Ron Moore
Speaker 6: and Brannan Baga, which I think there are a couple
Speaker 6: of bits that were edited on the DVD special edition,
Speaker 6: but if you have the Blu ray and the four K,
Speaker 6: everything's accounted for. But having been a Trek fan since
Speaker 6: I was a kid, since nineteen ninety two, with Next
Speaker 6: Generation and then Deep Space nine, Voyager, et cetera, the
Speaker 6: modern shows some more than others. But this one it's
Speaker 6: super informative, super candid, which I'm surprised, you know some
Speaker 6: of them, you know, not that they say anything horrible,
Speaker 6: but yeah, they talk about not just writing the movie
Speaker 6: but also working on the show, and I think more
Speaker 6: started in season three Braga and four and they were
Speaker 6: writing the series finale all good things kind of at
Speaker 6: the same time as they were writing the movie, and
Speaker 6: they both kind of come to the realization, you know,
Speaker 6: damn it, the finale was better because it was their
Speaker 6: first movie.
Speaker 4: They had all these rules from the studio.
Speaker 6: You know, the original crew can only appear in the opening,
Speaker 6: and you know, I have to have Klingons in it,
Speaker 6: and you know, have some data comic relief and so on.
Speaker 4: They were like, yeah, we spent a year on this movie.
Speaker 4: The finale for the show we wrote in three weeks.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: They talk about some stuff that they were able to do.
Speaker 6: You know, they talk about just you know, certain sci
Speaker 6: fi and Star Trek cliches. You know, how come everyone's
Speaker 6: room on the ship has pictures of space when there's
Speaker 6: a window right there. You know, the idea of having
Speaker 6: a counselor on the bridge, and you know, certain things
Speaker 6: that might they feared would date the show as sort
Speaker 6: of an eighties relic, you know, talking about working with Shatner,
Speaker 6: which was very humbling, I guess, and you know the
Speaker 6: rest of the cast. But no, it's great, very informative,
Speaker 6: and they also did a commentary for First Contact, but
Speaker 6: you know, because Generations had so many more issues with that.
Speaker 4: The one for First Contact.
Speaker 6: Was like, yeah, the movie turned out pretty well. Generations
Speaker 6: is a little more Yeah, we kind of wish we
Speaker 6: could do this again, or you have another.
Speaker 7: Go at it.
Speaker 3: I've not listened to any Star Trek commentaries, but I
Speaker 3: can see why they would. I mean, there's, first off,
Speaker 3: it's one of the most like storiediz as ever. There's
Speaker 3: so much that's been done, so much legacy to talk about,
Speaker 3: so much incredible writing. I imagine a lot of them
Speaker 3: would probably be pretty great.
Speaker 4: Some theres are good, and then the ones with Nicholas Meyer,
Speaker 4: those are pretty good too.
Speaker 3: Sounds fantastic. The first one I wanted to talk about
Speaker 3: is the first one that got me into audio commentaries.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's pretty apt for me. And this
Speaker 3: is not the first one I heard. I had heard
Speaker 3: a few and I was like, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 3: get the appeal, it's just not my thing. And then
Speaker 3: I heard this one and it went into overdrive for me.
Speaker 3: And this is kind of a full circle moment because
Speaker 3: it's somebody that I truly appreciate and admire in the Field.
Speaker 3: It's Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reaes on Last House on
Speaker 3: the Left that was released on Arrow. And this is
Speaker 3: one of those things where it's not a filmmaker that
Speaker 3: was involved in the film, but Bill specifically has worshiped
Speaker 3: Last House on the Left for so long of his life,
Speaker 3: and it was the title that was lived up to
Speaker 3: in multiple ways because when he was a child, he
Speaker 3: wasn't allowed to see it and he was told like, no,
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to see this one specifically, and eventually
Speaker 3: got to see it, and then it became this big thing.
Speaker 3: Then Arrow hired him for this with Amanda, and it
Speaker 3: is so great. It's just one of those things where
Speaker 3: it's like somebody that knows almost as much as you
Speaker 3: could without being directly involved with the film about a film,
Speaker 3: and it's just a complete encyclopedia of what to know
Speaker 3: about it, what to feel about it, the critical analysis
Speaker 3: of it, and it's made so perfectly that it is.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things that was genuinely inspiring for commentaries.
Speaker 3: If you've not heard it, it's quite good. I think
Speaker 3: most people would appreciate it, especially considering what Wes Craven
Speaker 3: became and what that film was at the time and
Speaker 3: what he eventually got into after that. It's still wild
Speaker 3: to me that we get somebody who did Last House
Speaker 3: on the Left, that did things even like Knightmaron Elstree
Speaker 3: like you don't really think crazy, like close to being
Speaker 3: band film to doing like a fairly mainstream slasher and
Speaker 3: starting a franchise, and those together are just so interesting.
Speaker 3: It's obviously it's a very I don't want to say
Speaker 3: troubled film, but it's one of those movies that it's
Speaker 3: it's sensitive for a lot of people. It's got scenes
Speaker 3: in that movie that are hard to watch, and the
Speaker 3: commentary does a really good job in navigating it, and
Speaker 3: I think it did perfectly to balance the education, the
Speaker 3: entertainment and the actual critical analysis which it needed. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's that type of movie that calls.
Speaker 7: For it cool. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I have not seen it or listened to it. But
Speaker 6: my next one, the total opposite of that, Mall Rats
Speaker 6: with Kevin, which I've been a Kevin Smith fan since
Speaker 6: high school a friend of when a friend of mine
Speaker 6: came up to me in the Halloway and said, Hey,
Speaker 6: there's this movie out called Dogma. I think you'd like it.
Speaker 6: And I think Clerks had already been on my radar,
Speaker 6: but you know, watched all of his movies.
Speaker 4: I'm still a fan.
Speaker 6: And yeah, it's just it's Kevin Smith, his producer at
Speaker 6: the time, Scott Moser, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jason mus
Speaker 6: and Vincent Pereira, who was sort of their in house
Speaker 6: historian geek expert, you know, actually, of all those people, like,
Speaker 6: he's the one where it was like, how does one
Speaker 6: get to be like him? Like the guy behind the
Speaker 6: guy almost but it's a riot, you know, between making
Speaker 6: fun of Kevin Smith's wade at the time or all
Speaker 6: things Affleck or you know, or a Jeremy London, you know,
Speaker 6: his his performance they kind of mock now and then
Speaker 6: in the old the original DVD had a video option
Speaker 6: as well, which I think it worked with the I
Speaker 6: think it was seamless branching, so you didn't have to
Speaker 6: do anything because Dogma had a video commentary, but you
Speaker 6: had to there would be an icon on the screen
Speaker 6: and you had to catch it, pressed the button and
Speaker 6: it was just implemented very awkwardly. But No, Malrats is
Speaker 6: like one of the classic funny commentaries and they're just
Speaker 6: giving each other crap for much of it, but Smith,
Speaker 6: you know, he's still a great grunt contour. And even
Speaker 6: though I wish Arrow had gotten it so I could
Speaker 6: work on it, I'm glad Dogmas finally back.
Speaker 4: Saying out purgatory.
Speaker 3: It is one of those that has been I don't
Speaker 3: remember when that first Blue ray came out. It was
Speaker 3: like twenty eleven and it went out of print. I
Speaker 3: don't even think it was in print for like three years.
Speaker 3: It had to have been maybe like two years that
Speaker 3: it was available, and so we've been waiting a long
Speaker 3: time to have it out there again. It is great.
Speaker 3: Since you did a funny one, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 3: mine that I chose for funny, and to me, the
Speaker 3: funniest audio commentary of all time is one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: Had to go for Tropic Thunder. We got Robert Downey
Speaker 3: Junior doing an in character commentary and it is I mean,
Speaker 3: his work in Tropic Thunder is so good, and then
Speaker 3: it mostly carries over like there's very little downtime that
Speaker 3: isn't just uproariously funny on this commentary. He nails it.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what else to say about it.
Speaker 3: It's just one of those things where it's you know,
Speaker 3: there's some commentaries that have been legendary for people being
Speaker 3: in character. I mean, we both showed Spinal Tap earlier.
Speaker 3: That's got one of the best ones of all time.
Speaker 3: It's got the whole band doing in character commentary. It's great.
Speaker 3: It's a very good commentary. I just listened to that
Speaker 3: one again recently, actually. But Tropic Thunder for funniness, I
Speaker 3: think it is the best funny commentary maybe ever made.
Speaker 3: It is so good. Check it out.
Speaker 6: I do have two that I'm calling the funniest, and
Speaker 6: I haven't listened to that one in so long. I
Speaker 6: don't even think I did the whole thing, but it
Speaker 6: works because they mentioned it in the movie.
Speaker 4: I don't have that line. I don't break character till
Speaker 4: the DVD commentary or something was going to pull up.
Speaker 4: It would take me too long.
Speaker 6: A photo of me and Kevin Smith at the Orlando
Speaker 6: Mega Con in two thousand and two. Nice, but I yeah,
Speaker 6: but I'll do. I'll do a funny one then, and
Speaker 6: then I've got a serious one and then a funny one.
Speaker 4: The Kentucky Fried movie good one. I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's still on there now. It was actually on to
Speaker 4: be streaming the commentary.
Speaker 3: Oh nice.
Speaker 4: So you have John Landis, Robert K.
Speaker 6: Wise, the producer, David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrams
Speaker 6: Rest in Peace. And I think the old Anchor Bay
Speaker 6: DVD even had a photo of the recording session where
Speaker 6: it's just the five five of them, you know, sitting
Speaker 6: on a couch. It's a riot from the beginning. And
Speaker 6: you know, Landis has only done a couple of commentaries himself,
Speaker 6: but it's funny, you know, they kind of all give
Speaker 6: their origin stories. You know, Landis had Doun Schlock, The
Speaker 6: Suckers had Kentucky Fry Theater, first in Wisconsin and then
Speaker 6: in la. You know, at some point, you know, you know,
Speaker 6: they're like, okay, movies halfway done, can we go home now?
Speaker 4: And Robert K.
Speaker 6: Weiss tells a story of there's the segment in the
Speaker 6: movie a fist full of yen and Weiss tells a
Speaker 6: story you know, the lawyer. We showed this to the
Speaker 6: lawyer who said it was unreleasable, and then we asked
Speaker 6: the financial guy what do we do when he said,
Speaker 6: get different lawyers. But yeah, that one, that one makes
Speaker 6: me laugh this day.
Speaker 3: It's up there. It's a very very good one. Not
Speaker 3: enough people talk about Kentucky Fried movie in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: It's still great.
Speaker 6: Some of the segments are better than others. It does
Speaker 6: take its time a little bit. In fact, even they
Speaker 6: even make fun of it. Twenty minutes in they're like,
Speaker 6: is there a point where the movie kicked in.
Speaker 4: At all? And Robert Weiss is like, did we scare
Speaker 4: away the profit participation yet?
Speaker 3: And well, you mentioned them hanging out sitting on a couch,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna do my hangout choice, which a lot
Speaker 3: of times these are really great because it feels like
Speaker 3: one of those commentaries where you're like welcomed into the
Speaker 3: fold in a way. It's just sort of you just
Speaker 3: chilling with a bunch of friends. And my go to
Speaker 3: for this is any John Carpenter or Kurt Russell joint,
Speaker 3: which I was very close to choosing Big Trouble in
Speaker 3: Little China because it's a really good one as well,
Speaker 3: but I kind of had to go for the cliche
Speaker 3: answer and say I think the thing is the best one.
Speaker 3: With them, it's literally just them chilling on a couch together.
Speaker 3: They both have some beers during the whole time, and
Speaker 3: it's just like, h man, you remember this and it
Speaker 3: just hanging out like talking about shit in a way
Speaker 3: that is just so again like welcoming, Like you could
Speaker 3: just see you and three other friends sitting on the
Speaker 3: couch and do this exact same thing. It is absolutely
Speaker 3: worth it. The film itself is not getting super analyzed.
Speaker 3: It's not going to give you all kinds of deep insight,
Speaker 3: but it's John fricking Carpenter and Kurt Russell and it's
Speaker 3: just a blast to be able to listen to. I
Speaker 3: really hope more people we'll have listened to it now
Speaker 3: that it's been around for so long. I also, like,
Speaker 3: I know he's getting old, but I'd love to get
Speaker 3: some updated John Carpenter thoughts on some of these things. Sure,
Speaker 3: I know you just want to smoke weed and play
Speaker 3: video games, but come on, man, we all still worship
Speaker 3: you the thing. Check it out if you haven't. It's
Speaker 3: it's a great commentary.
Speaker 4: And I almost went I went from like zero to
Speaker 4: one hundred with Carpenter. I'd already.
Speaker 6: I mean, we all love Big Trouble in Little China,
Speaker 6: but a lot of his films I watched only for
Speaker 6: the first or maybe second time during COVID lockdown, which
Speaker 6: is why for Arrow, when I got in the Mouth
Speaker 6: of Madness. You know, that one's kind to become my favorite. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so that was a treat, you know, to be able
Speaker 6: to work on that one. And we'll be talking about
Speaker 6: how very cool. We'll be talking about Kurt Russell again
Speaker 6: in a few minutes. But I want to mention Terry
Speaker 6: Gilliams Brazil commentary. Oh nice now, And I remember when
Speaker 6: I was younger reading about this legendary laser disc boxet
Speaker 6: that Criterion released, and then to get into this stuff later.
Speaker 6: And by the way, I should out in my family,
Speaker 6: we rarely have ever bought movies. My parents didn't see
Speaker 6: the point. It'll just be on TV. Ironic considering what
Speaker 6: I do now. But you know I had the three
Speaker 6: disc you know, the DVD set, and then the Blu ray,
Speaker 6: now the four K.
Speaker 7: But no.
Speaker 6: Gilliam's commentary beginning to end, talks about everything and Brazil.
Speaker 6: It's one of those movies where if I'm in a
Speaker 6: bit of a creative rut, like I'll just watch that
Speaker 6: movie or behind the scenes or whatever, and like that
Speaker 6: will inspire me that and I think Blade Runner is
Speaker 6: probably the other one where even though I'm making movies,
Speaker 6: just seeing it and taking in the craft and artistry,
Speaker 6: it's like, yeah, you know, it helps.
Speaker 3: Shamefully, I'm still very behind on watching a lot of
Speaker 3: Gilliam's things, let alone, I've never heard any of his commentaries.
Speaker 3: I definitely need to. That sounds fantastic and Brazil just
Speaker 3: beautiful obviously to look at it. That's the big thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, my uh my next one, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 3: about one that is gonna sound maybe slightly masturbatory. It's
Speaker 3: not my commentary, but I hired the two guys to
Speaker 3: do this and it has become one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: And I got to talk about a deaf crocodile release
Speaker 3: because Inflatable Sex do all of the Wastelands that came
Speaker 3: out last year. I really loved this commentary. It's Mike
Speaker 3: Leader in art of Venema, And the main reason I
Speaker 3: loved it is because when I saw what the film
Speaker 3: was gonna be and that Craig and Dennis were looking
Speaker 3: for a commentary, I felt like they would be perfect
Speaker 3: for it, which is odd because they really only ever
Speaker 3: talked about action films and like martial arts films and
Speaker 3: a lot of Hong Kong films, and so they've not
Speaker 3: had a chance with a lot of things like this.
Speaker 3: And it is such a dense commentary that it's it's
Speaker 3: one of those that's kind of hard to even ingest
Speaker 3: everything that's a part of it. Like while editing a
Speaker 3: portion of the transcript and all that, I had to
Speaker 3: pause just to catch up with what was being said,
Speaker 3: like if I was genuinely going through it. The notes
Speaker 3: that you can get from this commentary it is crazy.
Speaker 3: It's kind of an example of just finding the right
Speaker 3: person for a commentary, which is why I wanted to
Speaker 3: choose this one, because you wouldn't think to hire these
Speaker 3: guys for it. But I knew that Arna Venima specifically
Speaker 3: wanted to branch out from the action things and this
Speaker 3: one was perfect for him and inflatable sex. All the
Speaker 3: Wastelands is so odd because the title is in the
Speaker 3: original title in English is Dutch Wife of the Desert,
Speaker 3: and Arna I believe is Dutch himself. But the the
Speaker 3: pink film aspect of this film is so overblown that
Speaker 3: people have stayed away from this movie. And I knew
Speaker 3: that he was going to crush this commentary, and it's
Speaker 3: just so it's so educational through and through and Arna
Speaker 3: and Mike and like Frank Jang and a couple of
Speaker 3: these others that are doing these modern Asian releases specifically
Speaker 3: are really great at like spiderwebbing these connections across all
Speaker 3: of Asian film history, and this commentary specifically is just
Speaker 3: a massive cop web of they did this and this
Speaker 3: and this together and because of their connections here, they
Speaker 3: were able to do that. And it's it's just it's
Speaker 3: mystifying how much they know about it. It's so properly researched.
Speaker 3: It is great. It is dense, though it is very
Speaker 3: hard to even grasp everything. You might want to pause
Speaker 3: a couple times, especially if you're taking notes. Check it out.
Speaker 3: It's a killer commentary.
Speaker 6: And finally, yeah, I did four for five. Speaking of
Speaker 6: Kurt Russell, for me, the funniest commentary used cars.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a great one.
Speaker 6: It's him, Bob, Gail, Robert Zemeckis. I mean, the commentary
Speaker 6: literally starts with Kurt Russell just laughing, yeah, and we
Speaker 6: go from there. It's a riot. You know, they talk
Speaker 6: about the actors, they talk about you know, Spielberg and
Speaker 6: Millius and you know, roads not taken and you know,
Speaker 6: and it's weird to hear like people like your heroes
Speaker 6: not you know, like Zamechas and like people like them
Speaker 6: cursing because you know, at least you know for a
Speaker 6: while like were you know, Back to the Future. You know,
Speaker 6: which are more or less you know, family movies, but
Speaker 6: you know, just to hear these guys like drop f
Speaker 6: bombs and things like that.
Speaker 4: But it's a riot. Kurt Russell's laughter is infectious. You know,
Speaker 4: there's some bits where you know they can't stop laughing.
Speaker 4: Bob Gail did a home theater forum chat years ago,
Speaker 4: probably for the DVD release it Back to the Future,
Speaker 4: and I just mentioned whatever my question was, and I
Speaker 4: mentioned this commentary to him and he said, you know that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was fun.
Speaker 6: As John Millius might say, we achieved critical mass. But
Speaker 6: they talk about the crazy stunt with Garrett Graham where
Speaker 6: he's walking backwards and a car passes within a.
Speaker 4: Photo of him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mecas is like, you know, I could feel my
Speaker 6: scrotum shriveling up when.
Speaker 4: I see this shot. You know.
Speaker 6: Of course, he points out, today so much stuff would
Speaker 6: be done you know, with computer with the CGI. But
Speaker 6: there's a bit you know, when I lived in La
Speaker 6: on the regular, when I was getting the design career
Speaker 6: go and I worked as an extra on TV. I'm
Speaker 6: actually sag eligible and you know, it's like, you need
Speaker 6: to populate a scene. If you don't, then it looks
Speaker 6: empty or cheap or whatever. And there's a trial scene
Speaker 6: at the end of Used Cars where I think, you know,
Speaker 6: she's Debrah Harmon's character is getting sued because you know,
Speaker 6: she promised a certain number of cars on the lot
Speaker 6: or something. And then Kurt Russell shows up and on
Speaker 6: the commentary, Kurt Russell's like, I love, I love how
Speaker 6: the courthouse is packed for this nothing case, and it's like, well,
Speaker 6: you have to. If you didn't, it would look incomplete.
Speaker 6: It's just one of those movie things, you know. That
Speaker 6: commentary is an absolute riot, And yeah it's and actually
Speaker 6: the one for I Want to Hold your Hand that
Speaker 6: Gallon's and Mechas and that one's pretty funny too. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm always usually the commentary is that the commentary is
Speaker 6: the one feature where I'm disappointed when there isn't one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then again, you know, some better than others.
Speaker 6: You know, not everyone suited for a commentary, but you know,
Speaker 6: if it's a good one, it's you know, I go
Speaker 6: back to these things. And plus is someone who works
Speaker 6: you know, I work remotely, but you know I'm sitting
Speaker 6: in a room. It's always nice, you know, have background
Speaker 6: noise too. Yeah, I always need something playing in the background.
Speaker 3: Used Cars is great and so few people have even
Speaker 3: seen it nowadays. Please go watch Use Cars if you've
Speaker 3: not seen it, It's fantastic. This is such a funny
Speaker 3: one to end this episode on. So I've been working
Speaker 3: on a release for the last couple of years with
Speaker 3: will on a lot. I don't even know when it's
Speaker 3: gonna announced, hopefully later this year or early next year
Speaker 3: at some point. But as part of that we got
Speaker 3: to work with kind of legendary producer, director, writer fred
Speaker 3: Olin Ray. And while thinking about our topic this week,
Speaker 3: I went, you know, one of my favorite things ever
Speaker 3: is the Fred Olinray commentary on Jacko. Have you ever
Speaker 3: heard about this?
Speaker 4: Scut No, I haven't so.
Speaker 3: Jacko is a wild, low budget horror movie and the
Speaker 3: director of this one is a guy named Steve Latshaw,
Speaker 3: and this commentary is like cringe comedy at the highest.
Speaker 3: So basically the commentary is the director and executive producer
Speaker 3: Fred ollen Ray is starting off what sounds like sort
Speaker 3: of contentious. They're already not on the same page. There's
Speaker 3: disagreements on who has done what, on what was altered,
Speaker 3: on why things were poorly executed, And I don't even
Speaker 3: think We're halfway through the commentary and there's like a
Speaker 3: full blown fight and one of them stands up and
Speaker 3: walks out, and it is awkward. It's like, first off,
Speaker 3: how did this get to the disc But second it
Speaker 3: is just one of those things where you're like, man,
Speaker 3: I like, it's really great that this is archived in
Speaker 3: a way that we can hear the things that happen
Speaker 3: behind the scenes for these things. It is a fun film.
Speaker 3: It's a it's not a great movie, but it's it's
Speaker 3: a very fun movie. It's an entertaining movie. The commentary though,
Speaker 3: very entertaining. If you've never heard it, go give it
Speaker 3: a listen. I think there are clips of like the
Speaker 3: most contentious parts on YouTube. Jacko is Wild and if
Speaker 3: you've never seen it, it is such a B movie,
Speaker 3: classic type of moment that everybody should hear it.
Speaker 7: At least once.
Speaker 6: Well, isn't there Oh, I haven't listened to it, the
Speaker 6: Soderberg Lemon Hobs, Climber and Limey. Isn't that kind of
Speaker 6: you know? And also wasn't there a isn't there a
Speaker 6: Mickey Rooney commentary one on a Twilight Zone where like
Speaker 6: he just doesn't say anything, or the moderators asking questions,
Speaker 6: he's not giving them anything, something like something like that.
Speaker 3: Would not surprise me.
Speaker 6: I uh good, No, just I remember when when Keno
Speaker 6: having talking about Get Smart now coming full circle when
Speaker 6: Keno announced the Nude Bomb, everyone in the comments was like,
Speaker 6: you got to get Alan Spencer, and then they actually
Speaker 6: delayed the release and brought an Alan Spencer. And his
Speaker 6: commentary is excellent. He does not miss a beat. It's
Speaker 6: ninety minutes straight. It's like a Get Smart film school. Almost. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and highly recommend it even if you're not a fan
Speaker 6: of Get Smart or the Nude Bomb, which is not
Speaker 6: a great movie. But Spencer, he almost liked the movie
Speaker 6: more because he talks about it.
Speaker 3: Right. I'm moderate, well not moderated. I helped facilitate a
Speaker 3: commentary fairly recently for a pretty long film and what
Speaker 3: was crazy to me is the director. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he forgot things because he seemed so knowledgeable about
Speaker 3: certain things, but he would go long stretches like twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes, and all you hear on the track is
Speaker 3: just brief think Anyways, I'm still kind of curious to
Speaker 3: see how that goes to disc. If it goes to disc,
Speaker 3: like optional scene commentary would make sense for that one.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what they're gonna do anyways. That is
Speaker 3: it the big like moral of the story tonight. Go
Speaker 3: listen to audio commentaries. They are really great. They're really valuable.
Speaker 3: Many of the ones that we have not talked about
Speaker 3: are big ones like Bogdanovic commentaries are film school literally.
Speaker 6: I also would have mentioned the James Cameron and Company
Speaker 6: on Aliens as a great commentary, but that's one where
Speaker 6: you know, I almost wish I would love to hear
Speaker 6: the separate track with just Cameron himself solo talking about it.
Speaker 3: I will say it was kind of poignant. I just
Speaker 3: did a podcast episode recently. That's why I had spinal
Speaker 3: Tap close by. We did a podcast episode on the
Speaker 3: other commentary on spinal Tap, not the in character one,
Speaker 3: but talking about Rob Reiner and a couple ofcers and stuff.
Speaker 3: So many of these commentaries are important for reasons that
Speaker 3: I really kind of captured with because we don't know
Speaker 3: when we're going to lose Rob Reiner, we don't know
Speaker 3: when we're going to lose fred Olin Ray. Even though
Speaker 3: it's a silly kind of cringe moment, so many of
Speaker 3: these things are capturing filmmaker's voices that you won't get
Speaker 3: a chance to hear this way, so personal, so sort
Speaker 3: of sort of vulnerable. A lot of these commentaries are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I did this wrong. I would have done this this
Speaker 3: way if I had known at the time, or something
Speaker 3: like that. And listening to Rob Reiner talk about spinal
Speaker 3: tap just a couple months after his passing, it was tough.
Speaker 3: I mean, he is a legend in so many different ways.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I adore that commentary. Adore Rob Reiner. Yeah,
Speaker 3: listen to commentaries, They're important. Scott, this has been amazing.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having out tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm happy to hope to get to do it again.
Speaker 6: And I just have to think of another topic to cover,
Speaker 6: but no, it's been a blast. Hope folks have enjoyed this.
Speaker 6: It's a quarter after midnight, so probably going to bed soon. No,
Speaker 6: this was a blast and I look forward to working
Speaker 6: with you again soon.
Speaker 3: We can't wait to get it done either. I am dying.
Speaker 3: In fact, I got a couple things that we can
Speaker 3: probably meet on here soon. On that note, thank you
Speaker 3: all for hanging out this week. Next week we got
Speaker 3: a fun show planned, gonna be a good one. Excited
Speaker 3: to be homes that I got good internet for this
Speaker 3: every time, Scott jrmench and we'll talk sooner. Everybody see you.
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