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Read the film podcast transcript from the episode titled UK Film Club 009 - Killers Of The Flower Moon - The Great Escaper - The Conference - The Omen on UK Film Club part of the UK Film Review Podcast. < Back UK Film Club 009 - Killers Of The Flower Moon - The Great Escaper - The Conference - The Omen Listen to This Episode UK Film Club 00:00.00 ukfilmreview Excellent, but generally Brian how have you have you found the last month you know the whole worlds go to pot. Are you? okay. 00:00.00 Brian Penn So good. 00:07.37 Brian Penn Well I tend to be an interested blindstander. Really Chris you know I I like to watch and listen and you know there chaos all around us isn't it. However, you look at it and we we see some of that chaos unfolding on the big screen. Don't we. Because you know films are a reflection of the era that we live in you know and in years to come. They'll be watching films that are made today that give that will give future generations a window into the way people lived years ago but you know I ah, um, of course I'm concerned for the things that are going on in the world. We all are we all want the world to be a safe and happy place. Don't we but there's so much trouble everywhere you look isn't that but I'd I'd say I try not to be too affected by it. You know I don't I'm watching less news now than I used to watch I used to watch the news religiously you know, but now. 00:58.82 ukfilmreview Um. 01:00.65 Brian Penn Maybe I I'll just skip this episode this you know because there's so much bad stuff going on. So I tend to ration what I watch and what I read now in terms of news but you see it's so difficult to avoid now isn't it. We got 24 and rolling news everywhere you look. So it's impossible to avoid isn't it really. 01:18.70 ukfilmreview It It is and obviously technology has made it incredibly accessible and it's made it almost um, allowed it to poke at you? Yeah, you like say before you could choose whether or not to put the news on or to pick up a newspaper but now like my phone will tell me like. 01:24.87 Brian Penn Thanks. 01:32.87 Brian Penn Yeah I know yeah I know I know it's all it's almost unsolicited isn't it really where you see all the and artist just don't know you wonder whether it's a good thing or not I suppose it is you know knowledge is power information is power and all that sort of thing. But. 01:33.78 ukfilmreview Oh this has happened you know I didn't even I didn't even ask like why are you telling me that. 01:51.46 Brian Penn Do we really need to know this much you know Well I. 01:52.38 ukfilmreview Oh so someone once told me because obviously the idea of being informed I think that's 1 thing but then there's this other like I think much bigger part of the news which is. Can you actually do anything about this like physically is yeah, is it even within your realm of possibility to have any influence on what is what you're seeing what's going on and I think when you ask yourself that question like because it does yeah drum all these. 02:12.18 Brian Penn Yeah. 02:19.42 Brian Penn You. 02:20.62 ukfilmreview Fears and anxieties within people and it makes it compulsive. It makes you want to go back and really get into more of it and I don't think that's healthy. You know I think I same as you I generally have cut down loads on what I assume especially when you do start to see history repeating itself like I've lived long enough now. 02:31.68 Brian Penn The. 02:38.98 Brian Penn Ah, me. 02:39.46 ukfilmreview To kind of see things I'm like oh okay, they're doing that. That's the way they're presenting that and that's the way they presented this other thing ten years ago that was about the same thing and you kind of are like yeah that they're shaping a narrative that obviously they know works. It's a formula and and everything and I think you do get a bit cynical to it. 02:41.30 Brian Penn Yeah, there the night there. 02:51.73 Brian Penn The the yeah I and it probably works the opposite way because I mean news is there to inform us and make us wiser and helps us understand the way the world works but when you give. 02:57.32 ukfilmreview Ah feel. Well. 03:09.45 Brian Penn People too much information. They almost fret and they panic and they worry when years ago they probably wouldn't have done quite as much when when they rationed the news they controlled what people saw and heard now it's a free for isn't it really? you can't control what people see what people hear now because it's all online. 03:28.54 ukfilmreview And you're right about the you know the way that Cinema reflects the time and yeah, it would be interesting to see this period and it's also interesting. Um and actually this comes up in one of the films we're going to review tonight about. 03:28.77 Brian Penn No, he. 03:41.78 ukfilmreview The way in which technology has affected storytelling in a very literal in a very kind of literal sense because the devices and by which I mean the sort of techniques that filmmakers and storytellers would have used. They now have if they want to make a film or tell a story in the modern age they have to obviously. 03:47.90 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 03:54.74 Brian Penn News. 04:01.84 ukfilmreview Incorporate technology which throws up loads of obstacles because it's like yeah for example, we're we're going to be doing a couple of horror films in this in this episode that horror is one of those things where everyone watching it just goes Oh well I would just do this. 04:03.44 Brian Penn Ah, yeah, yeah. 04:17.23 ukfilmreview And if you've got like a mobile phone you kind of go. Oh yeah, you you kind of would have got away out out of that trouble situation quite easily. Yeah. 04:17.29 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, and I and know and I and I it's a being almost being 2 wise though isn't it. You know it's I mean as critics where where there ah to sort of. Analyze things a bit a bit more closely and think right? How well does that hold together. But it can go to another extreme Though. Can't it as Well. You know and that's what's interesting about it. But you know I've always been very um, ambivalent about new technology and the way films are made. Because special effects are there to enhance the story but not dominate it and that's always been my my bugbear about but about effects and and technology in films. 05:03.35 ukfilmreview Yeah, it's interest in the way that that is it also ah really impacting the industry that we're seeing because funny enough that the quality of the films that we're watching and revering tonight, especially the short has really gone up like because I've been doing this now for. 05:13.63 Brian Penn Now. 05:21.33 ukfilmreview 10 years in terms of doing the indie film reviews and the standard is so high now of short films and the slickness of the production and yeah before you really could tell if someone was an amateur filmmaker like now I'm like. 05:22.51 Brian Penn Now. 05:30.84 Brian Penn Is. 05:37.40 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 05:39.70 ukfilmreview This looks like it was made by like you know Scorsese or something. Oh. 05:40.26 Brian Penn Yeah, and I where you see see the thing is now they they don't look like indie films anymore you know we will. We will have an understanding of what we mean by indie by an indie band or an indie film that it's very rough and ready. It's Basic. It's raw but it's got something going for it. But there even. What we would call indie films now are becoming very polished I think which is you know? Yeah yeah. 06:01.39 ukfilmreview Yeah I think that's that it's becoming difficult to know isn't it. Yeah, like when you see something so polished that you're like well the the reason why they weren't polished before is because they were independent of the studios who had all the money who were making them look slick. 06:12.22 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh right. 06:16.95 ukfilmreview But now anyone can make a film look pretty slick if they've got access to the internet and um, yeah, but funny enough I mentioned Scorsese and he is where we're going to kick off the episode in just a second. But if this is your first time to UKFilm club just want to say quick hello and welcome. Um. 06:31.59 Brian Penn Hello. 06:35.70 ukfilmreview If you are new to the format the way it works is Brian my lovely assistant um is ah going to ah be reviewing the films at the cinema um, then we're going to do a streaming pick so that's ah, a film that is on a streaming platform followed by that will be. Our reviews of some indie films and these are films that people have specifically sent us to review. They've actually asked us to review these ones. Um, and then we finish up with a film called the nostalgia pic now and the nostalgia pick is one where it's from. We're not recing a firm rule but it has to be at least say. 07:12.72 Brian Penn Is. 07:13.89 ukfilmreview 1015 years old or more. Um, um as this is our October episode we are going to be doing a horror film and well but. 07:20.55 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 07:25.48 ukfilmreview But before that and we're going to get to Scorsese's latest film and I'm gonna read the imdb title on this because as Brian knows I keep getting the title of this completely wrong? Um, it's not killer flowers ah of the moon. Um, or yeah or flower moons of the killers. 07:35.91 Brian Penn Ah, easy done easy done. 07:41.57 Brian Penn Ah, close. That's the one that's the chapy yeah, okay then so this is the much anticipated new film directed by Marci Corese starring Leonardo Dicaprio 07:44.70 ukfilmreview Is killers of the flower moon over to you right. 07:57.67 Brian Penn Robert De Niro and Lillly Gladstone so what's the story well it's about ernest burkehart returns home from the first world war and joins his uncle William King Hale his uncle assumes the role of benefactor to a native red indian tribe known as e sargi. Ingratiates himself and learns to speak their language but has a secret agenda to gain control of the end of the tribe's wealth how encourages ernest to get friendly with Molly Kyle and asagey whose family owns most of the old land rights a romance eventually develops and they are married. So. It's a good film. A very good film. It's scorelacey. It's the near eye. It's the caprio that might be all, you need to know. But I'm not sure why it's won so many plaudits the length of this film just drains the energy. Um. It's three and a half hours long to watch his film at the cinema you need to block out the best part of the day you do I mean you you include the trailers you're talking about 4 hours sitting still right now. It's interesting because some slots offer you a 15 minute break in between I didn't go for that because I thought I don't want to. Be there for another 15 minutes even if I do get the chart the chance to stretch my legs but I think it is a major issue. Um, the film's beautiful to look at scorsese puts poetry on screen just like couple of adult the storyline's fairly predictable. You know what's happening and why but honestly. 09:33.19 Brian Penn I can think of at least 5 school safetyy movies that are better than this but it is very good because it's got that brand. It's got that market quality that we always refer to don't we that that reference point is Schorsace Coppolapiillelberg and I think we need to add crystal and owes to that list now that have that market quality. You know it's going to be good, but not 1 of these best in my opinion. 10:02.80 ukfilmreview Wow I mean because I've been hearing a lot of hyperbole when it comes to this film. A lot of sort of big big quotes. Um, but when I sort of watch the trade and stuff. Okay, get it. Yeah, it looks like a scese film. Um, but the. 10:06.80 Brian Penn E. 10:15.44 Brian Penn M. 10:19.97 ukfilmreview Plot of it felt it was riffing on some films that have been done before um, and yeah, the length did concern me what was the film he did with the aging thing we aged Robert De Niro the irish room. 10:22.26 Brian Penn Yeah here. 10:33.85 Brian Penn Oh oh the Irishman Yeah yeah, yeah. 10:39.40 ukfilmreview I've been watching that I did that in one go I say one go I did it with pauses I did I as in I didn't do my over a couple of nights I had to pause a couple of times but I did do it all in 1 sitting if it were um and I did yeah he is a very very good filmmaker like he just yeah is. 10:48.41 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 10:55.94 Brian Penn Ari who says no question. 10:57.94 ukfilmreview It's it's pure Cinema and but I do find it funny with these films that are coming out of late that do seem to be pushing this very very long timeframes to go almost as a what was almost to sort of compete with the Marvel films. The films that he is so against when he does his promos. 11:12.68 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 11:17.32 ukfilmreview Um, yeah, it's almost to go look. You know we can make cinema long if that's what you want. It's like well that isn't really what people want with the superhero stuff. It's just it just happens to be long I think because they're often trying to do a whole comic book which is like a long story into 1 film whereas if you're making a story specifically for film. You can make it. 11:23.85 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 11:36.95 ukfilmreview Ah, 2 hours like thus you can tell it in 2 hours do you feel this film could have been told in 2 hours 11:40.60 Brian Penn Yeah, easily easily no question you could you could lop over an hour off this film easily without a shn of a doubt you know if you've been a bit more ruthless with the editing it could have been an even better film. You know as. As to say not one of these best look this to give you a comparison you compare it to good fellow us that was that now that that was on Saturday night I came in quite light I came there been on for about 20 minutes and I sat there and watched the whole thing again for the 200 time. 12:04.97 ukfilmreview You. 12:16.95 Brian Penn But that's only two and a quarters Chris and it shows you can tell a very complex engrossing story in in literature fraction of the time and it's just you just don't need it. You really don't you know the what I think was interesting is when the ah the irish ones was released. 12:18.14 ukfilmreview E so. 12:36.70 Brian Penn Interviews were very careful about racing the subject with deirro but he softened up and he said okay, yeah, it's all right? if you want to sort of leave the film for half an hour to stop it then go back to it. Thatso. You didn't mind but it took a long while to sort of even bring the lights to school sa in it. De niro writes. The idea that maybe this is a little bit too long and maybe borders on self-indulgence but you yes is it I know? yeah. 12:57.28 ukfilmreview I saw it so like you don't want it to become an endurance test of like yeah, can you can you put up with the film for that long because not being funny I have needs I have I have toilet needs that you know I have to go and I've had this before I've been in films before where I've needed a toilet and all that's happened is I've not. 13:13.41 Brian Penn Yeah. 13:16.78 Brian Penn No yeah and I I a. 13:16.81 ukfilmreview Focused anything on the film I'm just thinking about how can I get out of here. How can I go to the loo oh my god oh my god I'm in so much pain and you don't want to? yeah and I think you know that's important for for people to know, especially um. Filmmakers that are doing this regularly like I understand if maybe you've got that one film where you just let you know what it just wasn't possible to cut it down but he's doing this on the reg now and you've got it when you find because we you mentioned Nolan and with Oppenheimer that was another long 1 right? Oppenheimer was ah. 13:36.61 Brian Penn Yeah I know it's. Yeah, that was only 3 hours I'm only 3 hours mind you be fair. 13:50.10 ukfilmreview Only did you did you feel that that could have lost an hour as well. 13:55.11 Brian Penn Strategy enough now I think maybe half an hour for oppenheimer I mean I still think with Oppenheimer they like they kind of they kind of condense two separate stories there and I still think that but I think they that probably that was probably two and a half hours you know 14:08.76 ukfilmreview Um, like. 14:14.76 Brian Penn Because they're trying to cra so much in you see killers of the flower moon doesn't justify that amount of screen time right? It's not necessary to commit that much screen sign. Ah you need to justify justify it explain why it needs that amount of sight air time. It's just not necessary. And it and it harms the film because it is a lovely film to look at I mean the the storyline in killers of the family isn't particularly involving or challenging in any way. It's not constantly It's not constantly going off at tangents that keeps you awake it doesn't. You know what? the story is within ten or fifteen minutes you know exactly what's going to happen. You know what what's driving the main characters. What their motivation is so you don't need need any further explanation but you know it's still a good film but it's just so annoying because. You can't concentrate for that amount of time really most some people can but most people can't know. Yeah, definitely. 15:18.41 ukfilmreview Wrong there. We go find out anyone that seen it do let us know what you thought? um I know obviously we've focused quite a lot on the runtime but I do think as I said you know when scoreset he's making a film. Everyone's got to watch it because it's just he knows what he's doing. Um. 15:29.24 Brian Penn Yeah now Kus does absolutely well. One of the old time. Great directors and and he's still he still good. It's not like he's kind of lost interest and he's going through the motions you can see how much care and attention goes into every single frame which is the sign of a great. 15:35.66 ukfilmreview Oh hundred percent 15:47.88 ukfilmreview There we go. Um, so that's killers of the flower moon. Um I just had to double check that I set that right again. 15:49.83 Brian Penn Yeah I know you were careful you you were so very carefully sort of killers of the flower moon. Yeah, well bow done. Yeah. 16:00.16 ukfilmreview Ah, it's um and onto a film that's half the length of that which is um, the great escaper starring Michael Caine 16:03.67 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll right I okay, so directed by Oliver Parker starring Michael Kane and Glenda Jackson based on a true story d-day ve and Bernie Jordan lives in a retirement home with his wife Rey the Seventieth anniversary of the normandy landings is fast approaching annoyingly Bernie leaves it too late to register for the official tour party and thirdd he decides to make his own way over cares staff smell a rat but reie playfully covers for their errant resident. Walking frame in hand he balls across full border ferry and he's befriended by Arthur an exraf pilot they discover common ground as demons from the war continued to haunt them Bernie and Arthur were introduced to german veterans with whom they share memories of dday. The realization soon dawns that language is all that separates them. The grand ceremony is about to begin and Arthur has secured front row seats. However, Bernie's pilgrimage is not yet complete this. This is a beautiful film. It's a wonderful film. Payne and Jackson are outstanding in their respective roles and make a convincing couple in their sunset years. There's real truth and the portrayal to people who've lived a happy and fulfilling life but like so many of their generation are trapped by memories of a lost youth. 17:32.58 Brian Penn Vivid flashbacks to the war are brilliantly captured with super sharp editing William Ivory's excellent script crackles with pathos and gentle humor. What remains is a thoughtful account of how the elderly can be marginalized when they should be embraced for their knowledge and wisdom. It's a film. We should all cherish and admire I gave this film 5 stars Chris just to put that rating in some context I've written nearly 200 film reviews now and I've awarded 5 stars on only 7 occasions so that's about 3%. That's how highly I write this film. Yeah. 18:08.59 ukfilmreview That is incredible I mean what I just to put it. It's a immediate perspective. What would you give this horse ai film so they go I mean that is because I've watched the the trader for this one and I thought oh this looks like up on my street I like. 18:17.47 Brian Penn I've given it it for I would give it it for yeah. 18:25.25 Brian Penn Yeah. 18:27.20 ukfilmreview Sort of films. Um, but to hear yeah and i' known 5 stars. It made me think this is a must see. It doesn't feel like a must see when you kind of look at it on from the out outside you can oh okay, it's a yeah tweak kind of thing coming along but actually for it to be a must see I love it. 18:31.49 Brian Penn Yeah, no, No yeah, yeah, yeah, it's It's very understated the the publicity that that's that drove the the release of the film wasn't quite as. Well, it's never going to be anything approaching oppenheimer or killers of the flower Moon or Mission Impossible. It's not that kind of film but it deserves the same kind of attention because you gain so much from it and is such sense. It. Let's take so much care over what the subject they're dealing with because. 19:00.55 ukfilmreview Um. 19:08.84 Brian Penn It's not just dealing with the war. It's dealing with the way we see the elderly the way they can be neglected overlooks you know it. It was almost sad watching Michael Kaine and Glenda Jackson on screen they were well into their eighty s when the film was made they looked so frail and vulnerable. But that's the curse of actors who've had long careers. You see them aging on screen and of course Glenda Jackson died shortly after the film was finished but that there's something beautiful about it the way it's written the way it's acted very sensitively done. But it is a fantastic film and one of the films of the year for me, it's great. 19:48.41 ukfilmreview Wow That is huge is is cain finished them acting now he's is stopped to thing. 19:55.21 Brian Penn Well now that then yeah, there's a question because he said at one point no um, I've not finished acting yet. He was was apparently working on a new film about Charles Darwin but then later reports confirmed that he'd retired. I think the issue he's got is at the age of 90 there are probably fewer roles that would suit him now. He's not I mean the great escaper is probably the the last leading role. He would get even if he chose to carry on acting but after a hundred and sixty films what is the left to do really in that way. 20:22.80 ukfilmreview So. 20:31.14 Brian Penn But I'd like him to carry on but you know because I used to think there were no rules in acting that you could carry on ah for as long as you want to? well maybe it just doesn't want to anymore. It must be difficult and at that age so to master a script. Um. 20:44.42 ukfilmreview Um. 20:48.68 Brian Penn Do all the promotional work. It must be grueling even for someone half his age but you know you know I I think Michael Kaine's one of the greatest actctors ever anyway. So maybe I'm a bit biased when I talk about Michael K but yeah 20:58.63 ukfilmreview Oh no, he is an absolute legend and I think you know for this to be out in the cinemas If you're listening to this right now. Um, that people should go see it because I say it wasn't overly promoted. Not many people probably even knew about it and. 21:13.58 Brian Penn No, no, no yeah yeah, well yeah, yeah, but you know yeah I mean eastba good a true, a true story as well And the. 21:16.28 ukfilmreview For it to have the title. The great escaper is probably going to be confusing to some people Anyway, um yeah, playing on the the classic film. 21:31.15 Brian Penn Title for the for the film actually came from a news report I think ah a local reporter called it the great escaper but in a way It's a good cycle for the film because it it. It gives some familiarity. It's a trigger for people isn't it. You know, but it's a film about war. But it's not a war film necessarily so you know it's. 21:34.93 ukfilmreview There 1 21:44.80 ukfilmreview Yeah, um. 21:49.73 Brian Penn But yeah I I can't offer a greater recommendation then please go and see it you know and it's still on. It's still I mean at the time of us recording this episode. It's it's still running. Yeah hi Hello yeah. 21:55.34 ukfilmreview There we go. 22:02.53 ukfilmreview And if you're in the future hi again. So always nice talking to you people in the future and do check out wherever you can find it because it's probably available somewhere um unless something terrible has happened in which case try and send us a message if you can let us know what happens because I'm not watching the news anymore. 22:08.62 Brian Penn See. 22:15.58 Brian Penn Yeah I know. Yeah yeah, you're given up um no wise sensible. 22:20.18 ukfilmreview Um, I've given up. Um, we're moving on from the cinema films now because we have got a lot of indies to get through but before we get there as it is the scariest month of the year although I think I think January should be the scariest to be honest, um. 22:26.52 Brian Penn Yeah, we have. 22:36.64 Brian Penn So januaryurized expensive month of the year that's when you got up high for Christmas isn't it on. Ah yeah. 22:40.70 ukfilmreview Got pay for everything and you got to face that horrible weather. But now October is where we get our scary movies in and for this month's streaming pick. We decided to go with a fairly ah probably unknown, um horror film which landed on Netflix. 22:54.17 Brian Penn Is. 22:59.49 ukfilmreview Can you guess what date Friday the thirteenth of of October wow yeah, you have to didn't you um, it's a swedish horror film from Patrick Ecklin called well. 23:01.46 Brian Penn Ah, could it be any other time though. Really I mean? Yeah yeah. 23:12.53 ukfilmreview It's called conference sen which is the swedish name but it's called the conference if you're looking for it on Netflix they've gone with the english title there. Um, you've seen this Brian yes now I often get to pick these films I'm the one that chooses them and I was quite happy to find something that was. 23:12.82 Brian Penn In. 23:22.99 Brian Penn I've seen it. Yes. 23:32.70 ukfilmreview Bordering in the horror comedy genre. Um, as what it is funny. Um, and I think you have to give the setup. First off, you've got this ah company of people who are going on a teen building conference these sort of cabins in the woods and it becomes. 23:35.55 Brian Penn It's quite funny places. Yeah. 23:50.18 Brian Penn Um, he. 23:51.67 ukfilmreview Quite clear that their plans to open this shopping mall in the area are surrounded by Drama and some obviously negativity from some people and positivity from others. There's also a few riffs within the group because. 23:54.44 Brian Penn On. 24:06.64 Brian Penn Yes. 24:09.32 ukfilmreview It looks as if there's some corruption going on and x y said um, but once they get to the the cabin they start doing some of the tilt team building activities but all hell breaks loose because someone has turned up and is going to start picking them off 1 by 1 Um and this. 24:21.26 Brian Penn Ah, he. 24:27.36 ukfilmreview Just leads slightly back into what I was saying earlier about filmmakers having to contrive reasons for why people don't have their phones and this one worked quite well because a team building thing they are quite keen on like look you know what? you can't have your phone because we're all we're all here to connect. 24:33.46 Brian Penn yeah I know yeah yeah I know that was put yeah, that's right? Yeah, but you know that's that's good I like films that kind of fill in the obvious gaps credibilityibility gaps if you like and they do that here. You know I think that's really important because I should I don't think as as a movie audience. We shouldn't have to suspend our disbelief all the time we should be able to say well that wouldn't have happened but you see what I think is good about this film Chris is that um, it's ah it's something that we. Kind of understand people on a team building exercise or on on away day or whatever you want to call it. We've all been on those sort of days haven't we when we're with people we don't necessarily want to be with doing things. We don't really feel like didn't but know where we have to It's a corporate thing and I like that kind of approach because. 25:22.10 ukfilmreview Um. 25:31.90 Brian Penn Assumes that there'll be some understanding in the from the audience that they they know what this setup is like but of course what comes next is something totally different. But I think it was great I really enjoyed it. You know I'm not a huge fan of horror. But this one I think was bang on the money. I Think it was really good. 25:49.60 ukfilmreview That I think for me the crucial element with horror is first off yet would is it believable because quite a lot of the time this just isn't and secondly is ah is it taking itself too seriously because that I think sometimes if it's not fun like there's a lot of horror films where they are just going for the gore. 25:53.90 Brian Penn 2 26:02.15 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah I know that's right? Yeah yeah. 26:07.52 ukfilmreview Ah, like you're like it's fine, but no, 1 ne's enjoying themselves here like yeah, fair enough you you come up with all this horrible violence. But who's going to come away and want to watch that again whereas with the conference. The. Setup was believe what I totally understood why they were there. Why they've because often that's yeah, a problem like why would you shut yourself off from the world. But with this, it's like kind of part of the point is that you you need to be and then like say they take their phones away because they don't want people chatting and then that box of phones gets taken um and also. 26:23.58 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah. 26:33.18 Brian Penn O. 26:40.37 ukfilmreview The kills in this are very creative. They're really really like even at times I was good I was wincing but I was also laughing at the same di ah there was 1 involving a hot tub which I won't spoil but that was just I was like oh my god um. 26:45.35 Brian Penn Ah, yeah, yeah, and I and I and I and I Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 26:59.76 ukfilmreview But yeah, no, it was really really clever. Lots of lots of great ways of um, making it feel threatening. There's lots of Peril You do genuinely sort of care. Oh yeah, because it's also you've got a completely mixed bag of characters. It's not like you know oh it's all the teens at the cabin in the woods. It's like no, there's there's like. 27:05.64 Brian Penn Are. 27:11.75 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 27:19.25 ukfilmreview People of all ages. Um, they're all part of this group and some are kind of quite cynical and some are like these like money hungry yuckies kind of people and yeah, you've got lots going on. There's lots of things to root for. There's lots of things to sort of Condemn I thought it was brilliant. 27:20.45 Brian Penn He yeah. 27:31.92 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, strong characters a strong storyline as well I like the narrative because with horror movies. They often don't They're not overly concerned with the plot are they really, but it's a strong narrative. Um, you know there's that kind of environmental. 27:36.27 ukfilmreview So. 27:49.70 Brian Penn Dimension because they're building this shopping mall aren't they and they're they're plowing through the local the local environment property rights are being affected so you know they're making enemies by what they're doing. It's a corporate thing but they're making enemies because of their their work because of what they're doing so they become. 27:53.25 ukfilmreview Yep. 28:09.10 Brian Penn Vulnerable being where they are because there is this this person whos seeking revenge and there's a very good backstory there that gradually ah unfolds oh I'd say I also like it bounce it is that they make you white. You know it's like half an hour before anything really happens but you get into know the characters a little bit but they don't sort of you know what's coming. You know what' to expect but they make you wait for a little while they build up the tension. You know there's a scene very early in the film where the chef goes off on a drive in the woods doesn't he. 28:42.42 ukfilmreview Um, yeah. 28:44.50 Brian Penn And it gets out of this kind of straight why you think oh this is where it's gonna stop but it doesn't then it switches back to the main the main sort of storyline the backs of the camp and I like that because it's not kind of being too obvious and it's keeping you on your toes as a viewer you know and. Yeah,, there's some nice comedic touchches there as well. A like I like it when I like it when the um when the manager of the the camp said to the the caretaker go and fix the wi-fi and he goes off and he pulls the wi-fi out of the root the plug out the route and plugs it back in again. Yeah, that's fixed the wi-fi yeah but. 29:15.84 ukfilmreview Ah. 29:20.76 Brian Penn Yeah, lots the nice touches like that. But I could honestly see this becoming for horror fans. It will appear in horror fans top 10 movies I think it is that good I really do it's good stuff. 29:31.80 ukfilmreview Oh they go and I said I think even though it came out on Friday thirteenth I struggled to see it on my Netflix so I had to look for it specifically. So if you have yeah if you can't see it. Um, the conference is worth checking out and I think it is a a Netflix like a rage original like they. 29:45.26 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 29:50.67 ukfilmreview There are certainly the people behind it so it should be on there for quite a while after yeah, so if you're listening to this in in 2029 then yeah hopefully it's still on there. Um, and if so I hope I'm still around that'd be great. Um. 29:50.85 Brian Penn Yeah, it's a cut. It's a co-production I think isn't it. Now Yeah, the life song. Yeah, let let? Yeah,. Let's be positive. Yeah, ah ah. 30:07.46 ukfilmreview Yeah, let me know to send me a message to say Chris you're still around if I'm not then maybe leave it. Um, so that was the conference and that was our streaming pick of the month um hope you enjoyed that now we're moving on to our indies and we have got a record breaking 6 to review is that right. 30:14.64 Brian Penn E. 30:23.28 Brian Penn The end 6 Yeah nice see. 30:25.98 ukfilmreview 1 2 3 boy yeah, 6 through of it. Um, and we're going to start with a documentary from Alex Perry called angle and now this is about the wrestler cur angle did you know k angle before you came to this documentary so this will be interesting because. 30:31.83 Brian Penn I. No I've never heard of him. Yeah I Oh really? Yeah yeah. 30:45.64 ukfilmreview I was a massive wrestling fan at the time of when he was popular or so of job just before really when the the rock and the undertaker and people like that he came kind of slightly after it. But yeah I very much he was in the thick of it when I was watching wrestling so I did know and when I saw. 30:57.82 Brian Penn I'm I write? yeah. 31:03.30 ukfilmreview Review go up I oh angle what's that then and I looked and I thought that's Curt Engel and I thought oh hold on. We've got a documentary about someone I genuinely know because um he was I don't mean Sco into the territory of the the film. Um, he was actually an olympic wrestler to begin with and and then he went into the. 31:09.59 Brian Penn Wow right. 31:18.17 Brian Penn Yeah yep W w Yeah yeah. 31:21.90 ukfilmreview The main kind of WWwe stuff um and that was his whole thing was about being this olympic rester so when I heard this this document show. So actually I bet that's a fascinating story. So I I'll kick off because obviously you you didn't know who he was Brian all right? Yeah, um. 31:29.97 Brian Penn No no I'm I'm a sports fan right? I'm be honest time you watch wrestling when it's in the olympics but I still hadn't heard of him even though he was a Olympic old member. So you know yeah. 31:44.61 ukfilmreview Yeah, back in the the light was that so the if a cur angle in the the documentary follows him pretty much through his whole life up to up to now and he we we find out about his home life. 1 of 3 brothers I think and he other sister. 31:54.49 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 32:01.51 Brian Penn No. 32:04.14 ukfilmreview Um, he talks about his father being an alcoholic but who would hide it quite well and who would sort of not drink from the kids. Um, he dies his his father dies in a tragic accident at work and then we during all this time. He's also training to be ah. 32:13.61 Brian Penn E. 32:22.67 ukfilmreview Ah, wrestler olympicres. He's very good at sports. All the brothers are um but he shows a particular a pochant for wrestling and ends up going very far with it as we've as we've mentioned he becomes the Olympic champion. Not after you know a small amount of. 32:24.20 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 32:32.23 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 32:40.35 Brian Penn Yeah, honestly, yeah, but personal problems. Well I know yeah honestly Chris I couldn't believe how many times he broke his neck and carried on wrestling. 32:40.68 ukfilmreview Amazing work. He he goes through loads of stuff loads of injuries. Lots of things that he yeah he break he breaks his neck and he ends up still wrestling like numerous times and it's like what. 32:59.49 ukfilmreview I thought a broken neck was a 1 time thing I thought that was okay well you're dead on you and but no not for angle. He just keeps wrestling. Ah yeah. 33:00.35 Brian Penn Ah. 33:03.25 Brian Penn well well I mean I yeah I found this absolutely fascinating. You know, but I probably enjoyed the the first part of the film more than the second part because the first part of the film was building up to the Olympics and you know the. Trials and tribulations he had and he lost a very close friend and me and his father died but in the olympic trials he he fell awkwardly on on his on his net and this wasn't wwe Wwe this is really strict amateur interesting where they they adhere to sort of very strict role. Don't they. 33:24.18 ukfilmreview Me. 33:41.40 Brian Penn And he landed on his neck and broke 4 Vertebrae ah which were pressing into his spinal cord now one more blow 1 more heavy blow to the neck could have killed him could have paralyzed him and he emitted date in the film didn't he that he said 1 more hit. It could. Could have been the end that to me just shows that elite athletes are are a different animal so to the rest of us they think in a completely different way. This is a competitive edge coming out and that's beyond my comprehension I don't know about you I mean. Just to understand what drives somebody like that you know? yeah. 34:18.53 ukfilmreview Yeah I think that was quite a powerful part of the the film is because often when you see biopics about sports people that sometimes they're not involved right? They're not actually even in the the film but Kurt Angleel is very much in this like he's narrating a lot of it so you are getting. 34:32.30 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 34:36.62 ukfilmreview Directly from him in terms of what he did and what happened um and like talking about one of the training things was he would put someone on his back and run up a hill numerous times and I just. 34:45.76 Brian Penn I Know it's just yeah I know yeah I know and it's It's just unreal like I say. 34:50.10 ukfilmreview I Thought just listening to you say that makes me tired I was like I'm I've yeah sat there lying on the sofa sipping a diet Coke and I'm thinking. Yeah, this guy's carrying people uphills. 35:03.37 Brian Penn Truly, you know true athletes have to be competitive and have to be so single-minded that they they ignore the obvious risks to achieve the ultimate goal. Whatever it is I mean I'm not entirely sure what was driving him when he went into Wwe Wwe because that sensetainment isn't it. That's show. Bos you know what drives an athlete to win an olympic gold medal is different to what drives you when you're in a completely different field. You know I mean that W Wwe is great fun great entertainment but it's not sport. It's not. Competitive sport in the same way as it was in the olympics. So there's a difference there. 35:39.67 ukfilmreview I Think that's part of the big the story there though is that he dedicates the first part of his life So much to this winning the gold like that he was so driven. 35:51.91 Brian Penn Yeah. 35:56.22 ukfilmreview That when he achieved it. He just didn't know what to do it was like well where do I go from here like what and 1 of the one of the famer says like you know it's not really worth anything. You know you've got a gold medow in your hand. But yeah, she says you've got something else in your other hand I'll leave it up to the listeners to decide well that is but she was is very true. He said well. 35:57.48 Brian Penn Now and I. 36:07.59 Brian Penn Ah, yeah, ah. 36:14.98 ukfilmreview It doesn't it's not like oh okay, well now you've got you know a million pounds a year for life. It don't give you a salary from that like you and I think the whole training side of it and it was kind of it felt like um. 36:17.38 Brian Penn The yeah. 36:25.10 Brian Penn Is. 36:30.86 ukfilmreview You know, full metal jacket. It felt like oh it's like the training session in that first part of the film was really grueling and then it goes into this other start start of the story which you're like oh okay, well now it's this which is totally different to what we've just seen um, also they go to Fox Catcher have you seen Fox catcher the film i. 36:32.63 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 36:40.54 Brian Penn Yeah, the name. No I haven't actually yeah. 36:50.67 ukfilmreview Strongly recommend that film. Um Steve Carell and you you hear about it in this because Kurt angle was one of the actual athletes that went there. Um, but the yeah the film because when they said Fox catch I thought is that that's the same place. It must be and. 36:57.76 Brian Penn Right? trying that? yeah. 37:07.20 ukfilmreview Yeah, the the film obviously because we find out um I won't go into that because actually you should obviously you already know, kind of what happens I guess because you've seen this but um, yeah, fabulous film and also gives you an idea about what we're talking about when we're talking about these these. 37:08.31 Brian Penn Ah. 37:13.79 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 37:22.69 ukfilmreview Athletes going to such levels of training regime exhaust training you call only like trying to basically just outlast their opponent. They go? Yeah well if I'd never get tired then I'll win because eventually the other one's just going to give up. 37:29.44 Brian Penn That yeah, what? what? I think actually comes through here though is that is the determination dedication to be the best at something. But then as you just mentioned that kind of deflation once you have got there. See old analogy about astronauts that go to the moon or somebody that climbs Mount Everest sad you top it you you've got to the top What do you do? then? do you just stay there. Do you just hold or what do you do? where do you go after that and I suppose really to have a ah. Gold meowwin olympic wrestling doesn't have the same cudos as a gold medal in track and field would have for example so it doesn't kind of you can't build on that necessarily and that's what led him in into Wwe Wwe but I really like cur angle you know. He interviews? Well, he's very downsworth, honest, very candid about his life and that's what makes it even more riveting and really I think this film helps to promote wrestling as a spool because frankly I I'd never heard a cartangle. 38:39.84 ukfilmreview Yeah, it's funny because I look say I was very much into it for a phase. Yeah when I was a kid and he was in that phase and I think seeing it again was was really nostalgic for me as but oh this is like. 38:44.26 Brian Penn Yeah. 38:54.94 ukfilmreview Yeah, and some of the interviewees like um terraine Johnson is on there and um Steve Austin who play who stone calls to Austin yeah with his beer cans I'm going to start doing that at the beginning of shows I'm just going to sma my beer cans together. Um, but yeah I thought that you know that was really. 38:55.82 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, stun call Steve Austin ah why not what else? yeah. 39:13.66 ukfilmreview Powerful to have them in it. It gave a bigger edge because this could have just been like a home movies type sort of thing. But when you also get through to the part of the film where he's dealing with spoilers if you don't want to know this but he's is dealing with painkiller addiction. Um, that. 39:17.33 Brian Penn The. 39:28.83 Brian Penn Is. 39:32.90 ukfilmreview Their input on that in terms of what they're saying to him how they're helping me through it that that was really powerful to me and I really enjoyed that part I felt because like you say angle's great at interviews and he does give you some quite good emotion when he's talking about these things and what he was doing and how many he was taking and oh I was just really. 39:35.42 Brian Penn You. 39:44.66 Brian Penn Yes. Anyway, yeah, and I he wasn't over him emotional was he I mean when he was genuinely moved when he was recounting something that happened in his life. He didn't he wasn't bursting into tears. Every 5 minutes was he now again, but you can see when he was showing real emotion. What makes this a very. 39:52.71 ukfilmreview Terrifying. 39:57.40 ukfilmreview Yeah, no, no. 40:09.17 Brian Penn I mean I like ah documentary films I think they're great and I think they're they're um, often underrated within that kind of genre of films generally and they do rank alongside action movies and historical epi. Whatever right? Documentary films have their place and. This is particularly good I put this at the top end of really good documentary films because it tells a story of the rise full and recovery of someone and you don't always get that kind of positive end. You know these sorts of documentary films are often. Leave you on a downer this one doesn't. 40:52.94 ukfilmreview I oop sorry my ah my Mike yeah, my mic went out there sorry hold on let me just make a note of that hold on 40 minutes for I minutes that 40 minutes right up 41 actually ah that's fine. We'll catch it. 40:53.42 Brian Penn Yeah, Okay, okay. 41:06.33 Brian Penn In. 41:09.51 ukfilmreview But I'm gonna leave a bit of a gap now and I'll be able to come back in. 41:10.78 Brian Penn Yeah, okay. 41:14.60 ukfilmreview Yeah, so I think yeah, we're both agreed very powerful documentary. My only I got a small criticism which I don't really need to mention but only I would say is just I think the music and the score. 41:18.98 Brian Penn Absolutely. 41:31.22 ukfilmreview Was being quite melodramatic at times like it felt a bit too Well up and down and up and down like trying to like take you on this journey which I don't think it needed to do I Felt like the the content was good enough like it was really compelling. They didn't need to kind of create this artificial. Ah environment for it to feel. 41:32.20 Brian Penn He. 41:40.97 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah, ah. 41:47.14 Brian Penn Yeah, ah yeah yeah I mean it's yeah, you're right I think he's almost like a prompt isn't it with with the scoring the sounds right? some so some films don't new I don't think it I don't think the film needed. 41:49.72 ukfilmreview Like oh this is where you should be sad and this is where you should feel that it's It's tense like we kind of knew it was tense like it was clever enough. 42:04.64 ukfilmreview Not. 42:06.45 Brian Penn Music. That's all you know some other some films do. But I think you really need to think about whether it's going to enhance the film and a documentary doesn't really need that because you've got you've got the drama there already because of the story that we're hearing. Yeah, he. 42:25.84 ukfilmreview You go? Um, so the documentary is called angle and you can read the review I think Jason reviewed it on the website. So do go and check it out because um, yeah, see what he made of it and and obviously see whether you align with what what we've said. 42:32.11 Brian Penn A. 42:38.39 Brian Penn A. 42:43.41 ukfilmreview Um, in terms of the film itself I'm just going to see if I can see anything in terms of what they said about release. Um, not that I could see so. 42:57.95 ukfilmreview Yeah, and I think yeah we had a password protected link. There's no information currently over than an imdb page from what I can see. So yeah, one of those ones where you probably have to check back? Um, but yeah I'm sure if you're following. Um. 42:59.53 Brian Penn Is. 43:05.52 Brian Penn And. 43:15.67 ukfilmreview Any of like maybe even kt engel himself and if not Alex Perry the filmmaker or just drop us a line if you're interested in seeing it. We can always try and coke some more information out of the filmmakers to to get that to you? Um, okay, moving on to a short film now. 43:16.82 Brian Penn All right? yeah. 43:25.42 Brian Penn He. 43:33.78 ukfilmreview Called Gus should get the go. Um, this was again reviewed by Jason on the website um ran and directed by Joseph Rach and stars Marcel Ra who I'm getting related. Um I think that's probably. 43:35.90 Brian Penn Right. 43:51.20 Brian Penn Safe bet isn' not really safe bet. Yeah well you you you would give you a relative a part film if he was making it one. Ah no, really. 43:51.81 ukfilmreview Safe bet I put money on that. Um, along with oh I wouldn't my brother knows that you know I wouldn't put him in a film. No no, he's done too many horrible things to me in the past you know? Yeah, he really teased me as ah as a kid. Um I was that wrestling you know, putting me in in Headlocks and stuff. 44:04.82 Brian Penn All right? Okay, fair enough. Ah, after enough. 44:11.70 ukfilmreview Um, but yeah, so the film stars Marcel Rich ah Kayla Kelly and Joey Lundorm and essentially is about ah a young lad ah top teenager sitting in a diner and he is prepping for a big date. He has a date with a girl um later on. 44:26.55 Brian Penn Oh yeah. 44:31.20 ukfilmreview And he plans to meet his friend Tim to talk about? Yeah the strategies of you know, wooing women. Um, and yeah, yeah, and it's um, his yeah, he's playing through what he's going to like well yeah, how he's going to come across in the date. 44:37.11 Brian Penn Yeah, we'll been there when we've all been there. Yeah. 44:49.13 ukfilmreview And but instead of his friends opening up his friend's mum turns up and our protagonist sees it as an opportunity to just test some of his methods and strategies to see whether they how they go down on his friends. Um, what do you think of this 1 Ryan. 44:50.68 Brian Penn So he cliff. 45:01.72 Brian Penn Yeah I really enjoyed it I think it's it was really good. Fun. It's sweet, endearing funny and a fair reflection of the angst. We all go through in adolescence. You know one seems to be cool and grown up impressing a girl. But the awkwardness and fear of failure. It's all in there and I like I like the the the setup whereby he's got the cuuee cards doesn't he trying rehearsing his lines and then this mature attractive woman turns up not instead, but before it all kind of starts and that's Tim's mom I thought right? I'll try I'll try it and I love that I love that I love the simplicity of it and the fact that it isla because we've all been through that and it's it reminds you how awkward and painful it was when we all went through it you know and it's life is learning process. But. Really good, fun. Really enjoyable. Nice, nice and light and speaks a lot of truth and you know films that work the best are the ones that we can see something of ourselves in. 46:10.79 ukfilmreview Yeah I thought it was one of those films that ah on 1 hand it kind of felt like maybe it was a um project. You know like a school film project that sort of thing that they of okay, we're gonna make a make a thing in the local diamond kind of it was. 46:18.93 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 46:27.82 ukfilmreview It felt fairly basic in terms of the set. But then when I started to unpick my feelings on the film. So actually this is quite a rich film here. There's actually quite a lot going on here. It plays on a lot of classic themes and coming of age feelings and Storylines and you've got. 46:38.71 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 46:45.33 ukfilmreview I think quite a good central performance in particular the mum I think the mum when she comes lends quite a good amount of credence to the performances and I think she also coax is quite a good one out of our our lead Marcel I think that you needed that with a film like this because had it been just you. 46:50.43 Brian Penn Now E. Is. 47:04.30 ukfilmreview Young characters I don't know if the the caliber of the acting would have been there but as it is it actually works quite well and some of the camera work is a bit jolting. That's one of my notes I've got it was I was kind of feeling that it was a bit all over the place where they didn't really need to be um, you know. 47:06.97 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 47:16.40 Brian Penn Yeah, that Yeah, this fills I mean we're talking earlier about what we understood by the term indie film This feels more like a traditional indie film Really, it doesn't have that that kind of poise and polish. But you know. Doesn't mean it say that it's any less effective but you can see that it that they've got a more limited budget compared to some of the other films that we've reviewed here tonight but it's still it still works but you know as just say say kind of films more like a traditional indie film What you would expect to see in an indie film. You know. 47:54.38 ukfilmreview Um. 47:54.85 Brian Penn But I think you're right about the about the mother though she's ah she's a pivotal character in that story right? because straight away. He's kind of uping his game not just in the acting sts. But the character is is kind of going up a notch where this hot day is. 48:13.74 Brian Penn Around the same age as in that there you've got ah a grown up adult mature woman who's who's kind of teaching him in her own way. You know so I like that too. It's a it's a nice court was sort of spin on a story that we've seen many signs before but it's a question of how you execute it isn't it. You know. 48:29.40 ukfilmreview Yeah, and yeah, it's it's um, available actually to to watch if people can watch Gush should get the girl on Youtube just search for it I'm sure it will come up. Um, and obviously yeah, again, go to the website to read Jason's review because he was very positive about it too. 48:32.55 Brian Penn So. 48:38.26 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 48:48.25 ukfilmreview There's a trailer there. Yeah, if you want to watch the tradeer just just see you get a feel for the film and because like we say the indie films often now are coming out with such a good quality. You'd be good to hear what people think of this one and because we are able to sort of show. It people are able to see it. 48:50.59 Brian Penn And. 48:58.54 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 49:07.10 ukfilmreview Um, so yeah, that's gush should get the girl moving on to an indie feature now from ben a a Cellis a chels shelves the chels a tools. Um, this is a again comedy horror. 49:16.25 Brian Penn I Chose I chose I choose. 49:24.57 ukfilmreview Got another comedy horror here. It's what it's labeled as anyway on Imdb um, well ah when I remember this film this I don't remember it I suppose it is yeah ah it be an evil moon is the film and funny. Yeah because there are definitely elements of of comedy. But I i. 49:28.13 Brian Penn Um, you don't stand convinced there. 49:35.26 Brian Penn Know. 49:42.58 ukfilmreview Yeah I suppose it's probably more comedy than horror. Do you want to do the sal. Yeah, what's what's the film about. 49:44.79 Brian Penn Yeah, okay, then. So yeah, directed by benetil starring Richard Allen in Ray White rod glenn and Gordon Joseph Miller so yeah so we're in keeping with the theme of this episode. Freddy Freddy is a former scientist who now ekes out a living. As a mini-cab driver and also supplies the local gangs with drugs but he has ah a side hustle Freddy is developing a formula to cure hair loss being follically challenged himself. He dreams of the day when he finally cracks the case. 50:18.55 Brian Penn Has an elderly mother who is bed-bound but prone to the occasional wonder he tries the new formula on his own paint awaking the next morning is her sweet a suit her sweet um with a full beard. Historian know Thy bounds. But what forces there's he unleashed. That's the question isn't it. Um I I think the film generally works very well. It's an interesting new take on on the on the genre. Um, all always say about it. 50:36.76 ukfilmreview 50 50:49.96 Brian Penn Is that the story seems to tail off a little bit towards the end and doesn't really offer the viewer a satisfactory conclusion I was kind of expecting a bit more now people listening might watch it and think oh no, it's fine but I was I was wanting a bit more but the setup's great. And like the ah the the angle with the the drug data as well because there's all kinds of directions. This storyline could have gone in so it surprises you in that way. But no I thought I thought it was pretty decent. 51:21.30 ukfilmreview Yeah I think you're right in terms of the ah the plotting I found it similar. Um I thought what it didn't go satisfactory by the end for me I'd enjoyed the bulk of it Actually I thought it was a really good mix. 51:31.40 Brian Penn So. 51:37.92 ukfilmreview Because obviously stories about werewolves and and things like that have been done in the past and you're you're you're entering into quite a hallow genre. Really um, that to do a film like this you it needs to be worthy at least to have a good story and I liked it I like the setup the. 51:41.24 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 51:45.10 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 51:55.90 ukfilmreview And the latter part of the film funny enough was actually where I thought it was really getting into gear I was so oh here we go like yeah and this is where especially with the landscape the beautiful landscape that they were in and he gets to that cabin. Did you recognize the guy in the cabin. Um, yeah, so. 51:58.46 Brian Penn E. 52:05.92 Brian Penn And I and I yeah he looked familiar. Um, ah yeah. 52:14.28 ukfilmreview Gordon Joseph Miller he was in a film that we reviewed at last year's festival. Um, it was the film set in a pub where he played um but baroness was what it was called. Yeah yeah, and and. 52:18.85 Brian Penn Right? Okay I yeah I remember yeah we couldn't work out what it was called Baroness that was it wasn't it. Yeah, that one? yeah. 52:34.27 ukfilmreview He fun of he turned up to the event that I did Ro all the filmmakers there and it really yeah, it was great to see him in this I thought his scene with his partner was probably the best. It was such a great um part. That's the clip that we'll play is's actually him with her talking about the the the story of it being an evil mood and. 52:35.95 Brian Penn Right. Yeah. 52:45.48 Brian Penn Yeah. 52:54.90 ukfilmreview I Thought that was where the film was was should have been more yeah focused on whereas. Actually we got a lot to begin with and it took a long time to get to the bits that were actually a bit more kind of exciting I guess. 52:54.15 Brian Penn Ah. 52:57.35 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I think I think you're right The those conversation tools towards the end were very cleverly put together and. This is where where I think we agreed on this that it kind of tailed off a little bit that it didn't reach that proper conclusion because it was setting something up which it appeared to not necessarily do ah but yeah, it was. It was good. There. There was a lot to enjoy there a lot to enjoy and and lots of. To take in. But yeah, it's It's all Good. Um. 53:36.70 ukfilmreview And I think like the film that we were going back to the genres like comedy horror. There is this sort of so mix of sinister and silly which does work quite well the funniest bit for me was this bloke that sits out of the back of his house in a deck chair and he just throws a beer can every time he sees him. He just throws a beer can at him. 53:44.89 Brian Penn Yeah. 53:52.52 Brian Penn Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, nice go to the yeah. 53:56.10 ukfilmreview And I thought that is just hilarious I What why he do it. Why is he there? Um, and also there's a bit where someone gets attacked with cgi seagulls that was just that was really funny. Um, so I think yeah, he's got this of zany fun element to it and it's got like this sort of. 54:05.20 Brian Penn Yeah, that yeah. 54:15.47 ukfilmreview Ah, interesting premise with the horror story I think where the film slightly lets itself down is it doesn't lean more into that story and give us a bit more because it is actually I don't think it was that long from I remember that I thought so it could have maybe given us a little bit more but that being said, yeah, it's. 54:24.32 Brian Penn Um, ours for our 21 minutes think yeah yeah. 54:33.66 ukfilmreview Ah, really worthy interesting. Ah yeah, film people should seek out. Let me just see if we've got any information about a release. Ah there is a Facebook where it says people. But if you search Facebook for it be an evil moon or Twitter ah it be an evil moon on instagram it's Medusa media production. So yeah, there's information out there. There's trailers and things the film you viewing link was a Youtube link I don't know if it was public or not let me check that as well. I don't think it is yeah so it might not be out just yet. 55:03.66 Brian Penn And. 55:11.87 ukfilmreview But I've given you some links there in terms of where you can find out more because these films are really hard. Yeah to make a feature film is difficult and to make one that is doing so much as what this is that? yeah hats off to the filmmakers because I think they've done a fabricous job. We just wanted more of it I think. 55:19.30 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, no yeah, that's right? Yeah I mean all the ingredients there is. It was a great effort but you know like ah like I say it's um. 55:36.70 Brian Penn Sort of about what you get from it yourself. You know I think we more or less drew the same conclusions to last didn't we a bit about the film itself. But you know someone else can look at it and think and you know, but that's the beauty here of filmmaking ah and watching films like this is that we all get something slightly different from it. But this this is a fine effort and. 55:44.28 ukfilmreview Um. 55:56.50 Brian Penn It's all there. But it's a question of how you how you present it and where you go with it. It's got great potential. It's a word I Often come back to with films like this because you think it's all there. It's all in in place but you just got to shape it and develop it. But it's good time. Good stuff. 56:13.40 ukfilmreview Go it be an evil moon. Um, next up, we're heading to a short film written and directed by Brandon Haynes it's a film called 2 truths and a lie and Chris Buick reviewed this on the website and gave it I think 5 stars and I was like oh. 56:25.10 Brian Penn Yeah, no Bob Slightman I yeah 56:30.69 ukfilmreview Um, that's that is a bold statement and having seen the film I can see why it's called 5 stars I love the set for this film. So essentially it's about 3 people from different career backgrounds who all struggle to lie. Um and they are going through a um. 56:38.67 Brian Penn Ah. 56:50.60 ukfilmreview Counseling session with a slightly unorthodox counselor who is going to try and get them to be able to lie more comfortably because it affects these people quite seriously So one's like a professional poker player. So off the East Toardo lie and blaff. Um, there's like a social media personality who you can't. 56:52.21 Brian Penn He he. 57:02.13 Brian Penn Yeah yet. Well yeah, yeah. 57:10.37 ukfilmreview Sort get by. But yeah, kind of what the other person was was it a lawyer might be which if it was then that's playing on the whole liar liar um film which you which we've we've seen before? Yeah I think you're right actually? So the the film. 57:12.65 Brian Penn It's a lawyer isn' it sit a lawyer. It's a lawyer a thing. Why? Well yeah yeah. 57:26.77 ukfilmreview Works really? well even just with those 3 personalities but I actually agree with Chris's review which he says that this chose st really is the therapist. Um, she is absolutely balmy and she she does things to sort of elicit these responses from them to try and get them to to lie. 57:27.81 Brian Penn And. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 57:44.94 ukfilmreview And it is hilarious. Um, really really funny but also a little bit disturbing if it feels a little bit like on the sort of thriller side at the same time. Did you get that feeling. 57:51.96 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, now of course I think it. It's kind of a it's a mix of all kinds of sort of stars and approaches that yeah it does have elements of thriller strike chiller strike comedy. It's got element all those elements ah mixed in. I think it's good. It's very good. It's such a great premise again, we we talk about the premise don't with the setup. What? What's the basic plot. How does it work and this is brilliant I love the idea of a support group for those who can't help but tell the truth. And the first thing I thought was this is far too big. An idea for a short film. You know we often talk about um the potential that short films have to be something more than than a short film and this could work as a feature film or even a Tv series. You know they've got ah a lawyer poker player. 58:32.15 ukfilmreview Yeah, yeah. 58:46.97 Brian Penn And influencer. Yeah, just think of the clients that Melissa could get just imagine people in professions where the need to tell the truth might cause a bit of a problem for them and that needs curing so it's got dynamic potential and you think you give this to a top comedy writer or a top thriller writer. 58:51.32 ukfilmreview Um. 59:05.77 Brian Penn This is this is gold. This is pure gold and I completely endorse Chris Buick giving it 5 stars because in context to do what they've done in the space of what twenty twenty minutes fifteen 20 minutes whatever it was that is hell of an effort. 59:24.77 ukfilmreview I Think so too um and like so I agree I think yeah Web series or film or or show because there's so much I did feel this was one much like the previous film it finished and I was like no no, no, there should be more here more here more here. Please? um. 59:24.87 Brian Penn Really impressed with it. Yeah. 59:38.58 Brian Penn Yeah, more more. Yeah, we more? yeah. 59:44.21 ukfilmreview And I think they only gave you a few different things which she does in terms of like the methods to get them to lie I was like oh that every so more there could have been so many more things to really bring this out. Um. 59:50.47 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah. 59:58.28 ukfilmreview Obviously maybe that's the sign of a good film is wanting you to sort of you. You leave you wanting more so I can't always be too so hard on them for that. But yeah, as a as a proof of concept. There's something big here that you could certainly be made further. 01:00:02.38 Brian Penn Yeah, no, yeah, well well Chris I'll be very surprised if this doesn't go somewhere. You know that that yes, it's a short film. They're working within alysis timeframe. You know that they've got their um you know the the pace to sequencing ah the logical sequence of storie so they have to get into a limited timeframe. They've got all that words out but I would be amaze ifistic didn and go somewhere else. Ah, can't believe that you wouldn't do something more with it with a short film like this but we shall see you never know we might be reviewing a facial length version in a year or so I hope you know because it's an intriguing prospects and you give it I mean it looks to me like it had a pretty decent budget anyway. But. 01:00:51.57 ukfilmreview 50 Ah. 01:00:59.42 Brian Penn You give it any ah a proper pudgy give it to Netflix give it to you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:01:03.30 ukfilmreview Yeah I could really see that because you had a kind of almost black mirror sort of feel to it like not not in terms of total vibe. But in terms of the look and feel of it I was like yeah I could see this working brilliantly as ah in a binge worthy series that someone would watch. Um. 01:01:18.56 Brian Penn Absolutely. 01:01:19.50 ukfilmreview Obviously if it does get that far Brandon you do owe us some money because we've big it up to that point. Okay, yeah um yeah I think yeah, we don't want a lot of the pie just some of the pie. Please no. But if you want to find out more about 2 truths and a lie they are on socials. 01:01:24.12 Brian Penn Um, yeah, what more could I ask for. We can't say fair and that can we really? yeah and I but not greaty are we Chris really. 01:01:38.82 ukfilmreview So they are using the number 2 so 2 truths a lie. All 1 word on Instagram and Twitter and and it's also they have a website for the main company called gorillawolf.com so yeah 01:01:42.72 Brian Penn What. 01:01:53.17 ukfilmreview No reason why you can't find more on that I don't think it is out because we got a password protected link for that one? Um, but yeah, 2 truths in the lie 5 stars. Definitely go see it if you can I think it's fabulous. We are sticking with the short films. Um, going now to. 01:01:58.24 Brian Penn Ah, ah. 01:02:12.52 ukfilmreview Elena Vi Clover's short film intern which Joe Beck gave 4 stars on the website and I think yeah, it's 4 or 5 for me I thought this was fantastic I really enjoyed it. Um, so the setup is isaac j plays a intern at this. But basically in the basement I think and there's a group of people there all trying to vie for a position at a company and the internship is about to come to an end for our main characters for career so he's trying his best to. In front of the Ceo and to show him this report that he's made to try and yeah, get his job. Yeah, this, he's he's putting out all the stops. Unfortunately, it doesn't go very well for him he that through calamity and also through people that work there so keeping him out. Um. 01:02:50.52 Brian Penn Um, I mean. 01:02:56.20 Brian Penn He's yeah. 01:03:06.64 Brian Penn Hey Ah, ah. 01:03:07.77 ukfilmreview Even get stuck in their lift at one point. Um, it doesn't really go too Well then it does sort of change slightly towards the end. Um I thought not only was this a really interesting story and there's lots of great themes about capitalism and and greed and how we perceive employment but also just looked great. It had this strange like. 01:03:18.30 Brian Penn He. No no. 01:03:27.51 ukfilmreview Hue to it like a ah greeny kind of hue that made it feel like you're watching something from like the 70 s but felt very modern at the same time. Um, what did you think of intern Brian. 01:03:32.71 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah I Really liked it I think it's very Clever. It's very clever, very insurgent perceptive filmmaking again within a very limited time frame. This is what I find very impressive about the ability to make a short film is that. You give it an enswin fill and you get ah you get a lot of detail there a bit like gus should get the goal. Ah, it's very reliable. It starts off with a concept that we can all understand right? You know there's all we've all been for a job that we really Want. We're all competing. 01:04:11.87 Brian Penn To be accepted to prove that we're worthy of someone's attention in the work environment and I think the character is called Seth Isn'tney the the main character like it's Seth isn't that um the fact that he's he's trying to pull out the stops and do everything possible. To get this job to nail it but still being asked to jump through numerous hurdles. You know trying to overcome various obstacles obstacles and that is something we can all understand we can all relate to. But yeah, you're right? it's got um visually it's it's good the script's good and it it works because it's it's something that we all get we all get what the the psyche of that character is that he's determined to make all the right noises and get that job. And we can all understand that can't we. 01:05:06.16 ukfilmreview Yeah, and I think they they matched it with this sort of like his energy like his passion for for trying to the filmmaking kind of has that as well like it feels like it's keeping up them and it feels at times like kind of quirky or frantic or yeah, it's going. It's keeping the. 01:05:16.10 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. E le. 01:05:26.11 ukfilmreview Viewer on their toes quite well I found and I think like you say people can relate to this. They can see that it may be in themselves or maybe they've done that at times or even felt that way about something that the central performance is really great I thought I think he does fabulously with the with the role. 01:05:30.10 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 01:05:43.60 ukfilmreview Ah, like the supporting characters this one guy where they they pull the he pull his newspaper down and he just looks totally annoyed that he's been interrupted I Thought yeah, that's just great and that there's always someone at work. That's like that right is always that cynical guy that doesn't say anything. Um. 01:05:49.79 Brian Penn Yeah, on our kuso is yeah yeah. 01:05:59.40 ukfilmreview I think they capture that really well they capture this element even though it is kind of a bit of a odd bull strange premise that actually there's a lot of familiarity there as well. There's lots of things that you're going to go? Oh yeah, that feels relatable. 01:06:06.68 Brian Penn Well well. Also Chris that you know you can make a point by exaggerating you know and you can do that you can you can sort of create a situation that looks. Extreme or far fetcht. But you're making a value point at the same time so you can make a point by exaggerating and that's in some ways. That's what what what? they've done here is to take something to an extreme but still enable the audience to understand what they're getting at which is again, it's very clever though. The word I keep my coming back to with theer. It's clever. Smart smart filmmaking. 01:06:46.79 ukfilmreview God mean can't say fair on that um inter ah short film is not out as far as I'm aware I might be wrong on that but you can find them on Instagram so act intern film or 1 word and. The review as well. Do go check out Chris beock's very glowing review I think really does delve into the film and and what he liked about it. Let us know if you are able to ever see it. Let uss know what you think um, it's always nice to to hear from our listeners now this next. 01:07:13.14 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:07:23.80 ukfilmreview Short film was one I reviewed on the website. Um and another five stuff film. Um, yeah, ah so it's called the 1 note man and I feel like because I reviewed it I'm gonna let you do the synopsis on this because. 01:07:25.19 Brian Penn I Know so I say so I say I deserve is well deserved. It's very well deserved. 01:07:41.00 Brian Penn Okay, oh that you might gush too much shall I be a bit harder on it na can't can I can't really I thought I might give a bit of a contrast but I don't think I can really well. Okay, then so directed by George Suga Shoe gas 01:07:43.80 ukfilmreview I might I might I might gush too much you? Yeah yeah. 01:07:56.28 ukfilmreview So sugas. Yeah, happy that. So. 01:08:00.39 Brian Penn Starring Jason Watkins ah it's a simple but lovable tale about a musician who plays the obo in an orchestra and his only contributions to the piece is 1 solitary note the musician leads a hum drumm existence but is secretly in love with a lady that plays the Violin in the same orchestra crippled by shyness. He tries. And his own way to impress her. He stealthily builds up his part much to the annoyance of the conductor but will the pretty violinist respond to his delicate advances I absolutely love this I think it's fantastic. Um, as you pointed out in your review Chris there are shades of groundhog day here 01:08:37.47 ukfilmreview Are. 01:08:39.78 Brian Penn Ah, is packed with symbolism isn't it really? Ah, a gray life represented by this 1 note and an obsession with minor say you know with loose strands on his jacket and a toothbrush always pointing upwards I guess the moral we're hear is that love will eventually set him free. Um, it benefits hugely from Jason Watkins and the title royal very familiar a we seen him ah on on film and Cb and he makes a lot of short films doesn't he you know I think we reviewed a short film of piece last year if I remember right? Yeah and um. 01:09:10.39 ukfilmreview Yeah I've remember seeing me in a few things here. 01:09:16.68 Brian Penn That's that's a big plus some good cameos there poor barber trigger for moni falls and horsess't it. Um, so that that's again, another strength but the biggest strength of this film in my opinion Chris in my humble opinion is that there are there is no scripts. You know. 01:09:22.43 ukfilmreview Yep. 01:09:34.95 Brian Penn You know I Love words I Love words I'm fascinated by the power of words. But here words aren't necessary. You don't need a script that means that without any dialogue there are no language barriers. It has universal appeal. You could. 01:09:40.96 ukfilmreview In. 01:09:52.30 Brian Penn Plays at any audience in any country in the world. Any culture whoever you whoever you take it to they will understand this will they'll get it because there are no language Barriers. No need for subtitles only for dubbing nothing but they see a very human story unfolding here I think it's beautiful. Um, see beautiful. 01:10:13.72 ukfilmreview Well I'm glad I actually get my review in before you came and yeah, made it even you made me look silly Brian but in ah how yeah how profound you've done in your review and I looked like a little five year old with my review. But yeah now i. 01:10:17.88 Brian Penn Ah, yeah, well I was only trying to and enhance it Chris myself you know. 01:10:28.10 Brian Penn No, but yeah I'm so yeah nine that so ah 9 No no, that's where we're agreed on that absolute. 01:10:29.16 ukfilmreview Yeah, I'm glad that we are on the same page with this one because yeah, it's always yeah when you love a film you kind of think oh am I going to be on my own here I would have absolutely fought my corner but I'm glad that you are on the same page. Um, it is one of those films like you say is it's universal. Anyone can enjoy this film. Um. And watkins is amazing. He's so good in this film because he's got that kind of like Mr Bean kind of feel not not in terms of like that silliness but in terms of the physical performance. It really is sort of that slight embellishment and slight kind of exaggeration to just. 01:10:49.79 Brian Penn Yeah, it's great. Great answer. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 01:11:07.87 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 01:11:08.38 ukfilmreview Really bring the audience in because otherwise you could just be oh why do I care? Um, and there's all these little moments. There's so many moments in my review I picked out ah crystal you who plays the um conductor giving him the eve Why when he sort of ends up causing a bit of a ruckus that. 01:11:18.20 Brian Penn Can that. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:11:26.10 ukfilmreview It's those things they're small things but actually it made it feel quite British It made it feel like this is our sense of humor. Yeah, we we really enjoy these sort of stories and this filmmaking I thought it was just excellent. The the class that is is great I liked though. 01:11:29.17 Brian Penn Yeah, it's very yeah, yeah, absolutely. 01:11:43.78 ukfilmreview The way that it also does play with the audience quite a bit because there is a first you're watching. Okay, he just yeah, go for his humdrum life and there's like a almost like a slapstick field to him just going in and out of the same route then there's a quite a like almost like a. 01:11:47.56 Brian Penn E. 01:11:58.13 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah. 01:12:01.63 ukfilmreview Sad kind of feeling to it of you know him actually his experience then you get this love story and the meat cute because like he hadn't really noticed this other violinist and then it becomes a love story so you get a lot in this really short spacetime. This wouldn't work as any longer. It is exactly as long as it needs to be um. 01:12:04.72 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah I know and I no I get. 01:12:20.14 ukfilmreview Because it's perfectly you in tune to ah pay on palm there. It's perfect in tuned with what what the odd what the audience is gonna want and expect from a film like this and every part of it is needed. Every single bit was like that is. 01:12:23.25 Brian Penn Yeah, Oh yeah, very good. Yeah. Yeah, it's I part it is like padding is a no yeah. 01:12:36.54 ukfilmreview Just perfect. Yeah, there's no padding. There's nothing in there. You can't think well okay, well you could have cut that down a bit. Um and for a film that doesn't rely on dialogue that's huge and it's not I wouldn't say it's even that sure I can't remember how long it was I'm thinking about 20 minutes was it so some of that that it's not like it was like a 3 minute 01:12:50.54 Brian Penn It's about yeah 20 minutes probably yeah yeah. 01:12:56.17 ukfilmreview Music video. You know it was like yeah that's a long film for some short films. They fit a whole feature length in that that time and but to to do this without any dialogue I think is really ambitious to do it with this cast as well like you've got to be pretty confident about the film. You're going to make if you've got no dialogue and you're hiring these people to be in it. 01:12:56.98 Brian Penn Um, nice. Yeah yeah. 01:13:07.37 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, no yeah I I reckon for an answer. That's a very difficult part to play if you've got no scripts the the major tool that you have as an answer. 01:13:16.60 ukfilmreview You know me I. 01:13:26.25 Brian Penn Is a scripts isn't that all right, you get an outline with with what is basically this you could call it a silent movie because there's no dialogue but they get an outline but that they don't get a script so you've taken some a vital tour away from an actor so it becomes a much more difficult part to play. You know what what I was thinking when I was watching it. You know it's almost Charlie Chaplin -esque in its approach is that and that's ah, that's a strength really, you know you you kind of realize how great charlie chaplin was and that charlie chaplalin was around today. 01:13:51.48 ukfilmreview Um, yeah I thought that yeah. 01:14:02.52 Brian Penn I'm sure he would totally approve and you know to me to me. That's the greatest compliment you could paint a film like this because that's the the benchmark That's the standard of an approach to making a film but absolutely brilliant. Absolutely brilliant really is. 01:14:19.98 ukfilmreview And just to also note Ian Mccallum does a bit of narration that is someone one of the only bits of dialogue that you do get? Um, yeah so I mean if there was anything you could add on. Yeah, it's kind of. 01:14:21.53 Brian Penn Yeah, you don't yeah yeah, right at beginning beginning and the end wasn't it. 01:14:36.55 ukfilmreview Like what ingredient you're going to stick on to just improve something that's already perfect. It's goingnna be the voice of Ian Mckellen yeah it's gonna be okay, yeah now it's done now. It's finished it doesn't there's yeah, it's only going to make it better. Only gonna make it better. Um, yeah, amazing. really really good 01:14:41.17 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah to get that caliber of actors involved I mean Jason Watkins Ear Mckellen Sit I Mckellen and also. You know Joanna Klein who played the the violinist you know, very well-known one and actually who you would instantly recognize and also Paul barber plays the florist doesn't they you know is to get all those touches nice touches and get these people involved it shows how good it is. 01:15:17.38 ukfilmreview Um, yeah. 01:15:17.69 Brian Penn Yeah, how much it's racing when you get that calibre of a involved So that's another great Great plus. 01:15:24.17 ukfilmreview So that was the 1 note man um, do go read my review. Um, if you've got lovely things to say about my writing send them to me if you've got not so nice things to say ah send them somewhere else. Um, the. 01:15:27.10 Brian Penn Yeah, absolutely. 01:15:38.74 ukfilmreview The film if you want to find out more. They have a websites so called cusp films so that's CUSPF ILMSDot code at UK so that's their website and they are on social media so Twitter be at Cust Films instagram it's at cusp underscore films. So and I'm pretty sure the film is not out yet. 01:15:44.11 Brian Penn Ah. 01:15:56.32 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:15:57.35 ukfilmreview Um, I'm pretty sure it is doing the festival run because I follow them on socials and they are talking a lot about festivals at the moment. However, it's the kind of film I could see it being released. Um, um, and people will will be able to watch on something like Om letter or something like that. Um. 01:16:03.18 Brian Penn Ah. 01:16:10.18 Brian Penn Should be shouldn't it really? Yeah, Ah yeah. 01:16:16.16 ukfilmreview So that's the one that man and that's the end of our indie films leaving us only the nostalgia pick for this month um as we say it's a horror month. Um, so we are obviously going to head to disney you know that's where we're going Disney plus obviously um. 01:16:26.97 Brian Penn Nice. Ah. 01:16:29.32 Brian Penn Now. Yeah, obviously obviously obviously where else. 01:16:34.57 ukfilmreview I I picked I wanted something from Disney price because I felt that yeah we we've done Netflix for the streaming pick and this this head to Disney ive I had never seen the omen now I put it? No so I put it as the nostalgia p because this is partly what the nostalgia pick is for which is. 01:16:43.60 Brian Penn Really. 01:16:53.90 ukfilmreview Those films which you kind of should have seen that you filled out. Maybe it gives you a reason to watch them. Um, and I thought I'd send the omen reference so many times like in pop culture do know always comes to mind. He's only fools and horses because of like Damien and like yeah um that I was like ah you not. 01:16:53.85 Brian Penn 5 01:17:00.89 Brian Penn Yes. 01:17:07.88 Brian Penn Of Damien yeah, ah ah absolutely I had a long time ago though you know these I it came out in 9076 I never realized it was that old actually I thought it was a bit more recent. 01:17:11.56 ukfilmreview I'm gonna this is it. This is a good reason to watch it Um, had you seen it before. Okay. 01:17:25.56 Brian Penn Ah, may have been thinking of the 2 sequels that they made but the original film came out in something 6 I would have seen it the first time possibly 10 years after because of that time films would take four or five years to appear on on the small screen so it probably would have been. 01:17:28.62 ukfilmreview Um. 01:17:43.75 Brian Penn The midacs when I first saw it. But I've not seen it for a very long time. So this for me would is a bit you know we will say don't we that if you've not seen the film for years. You can see it with a fresh pair of eyes. So yeah I have seen it above. 01:18:00.19 ukfilmreview Um, it's also quite good with this nostalgia pick because you get that chance to go is it how I remember and you go back and watch your film and go Okay, yeah, actually and that is as good like we we did fight Club I'd sent so many times when I was younger I watched it again I was like yeah night still holds up still great. Um. 01:18:00.89 Brian Penn Sent previously Byarian Islam other. 01:18:06.40 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah out Costa. 01:18:17.89 ukfilmreview With ah with this um I hadn't seen it but it has a lot of similarities to films of that era of films I have seen you know 70 s horrors and things like that. Um it is one of the films as well that it has a place in horror legacy in terms of like. 01:18:25.81 Brian Penn Yeah I. 01:18:34.76 Brian Penn Is yeah. 01:18:37.35 ukfilmreview What it's done and and things are um so the story centers around Gregory Peck's character. He's an ambassador called Robert Thorne who very very early on in the film. They lose their child um in the hospital and in order to. 01:18:50.00 Brian Penn No. 01:18:56.61 ukfilmreview Not cause his wife any distress or pardon any distress someone offers him the chance of having another child that sadly lost their mother childbirth So kind of a well you know take this one instead situation. Um as you do and. 01:19:09.50 Brian Penn I Should do yeah I should do yeah. 01:19:15.86 ukfilmreview Years go by and he sort of his life kind of becomes he comes quite successful in his career but the child starts to seem a bit odd to be honest bit weird um bit sinister and it all comes to a head when. 01:19:24.80 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:19:32.77 Brian Penn Yeah, it's the it's anani isn't it the na he. 01:19:33.80 ukfilmreview Someone dies at there a picnic. Um, she is that the first that's for some entry where she goes out the window right? Yeah yeah, the nanny um and from there only gets weirder and also the a priest or something just kind of keeps trying to track. Gregory Preck's character down and warns him of this warns that actually this child presents more evil than he may be prepared for and it all links into the church so they must stop him at first obviously he doesn't really believe him but then more more things start to happen and chaos and violence ensue. 01:19:53.74 Brian Penn Um. 01:20:00.66 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah, not he can yeah. 01:20:11.43 ukfilmreview It escalates into horror territory. Um, what did you think watching this again Brian how did you feel like watching this seventy s horror film in 2023 01:20:22.00 Brian Penn I think it's still it still works. It still definitely works alongside the wicker man now we've mentioned the wicker man before haven't we but alongside the wicker man this film is the benchmark for all horror movies. They get the basics right? You know great directs through Richard donnna. Great car sc Gregory Peck a genuine film legend Lee Remick Billy Whitelaw David Warner Patrick Trouston who plays the priest you know they all excellent actors know what they're doing so they got all the basics right? You know and a very strong story that's telling. Ah. Quite as kind of an explicit tale really you know a bit about the the kind of the mirror image of Jesus isn't it really? you know the the son of the devil and ties in with with Bludgeon and religious symbolism. It's it's still shocking. 01:21:12.45 ukfilmreview Um. 01:21:20.60 Brian Penn still feels shocking it still works you know there are certain scenes in the film that still make me shocking. You know I don't often get affected in that way by a horror movie but some films do it to me and this is one of them. You know one you can pick out all kinds of scenes that that will shock you and. Linger in the memory but the where where um Lee Remicks Remis characters of the mother is on the stairs trying to fix the light and the kid comes along on it on his bike or when he's tricycle that is a generally shocking scene. It really is and it does make you make you. 01:21:45.92 ukfilmreview So yeah. 01:21:57.82 Brian Penn Jump out you see for it Momentarily big. Yeah yeah, and that's very true. Yeah, that's that's obviously where where they got it from then wasn't it that you know in some ways all all films are derivative aren't I of something else of something you've seen. 01:21:57.85 ukfilmreview It did remind me a lot of the shining. So I was like that felt very akin right? The bike. 01:22:16.65 ukfilmreview Um, yeah. 01:22:17.10 Brian Penn Previously you know and that's why I think the the omen is so influential that they get lots of they draw on lots of ideas that they that they put down in a film like um omen but it works you know it does what it's supposed to do and it. Even though it is what 47 years old. You know it still manages to be thought provoking disturbing scary with it with very few special effects with pretty basic. Um. Effects that you know they represent this the 70 s in some ways where there was nothing I don't know you film you filmed the omens today right? You imagine what you could do with all the techniques and tricks and wizardry you got at your disposal now. But I don't think they could make that film any better now than they did then if you see what I'm getting at yeah. 01:23:16.48 ukfilmreview Now I think that oh hundred percent when it comes to horror like if you've got practical effects. They still work way better than ah yeah cgi and I think it's the kind of film where they're doing. 01:23:22.54 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:23:30.58 ukfilmreview A lot of supernatural big stuff like they've got the hell hounds. They've got the there's a storm at 1 point that kind of goes crazy that it's like they had to do all that like that those were real dogs. You know that was a real um storm that they had to recreate like using effects. It's like that. 01:23:32.93 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:23:43.68 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah. 01:23:48.88 ukfilmreview That has to be applauded. You have to so and that's why it stands up I think because it's like well you did it. You made it whereas I think with um, anything cgi even 105 years you'll you'll notice because technologies change and the way that they've done that is very different but it's still in the same ballpark. But with this. 01:23:50.57 Brian Penn A. 01:24:00.21 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:24:06.27 ukfilmreview It is just you've made it happen. Um I did find I like the film I like that there was a lot of heritage here in terms of horror filmmaking I've so so many beats like oh they've they've referenced that in this film. They've referenced that in this film. So I like that Obviously this is kind of like ah an Og story. 01:24:06.40 Brian Penn Thing. 01:24:21.12 Brian Penn Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:24:25.20 ukfilmreview I did feel that it it was on my house I was taking itself quite seriously which I found hard because I say with me in horror I don't I think if everyone's taking really seriously I get a bit bored if I doesn't feel that fun I wouldn't say it was that fun of a film Um, with. 01:24:32.81 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's very serious isn't it. Yeah, no yeah. 01:24:43.48 ukfilmreview Yeah, with the conference earlier that this is perfectly my at my street Yo it's It's funny. It's fun, but it's also got some scares and it's a bit terrifying with this. It was just trying to be scary but also playing very heavily into the religious side of things which I just found. Okay, yeah, like that's that's fine. Um, that. 01:24:54.95 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:25:02.76 ukfilmreview And also some of the some of the effects were a bit overbearing like the the music and the lighting that you're watching just going. Okay, okay, all right? Yep calm it down calm but that is obviously you're talking about a film made decades ago that it's the style has changed and you know. 01:25:09.16 Brian Penn Yeah I know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:25:18.60 ukfilmreview Imagine seeing this in a cinema at time but it was like oh my god like experience whereas watching it on Disney Blas and toy fake free is a bit like I can yeah calm it down. Um, but I do I also I think a sign of a good film is if there is more films that you want to watch and I finish this and thought you know what I'm going to try and check out. 01:25:24.87 Brian Penn Yeah, and I yeah. 01:25:35.26 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, it still the character that they're developing isn't it because if you sorry Chris come. 01:25:36.26 ukfilmreview Omen too like I feel like I want to know because it's it's the same character isn't it like later on yeah well I just thinking we probably should have put a spoiler in there but do we need to put spoilers for films that are over 4 years old guess. Ah, now we'll get letters but I just. 01:25:49.28 Brian Penn Oh what? then I would you reckon ah delete the less this Yeah okay from yeah yeah, Okay, yeah, yeah, that kind of got. 01:25:54.13 ukfilmreview Delete them? Yeah by which I mean burn them. Yeah. 01:26:02.81 Brian Penn Is in keeping with with the horror theme isn't it really is Yeah yeah, oh yeah, it's very good. But yeah so I think you're right? They um the the music is a bit heavy handed that was more about the style the approach to filmmaking in in the S simtics though. 01:26:03.39 ukfilmreview Yeah, it's very practical way of getting rid of stuff. Yeah. 01:26:22.44 Brian Penn That's one of the one of the sort of triggers that that could date you think oh that's definitely the seventys but you know I ah suppose I could look upon that and say right? That's that's what makes it what it is that it's it' the time capsule you know and it's. s great to see london because he was a diplomat wasn't he that got posted to london so it's it's great to see london in in the sim sea. So yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:26:49.31 ukfilmreview That does. Yeah I thought that too I thought I looked great and after they're out and about filming in real locations. So yeah, no, that was good. Um there's a lot to the aim and that I enjoyed I just felt that there will definitely be ah, an audience of people who are used to the sort of ah possession style. Um, films. Yeah, like hereditary and the witch that they'll watch this and go oh okay, like it does feel dated in some ways but I also do feel that as a pregressor to a lot of those films and also some of the stuff. Um, that Edgar Wright has done if you watch some of Edgar Wright's films. There's a bit. 01:27:07.30 Brian Penn Ah, yeah. 01:27:13.45 Brian Penn Game that. 01:27:20.68 Brian Penn Yeah, oh absolutely? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I know yeah. 01:27:25.17 ukfilmreview In this where something falls off the roof of the church and it impales someone I was like that is literally from hot fires like they they hot fuzz is obviously reference and I think that a lot of these filmmakers that are making modern horrors or modern films like that will have used this as a. 01:27:39.94 Brian Penn Yeah, it's the it's the big daddy in somebody. It's the big daddio of horror movies because you know they'll they'll look at that and they think right because there are only so many ways you can do something and a visual trick a storyline. 01:27:42.00 ukfilmreview Touch point. And yeah I think that's good. It's a big duddy. 01:27:59.61 Brian Penn It's got to be done the first time right? It's done the first time then other filmmakers will refine. It. They'll adapt. It. They'll update it and someone like egar right? will will pay tribute will will name check those films if you look closely and it's very solid. You know some directors are very good at it. Um, they'll they'll put a subtle nod in to ah a film that was maybe maybe forty or fifty years ago you know the likes oforses Coppolom Spillberg have made careers out out of drawing on classic movies from the 50 s and sixty s so you know everything is derivative. You know you. You really need to look hard to find the originals the the source of the films that we see today. But that's the that's the way of the world. That's how you do it, you know and that's that you know we've got the fun part of it haven't we we got the we can watch and pick it all up. 01:28:54.70 ukfilmreview And pick it all apart which is what we do? Um so that's the omen and as I said earlier available on Disney plus if you want to watch it I believe the next one's on there. So that's where I'll be watching that. 01:28:55.30 Brian Penn I'm pick it all apart as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:29:04.72 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, I'll have to do that as well see you might as well finish yeah carry on Yes, only right. 01:29:07.11 ukfilmreview Um, other thought yeah when you kind of think well actually. Ah yeah I've started now. So I'm mean as well carry on as I finished. Um, so if you have any scary films. Do you want to let us know that you've watched and ah great to send in your reviews. We'll happily play them on this show. 01:29:20.33 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 01:29:26.88 ukfilmreview Um, but that is it for this quite bumper pack episode. We've gone through a lot 6 indie films there um as well as the 2 cinema films the streaming release and a nostalgia pick I mean you get all this free in your ears. So you know or more could you ask for luxury. Um, next month. 01:29:30.74 Brian Penn Um, yeah. 01:29:38.88 Brian Penn What more could you ask for? really luxury. 01:29:46.66 ukfilmreview Will be our November episode going into December so it may be we get a bit festive. We might get a festive the next episode you know? Yeah yep, so if you want us? Yeah, send us your your recommendations for the best Christmas film and maybe that will be our nostalgia pick. 01:29:52.90 Brian Penn Why not yet? Yeah yeah, it's a bit of a season thereres you' you're soment in them Aren you it season them. Yeah, yeah. 01:30:05.86 ukfilmreview We also have a couple of films already submitted from indie filmmakers for that episode 2 So this has been uk film club part of the Uk film of your podcast I have been your host Chris Horson and Brian pen as always has been my my lovely assistant I'll say lovely assistant not just assistant. 01:30:13.86 Brian Penn Oh yes. 01:30:22.38 Brian Penn Thank thank you very much that one. Ah yeah I've got a drawline somewhere Honestly I really have pleasure pleasure as always. 01:30:23.75 ukfilmreview My lovely assistant Paige doesn't wear the costumes that I buy him. So. 01:30:32.47 ukfilmreview Ah, Pushers Always thank you for joining us and thank you if you have stuck all the way to the end. You are a real trooper but that's it for now. 01:30:40.21 Brian Penn Bye for now. Previous Next

Read the film podcast transcript from the episode titled Sinners - The Amateur - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - UK Film Club Episode 27 on UK Film Club part of the UK Film Review Podcast. < Back Sinners - The Amateur - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - UK Film Club Episode 27 Listen to This Episode UK Film Club 00:00:00.00 Chris Olson in time You're always just there and ready to go. You're so punctual. 00:00:05.20 Brian Penn I try to be. I try to be. I mean, do you realise we've just had our last blank holiday until Christmas? Oh, 00:00:14.20 Chris Olson No, we haven't. There's one in August, isn't there? 00:00:16.55 Brian Penn ah that's right. No, you're right. 00:00:18.86 Chris Olson Don't forget about that one. maybe It gets lost because it's in the summer holidays and everyone thinks, oh it's not a real bank holiday, but it is. And I will defend it to my very last. 00:00:24.15 Brian Penn What made me forget that? 00:00:26.24 Chris Olson Okay. 00:00:26.58 Brian Penn but Of course I forgot all about that. 00:00:28.83 Chris Olson How can you forget the August bank holiday, Brian? 00:00:30.46 Brian Penn ah no I know. 00:00:30.75 Chris Olson That's that's insane. 00:00:31.30 Brian Penn Well, I've remembered now, haven't Really. 00:00:33.46 Chris Olson I think you've got mad because this month has got two, right? So that's why you're you know you're excited. 00:00:36.93 Brian Penn It could be. It could be, yeah. Overexcited, yeah. 00:00:41.59 Chris Olson Well, you know it's easily done. And yeah in the UK, it's very easy to just grab onto the small things, isn't it? 00:00:48.47 Brian Penn Well, it is. you youling You cling to those crumbs, don't you? Those shreds of hope, you know. 00:00:51.61 Chris Olson Yeah, shreds. yeah the The two weeks of sunny weather that we've had. but 00:00:56.63 Brian Penn Yeah, well, you see, I don't mind when it cools down a little bit, really. I mean, the odd downpour can actually do some good, particularly if you you've got allergies as well, you know, so... 00:01:05.44 Chris Olson Yeah, allergies suck. um I mean, weather-wise, Brian, if it's ah it's a rainy Sunday afternoon, you're going to put a film on, what's your sort of classic rainy Sunday film? 00:01:13.88 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:01:16.39 Brian Penn Oh, that's a good question, isn't it? um I would have to go for something British, possibly black and white. 00:01:25.77 Chris Olson so 00:01:26.47 Brian Penn You know, a this might be slightly left field, but a 1950s war epic, something like the Dam Busters or the crew yeah the Cruel Sea or Ice Cold in Alex with John Mills and Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Sims. 00:01:33.34 Chris Olson Wow. A war epic. 00:01:41.64 Brian Penn Something like that, something along those lines. It just feels very warm and very cozy. And it's kind of, it is a nostalgic feeling that you, that it engenders, isn't it, on a Sunday afternoon? You know sitting down with a ah cup of tea and a chocolate obnob, you know, and watching a good old-fashioned British movie. 00:01:55.90 Chris Olson Chocolate Oblop. Yeah. 00:01:58.54 Brian Penn So that's what I'd go for. What about you 00:02:00.53 Chris Olson Yeah, definitely. um Sorry, listeners, but we are the UK Film Review Podcast, so we are kind of going to be slanted slightly towards the the British films. 00:02:04.76 Brian Penn you? Yeah. Yeah, just a bit. Yeah. 00:02:08.75 Chris Olson And yeah, it's definitely like, ah ah but for me, it be like a British comedy, you know, something. 00:02:12.31 Brian Penn Oh, yeah. 00:02:13.57 Chris Olson I'm trying to, to be honest, any Richard Curtis film pretty much will do. 00:02:17.82 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, that bit's... 00:02:18.59 Chris Olson um And yeah, anything with like Michael Caine, he just... 00:02:23.28 Brian Penn Oh, yeah. 00:02:24.19 Chris Olson especially something not not sort of like you know the sort of hardcore crimey ones that he's done but more the sort of where he's been the sort of elderly gentleman you've reviewed a few of his films actually in the last couple of years where he's been doing those sort of films um yeah 00:02:33.26 Brian Penn I have, yeah. Yeah, well, the... Yeah, I agree with that. Well, you know I'm a huge Michael Caine fan anyway, but um his last film, I don't know whether it will be his last film, I mean, he is... 00:02:47.44 Brian Penn I think 92 now, but The Great Escaper, which, yeah, which is based on true story. 00:02:51.01 Chris Olson where he goes to France yeah and he's the older guy 00:02:53.94 Brian Penn That's a lovely film. 00:02:55.12 Chris Olson Do you know, watched that because of your review, which is pretty much the way of all of my movie watching is now. 00:02:55.40 Brian Penn Lovely film. 00:02:58.38 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:03:01.01 Brian Penn Yeah, 00:03:01.55 Chris Olson and And yeah, that is is perfect Sunday afternoon fair, definitely. 00:03:05.29 Brian Penn it is. 00:03:06.63 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:03:06.88 Brian Penn Very much so. And it's, it's very, it's a warm hearted movie, isn't it? I mean, it's a phrase that, that, uh, film critics use far too often, but it just kind of fits for some films. 00:03:17.74 Brian Penn But I see it as a positive thing, though, Chris. and Whilst others might see that as a derogatory comment, but it's not. 00:03:24.27 Chris Olson Well, they they do like to argue, don't they, on the internet, I've heard. 00:03:24.64 Brian Penn I 00:03:27.38 Brian Penn i guess so, that's all good. you know We like to provoke conversation and and opinions. That's what it's all about, as the old cliche goes. 00:03:35.05 Chris Olson we do 00:03:36.00 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:03:36.38 Chris Olson And there'll be no arguing here on UK Film Club. If this is your first time, welcome, welcome, welcome. Everyone is welcome, even if you only watch films on a Sunday afternoon when it's raining. But Brian very kindly goes and reviews films at the cinema. So that's what we would normally start off with first. 00:03:52.71 Chris Olson We're then going to review a streaming pick. So that's a film that's available on a streaming platform. We then review a selection of indie films that have been sent to us by filmmakers specifically for this podcast. They say, look, we love your podcast. 00:04:05.54 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:04:05.60 Chris Olson review our films so we do um and then we finish up with what's called our nostalgia pick kind of like the the Sunday afternoon film but it could be you can watch this anywhere it just has to have been out for quite a few while we haven't set an actual amount of years for that um but typically know we're looking at sort of 20 30 years maybe more we're not going black and white this time though um but we won't say what it is we'll save that to the end 00:04:12.88 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:04:20.66 Brian Penn No. 00:04:27.20 Brian Penn No. 00:04:29.60 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:04:29.95 Chris Olson Unless you're going to be one of those people that just looks at the description, you know. i know there's there's those of you out there, classic. 00:04:34.29 Brian Penn yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're looking at you, aren't we, eh? 00:04:37.79 Chris Olson um We're looking at you through our screens. 00:04:40.54 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:04:42.19 Chris Olson um But first off, we're starting with a new film out by Ryan Coogler called Sinners. Brian, take away. 00:04:52.17 Brian Penn So Sinners, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan, Miles Clayton, Saul Williams, and Adrian Ward-Hammond. So, the storyline. 00:05:03.56 Brian Penn Twin Brothers Smoke and Stack return home to Mississippi after several years in Chicago. They decide to invest in an old sawmill and turn it into a juke joint. Musicians are recruited in preparation for the opening night. 00:05:16.93 Brian Penn However, rumours persist about the sawmill's history and the bad vibes it gives off. First Night unleashes evil that the brothers could only yeah could never have imagined. 00:05:27.81 Brian Penn But will the Duke joint make it to a second night? This is a very handsome looking film. it makes It mixes together two contrasting genres, really. 00:05:38.39 Brian Penn On the one hand, you've got a familiar tale of the Deep South dripping with racial tension. And on the other hand, so a highly effective horror subplot. If you love old-style blues, there's a great soundtrack to enjoy. 00:05:52.64 Brian Penn The lighting and design is excellent. It's inventive and visually arresting. It's a very, very good film. I like this a hell of a lot. And Michael B. Jordan doubles up in the role of the twins, which gives it a certain amount of normalcy value. 00:06:07.99 Brian Penn but um And some may well complain that it actually does an actor out of a job. But you can't complain when it works as well as it does. It's an incredibly good film. 00:06:19.66 Chris Olson Wow. I mean, I've heard a lot about this film and a lot of people asking me if I'd seen it. and I said, no, I haven't. 00:06:23.94 Brian Penn um 00:06:24.38 Chris Olson Wait for the podcast, Brian. I'll review it for you. 00:06:26.29 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:06:26.42 Chris Olson Don't worry. um And it's got a great pedigree. You love the cast. 00:06:29.72 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:06:31.30 Chris Olson Big fan of McBee Jordan. We've got people like Jack O'Connell in there. 00:06:34.54 Brian Penn ye 00:06:35.02 Chris Olson Delroy Linden. It's one of those films as well that just feels like it's got a ah good... sense of authenticity about it feels like you know i watched the trailer i've heard other reviews and things about that and i say they feel that they've they've really sort of captured an interesting period of time um yeah i'm a big fan of blues so i'll be you know this is going on the list this is one of those films right 00:06:48.04 Brian Penn yeah 00:06:53.18 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:06:56.98 Brian Penn oh Yeah. Yeah. The soundtrack is to die for if you like rhythm and blues. It is absolutely brilliant. um It's not often that I'd recommend the soundtrack of a film, of any film, because film soundtracks can be very fragmented, can't they? They can be very patchy at times. But I'd recommend that you purchase the soundtrack this film because it's brilliant. 00:07:19.43 Brian Penn You can just feel the deep south. wafting through you your eardrums. It is brilliant. I just love this film so much. um And it deserves to be seen on the big screen as well. 00:07:30.40 Brian Penn And it's still doing good business in the cinema, site which is good to see. 00:07:30.62 Chris Olson i it's got some fabulous reviews and yeah it's been out a little while um i was yeah my my question was whether or not it was going to be needed to be seen on the big screen but i kind of knew that for myself when i saw the trailer i thought i'd want to see this on the big screen um 00:07:37.76 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:07:46.40 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah, I think so. so Some films do need need it. It's that we've discussed before that with some films, like they can like can be just as if, they can be no more effective on a big screen than they would be on a small screen. 00:08:01.02 Brian Penn So some films are natural. You know, it's when we used to say that this film can go straight to video back in the day, right? 00:08:07.10 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:08:08.14 Brian Penn But now we say, oh it's going to go onto stream straight away, right? This type of film ah belongs on a big screen. it It's got that cinematic feel to it. So it deserves to be seen where where it was made. You know, it was made for the big screen, so. 00:08:22.84 Brian Penn This one's got to be done. But as I say, so I was very impressed by it. you know it's It's easy to pick holes in any film, isn't it, really? But I can't see anything that was really wrong with it. 00:08:35.03 Brian Penn And for added novelty value, to me, there's an added dose of originality there because I've never seen two subplots mixed together in that way that mixes horror with old style, Deep South racial tensions. Now, people listening, 00:08:52.63 Brian Penn might be able to direct me to a a film that did do that. It's already done that. But I don't know of one that's done that. And i think originality in filmmaking is so difficult to find these days. 00:09:02.89 Chris Olson What was that Tarantino film? there anything that's coming to mind? Was that in the deep self though? Where it's like, is it from dusk till dawn or something it's called? Where they sort of suddenly turns into like a ah vampire flick. 00:09:11.11 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:09:13.50 Brian Penn Yeah. I mean, that that was a horror vampire type thing. 00:09:15.74 Chris Olson That's it. Yes, that that was like coming to mind when you were talking about this, but not in this. 00:09:18.35 Brian Penn Was that? Yeah. Could be. Yeah. 00:09:22.41 Chris Olson Yeah, like say, it's it's got a probably different setup to that. 00:09:23.97 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:09:25.39 Chris Olson But I think, um yeah obviously, vampire films, in general actually, we've got one later on in the show, um are yeah it's so it's a very full genre. 00:09:25.78 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:09:31.36 Brian Penn We have, yeah. 00:09:35.05 Brian Penn Oh, it is. 00:09:35.15 Chris Olson But when you do kind of get a nice mixture, especially as well, if they're doing like a period piece, then yeah, I quite like it. I think it's got a lot to offer. 00:09:42.95 Brian Penn Yeah, and also the horror elements of the movie are really well done. um was I was watching this film with my niece and she really had to look away when the 00:09:52.07 Chris Olson Mm-hmm. 00:09:53.22 Brian Penn When the scary bits came on, to she had to distract herself and and just look look somewhere else. and So that's a good indication of how effective that part of it is. And some of the horror scenes were but actually quite scary. 00:10:07.46 Brian Penn you know You know, I'm not necessarily affected by the horror, they so the jump up and scare you type scenes, but this does it really well. um So yeah, full marks really. 00:10:18.83 Chris Olson There go. Well, sinners, um stay tuned to find out if it's Brian's film of the month, but we've got a couple more to go through before we get to that point, which is brings us on neatly next to The Amateur. 00:10:20.05 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:10:27.81 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:10:31.40 Brian Penn Ah, right. Okay. Yeah. So the amateur is directed by James Hawes, starring Remy Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, and John Bernal. 00:10:42.88 Brian Penn So Heller is a whist kid decoder employed by the CIA. When his wife Sarah is killed in a London terror attack, he gathers intelligence on the court culprits. 00:10:53.93 Brian Penn However, his bosses decline to investigate. Armed with his cyber skills, Heller goes after his wife's killers. Now, this is a very slick and well-executed spy story. 00:11:05.09 Brian Penn The twist here is that Heller doesn't have the field skills, but has the intelligence to stay ahead of the game. So it's a bit like brain overcoming Brawn. So all of that makes a pleasant change. 00:11:17.68 Brian Penn Usually in this type of story, ah you become accustomed to the physical combat elements of the film. Now, there is some of that, but most of it, it's hella sort of thinking, and it's so it's very cerebral, which is unusual for a spy story, because they normally do go in one direction, pretty much. And the interplay between Remy Malek's character and Laurence Fishburne's character is quite interesting, because Laurence Fishburne plays Henderson, who's the the expert field operative who teaches in the ropes. 00:11:52.82 Brian Penn right So... You've got that kind of master and apprentice okay ah going on there, which is good. 00:11:59.65 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:12:01.54 Brian Penn um All in all, ah really good film. And probably underrated and not getting the attention that it really deserves. But it's a very good film. Still just about showing in the cinema. ah So if you're quick, you'll be able to see it your local multiplex. 00:12:17.06 Brian Penn ah But you need to be quick. But it's a surprisingly good film. And Remy Malek is... has properly shed that Freddie Mercury ah look. He's not, you know, I felt initially was that he was lots in his Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, which he was very good in. 00:12:35.79 Brian Penn But he's shed that image down. You know, you sense that he's moved on and that he's playing other characters that are equally credible. So he's not weighed down by one particular role that he's played in the past. And that's not easy to do, but he's done it very well. 00:12:51.14 Chris Olson Yeah, it's funny because the marketing for the amateur is actually dining out quite a lot on the fact that he's like won an Oscar, right? So they put like yeah Academy Award winner, Academy Award winner. 00:12:57.38 Brian Penn Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:13:00.51 Chris Olson obviously, you know, funny enough, he first came to my sort of notice in the show called and Mr. Robot, which I've not seen it all, but i just know that he was in it where he played a kind of, you know, 00:13:08.70 Brian Penn Ah, OK. Yeah. 00:13:13.60 Chris Olson computer guy. I'm not sure what the correct word is. 00:13:15.47 Brian Penn ah 00:13:16.19 Chris Olson I was going to say geek, but I thought that's offensive, right? 00:13:16.43 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:13:18.67 Chris Olson i can't say geek. 00:13:18.98 Brian Penn Well, it probably is now, yeah. 00:13:20.09 Chris Olson um 00:13:20.42 Brian Penn but Sorry, I don't mind. 00:13:20.88 Chris Olson But yeah, you don't mind. that I thought yeah this is feels like akin to that name casting-wise, because like you say something like Bohemian Rhapsody was such a different role for him to play. 00:13:29.65 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah yeah 00:13:32.61 Chris Olson The tone of this feels quite sort of like BBC sort of spy show to me. like You know when you get a lot of those sort shows on the BBC... 00:13:39.37 Brian Penn yeah like spokes Yeah. 00:13:41.40 Chris Olson Yeah, Spooks. 00:13:41.93 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:13:42.32 Chris Olson I just watched, um not BBC, but Day of the Jackal with Eddie Redmayne. 00:13:42.48 Brian Penn yeah 00:13:45.70 Brian Penn I 00:13:46.01 Chris Olson That was really good. im i So I think there's a big audience for these type of stories, right? 00:13:51.54 Brian Penn but yeah i mean, therere there are certain types of film that we go for. Certain stories that are going to be naturally very popular. And anything to do with spies, you know, it's ah it's a Bond-esque type storyline, a quasi-Bond storyline. I mean, we're going to come to Mission Impossible next. And that is very, that's a spy story. 00:14:12.97 Brian Penn And it's a very popular genre. And there's no sign of the public's appetite for that type of film waning, really. You know, and you've you've got lots of ah examples of how that genre has flourished. I mean, jason the Jason Bourne movies, for example. 00:14:29.65 Brian Penn You know, it's it's a staple, I think, isn't it? You know, it fits into the action movie franchise fairly neatly. But I mean, it's a staple that we're comfortable with, we enjoy it. 00:14:42.49 Brian Penn And it's quite but it's a question of how it's all executed, isn't it? And how well it's done. But this one at one is very well done. 00:14:49.77 Chris Olson This one's well done. 00:14:49.83 Brian Penn like it. Yeah. 00:14:50.79 Chris Olson Well, that's the amateur. As Brian said, you might be able catch it at the cinema. If not, I'm sure it won't be long before it's on a streaming platform. 00:14:55.37 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:14:59.20 Chris Olson um And also, as Brian said, which he he absolutely jumped the gun and, you know, told you what the next film was. But, you know I'll let him off because he is the one who saw it. 00:15:07.97 Brian Penn Oh, okay. 00:15:09.16 Chris Olson um The newest Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning. on, Brian. 00:15:14.84 Brian Penn Okay. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Angela Bassett. So this carries on where the previous film left off. 00:15:26.86 Brian Penn A rogue AI program called The Entity has infiltrated the world's nuclear command sensors and threatens global destruction. Ethan Hunt and his team have recovered a key to disarm The Entity. 00:15:38.28 Brian Penn but must now find the original source code to complete their mission. Your mission, should you decide to accept, is to stay awake for the whole two hours, 50 minutes of the film. I'm sorry. 00:15:50.00 Brian Penn i am sorry. I couldn't resist it. I mean, it's it's an obvious gag waiting to be picked up. 00:15:54.72 Chris Olson You gotta do it. 00:15:54.82 Brian Penn um But I was very disappointed with this. um For a franchise that prides itself on the action elements of a film, it really is a snore fest in places. 00:16:07.47 Brian Penn There's one scene where Ethan Hunt dives underwater to explore the wreck of a submarine. And it goes on for about half an hour. And it is really boring. I'm sorry to say, it's boring. 00:16:17.18 Chris Olson Hmm. 00:16:19.13 Brian Penn And it makes the film drag where it shouldn't. And they sacrifice a lot of action for deeper contemplation. And it doesn't really go anywhere. You know, there there are scenes where they talk about the, you know, the Earth's destruction and what it could do and how bad it is. 00:16:37.57 Brian Penn And they stare into space, repeating something very similar. And it doesn't really do much for the film, really. The last half an era, it really gets going. 00:16:48.52 Brian Penn And there's a brilliant stunt involving two biplanes. um But I couldn't think, though, that the last film was subtitled Dead Reckoning. 00:17:00.92 Brian Penn And this was the final Reckoning. They could have really put both films together with some brutal editing. because I don't think there's enough material here to make a further film. 00:17:12.87 Brian Penn Because it is part one and part two, but they they could have put it into one film. It would have made an even better um film by itself, rather than try and stretch stretch ah thin storyline. 00:17:26.77 Brian Penn ah Again, it's it's ah it's a quasi-Bond storyline, but what you really impresses you about Mission and Impossible are the visuals. 00:17:30.24 Chris Olson Thank you. 00:17:34.92 Brian Penn And you don't get it quite as much in this film. And I think they could have done it without resourcing to a further film. Needless to say, it will be hideously successful. It will make a shed load of money. 00:17:46.81 Brian Penn And I'm not entirely convinced it is the last film, you know, in in the franchise. Because I think there is, ah they try and tie up some loose ends. They recap and flash back on certain um elements of of previous films. 00:18:02.25 Brian Penn So there's a sense they're wrapping everything up. They're so they're tying a bow in it or they're trying see But there's always a way back, particularly where it can make money. But no, overall, I was very disappointed. 00:18:13.83 Brian Penn But, um you know, it's going to do very well, undoubtedly. 00:18:18.93 Chris Olson Well, your review is not um dissimilar to a lot of ones I've seen. had we had a Yeah. 00:18:28.80 Chris Olson and he he gave it three out five and he says if what you're looking for in the final reckoning is tom cruise doing what tom cruise has always done in this franchise then you'll go home feeling satisfied but don't expect the film to blow you away as a whole ah film has some stunning sequences and some tantalizing stakeaks but goes light on the humour and heavy on the feeling of impending doom 00:18:48.75 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:18:49.12 Chris Olson Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning certainly isn't one of the strongest in the franchise, but it's still better than the vast majority of other action thrillers that are released nowadays. 00:18:49.40 Brian Penn yeah 00:18:57.92 Chris Olson Thank you, Tom, for that review. Do you largely agree with Tom's verdict there? 00:19:01.42 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. I think that's what i would say about it. I think the the earlier... the earlier films in the franchise were much better and more self-conclaimed and seemed to get a lot more done. 00:19:17.65 Brian Penn And this is very ponderous, I think, for me. yeah it As I say, it drags in places where it doesn't need to. And i mean, I love the previous film. 00:19:29.12 Brian Penn I think Dead Reckoning was a fantastic piece of filmmaking. But know personally, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be surprised if it did come back, but I hope it doesn't because um this particular film didn't really do it. 00:19:44.88 Brian Penn And know another installment, which we know is always a possibility, um would be even less fulfilling from an entertainment perspective. 00:19:56.76 Brian Penn But, you know, it's it's still it's still going to be one of the big films the summer um people are going to see. 00:19:57.08 Chris Olson no 00:20:00.74 Chris Olson Yeah, they always are, aren't they? They release these movies and they have a big kind of impact just because they are cinema films, aren't they? 00:20:04.83 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:20:07.35 Chris Olson You know, people just go and enjoy. 00:20:07.70 Brian Penn yeah 00:20:08.79 Chris Olson You get your money's worth, you know, it's almost three hours long. 00:20:11.32 Brian Penn Oh yeah, course you It's an event. 00:20:11.89 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:20:13.16 Brian Penn i mean but It's not just a film, is it? It's and ah an event, a cinematic event. and People think, oh, you've got to go and see it. you know i i saw it, I think, on the third night of release. 00:20:24.43 Brian Penn I think it came out on the 21st of May and I saw it on the 23rd, I think. It was almost full. i mean you know at ah At a multiplex, they probably have maybe 10 or 15 slots a day for a film like this. 00:20:41.06 Chris Olson There 00:20:41.08 Brian Penn And it was almost full, pretty much full. All right, it's only the third day in release, but it's it just gives an idea of how they can get real turnover. 00:20:51.63 Chris Olson there you go. Tom Cruise keeping the ah movie industry going. Thanks, Tom. 00:20:55.42 Brian Penn Yeah, thanks, Tom. 00:20:55.50 Chris Olson um 00:20:56.75 Brian Penn We would have nothing to talk about with without people like Tom, would we? 00:20:58.89 Chris Olson Yeah. Well, apart from us as well, we keep it going. Brian, what's your film with a month, mate? 00:21:03.72 Brian Penn Oh, Film in a Month, Sinners for me. 00:21:05.40 Chris Olson was going to say it's got to Sinners, isn't it? 00:21:06.96 Brian Penn Sinners, excellent film. Go soon. 00:21:08.76 Chris Olson Let's go see it. um Moving on now to our streaming pick, and this is a film largely picked by me. Paul Bryan doesn't really get a look in with this one. um I choose a film from the streaming platforms that is coming out this month, and we review it in this section of the show. 00:21:23.57 Chris Olson And this month, for my sins, I chose Nona's. starring Vince Vaughn as a um a man who loses his mum early on in the film who decides to pay tribute to her by opening an Italian restaurant in her name. 00:21:42.27 Chris Olson ah This is then going to be staffed by known as, and I didn't know that phrase before I saw this film, ah but it's grandmothers in in sort of the Italian-American community, or the, yeah. 00:21:54.84 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. It's the timing for another. 00:21:56.14 Chris Olson um Yeah, so Italian grandmothers come and become chefs in this um aspiring restaurant, but as with any film involving a restaurant coming to be lots challenges to overcome and will it open will it be a success that's pretty much the the whole setup of this film um and you can tell from my tone how i feel about this i'm gonna go to brian quickly brian what you think about known as it's it's a sunday film isn't it sunday afternoon 00:22:09.70 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:22:21.48 Brian Penn yeah i really enjoyed this you know at the top of the show we would yeah it's like we were talking at the top top of the show uh about a sunday afternoon film and this is it i really really enjoyed this good storytelling with strong characters based on a true story it's the definition of heartwarming we were talking about it earlier weren't we uh but um 00:22:40.47 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:22:44.28 Brian Penn What really does it for me, though, is the cast. What a great cast. I mean, apart from Vince Wall, you've got um got Susan Sarandon, Talia Shire from the Godfather and Rocky movies, Brenda Vaccaro, highly respected sporting actress, and Lorraine Bracco, who I didn't recognise. 00:23:05.32 Brian Penn So... um excuse me. um So... A lovely film to watch. um The um story itself, it's one of those films where you think they're overcoming the odds. 00:23:23.82 Brian Penn And I noticed that the um the actual person that Vince Vaughn's character was based on um was actually in the film as an extra. 00:23:36.67 Chris Olson Yeah, he's sort of in the crowd and sort near the end on the... 00:23:37.81 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 00:23:39.03 Chris Olson yeah 00:23:39.28 Brian Penn And um you think this is this is based on something real. Someone's struggle, somebody who wanted to honor his mother's memory and had memories of his childhood when his mother and grandmother would would be in the kitchen preparing this special sauce that he could never work out how to prepare. 00:23:59.15 Brian Penn um Yeah, it's such a nice film. And as I say, so many good actors. As say, Lorraine Brackow, I didn't recognise at all. It was only when she started talking that I recognised her because that, 00:24:11.52 Brian Penn Lorraine Bracco was in Goodfellas and she was lots of Melfi in The Sopranos. um But they just give it such a kick. you know It keeps the story moving along. 00:24:23.10 Brian Penn um So yeah, a really, really good film. 00:24:24.67 Chris Olson Yeah, i I didn't feel that way. 00:24:27.21 Brian Penn Really. 00:24:27.88 Chris Olson Well, like the heartwarming aspect to it. I like the Nonas. I thought they were absolutely a great you set of people. will What I found, well, I found a couple of things problematic with the movie. One is i'm Vince Vaughn. 00:24:43.42 Chris Olson I found him so tepid through the whole film. Yeah. 00:24:46.13 Brian Penn he Well, yeah. 00:24:46.74 Chris Olson He never gets into another gear. He just stays as this kind of morose but upbeat, which is a weird combination, character that is on the one hand grieving his mum, on the other hand like being this like super optimistic, kind of almost like a Steve Jobs type character of like, well, I'll just keep doing and I'll keep pumping money and it will happen. 00:24:54.84 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:25:01.79 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:25:04.96 Chris Olson um I found him really tepid throughout. I just didn't enjoy him. 00:25:08.75 Brian Penn fit Well, I have to say, I mean, Vince Vaughn isn't one of my favourite answers, particularly. I think he he's the type of actor that doesn't, doesn't have to work too hard. He knows what parts work for him. 00:25:24.27 Brian Penn But in this film, I i think in some ways, he's allowed the women in the film to do the job for him. But you kind of went, 00:25:31.76 Chris Olson Yeah, they come with a lot of, um you know, vibrancy and there's a lot of, like, this sort of bickering between them, which is, like, I think they're sort playing on that. 00:25:36.32 Brian Penn yeah. 00:25:40.05 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:25:40.20 Chris Olson And, i you know, I thought there was another character in the and the film called Bruno, played by Joe Manginello, who is his, like, and either his brother or, like, his best friend or someone, obviously, best friend, yeah. 00:25:45.23 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:25:48.80 Brian Penn He's best friend, yeah. Yeah. 00:25:50.53 Chris Olson um He was funny. He was bringing a bit of chemistry. He was trying. He was, you bringing in a few laughs. 00:25:55.03 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:25:56.17 Chris Olson i just I just found, yeah, Vince Vaughn was problematic. The other issue that I had with it was it's very low risk and low reward film. Like it's it's not doing very much. 00:26:05.00 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:26:06.77 Chris Olson Obviously the absolute, when you're doing a film based on a real story, is difficult. You know, they're going to not veer too far off. 00:26:12.04 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:26:13.69 Chris Olson But I felt that, okay, well, why were we watching this film? Like what was the point of it? 00:26:18.26 Brian Penn Well... 00:26:18.61 Chris Olson It was just kind of like, 00:26:19.50 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:26:19.96 Chris Olson i it's and it's a nice story and you know they they did it and I think that was fine but when I think about like cooking based movies films you they are from something Ratatouille to The 100 Foot Journey things like that I think of films that are like boiling pot kind of things where it's oh it's really stressful and then it's not and then it's all the tensions of humanity really kind of like on the burner yeah that's the whole point this it just didn't ever get to that point ever 00:26:27.66 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:26:30.24 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:26:36.12 Brian Penn yeah 00:26:39.92 Brian Penn yeah yeah 00:26:46.10 Brian Penn yeah ah I do see where you're coming from. I mean, it's very gentle, isn't it? 00:26:50.02 Chris Olson Yeah. Yeah. 00:26:50.80 Brian Penn There's no sense of jeopardy there. There's no tension, not really, you know. But, you know, that's something probably reflecting what happened in real life. I mean, you think about how you might spice up that story, right? 00:27:05.19 Brian Penn And I think were lighted on a good point between Vince Warren's character and his best friend, Bruno, where there's kind of friction there between the two of them because he's taken advantage of his best friend to get the to get the ah restaurant renovated and up and running. 00:27:23.31 Brian Penn And they could have made more of that. But perhaps, really, it's sort of the easier way out and left it to some great, I was going to say actresses. We shouldn't say that. 00:27:33.88 Brian Penn She'll be female actors to really get the film over the line. And that's what it does. 00:27:37.94 Chris Olson I feel like saying female actors is even worse. Like, surely it's... 00:27:41.39 Brian Penn Yeah, I see it. 00:27:41.58 Chris Olson They're just... They're either just actors or... I i think we've been through before, but I asked an actress and she said she prefers actress. She doesn't like being called an actor because she says it's sort of... 00:27:49.13 Brian Penn That's interesting. 00:27:51.56 Chris Olson It's the whole thing. If they stop using the term actress, they remove all the actress awards, which for a lot of women is where they get a lot of recognition because otherwise they go up against all the male roles as well. 00:28:01.54 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:28:03.99 Brian Penn yeah 00:28:04.08 Chris Olson And it's just even harder for them to break through. So yeah, I I've stuck with actress since then, but I always have to explain myself that I say, look, I've asked someone and she said it was okay. 00:28:10.93 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. but No, that's fine that's fair enough. It's interesting, really, that the Oscars, the Academy, the academy still have best actress and best supporting actress and not best female actor, as they would have to do if they were going to distinguish between male and female actors. 00:28:21.31 Chris Olson Hmm. 00:28:30.57 Brian Penn But um it's the women that take all the honours in this film for me. 00:28:34.34 Chris Olson Yeah, no, I agree. And I think that also, to be honest, would have been a better film. if you I get it, it's a true story, you can't do this. But if it had been a group of knowners decided to open a restaurant, and you didn't have Vince Vaughn as the lead, I think this could this would work not just as well, it would work better. 00:28:44.12 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:28:50.37 Chris Olson It would have... like e yeah you've got Susan Sarandon there she can easily lead this film right you don't need Vince Vaughn um but appreciate yeah they're telling this true story but in terms of what thought I was going to get out of this and what I actually got it was very mild I say gentle is a very good word for it's a gentle film if you want something that's not going to upset people know you've got know you've got the whole family round known as is absolutely fine but none of you are going to come away from that going wow must watch that again 00:28:55.24 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah 00:29:03.09 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:29:07.81 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah, ah I know. yeah i know I mean, Vince Vaughn is that kind of actor. 00:29:20.45 Brian Penn you know He doesn't seem to strain too much you know he's not the type of actor that you feel he's going the whole nine yards he's he's picked on a role that's safe but it's it's almost left the um the female characters to carry the film uh but they're so good you know i like the actors that were involved in this film they're just such good actors 00:29:40.92 Chris Olson Yeah, no. I think you're bowled over with that cast, mate. I think that's what's happened, but that's fine. 00:29:45.49 Brian Penn yeah right apart from vince hall maybe yeah 00:29:47.24 Chris Olson ah Apart from him, yeah. That's absolutely fine. Nona's is available on Netflix. If you want to watch it, let us know what you think. um But for me, it's not a good one. We're moving on now to the indie films that we get sent, and we have a fabulous selection in this show, i'm all of which I believe I have clips for. 00:29:57.82 Brian Penn Fair enough. Fair enough. 00:30:08.20 Chris Olson So we're going to start with... 00:30:08.40 Brian Penn Oh, wow. 00:30:10.71 Chris Olson The indie feature film Ambrosio, the first vampire, and here's a clip. 00:30:15.78 Brian Penn Oh, wow. 00:32:01.35 Chris Olson There we go. I just, I thought about cutting off that clip at one point because the music was kind of swelling. 00:32:06.50 Brian Penn Hmm, yeah. 00:32:07.22 Chris Olson But I thought, do you know what? It gives you such a tone of the film, that last bit, you where the sort of cackling, the theatrical cackling. 00:32:10.26 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, sonny does, yeah. Yeah. 00:32:15.53 Chris Olson Directed by Alex Yavo, who also stars in the film and co-writes here, he plays the titular Ambrosio, um who is a mythical character view that you can find out about. 00:32:27.89 Chris Olson He comes to um live in a new place in America as yeah all vampires have that constant issue of having to move around because they don't age and he has to uproot his life, go live somewhere else and and start sucking necks somewhere else. 00:32:35.37 Brian Penn Yeah, and I know. but Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 00:32:42.08 Chris Olson um He does that, takes over a place and ends up um becoming embroiled with a local historian who happens to have a particular fascination with Ambrosia already. 00:32:54.90 Chris Olson And from there we see sort romance plot play out between two of them but also some baddies are on their way and they're about to make some havoc for Ambrosio ah what do you think of this one bro? 00:33:04.57 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:33:07.77 Brian Penn Yeah, no, I enjoyed this. You know, I think we just mentioned that, you know, um when you explore the theme of vampires, it's very fertile territory. And there's always ah challenge as to how you present it or you present it in a different way. 00:33:23.75 Brian Penn But I think he's done very well with this. um Sorry, Chris, I'm going to start coughing here. 00:33:28.47 Chris Olson No, I'll kick in. 00:33:29.65 Brian Penn Cough, cough, cough. 00:33:31.24 Chris Olson um Yeah, it's it's very melodramatic, very um sort of full of theatrical, like you heard there, the cackling, the laughter. 00:33:42.14 Chris Olson They're playing up to some of these stereotypes of these characters. And I'm not going to name who sort of rocks up in the film because I think they're sort spoiler territory. But it is, it's kind of... 00:33:53.02 Chris Olson Yeah, it's it's it's playing on that, that essence of trying what's that word? you're You're a theatre critic, Brian, what's the word that I'm looking for? 00:34:00.36 Brian Penn Yes. 00:34:02.07 Chris Olson You know, when it becomes like that. 00:34:02.29 Brian Penn um um suppose melodrama is a good word. 00:34:06.91 Chris Olson Menodrama, theatrical, you know, I did. 00:34:07.58 Brian Penn You used that in the review, didn't you? 00:34:09.39 Chris Olson Yeah, I'm trying to not use the same words, but I'm just going have to use my brilliant wording, aren't I? 00:34:11.89 Brian Penn No, I think melodrama fits pretty well, doesn't it? 00:34:13.99 Chris Olson Menodrama. 00:34:17.75 Brian Penn you know 00:34:17.85 Chris Olson It's very much in that wake and it's very much um yeah playing on our sort of knowledge of vampires and and what we sort of already know, but also bringing something slightly new to the table. 00:34:30.95 Chris Olson like I hadn't really heard about this character and I hadn't really known that much about 00:34:33.33 Brian Penn No, it's new to me as well, yeah. 00:34:35.30 Chris Olson Some of the other people that rock up, I had heard of, but it's um is an interesting story to bring this to the table. What I said in my review, and I think that holds true, is I think the... romance angles were handled much better than the horror. 00:34:48.73 Chris Olson The romance between him yeah and the the historian, I thought was actually yeah play Sarah, played Angelina Bazelli. 00:34:49.75 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:34:55.97 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:34:57.56 Chris Olson I liked that stuff. I thought that was like the sort of, more connecting moments as an audience for you. You're watching them and thinking, okay, yeah this is something here. 00:35:03.17 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:35:05.53 Chris Olson The sort of more action-y, horror-y bits, they're on a budget here. you It's not going to blow you away. 00:35:11.02 Brian Penn um 00:35:12.37 Chris Olson And I think when it comes to vampire films, there are so many movies out there to choose from. 00:35:17.60 Brian Penn yeah 00:35:18.64 Chris Olson This isn't going to stand out as one of the best ones from that side of things. 00:35:21.61 Brian Penn I know, yeah. 00:35:22.80 Chris Olson But it's definitely a worthwhile trip just for like something different, something fresh, and that relationship angle that did enjoy. 00:35:24.53 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:35:26.81 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:35:30.06 Brian Penn Well, it's trying to do it in a slightly new way, isn't it? As I said earlier on, it's it's very fertile territory for filmmakers. But there's a challenge there. If you want to make a story about Dracula or vampires, you've got to find a new way of doing it. 00:35:44.62 Brian Penn But you see, they they probably focus more on the romantic aspects of the characters because that is cheaper to shoot. 00:35:51.91 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:35:52.02 Brian Penn than the more explicit scenes, you know, which requires a bit more gloss, doesn't it, really? 00:35:59.15 Chris Olson and when you say explicit, you mean the violent scenes, not the explicit romance scenes, right? 00:36:03.04 Brian Penn Well, yeah, that's right. 00:36:03.66 Chris Olson Yeah, yeah. 00:36:03.66 Brian Penn you know You know what I mean, don't you? 00:36:05.78 Chris Olson Just to clarify, it's not that type of film, listeners. 00:36:06.00 Brian Penn I mean, yeah, of course. But you see, no. But that's like, you know, that element of of the story is cheaper to film, isn't it, when you're just portraying a relationship between two people. 00:36:17.49 Brian Penn But when you you bring in the kind of the more visual and explicit aspects, the violence, if you like, then that can be more expensive on the budget itself. 00:36:31.17 Chris Olson Yeah, and I think you're right. Obviously, you've got a lot more crew involved there and you've got a lot more extra sort of things to film. It is is a lot more. And I think with a film like this, it all hinges really on the central performance. 00:36:38.86 Brian Penn I think. 00:36:46.52 Chris Olson um And when I... I've said this before, when I see films that have got the same person in the director role the writer's role and the starring role, i immediately get sort of conscious of, okay, what are we in for now? 00:36:59.69 Chris Olson Because we will people be honest with that person? yeah Will they get the right feedback? 00:37:02.86 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:37:04.37 Chris Olson Will they be willing to listen to it? um But in the in the case of Ambrosia, the first vampire, Alex Garbo did brilliantly in that lead role. I actually thought he was was very strong. 00:37:13.19 Brian Penn think did pretty well. 00:37:13.57 Chris Olson he 00:37:13.93 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:37:14.21 Chris Olson he's Yeah, he's he's absolutely playing up to that role. Like you say, it's sort of coming across in that sort of theatrical manner. But I like the chemistry that he had with Angelina Bozzelli. And I think that the film was... 00:37:28.60 Chris Olson had that Had that nice time throughout that even when it was getting a little rough around the edges, that it would you'd forgive it. You'd kind of go, okay, yeah, no, but I'm still, yeah, I'm going to watch this today. 00:37:35.35 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:37:37.19 Chris Olson I'm going make sure that I see all of this out. um And what did love as well, like there was some fantastic costumes, which is always... 00:37:44.92 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:37:46.65 Chris Olson ah impressive when you've got a low budget, the fact that they've actually gone and put effort into all the costumes, but also the location. So he takes over this house like early on in the film. um they They sort of remove the current owner and that actual house just worked really well. 00:37:59.66 Brian Penn yeah 00:38:02.85 Chris Olson It looks great as like ah yeah it would be the lair of a vampire, someone that would want to live there. 00:38:06.58 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:38:08.74 Chris Olson um I thought I was and those choices for an indie film are really important. 00:38:11.72 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:38:13.71 Chris Olson it's really important. They don't go, oh, well, we couldn't redo that. So we just filmed it you in the back of someone's coffee shop. 00:38:17.84 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:38:18.67 Chris Olson You know, it's like, you know, they actually did go to so a lot of effort to make it look and feel decent. 00:38:22.35 Brian Penn yeah 00:38:23.88 Chris Olson Yeah. peace 00:38:25.55 Brian Penn They've made the budget stretch a long way, I reckon. 00:38:27.63 Chris Olson yeah 00:38:28.46 Brian Penn you know And it's it's something they've done really well with. And they deserve a lot of credit for that. It's a very good looking film. you know It's very well designed. bearing in mind that, mean, we always come back to the budget that an indie filmmaker has available, and it's always a factor, isn't it? 00:38:44.92 Brian Penn but But I think it's it's a very nice film, and I think the director shows great promise. He's one to watch. 00:38:52.86 Chris Olson Fantastic. um Ambrosio, the first vampire. um You can go on to our website and watch the trailer. You pretty much heard the the audio from the trailer just then. 00:39:04.95 Chris Olson um And you can you can read my review. 00:39:04.98 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:39:08.47 Chris Olson can also go to our YouTube channel and watch my review, would you believe? 00:39:11.96 Brian Penn Wow. 00:39:12.32 Chris Olson um That's something that I've started doing, you know, just to sort of make sure that everyone sees me. um Can't not have people see me. 00:39:17.89 Brian Penn Yeah, I'm going up. I'm going up. 00:39:20.90 Chris Olson and why not um but yeah if you are one of the people who's lucky enough to see it um let us know it's available on amazon prime video um and also on walmart online um if you're in america but prime video i think you can essentially rent it or there's a dvd version as well uh the trailer is on youtube and yeah just let us know if you happen to watch it and let us know what you think And yeah, fantastic effort from the filmmakers there. 00:39:48.50 Brian Penn I 00:39:49.02 Chris Olson Really good. Moving on now to a documentary um called Shaken and Stirred, the story of flair bartending. 00:39:57.67 Brian Penn saw what you did there. 00:39:57.86 Chris Olson And let me serve you up a little clip. Hey. 00:40:42.11 Chris Olson Well, earlier in the show, we were talking about Tom Cruise and classic film Tom Cruise was in, Cocktail from the 80s. 00:40:46.31 Brian Penn Mmm. Mmm. Oh yeah. Mmm. oh yeah 00:40:50.37 Chris Olson um And that leads very nicely into this story of flair bartending. and Written and directed by Deborah Richards, who herself has links to the flair bartending world. 00:41:03.65 Chris Olson um I believe this is one of her sort first big films that she's done. and First feature-length documentary, yeah. And... and Yeah, as the clip there suggested, and as see if you go and read the review on our website by Patrick Foley, you find out yeah it's not just about yeah the tricks that these guys do. 00:41:18.99 Brian Penn Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. 00:41:22.99 Chris Olson It's all about this whole culture, this whole world of bartending ah competing elements. you know the They have different groups, different associations. There's lots and lots of competitions. 00:41:35.77 Chris Olson It's a fascinating world and obviously yeah anyone making a documentary is going to pick a niche or something they're interested in. And here we do get a real great exploration of a world I had no idea about. 00:41:47.29 Chris Olson I'll be honest, I've seen Cocktail and I've seen people make yeah do these kind of fancy tricks with the the glasses and things. 00:41:49.75 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:41:52.49 Chris Olson I've never really given much thought beyond that to it. um What did you think of this, Brian? 00:41:55.10 Brian Penn No. Yeah, I think as a documentary, and what it works really well. But what I always look for in in a documentary like this is that, am I learning is something new? Is it telling me something I didn't know about? 00:42:07.21 Brian Penn And like Hugh, I had no idea that flair bartending was this well organized. I never realized that there was i a world championship, I never realized that there was a competitive element to all of it. 00:42:20.73 Brian Penn And so that that's good. It's teaching me something I didn't know. um But my knowledge of flair bartending is so limited anyway. You know, i I've so i stood in front of guys doing this sort of thing in and a bar, and I've just thought to myself, all I want is drink, you know. 00:42:38.36 Chris Olson Poor the drink man. 00:42:38.74 Brian Penn you Yeah, I know. But if if you see what I mean, no one's denying how skillful it is, how clever it is. 00:42:43.11 Chris Olson Mm-hmm. 00:42:44.20 Brian Penn But like you, my knowledge or Flair Bartending didn't stretch much beyond Cocktail with Tom Cruise, which is a much better film than people give it credit for, by the way. um But yeah, it's all good. I really enjoyed it. And really, some of the injuries they sustain while they're training for it are just blood curdling, aren't they? 00:43:02.10 Chris Olson I think that's what's always fascinating when you get a subject like that, where you find out the sort of raw reality of it. like Because on the surface, like you say, you can just take as, oh, yeah, these guys are just flipping things around. 00:43:07.05 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:43:11.85 Chris Olson But you've got, no no, no, these guys are like injuring themselves. They are competing at like the highest levels. 00:43:14.19 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:43:16.84 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:43:17.41 Chris Olson They're practicing like for hours and hours and hours a day, spending all their money going to these shows and things. 00:43:20.65 Brian Penn Yeah. No. 00:43:22.56 Chris Olson So it was quite gruelling, some of the stuff they have to go through. 00:43:25.34 Brian Penn yeah 00:43:26.30 Chris Olson But I also think, like you, and i think the topic is quite niche. And this documentary, if I remember rightly, was like sort of 90 minutes or 100 minutes. 00:43:31.44 Brian Penn yeah 00:43:36.79 Chris Olson It was fairly long. 00:43:37.11 Brian Penn yeah 00:43:38.37 Chris Olson I don't think it needed to be that long. i think there's a lot of clips where they're sort of pretty much just doing the same thing, the same spinning. 00:43:44.68 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:43:45.01 Chris Olson Like you say, you're almost kind of like going... make me want a drink or like, you get on with it, like carry on with the film. 00:43:47.98 Brian Penn yeah 00:43:49.44 Chris Olson So I do think it's it's slightly overstuffed at times because I think they wanted to showcase all of the things that they probably filmed and the amazing routines and things. 00:43:49.53 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah 00:43:58.69 Chris Olson But I think in terms of a mainstream audience, they're going to look at that and go, yeah, okay, but keep it moving, keep it moving, you know. 00:44:01.18 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah And also, what what I was curious about is that you look at um one routine, then you look at the next one. And they put three or four separate routines together in fairly close succession. 00:44:16.75 Brian Penn you think, I can't sell one from the other. And then I think, yeah, yeah. 00:44:19.51 Chris Olson It looked very similar, like the moves, yeah. 00:44:22.18 Brian Penn And then I think, how do they market? How do they score it? And it would have been interesting to have seen, been given some insight into how they score these moves. Because if they have competitions, if they have world champions, how do they market? It's a bit like, 00:44:37.88 Brian Penn I know, it's a bit like ice skating, isn't it? You think, all right, very technical, but how do they score it? How how does one flair bartender score more than the next one if they're doing what they're doing looks basically the same and it's just as skillful and as technical? 00:44:53.20 Brian Penn So it would have been helpful to have had more explanation there from my point of view anyway. 00:44:57.29 Chris Olson Yeah, I think you're right. There is, is an moment because ah you're being introduced to this world. And yeah, I've seen things like, you about dancing or, yeah, say ice skating. Even what we do, Brian, you're reviewing films. 00:45:07.87 Chris Olson It's quite sort of down to the interpretation by the person, right? 00:45:10.15 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:45:11.59 Chris Olson Because it's a creative thing. I think there are, there was bits where they did mention about, you they had to do a certain amount of things. They have a certain amount of rules they have to follow and they've got to make a certain amount of drinks. 00:45:18.83 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:45:20.34 Chris Olson down There's one ah lady who we follow along ah for a lot and she didn't quite make her drink. And I think that was like really sort of, crushing for her. um 00:45:28.99 Brian Penn yeah 00:45:29.74 Chris Olson But yeah, no I definitely take your point. I think that's, that's important. um I think from a um content point of view, they they bring up lots of really interesting aspects talking about it being quite a male dominated sport. 00:45:41.07 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:45:41.89 Chris Olson um And that, you know, it can be toxic and yeah the the female, you know, 00:45:42.11 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:45:47.18 Chris Olson ah contenders we have to sort of do a lot of different things they have to yeah appeal in a different sort of way i'm and also how this as a sport kind is kind of having ups and downs in terms of it being popular and then it not being popular, yeah funding getting removed and all this sort of stuff. 00:46:01.23 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:46:05.57 Chris Olson And I think one thing I did really enjoy about this as a documentary, because it could have just been an hour and a half promo about it, you know, come on, you you enjoy this, we love it, you you should enjoy it as well, that it was a bit more like they were giving it more balanced views. 00:46:19.01 Chris Olson A lot of the people that were talking were ex-flare bartenders, talking about it being not something they wanted to carry on with, something that they had... fallen out of love with and it wasn't worth all the stress and the effort and they were being quite real about you know the the drawbacks of it so I like that i think that's important know in a movie the um the sound of the film there was a soundtrack or know soundscape it was so overbearing that's one thing I would that was actually very distracting like throughout the sound was the music was so loud I was like I can't really hear like much what's going on and I think they were trying to sort of pump 00:46:36.88 Brian Penn yeah 00:46:48.03 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, I think he 00:46:52.66 Brian Penn yeah. 00:46:55.58 Chris Olson energy into the piece almost like their routines you know they're kind of going yeah we're going to get you in a state of of high octane and it was it all it did was just annoy me i was like can you just tone that down a little bit i i don't i don't need that or i certainly don't need it all the time um 00:47:01.84 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:47:05.53 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 00:47:09.51 Brian Penn yeah Yeah, I think it did need to be dialled down a little bit and I think it's becoming more and more important, the soundtrack to a film, but actually getting it right and getting the balance right between the narrative and soundtrack, because one should i enhance the other. 00:47:27.16 Brian Penn So yeah, you did feel that at times. that 00:47:30.00 Chris Olson And it had enough tension anyway. It didn't need to sort of do that because you had this whole, like they're building up towards a competition and it started to like play out. You know we, we love sports movies, me and you, and yeah we, we love that sort of structure and it was playing up to like a big showdown and that was enough. 00:47:39.22 Brian Penn Yeah. Hmm. 00:47:45.50 Chris Olson Like he didn't need to sort of really do much more than vamp up. I think, yeah, like I said before, trimming it down to ah a neat 60 minutes and making a bit tidier, definitely. 00:47:52.38 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:47:54.68 Chris Olson But as a first feature length documentary, it's a fabulous effort. 00:47:58.06 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:47:58.28 Chris Olson i I was not bored at all. and I was, I loved the way they linked it to the cocktail film and because I think that will, anyone watching a movie will sort of have at least an affinity with Tom Cruise, right? 00:48:00.56 Brian Penn No. 00:48:06.00 Brian Penn Yeah. that 00:48:09.91 Chris Olson So they're going to know who he is. 00:48:10.14 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:48:11.12 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:48:11.68 Brian Penn Yeah, I think that's quite important because it it gives yeah it gives some familiarity to so the subject matter, doesn't it? 00:48:12.51 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:48:19.28 Brian Penn Because most people would have seen cocktail. Probably not. 00:48:22.60 Chris Olson It actually did make me want to go and watch it, I must say. Again, again 00:48:26.02 Brian Penn Yeah, I think it's a really good film. And another great soundtrack as well, by the way. 00:48:27.90 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:48:30.87 Chris Olson Another one. um So, yeah, so I think there's flaws, but it's definitely and ah very interesting sort of piece. Patrick Farley really enjoyed it on our website. You can go to UK Film Review and look for Shaken and Stirred, the story of flair bartending. 00:48:46.83 Chris Olson And you better read his review. And they will also be able to watch the trailer on there, which, funny enough, the thumbnail for the trailer is actually a still from Cocktail, which is which is great marketing. 00:48:56.48 Brian Penn Naturally. Yeah, naturally. 00:48:57.41 Chris Olson I love the marketing there. 00:48:58.53 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:48:59.04 Chris Olson um And... 00:48:59.82 Brian Penn You've got to take advantage whatever's there, haven't you, really? Yeah. 00:49:02.37 Chris Olson yeah And I think um ah Patrick reviewed it on our YouTube channel, so you can also watch it there. 00:49:03.32 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:49:08.18 Chris Olson um The film has plenty of profiles on socials. So on Instagram, it's shakenandstirrdthedock. And on Facebook, shakenandstirrdflaredocumentary. Those are all one words. 00:49:20.87 Chris Olson And on Twitter, I refuse to call it X. On Twitter, it's shakenthemovie, all one word. 00:49:24.51 Brian Penn yeah 00:49:26.30 Chris Olson um Yeah, you can... Check it out and let us know what you think. And yeah again, yeah well done to the um to the filmmakers and thanks for sharing. 00:49:34.65 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:49:35.51 Chris Olson the a Really interesting film. in fact I feel like I've broadened my knowledge of Flair Barns. 00:49:38.44 Brian Penn Yeah. Well, I know, that's right. 00:49:39.50 Chris Olson I'm going to be so looking out for it now as well. Next time at a bar, I'm going to be like, have you seen this this documentary? 00:49:42.18 Brian Penn You're going to... I know. 00:49:45.13 Chris Olson Let me just tell you about this. 00:49:46.78 Brian Penn You're in tune. You're in tune with it. As I say, the important thing about any documentary film, and I like documentary films, but I want to be taught something new I want to learn something new. And I learned a lot about flare bartending. So, you know, it's a big tick for me in that way. 00:50:02.23 Chris Olson That's how I'm going the tea from now on. When I'm making my wife a cup of tea, going be spinning the cups in the in the kitchen. 00:50:04.72 Brian Penn Yeah, I know. 00:50:06.97 Chris Olson She'll be like, what are you doing? Why was all that crashing? 00:50:09.47 Brian Penn Yeah, it's interesting new dimension, you know. I mean, it brightens up to you tonight, doesn't it? 00:50:13.53 Chris Olson Exactly. And if she was to get upset with that, I would say to her the name of the next film, which is called Always Smile. you see why i did there, Brian? 00:50:21.24 Brian Penn Ah, very good. 00:50:21.51 Chris Olson Do you do like what did there? 00:50:22.50 Brian Penn i like that. 00:50:22.66 Chris Olson Yeah. Indie feature film called Always Smile. 00:50:24.40 Brian Penn That's a good link. 00:50:26.78 Chris Olson I'm going to play you a clip right this moment. 00:51:14.96 Chris Olson There we go. So probably a bit of a baffling clip there. 00:51:16.87 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:51:19.02 Chris Olson i'm But the film itself, Always Smile, written and directed by Jason Park, who also stars in the film alongside Min Kion Kim. 00:51:29.49 Chris Olson And there are two brothers living. We meet them at the beginning from living out the back of their car. um They are essentially homeless and doing what they can to get by. 00:51:40.68 Chris Olson They are following the wake of the death of their parents um and now sort struggling to sort of make ends meet. um One brother, Alex, works sort of a dead end job to try and yeah provide whilst his but younger brother, Johnny, is attending college. 00:51:51.70 Brian Penn Hmm. Hmm. 00:51:57.63 Chris Olson and trying to sort of become that young adult, trying to sort of date and things like that. um But the pair face a lot of kind of scrutiny as a couple of homeless people, and it's very difficult for them to maintain their lifestyle, not least because they then witness um a very sort of violent event and attempt to um prevent a woman from being kidnapped. 00:52:23.60 Chris Olson And it's a feature-length film, We had a review by Joe Beck on the website of it. Joe was not that impressed with Always Smile, but he did pick out some of the strengths of the film. 00:52:35.57 Chris Olson Brian, what did you think of Always smile 00:52:37.74 Brian Penn Well, there's lots of interesting ideas going on there. You know, they gave a lot of time over to character development and delving into the relationship between the two brothers, um what one is doing for the other, how they're supporting each other. 00:52:52.23 Brian Penn That's all good. But in some ways, I felt it took too long to get to the meat of the story. 00:52:59.03 Chris Olson Yep. 00:52:59.23 Brian Penn And they they only really got there maybe in the last half an hour. And this is where I agree with Joe Beck's review, up to a point, where it it leaves too little time to resolve the storyline. 00:53:11.41 Brian Penn You know, we know what the what the main point of the story is, but we don't t see it early enough. Now, you can only spend so much time setting the scene. 00:53:23.31 Brian Penn which they do very well. But I think the quality, in my opinion, the time that you need to spend on a film it is where it really gets going, where the story kicks off. And that was too close to the end, right? 00:53:36.00 Brian Penn So when they saw the girl being kidnapped, from then onwards, I felt like it was being rushed slightly. like 00:53:43.86 Chris Olson Yeah. 00:53:43.99 Brian Penn But I mean, there are lots of interesting ideas going on there. And I like the two main characters. i like the two brothers. I like that relationship that was growing between them. and how they were just getting by and how one brother was supporting the other in his studies you know that's that's a good a good portrayal of brotherly love the way two people help each other because because they're brothers and i think that's great but just a bit a bit more on the the point of the story the main point of the story uh i think you just needed to get there a bit earlier 00:54:18.37 Chris Olson Yeah, I think for me it was like almost like two separate films. like You had this whole idea of two brothers living out of their car and how that would impact their lives. I thought, that's enough for a film. 00:54:28.41 Chris Olson like I honestly thought that was more than enough for you to be getting on with. 00:54:31.00 Brian Penn Yeah. Hmm. 00:54:31.82 Chris Olson Make it a bit more dramatic, but still, you know stick with it. Let's see how the tensions between them rise and fall. yeah There was enough there. And then they... we're sort of alluding to this crime element of what's going to happen, and then it sort of happens. 00:54:44.33 Chris Olson And you say, yeah, it just comes in an absolute whirlwind of events. And it's all rushed, and it's all... The whole film does suffer from amateurishness to it. um there's ah There's a lot of teething issues, even just like the sound, the dubbing, things like that. 00:55:03.12 Chris Olson the The dialogue, again, not to so take too much from Joe's review, but he talked about the dialogue being very unconvincing about how young people speak and and the sort of lots of cliched lines, especially when there's sort of more... um darker characters are saying things. It is very sort of on the nose at times. 00:55:22.38 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:55:22.55 Chris Olson And I think it it suffers from that. But I like the fact that it had this heartfelt emotion to it. There was a warmth to the style of the story being told. 00:55:30.73 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:55:31.81 Chris Olson And it felt different to all the type of films that we're often seeing. yeah These characters weren't being presented as cool, hard, you edgy sort of characters. They were being very... close, very nice, very lovely to each other. 00:55:44.21 Chris Olson Like you say, it was a very sort of lovely bond between them. 00:55:44.32 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah 00:55:47.05 Chris Olson And i was I was on board for that. I actually thought that stuff was was very enjoyable. 00:55:50.10 Brian Penn yeah Yeah. 00:55:52.41 Chris Olson And it's a shame that it sort of didn't quite know what to do with its latter end. And maybe there's a different cut of the film that is stronger, but the one that we saw didn't really hit. 00:55:57.76 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:56:01.40 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:56:05.85 Chris Olson the There's some great footage that of of the film like urban landscape that was really well placed. I thought like some aspects to the filmmaking were impressive. The music choices as well. um I think they were good. 00:56:18.12 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:56:18.31 Chris Olson And I think it's one of those films, like I'm not sure I would say it's going to appeal to a lot of people, but there will be people that will get something from it and they'll enjoy that. 00:56:26.55 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:56:28.22 Chris Olson um Not least that sort of brotherly bond and connection. 00:56:31.31 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:56:31.46 Chris Olson I think that was the core of the film and that there was a lot of mileage to get from there. 00:56:36.52 Brian Penn Yeah. I think if that had started a bit earlier, you know, if they spent less time setting the scene, they would have had more time for... We talk about a character's motivation, don't we? 00:56:49.52 Brian Penn Why they're doing what they're doing. When the girl was kidnapped, from that point onwards, I found myself trying to work out why they were doing what they did particularly. And it, it didn't seem to have time to explore their motivation for doing it, doing it. 00:57:05.44 Brian Penn That's what, what they always talk about is what's the character's motivation? Why is he or she doing that? What, in other words, it's got to make sense. And that was probably the, the end product of spending more time on the setup, on the premise and less time on, on the, 00:57:26.22 Brian Penn the finale, the climax of the story, if you like. But it has its moments. It's got a lot going for it. 00:57:33.48 Chris Olson Yeah, I think you're right. 00:57:33.49 Brian Penn Having said that. 00:57:34.32 Chris Olson I think trying to maybe bring in that stuff earlier on, they the biggest issue with it is it doesn't have that polished feel to it that audiences are going to be used to with films trying to be kind of that more action, thrillery sort of genre where where where the film ends up. 00:57:52.13 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:57:55.60 Chris Olson But the earlier parts the film where it is a bit more sort of low key, it's a bit more kind of like, okay, these guys are just yeah humble guys and it's quite cheesy at times, but it it feels sort of, okay, there's definitely something here um about their bond. I feel that stuff, they could have done, yeah okay, well, there's more to be done here and still kept it on a low scale, not spend loads of money, not do all that, but actually, 00:58:20.28 Chris Olson they wanted to veer into this kind of gangster culture. there' There's lines of dialogue. that Honestly, it was cringeworthy with some of the things they were saying. I just thought I didn't need that. 00:58:27.51 Brian Penn Yeah, I know, yeah. 00:58:29.74 Chris Olson And that isn't down to, that's not down to budget. That's not down to, know, you were forced into a corner. It's like, no, no, you wrote those lines down. You chose to have characters say them. 00:58:38.23 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 00:58:39.44 Chris Olson And that for me did feel like a bit of a failing, um which as i said I feel like it's a shame because i think there's a film there. There's a film there. 00:58:48.35 Brian Penn Hmm. 00:58:48.47 Chris Olson amongst these characters within what they'd set up. I just don't think it worked with the plot line that they decided to put in there. 00:58:53.51 Brian Penn Hmm. Nice. 00:58:56.32 Chris Olson It was too ambitious and it didn't tonally work. 00:58:56.38 Brian Penn Nice. 00:59:00.81 Chris Olson um And so, yeah, a lot of lessons to be learned from that. wish them absolutely well. i don't yeah I didn't come away from the film going, oh God, absolutely. Sometimes you do, right? You come away, ah just I wasted my whole time. 00:59:11.17 Brian Penn Yeah. 00:59:12.50 Chris Olson I hated watching that film. 00:59:13.07 Brian Penn and yeah yeah 00:59:13.51 Chris Olson I didn't feel that way at all. I can't wait it. you know what actually feel? There's some lovely bits to take away from that film, but the the flaws were too numerous to kind of forgive it, really. 00:59:24.26 Chris Olson Too numerous to sort of feel that actually, I wouldn't necessarily recommend that film to people.......... 00:59:24.44 Brian Penn and yeah ah it's it's it bit And it became very distracting as well. you know what you What I see there is potentially a good film that needs... 00:59:38.84 Brian Penn needs to be looked at again, that needs to be. Editing always comes into play, doesn't it? But it's just the balance and the pace of the story and the relationship between different parts of the plot as well that didn't really run as well as they could have done. 00:59:54.10 Brian Penn But as it it has its moments. that There's something there to work with, definitely. 00:59:59.08 Chris Olson Well, you are able to watch Always Smile on YouTube. It's been released on YouTube and there is also an Instagram profile for the film, well, for all for the um for the company, which is Hypertude, which is H-Y-P-A-T-U-D-E. 01:00:16.33 Chris Olson So at Hypertude, probably not saying that wrong, but that's the that's the yeah thing that's written down for me. um the Yeah, as I say, ah said from Jason Park, you can go and read Joe's review. 01:00:27.98 Chris Olson We have picked out quite a few bits of what he said, because I think we both just feel very akin with that review. 01:00:33.08 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah, I think that's it really, yeah. 01:00:33.33 Chris Olson It's it's a very strong... strong review. um But yeah, if you not, check out on YouTube and let us know what you think. ah That is always smile. Moving on now to, I didn't have a ah lead into this film's title because it is quite random. 01:00:46.29 Chris Olson So I was hoping for a nice little segue in, but I didn't get one. 01:00:49.31 Brian Penn oh 01:00:49.40 Chris Olson oh Indie feature film called Whisper Breach. 01:00:51.51 Brian Penn Don't you just hate it when that happens? 01:00:53.23 Chris Olson Yeah, I mean, Whisper Breach. How are you going to bring that in? 01:00:56.60 Brian Penn ah know. 01:00:57.30 Chris Olson It's a very, you know, and we'll get into why it's called that, but it's, um yeah, indie film we're going to review now after this clip. 01:01:50.62 Chris Olson should have said some swearing in that clip. 01:01:52.97 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:01:53.27 Chris Olson ah Yeah, hopefully you were okay, everyone, listening to that. 01:01:57.41 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:01:57.94 Chris Olson A few F-bombs in there. um Yeah, so Whisper Breach starring Mike Markoff. I reviewed this, actually, on the website. 01:02:07.17 Brian Penn Yeah, you did well. 01:02:07.59 Chris Olson This is my review, isn't it? 01:02:08.88 Brian Penn Well, yeah, guess. 01:02:09.64 Chris Olson Well, thank you. 01:02:09.94 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:02:10.25 Chris Olson Thanks very much. 01:02:10.90 Brian Penn Yeah. like so 01:02:12.57 Chris Olson I mean, you have to say that because if you don't, I'll just mute you. I'll cut your mic off. 01:02:15.41 Brian Penn well yeah i guess 01:02:16.22 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:02:16.89 Brian Penn yeah 01:02:17.02 Chris Olson um he played So Mike Markoff plays Kent Collins, who was an ex-Navy SEAL, and we meet him at the beginning of the film. He's living with his partner Sandy, played by Chelsea Gilson. um But something is amiss. 01:02:29.58 Chris Olson We see Sandy at the shooting range, firing off a gun with mascara running down her face as she's crying, and... 01:02:34.91 Brian Penn Hmm. Hmm. 01:02:38.30 Chris Olson This is site not really a spoiler because it happens very early on, but she dies from a very sort of serious illness and this sends Kent into a spiral of sadness. 01:02:41.27 Brian Penn Hmm. 01:02:49.87 Chris Olson um he is that a well He gets approached by his friend and who called Winston, played by Garen Grigsby, who knows him from his Navy SEAL days and has this interesting opportunity to present to him, which is this... 01:03:06.92 Chris Olson fantastic AI that he's developed and is hoping to sell to the military, but he just needs Kent to test it out for him. And that's who you hear in the clip is the AI ah software and known as WP, which is Winston's initials, I believe. 01:03:24.58 Chris Olson And it becomes quite quickly clear that this AI can do a lot of things and can invade ah Kent's life quite quickly, but also do other things ah very large scale trouble. And yeah what did you think of Whisper Breach? 01:03:41.53 Brian Penn I was very impressed by this, Chris. 01:03:43.41 Chris Olson It's good, I like it. 01:03:43.99 Brian Penn but Yeah, very well written thriller. And it highlights the potential of AI really well. It's really effective in the way wait it's put across. I found myself comparing it to Mission Impossible because the latest Mission Impossible movie deals with the threat of AI, right? 01:04:00.39 Brian Penn But I'll tell you this, you know, for certain that this film, Whisper Breach, highlights the risks and the potential and the dangers of AI a lot more effectively and a lot and it's more accessible than the way they do it in Mission Impossible. 01:04:15.33 Brian Penn You don't get any real insight as to what AI can do. In Mission Impossible, it just tells you that it's evil. And it's destructive. But it doesn't actually explain why. We just assume that it is. 01:04:26.45 Brian Penn you know Do you see what I'm getting at? 01:04:27.85 Chris Olson No, 100%. 01:04:28.99 Brian Penn ah 01:04:29.73 Chris Olson I'm not being hyperbolic here when I say that you are you saying that this film is better than Mission Impossible. 01:04:34.59 Brian Penn Well, you see, that's why that's what I was coming to. 01:04:34.93 Chris Olson You've said it 01:04:37.10 Brian Penn I'm not saying it it's better, but but it explores a common theme more effectively and does it much better. And you you get to understand in detail what AI can do. 01:04:49.52 Brian Penn But Again, with a by big budget movie dealing with AI, there's less need to do it, I guess. But a film like this can explore the d detail. And i found it quite gripping and challenging and actually quite creepy in places as well. And Ken, you know, the central character, was flipping out, wasn't he, what this this character was doing. at And this representation of his friend was actually quite sinister and quite scary. 01:05:21.24 Brian Penn but But again, it was very effective in telling the story of AI and what it's capable of doing. And really liked the way they did that. Very intelligently written. 01:05:32.49 Chris Olson Yeah, I think it's it's a topical film done in a very accessible way. The action is done well. the The characters are set up well. It's also not overstretching itself too much. You're only really given few characters in this movie. 01:05:47.58 Chris Olson But they're all very essential to the story. 01:05:50.52 Brian Penn Hmm. 01:05:50.93 Chris Olson um I particularly liked... the Kent and Sandy relationship. They have a really reallyde lovely bond. 01:05:56.42 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:05:58.18 Chris Olson It's a great opening. 01:05:58.83 Brian Penn Hmm. 01:05:58.98 Chris Olson You really feel it when she dies. Honestly, it was like, oh, that's heavy. 01:06:02.15 Brian Penn I know. 01:06:02.77 Chris Olson ladies 01:06:03.46 Brian Penn Yeah, know. 01:06:03.74 Chris Olson And you see that a few times in movies where they set off early on and you give a character death that you're of 01:06:05.68 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:06:08.65 Brian Penn Well. 01:06:10.27 Chris Olson what? Like, what are you doing? And the scenes that she's in were very, very good. 01:06:12.16 Brian Penn What, yeah. Yeah. 01:06:14.26 Chris Olson I honestly that thought, oh, that's a real shame that she's gone. 01:06:17.21 Brian Penn yeah 01:06:17.97 Chris Olson Luckily, I'm a big fan of Mike Markov. I've seen him in a film called When Jack Came Back, and really love that film. 01:06:22.99 Brian Penn Right. 01:06:23.07 Chris Olson um but he He holds the film up really well, and a lot of the movie is him talking to WP on a screen or or somewhere else, and that's difficult. 01:06:31.68 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:06:33.94 Chris Olson That's a challenging yeah performance to have to give. 01:06:36.49 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:06:36.90 Chris Olson But luckily, yeah the film was written and directed by Craig Cockerell, and there's some fabulous direction going on you're making sure that as an audience we are not switching off snoozing know because it it could have been an absolute tedious movie right okay all right okay yeah here we go yeah so computer screens all this sort stuff but it wasn't you know there was a lot more to it it was very engaging and as you say it it is tapping into something which as a culture right now we're feeling as a thrill 01:06:49.20 Brian Penn yeah 01:06:51.49 Brian Penn Yeah, 01:06:57.91 Brian Penn it was. 01:07:04.15 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:07:05.24 Chris Olson which is the good and bad of AI. And I think it was done in a really sort of impressive way. It gets quite elaborate. 01:07:11.48 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:07:13.18 Chris Olson And I am going to say this. It's not a spoiler. What is a spoiler? 01:07:16.83 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:07:17.34 Chris Olson The final about 10, 15 minutes of film is absolutely off the rails. It goes off the rails. And for me, it lost me. i was like, oh, no you've dropped the ball here. 01:07:25.80 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:07:26.02 Chris Olson I'm not going to go into it. I think I 100% recommend watch the film, but just know that, well, don't know, but feel that that's coming. Maybe you'll be more forgiving than I was, but that end bit, I was oh, that's a shame. 01:07:37.45 Chris Olson It's a shame you've done that. 01:07:38.19 Brian Penn um Yeah. I mean, if if you're not, if you don't feel technically au fait, if you're not strong in IT, yeah, you may struggle with the concept full stop, whatever it you see in a film. 01:07:52.71 Brian Penn right You know, when a film portrays something like AI and what it's capable of, it's it's going to be easy to lose some people. But I think this film does better than most, I think. 01:08:06.13 Brian Penn You know, coming back to Mission Impossible again, they slide around AI. They don't try and deal with it at all. But this film deserves a lot of credit because it does. But even then, because it's so highly technical, it will lose people anyway. But it does as I say, it does better than most in that way. 01:08:22.52 Chris Olson Yeah, and I think there's enough in there for you to be kind of engaged with. It's not trying to sort of confuse you with the algorithms and, and you know, that sorts of It's more just kind of showing the scale of what could happen, you what could be done, what they could access and things like that. 01:08:35.96 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 01:08:38.35 Chris Olson um Yeah, i would for a film as well, you know, when we get these indie action films, I'm always kind of hesitant to sort of say, well, you know, are you going to be bit capable of pulling this off? yeah Are you being too ambitious? 01:08:50.55 Chris Olson I think they made the right choices, especially with the number of characters, the number of locations that they're going to shoot in to create something of substance, of worth, something that is actually, yeah, you know what? 01:09:00.35 Brian Penn yeah 01:09:02.62 Chris Olson That does stand up. that does yeah It does belong in the same sentence as Mission Impossible. 01:09:04.19 Brian Penn yeah it goes Yeah. 01:09:07.18 Chris Olson I'm not saying they're on the exact same scale, but they are absolutely in the same, they're in the same league. 01:09:08.89 Brian Penn No. Yeah. i 01:09:11.68 Chris Olson You know, they're playing the same game. 01:09:11.78 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. i this 01:09:13.56 Chris Olson um And I think that, we you You reviewed The Amateur as well earlier on in the film. There's definitely all these films in this genre that are going appeal to a massive audience. And I would wholeheartedly recommend Whisper Reach. 01:09:25.45 Chris Olson I gave it four stars. and People can go and i read my review and yeah check it out. 01:09:27.04 Brian Penn yeah 01:09:30.07 Brian Penn yeah 01:09:31.20 Chris Olson The film is available on Amazon Prime. and The director got touch very recently to us recording this and said it's on Amazon Prime Video and on Vimeo Direct. So you can watch it. 01:09:41.29 Brian Penn Nice. 01:09:42.57 Chris Olson And I really recommend that you do because... 01:09:42.61 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 01:09:45.10 Chris Olson It's not often we get an action film that can hold up ah yeah to a candle or to these other big blockbuster movies. 01:09:48.91 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:09:52.31 Brian Penn Mm-hmm. 01:09:52.45 Chris Olson um Yeah, I thought it was absolutely brilliant. and Really enjoyed it. And you can also follow them. 01:09:56.66 Brian Penn yeah 01:09:58.13 Chris Olson ah They have an Instagram, the company Triple C Media. And that's there's full stops in between each each of those words. So Triple, full stop, C, full stop, media. Just to spell that out for you. 01:10:08.94 Chris Olson And yeah, there is a Facebook page as well. And an X page. But yeah, i to be honest, if you're to look at it, just go to Amazon Prime and and watch it. um Whisper Breach, it's called. 01:10:18.03 Brian Penn I 01:10:20.01 Chris Olson And if anyone wants to get in touch to see what could I have done as a segue into that, I'd love to hear it. 01:10:26.42 Brian Penn know. 01:10:27.64 Chris Olson yeah From the last film you know to this film, what could I have said? Because those two words just didn't come to me in any kind of yeah way whatsoever. 01:10:35.63 Brian Penn No. No. It's a tough one. It even defeated you, Chris, you know. 01:10:40.30 Chris Olson and Yeah, and I consider myself to be one of the best, if not the best, especially on this show. 01:10:40.89 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:10:43.18 Brian Penn Yeah. yeah 01:10:44.70 Chris Olson Anyway, yeah. 01:10:45.20 Brian Penn you're You're the Segway master, aren't you, really? 01:10:46.96 Chris Olson so 01:10:47.08 Brian Penn I mean, it's something I can never do, really. 01:10:48.60 Chris Olson Yeah, and I can't even ride a Segway. There we go. um now Brian, are you wearing underpants? 01:10:55.74 Brian Penn yeah Oh, yes. 01:10:56.57 Chris Olson Well, you you are not going commando, as we say, in the business. 01:10:56.67 Brian Penn Absolutely, Gover. 01:11:00.03 Brian Penn oh oh Oh, that's good. 01:11:00.88 Chris Olson Do you see what we did there? no I mean, I shoehorned that in, but yeah I'm going with it. 01:11:04.75 Brian Penn yeah 01:11:05.78 Chris Olson oh That is our nostalgia pick this month, the absolute classic action movie starring none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Arnie, as we like to call him. 01:11:05.85 Brian Penn ah 01:11:16.07 Brian Penn yeah 01:11:16.59 Chris Olson i I've never sent never seen him, never met him, but if I do meet him, I'll probably call him Mr. Schwarzenegger, actually. What would you call him? If you if you met Arnie in the street, what would you say to his name? Or would you just avoid saying his name? 01:11:27.72 Brian Penn ah yeah i don't think I'd say his name. I think I just sort of remain very quiet and attentive. 01:11:33.21 Chris Olson Big fan, big fan, big fan. 01:11:34.62 Brian Penn Yeah, big fan, Arnie, you know. And I am, actually. 01:11:36.76 Chris Olson Yeah. Yeah. 01:11:37.83 Brian Penn I am genuinely big fan of Arnie. 01:11:38.89 Chris Olson Oh, I am too. And the reason why I picked Commando is because this is one of those movies that is perfect for the nostalgia slot. 01:11:39.92 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 01:11:44.84 Chris Olson It's a film that I used to watch when I was younger. Haven't really revisited and in quite some time. My brother and I used to watch it and I want to see, does it still hold up? 01:11:51.94 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:11:53.51 Chris Olson Is it still okay to watch? you know does it yeah or Or is it one of those movies you kind of should have left buried in the past? 01:11:56.39 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:12:00.81 Chris Olson um Honestly, it was very engaging. It's got so much 80s charm to it. 01:12:07.07 Brian Penn yeah 01:12:07.28 Chris Olson it's It's a classic action thriller. If you've not seen it, Arnie is an ex-commando and he's being blackmailed um into killing a president of another country. 01:12:09.45 Brian Penn yeah 01:12:17.38 Chris Olson um in order to save his daughter. But Arnie being Arnie, decides he's not going to do that. And he gets off the plane that he's meant to be on, and he has 12 hours to find and destroy the people that have taken his daughter. 01:12:23.37 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:12:30.45 Chris Olson And um to sum it up, in one ah in a section, the flight attendant that Arnie's on, she says, I can't believe this macho bullshit. 01:12:41.24 Chris Olson And that is pretty much the tone of the film, is it's a lot of macho bullshit. um But very engaging, fun stuff. 01:12:49.51 Brian Penn yeah 01:12:50.77 Chris Olson So you've got to have seen this before, right? And it's kind of been a first watch for you. 01:12:54.19 Brian Penn Yeah, of course I have. 01:12:55.60 Chris Olson 40 years. 01:12:55.98 Brian Penn ah Yeah, I mean, look, again, like some of the films that we review in this slot, I can't believe they're quite as old as they are. 01:13:01.84 Chris Olson That's insane. 01:13:02.55 Brian Penn It doesn't seem like 40 years. 01:13:04.24 Chris Olson forty years since sayinge 01:13:04.51 Brian Penn And I never, yeah, but I never realised came so early in Arnie's career because he'd only just made the Terminator, Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian, that was about it. 01:13:16.93 Brian Penn And he made this film. So it was literally his fourth film. This was before Running Man, it was before Red Heat, um, So I never realized how early it was in his career, but I always looked upon it as a pseudo Rambo story. this This was Arnie's equivalent to Rambo, really. 01:13:35.26 Brian Penn And it still holds up. It's pretty much of its time, but you can't fail to be entertained by it because you know it's predictable, but it something that sat predictable is quite fun. You think, I wonder how long it's going take Arnie to strip down to the waist. 01:13:49.60 Brian Penn It didn't take long, did it? 01:13:50.76 Chris Olson In time long. 01:13:50.80 Brian Penn 20 minutes, half an hour maybe? um But you know what you're getting there. really. it's It's good overcoming evil, isn't it? Arnie's the hero. He'll save the day. But it's an absolute hoot. 01:14:01.90 Brian Penn And it still works. It still works, even now. 01:14:03.75 Chris Olson Yeah, I think sometimes for these films, there's a worry that they're going to be sort of toxic. You you kind of go back and the characters don't fit in. But actually, his character is quite a sort of generally nice guy. like he he yeah There's a few bits where raised he's kind of like he's just doing what he needs to to get to his daughter. um But he... 01:14:23.13 Chris Olson He's quite sort of ethical, quite moral. and So he's okay. 01:14:25.15 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:14:26.23 Chris Olson Like you say, it's largely about he's just there for absolute storming through these scenes. yeah I think we first see him carrying a massive chainsaw and a massive like log on his on his shoulder. 01:14:34.80 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 01:14:37.69 Chris Olson And that's pretty much what he's there to do is is heavy lifting, right? Yeah. 01:14:40.85 Brian Penn Mm. 01:14:42.24 Chris Olson there there's loads of crazy stunts and I always love watching stunts from the 80s because it's like they genuinely did all this stuff they actually all smashed all this stuff you know cars flying around all that sort of stuff um there's quite a lot of gun porn in the film they have guns and know the ego shopping and all this yeah um he loves all that and you you get a lot of that in the movie 01:14:48.76 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:14:55.94 Brian Penn Yeah. Good phrase. Good phrase. Go on, Paul. Yeah. 01:15:04.39 Chris Olson But Arnie being on, he can't really handle the emotional scenes, the depth scenes. So I don't think they throw too many of those in. um And I think that's a good thing, ah really. 01:15:12.10 Brian Penn Well, yeah. 01:15:15.22 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:15:15.86 Chris Olson It's mostly about his sort of his strength. Yeah. 01:15:19.29 Brian Penn Yeah. they Well, they tried to get to put a bit of heart into the character at the beginning, didn't they? When they featured scenes with his daughter and he's going he's going off and buying an ice cream with her I don't think they were entirely convincing but I think they were put in to make the character a bit more human I think really and the fact he yeah yeah 01:15:27.97 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:15:36.31 Chris Olson And I think that they they rob all that later on when they sort of just have him picking up people in phone boxes and throwing them, you know, things like that, where he's just like, he's just an absolute machine. 01:15:42.50 Brian Penn yeah 01:15:45.41 Chris Olson And he also does a lot of stuff that it's like, I suppose maybe we're watching this with a modern gaze, but it's like, 01:15:45.95 Brian Penn yeah yeah 01:15:51.56 Chris Olson would you have done that? That feels like you're endangering your daughter more. Like he, he does things where like, well, ah okay, before you were being, you forced into the situation, but now you've done so much, you know, killing so much carnage that you're going to prison either way. 01:15:54.92 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:16:02.12 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:16:04.86 Chris Olson Like surely, you know, there's no way out of this. 01:16:05.29 Brian Penn Yeah, and I know. 01:16:07.57 Chris Olson Um, but it's all part of the charm. It's all part of the silliness of it. And it's just a fun film to go. 01:16:12.00 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:16:13.44 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:16:13.82 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:16:14.28 Chris Olson It's here for the ride. Really? 01:16:16.17 Brian Penn Yeah. Look, I think, I say, it is pretty much a film of its time. um You know, would a film like that be made now? I think you get films made like that that have more gloss on them. 01:16:29.30 Brian Penn They're shinier and they're not quite as... What's the word? Brutal? I mean, it doesn't hesitate. say Body count's not an issue for a film like that, is it? But it's almost... The way it's it's presented, it's almost like a comic strip, isn't it, really? 01:16:44.75 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:16:45.01 Brian Penn um And you feel kind of anaesthetised because you know what's coming. And... and they probably won't make them just look exactly like that anymore. So it becomes more of an historical museum piece, but no one can deny that it's it's enjoyable, that it does what you mean you think it's going to do. 01:17:04.72 Brian Penn um But it's still valid now. It still works now. um you I mean, you look at the the films that Marvel and DC studios make. I mean, they are taking a character like Matrix and sprucing them up a bit more. They're giving them a fancy costume to wear. 01:17:20.29 Brian Penn Is it really that different? It's good overcoming evil at the end of the day, isn't it? um If you see what i'm getting at. So, 01:17:27.04 Chris Olson Yeah, 100%. It's a trope that we're all very, very used to. 01:17:31.03 Brian Penn yeah. 01:17:31.86 Chris Olson And the way that it's packaged does have to move with the times as best it can. 01:17:32.30 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:17:36.72 Chris Olson With Commando, I think it's also tapping into such a as sense of Americanism, or I should say United Statesism, in terms of what it's portraying, how it's doing it, you know that sort of gun-toting hero. 01:17:52.31 Chris Olson i think that is a sort of staple of cinema. know, we saw it in the westerns, you you saw it in in these films. 01:17:57.17 Brian Penn Yeah, yeah. 01:17:58.62 Chris Olson And as you say, I think the superhero films have become that new era of them being able to do that in a way that is going to feel like 01:18:03.49 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:18:06.98 Chris Olson thrilling and exciting and wow, yeah I wish I could do that. 01:18:09.34 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:18:09.46 Chris Olson and have People watched Arnie in these films, so I wish I could do that. 01:18:12.73 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:18:12.82 Chris Olson And I think it's yeah so it definitely is a piece for historical sort watching. 01:18:13.24 Brian Penn yeah 01:18:18.57 Brian Penn ah 01:18:19.76 Chris Olson ah You're not going to watch this film and go, oh wow, I'm blown away. it ah we We reviewed Heat, I think, last month. 01:18:25.79 Brian Penn yeah 01:18:26.37 Chris Olson that still absolutely stands up as a modern classic. 01:18:29.07 Brian Penn Yeah, it does. 01:18:29.71 Chris Olson You could watch that with fresh eyes and go, you know what, blew me away. 01:18:30.18 Brian Penn yeah Yeah. 01:18:32.88 Chris Olson With Commando, don't you're going to watch and be blown away. I think you're going to have good You're going have fun. 01:18:36.52 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:18:38.32 Chris Olson If you come in with the right kind of vibe and you're going to forget about it like 10 minutes afterwards, you're done. 01:18:44.84 Brian Penn yeah 01:18:44.96 Chris Olson With Heat, I still would watch that again tonight if I felt like I wanted to. 01:18:48.98 Brian Penn it Yeah. 01:18:51.52 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:18:51.97 Brian Penn But it it's that kind of film though, isn't it, Heat? 01:18:52.55 Chris Olson yeah 01:18:54.57 Brian Penn Heat is like Goodfellas and The Godfather. It's that type of film that You could pick it up at any point in that movie and be hooked. You know, if you're, I mean, like we all channel, a channel hop, don't we, right? 01:19:06.23 Brian Penn And you're buzzing through all the film channels and then you you land on a film, you think, it doesn't matter what point that film's at, how late it is, you're going to stay up and watch it. And Heat is a film like that. 01:19:16.04 Chris Olson yeah 01:19:17.84 Brian Penn Whatever point you you pick up that film, if you know the film that well, you're still going watch it. You're still going to sit down and it's going to be half past two before the film finishes, you know? But, But you're still going to be there. 01:19:29.17 Brian Penn All right, Chris, what what what's your favourite Arnie movie then? 01:19:33.99 Chris Olson I've played Terminator 2. I love Terminator 2. 01:19:35.80 Brian Penn Terminator 2? 01:19:36.70 Chris Olson Yeah, I just absolutely adore that film. 01:19:39.07 Brian Penn Yeah, it's a great film, no question. I think I would go with True Lies for me. 01:19:44.90 Chris Olson Oh, good choice. 01:19:45.89 Brian Penn But you see, True Lies, the character who played in True Lies is a bit like the character who played in Commando, but with a much bigger budget. Right, because and you you had a heavyweight cast to accompany him, you know. 01:20:01.07 Brian Penn um so True Lies I thought was great. 01:20:03.48 Chris Olson Oh, there go. 01:20:03.47 Brian Penn Really enjoyed that. Yeah. 01:20:05.34 Chris Olson Yeah, I mean, you go back through his movies and there's lots in there to enjoy. i'm but it's also catalogue of films that you kind of go... I wonder what that's like now. 01:20:16.05 Chris Olson You know, because like with what we did with Commando, but you you could do that with lots of his films, like Last Action Hero, Six Days, stuff like that, that you'd be like, does it still hold up? 01:20:21.20 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:20:25.51 Chris Olson But I think with Commando, I was quite confident that I would still enjoy it. 01:20:28.59 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:20:29.16 Chris Olson um And i did, but i I did find it, I was kind of switching off slightly during it. 01:20:29.37 Brian Penn Now, yeah. ah Yeah. 01:20:34.57 Chris Olson was going, yeah, I don't need to sort of use my brain here at all. 01:20:38.65 Brian Penn Yeah, I kind of know what you mean. Because, you know, as a genre, unit you know what to expect, really. um I mean, talking about Arnie films that maybe wouldn't stand the test of time, a film like Twins, the film he made with Danny DeVito, 01:20:52.91 Chris Olson Oh, yeah. 01:20:54.16 Brian Penn Now I've not seen that in years, but I suspect that wouldn't have worn quite as well. 01:20:54.28 Chris Olson Classic. 01:20:58.46 Chris Olson Yeah, well, actually, yeah, it's one of those films that I would potentially have stuck into this slot because it's that, again, another one I watched as a kid and would be intrigued to see, but now I'm slightly worried about doing that. 01:21:08.07 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:21:11.51 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:21:12.27 Brian Penn Well, yes, it's the thing. 01:21:12.92 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:21:13.50 Brian Penn I haven't watched it since it came out. I mean, you know that in this particular slot, I find particularly challenging because We look at films that i've only I haven't seen since they came out often. and 01:21:25.08 Chris Olson Yeah. 01:21:25.27 Brian Penn I mean, sometimes I see them a lot. But it's interesting to sort of revisit them maybe first years after the event. 01:21:32.85 Chris Olson Yeah, and I'll tell what is worth doing. If you don't want to revisit them, is go to IMDb and just flick through the average scores because they give you a really good indication, you because they've been out for long enough. 01:21:39.98 Brian Penn Yeah, that's a good indicator. sir Yeah. 01:21:44.33 Chris Olson It's not like being skewed by crazy new data. 01:21:44.71 Brian Penn ah 01:21:47.49 Chris Olson But you see certain films and you go, oh, okay, yeah. 01:21:47.59 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:21:49.45 Chris Olson So like Predator's got like a higher score than Commando, um Total ri Recall, things like that. 01:21:51.95 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:21:55.93 Chris Olson But yeah, Terminator 2, 8.6. It's one of his best films. And I think that is ah fair. I think it's a fabulous movie. 01:22:03.00 Brian Penn Yeah. Oh, it is. 01:22:03.60 Chris Olson um 01:22:04.06 Brian Penn No question. has made some fantastic films. um He really has. um I mean, I mentioned Red Heat earlier on. One of his earlier films made in 1988-ish. 01:22:15.99 Brian Penn And that was a film with Jim Belushi. Now, Jim Belushi is an actor like Vince Vaughn. He doesn't try very hard. He leaves it to someone else to do all the acting. But Red Heat, where he played a ah Russian cop in New York, was actually a very, very good film that deserves more of an airing, but you very rarely see it on stream. 01:22:36.99 Chris Olson Well, i'll tell you one film we won't be revisiting that Arnie was in, and that is Batman and Robin, ah har where he plays Mr. 01:22:41.99 Brian Penn Oh, of course. It's the freeze. 01:22:44.12 Chris Olson Freeze. used to see you. 01:22:45.41 Brian Penn It was made for him, wasn't it? 01:22:45.71 Chris Olson Yeah, no. we yeah I mean, my segues are bad enough, but those puns, those ice puns, 01:22:48.91 Brian Penn Absolutely made for him. Yeah. 01:22:53.02 Chris Olson um Yeah, but if that is your favourite film, fair enough. you know It's each to their own. Everyone has their own perspective and we've shared ours on this episode of UK Film Club. Hopefully you're still with us, ah still awake and still enjoying it. 01:23:07.21 Chris Olson um If you are listening to this on a public... ah arena, if you're on a commuting vessel, then just shout out UK Film Club and just see if someone shouts it back to you. 01:23:19.10 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:23:20.08 Chris Olson Just see if they do. 01:23:20.37 Brian Penn Yeah. 01:23:21.39 Chris Olson They might not. I'll be honest, the listener numbers, they might not. 01:23:24.24 Brian Penn You never know. Mm-hmm. 01:23:25.19 Chris Olson But if they do, you know that train ride going to be so much better or, you know, that bus ride. um But yeah, thank you for for listening. Thank you for being with us. Thank you to all the filmmakers. especially the indie ones who send us their movies um and ask for our honest opinions, which we've given. 01:23:41.83 Chris Olson If you want signposting to any of those movies, do let us know. i was also going to give a shout out to Time Rewind, which we reviewed on a previous episode. That is also now available on Amazon Prime, as well as Apple TV, Google Play, and a few others. 01:23:54.57 Chris Olson But yeah, Time Rewind is now available to watch, and we both enjoyed that movie. um You can go back and listen to our review of that in a previous episode. 01:23:59.03 Brian Penn Yeah. Yeah. 01:24:00.97 Chris Olson i think it's the the May episode? No, this is the May episode. April episode. April episode. So the one before this that we did. um Time Rewind, yeah, that's out now. But yeah, thank you again to um everyone for listening. 01:24:13.35 Chris Olson Thank you to Brian, mostly, for doing so much of the heavy lifting. You are the Arnie of this show. You lift us up so we can fly. 01:24:20.11 Brian Penn Brilliant. Love that. call me arnie motsu um two point zero 01:24:24.09 Chris Olson Yeah. Yep. I am the Danny DeVito to your Arnie. 01:24:26.51 Brian Penn brilliant 01:24:30.68 Chris Olson I'm always scheming. 01:24:31.96 Brian Penn ah Yeah. 01:24:32.54 Chris Olson um There we go. ah But yeah, thank you again for listening and we will see you again next time. 01:24:39.02 Brian Penn Bye for now. Previous Next

IN CINEMAS IN THE UK & IRELAND 30 JULY 2021. Brand new film trailers. Limbo Trailer MUBI, the global distributor and curated film streaming service, has released the official UK trailer for Ben Sharrock’s critically acclaimed British debut feature Limbo, which will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 30 July 2021. Written and directed by Ben Sharrock and starring Amir El-Masry (The One, Industry, Jack Ryan, The Night Manager), Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims. Among them is Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician struggling with the guilt, regret and grief that comes with leaving his former life behind. This deadpan comedy-drama from a bold new voice in British cinema shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines. Reflecting the complexity of the movement of people across borders has been a long-held passion for Sharrock, who spent time working for an NGO in refugee camps in southern Algeria, and living in Damascus shortly before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. There, he formed a network of friends whose personal stories inspired Limbo. Amir El-Masry is joined by Vikash Bhai (The Stranger, Flack), Ola Orebiyi, and Kwabena Ansah. Sidse Babett Knudsen (The Duke Of Burgundy, Borgen) and Kais Nashif (Tel Aviv On Fire) round out the supporting roles. Limbo also features non-actors in supporting roles and as extras, including refugees who have made their home across Scotland and locals from the Outer Hebrides. Limbo formed part of the Cannes 2020 selection and has received widespread acclaim following its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, its European Premiere at the San Sebastian International Festival, where it won the Youth Jury Award, and the BFI London Film Festival. Other festival wins include the Golden Pyramid award for Best Film at Cairo International Film Festival along with the Henry Barakat Award and the FIPRESCI critics’ prize. The film also picked up Best Film and Best Screenplay at Macau Film Festival. Limbo is nominated for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut for the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards. Writer/Director Ben Sharrock, producer Irune Gurtubai, and Amir El-Masry were also named BAFTA Breakthrough 2020 honorees last year. Gurtubai won the Breakthrough Producer Award at 2020 BIFA Awards where El-Masry was nominated in the Best Actor category. LIMBO WILL BE RELEASED BY MUBI IN CINEMAS IN THE UK AND IRELAND ON 30 JULY 2021 Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

Description: With hopes of starting over, a young thief joins some old friends for one last heist, however, she soon finds herself entangled in a violent web of obsession, and revenge.. Brand new film trailers. Honour Among Thieves Trailer Description: With hopes of starting over, a young thief joins some old friends for one last heist, however, she soon finds herself entangled in a violent web of obsession, and revenge. Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

Watch Trigger at the 2022 UK Film Review Festival. See the UKFRF 2022 lineup and buy your festival pass. Trigger Listen to our review on the film podcast What our film review said: READ FULL REVIEW London is wonderfully realised – even from the back of a cab – by high-quality production and inventive visual storytelling. The lights of the city giving way to the unlit suburbs marks for a telling tonal shift, as the story literally and figuratively gets darker. The positioning of the camera in the early scenes gives the impression that the viewers are sat opposite the women in the cab, bringing the audience into their situation effectively. Proudly supporting MediCinema for our 2022 film festival.

Mads Mikkelsen may be a standout here, but the whole cast brings a dynamism which creates a perfectly bittersweet story." ★★★★★ Lucy Clarke, UK Film Review. Brand new film trailers. Riders of Justice Brand New Trailer Brand New Trailer for Riders of Justice The film will be released in cinemas by Vertigo Releasing on Friday 23rd July. Highly trained military veteran Markus returns home to care for his daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. Meanwhile a survivor of the explosion, mathematics geek Otto, becomes convinced that the incident was part of an assassination plot involving dangerous crime gangs. When Otto and his hacker friends, Lennart and Emmenthaler, decide to confront the short-fused Markus with their suspicions, a chain of events begins which leads the mismatched group into a violent and ill-conceived revenge mission. "Frequently zany and comedically dark, Jensen’s Riders of Justice is also full of soul. Grief is explored in a multi-faceted way rather than a quick group crying session. Mads Mikkelsen may be a standout here, but the whole cast brings a dynamism which creates a perfectly bittersweet story. " ★★★★★ Lucy Clarke, UK Film Review Read our Riders of Justice Film Review . Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

Tom Holland is back as Spider-Man in this official teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. The much-anticipated follow-on from 2019's Far From Home, we get to see Peter Parker now known to the public as the man behind the mask.. Brand new film trailers. Spider-Man No Way Home Official Teaser Trailer Spider-Man: No Way Home Official Teaser Trailer Released Tom Holland is back as Spider-Man in this official teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. The much-anticipated follow-on from 2019's Far From Home, we get to see Peter Parker now known to the public as the man behind the mask. And in true comic-book fashion, he gets labelled Public Enemy #1 very quickly. In the trailer, Benedict Cumberbatch rocks up as Doctor Strange and Parker looks to him for help to fix things. The film is directed by Jon Watts and is based on the Marvel comic books by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Chris McKenna is another writer for the film. Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently slated for a December Release in cinemas - stay tuned for more details. Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up.. Brand new film trailers. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. This powerful documentary charts the emotional, dramatic journey of Brighton & Hove Albion - from losing their stadium and nearly vanishing from the league, to building a new home and earning a place among football’s elite. Through rare archive footage, exclusive interviews with players, managers, and devoted fans, and stirring match-day moments, this is more than just a story about football—it's about belief, community, and the unbreakable spirit of a city. Whether you're a die-hard Seagulls supporter or simply love a great underdog tale, Stand or Fall is an inspiring tribute to perseverance, passion, and the beautiful game. Dazzler Media presents Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital platforms worldwide from 8th September Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

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Phantom of the Open is due out in cinemas October 2021. For now, enjoy this special film trailer.. Brand new film trailers. Phantom of the Open Trailer eOne Releases Phantom of the Open Trailer Starring Mark Rylance. Directed by Craig Roberts, this is the story of golfer Maurice Flitcroft (Rylance) whose performance at the 1976 British Open Golf Championship made him a legend. The film is based on a book by the same name by author Scott Murray, and adapted here by Simon Farnaby. Phantom of the Open is due out in cinemas October 2021. For now, enjoy this special film trailer . Delivery Run From the first stark frames of the trailer for Deliver Run, it is immediately clear that this is a thriller operating under pressure. In Your Dreams "In Your Dreams," a new animated comedy set to enchant audiences. This delightful film, co-directed by Alex Woo and Erik Benson, promises a fantastical journey into the boundless landscape of dreams, arriving on November 14, 2025. A House of Dynamite A House of Dynamite, a gripping new thriller that plunges audiences into a high-stakes global crisis. The trailer for Bigelow's latest offering paints a chilling picture of a world on the brink, arriving in select UK cinemas on October 3rd The Man in My Basement With an intense psychological trailer that leaves you with more questions than answers, Andscape’s new film The Man in My Basement is poised to be a must-watch for UK and Ireland audiences, arriving on Disney+ on Friday, 26th September. Wicked: For Good The final trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally landed, promising an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Time Travel Is Dangerous The moment we clapped eyes on the first trailer for Time Travel Is Dangerous, we knew we were in for something special. Blending the charming, grounded sensibility of a classic British comedy with the mind-bending chaos of a high-concept sci-fi flick, this film promises a riotous journey through time and space. Game The trailer for the film GAME, set for release in November 2025, falls squarely into that last category. It's a two-minute masterclass in tension, leaving you with more questions than answers and a palpable sense of unease. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Don Q Don Q will be available on digital platforms in the UK on 15 September, thanks to Reel2Reel Films. John Candy: I Like Me The new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, offers a poignant and intimate look at the man behind the memorable characters. Eschewing the typical celebratory retrospective, the film embarks on a journey to humanise an icon, exploring his personal struggles, deep-seated anxieties, and the profound impact he had on those who knew him best. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Set for a glorious return to UK cinemas this September, this film promises to be a welcome, if profoundly daft, comeback for the geriatric rockers. In Vitro Mark your calendars, UK film fans! The highly anticipated Australian sci-fi thriller, In Vitro, is set to make its digital debut across the UK on September 15th The Partisan The Partisan will be a significant and memorable entry into this year's cinematic calendar. Mark your calendars for its cinema release on October 3 and be ready to witness a truly unforgettable story of courage. Mr Blake at Your Service Mr. Blake at Your Service!, the charming French comedy-drama, is set to grace UK and Irish cinemas from October 3rd. This film is the cinematic adaptation of the popular novel Complètement cramé ! by acclaimed French author Gilles Legardinier, who also wrote and directed the movie. The Woman in Cabin 10 Directed by Simon Stone and based on the book The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, the film comes to Netflix on October 10th 2025. Helloween Helloween, makes its way to the UK. The film, which has been making waves, is set to arrive on digital platforms on September 29, 2025, with a physical Blu-ray release following on October 13, 2025. Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion From the brink of extinction to the heights of Premier League glory, Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton & Hove Albion tells the extraordinary true story of a football club that refused to give up. Steve Film trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Steve, starring Cillian Murphy. Based on Max Porter's Shy, the film will come to select cinemas and then Netflix. Borderline A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles. Watch the Borderline official film trailer. That Alien, Sound Mia Danelle stars alongside veteran actors Richard Masur (My Girl, The Thing, Risky Business) and Amy Hill (50 First Dates, The Cat in the Hat) in this humorous and touching tale of identity and acceptance with a sci-fi twist. From writer-director Brando Topp, in his feature debut, the film is set to crash land on digital this Monday, courtesy of Miracle Media.

The British Urban Film Festival was founded in July 2005 to showcase urban independent cinema in the absence of any such state-sponsored activity in the UK (at the time). To date, the festival has screened over 500 films, securing broadcast platforms for a majority of Black and urban independent writers, actors, actresses, producers and directors on the BBC i-player, Channel 4, Community Channel (now Together TV), Showcase TV and London Live. In February 2018, BUFF Originals was launched to act as the production and distribution arm of the British Urban Film Festival. Its' debut feature - No Shade - was released in UK cinemas in November 2018, making director Clare Anyiam-Osigwe the 6th Black British female director (to date) to secure theatrical distribution in over 120 years. Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe is the founder and Chairman of the British Urban Film Festival and officially, one of the 100 most powerful and influential figures in independent film, according to a list published by the UK Power 100 in June 2019. For his work as executive producer of 'No Shade' (BUFF's first, fully funded and independently released feature film), Emmanuel was also listed as 1 of 5 standout inductees by the UK Power 100. British Urban Film Festival The British Urban Film Festival was founded in July 2005 to showcase urban independent cinema in the absence of any such state-sponsored activity in the UK (at the time). To date, the festival has screened over 500 films, securing broadcast platforms for a majority of Black and urban independent writers, actors, actresses, producers and directors on the BBC i-player, Channel 4, Community Channel (now Together TV), Showcase TV and London Live. In February 2018, BUFF Originals was launched to act as the production and distribution arm of the British Urban Film Festival. Its' debut feature - No Shade - was released in UK cinemas in November 2018, making director Clare Anyiam-Osigwe the 6th Black British female director (to date) to secure theatrical distribution in over 120 years. Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe is the founder and Chairman of the British Urban Film Festival and officially, one of the 100 most powerful and influential figures in independent film, according to a list published by the UK Power 100 in June 2019. For his work as executive producer of 'No Shade' (BUFF's first, fully funded and independently released feature film), Emmanuel was also listed as 1 of 5 standout inductees by the UK Power 100. SEE MORE FILM FESTIVALS