Back to Black - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - The Book of Clarence - UK Film Club

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ukfilmreview
Hey I I'm good. Thank you I I pressed record just in the absolute belief that it was all going to go smooth that you' be able to hear me that I could we tend to have it pretty smooth now I would say i' want to or a early on.

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Brian Penn
I Chris how you doing.

00:07.92
Brian Penn
We I know and I we don't want to say that well you do ah you don't want to say that too loudly do Chris because you don't know what might happen but we're doing all right so far aren't we really we got the squiggly line guy across the screen. So. Now. We're doing right and the red light sun and it's counting upwards so that oh that's all looking good isn't it Fantastic yeah, that's right? Yeah so how have you been.

00:28.88
ukfilmreview
Yeah, all the numbers are going in the right direction. That's all we can ask for.

00:39.24
ukfilmreview
Very well. Thank you very well the ah the the months are flying by um, but yeah, no, it's going going. Well we're um, the podcast is doing Well we're seeing some listeners and things and we've we've made onto a few like.

00:44.84
Brian Penn
Oh I Always? ah.

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Brian Penn
Nice.

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ukfilmreview
Podcast Film category play this sort of thing so that's quite cool. Um, but yeah, how about you, you've been okay.

00:59.22
Brian Penn
Right? Nice yeah, yeah, been really good. You know where I am we've had 24 hours without rain and I'm getting quite excited about that really and apparently apparently there could still be a drought this summer go figure. Yeah.

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ukfilmreview
Air.

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ukfilmreview
It's crazy isn't it I think they've just I don't know I did they just book it in they just so yep, we're gonna have that we're gonna have that. Yeah yep, we're gonna have that just this is already go get rounded but there are there are those people out there that they.

01:17.67
Brian Penn
Um, what book some writing? Yeah ah no and I.

01:31.15
ukfilmreview
They think that don't they they think that the weather is all orchestrated. This's all man-made. There's it. There's a there's a sector of people that believe that quite fervently if you're podcast listeners you are still welcome. Don't don't don't don't switch off but I just.

01:35.11
Brian Penn
Wow! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah course yeah, we're a broad charge aren't me Chris very broad charge. Yeah yeah, well yeah.

01:47.18
ukfilmreview
We are a very broad church. We just think some of you might be wrong about some things. That's all, um, that's cool. Yeah I mean can you be wrong about a film I mean that'd be interesting pose that as a question can you be wrong about your opinion of a film.

01:53.39
Brian Penn
Particularly bat films as well.

01:59.30
Brian Penn
Ah, it's awesome in some will someone somewhere will think you think you're wrong one obviously.

02:07.25
ukfilmreview
Well because I have this debate sometimes and ah you are as film fans I'm sure you do you talk to people about films and you you argue your point that sometimes it's ah yeah, it's just you feel a different way about film and that's fine. But then there's other times when people have actually either.

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Brian Penn
And.

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Brian Penn
A.

02:25.29
ukfilmreview
Missed the point or they for or the oh they've chosen to not like value a part of what because this is something that I also have to sort of preach sometimes like some people just say are they just threw that in for the sake of it and I'm like.

02:25.47
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, on our the.

02:40.96
ukfilmreview
It's very very very rare that any filmmaker would ever do that because you know how expensive it is to make a film The they're like oh they just threw that in. There's no point to it's like no there probably was a point they probably it just might not be the point that you were hoping that they were going to make but.

02:43.72
Brian Penn
So I know yeah bottom lines money isn't it every time. Yeah yeah I know yeah of course. Yeah, yeah.

02:59.22
ukfilmreview
But yeah, now it's interesting when you have these debates about how people feel about film and and what what have you and um yeah I think it's good. It's healthy. It's healthy debate. That's what we like.

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Brian Penn
That's what makes it so fascinating really is that we've all got an opinion and film's polarized opinion directs us to access to stories to you get views across the board right? There's you know one end is black. The other end is white but there's a huge gray area where where we. We've all got an opinion a bit about a film a film can sometimes be universally panned or universally laughed or be or people have an indifferent attitude towards it Some hidden gems have passed by our nosis and we've feature some of them on on the podcast haven't we that.

03:43.95
ukfilmreview
Yep.

03:44.10
Brian Penn
Never get the attention they deserve and that is why it's such an exciting subject Masters talk about because it's so diverse and we've all all got our own views on things and you think how could anyone possibly think that's not a good film or think that's a good film. It's just opinions and it's great.

04:02.30
ukfilmreview
And just to quickly sway back to last month where I mentioned about easter and chocolate films and I I very confidently said that there would be more films about chocolate than there were about easter I think I was wrong I ah.

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Brian Penn
Oh yeah.

04:14.25
Brian Penn
I I was gonna say actually yeah, but ah, ah yeah.

04:18.45
ukfilmreview
I couldn't I couldn't get that far I did a bit of research and there's films that feature chocolate like chocolate is in there. But it's not by any means the main part of the film and I think Easter because there's been. There's been more about christ.

04:31.29
Brian Penn
and yeah, and yeah you see the thing is so Chris if there was potential. It would have been done by someone by now wouldn't it really? so you know it but well done for looking though. Well done for checking.

04:35.35
ukfilmreview
But yeah, dying that then there is about chocolate.

04:43.77
ukfilmreview
That's true I mean yeah, it was quite depressing but you know when you go down the rabbit hole. Oh excuse the pun down the rabbit hole there are that I was um I couldn't refine much. So yeah apologies. If um, if I ah angered anyone with my.

04:50.38
Brian Penn
And oh yeah, yeah I can get now.

05:00.10
ukfilmreview
Boastful claim that there were more chocolate films than Easter films because yes or there could be a filmmaker out there now. Just absolutely driven to make as many chocolate films as they can to prove me right in which case fair play go for it make go for it.

05:01.95
Brian Penn
But they could but there could be someone very disappointed out now now Chris you never know.

05:10.22
Brian Penn
Yeah, I'm yeah yeah, absolutely definitely. Yeah, we've inspired someone then haven't we. That's good. Yeah hi man.

05:19.11
ukfilmreview
We've inspired someone through our our chocolate grandstanding. Um, so if this is your first time to film club welcome. Everyone here is welcome as we've said um, we review films across the board that's from your biggest. Blockbuster movies to your streaming films that are available on Netflix and Amazon prime to your independent cinema so that's filmmakers making their very first movies short films indie films and then we finish it up with a look back a classic film which we call the nostalgia pick and. This months um nostalgia pick is not a secret because I put out there on social media saying that we were reviewing mad max and this is because they are releasing ah furioa next month is that right? Brian you're my yeah your mike your my conduit into ah all things theatrical. Um.

05:57.33
Brian Penn
And.

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Brian Penn
That's yep, next month yeah as far as we aware. That's right? Yeah yeah.

06:13.60
ukfilmreview
And so yeah listeners you will hear Brian start the show off by reviewing some of the theatrical releases that is films that are in cinemas. Ah right now as of recording or or very very soon. Um, and yeah, so we we've got a. Very varied selection of ah films to be reviewed on this show. But we're starting with one that we reviewed its predecessor his origin film not long ago on the podcast. Um, which we reviewed the ah the classic sci-fi comedy.

06:43.68
Brian Penn
Oh right.

06:51.16
ukfilmreview
Ah, ghostbusters. But we're here with a new entry into that catalogue called Frozen Empire Brian is this going to give me chills or is this going to freeze me over. Do you see what I did I tried to do something and that was off the cuff.

06:51.44
Brian Penn
M. Yeah, yeah, yes.

07:06.40
Brian Penn
I said yes, so yeah, it's very good all right. That's good. Yeah, and it's got potential. Um, well yeah, look look. It's there. You've got the choice haven't you when the time comes um yeah, look It's a great brand isn't it.

07:10.62
ukfilmreview
Ah I'm not sure it will stay in. That's right.

07:20.84
Brian Penn
You know it's one of the few brands that I'm a fan of ghostbusters. It started in the 1980 s which was the the birth of the franchise movie wasn't it I mean during the 80 s we had luhal weapon we had Rambo we had Indiana joins you know so it came at a time when the when the.

07:29.74
ukfilmreview
A.

07:41.70
Brian Penn
Concepts was was becoming accepted now this latest in installman directed by ah Gil Kenn starring Paul Rudd Cary Coh Dan Akroyd Finn Wolfardd and the Ken of Grace this is the fifth instalment in the guy bustis franchise. Um. And it takes the story back to its origins really the next generation of gasbusters are now operating from their historic base in a New York Fire station the team consists of seismologist Gary Gruberson his girlfriend Kelly Carrie spler and her children Trevor and Phoebe the offspring of Egon Spangler inherited these guyspating jeans as they cause mayhem in hell's kitchen. However, the wrath of Mayor Peck forces phoebe off active juicy until she becomes a legal adult she seeks solace in a game of chess and encounters the ghostly apparition of melody another chess player who died in a fire. Meanwhile founding father Race Stant stances Bey on begins collecting cursor objects for examination theine rasmadi sells him a mysterious brass orb left to embrace grandmother isssuming unleash she's terrifying powers and spirits from the past now. Frozen empire if we can use its subcitle is undoubtedly a spectacular visual treat that develops the original technology really well so we have a representation of the original ghosts from the first movie still there but enhanced so that's good. Ah.

09:12.90
Brian Penn
Are some welcome cameos that remind the audience of the brand's lineage fusing past presence is pulled off with a plum and gives a narrative proper structure. However, there's a feeling it veers too far from its true purpose. There are scenems reminiscent of ghost and sections of the of the plot feel like they've been lifted from an Indiana Jones script there's anything wrong with that. But it doesn't have to borrow from other films in quite such an obvious way. Ah parts of the film are quite scary and you know Chris I don't scare easily do I um, yeah.

09:45.66
ukfilmreview
Well I did I was going to ask you about his bri because the director one of the previous films. They've done was um, poltageist and that made me think maybe they were coming at this with quite a story and when we did review the first ghostbu film. It did have some quite scary elements. It was.

09:52.48
Brian Penn
Ah, yeah.

10:00.70
ukfilmreview
This horror is definitely in there as a genre so this is a bit on that like outline is it.

10:02.95
Brian Penn
yeah yeah yeah I thought I would say say it is you seem maybe watching the original movie at 40yearsdistance. maybe that part of it's worn off because I always saw ghostbusters as a kind of ah a knock about comedy. Action movie with special effects. You know? Um, but it's kind of to me. It's broad and I'm not suggesting. This is a bad thing in any way. Um, but as you've mentioned about the directorical Ken and you can see where where it comes from but it's moving more authentically into horror rather I mean.

10:31.65
ukfilmreview
Are.

10:38.22
Brian Penn
Generically I would call this an action moving right? But now it's moving more towards horror if this is anything to go By.. It's very well Done. No Question. It's well done but to me there's less I don't know there's less comedy there. There's less ah Banser. It's It's not as. But it starts prevailant as it used to be but you know even so ah, busting will still make you feel good as the song going. So You know good entertainment. Very good Entertainment. Nevertheless.

11:10.14
ukfilmreview
Could yeah because I've see they've had a few outings. Yeah, there was the um, the one before this with rud in it and then there was the female cast that was very ah comedy driven like it was really going for the laughs. Um, and as you say I think when people think nostalgically about.

11:19.18
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

11:27.13
ukfilmreview
Ghostbusters you do remember the the gags and the jokes I think because of um like Bill Murray and and things like that that you kind of put it in that sphere. But yeah like I said when I watched it I was surprised at how much of it was veering into that horror side. Um, and there are bits.

11:35.88
Brian Penn
Yeah.

11:45.60
ukfilmreview
That did genuinely terrify me as a kid I remember in I think it's a second one with the painting that it was like oh god I was terrifying. Um, so I think there is is playing on is able to play on those genres. It's able to use those aspects. Um, but like you say I think they are also.

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Brian Penn
So all right now.

11:56.43
Brian Penn
Right here. Okay.

12:04.95
ukfilmreview
Needing to create these action spectacles to get people into the cinemas because otherwise it would just be like oh okay, you're making a horror film right? That's going to really limit your audience then.

12:05.30
Brian Penn
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean it's raising the bar higher and higher That's what all filmmakers have to do they have to up the antsy because otherwise people won't go out and watch it if people don't go out and watch it. It won't make money so you know it's that simple equation isn't it. They have to. Push those boundaries even further but look it's a legitimate place for the brand to go into horror more because lot ghosts pos age horror. You know is it's in the same bag isn't it to be fair, but you know I suppose I have I've conceptualized ghostbusters over the years because you know it comes from what I think was a great period for mo and filmmaking in the as you know and I suppose in my mind I'd prefer it to sort of stay more more there. But as you say I mean it's perception isn't there. You know I mean I'd not watched ghostbuster as the first the first filmment so we. Reviewed it on on the podcast and um it didn't strike me that way but I'm just trying to think back to how it impacted on me when I first saw it but course he is. It doesn't seem like force he is Chris since the first one scary. Really yeah, that scary. Yeah, you're right? That's scary.

13:23.38
ukfilmreview
That's scary. That's the scary a bit isn't it. Yeah, that's that's the scary bit for everyone is how old we were all getting. Yeah oh good. Well if you've seen frozen empire feel free to send us your reviews and your comments. Um.

13:27.40
Brian Penn
Ah, but yeah I know and I but a very good film though. Great funswatch So great. It's entertainment. Yeah, so.

13:41.24
ukfilmreview
Yeah, it's in cinemas now likely to do good business I would have thought um but you never know with these things sometimes they do just disappear straight to streaming. Um, luckily this next film didn't do that because.

13:42.56
Brian Penn
So I yeah could go straight to streaming you know.

13:57.69
ukfilmreview
It's a a biography of Amy Winehouse um and as is the new standard of UKFilm club we have a clip I'm going to play a clip for everyone here. We go.

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Brian Penn
Ah.

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Brian Penn
Oh oh well.

15:20.61
ukfilmreview
Well there you go back to black and I ain't no spice girl that is definitely going to be my catchphrase moving forward.

15:22.11
Brian Penn
And.

15:27.67
Brian Penn
Yeah, ah, it's it's a good line I have to say that before we get into the reviewer bat to black I saw bat to black at the everyman's cinema for the first time I'd never been before and it's brilliant. You walk through the doors. It's like a simsy timewa. You know I can film myself breaking out in pimples when I walk through the door. It was amazing. Nice deep deep seteas and armchairs to sit in they serve for drinks and food and it's great and they.

15:53.16
ukfilmreview
Or Brian right? Let me stop you there. What do they serve you break it down what food did you have what drinks did you have come on.

15:58.70
Brian Penn
Well I mean just just beers Really I mean they got ah a range of beers. Um, um, yeah, it's brilliant. It's great. Obviously the the screens aren't as big and there aren't as many screens in individual cinemas. But a great way to watch a film.

16:04.44
ukfilmreview
Ah, but well sold sold I'm sold.

16:17.48
Brian Penn
In the cinema. It's the old fashioned approach with a few enhancements. That's not to say there aren't other cinema chains out there. We know that? ah but a great way to watch a film and it's the old way of doing it I always say Chris that some things are done better. The old fashioned way.

16:34.61
ukfilmreview
Yeah I think the the thing is about what we do this theatrical section of the show because we want to promote films at Cinemas and the Cinema experience is so key like everyone has that what everyone who's a film fan will have that warm fuzzy feeling of going to the cinema.

16:36.60
Brian Penn
Ah, but.

16:39.67
Brian Penn
I.

16:50.79
Brian Penn
And.

16:52.98
ukfilmreview
Being lost in that and I think back to some of my favorite Cinema experiences and they are the ones that were a bit more of a treat. They are the ones that are a bit more like where you've got a sofa and you've got a table and things like that. Um, by the way guys I don't want to think we are not affiliated with every mountainma by that way. We're just.

17:01.52
Brian Penn
And.

17:10.28
Brian Penn
You? Yeah yeah, yeah.

17:10.51
ukfilmreview
Brian just had a nice experience so we're just giving it them a shout out. Um other cinemas are available. But um, yeah, no fantastic. They had such a grace view and but let's hear about the film I mean what what film to to go and see on the big screen.

17:19.00
Brian Penn
And it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right um, directed by Sam Tyler Johnson starring Marisa abbela Eddie Mason lesleye Manville Jack O'connell and Juli Cowan so this is the story of the brilliant but flawed genius of Amy Winehouse we probably think we know Amy's story because she lived and died in the public eye and can only really judge the film on the personal view. We've each formed of her. Ah for those are familiar. Let's just recap. Film begins in her late scenes as Amy is showing real promise as a singer-songwriter dad Mitch is a cab driver and part-time crooner excited by his daughter's potential. Mom Janice is similarly expectant but stressed by our lifestyle while adored Nan Cynthia is aiming's inspiration. She signed by 19 management and releases her debut album called frank meanwhile Amy meets Blake field a civil and sets off a chain of events that lead to the landmark album back to black now Marusa Abela Try so hard to sound like Amy which is an impossible task. And only weakens the film in my opinion. Her mannerisms are exaggerated and she looks too healthy to play a woman wreckcked by addiction. Jack O'conn is so ripped he should be in an exercise video. That's not to suggest um, any actor should endanger their health to play a role.

18:47.70
Brian Penn
Yeah, only highlights, the limitations of all biopics. Ah Blake field is civil is given a personality makeover. He's portrayed as a lovable rogue a rough diamond with a bad habit. The reality seems different particularly as philda civilil actually admitted that he got Amy into hard drugs in the first place which is the underlying son of the film. It's about addiction. So in conclusion I think it's okay, it does the job. It gets an extra star for me for showcasing a unique talent a bit like the Bob Marley Bio pick one. Love yeah.

19:19.18
ukfilmreview
I was gonna say this is this is we're in familiar territory this year we've been doing quite a few while say we you have been doing quite a few of these musical by picks and things like that and.

19:24.53
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

19:32.56
ukfilmreview
They don't seem to be hitting the dizzying heights because we used to have a period yeah know when you have things like walk the line there was Ray there were so many great kind of biopics of of musical legends that we're not well this to be fair I enjoyed Elvis I thought Elvis was great. Um, but.

19:34.26
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, that's brilliant, all it. Yeah and I yeah.

19:47.80
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

19:49.99
ukfilmreview
Yeah, no, you've you've read reviewed a few recently you saw said been playing a bit safe or been a bit clinical. Whatever. So yeah, interesting.

19:52.94
Brian Penn
And yeah, yeah, you know, but but that's that's where where it kind of it works because they're showcasing a fantastic talent you know, but she died at the age of 27. It's in a way. It's a very sad film. And so is one of the Bob Marley by a pit because they're both died so young and you felt that they had so much more to give you know you think about what Amy could have been doing now she was still alive and she'd only be 41 41 you know she'd probably be acting now I think she would have made a great answer. But.

20:24.66
ukfilmreview
Um, ah.

20:30.73
Brian Penn
You know it wasn't to be and it just leaves you wondering what might have been been one of the worst things in life is waste of talent. But you know you look at that story. You look at a story in retrospects and again we only see it through through Tv through media. Feel. Well as said at the beginning of the review we feel like we know our story her story but I don't feel it. It. It goes very far away from what you see in the tabloids and what was portrayed in in ah in news drs neutral footage you know so I don't feel. It's getting as much further I don't feel like we know know are any better. You know and i.

21:06.56
ukfilmreview
Did you watch the um asive cupadia documentary Amy yeah I remember finding that very enthralling like it was very difficult to watch but it was also really powerful and it really that felt like it did get into all the the grimy depths of everything. Um.

21:07.47
Brian Penn
Yeah, it is yes and. Yeah. Yeah, what was interesting about that was that I mean anything about Amy Winehouse anything about musicians and singers fascinates me any documentary that charts. Someone's life is is you know, really roots me to the spot I just love it.

21:22.52
ukfilmreview
Yeah.

21:38.10
Brian Penn
Ah, cappadi's film. Ah I believe one an Oscar didn't it as well. I mean it was very highly regarded. Um.

21:42.80
ukfilmreview
Think yeah, he's he's great. Yeah, as party I think his his filmmakings really great if you' seen center that's that's a but I remember Amy being particularly affecting because of the stuff.

21:48.35
Brian Penn
But yeah, yes, that yeah it it was but what? what's interesting about that is how it divided opinion particularly where people close to Amy were concerned where a family was concerned. And there was ah I'd also direct you and listeners to a documentary called finding Amy which you might still be able to find on Bbc I player which kind of sets a contrary due. It doesn't deviate too far but it it kind of gives you another alter another view of things. But it just convinces me though that it depends who you talk to you know to get a truly objective account of someone's life particularly someone like Amy Winehouse I don't think it's easy because I do you know I think part of the problem is it's too soon after she died.

22:31.48
ukfilmreview
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22:39.52
Brian Penn
I Often say that.

22:49.22
ukfilmreview
I.

22:50.80
Brian Penn
So so yeah I feel that maybe it's it's arrived too soon after the event that Amy Died in 2011 and that because there's this too little distance between then and now maybe we don't see her in enough perspective. True perspective. So it gives you ah a proper idea you mentioned walk the line the autobiography of Johnny Cash I mean that was made a fair number of years after he died and I think it was possibly better as a result but you're not going to get right.

23:21.17
ukfilmreview
Yeah I wonder I think there' there's ah probably a pressure I think from Studios to go. Oh we should be the ones to do this one but let's do it like sooner and they've realized that there's appetite and also obviously yeah, the fans of that artists are going to want to see the film so they don't want to like leave it too long.

23:24.97
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

23:33.27
Brian Penn
So yeah, yeah, yeah.

23:37.47
ukfilmreview
But I think like you say sometimes it maybe it needs more distance so that they can do it a bit more truer without ah hurting people's feelings. Um, and also there's that sense of letting the myth and the mythology kind of like evolve about that person because there might be things about them that don't really sort of.

23:51.51
Brian Penn
A.

23:57.00
ukfilmreview
Make much sense in the moment but later on kind of yeah so it's it's a difficult balance to find but I understand where the where these things come from. But yeah, interesting.

23:57.70
Brian Penn
And. Yeah, always yeah yeah, it's it's got It's got some really brutal reviews like um, 1 review review I read gave it one star which I think is really unfair I don't think it's quite that bad.

24:19.87
ukfilmreview
Um.

24:22.00
Brian Penn
You know, um, again, it's about opinions as we said at the very top of the show. It's about opinions. But I think you can be ah you can be really harsh and to make those number of assumptions that it doesn't portray. Ah, ah that effectively I mean I I gave you 3 stars. Think it got the extra style because of the music because of the soundtrack but it even so it was nowhere near that bad but that you know it's what people think you know, um, but it's a film worth Watching. It's a film worth going out to see definitely that.

24:55.94
ukfilmreview
Yeah, and I think it looks it before about the other docks that if you're ah or biopex If you're a fan of the artist then you're going to enjoy it just simply because you're it's spending time in their music. So it's not a bad thing.

25:05.28
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, um, and also if you're a big fan. You won't be quite so critical because you just enjoy it for what it is because it's given you the truth up to a point I mean only the people closest to her would have known the truth. You know? Ah, but it's given you ah a measure of the truth. But it's the music and if you if you love a music you'll you'll love to film I Think that's really what you got to say there you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

25:32.57
ukfilmreview
So back to black. So let's know what you think if you see it um 1 more from the theatrical releases. Don't have a clip sadly but the book of Clarence Brian what about this.

25:43.14
Brian Penn
Yes, yeah, now here's a sleeper another film that will slip quietly across the radar or I sense that it will written and directed by James Samuel starring La Keith Stanfield David aoo James Mcavoy and Benedict Cumberbatch it's an alternativeancy version of the Gospels. It works on the premise that one of the Apostles Thomas had a twin brother called Clarence. He's a bit of a chanceor and owe money to the local heavy to I the terrible things get more complicated when Clarence falls in love with Jed Dyer's sister verinia. News breaks of jus is says the new messiah he seeks an opportunity clarence trys and fails to become the first thingth apostle but with trusty psychic elijah on hand he has a cunning plan to become the new messiah and perform miracles. This is a very solid piece of filmmaking. Devout christians should steer clear of this as they might find it offensive but approach it with an open mind and it's a very entertaining film. Well-acted the cinematography is excellent. There's a great chariot race at the beginning as well and um and it's great particularly if you're a fan of some song music. Ah, and I am personally so it was all right by me. But it's a film that won't be running at the cinema for too long. My local multiplayx only has one showing a day so get it whilst you can, but this is good stuff. It works and if you're prepared to give it a chance. A bit have an open mind.

27:19.25
Brian Penn
It presents an alternative version is saying what if? um, but it's well worth a go.

27:27.21
ukfilmreview
Yeah I watch a trailer and it's so sort of things I like someone doing him different. Yeah, we haven't had this film before right? This is ah yeah, a new stories have been told and I think that's um, powerful but is it a cinema film. Do you feel? This is it visually cinematic.

27:30.81
Brian Penn
And.

27:41.90
Brian Penn
Yes I think it is yeah it really is it works well on a big screen as I say because of the subject matter I don't think it's going to do a great business. But I think it works ah on on the big screen it works on a cinema. It's you know some might might.

27:44.58
ukfilmreview
Yeah.

27:59.18
Brian Penn
Ah, view it as controversial. Um some are thrown so blasphemy at it. Ah you know I think that's probably a bit a bit much but you may fit you may see it that way depends on your um, your religious beliefs and your spiritual beliefs. But you know. If you look at the greatest story ever told you look at the gospels you look at the bible and you examine the life of jesuss you know it is possible. There could be people around at that time who were like clarence who were chances who thought they could make a buck or two you know and. Whilst it's it's it's it's kind of portraying the the gospels but it's kind of bolting an extra story on onto the on sort of fringes and that works. Okay, but as I say I think you need an open mind and it's. Unfortunately, it's not It's not gonna do that's why I think it's gonna fly under the radar. It's gonna be 1 of those types of films. But it deserves a lot of credit for tackling what could be a touchy subject for people and and come um, producing something that's really valid and artistically sound and it works. But. You know I would understand if people didn't say kindness to it because it's again, it's coming back to the big o opinions again isn't it.

29:18.29
ukfilmreview
This is and in your opinion. What's star rating our 5 go three here. So I think that's basically both the last two films have been on average with the the general public from what it seems. So yeah, no, ah one of those films at least is so.

29:19.78
Brian Penn
I gave you 3 actually I gave you.

29:35.52
ukfilmreview
Original don't different. Let's know what you think if you do go and see the book of clarence currently at cinemas. But as Brian says fairly limited. So ah, you might probably catch it on streaming which is where we're heading now. Did you see what I did that I thought that was quite a little smooth. My seways would be a lot smoother if I stopped to you know, highlight.

29:35.94
Brian Penn
Yeah. So.

29:46.34
Brian Penn
You yeah I saw you that they yo links it I know and know maybe you you would let the listeners work it out themselves Chris you know? yeah.

29:55.50
ukfilmreview
I talk about my seggues so much that they're not segways anymore. So I should do they should go oh that was clever but I won't know Brian has to travel I won't no one. No one messages in to say oh good segway. Yeah seggue feedback.

30:05.24
Brian Penn
Ah know you aren't I my name and I you see you need that feedback. We need feedback don't We really? um, but but your your your seways are getting better I must say they they're very slick and very smooth. Yeah.

30:13.14
ukfilmreview
Specifically they are getting but I mean well what where are we now this episode official 14 But we' done about 16 of film clubs I'm getting there. It's taking it takes to me over a year but we're getting there. Um, yeah, we got we're playing the long game here. It Iss fine. Um.

30:21.60
Brian Penn
We all right? Yeah, you go what you you got play yourself in. Um, yeah, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

30:32.85
ukfilmreview
We are going now to our streaming pick of the month so this is a film that is available on a streaming platform and this month which is quite familiar for us is Netflix again because they're very good at telling us what's coming out and.

30:41.81
Brian Penn
E I Yeah, yeah yeah.

30:47.26
ukfilmreview
It's a documentary though we don't often do too many documentaries but we are happy to more than happy to um and I should've always say this at the top of the show and amber does that on gay. Actually she does that that spoil awarding kind of like for the whole show but I kind of forget. But. I'm gonna say spoil a warning and the reason for that is I feel this film is Goingnna be quite difficult to talk about this documentary without spoilers because it's a documentary so we're gonna talk about some stuff. So if you don't want to know what happens in what Jennifer did maybe go watch it and then come back to this part of the podcast or or skip it. Ah yeah, skip there.

31:04.40
Brian Penn
Yeah I know yeah.

31:17.15
Brian Penn
So.

31:22.50
ukfilmreview
Get this review but I don't I don't really want you to do that because it affects our numbers and things. So maybe just mute it go go do something. It's probably but gonna be about five ten minutes so you know what make cupity mo the lawn can you move the lawn in 10 minutes probably not us quite a lot that's true. Um.

31:32.60
Brian Penn
Ah, yeah, um, but Trans I pick the law so doesn't it really? yeah.

31:40.40
ukfilmreview
I'm rambling what Jennifer did um documentary written and directed by Jenny Popperwell um is a very interesting. It's one of these kind of true crime stories. So I know they're very popular with Netflix viewers and often they're done in series. So you have like 10 episodes and.

31:49.24
Brian Penn
And.

31:55.37
Brian Penn
Yeah.

31:58.80
ukfilmreview
They'll go through the whole thing but with this, it's quite unique. It's done it all within one hundred and twenty seven minutes so it's a feature length film and we find a story presented where by a daughter calls 9 on 1 She gives a report that there's been shooting in her house. And we learned that her mother and father have both been shot and we then are witness to the case, the investigation now as you might? Ah um, be aware of the title is what Jennifer did Jennifer is the daughter. We learned that very on. So.

32:24.68
Brian Penn
So.

32:32.90
Brian Penn
And yeah, yeah I.

32:36.18
ukfilmreview
Spoilers but she is involved. There's a way I can't really get round this but that there's more to it than what she's saying and even the poster if you see the poster. There's 2 halves of her face in different lights like they make it quite clear that she's clearly got something to do with it. Um, so yeah that what.

32:42.38
Brian Penn
The yeah yeah, the yeah.

32:54.90
ukfilmreview
Through the investigation we're given footage of her actual interviews with the police department. It's based in Canada and um, we also get talking head kind of interviews with some of the the cops that were involved and and people that knew Jennifer or knew the parents and things.

33:05.18
Brian Penn
So.

33:12.72
ukfilmreview
And yeah, over the course of less than 90 minutes you you piece together everything that happens basically and that's quite unique for a true crime thing quite a lot these true crime things are very much like oh this is sort of what happened but we don't really know? yeah maybe sort of left unsolved sort of thing but with this it was kind of tidied up.

33:16.55
Brian Penn
So yeah, Thank you. You know you know. So yeah.

33:31.76
ukfilmreview
Pretty well in terms of everything that happened it's quite I I found it quite grippin about you Brian what do you think of what Jennifer did.

33:37.92
Brian Penn
Yeah, no I think it was really gripping and quite chilling as well. Very well presented I love I love these sort of things murder mystery documentaries you know, but the the best ones put you the viewer into the um, the detective's position right. So you straight away you feel right now you're being presented with all the evidence you're watching the interviews and you're you're being, you're being saying you're being told this is what happened what do you think you know where does this take us and I mean you mentioned something about the um, the neatness the the way it was compact. And all put into 90 minutes and it does that very well but it methodically methodically builds the case and shows you how they follow different lines of inquiry which I likes as well. Um, but you know I was totally in it. You know, completely in it when she when she was described I mean a lot of it really.

34:34.29
ukfilmreview
Yeah.

34:34.43
Brian Penn
Down to the interviews really isn't it and the point at which they found country evidence that disproved her account which I think was probably key. Obviously we won't say what that country evidence was but um, it got to that point and then they they brought in somebody called a truth analysis expert who some.

34:52.35
ukfilmreview
Ah, yeah, a.

34:53.21
Brian Penn
Do you know the bit the part I mean where you suddenly got it got really kind of ah aggressive and combatulive because they knew they could because they had this evidence that disproved what she was saying so the evolution of the case and the influence the influence ah of introducing new evidence and then. Taking Jennifer off in a different direction and putting her in in a position where she has to fess up and tell the truth but it's just getting from the beginning where where they've got somebody who's got ah a father had ah had a shotgun wound to the head. But. Mother was dead and they had to interview her from there and she delivers her story. Her version of what happened and then you find yourself thinking? Oh she couldn't possibly have done that how could she have done that you know when she was tired to the balancer. All that sort of thing so I was completely into it you know I was completely in it I was a detective you know I was flashing a badge saying what about this? What about do you know I mean bc some documentaries do that a lot better than others but this documentary manages to put you in the time of the place which is what I often say about films in general. But.

35:53.52
ukfilmreview
Yeah.

36:09.66
Brian Penn
Particular documentaries where they put you there at the scene they put you in that room whilst that that interview is going on very very good. Very impressive, really enjoyable and it's one to watch. Definitely.

36:23.82
ukfilmreview
Yeah I agree they only a slight aspect and this happens to quite a lot in these kind of true crime things that I didn't really enjoy was they they they fall into Melllodrama like because they kind of start using slowmo and they get the character. The.

36:35.64
Brian Penn
Yeah, the yeah.

36:42.59
ukfilmreview
Interviewees to say sort of really hyperbolic comments about the things and you kind of go okay like but that I think it does and that not to generateize it does feel like an American thing or or at least a yeah North American thing where it's like oh okay, yeah, they they know how to real you in Um, but as we've both admitted it.

36:51.54
Brian Penn
Yeah I Then oh who said.

37:01.73
ukfilmreview
It worked right because we were real did and we were on it. But yeah, you have to kind of get into that tone of the the film and also as I said anyone that's read the title or seen the poster or both will go in knowing that there's definitely a twist coming that you do spend the first half of the film almost.

37:06.99
Brian Penn
Yeah.

37:15.60
Brian Penn
Oh you are co and.

37:20.60
ukfilmreview
Like you say with your detective brain on going. Okay, but there's clearly going to be some you know inaccuracies here. So you're sort of looking for them and yeah, no I like to I I say I really like the fact that it was compact into one one 1 thing it wasn't like all right now I've got to watch 2 3 series of this ongoing.

37:20.61
Brian Penn
Yeah. And.

37:32.51
Brian Penn
You.

37:37.89
Brian Penn
I know yeah you do it in 1 hit. Don't you you get it in one hit. That's the home.

37:40.27
ukfilmreview
Ah, story. Um, and also she's obviously the the daughter of her parents and as a father with 2 daughters. It left me quite worried I'll be honest I was like oh god.

37:49.82
Brian Penn
Well well I'll tell you something that I would make a very good feature film as well. Yeah.

37:55.73
ukfilmreview
I Did think that too as I that's not I can't be too far away off you probably given if this said that documentary successful. They probably will just commission a film as well. But hey.

38:05.48
Brian Penn
Yeah I think it would work really well as a film and this is kind of a taster for it. But you know that's what what's ah ah, kind of I suppose in some ways a bit troubling because look we're all entertained by crime aren't we crime is a big part of the movies isn't it. We're seeing 1 kind of crime perpetrated or another aren't we but this one just happens to be true and it's absolutely riveting when it's done properly and it's done. Well so yeah I think feature film can't be far away really can't.

38:38.48
ukfilmreview
Yeah, nope check it out what Jennifer did on Netflix from the date you're listening to this. It's already on there as with all Netflix films you probably have to search for it because it's very difficult to find things. But um.

38:48.81
Brian Penn
Oh tell me not an yeah.

38:52.69
ukfilmreview
Yeah I can't imagine it'll come off too soon as well. I think it's one of their own so that tends to stay on there for quite some time. Um, yeah, that's our streaming pick for this month and let's know if you do watch it because we're now moving to the indie section of our show which is where we review a selection of.

39:11.13
ukfilmreview
Independently made films that were sent to us these have been specifically sent to us and they've asked us to review them and we are happy to oblige very happy to oblige and as luck would have it I have clips from all of them all 4 We're doing 4 in this episode. Yeah.

39:19.60
Brian Penn
Oh oh, all of them are you spoiling us.

39:28.87
ukfilmreview
And we got clips from all of them so to get us started I will play a clip from the first film which is called rosetta stoned.

39:34.76
Brian Penn
Oh.

41:15.20
ukfilmreview
There we go I should have warned everyone beforehand a lot of the clips tonight have got expletives. So if you yeah no I Probably gonna leave it. We just put the explicitletive tag on now. But yeah apologies if that offended anyone? Um, but.

41:22.65
Brian Penn
Um, are you going to be pair.

41:32.95
ukfilmreview
I Do feel that you need to hear that clip to really understand the tone of the film because it really gives you a good insight as to what you're dealing with here and the best kind of ballpark that I would just anyone work with is American pie is that sort of.

41:34.37
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

41:47.54
Brian Penn
Yeah, absolutely yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

41:50.67
ukfilmreview
Genre film. Yeah and you can tell there from like the punk rock soundtrack the um stoner kind of comedy approach and yeah rose a stoned run and director high Benjamin Vomaek and yeah, we um, asked to review this film. I personally have a big affinity for these sort of films because I was a teenager when american power was coming out on a watched a lot of films like that ah road trip and things like those sort of films that there are they a piece of time I think where they make sense because if you are of that age. It.

42:24.60
Brian Penn
So.

42:26.73
ukfilmreview
It makes sense and now watching this in my mid to late thirty s it's It's quite a different experience because you're very much kind of guy guys. You're making some bad decisions there like I don't hear. Yeah I'm kind of I'm more worried about like this is the life that my kids are going to go into um that it is but it was also a nice throwback to go back and spend some time.

42:28.97
Brian Penn
So. You you you very grown up now aren't you Chris thank you? the.

42:46.21
ukfilmreview
Um, so to give you a gist of the story. There are 2 main characters. There's Edward ah, who is potentially on the autistic scale I think they they mentioned in the buyer that he's on the autistic scale and yeah, very very smart but socially awkward. And he kind of wants to have more life experiences and in particular he wants to try drugs and he wants to have sex and he doesn't really know how to do either of those things and relies on the help of a very cool but very failing student Ryan who um.

43:12.94
Brian Penn
And.

43:23.67
ukfilmreview
Is good at things like rolling joints but not so good at passing tests so he kind of uses edward to help him pass the class because he wants to get his high school diploma and yeah, that's essentially the the setup these 2 Um.

43:40.63
ukfilmreview
2 kids who wouldn't normally spend much time together do and alas a friendship is born I don't think it's a spoiler to say that they do start to get on and have fun. But as with all high school style films. Lots and lots of things happen along the way to upset that journey.

43:46.84
Brian Penn
And.

43:53.79
Brian Penn
Yeah I liked it I mean look you mentioned American Pis That's obviously the template for the film isn that but there's nothing wrong with that. You know all filmmakerrs have their inferences as we said before.

43:56.84
ukfilmreview
What did you think of rosetta stoned Brian.

44:04.50
ukfilmreview
Yeah, yeah.

44:10.77
Brian Penn
I like the idea of this unlikely friendship developing between Ryan who's this cool pothead who's ah you know as far as that Edward was concerned is the is the guy with the experience. He's good with women and he he knows stuff. He knows how to do drugs and that's what draws the pair together. And the tradeoff is that you know he'll say dude. Oh I'll give you all this stuff if you if you help me with my french coursework and that kind of a initial tradeoff leads to ah, a friendship and a genuine friendship by the by the end then I think it's quite touching in some ways. You know he's got a very good heart. It has its moments some funny lines one of which was actually in the clip that you played right in the very beginning of the film when he asked one of the other other kids if he was going all the way and that's symptomatic of his social awkwardness out how he gets things wrong which I thought was a good line. Um. But yeah I like so it it was good for it was good. Fun. They got a limitedmsy budget obviously but they make it work. You know? Yeah yeah.

45:14.56
ukfilmreview
Yeah, very actually impressive for what they do on if it is a thirty K budget I believe and for a feature length. That's this ah not polished to polish the wrong word but including enough elements to make it.

45:30.14
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, and I Yeah yeah, and yeah.

45:30.99
ukfilmreview
Deserve a feature because sometimes we watch features and go do know that should have been a short I think this actually worked well as a feature because you needed that length of time to see their friendship blossom and and go through all the normal trials and tribulations that they do and yeah thirty K budget. It's very impressive and I use the scenes well because.

45:48.15
Brian Penn
The.

45:50.35
ukfilmreview
That's another thing that bugs me sometimes the independent filmmakers will do are we' going to have like 15000 um locations in our film you like but you you don't have the budget for that whereas so this I think they use the school really? Well so you you are moving location but you're you're not really and um, yeah.

45:56.10
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

46:09.00
ukfilmreview
I I thought it was really good. The the jokes were funny but I think really let you say it's that relationship. That's really the heartwarming part of it that you do joy seeing them. Ah and also when you get a bit more of the story. The background like so Ryan's got kind of like a dark background his home life is a bit rough.

46:15.44
Brian Penn
Yeah, a.

46:25.24
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

46:28.44
ukfilmreview
Like his dad and some of the things that it was oh okay, there's some depth here. There's some depth into because obviously a stone or comedy. You could very easily not do that. Um, one of my favorite scenes is where they have that first spliff together and it's just I was just killing myself laughing. Um, really enjoyed that.

46:40.69
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

46:47.31
ukfilmreview
Also sorry also reminded me of a film called ah 10 things I hate about you I'm not sure if anyone's yeah, wonderful film if you haven't seen that movie that film the soundtrack on film is in incredible I put that up they were 1 the best soundtracks of all time 10 things I hit i. Ah.

46:52.10
Brian Penn
And oh his's pleasure a pleasure for them. Yeah yeah, love that problem that yeah actually Chris if you if you go back into the volts. So of um.

47:05.23
ukfilmreview
Incredible.

47:09.48
Brian Penn
Uk Film review. We actually reviewed some things like about you on on a podcast. You might not been on it but we did review it and we we eulogized about about the film. Yeah.

47:20.24
ukfilmreview
What please go back and listen to that I will do the same I pretty sure I do remember the episode to be. Um, yeah, no really good. Um I like how the characters were really well sketched. You had this like Ryan being kind of like what lights about Ryan was that he um he had this problem with.

47:28.69
Brian Penn
Yeah, so.

47:36.97
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what? yeah.

47:37.63
ukfilmreview
Getting close to people and committing and he was very quick to get rid of you even like he has a good girlfriend who actually's very good. She gives a really good performance. It's a bit later on in the film where she really does well um, but she's he's really like quicks here people whereas Ed was really klingy. He wants to be around which is kind of obviously um.

47:50.80
Brian Penn
Me.

47:56.13
ukfilmreview
Because he's trying to be this person. He's trying to not be his socially awkward person. Um, yeah, no really good and obviously ah, the title is ah a play on words to do with that um language learning software called Rosetta stone. So yeah I think they had had a little laugh there.

47:58.21
Brian Penn
Yeah, so.

48:08.24
Brian Penn
Yeah, good. Yeah yeah, yeah.

48:14.84
ukfilmreview
Ah, um, which which is also good that my only minor criticism is the teacher the teacher the French class he has some great lines and bits that are really funny I think in the very end of that clip. We just cut it off but there's a bit where his phone goes off and there's ah a voice note that comes over which is quite funny.

48:20.43
Brian Penn
Right? yeah.

48:31.92
Brian Penn
Oh yeah, and I.

48:34.62
ukfilmreview
But I do feel he was given way too much leeway in terms of having these like ah funny anecdotes or funny parts within the classroom scenes that I just found it a bit. Okay, yeah, he's going off on another little bit that's meant to be really funny but I didn't.

48:50.11
Brian Penn
And I Yeah yeah I Yeah I I think you're right though I think you've nailed it there because he was a good character son. He had some good lines but.

48:53.11
ukfilmreview
I didn't need that as much like I think once or twice would have been fine but they they kept doing it and like every scene he was in he was given like a few minutes to just sort of make a joke scene and it was like okay.

49:09.33
Brian Penn
That character would have worked a lot better if you've been in it less often so where it yeah yeah, because yeah, becomes funny as a result because he's only it's like a vignette and he sort of Dives in Dives out again and he thought oh well that was good. You know so it becomes more of an effective cameo. But yeah I think he probably.

49:12.69
ukfilmreview
Yeah, yeah, less is more right? Just make it funnier by not having so much of it. Um.

49:23.12
ukfilmreview
Um, yeah.

49:29.10
Brian Penn
Had a bit had sort of probably more more lines than you needed as a character even though you delivered them well. But yeah, that is right.

49:33.84
ukfilmreview
It was I was fine with him I I don't mind him if he was doing that there was like the more serious scenes when he's talking to Ryan about like you're graduating and stuff like that's fine, but it when they do the the more of the jokey bits again again again I just found it. Yeah no, ah yep, yep, you've done this like let's move on but apart from that.

49:44.24
Brian Penn
Yeah, so.

49:52.27
ukfilmreview
I Actually really enjoyed Roset Stone I found it a nice little trip down memory day it even the the soundtrack was decent because they play these punk rock songs. Um I think there's quite a few different songs there for for you to listen to. But yeah, um, really really good if you want to check it out.

49:59.60
Brian Penn
Yeah.

50:10.51
ukfilmreview
Rosetta Stone has its own website and I've checked it does work as of me looking right now. Um, and it is rosetta stoned themovie dot com. Um, so yeah, you can have a look at that they have links on there for you to rent the film or watch the film. Um.

50:13.92
Brian Penn
No.

50:25.66
Brian Penn
8 So.

50:28.26
ukfilmreview
And yeah I really recommend if you're a fan of things like american pie 10 things to hear about you road trip. All those sort of films. Then yeah, you'll enjoy it. It's um, it's a good good film. Ah thumbs up thumbs up. spliffs up

50:35.74
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, thumbs up. Yeah, thumbs up. Yeah yeah.

50:45.62
ukfilmreview
Um, we're heading now South America um going to a feature film called manmbo man and again I have a clip and this one is quite funky. Let's go.

50:49.78
Brian Penn
And.

50:57.21
Brian Penn
Oh wow.

51:59.75
ukfilmreview
I was just so enjoyable I've really I was swaying. You can't see me but I was really sweating with that and also yeah, so the film is not in the English language but I think it's important sometimes to play a clip with the dialogue. So that people get a sense of the tone and things that.

52:03.10
Brian Penn
Well, ah.

52:12.76
Brian Penn
He yeah.

52:18.52
ukfilmreview
Um, and mambo man. Ah yeah, is an interesting film. Um Brian Jo to do the description as one.

52:25.16
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well look latin's an american culture is so cool isn't it the language the music the dance you know I went to irvanna for a second then when you were playing that clip I really did. Um, yeah, the storyline I think it is quite simple is quite straightforward.

52:35.18
ukfilmreview
50

52:43.00
Brian Penn
Ah, the primary character Jc Owns two loss-making farms. He also runs a famous show band specializing in the manbo quite logically um, an old friend called Roberto shows up currently living in Ecuador offers him a deal now. He's financially struggling. The local village is struggling so he sees this the way way of generating funds now this particular deal I won't dive over divorge too many details but it wasn't what I necessarily expected it' to be so be honest, um, but um, so it's a, but it's an ordinary man trying to trying to make a living freeze. For he's his wife and family his local community. Um, he say living it in in Cuba, you've got that client you you feel that cla of styles in the film that you've got the influence of communism of Castro and the fact that it is an island in the caribbe beingan. All these great sort of flavors and infers visually and or or as well. Um, but a nice straightforward story. That's as I say it's it's a man trying to make you hit make ends meet and trying to do his best for his family and but also trying to make an album as well.

53:59.51
ukfilmreview
Hey.

54:01.42
Brian Penn
Discover in the meantime but now as you say in an interesting movie. The music makes it for me every scene that you could forgive ah any shortcomings in the storyline I don't think the storyline was particularly strong or it's not as strong as it could be but maybe it wasn't needed because it's telling an honest story about a man.

54:21.26
ukfilmreview
Yeah I think you're right that that was the thing I got was especially the first half of the film was very light on any there was barely any conflict. There was no like real tangible way as to where it's going. It was really setting up the idea that this character was.

54:21.41
Brian Penn
Trying to do his best but.

54:40.86
Brian Penn
And.

54:41.80
ukfilmreview
The man of the community and he knew everyone and he'd check hands with everyone everywhere where when and he kind of felt a bit like the godfather it was oh he's like the godfather and and actually it reminded me a bit of the godfather because it's quite that bit where it goes to Italy kind of was like quite slow but almost.

54:47.90
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah I.

54:55.90
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

54:58.45
ukfilmreview
Almost a film that then becomes ah about as you said the flavor it' like the flavor and the taste of that you're kind of soaking in the environment and I was absolutely fine with that here I was kind of like um, you know what I'm enjoying just seeing I say the music's great. They're havingving food and I was just like yeah but there is very light on.

55:02.32
Brian Penn
So yeah, no, yeah, yeah.

55:16.20
Brian Penn
I.

55:16.48
ukfilmreview
Storyline in that first half and it's only really the second half where he starts to ah to go towards this deal and this this trade with the the Jewels that someone's going to sell him they kind of go. Okay, there's actually like there's a story that they want to tell here. Um.

55:25.73
Brian Penn
You you.

55:33.44
Brian Penn
I.

55:35.70
ukfilmreview
But for me, yeah, it's one of those film. That's why the clip was quite important. Actually it kind of gives you the sense of you can kind of bask in this feeling when you're watching this film and it is a film to really just in like the senses. But if you are looking for a narrative I wouldn't say it's the strongest of films around.

55:49.19
Brian Penn
No, no, no no.

55:54.51
ukfilmreview
Um, but I did enjoy it and I I think I enjoyed it from that sense of God Oh it's kind of like the godfather but in the bit like yeah, it's maybe not quite as dramatic. Um, and it's just got a big slow be water I think.

56:01.17
Brian Penn
It? Yeah yeah, ah, you know it it works because that's the same I mean the first thing that strike issue is that you know latin american culture there something about it. That you can't define. It's very stylish and that the visuals work the music works. It's almost like they thought themselves right? We'll put. We'll put a storyline in there but we don't need to worry too much because because you're drinking in the atmosphere. The visuals are great. The sounds are great, but. Can't go wrong in that way. But yeah, you know I I just feel the story could have been beefed up a bit more but that's somewhere in a quibble because it's a nice way to spend an hour on aaron a quarter. Whatever it was. You know it's very nice, very nice film. So.

56:53.70
ukfilmreview
Yeah, um, and hats off ah to the filmmakers I think it's one of those films that feels like a passion project for like there's a lot of love. That's been poured into there. Um, and yeah, you could easily see.

57:00.90
Brian Penn
The the.

57:09.17
ukfilmreview
Yeah, doing another story but maybe something a bit more narrative based but as it is. It's a nice film to to gorge on really? um, yeah, manbo man available I think you can rent it on prime video. So it's available there but they also do have a website. Ah.

57:10.96
Brian Penn
It Yeah, it's cool. It's cool.

57:29.90
ukfilmreview
Manboman Filml Dot Com and it's loads of information on there all about the film and the the filmmakers Mo Finney and Atdicio Alejandro so yeah go and check it out. Go watch the trailer at least we've reviewed it on the website as well.

57:45.72
Brian Penn
Yeah.

57:47.93
ukfilmreview
Ah, yeah, go and gorge yourself on that and let us know if you do watch it be great to hear your your feedback on Mamboman Um, okay now next up we are going through a wow it was listed when. It was put through it as a short film but I actually think it's just in the realm of a feature. Um, which is swords of Justice too Now. This is what's known as a fan film? Um, but we're going to play you a clip now from the movie and then we're goingnna review.

58:07.12
Brian Penn
And.

58:23.33
ukfilmreview
So here we go sort of Justice to.

01:00:01.20
ukfilmreview
Okay, so sorts of justice to written by directed by and starring Adam Odaf and yeah we we reviewed part one on the website you hear from review before. Ah, but they've now released this part two and it's a as say it's a fan film. Um, which is very important to sort of understand so it's to do with um a turkish tv series known as kuulus osman.

01:00:23.27
Brian Penn
Um.

01:00:36.81
ukfilmreview
I didn't understand that when I was first watching it I was like okay, it's like a medieval film very low budget. But then I understood that actually they were riffing on something that was pre-existing that they were kind of as I say ah showing their their love for um, is it's low budget and.

01:00:36.87
Brian Penn
So there.

01:00:45.64
Brian Penn
The.

01:00:55.53
ukfilmreview
If I was honest, a story was quite hard to grasp. But you Brian did you grasp the story of this.

01:00:57.44
Brian Penn
Yeah, not really to be honest I struggled with it. it' is's dealing with a period of history that I absolutely know nothing about byanstein s sojuk and monggolia empires I'm sorry to say. It's not It's not a period of history I understand that well and that for me that made me struggle with it even more. Um, but you get you get the you kind of get the vibe. Don't you you get the the gist ah of what's happening there and why it's happening. Um. You know I never saw the first parts to be honest, which I think was a lot shorter wasn't it than the the second part. Um, one thing I would say though is that the ah the costumes are excellent. They really look authentic. Ah, the music was the soundtrack was really good and they'd done this literally on a shoestring of a budget i't how they managed it.

01:01:39.30
ukfilmreview
Yeah.

01:01:49.14
Brian Penn
Because so I was reading online that they I don't worry, but it's accurate. They spent $1000 on on the on the phone. Yeah, but very good thug I mean I mean whoever did the costumes you know this serves huge credit because.

01:01:55.52
ukfilmreview
Yeah, um I know I know it's low budget but I'm not I'm not sure and I can say I was very impressed by the the costumes in particular.

01:02:08.20
Brian Penn
They look real. They look all fencing and that really helps over a while I thought it was a good effort when you look at what the resources they have at their disposal and that it is paying how much to ah another Tv series that I didn't know about either to be honest, um, but a good effort. I think some of the combat sequences were a bit hesitant where they were fighting each other but um, that's that's a line a quibble I I guess it's the it's the spirit isn't it. It's what the is the the passion they're they're trying to convey of. And within the characters. So I accept that but no look a good a good effort but you know it it does what it's what it sets out to do so.

01:02:56.20
ukfilmreview
Yeah I think the the understanding of it obviously is going to be enhanced if you've seen the Tv show. Um, yeah, go back and watch the the first part of the film or at least read the review on our website there. The.

01:03:00.74
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, so.

01:03:12.25
ukfilmreview
Situation when films like this come along for me I'm always I always judge a film based on what they choose to do and and what they what story they want to tell I did find the story quite hard to grasp in this one So that's that I struggled with but like so I like the spirit of it I like the um.

01:03:15.60
Brian Penn
I No yeah yeah.

01:03:27.36
ukfilmreview
They were really passionate about the scenes there were some I quite like some of the choreography in the fight scenes there were bits that were a bit like oh okay, yeah, they clearly don't have the budget to do that. But there were no other bits that were like oh wow that's quite cool I say was 1 bit which really did lift me out of the film there were they were shooting this scene on a bridge.

01:03:34.96
Brian Penn
And then the yeah.

01:03:45.68
ukfilmreview
But in the background you could see cars so or you didn't spot I spotted it. It was like they were they were shooting the scene on a bridge and it's meant to be like obviously this sort of you know scene with these bygone eras. But then yeah in the background you could just see cars obviously near a highway or whatever and I just thought.

01:03:46.76
Brian Penn
Oh right? No never spied that Really oh I is see that. Yeah yeah, yeah.

01:04:05.24
ukfilmreview
Well someone obviously they didn't You didn't notice it so that's fine and but someone chose to film that scene there and film that way that I just thought you didn't have to that's not to do with budget. That's not a budget thing. That's ah, you've not thought that through you haven't thought yeah you that slipped through you didn't.

01:04:06.65
Brian Penn
Oh.

01:04:14.16
Brian Penn
Yeah.

01:04:20.88
Brian Penn
It's a slit. Yeah that I slips out.

01:04:24.64
ukfilmreview
Or you've gone to know. Actually we want to use this location. We want to use that angle so much that we don't care that there's cars in the background. Ah in which case then I I do sort of question it. But I think overall if you're making because I think about yeah, what would I make a fan film about.

01:04:27.46
Brian Penn
In.

01:04:41.78
Brian Penn
I Yeah yeah for oil Actually yeah.

01:04:44.17
ukfilmreview
It would be something that I absolutely adore like I love Harry Potter I I love adam sander films to be honest, you know I'd be a you know? Ah I'd love a fan film but happy gil more? um that yeah if I try to do it. It would be absolutely terrible because I just don't know what I'm doing I don't and I don't have the same kind of you.

01:05:00.37
Brian Penn
I.

01:05:03.97
ukfilmreview
Attention and passion that these guys have they've made something that is is very good with using the resources they have I Just think there is clearly room for improvement and also they can think about.

01:05:08.80
Brian Penn
It Yeah thinks yeah.

01:05:20.30
ukfilmreview
Things that aren't necessarily budgetary. It's not budgetary to go. Okay, yeah, but where's the camera pointed because this makes sure there's nothing in the background and also let's not much like the film we review previously. Let's not forget to tell a story because at the end of the day. That's what film is it is storytelling that.

01:05:28.90
Brian Penn
Um.

01:05:31.83
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:38.57
ukfilmreview
You can get lost in all of the fight scenes and battle scenes and and all that stuff that you know don't forget that the audience is going to want some character is going to want some information about what's going on. Um, but yeah, no hats off for the aesthetic like it costumes the music really good. Um, there's a few scenes where they used I think there was um.

01:05:45.94
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:57.88
ukfilmreview
Stop videos like through the woods and things like that they actually looked really good I was actually suits really well. The tone of the film. Um, but yeah, no, it was. It was a good effort solid effort and there were bits that you people will enjoy I think Swords of Justice to I say we've.

01:05:59.39
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah, good estimate. Yeah yeah, course Absolutely yeah, good.

01:06:17.16
ukfilmreview
Done a review so you can go and read that on our website and if you want to check out more about the film. There is an Instagram page I think for the filmmaker or it's for the production company. So yeah, good Instagram and it's. Ah, raday prod. So RAD a e p r d d s so yeah they're on Youtube there's lots of clips and things for you to go and view I think the clip we watch was public I believe um I might be wrong on that.

01:06:47.82
Brian Penn
Oh.

01:06:51.81
ukfilmreview
But um, yeah, you'd be able to search it out online and have a look and watch it for yourself. It's about fifty odd minutes I think um so yeah, that's what made me think is not quite a short a short I always think is being under 50 Um, but yeah, um, so I think you can judge it as a fan film really.

01:06:57.81
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:07:04.35
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:07:11.51
ukfilmreview
And it won't take up too long. You can go and check out moving on now to our final of the indie films. Um David Camper's ah, feature film straight through crew and we have a clip and this one but a pre warning because this one is. Very heavy on the swears, get ready for this.

01:07:29.61
Brian Penn
Oh right? Thank you.

01:08:13.38
ukfilmreview
So ah, indie each film from David Campion called straight through crew and yeah I reviewed a film by David Camp a long time ago about 2015 called wood fools and really enjoyed it really good film. Really solid filmmaking.

01:08:23.66
Brian Penn
That right.

01:08:30.38
ukfilmreview
And it has a very similar vibe to this? Um, so yeah, 100% recommend checking out and also this I enjoyed straight through crew and I wish I'd read the bio of this before I I sort of wrote my notes because he sums it up perfectly with 2 words which is.

01:08:33.93
Brian Penn
Ah.

01:08:46.75
Brian Penn
So yeah, sounds right? right? yeah.

01:08:49.69
ukfilmreview
Rural hedonism that is absolutely spot on for what this film is about so you've got this group of friends. Um, living in a small town and a girl comes back for Christmas who used to be 1 of the people that hung around with them and. It's all about this sort of like where are you in your life at this point now. So so she's moved to London and is yeah meant to be presenting this idea that she's doing really well Jamie played by Jessica Pret Pice um is meant to be doing really well and. Living the life and all these people living back in her small hometown are kind of just like yeah, not successful as her. It's not something she kind of sort of says it's just so a vibe that sort of permeates this their their group and their friendship but she comes back for Christmas and essentially they get together for.

01:09:32.40
Brian Penn
And.

01:09:45.14
ukfilmreview
A variety of drugs and alcohol. It becomes a whole splurging of hedonism. Ah, yeah, that is the best word I wish I had that word in my notes. Um, and yeah, there's lots of sort of scenes of.

01:09:51.81
Brian Penn
And yeah I.

01:10:03.49
Brian Penn
And.

01:10:04.10
ukfilmreview
Drama between the characters. There's drug taking things get quite sort of odd and strange. Um and Jamie used to go out the character called aden played by charlesradock and the two of them have this kind of like intense homecoming experience. But he's also going out with someone else. So.

01:10:11.10
Brian Penn
And.

01:10:23.46
ukfilmreview
Yeah, there's there's a few other characters involved. They all kind of make sure they get hold of some narcotics whenever they can and they make sure that they get to the Christmas party where they're all going to get off their heads as the kids say um and yeah.

01:10:29.82
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, no yeah, not a Christmas film. No.

01:10:40.54
ukfilmreview
Essentially, it's not really a Christmas film I wouldn't say it is a Christmas it's set at Christmas but it's not really a Christmas film. Um, but what are you remind me of because you get these coming of age films. They're very. It's a genre upon itself, but this film felt like more like a of age film. It was like.

01:10:51.43
Brian Penn
There.

01:10:58.63
ukfilmreview
Characters that are that came of age did all the things that they would have done then they went off and kind of became adults and then they're sort of like not that far into adulthood and they've realized oh yeah, what this is sort of where we're at now and we're still doing these things that we did when we were like 17 Um and all the drama and all this sort of.

01:10:59.73
Brian Penn
Button. Yeah.

01:11:09.48
Brian Penn
Me and.

01:11:17.47
ukfilmreview
Antics that go on with that. What did you think of straight through crew Brian.

01:11:19.77
Brian Penn
Yeah I thought it was good very good I Love the title the film as well straight through crew that is that's got something about it and you know sometimes film titles can be a big help in helping to promote the film and have you ever heard of a film called straight through crew before I haven't.

01:11:39.18
ukfilmreview
No I was I wasn't sure quite what it meant? Um I feel that it well. Okay, good I don't know if it's going to have something to do with drug taking that's gonna make us sound like 2 old ges. So yeah here.

01:11:39.28
Brian Penn
You know, no I'm still trying to work that one out It's very subtle obviously. But.

01:11:48.53
Brian Penn
Ah, yeah I know I know that's the problem isn't it hey we're gonna get cool out aren't we yeah and but no I really enjoyed it. Um, very strong characters I like the dynamic between Jamie and Aden that's still there because she goes off to London. She starts living a new life then she comes back and the the old sort of romantic tension starts to bubble away again doesn't it between the servant and I like the way that you know they they have common friends who all feel a bit awkward. They don't know whose sight to be on you know. Ah, think we can all recognize a situation like that can't we as well. Um, but no I think it was very well done. Um, the um, but the 2 were the 2 key keywords that you use to describe it rural hedonism you see hedhenism or heonism a that.

01:12:39.80
ukfilmreview
Well I say hedonism by think can say whatever you on I mean? yeah yeah, but's say well we have job Ats.

01:12:45.25
Brian Penn
I'll go for hedonism if you're saying here. Yeah, all right then fair enough. Yeah now I thought I thought it was very good though I Love the way the the characters interreate with each other I Love that kind of tension. That's there between them. Yeah, very good, very impressed with it actually. But.

01:13:02.63
ukfilmreview
1 thing I found very impressive from a filmmaking point of view and this is something I'm I don't often talk about but I notice is filmmakers that are happier to let scenes breathe a bit um indie filmmakers I think maybe because of.

01:13:13.82
Brian Penn
So.

01:13:20.22
ukfilmreview
Being worried about you all the different aspects of what they're trying to do often are quite heavy on the cutting like they'll cut scenes and they don't let them sit whereas with with straight throughugh crew. There's bits where like For example, there's a dancing scene at the rave that they go to and they're just he just lets it play for quite a while.

01:13:27.54
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:13:36.39
Brian Penn
Yeah.

01:13:39.46
ukfilmreview
For enough time to to actually s sinknc into it and it's a really master class move where you don't It's not something that people I don't know who who don't You know we go into depth on films. But I noticed that I Ah he's really let that just sit long enough for the right amount of time.

01:13:48.93
Brian Penn
You know.

01:13:56.89
ukfilmreview
For you to be really in the moment and I I was really impressed with ah lots of really great dialogue and the characters are very believable. There's a wonderful chemistry I think between them you know much like Rotta stone we reviewed earlier. There's this sort of dynamic between younger Ish characters.

01:14:01.45
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:14:07.17
Brian Penn
Yeah, the.

01:14:14.29
ukfilmreview
And it kind of felt quite genuine. Um, yeah I didn't watch it but it reminded me of skins I know skins was a Tv show and I sort of had seen bits and bobs of it and characters sort of doing these things and it kind of was back in that world. But this.

01:14:22.17
Brian Penn
Ah, right? Yeah yeah.

01:14:30.46
ukfilmreview
Was very much a product of the filmmaker because like I said about wood fools This film had the director stamp on it like it has a color to it. There's like this sort of quite intimate framings at times and there's like a color tint on it that just feels like it's um yeah, if it was really intense and.

01:14:36.30
Brian Penn
So. Yeah, yeah.

01:14:50.22
ukfilmreview
That I think was reflecting the sort of age and experience of the characters like this the because yeah, as watching this is someone in the thirty you go? Oh yeah, clearly this is way too much drama for me I would have I been asleep in the corner. Yeah know is it cat corner. Whatever it was I'd be in there. Um, but with the characters that are like.

01:14:53.13
Brian Penn
Yeah, pop.

01:14:59.22
Brian Penn
I Don't know the the.

01:15:09.58
ukfilmreview
You know this to them is is pure life all the angst and all the vibrating emotions that go with it. It very much is their world and they're so into it that yeah the the filmmaking kind of reflected that really well. Yeah.

01:15:12.98
Brian Penn
In the.

01:15:20.93
Brian Penn
You You sense that the yaktss no understand their characters really well you know which you think would be obvious for all all axes but they plugged into the characters and they just seem very natural and very believable as well and that's something that really comes through really strongly that. Comfortable with the characters they're playing. They understand them. They get them and if you've got actors that understand the characters they're playing it becomes much more effective and cohesive in the way it comes across like very good, very good. Yeah.

01:15:53.61
ukfilmreview
For very good. There was also a few little references to Christmas films which I always enjoy. Um so that tick to box for me. Ah, it did should to Christmas. Yeah.

01:15:57.37
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, didn't mention shockly though I did it but disappointing that but there yeah hey that but it was good though.

01:16:08.80
ukfilmreview
I mean that's not really been done as a Christmas chocolate I thought deserves its own film. Um, yeah, yeah, no, it was good straight through crew is one of those films that as soon as I settled into it. Yeah I know I'm in for a good time. You felt incapable hands the whole time. The acting was really strong. Um I think across the board.

01:16:15.15
Brian Penn
Yeah, enjoy the yeah.

01:16:19.90
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:16:27.55
ukfilmreview
There's a lovely little subplot about one of their friends who ends up with he just stays in the local sort of social club ah drinking with it with an older lady and he's just yeah, just gets completely curtailed off and we've all got friends like that you got a night out you go what happened to you like oh I I was playing pool with some random person. Um.

01:16:32.71
Brian Penn
I All right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they get I get diversity done. Yeah, and yeah.

01:16:46.82
ukfilmreview
And I love that that is is picking up on and I grew up in a rural area. So this was very reflective of that like you got nothing better to do than to yeah, get high and just enjoy the night because nothing else is going to happen. Um.

01:16:50.26
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah.

01:16:58.35
Brian Penn
Click the.

01:17:02.20
ukfilmreview
But then also it it didn't shy away from the dark side of that like we see what happens to Aidan and his state of mind and all the things that he gets himself into that. It's it's not afraid to to showcase that as well. It's not all about a good time sort of thing.

01:17:05.92
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, it. Yeah yeah, it's disturbing in but places wasn't it. It's quite disturbing in places. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:17.89
ukfilmreview
Yeah, there was bits that were like oh that's that's quite terrifying know what was he's going through. So yeah, there is lots to it. Um by hundred percent recommend it I'm definitely a strong recommendation. The film was on a ah password protected link. So don't think it's available.

01:17:28.59
Brian Penn
I.

01:17:37.46
ukfilmreview
Um, but there is an Instagram page black math pictures or 1 word or you can obviously check out our review and everything like that. But yeah, the the director is David Campion and yeah, hats off him. Fabulous fabulous job there. Really good now.

01:17:56.20
ukfilmreview
With the release of Furio and next month we decided to travel back not to the first mad max fury road film with Tom Hardy we went way back. We went back all the way to the 70 s.

01:18:05.95
Brian Penn
You? Yeah yeah, yeah, that a goodbye describing. Actually it's so yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:18:11.26
ukfilmreview
to to Mel Gibson who is you know he is the 70 s Tom Hardy really isn't he. That's what he he was. He was building himself up to to become that um or was it the other way around and yeah, um, so mad max ah, which.

01:18:24.60
Brian Penn
I was going sny. Yeah, it's something the right way around. Okay.

01:18:30.41
ukfilmreview
It's available currently on now Tv again, we're not affiliated with them. But it's just where you can watch it if you've got a subscription there. It's also available I think on prime if you pay for it. So um, yeah, if you wouldn't you take this one Brian Mad Max what's it about go for it.

01:18:45.59
Brian Penn
What's it about then it directs by George Miller starring Mel Gibson of courses John Samuel Hugh Keyesburnne um like you know what I was too young to see this film when it first came now it was an a six could add an 18 racing. You know you watch it online now you see the ah the banner. The health warning come up. Don't you.

01:19:01.32
ukfilmreview
There.

01:19:03.38
Brian Penn
You know and this one says nu to see violence alcohol use smoking foul language and sexual content I mean I was gonna say anything guarantee to make me watch. It wouldn't put me off, let's put it that way. But anyway I was too years to see it in seventeen Nine only just not by March but so.

01:19:08.89
ukfilmreview
There is rule my favorite things.

01:19:21.96
Brian Penn
Ah, simple storyline again. What I feel was a simple storyline Australia setting setting Australia many years in the future has plunged into anarchy there. There have been numerous wars and famines ah of various descriptions and we we see we have before us the desolate landscape max. Rockin tasks Rointansky plays a police officer who hunts down the killer of his wife and child I think that's probably it in a nutshell isn't it really? um, but still got it. You know the film has still got it. It still packs a punch. It still has that edge and. Like so many film franchises first cuts to the deepest Chris aren't they really and I think it's a very good film and even I see 79 it's forty four years old now. It doesn't look dated in that way. This film could have been made today. It could have been made.

01:20:16.12
ukfilmreview
No definitely holds up. Yeah, and I think that's one of the benefits of making a film that's sort of dystopian right? because I think it's like a version of what a future world might look like that it doesn't necessarily date because if they said it in present day.

01:20:20.56
Brian Penn
My Sly easy. Yeah, yeah.

01:20:34.78
ukfilmreview
Sydney or whatever you kind of go all right? Well yeah, it clearly looks dated. Um, and I watched this in tandem with the Tom Hardy pure furry road that came out and is interesting kind of comparing the two because they are dealing obviously with the same world. I haven't seen the ones in between there were some films after this wasn't there like with Gibson and there's a few other mad max up I haven't have you seen those? Yeah I didn't know that wow um, but.

01:20:56.42
Brian Penn
Yeah, it I've seen them but not recently I mean Tina Suron was in one wasn't she she was on sea entity for I remember Riley. Yeah yeah.

01:21:10.44
ukfilmreview
But just going on the two that I've seen it was like okay yeah I know I'm in the same world but they are vastly different in terms of the way that they're presented.

01:21:13.26
Brian Penn
It and yeah, yeah, well it moves on though doesn't it the any any franchiser I mean I have to accept graduallydg that franchises are are are the way forward, but um, certain films out today that. Conform with franchise aren't my thing but this is because the characters are actually quite strong. You know the the um I mean we touched on we reviewed guysbusters frozen empire earlier on which is a film franchise that started at the same time. See back then they seemed to have more weight and more characters. Ah you know they were stronger. They were funnier. They were brighter. This isn't there aren't many laughs in mad max but you know as ah as as an action movie. It's excellent. It really? well wasn't Mel Gibson young in this film as well.

01:22:07.75
ukfilmreview
Yeah, know he it took me a little while Toap Melkibson is that him? Um, yeah, he looks very fresh faced. Um, then there is how yeah.

01:22:08.87
Brian Penn
Does he look old enough to drive a car even you know do his parents know he know he's out driving a co and a Mo blake you know? well.

01:22:22.61
ukfilmreview
Have they seen the list of things that this film contains I mean it's it's like my it's like my Christmas list. Um, yeah now I I did enjoy it and I found that um I can say I think because of the genre it lends itself to to not feel dated because it's ah okay, it's like.

01:22:24.21
Brian Penn
Yeah, know exactly. But yeah.

01:22:39.95
ukfilmreview
Sci-fi really is just dystopian world that you can submit yourself into there are parts that I did find um a bit more kind of like it just felt they were limited because they would be. It's an action film.

01:22:40.73
Brian Penn
And.

01:22:55.35
Brian Penn
And.

01:22:57.58
ukfilmreview
Yeah, that was filmed in the 70 s but there's certain bits was oh okay, they've cut that quite badly or they've this off. Yeah when you compare it to fury road the new one. It was like oh yeah, their worlds apart because that fear is so slick so fast. So bizarre yeah.

01:23:00.47
Brian Penn
Yeah.

01:23:10.80
Brian Penn
It's yeah it yeah it it's rough and ready isn't it. It's it's ah it's kind of almost like you know it's the equivalent in in pop music to a demo isn't it. It feels like it's It's got that kind of demo cut type fill.

01:23:24.68
ukfilmreview
Yeah, oh I hundred percent and actually a film that it reminded me of not so much storywise but just tonally was um, a clockwork orange because when you watch that you get the sense of it being anarchic and.

01:23:26.44
Brian Penn
But you may well say that's the charm. That's the quality that it that comes through and.

01:23:35.66
Brian Penn
Oh right? Yeah yeah, you.

01:23:42.51
ukfilmreview
And it does I feel like at 1 point it feels like a product of its time but it also feels kind of it can try. You traverse those those decades and you can still enjoy it. Um, they just I got a little bit of that. It's just I think it's one of those films that.

01:23:48.32
Brian Penn
Ah.

01:23:51.10
Brian Penn
I.

01:23:59.56
ukfilmreview
If you're a fan of this ongoing um franchise much like ghostbusters I think you have to go and watch this one I it made me want to watch the others as well I was kind of like oh I might check out they were ah you could get them on Amazon but you got paid for them I was like.

01:24:01.69
Brian Penn
And. No.

01:24:15.55
ukfilmreview
I'll see if I find myself at a loss on like a Friday Saturday night I might just so put one on if I'm not enjoying any rural hedonism that is you know I might might be doing that hedonism headonism ah headit is yeah.

01:24:20.72
Brian Penn
Yeah, well yeah I mean nothing's gonna match about rural Hedonism Heonism Hedonism I'm going with hedonism. You know you can you can have hehenism I'll have hedonism. Yeah, um.

01:24:34.26
ukfilmreview
Yeah I think that's the most important part of this whole show. This whole episode is how do you pronounce it. Everyone get in touch come on. We'll do it. We do a we'll do a poll someone who? um, yeah, hate and isn't here.

01:24:36.59
Brian Penn
Yeah, yeah, and I yeah I'm chosen Someone's gonna know aren like someone someone's gonna be definitive and say it's probably neither I bet. Um I bet it's hyyonism or something like that. Yeah yeah.

01:24:52.45
ukfilmreview
Although I like that hadonism I like it. Um, well if this has been enough hedonism for you? Um, we hope you've enjoyed the episode. Um yeah, covered a lot of films and thank you to all the indie filmmakers who sent us their movies to be reviewed. Thank you Brian for covering.

01:24:55.20
Brian Penn
Yeah.

01:25:11.78
ukfilmreview
The cinema releases. Um, what was your film with the month

01:25:13.25
Brian Penn
It's a pleasure as always film of the month ah right well yeah the 3 will we looked so they're all equally good. But I think if I had to pick one. It'd be ghostbusters frozen empire.

01:25:23.88
ukfilmreview
Wow pure entertainment they should put that on the poster if they haven't done the poster yet which I think they probably have but they haven't put on their pure entertainment from Brian all right? Yeah, they might not know which Brian might and they.

01:25:25.92
Brian Penn
For pure for peer sustainment and haven't from in brackets Uk Film review film. Yeah well yeah, know you never like I mean there are lots Sprys around. It's.

01:25:41.70
ukfilmreview
They might think it's Brian blessed or something.

01:25:45.94
Brian Penn
It's becoming a surprising popular name when with with son. So yeah I see you don't know what I could be doing in my spare time. Do you really? yeah name. Ah.

01:25:47.84
ukfilmreview
And I've not seen you and Brian blessed in the same room. So just same just same. There is you heard it here first. Brian is Brian blessed. Um, he's not there. Thank you for listening.

01:26:01.81
Brian Penn
Um, yeah I'm not there. Yeah.

01:26:04.10
ukfilmreview
To Uk Film Club we are part of the Uk Film Review Podcast Umbrella so there are other shows that you can go enjoy such as Amber and Joyce's terrific Lg B Two q plus show gay actually um, they did a fabulous review of Priscilla recently. Um.

01:26:20.93
Brian Penn
Um, yeah, with yeah with Ter Stump was man was it turns thumb. Yeah, very good. Yeah, good.

01:26:21.82
ukfilmreview
Queen yeah queen of the desert. You know the original um the the drag film. Um, yeah, um, and they covered that film brilliantly. Really terrific episode to do go and and listen to that. Um, you've also got. Other shows such as the scream test with Rachel. So if you're a horror fan. She's done some incredible episodes on some classic horror franchises. There's also the phantom zone. Ah so it's Chris Ian and the gang. Um.

01:26:49.13
Brian Penn
So.

01:26:54.67
ukfilmreview
And yeah, they recently reviewed ah the captain america film. Um the winter soldier which I couldn't believe was ten years old and it's getting really worrying now when these Marvel films are making me feel old. Um, yeah.

01:26:59.39
Brian Penn
Ah.

01:27:02.72
Brian Penn
So really? yeah, yeah, films do that though, don't know you look you just I mean one of the first things I look for in a film What year was it made when I'm just sort of reading about it and you think oh my.

01:27:11.25
ukfilmreview
Really terrifying.

01:27:21.75
Brian Penn
God is it really that one we are.

01:27:24.60
ukfilmreview
I mean and also life is so short Basically think life's so short. But really the only best way to spend that is by listening to our podcast. So thank you to everyone who has listened. We are very very grateful and yeah dude, um.

01:27:29.29
Brian Penn
Absolutely.

01:27:38.23
Brian Penn
I.

01:27:39.50
ukfilmreview
Drop us a comment get in touch. Always nice to hear from you and thank you to anyone that did send in comments and and you about the films that we've reviewed and yeah means a lot to us. But yeah, this is um, end of the episode. Thank you so much for listening and we'll we'll see you again next time.

01:27:54.94
Brian Penn
Bye for now.