Mini Crush #151

got like the boot, Like it's not canon. Yeah. I don't know what how real fans consider it, but it it was sort of a for they started building that world out, so it was okay, you know. Was His latest was the one with Will Smith like playing old Will Smith and young Will Smith fighting each other on motorcycles. Yeah, you know what I just watched Nold tell me. I'm so fucking fired up. You know, Peter Jackson has been

making this Beatles documentary. Yeah, yeah, talking about that. It was supposed to be finished, and for those of you listening that don't know, Peter Jackson is dug up all this archival footage from the from these final sessions the Beatles did where for years the narrative was that these sessions were just fighting and sniping because that's the only footage that was ever played, and um, he dug up all this other stuff and was just like it wasn't

like that, you guys, The Beatles didn't hate each other. It was so much joy and uh he released a little sneak peak. It was supposed to be out by now, but Covid put it off, so he released a sneak peak today and there is. It shows these four old friends, as you know dudes, at the end of their career as a band, having so much fun in the studio recording these songs, and it just like makes my heart swell.

What record is this? Like let it Be? Or uh yeah, I guess it was a let it Be sessions, right, I mean that that would that's the one that I know. There's a lot of footage of, Yeah, when they played on the roof and all that stuff. Yeah, that's the one. So I just can't wait for this. And it's in beautiful color and they're they're at that age that they all look super fucking cool. Yeah, that's when John had like the long beard and the long hair, magical hermit,

but long hair, yeah, got it. The beard would kind of come and go. But they all had some Actually, John didn't have a stash. The rest of them are rocking some pretty good stashes. Did you hear that Paul has a new record that just came out that he played and produced every moment of himself. Yeah, but he always did that. I guess that's true, but maybe not always. But this one they made kind of like a point in the pr for it that, like he played every instrument.

He didn't intend to make it, but then COVID happened. Then he sort of phone was isolated. Listen of the first couple of tracks. So it's cute, like it's it's weird. Actually it's got some Okay, I want to hear more of it. I mean it's you know, he's a genius. It's it's uh. It's tough, though, to keep putting out amazing music your entire life. It's true. McCartney three after McCartney won, McCartney too. McCartney three. Ram is my go to Ram, big Ram fan, big Ram fans, great Ram fan.

So uh Noel uh, we are recording this three or four days before Christmas. This is going to come out. These next two episodes are coming out after Christmas, so there's gonna be no Christmas content. Thank God, thank God, Thanks sweet Baby Jesus on Christmas. Not for Christmas to be over. But you can only talk about Christmas and movies for so long, you know, right, Well, we talked about how you can only talk about Christmas movies for so long, and we gave a whole episode to them.

If I'm not mistaken, I think that's enough. I think that's enough. I wanted to cover a couple of things real quick. Noll the Tom cruise rant thoughts, there's a new rant. Oh did you hear You didn't hear the rant last week? Know what not? I mean, like different than the one where he was on Oprah and stood on the couch. This was a contemporary cruise rant. Yeah. He was recorded on set um losing it on some crew members because of COVID protocols and um. It was interesting.

I mean, most people on the Crushers page were and on the Internet were very much in his camp, saying like, damn straight man, take it serious and let him have it. Uh. I was a little more in the middle because I certainly think you should take it seriously, obviously, But from what I saw and heard, it was two crew members who were a little less than six ft apart. It wasn't the way he acted like it was like he busted them in a bar or something like doing you know, uh,

shots off each other's stomach or something like. He really went off and everyone's under a lot of pressure, and I think it can be owed to that. But the other thing I will say is that, you know, my friend just got off a very big movie that I've spoken about before, where that the crew was essentially quarantined in a hotel. The cars were tracked and they couldn't

do anything. They couldn't see their family even masked and distance and outside on their day off, like they were completely sequestered, while above the line people we're going out to dinner and having their families flown in. So there's a power dynamic here at work as well. And that's all I'm gonna say about it. Yeah. Leah Remini, who does a fantastic scientology podcast with us on the Network called fair Gaming or sorry Scientology, fair game, Um, She

says that Tom Cruise is psychotic. COVID nineteen rant is a publicity stunt, and that he is an abusive person. I have witnessed it. I've been a recipient of it on a small level. This is the real Tom Well. And and again it's like Scientology is an organization, call it, cults, call it religion, just full of abuse. So it's a little hard to really jump behind Tom Cruise as some champion. Um, you know, yeah, a little rich. I do. I do know, I do know. I again, I haven't heard it, but

I know I know what he's capable of. And um, fascinated by Scientology and anyone that is fascinated by I should listen to Leo's podcast. And also, um, something don't want you to know did a two part interview with her co host on that podcast, Mike Render. It used to be a high level PR guy with Scientology. Now he's defected and he spills literally all the beans about it. And it does have this crazy abusive kind of gas

lighting power dynamic about it that this sort of rings true. Yeah, so you know, all I'll say is tensions are high. It's tough to try and make these movies right now. Um, he is under a lot of pressure as the start to kind of keep this thing together. So I see all sides. There's a lack of context that doesn't help in a lot of gray area. So that's where I am. No,

I feel you, man, that's where I am. Big shout out to Mike Sam's movie Crusher, who has been doing this great experiment on the Crushers page, filling his holes with suggestions and reviews. Um, he'll take his suggestion from another Crusher. Yeah, myke movie, And it's been a really cool experiment and everyone got really involved, and I just think it's wonderful. He watched one that was my recommendation that he mentioned. I think it was Waiting for Guffman.

He'd never seen Waiting for a Gouffman, and I think he really liked that one. Yeah, a lot of his holes were substantial, and he owned it. You know, like, I think, very brave to put yourself out there. Sam's good job. Um. I went live the other day, NOL

when you've had to cancel the last minute. I was down here in the basement and had a repair person upstairs, so I was kind of sequestered, and I was like, yeah, shit, hit go live, and I got a few hundred people there watching on on Instagram no on the movie crush page, that's great, it was fun. That sounds fun. And told those people that we finally watched Home Alone this year with Ruby and boy Noel five years old. She get a kick outs. It turns out is a great age

to take in Home Alone for the first time. Bet she loved it. The kid wins like is it's kind of perfect for a kid that age because the kid is always thwarting the adults and um, sweet message, good Christmas stuff. It was just really really good. And I'm gonna play a clip Knoll if I can. I recorded her watching it and it's just kind of funny. Let

me tell everyone what you're gonna hear. Yeah, This is the scene at the end where the Tarantula spoilers, where there's a tarantula on Joe Pesci's chest laying on the floor. Daniel Stern gets the crowbar to smash the tarantula, tranchula gets away, he gets smashed, and then right after that McAuley Culkin is upstairs and gets on his little zip line in zip lines with his handlebars into is like drunker, yeah, yeah, exactly.

So what you're gonna hear is is Ruby, very very concerned about the trantula because she doesn't want the tranchula to get hurt, and then very excited about the zip lining and the word she says, if you can't understand is it's like he's flying. So let me play this little clip here. Can you hear that? Can are you doing? Most? What are you worried about the tray? Yeah, that's part one that John Williams score. Oh yeah, all right, so that's it. Nothing like the joy of a child watching

a movie like that. That's so fun. I guess I was how ol does she again? Four? She's five and a half, five and a half. Yeah, I guess I was a little overtit when I saw that, But I saw when it first came out in the theaters. I probably was about six. But god, I love that movie. It's like a cartoon, so like, you know, it has all that violence, but it's all goofy and funny. And she laughed her ass off. Man, she I mean we all did, We all had we had a great time.

Somebody pointed out a scene, I think it was on the Crushers page about how like whatever Daniel Stearn's character is, he has the most bizarre squealing scream. I can't even do it. But there's a scene where he gets like electrocuted and then all of a sudden, he like turns into a full skeleton and then back in to a

person in the skeleton. Like it's total cartoony. Yeah, that's in Home Alone too, Lost in New York because I had never seen that movie NOL because I was like I was in my early twenties when that came out in college, so I was not into Homeland too. So we watched that for the first time, and that movie sucks. Oh no, didn't hold up. It's not holding up, dude.

It is the worst kind of sequel, which is the same retread every beat for literal beat for beat remake, like they just they did some of the same exact gags with the criminals, like the paint cans. It's it's really really lazy as fuck. It was very disappointing, and even has the misunderstood creepy adult you know, like the pigeon lady versus the snow whatever snowplow man. Oh gosh, it was so he's got a snow shovel. That's what

I was. Yeah. Posthumous Lee angry at John Hughes. I was like, sir, you just phoned it in many It was very disappointing. I think the critic the critics are in your corner on that one too, probably so. And then Donald Trump's in it too, which just made me want to vomit. He makes he helps him find the lobby. That's the most useful thing Donald Trump ever did. All right, so we are going to go. This is both of these, Knoll because I've just been so busy here trying to

get everything done before Christmas. Are both Crushers Specials, which means you know, that means that means I'm letting the crushers dictate the content. Love it. So I had one here from our old friend von Bodette. He always comes up with the best stuff on the Crushers page, really engages people. And he said this null name a movie that expanded your knowledge of a subject you weren't familiar with. Good question, can you think of one? Yeah? One? Uh,

the movie Rounders. Rounders gave me a little little sneak peek into the world of professional gambling and poker and all that stuff in a time where I was not really familiar at all. Yeah, and now you're now I'm an all pro, you're a champion World Series of Poker player. I'm in gamblers anonymous. Oh you went full circle already, problem Soldier House, I lost all that money and not here. Now you're clean. I'm good. I don't want to make light of that. It's a big problem. No, it is

a big deal. It is a big deal. And actually just on another slight aside. A good example too is the Sopranos. The Sopranos have been rewatching recently. I'm not sure how I did that show you are, but there's an episode or an arc where, um, I think his name is Robert Patrick. He played the T one thousand

in uh Terminator too. He plays like one of Tony's childhood friends, and he gets way in over his head and gambling debt, and they do turn out what's called what's called a bust out where they take his business and they just like eat into it like termites and just like running into the round and charge you know, products on his lines of credit that they then sell and basically just make him go bankrupt too, you know. And then he's like, what's what's next? He's like, what's next?

Like you go bankrupt, you're done, and this is whatever you want the money, all to collect the money, Like, yeah, I think I remember that. Okay, now we're gonna start with Zannah. Jean Zannah, I don't think i've seen you. Welcome. Uh dig the two thousand four documentary of the rivalry between Brian Jonestown, Masker and the Dandy Warhols. Love it

opening in and working to the music industry. Yeah, and this in Zanna says this especially to a young girl fronting a Seattle band in the early two thousand So Zanna is cool as hell, no doubt. Rosanna. I don't know which is an all. I mean you you kind of committed to the first one, so I would just lean into it. Uh Rochelle Jones says documentary Senna and Rush, both movies about Formula one support my husband loves and great for me to watch so I can understand his

love more. That's nice. Karin slump Heugh is one of Royal Palace's man on wire. Uh yeah, that's a good one, much better than that garbage movie. It was about to say the like dramatization version his face. I think we bagged on that before, so I haven't seen it, but I just didn't care to. It's one of was like, why would I bother? Yeah, it's really disappointing. Yeah, Zach Pointer says Rudy. Sure. A lot of these are documentaries. Freddy Lynn announced that movie Rudy. I like to over

over annunciate and call it Rudy Ruddy Rudy. Yeah, that's the one about the little guy that plays football. Yeah, I think so. Freddy Lens is free solo. Sure, John Bick, this is a good, good answer here. The Big Short, Yeah, man, I think the financial crisis was a bit of a mystery to a lot of people as to exactly how that happened. And The Big Short did a great job

of breaking that down. It did, indeed, and it also just showed the whole world of that time with the housing crisis and the foreclosures, and you know, really tied it all together. It was very very well done and funny. Uh yeah, very funny. Kry Nelson says Fiddler in the Roof documentary. I did not know that existed. I'd like to see that. One of our old friends, Melinda Beccalleo says, done, Kirk. Whereas I like to say dan Kirk. Yes, yes, it's the only way to say it. It's the only way.

She says this. Definitely became more interested in the situation as a whole, and we went back to learn more about it. Watch the other movie, The Darkest Hour, etcetera. Yeah, that's a good his historic hole to crawl into. Let me see here. Ian Tyson said, Interstellar with quantum physics. Okay. Uh. Cindy Haynesworth Coron says the Dish with Sam Neil. I don't know that movie, do you know. I don't. I'm googling it right now. It sounds like it's perhaps about food.

Maybe let's see Australian historical comedy drama tell the story of It's about a satellite, not about food at all. Uh, it's a historical comedy drama. That's a very interesting mishmash of genre. It is our old friend, Austin Hadler says, a league of their own, of course. Yeah. The Queen's gambits on here. Andrea McBride, Dicky, I mean, you know, we've talked about a little bit a lot. So many people are playing chess and interested in chess now, no, yeah,

good job. What's her face? What's that actress's name? Oh, my gosh, it's a real job. What's her face? It's a three part name. It's one of those great it's one of the great three part names. What's her face now? Chuck? No, why it's Love Joy something Joy? What the hell is her name? I know it. I'm just I'm watching. I love watching and Anya Taylor Joy. It's it's like a hyphen it Taylor Joy. Yeah, Earl Power. Rebecca Robes says

The Exorcist getting much better at possession since watching. That's cute, good one Robes here, But I will say that movie does have a lot of stuff about, Like, I mean, the church has a stance on possession, and they like play into that pretty pretty well, you know. Yeah, I mean Josh and I did a Exorcism podcast many many years ago. Grant Woody says Rounders as well. Nol oh nice. And another movie I haven't seen that. I want to perfume, the story of a murderer. Have you heard that? Yeah,

this supposed to be good. Perfume Is that older? Uh, it's like ten or twelve years old? Maybe I'm looking now two thousand six, Okay, more than that, fourteen years ago good Lord, which it sounds like it might be like like a Cuzo mystery. This is a psychological thriller from Tom tick ver Oh Ship who did fucking Yeah? Yeah? That dust as Halfman Ellen Rickman Ben Wishaw. I think it was about what is it about? Don't give me

the parent. It's apparently the story of a murderer, Chuck, So we can just leave it at that, all right, We'll leave it at that. That's that's yeah, exactly, it's it looks cool. The cover looks cool with like a woman disintegrating into rose pedals. Yeah, like they I loved I loved Run Lola Run. I haven't thought about that movie in a long time. So great, Spencer Dumpi's Moneyball, uh so baseball or rather behind the scenes. Yeah, and that one had that one had some like big short

type vibes. Wasn't it about like using stats in a really like a big way. It's sort of a different way, these analytics that had never been kind of used before, and also building a baseball team in a different way financially. It's it's even if you don't like baseball. I think Moneyball is fairly interesting. Like Emily really liked it. She's okay with baseball though. Yeah, ball is just all right with me. Baseball is just all right. Uh, Nathan Venezelle van Zeal, catch me if you can. Had no idea

about that story. Uh, it's great. Not only is it great, but it's a documentary. Well not exactly, but I know what you mean. Yes, it's a true story. That's a true story, h Nick Kelly. And a Broadway musical? Is it really? It made it into a Broadway musical? Yep. I don't think I knew that or did I? Yeah, the big short that should be musical. That would be good. I could see that playing well. Nick Kelly says, hidden figures of course. Uh, and let me throw out one more. Well,

let me throw out a couple of more. Joanna Wick says, just a mercy about systemic racism. I have not seen that yet. And then we'll neither. We'll finish with a funny one. Brian Ridge says wild Things. That was pretty young. That's what he says. It taught him things, ways of feeling about his own body. I understand. Uh. So no, that's our only segment today. These are gonna be kind of shorter because we're both crushed for time, but I do you want to finish with stream this? Poo poo poo?

Do we shtill use that sound? Cue? Are commune is replaced with me going poo poo poo. And while you get your list together, I'm gonna go through mine. We just finished The Great last night, the show I've mentioned before in Hulu about Catherine the Great Comedy very did it payoff? It did, Man and and I'm assuming they had a two season order, otherwise they wouldn't have, you know,

just ended it like they did. It's clearly set up for season two, but it's gonna be a while, which really makes me mad because we're loving the show and now I mean it's it's probably gonna be two years before we see season two, you know, with COVID going on. I finally watched Class Action Park the other day, the documentary about the water park in New Jersey in the that I didn't even know was narrated by our friend

John Hodgman. Oh wow, that's funny that you've never mentioned that. Yeah, I think he actually well now maybe he didn't on our show, but I didn't even realize it until he started talking. And that was my old pal Hodgman, And you know what makes me mad, noal is I lived in New Jersey for the last year of their existence, and I didn't know it existed, and it was only about forty five minutes away. I would have totally loved

to have gone to Action Park. It it's that one is like on the top of a lot of lists. And I actually was looking at a Rotten Tomatoes, like you know how they rank everything by reviews, and the list of like the year's best whatever. However many movies movies it was, I think it was like fifty or something, and that was up there. It's got almost a percentum positive reviews. But what I realized about this list is because there were so few blockbusters, like big, big, big

ticket blockbusters. The list is all cool, little weird, niche indies, and a lot of them I haven't seen. And I'm really pumped to like go through this list and like watch a lot of these. There's a few movies out now that are sort of new that I haven't seen yet. The um Sofia Coppoli's new movie I haven't seen yet that is online or not online. What do you what do you even call that streaming. Uh. I never saw that movie Bombshell about Fox News, and that's out now.

So there are a few, like real movies that don't want to see, which which will be is supposed to be great. The new David Fincher about the screenwriter Forces

in Kine. My brother called that a masterpiecell. I've heard a lot of people thrown that around because you know, everybody loves these old Hollywood kind of you know, um love letter kind of things, and apparently it's just like it's it's an interesting story too, because David Fincher's father wrote the script like a long time ago, I think, and he passed away and then I think Fincher finished it or you know, did something like that. But it's supposed to be really good, good in a classic Gary

Oldman performance. Well, I mean Fincher, you know, I know we're both in the same camp that he is one of the great out tours he has indeed. Uh. And then two more things and all I watched sort of itch that I needed to scratch in the true crime genre, a genre that I have loved over the years, and it sort of comes and goes as far as my interest in it. Uh. And I for some reason just really have been wanting to watch a little bit of that.

So I watched one called a four part series from HBO Max called Murder Murder on Middle Beach I think, or Murder at Middle Beach. I've heard that's great. It really is. It's the story of a of a young man who is telling the story of his mother's murder and trying to figure out who did it. And uh, it's really good, very engrossing. Um yeah, I don't want to give anything in a way, but it's it's really well done. I quite enjoyed it. I think it's so neat when like a documentary can have like a twist.

It just it requires so much effort to make these and like, I mean, I'm like the thinking the obvious, but like to just go with it and see what happens and where the story takes you, and then for it to like just go somewhere crazy out of left field, and then to be able to communicate that to viewers

I think is just a really amazing uh ability. Yeah, yeah, I mean usually when you undertake a story like this, you're bound to be a little unsatisfied in the end, because when do you actually crack the case while making the documentary and reveal the murderer in the last episode. It is very rare like that. What was it on HBO was at the Jinks? Yeah, I mean that's that's the Unicorn Man. That's why it was so fucking great. It's like the last episode, this guy admits it by

accidentally being wired up in the bathroom. Unreal. Yeah, so cool. Um. And then the other one I watched two nights ago, NOL highly recommend. It's also I think on HBO Max it's called crazy not Insane, and uh have you seen that or heard of it? But I like the name

it is the story. I'm trying to find her name. Uh. It was made by Alex Gibney, the guy who did Going Clear, narrated by Laura d Earn, and it tells the story of Dorothy Lewis, who was kind of the first psychiatrist in the UM seventies, sixties, seventies, eighties to explore the idea of serial killers being made and not just born wrong like head injuries. Multiple well, these sculpt multiple personality disorder. Now I think it's called dissociative identity

disorder UM. And was you know lapped out of court a lot of times. It was at a time where no one believed that. Some people still don't believe in in uh d I d H. But she it was a really really interesting documentary to see this woman put it together where she was like, at one point she was like abuse, childhood abuse, some form of mental illness, and a brain injury. She's like, those three things almost

of the time make a very very dangerous human being. Uh. And she pulled up Mr Eyes of all these famous serial killers and showed scarring on the frontal lobe. UM. She interviewed twenty two of them and found that but virtually every single one of them suffered serious, serious forms of child abuse. Many of them had multiples and altars that would allow them to deal with that and to also kill UM. But you know, there's videotape of these interviews where these altars would come out, and it's the

real deal. It's not you know, in my Chammela in movie. You know, it's chilling and amazing and very very interesting, crazy not insane. I will check it out, highly recommend you got anything. All. Yeah, Like I said, I've been doing a Sopranos deep dive rewatch, which I do every year, so a couple of years or so, and I realized, like, I know that show beat for beats one of my favorites. Um, I'm trying to think what else, Like, uh, that's been taking a lot of my time. Did you start from

the beginning each time? Yes? Yes, every time. He rewatched the whole show sever I rewatched the whole show at least five times. And it's just I don't know, I like to kind of watch. A friend of mine does

this too, and um. He pointed out that he was doing a rewatch of a recently through a particular lens because the show occasionally deals with like paranormal afterlife type stuff where you know, and and and like there's religion involved and like you know, Carmela, for example, Tony's wife is very Catholic, and she prais a lot, and like you know, has a priest character that she's always talking to, and you know, has this like kind of you know,

religious uh crisis of conscience. It's always going on with her being a part of this world and also you know, being a religious person. But there's also like a lot of characters like kind of almost die and then come back and have things to report from the afterlife. And my friend Peyton said he was rewatching it with the assumption that all that stuff is real, like that's that's like his lens through which she is rewatching this stuff. That's interesting, So you can just sort of kid uh

uh huh, kind of a fresh take on it. But yeah, that's I really like the new Netflix comedy, like Australian comedy show. It's called Auntie Donna's Big Old House of Fun, and that's a really it's it's a very mr show. It's very um, absurdist kind of Tim and Eric type comedy and a lot of big, big high budget sketches with like dance numbers and music and weird owls in an episode, and it's pretty great. Well I won't hold that against him, Okay, Um, yeah, that's that's that's that.

Those are those are the two. But I've been kind of watching alrighty well, Noel, we're gonna wrap this one up and spanking on the bottom just about a half hour because I got Christmas wrapping to do. I put a thing on the old page about whether or not people are good gift rappers. Movie crushers are pretty good gift rappers know, I'm okay. I usually get my mom to do it for me, though. Yeah, yeah, I also can't tie a tie, and I get my mom to do that for me as well. Seriously, No, you can't.

I know how to tie a tie, tack. I have to look at a YouTube video, you though. Okay, I don't. I don't have occasion to do it often enough to remember. How Okay, fair enough, Okay, let's get the old clip on. No never, al right, everyone, thanks for listening, and I hope you had a great holiday season. And as we wind out the new year here on the old Movie Crush, we say happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you

and yours. M Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Meel Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown here in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia. For I Heart Radio. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.