[00:00:17] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cosmic Circle, the companion podcast for thecosmicsircus.com. I'm Isla Ruby, your host. I'm joined by two amazing folks here from the site.
Why don't you introduce yourself?
[00:00:31] Speaker B: I am John Dodson, a writer, reviewer, and more at the cosmic circus.
[00:00:39] Speaker C: Hey, everybody, it's Brian. I'm back. It's been a while since I've done a podcast, so I'm excited to be here once again.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: So we're gathered here today to talk about red, white, and royally blue and good Burger two and only those movies. Well, not really, but another year has gone by, and we're here to talk about our top movies of the year because we love lists and checking things off twice or something like that.
[00:01:04] Speaker C: Was that a red, white, and royal blue wedding joke? Because we all know that the second movie is coming and it's going to be about the wedding that I'm ready for. So I think you just did that on purpose to like, are you baiting me here?
[00:01:18] Speaker A: No, never.
That would be very heart stoppingly mean. I would never do that.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: Okay, that's good. Continue on.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Heart stoppingly mean.
Well done. Well done.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: We totally planned it.
All right, guys, so how's everyone doing? Before we get into this, we talked a little bit in the preshow. Has everyone had their eggnog or cough medicine as it is?
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we vaguely talked before. I'm still kind of lingering in a cough, so anybody who's listening sound like a 72 year old man wheezing on the microphone. It's because.
That's absolutely true.
[00:02:13] Speaker C: But you're here. That's all that matters.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: And I just got back home from Wonka. It's not going to be on my list today.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: No.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: It is a beautiful, whimsical movie that kind of brought me to tears at the end. So, yeah, that's my mini review for that anyway.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: Now, Brian, you just saw Wonka, too, and I know you have some deep.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: Thoughts on it, but, like, real quick, I actually. I am on a staycation this week, and as all staycations happen in the kits and household, we do lots of films.
We have not done a lot of films yet. We've only done two. We went yesterday to see Wonka, and I also loved it. And there's some great thoughts that are going to be had, hopefully soon, about motivation and what motivates us. So I think that there's going to be a really great cosmic psychologist article coming from that. Fingers crossed. As I look at my list of how much I have to write.
But I also saw the color purple today and I am super stoked about that one.
I did have a list before I went into the color purple, and I have a top five that is a different set of list after the color purple.
And I actually am seeing a slew of more movies this weekend that might change this completely. So I might be doing this podcast at the wrong time, but we're about to find out after Sunday.
Real quick, real quick rundown tonight, all of us strangers tomorrow morning, poor things.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: That you're seeing the movies that you have to watch over the next couple of days.
[00:03:50] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: I can guarantee at least one of those will change your lips. I guarantee it.
[00:03:58] Speaker C: I'm excited for both of them. I'm seeing Ironclaw. My nephew wants to go see Aquaman tomorrow, so I am biting the bullet to go see Aquaman. I don't think it's going to make the list, but it just might. Who knows, I might be surprised.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Oh, it's going to make a list.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: We're just not saying which one.
[00:04:15] Speaker C: And then I'm also seeing migration and I'm also seeing wish by the end of the weekend. So we got a lot of great movies coming up. We have some that are not probably great, but we're going to make it through it all. We're going to have a great ending to 2023. But I am so excited to talk about our list for 2023, and that's.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: A great way to bring us back to it. So before we get into our top five, the cosmic circus is a comic book site, a science fiction site, a fantasy site. We do all of those wonderful, nerdy things. So I am curious. We had a lot of comic book movies this year.
It's up to you guys. Who wants to start? You can rock, paper, scissors it out between yourselves.
What is your favorite?
[00:05:00] Speaker C: I'm going to let John do it.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: What's your favorite comic book movie this year?
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Kind of like Fight club. I cannot talk about that right now, but I can maybe say the second best if I could think about that, which I don't think I have thought about that.
And I'm trying to go through my head. Everything that came out this year, was.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: It ant man, John?
[00:05:35] Speaker B: You can admit.
[00:05:37] Speaker C: Yes, ant man.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Superiority. Everyone can exit the podcast after that.
I didn't hate Quantum mania as much as everybody else. I mean, it was definitely not what it needed to be.
I kind of had fun with it. I didn't think it was terrible. It's kind of like the Flash there's this crew of people that just.
In the flash, I kind of had fun, but I did. I kind of mean, it's not my favorite of the year, but it was fun.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: Vic would be very happy right now. And I don't know if you know this, but I feel like we've been on a podcast and talked about it. Vic has seen the Flash, like, a hundred times. So, like, somewhere a bell has rung.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: And Vic knows that is a lot of times to see the thinking can, like, bring one thing up, though.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Yeah, for sure.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: I think it's good to acknowledge what a weird year it's been for comic films because almost none of them were hits. Like, almost none of them were runaway heads.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Well, guardians.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Guardians.
There you go, Maze. Like a one that's much like you.
[00:07:13] Speaker C: So the thing about comic book movies, for me here this year is, as you all know, I am a big comic book nerd. And I almost swore there, and I'm glad I didn't because Lizie would have to edit that out.
But I'm a big comic book nerd. I love every single was the promotional department alone for the was. I try to sell that movie on, know, Twitter, formerly known as X or whatever we're calling it.
And as of this morning, it was in my top five, and the Marvels actually got booted down.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: So I don't have a single comic book movie in my top five. Not one.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: You can't write for the site anymore. I'm sorry, guys.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: I got to tell you, my five is, like, evolved. Like, $8,000.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: It changes.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: It's been. Honestly, I don't know if you all know about the year 1999.
They talk about how so many great films came out in 1999.
I think in about 1020 years.
I think right now, we don't appreciate what we got this year because so many good movies came out this year.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: I will argue, though, that while they're all those great movies, I did love every single one of the Marvel movies that came out, and you cannot tell me that one of them was bad. I mean, you can. You can tell me that you're allowed to. I am going to defend each one of them to the extreme. I will invent every Marvel project. I love secret invasion. I thought it was great. I know people did not like thought, but at the same time with DC, I also liked the Flash. It was not a great movie. I enjoyed watching it. I thought it was funny, and I was just like, the CGI was horrible.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: No, I disagree. I disagree. I think you know how people are like, oh, my gosh, the babies. The babies are cartoonish, bro. That was the point. That was the point. They are supposed to look like that because it's babies that are in danger. Like, you don't want to see a realistic baby almost get sliced by a surgery.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: They're falling out the window at one point, right?
[00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
You don't want to see a real baby going to a microwave. I'm sorry. You don't.
[00:09:47] Speaker C: I didn't even have a problem with the baby. I had a problem at the end of the film when he was going through the cosmoverse, and that stuff did not look great, but I still enjoyed it.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: I still enjoyed it too.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: That's solid.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: And I would argue that most of that CG is not as bad as some of the better.
Like, I'm trying to figure out how to explain it. I think I've seen worse from Marvel that people have given up as.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Okay, so for me, it didn't look cutting edge, but it did look very comic book movie movie. Like, old comic book movie. It was like 1999 or 2000, rather, or even the old, old Superman Superman movies. It looked like that in some ways, right.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: But, yeah, I don't think it's been like, I like them too. You're not.
[00:10:52] Speaker C: Your favorite.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: I mean, I loved was, like, I. I just love that movie so much on so many levels, and I sobbed so much with that know, Zolo Mardwenia is a just. I love that movie.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: You know? Which comic book movie I won't actually defend from this year? Was it from this year? Shazam. I won't defend that movie. I won't. Sorry. That's my one.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: I also enjoyed Shazam.
[00:11:26] Speaker C: Well, we're all allowed to be wrong.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: No, it's fine.
[00:11:38] Speaker C: I didn't personally care for Shazam. I feel like my problem with that one is that there was such a problem between the characterization of him as a child, like him as a teenager, and him as an adult, that they didn't match. And that really threw me off because it felt like there should have been.
I don't know. It didn't feel right.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: That's the biggest issue with both movies, is that the kid seems like he's doubt inside and, like, a little melancholy, and then he turns into the superhero, and it's like the most goody two shoes character in the world.
Does he get dopamine when he changes? I don't know.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: It's like a character.
[00:12:27] Speaker C: Dopamine.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: Okay, so we talked about our favorite comic book movies. And who we wouldn't defend.
I would love for us to talk a little bit about our top five and we can just kind of go around because you very listening to the podcast, you can see me pointing as we go around Robin style. But let's start with our top fifth one, our number five. Brian, what's your fifth?
[00:13:04] Speaker C: Oh, we're starting at the bottom. Okay, cool. Well, it just so happens that this wasn't a joke, but my number five is bottoms.
As I was making this list, as you guys know from our chat prior to this, what I thought was not going to be a very gay list turned out to be incredibly homosexual.
And so of course, bottoms is closing that list out. It's a hilarious comedy almost bordering on ridiculousness. Think mean girls, but more r rated with just a lot of gayness.
And it has the king himself, who is not even his sexuality has not ever been addressed. But Nicholas Gatlizine, he has literally been in how many gay films and he just continues to roll on those roles. He does a great job as Jeff in this one. I highly approve this message was all I got to say about this film. It's great. You should all watch. It's on Amazon prime, the movie I.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Just caught up with over the award season. They were giving out screeners and stuff like that and I forgot that I did not watch it.
And when I got this screener, I got super excited.
And it's so funny. It is so funny. I fully agree with that pick.
And it's got one of the funniest lines of dialogue. I don't remember the main character's name, so I'm just going to insert.
Are you looking it up? Because I forgot.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: But it wasn't Hazel, was it?
[00:14:44] Speaker B: No, no, it's a different one.
[00:14:49] Speaker C: It's a line I got to know.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: I almost fall in a much not, I'm not your gay Yoda hazel or something like that. And I'm just like, it just took me out. It took me out.
I love how insanely over the top it is too.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: Oh God.
When you get to the scene where they're like at the football field, I guess spoiler alert, guys. We might talk about spoilers, but when they get to that point, they just start beating the crap out of everybody and there's just blood everywhere. I was astoundedly shocked but also just could not stop laughing. It was great.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Eva goes four gangs of New York at the end of it. Oh my God, it's so funny.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: The over the topness of it reminded me a lot like, I feel like we've had a stretch of years where we didn't have those teen comedies, we didn't have eurotrip, we didn't have.
I'm blanking on more movies, but we didn't.
[00:15:53] Speaker C: American pie.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Yeah, american pie. And I feel like this is somewhat in the same vein of those things. And I think that's awesome.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Absolutely.
So go watch bottoms, everybody.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: And John, how about you?
What's number five on your.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: If I can for a minute, can I bring up some honorary mentions?
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Real.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: Just a know we're at five.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: I have seven on my list.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: So you're totally fine.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: An honorary mention that I would love to mention real fast.
Fair play.
I don't know if anybody has seen fair play. I watched it and Sundance, I could have brought it up on the podcast last time, but I get hesitant to bring up movies that have not come out of yet.
And airplay is about a couple that are, they work in the same company.
One of them proposes to the other and then the girl ends up getting a promotion that the other guy wanted.
And without going further into details, it is the most intense relationship thriller I think I've watched in a long time. And what's his name?
Alden. Alden something.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: Aaron Reich.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't pronounce it, but you did it way better than I did.
He's incredible. They're both incredible. So that's fair play. I can't recommend that movie enough trigger, trigger warning for anybody who's been through abuse, but it's still and it's phenomenal.
That's my number seven.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: One thing I want to hop in real quick there on fair play, it's like a debut film, right? It's Chloe Damont's I think, first.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Think. So I think you're right about.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: Didn'T I watched it without knowing anything about it and I thought it was a rom.com at first.
No, I was very as I started watching and then I couldn't stop because it's just like it's merciless, right?
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Merciless. It's gripping and the ending is insanely cathartic in a way that I can't spoil.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: But it's, man, Brian, have you seen it or we're adding to your.
[00:19:03] Speaker C: I'm actually, I'm taking notes of.
I have not. But I loved her on younger and so the moment I pulled up her name, I was like, I know, like, why haven't I heard of this Brian?
[00:19:16] Speaker B: Such a good movie. It's so good.
The reason why you haven't heard of it is because Netflix is horrible at marketing. Their.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Unless you're may December, then once you're.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Yeah.
[00:19:31] Speaker C: Which is also on my list to watch.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Going quickly. What's number six?
This almost knocked out number five for me.
You know what he talked about? Number five. I'm just going to put this in there, but perfect days.
Have I. The one. And you see in this movie.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: I just saw it the other day.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: I adore perfect days.
I do it.
Perfect days is about this man. It's in Korea, right? Am I correct? It's in Korea?
[00:20:19] Speaker A: I think so. And he's a toilet cleaner, right?
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a toilet.
Thank you. I don't want to get that wrong. And I don't want to get a bunch of hate mail.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Random.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Man in Tokyo, he's a custodial worker. Toilet cleans toilets. That's kind of like the main thing he does.
And it's kind of like Seinfeld.
It's not really about one thing.
There's not like a central plot, per se.
It's just you're seeing this guy's day to day life, and it's all about the little moments.
And I think it's a beautiful film.
You never realize how different every day is.
We are doing the same routine, but those little small things that change us or make an impact on us. And this movie reflects that.
And it ends on such a subtle, beautiful note.
You feel like you're going to cry and you don't really know why you're crying, but you feel it.
It's a beautiful film. I think if you're looking for something different, perfect days is my other honorary mention.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: It's like an ode to life, almost.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: It is. It is an ode to life. And I think everybody's watching. Okay, now, number five. Number five. Number five.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Drumroll, please.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: This is going to actually change the hierarchy of power because my number one from the last conversation is now my number five.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Spider man across the spiderverse is my number five.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
I don't really know what else could be said about this movie that hasn't been said already.
Think everybody's got the gist of how amazing the artwork is.
It kind of dropped a little bit for me throughout the year.
I think it's because when I rewatched it, in the back of my mind, I was thinking about the article that came out about how the workers were abused. Kind of like in the background or overworked.
It kind of hindered my viewing a little bit. On it, so it kind of got dropped down. But I still can't deny my weakness and my love for the miles morale story and the whole concept of trying to break the canon.
There's no need to suffer to be a great person.
You can just be great just because you're great. And I think that. I hope they continue that message for the next one. But that's my number five. Spider Manner Girls. Spider verse. Okay.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: I like it. I actually like all of those. And I'm glad you mentioned your honorables, too, because I think that's awesome. Brian, did you have anything that fell off your list? I want to ask about the one that changed that you told us about in the pre show.
[00:24:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So the Marvels was the one that fell off my list. So it was number five, and it is now number six. So no comic book movies have made the list this year.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: I'm shocked.
And I'll share with you guys my number five. So american fiction, which I think still counts for this year, I think it's, you know, it's core Jefferson.
It's not his debut. I think he's done a bunch of other stuff.
I might be wrong about that, but it's based on the novel erasure, which I haven't read, and I want to. And it's like this massive satire of the publishing industrial complex.
And it's really interesting and just. Jeffrey Wright stars in it, and he's just really charismatic and amazing, and I want to watch everything he's in. So I really loved that movie.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: That movie is the greatest effort joke of all time, I think, if you know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: I won't say it, but it had me tickled. Look what they did in the second half. It's a really good film. It's only a plane in 40 theaters, by the way.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's in 40 theaters. So it does count. It did come out this year.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: Perfect.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: And I think it expands.
It goes wider next week. Yeah, it does next week.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: There are going to be a lot of movies that are coming out that are in 2024. That really came out in 2023.
[00:26:02] Speaker C: Looking at you, all of us strangers. Why aren't you playing in the midwest? If I had to drive over 200 miles to see your film, I'm sad the gays are not thriving.
American fiction, it's on the list. I'm up to three now in all the spare time.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: All right, so what's number? John, let's start with you. Since we started with Brian last time.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: Number four was also a repeat from last time. And that's my last repeat after this.
And it coincides with the number four.
John Wick chapter four is my number four of the year.
Again, I don't really know what else I can say.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: We talked about it.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: We did a whole podcast about this, you guys.
I recommend you go listen to it. John MC chapter four is, I think an achievement in editing and cinematography. I think in choreography, action. I think it's beautifully made.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: And.
[00:27:26] Speaker B: I've seen that movie more in theaters than I have any other film this year.
It should be on my number one for that reason. But there's another movie there that I think is more meaningful to me. But John McJutterbore is incredible.
And again, we got a whole podcast about it. Recommend. Go listen to that. And that's what I got.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: I'm surprised that of your list from before Air or BlackBerry, I think they were on your list before, didn't make it. Or maybe we just talked about them. I guess not surprised.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: But I'm like BlackBerry and 1001 and they would probably 1001 if we did like ten. Might be in my ten.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:22] Speaker C: Not in the five since our last 2023 one. When you had mentioned John Wick, I had not seen them and I have seen them all now. And I have to agree. Number four is probably the best. I think I fell asleep during the third one. I don't even remember it.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: That was me and ghosted John Wick.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: And John Wick three doesn't even remember John Wick three.
It's perfect. It's not a problem.
[00:28:49] Speaker C: But I did enjoy those films and those were on my list last time. And I watched all four. I did not watch the continental and I don't think I will. But I digress.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it does exist unfortunately. And Ballerina is coming out this year.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Was that the prequel? I don't remember. I know it's a spin off of John.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah. But in a.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. There you go. And Chloe Grace Morettz.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: I think it will be good. I'm pretty excited for that one. Yeah, as long as it does Mo Gibson. I'm fine.
[00:29:33] Speaker C: So for my number four, we have a last minute submission.
Number four goes to the color purple. Saw it.
Never. I'll say this, I've never seen or read the color purple before this. I did buy the book and my sister read it for the site. Shout out to Luna.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: She's amazing.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Go read her reviews because she rocks.
[00:29:54] Speaker C: And she's prolific and she had never read it either. And she read it and she goes, first off, I didn't know that this book was about a woman. A good chunk of the book is about a woman falling in love with another woman. And I was like, I had no idea. This book is from the think.
And I saw the film, and the film is phenomenal the way it is shot.
There was something I noticed as I was watching it, and they use shadows or like the shadows of people so elegantly in a way that I've never seen before.
I was in love with this film. It's like colorful and it is vibrant and it is sad. It is so sad. I balled my eyes out at the end. Those were happy tears. But I cannot recommend this film enough. And the impact that it had on nearly every single person in that theater was phenomenal to see.
Though, this brings me up to a point. Real quick side note, people. If you're going to go see a musical, and you already know the musical, do not sing the music. We don't want to hear you.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:31:00] Speaker C: That's it.
[00:31:01] Speaker B: That is the one movie, one of three movies I'm not seeing this year.
And I'm very sad that I did not get to watch it.
[00:31:14] Speaker A: There's still time.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, before the podcast, this happens at the end of every year. You're trying to get everything in and it's just impossible. But, man, I'm very glad to hear that it meets the standard of the original and all of them, I will say this, too.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: I've never seen the original. I'm going to now, but I think that anybody that thought, I always get this. I want to say Hailey Berry, but Haley Bailey, who thought that she was not the right call for the little mermaid. She is the right call for her part in this film.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:32:01] Speaker C: And fantasia Barino.
Oh, my God. Her and Tarachi P. Henson together. That chemistry was insane. And there was just so many great parts. There's just so much. Who's the girl from peacemaker? Oh, my God. She was also in Danielle Brooks. Danielle Brooks.
She broke my heart and she sewed it back together and she reminded me so much of.
Oh, my God. The character from the help. Sorry, I'm having some brain.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: You're. I know you're talking about that.
[00:32:38] Speaker C: The one that played a.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: Octavia Spencer's character, right?
[00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:46] Speaker C: She reminded me so much of Octavia Spencer's character. Those three women, I didn't know how they were connected when I saw the poster. They are the heart and soul of that movie. I just mad props to them if they don't win some kind of awards for that. If Raji P. Henson is robbed again like she was for hidden figures.
We are at a loss here, people. We're at a loss.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: And color purple is on my list, too. It's not my number four. It's a little higher up for me, but I think now is a good place to talk about it, too. It was just amazing. And what was interesting to me is, again, I've seen a lot of comic book movies, and sometimes when there are cameos, when things happen on screen, they're like audible reactions from the audience.
Happened with Spider man. When Charlie Cox popped up, there were a lot of audible reactions to the screen. At my screening of the color purple, like, people were reacting to who was on screen. There was just emotion, and it felt like a communal experience, which is something, know, in streaming and all of, like, we don't get that as much anymore. So I really appreciate it. I really loved him. Sorry, go ahead.
[00:34:01] Speaker C: I was just going to say that. Yeah. When Oprah was on the screen, people freaked out, but I didn't know who the guy was. But the guy that plays sir's father, when he showed up, my whole theater was screaming. Like, I'm telling you, you would have thought that it was Toby Maguire walking out onto screen. They were so happy, and I did not recognize him, but I figured in my head, I said, this has to be the guy that plays Mrs. Who played Mr. In the original. But I could be completely wrong. I'm not sure, because they loved him.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: Guys, I have so much buma right now.
[00:34:39] Speaker C: I'm so sorry.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: So much bum out. I'm missing out on the greatest party ever.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: When you see it, I can't wait to find out your reaction and see what you think of it. It was very moving.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: I might go tomorrow just from this conversation.
[00:35:02] Speaker C: Oh, I think he highly recommend it.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: It does not look like he was in the original, but he was from roots, so maybe that's why people recognized him. But, oh, my God, they ate it up. My audience, I loved it.
I cannot stress enough that people should go see this film because it talks about so many different walks of life. It talks about being a woman and being a part of the LGBTQ community and being black. And, you know, and there was also the hierarchy of between, you know, a black man and a black woman and what was allowed and what wasn't. And this film is one of the ones that will be going into my physical copy library as soon as it comes out. I cannot not have it in my possession.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: And I think just from how there's been a lot of word of mouth about this, too. And that's really exciting, because if you want good films to be made, then they have to be able to justify it at the box office. Right? This is an amazing film, and I'm glad that it's getting all of the love and support that it deserves. And Lugasa Jr.
Is Mr's dad. He's the one who you were talking about.
[00:36:22] Speaker C: They loved him. So that's it. That's all I'm going to say. Everybody go see that.
Isla, what's your four?
[00:36:28] Speaker A: So mine is actually an animated movie, and it's not Spider man, which is also weird because it's not a comic book movie. It's migration for me.
[00:36:42] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: I wasn't expecting this.
So migration is a kids movie. It's from illumination, the same people who've done minions. And I think minions are really stupid. And I refuse to watch anything minions because I just don't like them. So this was my mindset going into, you know, it has Kumail Nanjiani. It's got Elizabeth Banks, it's got Danny DeVito, Keegan Michael Key, awkwafina. It's got all these amazing people. But it's a movie about ducks migrating. So I didn't go in with these amazing expectations, and I was just, like, blown away by one. The animation was really pretty. So there are moments where you're watching these ducks flying through the sky and you feel like you're flying.
I remember one of my distinct childhood memories is going to an IMAX theater at the science museum for the first time. And I think it was like a grand Canyon movie or something like that. And just the way the camera was going, it was a nature film. The way the camera was going, you felt like you were in it. And I got that same sense with this animated. And I just thought that was really cool. And the music to migration just totally blew me away.
It's got like strings and choral notes, and it's just, again, it's so much for a kid's movie about ducks. It has no right to be this good, but it was really good.
[00:38:18] Speaker C: What's interesting about this is I've been following the box office of this. They expected this to bomb.
A lot of films at this holiday season that they thought were going to bomb have been not dropping, but they've been growing. And this is one of them that has been. I think it grew 6% today. It was like, it's crazy. They don't understand why this film is just growing. And I wasn't going to see it, but now that I've seen this and everybody's talking about word of mouth is really good for it. We added it to our weekend list to go see because people are just raving about it.
[00:38:46] Speaker A: It's totally worth it. It's so good.
And I think for you, too, just in your cosmic psychologist capacity, there's a lot of stuff going on. It's got these interesting family dynamics.
It's just got these interesting relationship dynamics. Again, it's very deep, and it has no right to be this deep for just this very fast kids movie.
I really liked it.
[00:39:15] Speaker C: Fucking ducks, man.
[00:39:18] Speaker B: I brewed the same thing.
It's like a migrant story, right?
[00:39:23] Speaker A: Yeah. So the ducks are in their pond, right. And they don't want to leave the pond. The dad is afraid of danger. He doesn't want to see the big scary world. But all is not happy in their duck pond. The wife wants to see a little bit of the world.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's very immigrant based.
There's a youtuber where I'm at that's really big. And I think he actually reads the site and he was talking about that he would go watch it and kind of like you.
He didn't think that it was going to be much of a thing because the Mario movie, it was good, but it wasn't, like, over the moon good, but he said that he hoped three c is the youtuber, in case anybody's wondering. But he said he hoped that people would go and watch it because he felt like the story was way better than he thought it would be and had a lot of depth.
I'm very happy to hear that.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: I guess. Moving a little bit along, I think. Let's talk about our next ones.
Let's just hit two and three. We're there now, right? Yeah.
[00:41:01] Speaker C: I'm going to hit them real quick, if that's okay. I'm going to jump in here.
My third is Wonka. Just saw that yesterday.
Great family film, great music. The music is very reminiscent of the old Charlie and the chocolate factory. Willy Wonka, they call it back then. Sorry. Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. It hit all the nostalgic notes that I needed.
Again. Cried like a baby. But then again, I cried about everything. So who's to say that that is actually a good measure of it?
[00:41:31] Speaker A: You would cry minions, I know.
[00:41:33] Speaker C: Probably.
So we're just going to check that one off. Great family film. Go see that. But then we're going to go to number two because I have been waiting to talk about number two because I probably have a lot of people wondering about my mental health after this. Salt burn is number two.
I love this film.
Real quick story. Just because it's hilarious. I did not know exactly what this was. Kind of knew was a psychological thriller. Didn't know exactly what I was getting myself into. Decided to my friend who was going to go with me, got sick, couldn't go. So I took a first date to Saltburn. And that didn't last very long. It lasted for about a week because this film is fucking crazy and I love it.
It's got everything you could possibly want. Crazed people, gay men, murder.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: Bathtubs. Bathtubs, bathtubs. Don't forget bathtubs.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: There's graves.
There is a grave.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: There is a grave.
[00:42:38] Speaker C: Something happens at said grave.
I'm watching this with my mom this week just to get her reaction, so that should be fun.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:42:48] Speaker C: I did warn her about the bathtub scene. I'm not a monster.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: Not the grave scene.
[00:42:55] Speaker C: Listen, there's only so much you can do to warn a person about what is in Saltburn. The thing I love about Saltburn is that it's a great film. There's a lot of unnecessary things that you do not need to know about the psychopathy that's going on.
Know you do not have to have the bathtub come scene. We don't need that. You don't need.
You did not need that to know that. But they gave it to us anyways. And there's some people that probably love that. My theater went insane for it. They both.
There was like two people that went, oh, that's hot. And the rest of us went, ew. All audible. So love Saltburn, everybody see it? It's on Amazon prime. I'm like the spokesperson for Amazon prime right now. Go see Saltburn. Do not drink out of a bathtub.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:43:50] Speaker C: Thank you. That's all I have to say. Come again? That was the wrong words.
[00:43:58] Speaker A: That was perfect. No.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: I'm so glad Saltburn is on here.
I'm not as brave as you, but, man, that movie is just memorable. It's wild in every possible way, but, yeah, man.
[00:44:24] Speaker C: I have a measurement for movies, so I have a measure for movies. And if I can't figure out the ending, it's a good movie. Most movies, because I've watched so many movies and so much television, I can figure out within the first ten to 15 minutes and that sounds like a brag, but just because I'm a fucking nerd and I did not have this ending figured out. I did not until the very end. And I was like, oh, my gosh, the twist is coming. And I did not see it coming.
So that is the mark of a good movie for me. And I just used that word way too much in describing this movie. Lizzie is going to be rolling her eyes, being like, how am I going to edit this? Brian, you're a bleep it.
[00:45:04] Speaker B: Keep it, keep it.
[00:45:06] Speaker C: But that's my three and two, and I'm going to pass along to John now to take over. You have pictures to fill.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: I don't know how to follow that at all. I can't think we could retire now.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: It's over.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: Good night.
Good night.
[00:45:24] Speaker C: There's a number one on my list that's higher than that.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: I know what it is. Just saying.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Anyway, my number three is all of us strangers, guys.
All of us strangers.
I have been thinking and pondering on this movie nonstop since I watched it two months ago. It's about Andrew Scott plays Adam. He's the guy who lives in an apartment building by himself, and he's there with one other guy, and they get close, and there's another weird situation going on with his family.
Depending on where you read your information on the movie, that part of it is spoiled for you. Like, if you go to IMDb, if you go to IMDb, it will tell you flat out.
But I've not experienced a film in a while that made me think about kind of my place in the world, because, look, there's a lot of commentary on being rejected by society, like, being different for anybody listening. I'm in a wheelchair.
I genuinely don't feel rejected by anyone. But I. I understand what it's like to feel like a stranger among people. I don't feel the same among everybody.
And in that regard, that film spoke unto me throughout.
And even on that note, it goes three steps further into depth and complexity. I got to talk to Brian about it. Brian was reading the book, which is so different.
It's so different. And honestly, given what Brian told, what he told me about the book, I think this might be one of the best adaptations I've ever heard of.
They took nuggets from the book and added a whole nother level to it that I don't think anyone knew could be there. It's very rich, very complex psychological.
God, dude, it's a really good movie. That's all I'm going to say about.
[00:48:23] Speaker C: It for now, real quick, just to give everybody a heads up, too, the book. And then there's an original adaptation to the movie that came out in Japan.
They are both supernatural horrors, and the film actually leans into the horror elements. This new one is actually classified as a fantasy romance. So they did change so much about it.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not a horror at all. There's nothing horrific about it at all.
Go on. Sorry.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: It's, like, very soul stirring.
[00:48:58] Speaker C: It's haunting, but in a way that's making you think. Not that it's like a. Yeah.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Have you seen.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Haven't. So I haven't seen it. I've read about it.
I just don't have time to watch it until it's.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: It's, um.
It's a movie I can't stop thinking about even now. And Andrew Scott, he gives such a beautiful and emotional even. I don't understand why he is not nominated for best actor.
I'm looking through a lot of nominations, and I don't see them. And I don't get it. I don't understand it. So that's my number three. Number two is the holdovers.
[00:49:51] Speaker A: That's on my list, too, guys.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: The holdovers is.
I wrote on Twitter that the holdovers is basically, it's that movie.
People say a lot. They don't make a movie like this anymore.
The holdovers is the movie that they don't talk about.
They don't make movies like the holdovers anymore.
It's about a teacher. Is it a private school or a boarding school? I can remember.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Oh, I don't remember either, but I know. So it's Alexander Payne.
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: And I don't know. It's about friendship at the core.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, it's about a teacher that works at a boarding school, and a bunch of kids get left there over a break, and he's kind of running the show, and then he gets left with one of the kids, who's a very disgruntled child.
And I love movies about relationships that are at a friction when it starts, and then that friction becomes, like, smooth, and then it becomes endearing, and then it becomes almost like moving.
That's kind of what happens with the holdovers. It's like, not like deployed society, but it's got a little bit of that.
Just a good movie. It's got Paul Giamatti. Everybody loves Paul Giamatti. So the holdovers, that is my number two. Those are my three. Number three. Number two.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: So for me, I'm going to cheat a little bit. Because I'm the host, so I'm deciding.
So we talked about the color purple. So that's kind of tied for my number three, the color purple and Barbie.
[00:52:19] Speaker C: I forgot about Barbie. Oh, my list just changed.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: But I appreciated them for different reasons. The color purple was know. We talked about all the know all of why. That was amazing. I think I had some issues with the story in Barbie, but I'm just very much in awe of all of the production, all of the crafts that went into that movie and the marketing behind it. So I appreciate it as that because everything was just on point. You felt like you were in the world.
I think that the struggle of the story is something that was relatable and understandable. The characters, Barbie herself, Margot Robbie's character, you know, there are many Barbies, was something we could empathize with. And Ken was fun too.
So Barbie is tied for the color purple with me.
[00:53:20] Speaker C: I'm so mad. I forgot about Barbie. I literally forgot about how that is.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: How good of a year it's been. That's what I'm telling you, man. It's been such a good year.
[00:53:31] Speaker C: So good.
[00:53:32] Speaker A: It was so long ago, way back in July. No, really. But I think it was on.
It didn't even make it back then to our cutoff because I think we talked in June.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: We did.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:44] Speaker A: So, and Barbie was July, right?
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Something like Barbenheimer. That's a whole other conversation.
Barbie and Oppenheimer, like a blowout.
[00:54:05] Speaker A: And my number two is actually Godzilla minus one. And I just really appreciate a good monster movie.
[00:54:14] Speaker B: I'm so mad at you for seeing that movie.
I want to see it so bad.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: I think they're expanding theaters, which is like unheard of for a film, especially one that's been out this long. So again, it's that word of mouth thing. It's getting around that. It's a really good and solid movie. And I think it was really interesting to me, especially because I had just watched the 1954 Godzilla and I think it really kind of honors that legacy. And I think it's just so solid and it just is everything you love.
[00:54:55] Speaker B: About, is it more of a horror style, like action film?
[00:55:01] Speaker A: No, it's not horror.
It's not like bloody. It makes you.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean, like horror shows. Bitten.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: No, I think it's mainly action. There's a lot of psychological stuff going on, especially as there's a lot of survivors guilt.
It's got some really meaty psychological themes.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: I'm so excited. I really want to watch it. I really want to watch it?
[00:55:30] Speaker A: It's really good. And there are some really terrifying sequences, too, which you wouldn't expect.
Everything that is promised in the trailer is true.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Well, see, that's kind of what I mean, like, you know, a Jurassic park.
[00:55:47] Speaker A: It felt like seeing Jurassic park that.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: Would consider Jurassic park to be, like, mainstream horror.
[00:55:57] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
If you're using Jurassic park as kind of the benchmark for mainstream horror.
[00:56:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's like a blockbuster horror film in a way.
Not like excerpts, but it's got action, but it's got horror inspired elements inside of it.
[00:56:21] Speaker A: So it's not thanksgiving.
[00:56:24] Speaker B: Yeah, not at all.
[00:56:26] Speaker A: But it is mainstream by that definition.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: All right, so we're coming towards the end. We're at our top one. I don't have a drum roll.
John, do you want to share your top movie of the year?
[00:56:44] Speaker B: My number one movie of the year.
It's been my number one since I've seen it. I could have watched it at Sundance. They did not make it accessible on Sundance, but went off and I watched it.
It's never been off that number one list. It is past lives.
Past lives is my number one of the year.
Again, I wasn't able to take notes before we got on this podcast, but it involves two kids that grew up overseas who kind of form a friendship and then kind of form, like a teenage romance.
And one of them leaves the country.
Sorry.
As you can tell, I'm so sick.
It involves these two people that grew apart through.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Nora is one of. Right?
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Through life and circumstances and know, and one of them stayed in one country and one of them stayed elsewhere. Then they reconnect, and then eventually they grow apart again, and then one of them gets married and they reconnect again. And I think what's beautiful about this film is that it kind of touches on that little small aspect of our living that we kind of keep in the back of our heads. Like, what if.
What if I made just a different choice on one day?
Would I still be with this person? Would I still be talking to that person?
And I love the reflective nature of the film and how it just explores disconnection.
It's just a very interesting, very interesting meditation on connection. And I think it also has the most, how do you say, possibly the most amazing character of a husband ever written in a movie.
Have either of you all seen this film?
[00:59:54] Speaker C: I have not.
[00:59:55] Speaker A: No, I have not.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: No, you have not at all.
[00:59:58] Speaker A: I'm the only one, but I know what it's about. It's Celine's song.
[01:00:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Celine song. Guys, it is a beautiful film.
I highly recommend seeing it.
I think it's great. And I've not forgot about it since watching it. So that's my number one.
[01:00:23] Speaker A: That's beautiful.
[01:00:25] Speaker C: It's on my list.
I just want everybody to know before I say what it is, is that I had said that my list was very gay earlier and when I said this in the group chat, Isla called me out right away. She knew what it was. I am predictable in the fact of when I like something, I like it. I have seen this film no less than ten times.
[01:00:50] Speaker A: Good thing this is your flash.
[01:00:53] Speaker C: This is my flash. Every time I need something comforting on, I either turn on Heartstopper or I turn on red, white and royal blue.
I can't get enough of this film.
The characters are cast perfectly. The film is funny. It is not by any means going to win awards, nor should it.
But I think it's one of the first times we got a really good mainstream homosexual relationship.
This is one of the times that I can actually look and say like, oh, this is something that I can see myself in. And this is not the same as seeing like, heartstoppers, which is very much a high school romance. This is two adults and they actually hate each other and they end up becoming lovers. And there's a whole thing, of course, being exaggerated with the president son and the spirit to the british throne. But it is a fantastic film. Fantastic rom.com. And everybody should watch it. Everybody should love it because I love it so much. So everybody else should know.
That's just my recommendation.
[01:02:04] Speaker A: You should read the book, too. That's why I went.
[01:02:09] Speaker C: So I actually own two copies of this book because Casey McQueston, they end up doing a collector's edition like a year or two down the line that has an additional chapter. So there's a copy of the book that's not that original one there that has a chapter from Henry's point of view, and it is five years after the end of the book.
And so I had to order that. And I had a complete and utter mental breakdown reading it. Crying, sobbing, walking in place, because I walk all the time sobbing to myself, hysterically reading it.
So everybody should go and get the collector's edition, too, because that chapter is worth it. That's all I got to say.
[01:02:55] Speaker B: Honestly. I should have known, too, because you were raving hard about early in the year.
Adding to my list. I'll get on there.
[01:03:08] Speaker C: Yes.
I will say this, if you like romcoms, you will not be disappointed at all. If you don't like rom coms, I still don't think you'll be disappointed by it. It's just like a very solid movie.
[01:03:18] Speaker A: It's a good story. It's a happy story.
[01:03:20] Speaker C: It is. It is so happy.
It is very boiled down from what the book is, but it's one of those ones. I think I liked it better than the book even because it took everything that made the book great and got rid of some of the one liners that were a little cheesy written down and made it even better. So I think that's part of my takeaway of it. Isla take us home. Take us home. Take us to the motherland.
[01:03:47] Speaker A: So my number one is kind of a late in the year entry for me. And it's the been like I've been messaging Brian like, you have to see this movie. You have to see this movie because it's really good. It's the story. I'm a wrestling fan. I am a wrestling fan from not necessarily that era, but the late eighty s. The ninety s. Not so much like the modern stuff, although there was a period of time in there that I was a fan and have been to a bunch of shows. So I was very interested in the story. And the Von Eric dynasty is legendary and it's also tragic. And this is their story. And this, I thought was just, this was just a beautifully done film. It was in so many ways, I think, and I haven't written a review yet and I really need to just kind of get my thoughts out.
It is. I think it's like a living memorial to a lot of loss, to brotherhood and just. Zac Efron is amazing.
He is not your high school musical. Zac Efron, he's just this very serious, heart wrenching actor who just gives his performance his all. He plays Kevin von Eric, which is one of the von Eric wrestling brothers. And it's just amazing.
Jeremy Allen White is in it. Lily James is in such a. It's a beautiful.
[01:05:27] Speaker B: It is. It is a beautiful film.
[01:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And I know John wrote an amazing review of it for the cosmic circus, which you should check know. It's, it's very sad. You will cry while watching it. I don't want to spoil, like, everything is out there. If you read the Wikipedia entry about this family's history, the film diverges from that a little bit. There's a brother they leave out. There's some other things that happen that they leave out. It's just really a lovely story.
[01:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
That was one that I weighed putting on there to get amazing year for movies. It's just like trying to move a Rubik's cube around, trying to figure out what you could put on there. But I've been through a lot of tragedy myself. And that movie, if you lost anybody, I think it speaks to something deep about things, the powerless nature of tragedy.
You don't really have any control over it, especially when somebody might be influencing things. And it's perfect. Number one, I'm glad somebody talked about that film.
[01:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
I don't even have the right words, which is terrible because I'm on the podcast. I have the right words about it.
I'm still thinking about it and thinking about the right things to say just to express myself. But I can't stop thinking about it, which I think is, for me, also a sign of a good movie.
And I think that's to transition a little bit. I think that's all our top five. Real quick, is there anything else you guys want to mention or talk about before we wrap up?
[01:07:32] Speaker C: Been a great year for films, and I'm so excited for 2024.
[01:07:36] Speaker B: It's been a great year for movies. I'm very concerned about 24 because I feel like we're only getting one Marvel film.
[01:07:46] Speaker A: It'll be okay.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: That's it. And what are we looking forward to? Was that what we were going to talk about?
[01:07:53] Speaker A: Yes. So if there's anything you're looking forward to. One film you're looking forward to most in 2024.
[01:08:00] Speaker C: Deadpool.
[01:08:01] Speaker B: Deadpool. Three. I think when I looked at the list of things, what spoke to me was alien. Romulus.
That spoke to me because it looked like it was coming out in 2024.
It's Faith Alvarez, the guy who directed the remake of dawn of the Dead.
Evil Dead and Evil Dead in a different movie. He's a variant transformer. And he got the blessing from.
What's his name, the guy who directed Napoleon.
[01:08:45] Speaker A: Ridley Scott.
[01:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah, Ridley Scott. He got the blessing from Ridley that the movie is very good.
And that's one I'm very.
I kind of have a weakness for xenomorphs.
[01:09:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:09:02] Speaker C: Yeah, unfortunately, I have a list real quick. I'm sorry. I'm going to make it really quick, people. I'm excited for mean girls. I grew up on the original. I think the musical is going to be hilarious.
Argyle. Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Lisa. Frankenstein. I'm not going to lie. I'm even kind of excited for Madame Webb. But I think that when we're really looking at this year, we have some really cool films. Imaginary friends with Ryan Reynolds looks hilarious.
Arthur the King looks like it's going to be an emotional ride and I'm going to cry my eyes out. Godzilla versus Kong, the idea of you. But like, come on. If anybody isn't looking forward to inside out, too, they're lying. They are lying.
[01:09:50] Speaker B: So I just saw that trailer today and dive laughing when they revealed the new character.
[01:09:58] Speaker A: It's so perfect, right? Exactly.
[01:10:01] Speaker B: It's great. I was like, oh, my gosh, that's amazing.
Yeah, I agree.
[01:10:07] Speaker A: And the character is anxiety and I feel like you're not spoiling it because it's in the trailer.
[01:10:12] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:10:13] Speaker B: It's not a spoiler. It is so funny, so clever. And we're moving in.
[01:10:22] Speaker C: Not only that, though. Those of you who know me know that I'm a big Broadway person. I do a lot of reviews for Broadway shows and stuff. And this year we have wicked part one coming out November.
And we are about to be in the presence of greatness.
John M. Chu directing that film with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Irivo.
Michelle. Yo.
Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater. We don't have to talk about him.
This is going to be a great film. I'm so excited for this one. That's how we're closing out 2024, baby.
[01:11:05] Speaker A: I have something that no one is looking forward to, and I'm probably the only one on the planet looking forward to it at this point.
[01:11:10] Speaker C: I know what this is. I'm going to write it down. Wait, I'm going to write it down.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: I guarantee you it's not going to be what you're writing down.
[01:11:17] Speaker B: I'm excited for this. Come on.
[01:11:19] Speaker A: It's not worth.
[01:11:21] Speaker B: Oh, it is.
[01:11:23] Speaker C: Okay, go ahead.
[01:11:25] Speaker A: All right. I really wanted to see anyone but you, and I haven't had a chance to yet, and I don't think I'm going to have a chance to see it in 2023. So I'm looking forward to seeing that in 2024.
[01:11:38] Speaker C: Okay, but what other film are you looking forward to? Because I have one written down, and if it's not the one that I think it is, I don't know you as well as I should, and we.
[01:11:46] Speaker A: Can'T be friends anymore because I'm totally blanking. I can't think of it. I'm sure Craven will be exciting. Craven has a special place in my heart. I forgot it was coming out.
[01:12:01] Speaker C: So is everybody. Is that movie actually coming out? Who knows?
[01:12:06] Speaker B: I don't know. Will I have Morbius? Will it not? Who knows?
[01:12:10] Speaker C: Who knows?
[01:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah, we don't know.
[01:12:13] Speaker A: And that's a perfect way to end because we have no idea what's going on at the end of 2023, the end of 24. Thank you for listening. I'm Isla Ruby, and you can find everything I've written on thecosmiccircus.com. How about for you guys?
[01:12:30] Speaker B: I'm John Dodson. You could find me at John movie watch on Twitter or X or the place that will no longer be in one year or whatever it's called.
And you can also find me at Bluesky at Johnson.
I write for the cosmic Zorkus.
Sorry. Anyway, go on.
[01:13:01] Speaker C: Where else do you write just so that people can find you?
[01:13:04] Speaker B: I write for the cosmic circus. I write for monsters and critics, and that's pretty much it for right now.
[01:13:11] Speaker C: As always, we love that.
I am Brian Kitson, head writer of the cosmic circus and part time writer, sometimes for movies we texted about.
But always my main work is at the cosmic circus, and you can find me pretty much weekly with something new, daily, daily sometimes. And of course you can find me on social media at Kitson 301.
[01:13:37] Speaker A: And if you enjoyed this podcast, please like subscribe, leave a kind review. It really means a lot to us. And again, you can find all of our
[email protected]. Thank you. Have a merry new year.
[01:13:51] Speaker C: Bye, everybody. Bye.
